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(ACT of March 3d, 1813.)

hundred dollars for each person thus unlawfully employed or received, in any one voyage; which sum or sums shall be recovered, although such seaman or person shall have been admitted and entered in the certified list of the crew aforesaid by the collector for the district to which the vessel may belong; and all penalties and forfeitures arising under, or incurred by virtue of, this act, may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered, with costs of suit, by action of debt, and shall accrue and be, one moiety thereof to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other moiety thereof to the use of the United States.

SEC. IX. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prohibit any commander or master of a public or private vessel of the United States, whilst in a foreign port or place, from receiving any American seaman in conformity to law, or supplying any deficiency of seamen on board such vessel, by employing American seamen, or subjects of such foreign country, the employment of whom shall not be prohibited by the laws thereof.

SEC. x. The provisions of this act shall have no effect or operation with respect to the employment, as seamen, of the subjects or citizens of any foreign nation which shall not, by treaty or special convention with the government of the United States, have prohibited, on board of her public and private vessels, the employment of native citizens of the United States, who have not become a citizen or subject of such nation.

SEC. XI. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent any arrangement between the United States and any foreign nation, which may take place under any treaty or convention, made and ratified in the manner prescribed by the constitution of the United States.

21. SEC. XII. No person who shall arrive in the United States, from and after the time when this act shall take effect, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, who shall not, for the continued term of five years, next preceding his admission as aforesaid, have resided within the United States, without being, at any time during the said five years, out of the territory of the United States.

22. SEC. XIII. If any person shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause, or procure to be falsely made, forged, or coun terfeited, any certificate or evidence of citizenship referred to in this act; or shall pass, utter, or use as true, any false, forged, or counterfeited certificate of citizenship, or shall make sale or dispose of any certificate of citizenship to any person other than the person for whom it was originally issued, and to whom it may of right belong, every such person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of felony; and, on being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for a period not less than three, or more than five, years, or be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than

(ACT of July 16th, 1790.)

one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court taking cognizance thereof.

23. SEC. XIV. No suit shall be brought for any forfeiture or penalty incurred under the provisions of this act, unless the suit be commenced within three years from the time of the forfeiture.

ACT of April 4, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 52.

24. SEC. I. The assent of congress is, granted and declared to an act of the legislature of the state of North Carolina, entitled "An act for the relief of sick and disabled American seamen," and passed on the twenty-third day of December last; and the said act is hereby ratified and confirmed.

SEC. II. This act shall be in force for five years, and no longer.

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1. SEC. 1. A district of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, to be located as hereafter directed, on the river Potowmac, at some place between the mouths of the Eastern Branch and Connogochegue, is hereby accepted for the permanent seat of the government of the United States: Provided nevertheless, That the operation of the laws of the state within such district, shall not be affected by this acceptance until the time fixed for the removal of the government thereto, and until congress shall otherwise by law provide.

2. SEC. II. [The president of the United States authorised to appoint three commissioners to survey, define and limit a district of territory, and such district deemed to be accepted, &c.]

SEC. III. The said commissioners, or any two of them, shall have power to purchase or accept such quantity of land on the eastern side of the said river, within the said district, as the president shall deem proper, for the use of the United States, and according to such plans as the president shall approve, the said commissioners, or any two of them, shall, prior to the first Monday in December, in the year one thousand eight hundred, provide suitable buildings for the accommodation of congress, and of the president, and for the public offices of the government of the United States.

SEC. IV. For defraying the expense of such purchases and buildings, the president of the United States be authorised and requested to accept grants of money.

(ACT of April 24th, 1800.)

3. SEC. v. Prior to the first Monday in December next, all offices attached to the seat of the government of the United States, shall be removed to, and until the said first Monday in December, in the year one thousand eight hundred, shall remain at, the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, at which place the session of congress next ensuing the present shall be held.

SEC. VI. On the said first Monday in December, in the year one thousand eight hundred, the seat of the government of the United States shall, by virtue of this act, be transferred to the district and place aforesaid. And all offices attached to the said seat of government, shall accordingly be removed thereto by their respective holders, and shall, after the said day, cease to be exercised elsewhere; and that the necessary expense of such removal shall be defrayed out of the duties on imposts and tonnage.

ACT of March 3, 1791. 2 Bioren, 223.

4. SEC. 1. So much of the act, entitled "An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States," [Supra, 1.] as requires that the whole of the district of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, to be located on the river Potowmac, for the permanent seat of the government of the United States, shall be located above the mouth of the Eastern Branch, be, and is hereby, repealed, and that it shall be lawful for the president to make any part of the territory below the said limit, and above the mouth of Hunting Creek, a part of the said district, so as to include a convenient part of the Eastern Branch, and of the lands lying on the lower side thereof, and also the town of Alexandria; and the territory so to be included shall form a part of the district not exceeding ten miles square, for the permanent seat of the government of the United States, in like manner, and to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been within the purview of the above recited act: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall authorise the erection of the public buildings otherwise than on the Maryland side of the river Potowmac, as required by the aforesaid act.

RESOLUTION of December 24, 1799. 3 Bioren, 401.

5. Resolved by, &c. That a marble monument be erected by the United States, in the capitol, at the city of Washington, and that the family of general Washington be requested to permit his body to be deposited under it; and that the monument be so designed as to commemorate the great events of his military and political life.

ACT of April 24, 1800. 3 Bioren, 362.

6. SEC. 1. [The president is authorised to direct the various offices belonging to the several executive departments of the United States, to be removed to the city of Washington.]

ACT of May 1, 1802. 4 Bioren, 498.

7. SEC. 1. [From and after the first day of June next, the offi ces of the commissioners appointed in virtue of an act, passed on the sixteenth day of July, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, entitled "An act to establish the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States,” shall cease and determine, &c.]

8. SEC. II. [The affairs of the city of Washington, which have heretofore been under the care of the said commissioners, shall hereafter be under the direction of a superintendent, to be appointed by, and to be under the control of the president of the United States. And the said superintendent is hereby invested with all powers, and shall hereafter perform all duties which the said commissioners are now vested with, or are required to perform, by or in virtue of, any act of congress, or any act of the general assembly of Maryland, or any deed or deeds of trust from the original proprietors of the lots of the said city, or in any other manner whatsoever.]

ACT of July 5, 1812. 4 Bioren, 462.

9. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is hereby authofised, to take possession of the whole of the reservations of public grounds in the city of Washington, and lease them out, for a term not exceeding ten years, on such terms and conditions as in his judgment may best effect the improvement of the said grounds, for public walks, botanic gardens, or other public purposes.

ACT of April 29, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 122.

10. SEC. II. So much of any act or acts, as authorises the appointment of three commissioners for the superintendence of the public buildings, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed: and in lieu of the said commissioners, there shall be appointed, by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, one commissioner, who shall hold no other office under the authority of the United States, and who shall perform all the duties with which the said three commissioners were charged, and whose duty it shall also be to contract for, and superintend the enclosing and improvements of the public square, under the direction of the president of the United States.

SEC. II. There shall be allowed to the said commissioner a salary of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. v. From and after the third day of March next, the office of superintendent, established by act of congress of first May, one thousand eight hundred and two, shall cease, and thereafter the duties of said office shall be performed by the commissioner to be appointed by virtue of this act; and to whom the superintendent shall deliver all documents, securities, books and papers, relating to said office; and from and after the third of March next, the commissioner aforesaid shall be vested with all the pow

(ACT of February 24th, 1817.)

ers and perform all the duties, conferred upon the superintendent aforesaid.

11. SEC. VI. The president of the United States shall be, and hereby is, authorised and empowered, in repairing the public buildings in the city of Washington, to make such alterations in the plans thereof, respectively, as he shall judge proper, for the better accommodation of the two houses of congress, the president of the United States, and the various departments of the government, or any of them.

ACT of February 24, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 207.

12. SEC. 1. The commissioner for the superintendence of the public buildings in the city of Washington, is authorised to lay off into building lots all that part of the public reservation of ground in the said city, numbered ten, lying on the north side of the Pennsylvania avenue, between Third and Fourth and an Half streets west, embraced by the whole of the front of said reservation on said avenue, and extending back, or northwardly, not exceeding two hundred feet; and, under the direction of the president of the United States, to sell any number of such lots, not exceeding one half of the whole number, and the avails thereof to pay into the treasury of the United States; and in such sales the commissioner is hereby directed to reserve to the United States every other lot, except in particular cases it may be expedient to sell two or more contiguous lots; but all sales made in virtue of this act shall be under and upon the express condition, that the purchaser shall build and finish, or cause to be built and finished, within three years from the day of sale, a good and substantial brick or stone house of not less than three stories high, exclusive of the basement story, nor less than twenty-five feet front, and in failure of a compliance with the said conditions, or of them, the lots so sold shall revert to the United States, and the party failing shall incur a forfeiture of any and all moneys which may have been paid for the same.

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13. SEC. 11. The moneys arising from the sales aforesaid, are appropriated to the payment of any moneys which may hereafter be expended for the public buildings and public improvements in the city of Washington.

[See title HEALTH LAWS, 6, ante page, 340.]

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