Laws of the United States.

AN ACT for the relief of William Smith, administrator of
John Taylor, deceased.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands lying cast of the Meridian line in the Territory aforesaid, which are not now embraced in the district of Detroit, be, and they are hereby, attached thereto; and it shall be the duty of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office in said district to deposit in the Land Office at Detroit all the records, books and papers, surveys, &c. which pertain to said Land Office at Monroe, which shall be kept by the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Detroit, as a part of the records of said office.

superintend the sales of public lands within said district, who shall give security in the same manner, in the same Be it enacted, &c. That the Register of the Land Of sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and fice at Cahawba be, and he is hereby authorized and di- authorities, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relarected to cancel the relinquishment made by the said tion to the lands which shall be disposed of at their of William Smith, as administrator of John Taylor, deceas- fice, as are or may be by law provided, in relation to the ed, on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight Registers and Receivers of Public Moneys in the several hundred and twenty five, of the west half of the south-offices established for the sale of public lands. west quarter of land, of section fifteen, in township ten, of range fourteen, in Butler county, in the State of Alabama, and which still remains unsold by the United States; and that he be authorized and directed to deliver over the certificate therefor to the said William; and the said William Smith is authorized and empowered to dispose of the same by assignment or otherwise, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, which he might or could have done before the relinquishment thereof; and that all the benefits and privileges given by this act to the said William Smith shall be given and extended to his assignee or assignees; and that the said William Smith, or his assignee or assignees, be allowed to hold the same, free from forfeiture for twelve months from the passage of this law: Provided, nevertheless, That the said William Smith shall, before he be entitled to the benefit of this act, pay over to the receiver of public moneys at Cahawba, the sum of ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight and a quarter cents, that being the full amount of money which had been paid thereon previous to the relinquishment, and which has been transferred and credited on other lands purchased by his intestate in his lifetime.

Approved, February 12, 1831.

AN ACT to provide hereafter for the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Seneca Indians, and

for other purposes.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands as shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder at Monroe or Detroit, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which are embraced within the provisions of this act, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale, by the Registers of the Land Offices to which they are hereby attached; and all provisions of law applicable to the public lands, to which this act applies, shall continue in full force and effect.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the State of Illinois as lies between the Illinois and-Mississippi rivers, bounded on the south by the base line, on the north by the northern boundary of that State, and on the extreme east by the third principal Meridian, be to be located where it will best accommodate purchasers formed into a separate land district, the offices for which and others, by the President; and a Register and Receiver shall be appointed at such time as the President of the United States shall deem proper.

Be it enacted, &c. That the proceeds of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, being the amount placed in the Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That another dishands of the President of the United States, in trust, for the Seneca tribe of Indians, situated in the State of New trict be also formed in that State, on the north of the York, be hereafter passed to the credit of the Indian ap- dividing line between townships sixteen and seventeen propriation fund: and that the Secretary of War be au- north of the base line, and east of the third principal thorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Meridian, including all that part of the State to its Indians, the sum of six thousand dollars, annually, in the northern boundary, the offices for which to be located way and manner, as heretofore practised, to be paid out by the President, where the public interest and the conof any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. venience of purchasers may require; and a Register and Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary Receiver shall be appointed at such time as the Presiof War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Se-dent of the United States shall deem proper. neca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, on account of the deficiency, by that amount, in the sum paid over to said Indians the last year.

Approved, February 19, 1831.

AN ACT to establish a Land Office in the Territory of
Michigan, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That all the public lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished, lying west of the meridian line, in the Territory of Michigan, shall constitute a new land district; and, for the sale of the public Jands within the said district, there shall be a Land Of fice established at such place within the district, as the President of the United States may designate, who is hereby authorized to change the location of such office, whenever, in his opinion, the public interest may require it.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Land Office now established at Monroe, shall be removed to the place designated for the location of this office, and the Register and Receiver of the Monroe Land Office, shall

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Registers and Receivers shall reside, respectively, at the places where the Land Offices are located, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as may be by law provided in relation to the Registers and Receivers of public mo. neys in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States north-west of the river Ohio.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said lands shall be disposed of in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of other lands of the United States: Provided, that no tracts of land excepted from sales by virtue of any former acts, shall be sold by virtue of this act.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all the lands to which the Indian title is extinguished, lying in that part of the State of Indiana which is cast of the Lake Michigan, bordering upon the northern line of said State, and not attached to any land district, shall be, and the same are hereby, attached to the Fort Wayne District. Approved, February 19, 1831.

AN ACT respecting the jurisdiction of certain District AN ACT making appropriations for the completion and support of the Penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Courts.

Be it enacted, &c. That the District Courts of the United States for the northern District of New York, the western District of Pennsylvania, the District of Indiana, the District of Illinois, the District of Missouri, the District of Mississippi, the western District of Louisiana, the eastern District of Louisiana, the northern District of Alabama, and the southern District of Alabama, in addi. tion to the ordinary jurisdiction and powers of a District Court shall within the limits of their respective Districts, have jurisdiction of all causes, except appeals and writs of error, which now are, or hereafter may by law be made, cognizable in a Circuit Court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a Circuit Court. Approved, February 19, 1831.

Be it enacted, &c. That, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, now subject to the order of the Inspectors, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated for the support of the said penitentiary, for the pay of its officers, the erection of additional buildings and improvements; for a wharf and sea wall; the purchase of materials, tools and implements of trade; the purchase of additional ground for the institution; the draining of the marsh east of the penitentiary, and other contingent expenses, the sum of thirty-six thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be expended under the direction of the Board of Inspectors. Provided, That no more than two thousand dollars shall be drawn from the AN ACT for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi. Treasury at any one time; and that no subsequent draft shall be made, until the amount previously drawn shall Be it enacted, &c. That William Burris be allowed to be duly accounted for by proper vouchers, regularly relinquish to the United States the east half of the quar-numbered, and an abstract of which shall accompany ter of section twenty-one, township three, range six, east, the same. containing eighty acres entered by mistake, and to locate in lieu thereof, another half quarter section of land on any of the public lands of the United States, in the State of Mississippi, which has been offered at public sale and is now subject to entry at private sale.

Approved, February 19, 1831.

AN ACT to alter and amend "An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive.

Be it enacted, &c. That all persons entitled to lands, under a contract entered into on the eighth of January, eighteen hundred and nineteen, by the Secretary of the Treasury on the part of the United States, and Charles Villar, agent of the Tombecbee Association, in pursuance of "An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive" approved on the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, their heirs, devisees or assigns, who appear by the report of William L. Adams, special agent of the treasury, appointed in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, passed the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to have complied with the conditions of settlement and cultivation, as stipulated for in said contract or who shall hereafter made it ap. pear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that they have so complied, shall on paying into the Treasury one dollar and twenty-five cents the acre previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirtythree receive a patent for the same.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons who became entitled to an allotment of land under said contract, their heirs, devisees, or assigns, who have failed to comply with the conditions of settlement and cultivation within the period required thereby, who at the time of the passage of this act shall be in the actual occupancy and cultivation of the same, shall, on paying into the Treasury one dollar and twenty five cents the acre, previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirtythree, receive a patent for the same.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the widow and children of any person who became entitled to an allotment of land under said contract, and died without per forming the conditions required, shall, on paying into the Treasury, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, receive a patent for the same. Approved: February 19, 1831.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a majority of the inspectors shall certify upon said abstract, that the amount of moneys, as stated therein, have been actually and necessarily expended, and further, the affidavits of the warden and clerk, taken before a judge or justice of the peace, shall be endorsed on said abstract, stating that the moneys mentioned therein, and vouchers accompanying the same, have been actually paid to the persons, and for the purposes stated in said abstracts and vouchers.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the warden of the said penitentiary shall be appointed by the Presi dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and said warden shall appoint, and may remove, at his pleasure, all its subordinate officers, excepting the clerk, who shall be appointed and removed by the inspectors, or a majority of them.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the number of inspectors shall hereafter be reduced to three, a majority of whom shall constitute a board for the transaction of business, and shall receive an annual salary, payable quarter-yearly, of two hundred and fifty dollars each.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, the salary of the warden of the said penitentiary shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Approved: February 25, 1831.

AN ACT to authorize the appointment of a sub-agent to the Winnebago Indians, on Rock river.

owed to the Winnebago tribe of Indians, to reside on Be it enacted, &c. That an additional sub-agent be althe waters of Rock river; and that the said agent shall be appointed as like officers are appointed, and receive the same amount of compensation.

Approved: February 25, 1831.

AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make compensation to the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston and Francis W. Armstrong, for the maintenance of fifteen Africans illegally imported into the United States.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to pay, out of the sum appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade, the claim of the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston, late Marshal of the United States for the district of Alabama, for the maintenance of tifteen Africans, illegally imported into the United States

in the District of Columbia.

in the schooners Louisa and Marino, in one thousand AN ACT to incorporate Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, eight hundred and eighteen: Provided, That satisfactory evidence of the reasonableness of the charges for said maintenance shall be furnished, and that the sums received by the said Livingston for the hire of said Africans, and for the labor performed for him, by them, if any, be accounted for and deducted.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the same al: lowance shall be made to Francis W Armstrong, Marshal of the United States for the district of Alabama, for the time that the aforesaid fifteen Africans were kept by him, subject, in the settlement, to the same restrictions provided for in the first section of this act. Approved: February 25, 1831

Be it enacted, &c. That William Matthews, Matthew Deagle, Peter S. Shreiber, Thomas Carbery, and William Hickey, and their successors in office, are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, under the name, style, and title of Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed to Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, be, and they are hereby, vested in, and confirmed to, the said corporation; and that tenements, rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall, or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto them, or either of them, as Trustees of the said Asylum, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same: Provided, The clear annual income of property to be acquired by said corporation shall, at no time, exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.

AN ACT supplemental to an act, passed on the thirty-they may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy any lands, first March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled "An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of lands of the United States." Be it enacted, &c. That all purchasers, their heirs or assignees, of such of the public lands as were sold on a credit for a less price than fourteen dollars per acre, and on which a further credit has been taken under any of the laws passed for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and which lands have reverted to the United Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corpoStates on account of the balance due thereon not having ration, by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be been paid or discharged, agreeably to said relief laws, hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, shall be entitled to patents, without further payment, in to plead and be impleaded, within the District of Colum all instances where one dollar and twenty-five cents, or abia and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other pergreater sum, per acre, shall have been paid; or where sons or corporations can sue or be sued; and that they payment to that amount shall not have been heretofore shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same to use, made, such purchasers, their heirs or assignees, shall alter, or exchange at pleasure; that they may appoint have the right of pre-emption until the fourth day of Ju- such officers as they shall deem necessary and proper, to ly, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by paying assign them their duties, and regulate their compensation, into the proper land office such sum, in addition to the and to remove any or all of them, and appoint others, as amount heretofore paid, as will, together, amount to the often as they shall think fit; and the said corporation minimum price of the lands of the United States at the shall make such laws as may be useful for the government time of such payment. and support, and for the general accomplishment of the objects of the said Asylum, as hereinafter mentioned, and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, for the time being, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate at pleasure.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all such occupants of relinquished land as are contemplated and described in the second section of the above recited act, to which this is a supplement, as are in possession of land which was sold on credit, for a less sum than fourteen dollars per acre, shall have the right of pre-emption of the Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be same lands, according to the legal subdivisions of sec- a meeting of the regular annual contributors to the suptions, not exceeding the quantity of two quarter sections port of Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, in the month of in contiguous tracts or contiguous to other lands held by June, in each year, the hour, and day, and manner of such occupants respectively, until the fourth day of July, giving notice for which, to be regulated by the by-laws; one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, upon their at which meeting, by those who from the by laws may paying into a proper office, for all land originally sold for a be qualified to vote, nine female managers shall be electprice not exceeding five dollars per acre, one dollar and | ed, 'who shall appoint a first and second Directress, and twenty-five cents per acre; and for all lands which_origi- | may fill all vacancies in their own Board, until the next nally sold for more than five dollars, and not exceeding annual election; and the present managers may continue fourteen dollars per acre, the amount of the first instal-in office until the election in June next. ment heretofore paid; such occupants first proving their possession, respectively in conformity to the provisions of the said act, to which this is a supplement, in the manner which has been prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, pursuant to the provisions thereof: Provided, however, That in all cases where proof of possession has been already made under said recited act, proof shall not again be required, unless the applicant choose to take other land than that to which such proof applies.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted That the provisions of this act shall extend to all town property of which the Government has been proprietors, and not subsequently sold, when full payment has not been made: Provided, The original purchasers, or their assignees, pay into the proper land office, on or before the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, one half of the original purchase money, without interest. Approved: February 25, 1831.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, with the consent and approbation of the parent, guardian, or friends, who may have the care of any male or female child, or where a child may be destitute of any friend or protector, the same may be received into Saint Vincent's Orphan Asylum, under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws, and there protected, instructed, and supported : and they shall not thereafter be withdrawn, or be at liberty themselves to withdraw from the Asylum, without the consent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid, until, if a male, he shall have attained the age of twentyone years, or, if a female, the age of eighteen years; but, up to the ages aforesaid respectively, they shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, unless they may, by the same, be exonerated from service previous to attaining those ages respectively; and the said corporation shall have the power to bind any child under their care, for the purposé of acquiring a know

ledge of some useful trade, occupation or profession, un- in the City of Washington, with all convenient despatch, der such conditions as may be determined by the by- to arrange and docket the several claims, and to consider laws, a copy of which conditions shall be delivered to, the evidence which shall have been, or which may be of and they shall be binding on every person to whom any fered by the respective claimants, allowing such further child may be so bound; that there may also be estab-time for the production of such further evidence as may lished, in connexion with Saint Vincent's Orphan's Asy-be required, and as they shall think reasonable ard just; lum, schools for the daily attendance of children whose parents or guardians are or may be unable to pay for their instruction, or whose parents or guardians may contribute towards the support of the Asylum, under such regulations as may be made in the by-laws.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That any vacancy which, from death, resignation, or otherwise, may hap pen in the Board of Trustees, shall be filled according to the mode to be prescribed in the by-laws; that they may hold such meetings as they shall think proper, and, to give form to their proceedings, may appoint such officers as they may deem necessary, and provide proper checks and responsibilities for the security of the property and funds of the corporation aforesaid; that they shall keep a journal of their proceedings, upon which the by-laws shall be recorded; and that they shall make report, at the annual meeting to be held in June, of the affairs and condition of the institution for the preceding year.

and they shall thereupon proceed to determine the said claims, and to award distribution of the sums to be received by the United States from the King of Denmark, under the stipulations of the Convention aforesaid, among the several claimants, according to their respective rights. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to make all needful rules and regulations, not contravening the laws of the land, the provisions of this act, or the provisions of the said Convention, for carrying their said commission into full and complete effect.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Secretary to the said commission.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners and Secretary shall severally take an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices. Sec 7. And be it further enacted, That it may be law. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the compensaful for Congress hereafter to alter, amend, modify, or re-tion of the respective officers for whose appointment propeal the foregoing act.

Approved: February 25, 1831.

vision is made by this act shall not exceed the following sums to each of the said commissioners at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, and to the Secretary AN ACT to provide for the adjustment of claims of per- of the Board at the rate of two thousand dollars per an sons entitled to indemnification under the convention num; and the President of the United States shall be, between the United States and his Majesty the King and he is hereby, authorized to make such provision for of Denmark, of the twenty-eighth March, eighteen the contingent expenses of the said commission as shall hundred and thirty, and for the distribution among such appear to him reasonable and proper; and the said salaclaimants, of the sums to be paid by the Danish Go-ries and expenses shall be paid out of any money in the vernment to that of the United States, according to the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. stipulation of the said convention.

Be it enacted, &c. That the commissioners who are or may be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in pursuance of the third article of the convention between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of Denmark, signed at Copenhagen the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall meet at Washington City, in the District of Columnbia, and, within the space of two years from the time of their first meeting, shall receive, examine, and decide upon the amount and validity of all such claims as may be presented to them, and are provided for by the convention referred to, according to the merits of the several cases, and to justice, equity, and the law of nations and according to the provisions of said convention.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all records, documents, or other papers, which now are in, or hereaf ter, during the continuance of this commission, may come into the possession of the Department of State, in relation to such claims, shall be delivered to the com. mission aforesaid.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, with their Secretary, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, shall convene in this city on the first Monday of April next, and shall proceed to execute the duties of their commission; and the Secretary of State shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required forthwith after the passing of this act, to give notice of the said intended meeting, to be published in one or more public gazettes in the city of Washington, and in such other public papers, published elsewhere in the United States, as he may designate.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said com missioners shall proceed immediately after their meeting

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all moneys to be received from the Danish Government under the convention aforesaid, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and shall constitute a fund for satisfying the awards of the commission provided for by this act.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all communications to or from the Secretary of the Board of Commissioners on the business of the commission, shall pass by mail free of postage.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the said commission shall be executed and completed, the records, documents, and all other papers in the posses sion of the commission or its officers shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. Approved: February 25, 1831.

AN ACT for the Punishment of Crimes in the District of
Columbia.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted, &c That, from and after the passage of this act, every person who shall be convicted, in any court in the District of Columbia, of any of the following offences, to wit: manslaughter, assault and battery with intent to kill, arson, rape, assault and battery with intent to commit a rape, burglary, robbery, horse stealing, mayhem, bigamy, perjury, or subornation of perjury, larceny, if the property stolen is of the value of five dollars or upwards, forgery, obtaining by false pretences any goods or chattels, money, bank note, promissory note, or any other instrument in writing for the payment or delivery of money or other valuable thing, or of keeping a faro bank or other common gaming table, petty larceny upon a second conviction, committed after the passage of this act, shall be sentenced to suffer punish. ment by imprisonment and labor, for the time and times hereinafter prescribed, in the penitentiary for the Dis trict of Columbia.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person duly convicted of manslaughter, or of any assault and battery with intent to kill, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for the first offence for a period not less than two nor more than eight years, for the second offence for a period not less than six nor more than fifteen years.

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stealing of which is made punishable by this act, to the value of five dollars or upwards, knowing them to have been stolen, or of being an accessary after the fact in any felony, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for the first offence for a period not less than one nor more than five years, and for the second offence for a period not less than two nor more than ten years. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That every person duly convicted of the crime of maliciously, wilfully, or duly convicted of having falsely forged and counterfeitfraudulently burning any dwelling house, or any other ed any gold or silver coin, which new is, or shall hereafhouse, barn or stable adjoining thereto, or any store, barn ter be, passing or in circulation within the District of Coor out house, having goods, tobacco, hay or grain there-lumbia; or of having falsely uttered, paid, or tendered in in, although the same shall not be adjoining to any payment, any such counterfeit or forged coin, knowing dwelling house; or of maliciously and wilfully burning the same to be forged and counterfeit; or of having aidany of the public buildings in the cities, towns, or coun- ed, abetted or commanded the perpetration of either of ties of the District of Columbia, belonging to the United the said offences; or of having falsely made, altered, forgStates, or the said cities, towns or counties; or any ed, or counterfeited, or caused or procured to be falsely church, meeting-house, or other building for public made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or having willingworship, belonging to any voluntary society, or body ly aided or assisted in falsely making, altering, forging, or corporate; or any college, academy, school-house, or counterfeiting, any paper, writing, or printed paper, to the library; or any ship or vessel, afloat or building; or as prejudice of the right of any other person, body politic, being accessary thereto, shall be sentenced to suffer or corporate, or voluntary association, with intent to deimprisonment and labor, for a period of not less than one, fraud such person, body politic or corporate, or voluntanor more than ten years for the first offence, and not ry association, or of having passed, uttered, or publishless than five nor more than twenty years for the second ed, or attempted to pass, utter or publish, as true, any such falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited pa per, writing or printed paper, to the prejudice of the right of any other person, body politic or corporate, or voluntary association, knowing the same to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to defraud such person, body politic or corporate, or voluntary as sociation, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for the first offence for a period not less than one

offence.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That every free person duly convicted of rape, or as being accessary thereto before the fact, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for the first offence for a period not less than ten nor more than thirty years, and for the second offence for and during the period of his natural life. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That every free per-year nor more than seven years, for the second offence, son duly convicted of an assault and battery, with intent to commit a rape, shall be punished for the first offence by undergoing confinement in the Penitentiary for a period not less than one nor more than five years, and for the second for a period not less than five nor more than fifteen years,

for a period not less than three nor more than ten years, Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That every person duly convicted of obtaining by false pretences any goods or chattels, money, bank note, promissory note, or any other instrument in writing, for the payment or delivery of money or other valuable thing, or of keeping a faro Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That every person bank or gaming table, shall be sentenced to suffer impriduly convicted of burglary, or as accessary thereto before sonment and labor, for a period not less than one year, the fact, or of robbery, or as accessary thereto before the nor more than five years and every person, so offendfact, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and laboring, shall be a competent witness against every other for the first offence for a period not less than three nor more than seven years, and for the second offence for a period not less than five nor more than fifteen years.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That every person convicted of horse stealing, mayhem, bigamy, or as being accessary to any of said crimes before the fact, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for the first offence for a period not less than two nor more than seven years, and for the second offence for a period not less than five nor more than twelve years.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That every person convicted of perjury, or subornation of perjury, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for the first offence for a period not less than two nor more than ten years, and for the second offence for a period not less than five nor more than fifteen years.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That every person convicted of feloniously stealing, taking, and carrying away, any goods or chattels, or other personal property, of the value of five dollars or upwards, or any bank note, promissory note, or any other instrument of writing, for the payment or delivery of money or other valuable thing, to the amount of five dollars or upwards, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for the first offence for a period not less than one nor more than three years, and for the second offence for a period not less than three nor more than ten years.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That every person convicted of receiving stolen goods, or any article the

person offending in the same transaction, and may be compelled to appear and give evidence in the same manner as other persons; but the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying.

Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That every person, upon a second conviction of larceny, where the property stolen is under the value of five dollars, or upon a second conviction of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, where the property stolen is under the va lue of five dollars, shall be sentenced to suffer imprisonment and labor, for a period not less than one nor more than three years.

Sec. 14. And be it further enucled, That all capital felonies and crimes in the District of Columbia, not herein specially provided for, except murder, treason, and piracy, shall hereafter be punished by imprisonment and labor in the Penitentiary of said District, for a period not less than seven nor more than twenty years.

Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That every other felony, misdemeanor, or offence not provided for by this act, may and shall be punished as heretofore, except that, in all cases where whipping is part or the whole of the punishment, except, in the cases of slaves, the court shall substitute therefor imprisonment in the county jail, for a period not exceeding six months.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That all definitions and descriptions of crimes; all fines, forfeitures, and incapacities, the restitution of property, or the payment of