AN ACT to extend the time for issuing and locating Military Land Warrants to officers and soldiers of the Revatetionary Army.

Be it enacted, &c. That the time limited by the second section of the act approved the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldier of the Revolutionary army, shall be extended till the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentyseven, and the time for locating the unlocated warrants shall be extended till the first day of October thereafter. Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT to authorize the sale of a Section of Land therein mentioned.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be exposed to public sale, in the same manner other lands of the United States are, the section numbered thirty-four, of the Eleventh Township and Third Range of Townships offered for sale, at Steubenville, Ohio; and, if not so sold, the said section shall be liable to entry in the Steubenville Land Office, as other lands are.

Approved March 3, 1825.

AN ACT granting Pensions to James Barker and Zebulon Pike.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place James Barker on the list of Revolutionary pensioners of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and that said Barker shall be entitled to receive said pension in the manner provided by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place Colonel Zebulon Pike upon the list of Revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and cause to be paid to him at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing on the day the said Zebulon Pike was stricken from the Pension Roll, up to the sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four; from which time his pension shall eontinue.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT for the relief of David Gilmore.

Be it enacted, &c. That a judgment, recovered by the United States against David Gilmore, and others, at the District Court of the United States, holder at Portland, in the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight handred and twenty-four, for the sum of eighty-four dollars and fifteen cents, damages and costs, be, and the same is hereby, released and discharged. And the Secretary of the Træsury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said David Gilmore, out of any money in the Treasury, net otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy dollars, being the amount of cost expended by the said Gilmore, in defending a suit wrongfully commenced against him.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if the said David Gilmore, and others, bave paid, or shall hereafter, and before they can avail themselves of the benefit of this act, pay, the amount of said judgment, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said David Gilmore, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of said judgment, together with the amount of the Marshal's fees taken thereon.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT for the relief of Jacob A. Blackwell.

Be it enacted, &c. That there be paid to Jacob A. Blackwell, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents, being the amount by him paid to the Collector of Washington, in the state of North Carolina, as extra tonnage duty and light money on the Brig Prospect, in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen; the said Brig being taken to be a foreign vessel, when, in point of fact, she was bona fide an American vessel.

AN ACT for the relief of Malachi Burns.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon application, cause a patent to be issued to Malachi Burns, or his legal representatives, for three hundred and two arpens of land, situated in the Parish of Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, according to the boundaries of a plat thereof, made for Edward Metcalf, on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven: Provided, This act shall not prejudice, or in any wise affect, the rights of any third person.

AN ACT for the continuation of the Cumberland Road.

Approved March 3, 1825

Be it enacted, etc. That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of moneys not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose of opening and making a road from the town of Canton, in the state of Ohio, on the right bank of the Ohio river, opposite the town of Wheeling, to the Muskingum river, at Zanesville, in said state; which said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the ori ginal states.

Sec. 2. And it further enacted, That, for the immediate accomplishment of this object, the President, with the advice of the Senate, shall appoint some fit person as the superintendent of said road, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President, to divide the same into sections of not more than ten miles each; to contract for, and personally superintend, the opening and making the said road, as well as to receive, disburse, and faithfully account with the Treasury for, all sums of money by him received in virtue of this act.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendent shall not be interested, directly or indirectly, in the avails of any contracts so to be made by him as aforesaid: That he shall, before he enters upon the discharge of the duties enjoined by this act, execute a bond to the United States, with security, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties prescribed by this act: That he shall hold his office during the pleasure of the President, and shall receive at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum for his services, during the time he may be employed in the discharge of the duties required by

this act.

Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to appoint one impartial and judicious person, not being a citizen of either of the states through which the road, hereafter mentioned, shall pass, to be a Commissioner; and, in case of the death, resignation, refusal to act, or any disability of any such Commissioner, to appoint another in his stead, who shall have power, according to the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the appointment of Commissioners to lay out the road therein mentioned," approved May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to complete the examination and survey heretofore commenced by virtue of the provisions of said act, and to extend the same to the permanent seat of Government of the state of Missouri; the said road to conform, in all respects, to the provisions of the said recited act, except that it shall pass by the seat of Government of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; and the said Commissioner and the person employed under him, shall receive the same compensation for their services, respectively, as is allowed by the said recited act: Provided, however, That the said road shall commence at Zanesville, in the state of Ohio; and to defray the expeuse thereof, the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of the appropriation made by the first section of this act.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, etc. That if any person or persons, within any fort, dock-yard, navy-yard, arsenal, armory, or ma gazine, the site whereof is ceded to, and under the jurisdiction of, the United States, or on the site of any lighthouse, or other needful building belonging to the United States, the site whereof is ceded to them, and under their jurisdiction, as aforesaid, shall wilfully and maliciously burn any dwelling house, or mansion house, or any store, barn, stable, or other building, parcel of any dwelling or mansion house, every person, so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, suffer death.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons, in any of the places aforesaid, shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to, or burn, any arsenal, armory, magazine, rope-walk, ship-house, ware-house, block-house, or barrack, or any store-house, barn, or stable, not parcel of a dwelling-house, or any other building, not mentioned in the first section of this act, or any ship or vessel, built, or building, or begun to be built, or repairing, or any light-house, or beacon, or any timber, cables, rigging, or other materials for building, repairing, or fitting out, ships or vessels, or any pile of wood, boards, or other lumber, or any military, naval, or victualling stores, arms, or other munitions of war, every person, so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any offence shall be committed, in any of the places aforesaid, the punishment of which offence is not specially provided for by any law of the United States, such offence shall, upon a conviction in any court of the United States, having cognizance thereof, be liable to, and receive, the same punishment as the laws of the state, in which such fort, dock-yard, navy-yard, arsenal, armory, or magazine, or other place, ceded as aforesaid, is situated, provide for the like offence, when committed within the body of any county of such state.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall commit the crime of wilful murder, or rape, or shall wilfully and maliciously strike, stab, wound, poison, or shoot at, any other person, of which striking, stabbing, wounding, poisoning, or shooting, such person shall afterwards die, upon land, within or without the United States, every person so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, or abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer death.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any offence shall be committed on board of any ship or vessel, belonging to any citizen or citizens of the United States, while lying in a port or place within the jurisdiction of any foreign state or sovereign, by any person belonging to the company of said ship, or any passenger, or any other person belonging to the company of said ship, or any other passenger, the same offence shall be cognizable and punishable by the proper Circuit Court of the United States, in the same way and manner, and under the same circumstances, as if said offence had been committed on board of such ship or vessel on the high seas, and without the jurisdiction of such foreign sovereign or state: Provided, always, That if such offender shall be tried for such offence, and acquitted or convicted thereof, in any competent court of such foreign state or sovereign, he shall not be subject to another trial in any court of the United States.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall, by surprise, or by open force or violence, maliciously attack or set upon, any ship or vessel belonging, in whole or in part, to the United States, or to any citizen or citizens thereof, or to any other person whatsoever, with an intent unlawfully to plunder the same ship or vessel, or to despoil any owner or owners thereof of any moneys, goods, or merchandise, laden on board thereof; or shall, by force or violence, or by putting in fear, unlawfully plunder any such ship or vessel, or steal or carry away any money,

goods, or merchandise, laden on board thereof; every person so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, or abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction, thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding fire thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons upon the high seas, or in any other of the places aforesaid, with intent to kill, rob, steal, commit a rape, or to do or perpetrate any other felony, shall break or es ter any ship or vessel, boat, or raft; or if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously cut, spoil, or destroy, any cordage, cable, buoys, buoy-rope, headfast, or other fast, fixed to any anchor or moorings, belonging to any ship, vessel, boat, or raft, every person, so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, bepunished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment or confinement to hard labor, not exceeding five years, according to the aggravation of the offence. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons upon the high seas, or in any of the places aforesaid, shall buy, receive, or conceal, or aid in concealing, any money, goods, bank notes, or other effects of things which may be the subject of larceny, which have been feloniously taken or stolen from any other person, knowing the same to have been taken or stoler, every person so offending shall be deeming guilty of antsdemeanor, and may be prosecuted therefor, although the principal offender chargeable, or charged with the larceny, shall not have been prosecuted or convicted thereof; and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding three years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons shall plunder, steal, or destroy, any money, goods, merchandise; or other effects, from, or belonging to, any ship or vessel, or boat, or raft, which shall be in distress, or which shall be wrecked, lost, stranded, or cast away, upon the sea, or upon any reef, shoal, bank, or rocks of the sea, or in any other place within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States; or if any person or persons shall wilfully obstruct the escape of any person endeavoring to save his or her life from such ship or vessel, boat, or raft, or the wreck thereof; or if any person or persons shall hold out or show any false light or lights, or extinguish any true light, with intention to bring any ship or vessel, boat or raft, being or sailing upon the sea, into danger, or distress, or shipwreck, every person so offending, his or her counsellors, aiders, and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the ag gravation of the offence.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That, if any master or commander of any ship or vessel, belonging, in whole or in part, to any citizen or citizens of the United States, shall, during his being abroad, maliciously, and without justifiable cause, force any officer or mariner of such ship or vessel on shore, or leave him behind, in any foreign port or place, or refuse to bring home again all such of the officers and mariners of such ship or vessel, whom he carried out with him, as are in a condition to return, and willing to return, when he shall be ready to proceed in his homeward voyage, every master or commander, so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding six months, according to the aggrava

tion of the offence.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously set on fire, o burn, or otherwise destroy, or cause to be set on fire, or burnt, or otherwise destroyed, or aid, procure, abet, or assist in setting on fire, or burning, or otherwise destroying, any ship or vessel of war of the United States, aficat on the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, suffer death: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to take away or impair the right of any court martial to punish any offence, which by the law of the United States, may be punishable by such court.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any officer of the United States shall be guilty of extortion, under or by color of his office, every person, so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding one year, according to the aggravation of the offence. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any person, in any case, matter, hearing, or other proceeding, when an oath or affirmation shall be required to be taken or administered under or by any law or laws of the United States, shall, upon the taking of such oath or affirmation, knowingly and willingly swear or affirm falsely, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding five years, according to the aggravation of the offence. And if any or persons shall knowingly or willingly procure any such perjury to be committed, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding five years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That, if any person, upon his or her arraignment upon any indictment before any court of the United States for any offence, not capital, shall stand mute, or will not answer or plead to such indictment, the court shall, notwithstanding, proceed to the trial of the person so standing mute, or refusing to answer or plead, as if he or she had pleaded not guilty, and upon a verdict being returned by the jury, may proceed to render judgment accordingly. And the trial of all offences, which shall be committed upon the high seas, or elsewhere, out of the limits of any state or district, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may be first brought.

Sec. 15. Rad be it further enacted, That in every case where any criminal, convicted of any offence against the United States, shall be sentenced to imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, it shall be lawful for the court, by which the sentence is passed, to order the same to be executed in any state prison or penitentiary with in the district where such court is holden; the use of which prison or penitentiary may be allowed or granted by the Legislature of such state for such purposes; and the expenses attendant upon the execution of such sentence shall be paid by the United States.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That, if any person who shall be employed as president, cashier, clerk, or servant, in the Bank of the United States, created and established by an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States," passed on the tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, or in any office of discount and deposite established by the Directors of said Bank, in any state or territory of the United States, shall feloniously take, steal, and carry away, any money, goods, bond,

bill, bank note, or other note, check, draft, Treasury note, or other valuable security, or effects, belonging to said bank, or deposited in said bank; or, if any person su employed as president, cashier, clerk, or servant, shall fraudlently embezzle, secrete, or make away with, any money, goods, bond, bill, bank note, or other note, draft, Treasury note, or other valuable security or effects, which he shall have received, or which shall come to his pos session or custody by virtue of such employment, every person so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousan dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shail falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting, any paper, writing, or instrument, in imitation of, or purporting to be, an indent, certificate of the public stock, or debt, Treasury note, or other public security of the United States, or any letters patent, issued or granted by the President of the United States, or any bill, check, or draft, for money drawn by or on the Treasurer of the United States, or by or on any other public officer or agent of the United States, duly authorized to make, draw, accept, or pay the same, on behalf and for account of the United States; or if any person or persons shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited paper, writing, or instrument, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to defraud the United States, or any body politic or corporate, or any other person or persons whatsoever; or if any person or persons shall falsely alter any indent, certificate of the public stock or debt, Treasury note, or other public security of the United States, or any letters patent, issued or granted by the President of the United States, or any bill, check, or draft for money drawn by or on the Treasurer of the United States, or any other public of ficer or agent of the United States, duly authorized to make, draw, accept, or pay, such bill, check, or draft; or if any person or persons shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true and unaltered, any such falsely altered indent, certificate, Treasury note, or other public security, letters patent, or bill, check, or draft, knowing the same to be falsely altered, with intent to defraud the United States, or any body politic or corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever; every such person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting, any paper, writing, or instru.nent, in imitation of, or purporting to be, any letter of attorney, or other authority or instrument to assign, transfer, sell, or convey, any share or sum in the public stock or debt of the United States, or in the capital stock of the President, Directors, and Company, of the Bank of the United States, or to receive any annuity cr annuities, dividend or dividends, due or to become due on any such stock or debt; or to receive any pension, prize money, wages, or other debt or sum of money due, or to become due, from the United States; or shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in forging or counterfeiting, the name or names of any of the holders or proprietors of any such public stock or debt, or of any person entitled to any such annuity, dividend, pension, prize-money, wages, or other debt or sum of money, as aforesaid, in or to any such pretended letter of attorney, authority, or instrument; or shall knowingly and fraudulently demand, or endeavor to have or obtain, such share or sum in such public stock or debt, or capital stock of the said bank, or to have any part thereof transferred, assigned, sold, or conveyed, or such annuity, dividend, pension, prize-money, wages, or other debt or sum of money, or any part thereof, to be received or paid, by virtue of any such false, forged, or counterfeited letter of attorney, authority, or instrument; or shall falsely and deceitfully personate any true or real proprietor or holder of such share or sum in such public stock or debt, or capital stock of the said Bank, or any person entitled to such annuity, dividend, pension, prize money, wages, or other debt or sum of money as aforesaid, and thereby transferring, or endeavoring to transfer, such public stock or debt, or capital stock of the said Bank, or receiving, or endeavoring to receive, the money of such true or lawful holder or proprietor thereof, or the money of such person or persons, really and truly entitled to receive such annuity, dividend, pension, prize money, wages, or other debt, or sum of money, as aforesaid, as if such offender were the true and lawful owner thereof, and entitled thereto, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished, by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting, any instrument in imitation of, or purporting to be, an abstract or official copy, or certificate of the recording, registry, or enrolment of any ship or vessel, in the office of any collector of the customs of the United States, or a licence to any ship or vessel for carrying on the coasting trade, or fishery or fisheries of the United States, or a certificate of ownership, pass, passport, sea-letter, or clearance, granted for any ship or vessel, under the authority of the United States, or a permit, debenture, or other official document, granted by any collector or other officer of the customs, by virtue of his or their office; or shall falsely alter any abstract, official copy, or certificate, of any recording, registering, or enrolling of any ship or vessel in the office of any collector of the customs of the United States, or any license to any ship or vessel for carrying on the coasting trade or fisheries of the United States, or any certificate of ownership, pass, passport, sea-letter, or clearance, granted for any ship or vessel under the authority of the United States, or any permit, debenture, or other official document granted by any collector, or other officer of the customs, by virtue of his or their office; or shall pass, utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited instrument, or any such falsely altered abstract, official copy, certificate, license, pass, passport, sea-letter, clearance, permit, deben. ture, or other official document as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, or falsely altered, with an intent to defraud the United States, or any other body politic or corporate, or person whatsoever; every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding three years.

Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely inade, forged or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting, any coin, in the resemblance or similitude of the gold or silver coin, which has been, or hereaf Vol. I.-15.

ter may be, coined at the Mint of the United States, or in the resemblance or similitude of any foreign gold or si ver coin, which, by law, now is, or hereafter may be, made current in the United States; or shall pass, utter, publish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or bring into the United States, from any foreign place, with intent to pass, utter, publish, or sell as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to defraud any body politic or corporate, or any other person, or per sons, whatsoever; every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding ten years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, @ cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any coin, in the resemblance or similitude of any copper coin, which has been, or hereafter may be, coined at the Mint of the United States, or shall pass, utter, publish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, pubis, or sell, or bring into the United States, from any foreign place, with intent to pass, utter, publish, or sell, as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited coin, with intent to defraud any body politic or corporate, or any other per son or persons, whatsoever; every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, not exceeding three years.

Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the ju risdiction of any particular state, on board any vessel belonging in whole or in part, to the United States, or an citizen or citizens thereof, shall, with a dangerous weapon, or with intent to kill,rob, steal, or to commit a mayben,s rape, or to perpetrate any other felony, commit an assault on another, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine, not exceeding three thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor, as exceeding three years, according to the aggravation of the offence.

Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons shall, on the high seas, or within the Unite States, wilfully and corruptly conspire, combine, and confederate, with any other person or persons, such othe person or persons being either within or without the United States, to cast away, burn, or otherwise destroy, ship or vessel, or to procure the same to be done, with intent to injure any person, or body politic, that hath derwritten, or shall thereafterwards underwrite, any policy of insurance thereon, or on goods on board thereof, with intent to injure any person, or body politic, that hath lent or advanced, or thereafter shall lend or advance, į any money on such vessel, on bottomry or respondentia, or shall, within the United States, build or fit out, eru. in building or fitting out, any ship or vessel, with intent that the same shall be cast away, burnt, or destroyed in I the purpose or with the design aforesaid, every person, so offending, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed gur of felony, and shall be punished by fine, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and couficien to hard labor, not exceeding ten years.

Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That if any of the gold or silver coins which shall be struck or coined at Mint of the United States, shall be debased, or made worse, as to the proportion of fine gold or fine sir therein contained, or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be, pursuant to the several acts 1: tive thereto, through the default or with the connivance of any of the officers or persons who shall be roy ployed at the said mint, for the purpose of profit or gain, or otherwise, with a fraudulent intent; and if any of m said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals which shall, at any time, be committed to their charger. the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins which shall be struck or coined at the said mint, every such of or person who shall commit any or either of the said offences, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall bes tenced to imprisonment and hard labor for a term not less than one year, nor more than ten years, and shall be im in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this r shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, nevertheless, That all such acts, and parts of acts, stal: and remain in full force for the punishment of all offences committed before the passing of this act.

Sec. 26. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to deprive the of the individual states of jurisdiction, under the laws of the several states, over offences made punishable by t Approved-March 3, 191

act.

` AN ACT for the relief of Stephen, Arnold, David, and George Jenks, second.

Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury settle and adjust the claim of StephArnold, David, and George Jenks, second, for the manufacture of three thousand nine hundred and twenty muskets, manufactured for the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into on the twentyer: day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and to make them such further allowance as shall be ey to that allowed to others, who contracted about the same time,to manufacture arms for the United States, and ci bave had their accounts settled under special acts of Congress, keeping in view the quality of the arms debre with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to they tern gun, and such allowance, so made, deducting therefrom such sums, if any, as the claimants are indente advances, already made on said contract, with the interest thereon from the twenty-sixth day of October, one br sand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriatel Approved March 3, 18

AN ACT for the relief of Walter Story Chandler.

Be it enacted, etc. That the proper officers of the Treasury be hereby authorized and directed to pay to d Story Chandler, or to his legal representatives, the amount of principal and interest due on the five following settlement certificates, which are alleged to have been destroyed while in the possession of the said Walter Chandler, viz: Number eighty-four thousand six hundred and seventy-six, dated November first, one theor seven hundred and eighty-four, issued to Christopher Henson, amount forty-seven dollars sixty cents, interest first January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight; number eighty-four thousand six hundred and f: one, dated first November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, issued to John Gray, amount forțe”

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