such ship or vessel, with intent as aforesaid, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he may be brought or found, shall suffer death.
Persons forcibly confining, detaining, or aiding confine or detain negroes, &c. on board vessels, &c. declared pirates, and to suffer death.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen of the United States, being of the crew or ship’s company of any foreign ship or vessel engaged in the slave trade, or any person whatever, being of the crew of ship’s company of any ship or vessel, owned wholly or in part, or navigated for, or in behalf of, any citizen or citizens of the United States, shall forcibly confine or detain, or aid and abet in forcibly confining or detaining, on board such ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto not held to service by the laws of either of the states or territories of the United States, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall, on board any such ship or vessel, offer or attempt to sell, as a slave, any negro or mulatto not held to service as aforesaid, or shall, on the high seas, or any where on tide water, transfer or deliver over, to any other ship or vessel, any negro or mulatto, not held to service as aforesaid, with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall land, or deliver on shore, from on board any such ship or vessel, any such negro or mulatto, with intent to make sale of, or having previously sold, such negro or mulatto, as a slave, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate; and, on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he shall be brought of found, shall suffer death.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXVII.—An Act for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for lands in the state of Illinois.
Persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for land within the tract reserved by 3d section of act of 16th April, 1814, &c.
Act of 1814, ch. 120.
Claims to be receivable, &c.
Act of 1816, ch. 101.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons lawfully holding confirmed unlocated claims for land within the tract reserved by the third section of the act, entitled “An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory and providing for their location,” passed the sixteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be allowed until the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to register the same: and the said claims shall be receivable in payment for public lands within the said reserved tract, conformably with the provisions of the said act, and of the act, entitled “An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Illinois,” passed the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, at any time before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXVIII.—An Act in addition to the act, entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” and for other purposes.
Act of April 11, 1820, ch. 38.
Sums appropriated—Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, that is to say:
For compensation of members of Congress.For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that object, twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
For public wharf, &c. on Staten Island.For rebuilding the public wharf, and repairing the public warehouses, on Staten Island, fifteen thousand dollars.
For graduating Capitol square, planting trees, &c.For graduating the Capitol square, putting the grounds in order, and planting trees within the same, two thousand dollars.
