cers, musicians, and privates of the army of the United States. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro-tempore. February 20, 1813. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. Thirty-three thousand eight hun dred and six ty-four dol lars and fif ty-five cents to be paid to him. CHAPTER CLXI. AN ACT for the relief of Jared Shattuck. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Jared Shattuck, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents, being the amount decreed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, by the supreme court of the United States, to the said Jared Shattuck, for his damages in an amicable suit against Lieutenant Maley, master of the United States' schooner Experiment, whose appearance was entered and defence conducted by the attorney of the United States, for the district of Pennsylvania, in pursuance of instructions given to him from the executive of the United States, in the capture by said Maley of the ship Mercator, in the year eighteen hundred; and also the interest at H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. February 2d, 1813. APPROVED JAMES MADISON. Also interest March, 1806. CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT giving the right of pre-emption in the purchase of lands to certain settlers in the Illinois territory. blished for BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, or the legal representatives of every person, inhabitants who has actually inhabited and cultivated a and cultiva tract of land lying in either of the districts tors of land lying in dis<stablished for the sale of public lands, in the tricts estaIllinois territory, which tract is not rightfully the sale there claimed by any other person, and who shall of, entitled to not have removed from said territory; every preference in such person and his legal representatives shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser from the United States of such tract of land at private sale, at the same price and on the same terms and conditions in every purchasing. Proviso. Proviso. Persons claiming a preference in the register of the land office, &c. respect, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of other lands sold at private sale in said territory, at the time of making such purchase: Provided, That no more than one quarter section of land shall be sold to any one individual, in virtue of this act; and the same shall be bounded by the sectional and divisional lines run, or to be run, under the direction of the surveyor general for the division of the public lands: Provided also, That no lands reserved from sale by former acts, or lands which have been directed to be sold in town lots, and out lots, shall be sold under this act. Scc. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person claiming a preference in becoming the purchaser of a tract of land, in virtue of this act, shall make known his claim, by purchasing to delivering a notice in writing, to the register deliver notice of the land office, for the district in which the in writing to land may lie, wherein he shall particularly designate the quarter section he claims; which notice the register shall file in his office, on receiving twenty-five cents from the person delivering the same. And in every case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of tire register and receiver of public monies of the land office, that any person, who has delivered his notice of claim, is entitled, according to the provisions of this act, to a preference in becoming the purchaser of a quarter section of land, such person so entitled shall have a right to enter the same, with the register of the land office, on producing his receipt from the receiver of public monies for at least one twentieth part of the purchase moncy, as in case of other public lands sold at private sale: Provided, That all lands to be sold under this act shall be entered with the register, at least Proviso. two weeks before the time of the commencement of the public sales, in the district wherein the land lies: and every person having a right of preference in becoming the purchaser of a tract of land, who shall fail so to make his entry with the register, within the time prescribed, his right shall be forfeited, and the land by him claimed shall be offered at public sale, with the other public lands in the district to which it belongs. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WM. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. February 5, 1813. APPROVED, How the pre-. ference may be forfeited. JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER CLXIII. AN ACT authorising a loan for a sum not exceeding sixteen millions of dollars. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That the President President au the credit of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised to thorised to borrow, on the credit of the United borrow, on States, a sum not exceeding sixteen millions of the United of dollars, to be applied, in addition to the States, a sum monies now in the Treasury, or which may sixteen milbe received from other sources, to defray any lions of dol of the expenses which have been, or, during the present session of Congress, may be au not exceeding lars. in twelve years from the first of January, 1814. thorised by law, and for which appropriations have been, or, during the present session of . Reimbursable Congress, may be made by law: Provided, That no engagement nor contract shall be entered into, which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums thus borrowed, at any time after the expiration of twelve years, from the first day of January next: And it is hereby further declared, That it shall be deemed a good execution of the said power to borrow, for the President of the United States to cause to be sold the whole or any part of the certificates of stock issued for the sums to be borrowed by virtue of this act. Sale of the certificates of stock a good execution of the power to borrow. President to cause to be laid before Congress an account of all the monies Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States do cause to be laid before Congress, on the first Monday in February, eighteen hundred and fourteen, or as soon thereafter as Congress may be in session, an account of all the monies obobtained by tained by the sale of the certificates of stock, by virtue of the power given him by the preceding section, together with a statement of the rate at which the same may have been sold. sale of certificates, &c. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorised to employ, with the approbation of the President of the United States, an agent or agents, for the purpose of obtaining subscrip tions to the loan authorised by this act, or of selling any part of the stock created by virtue thereof. A commission not exceeding one quarter of one per cent. on the amount thus sold, or for which subscriptions shall have been thus obtained, may, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be allowed to such agent or agents; and a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies in |