Specific ap eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dol.

propriations. lars:

For the medical and hospital department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: For contingencies, three hundred and fiftyfive thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and seventeen cents:

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO: CLINTON,

Vice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

February 21, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

on the pension st.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

AN ACT for the relief of Captain Selah Benton.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Selah To be placed Benton, who served as a captain in the American army in the revolutionary war, be placed on the pension list, and that there be paid to him in the same manner that other pensions are paid, the sum of twenty dollars per month, to commence from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from and after the passage thereof.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO: CLINTON,

Vice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

February 21, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER XXIX.

AN ACT to establish a land district in the Illinois territory, east of the district of Kaskaskia, and to attach certain public lands to the district of Jeffersonville.

Land district

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands of the United States, heretofore in- formed. cluded within the land district of Kaskaskia, a lies east of third principal meridian, established by the surveyor general, shall, together with the public lands lying between the Vincennes and Kaskaskia districts, and not heretofore attached to any district, form a new land district. For the disposal of the said lands, a land office shall be established at Shawncetown, under the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of public monies, to be ap pointed for that purpose; who shall reside at the place, give security in the same manner, in

Land office established at

Shawnee

town.

How the

Lands are to be disposed of.

Proviso.

Proviso.

Part of the

eennes dis

trict, how to be disposed of.

the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same in relation to the lands which shall be disposed at their office, as are, or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public monies in the several offices, established for the disposal of the lands of the United States, northwest of the river Ohio.

Sec. 2. 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 public lands in the district of Kaskaskia: Provided, That no tracts of land, excepted from the sales by virtue of any former act, shall be sold by virtue of this act: And provided also, That a tract of not less than six mile square shall be reserved by the President of the United States for the use and support of the pub. lic salt works on Saline creek.

Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That lands attach- SO much of the lands attached to the dised to the Vin- trict of Vincennes, by virtue of the first section of an act, entitled "An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes," passed on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hun. dred and ten, as lies east of the second principal meridian established by the surveyor general, shall be attached to, and become a part of the district of Jeffersonville, and shall be offered at public sale at the land office for the said district, under the superintendence of the register and receiver of public monies for the said land office, and shall be sold in every other respect in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as are provided by the

bovementioned act, except that the public sales for the said lands shall remain open only

for six days.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO. CLINTON,

Vice-President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

February 21, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER XXX.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for de- Appropria fraying the expenses of the Navy, during the tion. year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the following sums, including therein the sum of four hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the act, entitled "An act authorising the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage and other quarter-master's stores and small arms," be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:

and

For the pay and subsistence of the officers,

pay of the seamen, one million, one hundred and twenty-three thousand, three hundred and forty-one dollars:

Special ap

For provisions, five hundred and fifty-nine propriation. thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dol. lars:

For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars:

For repairs of vessels, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars:

For freight, store-rent and all other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars:

For the expenses of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and laborers, sixty thousand dollars:

For ordnance and ordnance stores, compris ing cannon, carronades, muskets, pistols and other small arms, cannon ball and shot of eve ry description, two hundred and eighty thou

sand dollars:

For the purchase of salt-petre and sulphur, and for making the same into powder, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars:

For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty cents:

For clothing for the same, forty-nine thou sand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty cents:

For military stores for the same, one thou sand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents:

For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, belonging to the marine corps, three thousand five hundred dollars: