to Eastville, nea Cape Charles, and an increased expedi- tive attempt had been made to establish a steamboat mail tion given to it of one day. The mail from New York, by New Brunswick, N. J., to Easton, Pa., has been increased from a tri-weekly to a daily line of four horse post coaches. The mail from Washington city to Harrisburgh, Pa., 112 miles, has been so improved as to run through in one day, and to daily in four horse post coaches. The time formerly occupied was two days. by way of Mobile; but all communication by way of Georgia and South Alabama was too precarious for mercantile purposes. In the autumn of 1829, a regular steamboat line was established between Mobile and New Orleans; and from the 1st of January, 1830, a line of four horse post coaches was established, three times a week, between Fort Mitchell and Mobile, Ala., 270 miles, and with such increased expedition as to perfect a triThe mails are now carried from Washington city and weekly line by coaches and steamboats, in 15 days each from Baltimore, to Cincinnatti, O., a distance of 511 miles, way, between Washington and New Orleans. From the in four days, by daily lines of four horse post coaches. 1st of January, 1831, an increased expedition was given This was never performed before in less than six days. to this mail, so as to run through from the seat of GovernThe same increased expedition is given to Frankfort and ment to New Orleans in 12 days. Within the last six Louisville, in Kentucky. There is also an extra mail be-months, four additional trips a week have been established tween Baltimore and Wheeling. on the whole route between Macon, Ga. and New Orleans, The mail which was but tri-weekly, is now transported 637 miles, thus constituting the whole route daily bedaily in four horse post coaches, between Cincinnatti, O., tween the Atlantic cities and New Orleans, and with an and Georgetown, Ky., 72 miles, and with such increased expedition, as follows: From New Orleans to Washington expedition as to run through each way in 12 hours. It city, 11 days and 18 hours; to Baltimore, 12 days and 2 was formerly 14 hours. hours; to Philadelphia, 12 days and 13 hours; to New Lines of post coaches have been recently established York, 13 days and 5 hours; to Boston, 14 days and 18 between Columbus, O., and Indianapolis, Ind., Cincin-hours. A bi-weekly line of four horse post coaches has been established between Terre Haute, on the Wabash, and Lafayette, Ind. nati and Indianapolis, and between Frankfort, Ky. and A line of four horse stages formerly ran twice a week Indianapolis, where only horse mails had before been between Washington city and Fauquier c. h., Va., 50 carried. miles; in lieu of which, there has been established a daily line of four horse post coaches from Washington, by Charlottesville, Va. to Lynchburg, 200 miles; and a tri-weekly line of four horse post coaches from Lynchburg, by Danville, to Salem, N.C., and to Lexington, N. C.; also, a line of stages which ran twice a week from Fredericksburg, Va., Halifax c. h., Milton, N. C., Lexington, Salisbury, York c. h., S. C., to Powelton, Ga., is improved to a triweekly line of four horse post coaches, connecting with the Lynchburg line above at Lexington, and extended from Washington, Ga., to Milledgeville, with an increased expedition, which gives three days time on the whole route of 600 miles from Fredericksburg, and 657 miles from Washington city. A line of stages has been established from Fayette, Mo., to Independence, in the western part of that State. An increased expedition has been given to the triweekly line of post coaches between Louisville, Ky., and St. Louis, Mo., by which an entire day is gained. The mail has been so improved between Louisville, Ky. and Nashville, Tenn., as to run daily in four horse post coaches, and through in less than two days, by which means a daily mail route is perfected between Washington city and Nashville, and in four days less than formerly. The route from Frankfort and Lexington, Ky., to Glasgow, has been extended to Nashville, Tenn., thus giving a tri-weekly line of four horse post coaches between Frankfort and Nashville, and with an increased expedition of half a day. A steamboat mail was formerly carried twice a week between Baltimore and Norfolk, V., and a line of stages ran twice a week, 78 miles, between Norfolk and Edenton, N. C. There has, in improvement of this arangement, been an increase to three trips a week each way The route from Lexington, Ky., by Cumberland Gap, between Baltimore and Norfolk, 200 miles, by steamboat, to Bean's Station, Tenn., has been increased from a and a tri-weekly line of four horse post coaches establishweekly to a tri-weekly line of post coaches, and so ex-ed between Norfolk and Edenton, 78 miles; tri-weekly pedited as to run through in two days' less time than formerly. A line of four horse post coaches has been established to run three times a week between Catlettsburgh, Ky. and Lexington, 128 miles. steamboat mails between Edenton and Plymouth, 22 miles; tri-weekly four horse post coaches between Plymouth and Wilmington, 169 miles; tri-weekly steamboat mails between Wilmington and Smithville, 29 miles, and a tri-weekly line of four horse post coaches between A line of four horse post coaches, to run three times a Smithville and Georgetown, S. C., 102 miles, where it week, has been established between Nashville, Tenn. and connects with the great Southern mail for Charleston; Memphis, on the Mississippi river; also, between Hunts-making, together, a complete line of steamboats and four ville, Ala., via Florence and Memphis. horse post coaches the whole distance of 660 miles, three A line of stages has been established to run three times times a week each way, and with an expedition equal to a week between Tuscumbia, Ala., and Natchez, via Jack-that of the great Southern mail, performing the entire trip son, Mi., thus constituting a regular stage connexion from Baltimore to Charleston in 5 days and 1 hour. between the northwestern States, through the seats of A line of two-horse stages between Warrenton, N. C. Government of Tennessee and Mississippi, to Natchez, on and Danville, Va., 92 miles, has been improved to a line the Mississippi river. of four-horse post coaches, to run three times a week each way. A line of four horse post coaches has been established to run twice a week between Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, Ala. A line of stages, twice a week, has been established between Montgomery, via Selma and Tuscaloosa, Ala. This, with the preceding route, forms a stage connexion between the seats of Government in Georgia and Alabama, and Tennessee and Alabama. A line of post coaches, three times a week, has been established between Warrenton, N. C. and Winton, via Halifax and Murfreesboro', 82 miles. In lieu of a weekly mail in two-horse stages, there has been established a four-horse post coach line, twice a week, between Salem, N. C. and Shown's roads, Tenn., 117 miles; and the weekly route from Shown's roads to The only regular and certain mail communication between Knoxville, 135 miles, has been improved so as to run twice this place and New Orleans, was formerly by way of Ten- a week in coaches. This, with the foregoing improvenessee, three times a week, through in 22 days. An abor-ments, perfects a line of post coaches on the whole line VOL. VIII.--U from Norfolk, Va. via Murfreesboro', N. C., Halifax, War-ney, Cumberland, Md., Bedford, Pa., to Hollidaysburg, renton, Greensboro', Salem, and Wilkesboro', to Knox- 136 miles; thus perfecting a direct connexion, by post ville, Tenn., 350 miles, twice a week. coaches, of Tennessee and the whole valley of Shenandoah, with all the town in the interior of Pennsylvania and the western regions of New York. A line of four horse post coaches, twice a week, has been established from Salem, N. C., via Statesville, Morgantown, and Rutherfordton, to Greenville, S. C., 196 The stage route from Watertown to Ogdensburg, N miles; and the weekly line of post coaches has been im-Y., 65 miles, which was tri-weekly, has been improved to proved to twice a week, from Greenville, S. C., by Pick-six times a week. ensville, Pendleton, and Abbeville, to Augusta, Ga., 146 The tri-weekly stage route between De Kalb and Fort miles, thus constituting a bi-weekly line of post coaches Covington, N. Y., 63 miles, has been improved to six from Salem, N. C., through the gold region in that State, times a week. and through the upper part of South Carolina, to Augusto, Ga., 342 miles. A line of post coaches has been established, twice a week, between Lincolnton, N. C., and Greenville, S. C., via Spartanburg, 88 miles, in four-horse post coaches. A line of post coaches has been established between Edgefield court house, S. C., and Abbeville court house, twice a week. The tri-weekly route between Camden, S. C., and Charleston, has been improved to run six times a week, and so to alternate as to run three trips by way of Sumpterville, and three by Statesville, 120 miles. The tri-weekly line between Columbia, S. C., and Charleston, 110 miles, has been improved to a daily line of four-horse post coaches. The route from Charleston, S. C. to Augusta, Ga., 145 miles, has been improved from a tri-weekly to a daily line of four-horse post coaches. The route from Savannah, Ga., to Augusta, has been improved from a tri-weekly line of two-horse stages to a daily line of four-horse post coaches, 120 miles. The route from Savannah to Macon, Ga., which was but once a week, has been established to run twice a week in four-horse post coaches. The route from Milledgeville, Ga., to Tallahasse, Florida, 256 miles, which ran but once a week, has been directed to run twice a week in post coaches. A line of stages has been established from Macon, Ga., by Forsyth and Thomaston, to Columbus, 105 miles. A line of post coaches has been established from the mouth of St. John's river to St. Augustine, in East Florida. The route between Richmond, Va., and Charlottesville, which was but tri-weekly, has been improved to a daily line of four horse post coaches; and the whole route from Fredericksburg, Va., by Charlottesville, Staunton, Lewisburg, and Guyandotte, to Catlettsburgh, Ky., 359 miles, has been improved from a tri-weekly to a daily line of four-horse post coaches. A daily steamboat mail has also been established to connect with this line at Guyandotte, thence, down the Ohio river, by Maysville, Cincinnati, O., to Louisville, Ky. These improvements constitute a daily line of four horse post coaches and steamboats, on the whole of the lines from Washington city, and from Richmond, Va., to Cincinnati, O., and Louisville, Ky., and with the route from Charlottesville to Lynchburg, a daily line between Richmond and Lynchburgh, Va. A daily line of four horse post coaches has been established between Bedford and Washington, Pa., thus completing a direct daily route from Philadelphia, via Lancas. ter and Wheeling, to Cincinnati and to Louisville. A tri-weekly line of four horse post coaches has been established between Washington city and Winchester, via Leesburg, 70 miles; and from Winchester, Va., by Rom The Long Island route from New York to East Hampton, N. Y., 122 miles, in post coaches, has been im proved from twice to three times a week. A line of post coaches three times a week has been es tablished between Ithaca and Hammondsport, N. Y. The tri-weekly line has been improved to a daily line of four horse post coaches from Newburgh, N. Y., by Owego, Bath, Geneseo, and Avon, to Rochester, 300 miles. From Clarkson to Middleburg, N. Y., 37 miles, triweekly mail has been improved to a daily line of fourhorse post coaches. An additional daily express line of post coaches has been established between Albany and Buffalo, N. Y., 296 miles, to run through each way in two days and eight hours. An additional line of mails has been established three times a week between Albany and White Hall, N. Y., 72 miles, to expedite and fecilitate the mail communications between New York and Quebec, via Albany. The tri-weekly line between Boston, Mass., and Keene, N. H. 85 miles, has been improved to a daily line of six horse post coaches. The route from Haverhill, N. H. to Derby line, Vt., the point of entrance into Canada, for Quebec, 71 miles, has been improved to a tri-weekly line of post coaches. An addditional weekly line of post coaches has been established between Conway and Littleton, Me., 58 miles. An additional weekly line of post coaches has been established between Augusta and Bethel, Me., 67 miles. The tri-weekly line between New Bedford, Mass., and Newport, R. I., 50 miles, has been improved to a daily line of post coaches. The route from Philadelphia, by Reading, to Pottsville, formerly run but three times a week, is now run twice a day, in four horse post coaches, 88 miles; and a daily line of post coaches is established between Pottsville and Mauch Chunk, 29 miles, where no mail was formerly car ried. A tri-weekly line of four horse post coaches has been established between Detroit and Niles, Michigan Territo ry, 195 miles. The foregoing includes but a part of the improvements made within the last three years. Many others, and to a considerable extent, have been made, which would require more time to enumerate than can now be given to the subject. The above, however, embraces the improvements on most of the leading routes, and, it is presumed, will meet the object of your inquiry. I have the honor to be, very respectfully sir, your obe. dient servant, W. T. BARRY. Hon. FELIX Grundy, ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, OF A PUBLIC OR GENERAL NATURE: PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE, AND ENDING ON THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF JULY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO. AN ACT to authorize the State of Illinois to sell | AN ACT to alter the time of holding the Spring term of twenty thousand acres of the saline lands in said State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Illinois be and is authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of twenty thousand acres [in addition to the thirty thousand acres heretofore authorized to be sold] of the lands granted to said State for the use and support of the salt works, known by the name of the "Ohio Saline," in the county of Gallatin, in said State; the said twenty thousand acres of land to be selected and sold, and the proceeds thereof applied in such manner as the General Assembly of Illinois have directed, or hereafter may direct. ANDREW STEVENSON, Approved: Jan. 19, 1832. ANDREW JACKSON. AN ACT supplementary to an Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on Public Lands. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled "An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved the 29th of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign and trans fer their certificates of purchase, or final receipts, and patents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved: Jan. 23, 1832. AN ACT to direct the manner of issuing patents on confirmed land claims in the Territory of Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all patents that are, or may be, by law, directed to be issued on private land claims, confirmed by the Com. missioners of private land claims, and by the several acts of Congress approving their reports, and confirming the titles to lands in the Territory of Florida, shall be, and they are hereby, required to be issued to the confirmees, or to the assignee, or present owner, where the land has been sold or transferred since the confirmation of the title; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the production of satisfactory proof of the death of the confirmee, or upon the production of a regular chain of title from the confirmee, to cause the patent to be issued to the heirs and legal representatives, or to the assignees of the confirmee, as the case may be. Approved: January 23, 1832. VOL. VIII--A the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the first day of March next, a term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York shall commence and be held at the place fixed by law for holding said Court, on the first Monday of April, in each and every year; and that, from and after said first day of March, the term of said Court, now required by law to be held on the last Monday in May in each year, shall be abolished. Approved: February 10, 1832. Approved: February 10, 1832. AN ACT to provide for the payment of arrearages in the Naval service, chargeable to the enumerated contin. gent prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of eighty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, in the payment of arrearages connected with the Naval service, and chargeable to the contingent enume. rated prior to January the first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and which have been, or may be, approved and passed by the proper accounting officers. Approved: February 24, 1832. AN ACT making appropriations for the Revolutionary and other Pensioners of the United States, for the year 1832. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be appropriated for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two: For the Revolutionary pensioners, nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred and four dollars. For the invalid pensioners, in addition to the sum of one hundred and forty thousand five hundred and thirtytwo dollars in the Treasury, one hundred and sixty-five thousand and thirty-nine dollars. For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Pensacola, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, ten thousand dol lars. For defraying expenses that may accrue for the fol lowing purposes, viz: For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description: for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, cham those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers ber money, and fuel and candles to officers, other than neral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and office in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for fu rent, stationary, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending diem allowances for persons attending courts martial and deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per vice beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra sercharts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chro stationary of every description, and for books, maps, pair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for pur nometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and re chase and maintenance of oxen and horses,and for carts, tim ber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage, for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers' houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not appli and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, cable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs and building of magazines and powder houses; other object or purpose whatsoever, two hundred and for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars. AN ACT making appropriations for the Naval service, for cers and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and the pay of seamen, one million four hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, fifty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty dollars. For provisions, four hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, five hundred and thirty thousand six hundred and eighty-two dollars. For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, twenty-five thousand dollars, For improvements and necessary repairs of navy yards, viz : For the navy yard at Portsmouth, forty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars. For the navy yard at Boston, eighty-five thousand dol lars. For the navy yard at New York, seventy-two thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Philadelphia, ten thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For the navy yard at Washington, forty-two thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Norfolk, one hundred and twen ty thousand nine hundred and twenty-three dollars. For subsistence for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen serving on shore, eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand three hundred and sixty nine dollars. Approved: Feb. 24, 1832. AN ACT for the adjustment and settlement of the claims of the State of South Carolina against the United States. Be it enacted, &c. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the claim of the State of South Carolina against the United States for interest upon money actually expended by her for military stores for the use and benefit of the United States, and on account of her militia, whilst in the service of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain; the money so ex pended having been drawn by the State from a fund upon which she was then receiving interest. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in ascertain ing the amount of interest to be paid, as aforesaid, to the State of South Carolina, interest shall be computed upon sums expended by the State for the use and benefit of Laws of the United States. the United States as aforesaid, and which have been, or shall be, repaid to South Carolina by the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following claims of the State of South Carolina against the United States, which have been heretofore disallowed, in conse. quence of their not coming within the regulations of the Government, shall be adjusted and settled, that is to say: 1st. The cost of certain cannon-balls purchased or procured by the said State for her military defence during the late war, and rejected by the inspecting officers of the United States, in consequence of their not being conformable to the standard fixed by the Department of War: Provided, That the balls so rejected shall belong to the United States. 2d. The amount paid by the State of South Carolina for the transportation of stores, and of her troops, in the service of the United States, as aforesaid, or recognized by them as having been called out for that purpose, over and above the number of wagons allowed to each regi ment in the army of the United States. 3d. The pay or compensation allowed by the said State to the Paymaster and Commissary General, and other staff officers, whilst they were, respectively, employed in making or superintending disbursements for the militia in the service of the United States, as aforesaid. 4th. The sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, for blankets purchased by the State for the use of a portion of her militia whilst in the service of the United States. 5th. The value of the present contract price of the muskets purchased or procured by the State of South Carolina for her militia, during the late war, when in the service of the United States: Provided, That the said muskets shall become the property of the United States: And provided also, That any part of the said amount may be received in arms at the present contract price. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several items hereby allowed, and the amount of interest, as aforesaid, shall, when ascertained, be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved: March 22, 1832. AN ACT to amend the several Acts establishing a terri torial Government in Florida. Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be elected one member of the Legislative Council in the Territory of Florida, from the counties of Madison and Hamilton; and one from the county of Walton, in said Territory. Approved: March 22, 1832. AN ACT explanatory of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of the officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line and Navy, and of the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary war," approved thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Be it enacted, &c. That the provisions of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line and Navy, and of the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary war," approved thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall not be construed to extend to any Land Warrants heretofore is sued, which have been located, surveyed, or patented, on the lands reserved and set apart for the satisfaction of the Military Bounty Lands, due to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line upon Continental establishment, or for the satisfaction of the officers and soldiers of the Continental Army. [22d CONG. 1st SESS. rants, and returning surveys thereon to the Land Office,' approved twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for seven years, from and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and the proprie tors of any location, survey, or patent, contemplated by the aforesaid section, may avail themselves of the provi sions of the said section in the cases therein enumerated. Approved: March 31, 1832. AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the support of the army, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, viz: For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million one hundred and twenty-two thousand one hun dred and forty-six dollars. For arrearages in the Pay Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For forage of officers, forty-eight thousand four hun dred and twenty-seven dollars. For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to materials and clothing on hand, amounting to thirty-five thousand dollars, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of eight For medical and hospital department, twenty thousand thousand dollars. For various expenses of the Quartermaster's Department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationary, blanks, repairing officers' quarters, barracks, storehouses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments and gunhouses; for rent of quarters, storehouses, and land; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial,including compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; for extra pay to soldiers employ. ed on extra labor, under the acts of March 2d, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to Quartermaster's Department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For transportation of officers' baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-five thou sand dollars. For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army, and funds for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons, usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and fourteen Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the third section of the act, entitled "An act to extend the time for locating Virginia Military Land War-thousand dollars. |