Chapter CLIII. authorizing the Sale of certain Reserved Lands in Alabama
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Chap. CLIII.— An Act authorizing the Sale of certain Reserved Lands in Alabama. March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Cedar lauds in Clark Co., Alabama, may be sold. That the lands lying in Clarke county, in the State of Alabama, which have been reserved from sale as cedar lands? under and by virtue of “An act making reservation of certain public lands to supply timber for naval purposes,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and seventeen, shall hereafter he liable to be sold1817, ch. 22. in the same manner and under the same provisions and restrictions as other public lands of the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1853. 260 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 1, 2, 3. 1853. RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: Explanatory of an Act supplementary to an Act approved the twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty. Resolution 1 10 Stat. 260 1852-12-23 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 1] A Resolution Explanatory of an Act supplementary to an Act approved the twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty.
Dec. 23, 1852. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Construction of act of 1850, ch. 11, § 3, respecting salary of Secretary of Census Board. That the third section of an act entitled “An act supplementary to an act providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent censuses of the United States, and to fix the number of the members of the House of Representatives, and provide for their future apportionment among the several States,” approved twenty-third May, eighteen hundred and fifty, be so construed that no allowance as compensation be made to any person for constructive or any other services rendered as Secretary to the Census Board after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty.
Approved, December 23, 1852. No. 2: authorizing the Settlement of the Account of the Public Printer, for Paper used by him since the first of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. Resolution 2 10 Stat. 260 1852-12-23 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 2.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Settlement of the Account of the Public Printer, for Paper used by him since the first of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.
Dec. 23, 1852. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Settlement of certain accounts of public printer. That the accounts of the Public Printer, for paper furnished and used by him since the expiration of the time specified in the sixth section of the “Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June eighteen 1752, ch. 109, § 6.hundred and fifty-three,” and also for the paper to be furnished and used by him until the Superintendent of the Public Printing shall commence furnishing and delivering to him paper to be used for the public printing, be settled and paid as the accounts of the Public Printer have been settled and paid, under the said sixth section of said act, and as is provided for in said sixth section.
Approved, December 23, 1852. No. 3: explanatory of the Act appropriating Money for the Removal of the Raft of Red River. Resolution 3 10 Stat. 260 1853-01-07 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 3.] A Resolution explanatory of the Act appropriating Money for the Removal of the Raft of Red River.
Jan. 7, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Removal of Red River Raft. That so much of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors 1852, ch. 104.1854, ch. 267, § 5.and rivers,” approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as relates to Red River, be so construed as to authorize the Secretary of War to award the contract for the removal of obstructions to the navigation of said river occasioned by the Raft, to the person or persons who, for the amount of the appropriation, will agree to remove said obstructions, and keep said navigation free from the same for the longest period of time; said contract to be awarded after reasonable public notice.
Approved, January 7, 1853. No. 4: in relation to the Census returns from the State of California. Resolution 4 10 Stat. 261 1853-01-07 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 4, 5, 6, 8. 1853. 261 [No. 4.] A Resolution in relation to the Census returns from the State of California.
Jan. 7, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Census returns of California. That the Secretary of the Interior be required to append the census returns of the State of California, made by that State, to the report thereof, now in course of preparation at the Census Office. Approved, January 7, 1853. No. 5: allowing in certain cases to the owners of Steamers further time to make the necessary preparations to bring their Vessels within the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the better Security of the Rives of Passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes,” Approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.
Resolution 5 10 Stat. 261 1853-01-07 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 5.] A Resolution allowing in certain cases to the owners of Steamers further time to make the necessary preparations to bring their Vessels within the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the better Security of the Rives of Passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes,” Approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.
Jan. 7, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Extension of time for procuring the requirements of the steamboat act 1852, ch. 106.See post, No. 13. That any Inspector of Steamers, appointed under the act aforesaid, if not furnished seasonably with the necessary means of discharging his duty, or who shall be satisfied when an enrolled, licensed or registered steamer is inspected by him, and found deficient in the requirements made by said act, that such omissions are not occasioned by any fault or neglect of the owner or master, he may grant, upon application therefor, or of his own accord, such further reasonable time after said act goes into effect, as he may deem sufficient with due diligence to make all necessary preparations to make any such vessel, her machinery and equipment conform to the provisions of said act: *Provided*, The time so allowed shall in no case exceed ninety days after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved*, That no such vessel so allowedSeizure during such extension of time. further time for preparation, shall be liable to seizure or to any penalty under said act during the time specified, for any deficiency intended to be covered by the extension of time granted by such inspector. Approved, January 7, 1853. No. 6: for the Appointment of Regents in the Smithsonian Institution. Resolution 6 10 Stat. 261 1853-01-13 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 6.] A Resolution for the Appointment of Regents in the Smithsonian Institution. Jan. 13, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A. D. Bache, and J. M. Berrien, appointed Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. That the vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class “other than members of Congress,” be filled by the appointment of Alexander Dallas Bache, a member of the National Institute, and resident in the City of Washington, and John MacPherson Berrien, of the State of Georgia.
Approved, January 13, 1853. No. 8: Explanatory of the Appropriation for the Improvement of the Mouth of the Sekonk River and Harbor of Providence, Rhode Island. Resolution 8 10 Stat. 261 1853-01-20 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 8.] A Resolution Explanatory of the Appropriation for the Improvement of the Mouth of the Sekonk River and Harbor of Providence, Rhode Island.
Jan. 20, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Removal of obstructions in Sekonk River. That the clause in the “Act making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers,” approved thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, making an appropriation “for removing a rock near the mouth of the Sekonk River, harbor of Providence, Rhode Island,” be construed to authorize the removal of any rock or other obstructions at the crook or the entrance or mouth of Sekonk River, harbor of Providence, and State of Rhode Island.
Approved, January 20, 1853. No. 12: to provide for straightening the Eastern Boundary Line of the Naval Hospital lands at New York. Resolution 12 10 Stat. 262 1853-03-02 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public 262 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 12, 13, 14. 1853. [No. 12.] A Resolution to provide for straightening the Eastern Boundary Line of the Naval Hospital lands at New York.
March 2, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Alteration boundary of Navy Hospital lands at New York. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and empowered, on the part of the United States, to carry into full effect an arrangement made with the coterminous proprietors, whereby a certain part of tire eastern boundary of the lands of the Naval Hospital at New York is straightened, as will appear by reference to a map, signed by the said proprietors and the commissioners for running the said line, on the twenty-eighth of November, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and approved by the Secretary of the Navy on the eighteenth of December, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, so that without any pecuniary consideration from the one to the other, the slips of land on the south and west sides of said line, according to said plan, shall become the property of the United States, and so much on the other side as now belongs to the United States shall become the property of the abutting proprietors respectively.
Approved, March 2, 1853. No. 13: in Amendment of a Joint Resolution relating to the duties of Inspectors of Steamers, approved the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. Resolution 13 10 Stat. 262 1853-03-03 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 13.] A Resolution in Amendment of a Joint Resolution relating to the duties of Inspectors of Steamers, approved the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.
March 3, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Duties of steamboat inspector under resolution No. 5, how to be exercised.Ante, No. 5.Limit of extension. That it shall be the duty of the Inspectors of Steamers to exercise the powers conferred upon them by a joint resolution of Congress, approved the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, subject to all the restrictions and limitations therein contained: *Provided*, That the time granted to applicants shall in no case extend beyond the first day of June next.
Sec. 2. Requisition of stamped iron for boilers dispensed with in certain cases.*And be it further resolved*, That the said Inspectors may approve of boilers and steam-pipes made prior to the first day of July next, and subsequent to the passage of the act approved the thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes,” if the same be not made with stamped iron: *Provided* it shall appear that stamped iron could not be seasonably procured.
Sec. 3. Substitute for metallic lifeboats authorized in certain cases.*And be it further enacted*, That the said Inspectors shall hereafter be authorized and empowered, upon satisfactory proof that the owner or owners of a steamer are unable to obtain seasonably or upon reasonable terms, a metallic life-boat, as required by said act, or that such a boat is unsuited to the navigation in which a steamer is employed, to accept in any such case a substitute or substitutes for such metallic lifeboat:
Proviso.*Provided*, such substitute shall in their judgment afford safe and suitable means of preserving life in case of accident. Sec. 4. No persons interested in any patent for lifeboats to be competent to be an inspector of steamboats.*And be it further resolved*, That no person interested as patentee, in any way, direct or indirect in life-preservers, life-boats or any other article required for steamers by the law of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, aforesaid, shall be deemed competent to to hold the office of inspector or to discharge the duties thereof.
Approved, March 3, 1853. No. 14: for the Relief of the Spanish Consul and other subjects of Spain, residing at New Orleans, and of subjects of Spain residing at Key West, by indemnity for losses occasioned in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Resolution 14 10 Stat. 262 1853-03-03 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 14.] A Resolution for the Relief of the Spanish Consul and other subjects of Spain, residing at New Orleans, and of subjects of Spain residing at Key West, by indemnity for losses occasioned in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
March 3, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Investigation as to losses of Spanish consul That the President of the United States be, and is hereby requested to cause an investigation to beTHIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 15. 1853.263 made of any losses that may have been sustained by the Consul of Spainand subjects at New Orleans or Key West. and other persons residing at New Orleans or at Key West, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and who, at that time, were subjects of the Queen of Spain, by the violence of individuals arising out of intelligence then recently received at those places, of the execution of certain persons at Havana, in Cuba, by the Spanish authorities of that island, and that such losses, so ascertained, to persons at that time subjects as aforesaid, on the certificate of the Secretary of State, that the same are proven to the satisfaction of the President, together with the reasonable costs of the investigation, shall be paid to those entitled, out of any moneyAmount to be paid. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1853. No. 15: providing for the Printing and Binding of the “Returns of the Seventh Census.” Resolution 15 10 Stat. 263 1853-03-03 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 10 public [No. 15.] A Resolution providing for the Printing and Binding of the “Returns of the Seventh Census.” March 3, 1853. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there be printed by the Public Printer, under the supervision of the Superintendent of the Public Printing, so much of the abstract of the ‘returns of the Seventh Census’ as is recommended to be printed by the report of the select CommitteeAmount of the abstract of the seventh census to be printed. of the Senate, made June twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and in the manner therein prescribed, (the “History and Statistics of the State of Maryland, according to the ‘returns of the Seventh Census’ of the United States,” with the alterations recommended by the committee, being taken as the sample,) that is to say:
“*First*. Omit the ‘Historical Account,’ the ‘History and Description of Counties,’ the ‘Sketch of Geology,’ and the remarks with the heading ‘Population’ (of the State of Maryland) prefixed to the tabular statements, embracing twenty-two pages, from one to twenty-two, both inclusive, with the exception of the tabular statement at page twenty, showing the progress of population from seventeen hundred and ninety to eighteen hundred and fifty, which shall be retained.” *Second*.
Insert the tabular statements of population covering from page twenty-three to page twenty-six, both inclusive. *Third*. Omit the tabular statements from page twenty-seven to page thirty, both inclusive, and substitute tables showing the nativity of the inhabitants of the State, without reference to local residence, giving the sex and color, similar to the table headed “Recapitulation,” at page thirty-five. *Fourth*. Omit the tables relating to the deaf, dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic, occupying from page thirty-one to page thirty-four, both inclusive; retain the table headed “Recapitulation,” on page thirty-five, and omit that headed “Manumitted and fugitive slaves,” on the same page; retain the table headed “Professions, occupations, and trades,” on page thirty-six, and tables headed “Agricultural productions,” on pages thirty-seven and thirty-eight. *Fifth*.
Omit the tables of “Industrial establishments,” from page thirty-nine to page sixty-two, both inclusive. *Sixth*. Omit tables headed “Real and personal estate and taxes,” “Wages,” and “Pauperism and crime,” on pages sixty-three and sixty-four; omit the column which professes to give the “Private libraries,” in the statement headed “Libraries,” retaining the residue, and retaining, also, the statement headed “Newspapers and periodicals,” on page sixty-four, and the statements headed “Education” and “Churches,” on pages sixty-five to sixty-eight, both inclusive. *Seventh*.
Omit medical statistics, life-tables, etc., to the end of the work. *Eighth*. There shall be prepared and published tabular statements,264THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 15. 1853. showing the population alone in the local subdivisions of States less than counties, such as towns, townships, hundreds, etc., wherever the returns are sufficient for their formation. *Ninth*. The condensed tables for the United States, shall conform to the alterations suggested in the detailed tables for the States.
Number of copies to be printed.*Resolved, further*, That there be printed, in addition to the number usually ordered of the public documents, seven thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and ten thousand copies for the use of the House of Cost of composition and press work.Representatives: *Provided*, That the cost of composition for plain matter shall not exceed the sum of sixty-two and a half cents per thousand ems, the cost of composition for tabular statements shall not exceed the sum of seventy cents per thousand ems, and the cost of presswork shall not exceed the sum of forty-four and sixty-five one hundredths cents per thousand quarto pages.
Size and weight of paper.*Resolved further*, That the entire work hereinbefore ordered shall be printed in a compact quarto form, upon paper measuring not less than twenty-six by thirty-eight inches, weighing forty-eight pounds to the ream of four hundred and eighty sheets, and of the quality now used for the Type.extra copies of documents ordered to be printed by Congress; the type to be used to be brevier, except for the headings of the several columns of the tabular statements, the notes, and such tables as will not appear to advantage in brevier, which shall be printed in nonpareil; and that, in all other respects, except those hereinbefore specified, the work shall Act of 1852, ch. 91, to be followed.be executed according to the provisions of the act entitled “An act providing for executing the public printing, and establishing the prices thereof, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. *Resolved further*, Binding.That the binding of the work hereinbefore mentioned shall be executed under the direction of the respective committees on printing for each house, and shall be paid for out of the contingent fund of the two houses of Congress, as is now prescribed by law.
Approved, March 3, 1853. 33 33 1 1854 265 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 5th day of December, 1853, and ended on Monday, the 7th day of August, 1854.* Franklin Pierce, President. David R. Atchison, President of the Senate, *pro tempore*. Linn Boyd, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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