ing of this act, it shall be lawful for any military officer, who may have charge or custody of any person or persons, who may have been, or shall be apprehended in the Indian country, over and beyond the boundary line between the United States and the said Indian tribes, in violation of any of the provisions or regulations of the act, intituled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” to conduct him or them to some one of the justices of the inferior or county court of any county nearest to the place of his arrest, who, if the offence if bailable, is hereby authorized to take proper bail, if offered, in like manner as the judge of the superior court of any state is authorized to do, in and by the act above recited; unless such person, holden in custody as aforesaid, shall be charged upon oath with murder, or any other offence punishable with death, in which case such justice of any inferior or county court shall not have authority to take bail for such person.
Approved, April 22, 1800.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXXI.—An Act to establish a general Stamp Office.
Repealed by Act of April 6, 1802, ch. 19.
Superintendent of stamps to be appointed.
His duty.
1801, ch. 20.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed an officer to be denominated superintendent of stamps, whose duty it shall be to superintend the stamping and marking of all vellum, parchment, and paper; to distribute the same among the officers who are, or shall be authorized to secure and collect the duties thereupon, and to keep fair and true records and accounts of his proceedings; which said officer, so to be appointed, shall be subject to the superintendence, control, and direction of the treasury department, according to the respective authorities and duties of the officers thereof; and shall, for the better execution of the duties and trusts in him reposed, observe and execute such directions as he shall, from time to time, receive from said department.
His office to be held at the seat of government.
His allowance.
Privilege of franking.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said superintendent shall hold his office at the seat of government of the United States, and shall be allowed as a compensation for his services the sum of two thousand dollars annually, to be paid quarter-yearly at the treasury of the United States; and shall also be allowed the necessary expenses of office rent, fuel, printing and packing, and of procuring books and stationery for the use of his office, and that all letters and packages to and from him shall be free of postage.
Allowance of clerks.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said superintendent shall, with the approbation of the principal officer of the treasury department, employ such number of clerks and other assistants in his office as shall be found necessary; and shall apportion and vary the compensation to each, in such manner as the services rendered by each shall in his judgment require: Provided, that the whole amount of the compensations to said clerks and assistants shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars annually.
He shall give bond.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said superintendent shall, within three months after entering upon his office, give bond with sureties for the true and faithful execution thereof, and for the settlement of his accounts at the periods which shall be prescribed by the proper officers at the treasury department, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, which bond shall be approved by the comptroller of the treasury, and kept in his office to be by him put in suit for the benefit of the United States, upon any breach of the conditions thereof.
Certain powers of the supervisors to cease after six months notice.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the establishment of the office aforesaid at the seat of government, and after six
