marines engaged in any service, the hardships or disadvantages of which shall, in his judgment, render such an addition necessary.
Approved, April 18, 1814.
Statute II.
Chap. LXXXV.—An Act supplemental to an act, entitled “An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to lands in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the river Mississippi and island of New Orleans.”
See act of April 25, 1812, ch. 67.
Time extended for filing claims.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for delivering notices and the evidences of claims to lands as required by the act to which this is a supplement be, and the same is hereby extended until the first day of September next.
Commissioners to receive and report the evidences of claims to Commissioner of the General Land Office.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioners appointed under the act aforesaid, to receive such evidences as to them may be offered in support of any claims which may not be embraced by said act, and to report the same, together with those referred to in the first section of this act, on or before the first day of November next, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to be by him laid before Congress at their next session.
Commissioner for district east of Pearl river and west of Perdido to receive evidences and make report.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner for the district east of Pearl river and west of the Perdido be, and he is hereby authorized and required to receive and make report as aforesaid on all claims to lands lying est of the river Tombigbee.
Approved, April 18, 1814.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXXXVII.—An Act to fix the compensation of the clerks employed in the offices of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Salaries increased.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the annual compensations of the clerks employed in the office of the secretary of the Senate and in the office of the clerk of the House of Representatives, as now fixed by law, there shall be allowed to the principal clerk in each of said offices fifteen hundred dollars, and to each of the engrossing clerks employed in said offices twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be paid quarter-yearly out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this shall take effect from and after the thirty-first day of december, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Approved, April 18, 1814.
Statute II.
Chap. XCI.—An Act to amend the act laying duties on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors and foreign merchandise, and for other purposes.
Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 39.
Physicians not obliged to take out licenses for retailing drugs, making up their own prescriptions.
Licenses for these purposes already given to be cancelled, and the money paid to be returned.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing contained in the first section of the act laying duties on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise, shall be construed to extend to physicians who keep on hand medicines solely for the purpose of making up their own prescriptions for their own patients, nor shall any physician, surgeon, or chemist, for vending, solely in his practice, medicines to his patients, be subjected to take out license as a retail dealer in foreign merchandise.
