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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY
SECOND CONGRESS.
[Pubi.ic No. 52.]
AN ACT for the benefit of the Alexandria Canal Com
pony.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Secreturv of ihe
Treasury be, and be is hereby, required to pay to
the President and Directors of the Alexandria
Canal Company, or to such officer of said Compa
ny as they may empower lo receive it, the sum
of one hundred thousand dollars, to he applied to
the construction of an acqueduct across the river
Potomac, at or near Georgetown, in the District
of Columbia; which sum shall be paid out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriat
ed, at such times and in such proportions, (having
a due regard to the progress of the work,) as ihe
President of the United States may, from time
to time, direct.
, A. STEVENSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
J. C. CALHOUN,
Pice President of the United States,
and President of the Senate,
Approved, June 25, 1832.
ANDREW JACKSON.
(Public No. 54.)
AN ACT to increase the number of Surgeons and As
sistant Surgeons in the Army of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
>'resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the President lie, and
he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advioe
and ^onsent of the Senate, to appoint four addi
tional Surgeons and ten additional Surgeon’s
Mates, in the army of the United States.
Approved, June 28, 1832.
[Public No. 55.J
SAN ACT further to extend the pension heretofore gran
ted to the widows of persons killed, or who died in the
naval service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
pesentatives of the United Stales of America in
Congress assembled, That in cases where all pro
vision had been made by law, for the five years’
half pay to widows &. children of officers, seamen,
and marines, who were killed in battle, or who
died in the naval service of the United States:
■and, also, in all oases where provision has been
made for extending the term for five years, in
addition to any term of five years, the said pro
vision shall be, and is hereby, further extended
for an additional term of five years so far as
respects widows only; to commence at the end of
the current or last expired term of five years in
each case, respectively: which pension shall be
paid out of the fund heretofore provided by law.
And the pension herein continued shall cease for
the causes mentioned in the laws granting the
same, respectively.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
provisions of this act shall he extended to the
widows of all those who may have died by rea
son of wounds received during the war.
Approved, June 28, 1832.
[Public No. 56.]
AN ACT making provision for the sale and disposition
of the public grounds in the cities of St. Augustine
and Pensacola, and to reserve certain lots and build
ings for public purposes, and to provide for their repair
and preservation.
Be it enacted by the. Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America ir.
Cougress assembled. That the President of the U
nited States be, and he is hereby, required to cause
to be selected such of the lots and buildings in
the city of St. Augustine and of Pensacola, us
may in his opinion be needed for public purposes;
which, when so selected, shall be kept fur the use
of the United States; and when the selection shall
have been made of such lots or buildings, it shuii
be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasurv t.
cause to be surveyed all the public and private
lots and commons in and about the said cities;
one copy of which survey shall be lodged in tin
land offices in which the respective places are
situated, and the other copy delivered to the cit\
authorities, to be there kept and preserved as oth
er records pertaining to the corporation of said
cities.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
lots, buildiugs, and commons, not so set apart or
needed for public purposes, shall at such time,
and in such proportion or sizes, as nmy he deem
ed most advisable and conducive to the interes'
of the United States and the said cities, be sold
at public auction as other public lands, and the
money arising from the sales paid into the Treas
ury of the United States: Provided, That noth
ing herein shall be so construed as to authorize
| the sale of any lot or parts of lots, or other
I grounds which have been by the laws of Spain!
or the United States vested in the corporations
of said town, or which have been set apart for
churches or burying grounds by the laws afore
said, or by any ordinance of the corporate author
ities of the said cities.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the
title to the lot of ground in St. Augustine, known
as the Old or Burnt Hospital lot, with all its ap
purtenances, be, and the same is hereby, vested
in the mayor of St. Augusline, and his successor
for ever, in trust, fir the purpose of erecting there
on, by the local authorities of St. Augustine,
buildings necessary for the education of free I
white children of both sexes.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, Thnt the
President shall cause the buildings which may be
selected for public purposes under this ai t, to hr
I refitted and repaired fit for use, aod the better 0
preserve them from ruin and dilapidation,J°T
which purpose, the sum of five_thotj§gjjg pldlars
is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
President of the United States is hereby author
ized to dispose of such part of the military reser
vations in the city of Detroit, and upon the river
Rouge, in the Territory of Michigan, as in his
opinion may not be wanted for the public service,
and to vest the proceeds in the purchase or erec
tion of a Store House and Wharf in the said city
of Detroit, and in the erection of an Arsenal in
the vicinity thereof, either upon the public lands,
or upon a site to be procured for that purpose.
Approved, June 28, 1832.
[Resolution No. 4.]
Resolution transferring certain duties relating to Pen
sions, from the Treasury to the War Department.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre
sentative of the United States of America in Con
gress assembled. That all the duties which de
volve upon the Secretary of the Treasury bv vir
tue of an act, approved the seventh of June, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled
“An act supplementary to the act fur the relief of
certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army
of the revolution,” be and the same are hereby,
transferred to the Secretary of War.
Approved. Jutv. 28. 1882.
Indian History.—The subjoined .otter is .r id
the pen ol a distinguished gentleman, whose name
were we permitted to use it, would add great
weight to the opinions which it expresses. Our
opinion would be of little comparative value; but
we have for days sought for an opportunity to
speak of the undertaking of Mr. McKenney ns
we think it deserves, in the light of a great na
tional memorial. The engraved and colored de
lineation of the features of individual Indians are
fit ornaments of the work, and beautifully, as well
as accurately executed.—Nat. Int.
HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN In
dians.
Within a few days, there has been placed in
ihe congressional library, the first number of a
History of the North American Indians. The
design of the very respectable author is honora
ble to himself, his country, and the age. He
proposes to give a general historical view of the
numerous bands of North American Indians,
from the discovery of this continent by Columbus
to the present period, and a particular account of
nineteen tribes which teside within the bounds ol
the United States, with copious vocabularies of
their languages, and biographical sketches of one
hundred and twenty distinguished chiefs, warri
ors and females, who have visited the seat of
government, and whose portraits, painted in a
masterly sty le, by King, are suspended in the In
dian department of the war office.
This most instructive, valuable, and splendid
work, was long since announced as being in pre
paration, and it can bo confidently asserted that
public expectation will be fully realized.
For many years Col. McKenney was at the
head of the bereau of Indian affairs, and made
frequent excursions among the different tribes,
as a commissioner tor negotiating treaties, which
enabled him to become intimately acquainted
with the extraordinary character, habits, man
ners, governments, and religions,of .he primitive
lords of this immense region; he is therefore emi
nently qualified to execute in an able and satis
factory manner, the arduous and responsible la
bor which he has so fortuuutely assumed.
The work will consist of twenty large folio
livraitons, each embellished with six colored por
traits; but as it is intended that it shall be sim
ultaneously published in this country and Europe,
there will necessarily be some delay in its ap
pearance, to enable him to make the requisite
arrangements for accomplishing that object.
I he specimen which has been given of this]
superb addition to our historical and biographical
collections of the natives of the western hemis
phere, is from the celebrated press of Messrs.
Child & Inman, of Philadelphia. It is worthy
of all praise, for the beauty and faithful execu*
lion of the typography and engravings. The
latter are exact copies of the original paintings
and have been lithographed with such consum
mate skill, and colored with such exquisite taste
and elegance, as to render them splendid monu
ments ol the rapid progress and elevated charac
ter of this branch of the line arts, in that seat of
science, genius, intelligence, and enterprise—
hat magnificent emporium of commerce—the
flourishing city of the illustrious Penn.
The citizens of the United States, as well as
the disciples ot letters throughout the world, are
under the greatest obligations to the accomplished
auih »r, lor adventurously undertaking this great
national work. The aborigines of America are
rapidly disappearing; and the period is not dis
tant wljen that ill-starred race must become ex
tinct, at least within the boumis >i ihi** Uiii '0,i
and it is of infinite importance that whatever!
relates to this remarkable portion of the great'
human family should be now collected and trans
mitted to posterity. The red man has grad nail/
receded before the advance of the Anglo-Saxm
conquerer6. He is no longer to be seen on 'he
borders of the Atlantic—his countrymen are fas?
passing beyond the mighty river of the West,
and the last remnant of numerous and once pow
erful nations will expire on the distant shores of
the Peoific.
Who, then, in after tines, that shall read the
early history of the colonies, and of the national
republic, will not be deeply interested, in whatev
er relates to the intercourse, alliances, and wars
wih the Indians, from the first interview of Smith
v^th the kind and affectionate Pocahontas, am!
d Carver with the magnanimous and faithful
Massasoit, to the recent conflict with the muster
wig tribes to the tar Northwest, under Black
H.awk, their distinguished warrior. It is noi
sufficient that the character, government and
customs should be delineated, but exact represen
tations of the persons, of this various and strong
ly characterized people should be preserved._
Their physiognomy is as remarkable and pecul
iar, as are their invincible attachments to a savage
life; their indomitable chivalry in battle, their
fortitude in adversity, and their wandering talents |
in eloquence. They resemble no other race nowl
existing upon the earth, unless some affinitv is
found between them and the Tartars or Arabians;
but both of these memorable nations haveevinc-,
ed a disposition lo advance in the arts of civiliza
tion, and made considerable progress in refine
ment, at various periods of their eventful hist^y.
Letters and science have flourished among th<\,
On the one side, their disposition for intel)ertiu(
improvement has been developed, by the conqueA
ers and sovereigns of China; and, on the other,
in the seminaries of learning and splendid cities,■
which formerly flourished in that vast region of;
country which extends from the shores of the
Euphrates to the Red Sea. But there the wil
derness has not only been the temple where the
Indians offered up their prayers to the Great
Spirit, but their place of residence; hunting their
pastime and subsistence, war their occupation,
and deeds of desperate valor ♦heir only amWtion.
It is to be hoped that Col. M< Kenney will find
his countrymen more generous, more devotee to
the advancement of literature and the aits, and
more studious of the honor of the republic, than
did the illustrious Audubon; and not be stmpcll
ed to relinquish the object of his comnhndable
enterprise, for want of patronage, in hi native
land, and be obliged to seek in foreigl climes,
that encouragement which his meritorhls indus
try, superior endowments, and eMensivefesearch
es, justly claim. The work he has uldertaken
is calculated to give immortality to hisaame and
glory to the nation; and there cannot I* a doubt
that his fello citizens will rejoice in tie oppor
tunity, to cheer him on, in his adventurotb career,1
by a liberal, general, and adequate snppirt, and
in a manner the most acceptable and pttper, a
subscription ' bis work. Plymcth. i
Mounted Kangehs.—[We copy the Mowing!
letter of the Score tore of War to Capt. leckes, i
ol Indiana, from the Vincennes Son of tie 14ily
iast. It serves to show the operation andextenl
of the law authorizing the enlistment of abaltal
ion of rangers for the defence of the northern,
frontier.]
“The general outlines of the plan oforginiza-!
lion will be as follows:
1. No person will lie engaged except active,
sound young men, capable of enduring all tke fa
tigues of an arduous service, and not exceeding
forty years of age. You cannot be too particu
lar in this respect, and the officers who may be
directed to muster your company into service,
must be instructed to reject every man whose
personal appearance and apparent habits do not
indicate capacity for performing all the duties
which may be required of him. Upon these se
lections the utility of your company must mainly
depend, and as the pay is liberal, there can be no
reason why the best men should not be obtained.
2. The form of an enlistment is herewith en
closed. Duplicates will be made out, one of
which will be transmitted to the Adjutant Gene
ral’s office, and the other will be retained with
the company.
3. The corps will be armed with rifles, to be
provided by themselves, and at their own expense,
and with pistols and swords to be provided by
government, and for the return of which, in pro
per order, at the expiration of their term of ser
vice, the men will be held responsible.
4. A plain cheap uniform will be prescribed
hereafter, to be provided by the company.
5. The men must provide their own horses,
and the necessary horse equipments. It is of the
utmost importance that the horses should be strong
and active, and ndapted to the service. None
must received of a greater age than 8 years, nor
he less han 14 1-2 hands high. They will he
scrupulously examined by the inspecting officer
when mustered into service, and all will be re
jected that are not fit, in every respect, for the
nature of the duties Y »ir most particular atten
tion is directed to this subject.
6. Two of the privates may be enlisted to serve
as musicians, and bugles will be provided for
them by the United States.
7. Specific instructions will be hereafter pre
scribed for the various objects, connected with
the further organization, employment and gov
ernment of the corps.
Let the men distinctly understand, that when
they engage, their whole services belong to their
country, and that they will be liable to be ordered
to everv part of the frontier, where the govern
ment may direct. If they are not prepaced tor
| this, and tor the cheerful performance of all tkeir
duties, lei them not e age. It is well also ioi
caution them, that if b their own misconduct,
tfieir horses are disabl or give out in conse
quence of incapacity, loss of time of such
horses will be their own.
You will please imm iately advise this De
partment of the acceptor e or non-acceptance of
the offer herein tendered > you. If you accept,
and succeed in raising t| men, your own com
pensation and that of yoilofficers will commence
from the day your and teir duties commence,
to be ascertained by a cqtifioaie upon honour,
and the compensation of tie men will commence
Imm the day they are as^mbled together, and
prepared to march.
As soon as your men ail raised you will pro
ceed with all possible de^atch to Chicago, or!
wherever General Scott ior other officer com
manding the troops of theUmted States against
the hostile Indians may Ae, and report yourself
to him for orders. Arrangements will be made
for sending swords and pilots to that place, and
your men will be mastered «ito service at head
quarters. As soon as you men aie raised, ad
vise this Department of tie fact.
It may be proper*o inforrr you, that though the
men are engaged fir one y«aronly, yet the corps
is considered perngnent, end that the officers will
remain in servicers otljer officers of the army,
uQ.il disbanded ordischarged. At the end of the
year re-e:ilistmens will become necessary.
The appc’imnenis will be subject, as in other
cases, to the aclon of the Senate.
1 an siq very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
UEW1S CASS.
To Benjamin V. Beckes. Esq.
Viirtnnes, Indiana.
P. S.—Rations win be furnished to the men
at the exptnse of the United Slates, hut forage
will be found by themselves, or if provided bv the
Jnited States, will be charged t .• the men.
THE CHOLERA.
XxtracU from the Report of the Quebec Board
°j Wealth.—It has been found in every part of
the yorlcl that the spasmodic c holera uniform!
8e,se* and destroys, with rapidity of lightning,
those who indulge in fermented liquors, and in
inteaperance of any kind,—the dissolute—th
ldleAthe dirty—all become its victims, while
those who are cleanly, temperate and industrious,
escape
Thisjg matter for consolation and hope, cspe
cially fo- a people, who like the Canadians, in
the rural districts particularly, are distinguished
for their sobriety, industry and cleanliness; and
who, moreover, since they are exempt from 'he
evils of extreme poverty, are proportionately se
cure from the more severe attacks of the disease.
If the spasmodic cholera therefore should ap
pear among such people, it will probaolv be ver.
limited in its extent, and very mitigated in its
severity.
The following are the most valuable meuns of
security from the disease, and the Board there
fore strongly recommend their adoption, if the
disease should appear in Canada:—
1st. As there is reason to believe it is of a con
tagious nature, although that opinion does not
appear toohtain universal assent, all unnecessary
communication should be prevented between the
infected and the healthy This is not a reason
however for neglecting the sick; duly and affec
lion will, it is hoped, secure the faithful and ten
der discharge of that duly to all the alflicted; but
it is the best of reasons for limiting the attend
ants upon them, to those alone who are necessary
for that object, and to exclude carefully, even of
the same family, all others.
The Board feel the great importance of des
troying, in so far as they ire able, those illfound
ed apprehensions of danger from infection which
create unreasonable fears in the public mind; to
the great aggravation of the calamity itself.
It is commonly supposed, for instance, that a
person ill with an infectious disease spreads the
contagion to a considerable distance. Such,
however is not the fact with respect to this disease;
so that it is safe to approach the sick very near
without any danger, and even to perform all the
kind offices to our frimda which their illness
requires, without a gretl increase to it; that is,
provided care he taken te keep the apartment, the
patient, and the persons! linen clean, the termer
freely ventilated and iunigated, it being well
understood that perfect cleanliness and free ven
tilation arc the great securities from infection of
all kinds. It renders the poison innocent by
dilution, and diffusion tamugh the atmosphere.
For this reason, the patient laboring uuder
cholera, should be placed in a separate and well
ventilated apartment, either of his own house, or
l* removed to a building fitted up to receive the
sick, according to circumstances.
3d. The personal clothing ot the sick during
the course of the disease, should be immediately
plunged into cold water, and permitted to soak
until washed, Slc
The room where he has been attacked should
he thoroughly cleansed, by scrubbing, lime wash
ing, the lime being fresh and hot, and by free ven
tilation. If the means are at hand by aspurga
tion with chloride of lime.
4th. To correct ofl"ensivesinells,ehlori- • of lime
may be used ill the chambers of the sick, out with
caution, since its fumes are apt to affect the gene
ral health unfavorably.
Those who die of the disease, should be wrap
ped in the clothing in which they expire, and
placed immediately, when death is surely ascer
tained, in well closed coffins carefully smeared on
the inside with pitch and tar. The bodies should
be buried immediately, and should not be taken
into churches, but directly to the place of burial.
4th. It is of the utmost impoi tance to the pub
lic health that an improved diet and flannel
clothing, at least flannel belts and woollen stock
it tugs, should be given to the poorjthese i. ■ is to
he 7 inches wide and 1 1-2 vd’s long at teas!; >r,
found in ne convenient, 3 inches wide and 3 yards
long. No person should ever allow himself to
sit down and get cool, with wet feet. I t ieed the
most particular attention should he paid to keep
the feet dry and warm. Repletion and indiges
tion should be guarded against; all raw vegeta
bles and unwholesome f'od avoided. Tempo,
ranee sh ' .Id be rigidly observed in every thing.
In short, no means should he neglected which
may ten ! b preserve individual health. The
neglec t o1' any or all o'' these cautions would not
of themselves produce the specific disease, called
spasmodic cholera; but such neglect w mid most
assuredly dispose the individual living in an in
fected atmosphere to be attacked by this disease,
when must probably he might m'herwise have
escaped.
6th. People ought to be appraised that the
prin-ipal s\ mptoms are, eith* r purging, spasms,
or 'romps, giddiness wirh .11 isea, and more or
lesg vomiting. Added b- the above are he lol
lowing characters: a great alteration in the gene
ral aspect of the patient, his nppea ranee is shrunk
and ghastlv, often of a bine tin:, wiih great oid
ness of the skin, when felt by another person.—
These are the principal symptoms; but persons
cannot he too much on their guard lesl they lie
deceived, and imagine hat any one so affected
labors undor the spasmodic, cholera. These ap
pearances are most of them common to a disease
well known in this country, the common ch.ilera,
so that in any given case of a person being so
affected, it is probable that he labors under that
disease, and not the spasmodic cholera; unless,
indeed, it should appear that the latter malady is
in the neighborhood, or there is no reason to sup
pose the sick person has been exposed to infection.
Whenever any, or all of the abovo signs of the
disease appear, and under such circumstances,
the purging should be checked by 40 drops of
laudanum in a wine glass of strong peppermint
water, or in weak spirits and water; and his may
»e repeated in an hour; if the purging oe not
becked, the patient should he confined to bed,
ind the heat up by long continued friction, by
h t flannels, by heated bricks to the feet, and hot
oi Mes placed to the stomach.
Should the patient be suddenly seized with ihe
' eve symptoms, let him then be immediately
placed between warm blankets, and should no
medical person lie at hand, let two table spoons
full of common kitchen salt dissolved in 0,7. of
warm water, be given immediately, and at rice
if he be ail adult. Let d y and steady heat be
applied along the course of the spine, and to the
"it of the stomach, (i' no ether means be at hau l,')
by a succession >f heated plates or platters. Let
the upper and lower extreme'ies be surrounded
with bags of heated bran, corn, ashes and saud,
and let him lie assiduously rubbed with a warm
hand and a little oil or grease to protect lie skin.
Energetic complete vomiting will probably be
produced hv the salt, and perh ps billious purging
with straining,—On no occasion let the oatient
take a purge of salts, such as Epsom Salts, for
thev have been found to be most injurious.
Under these circumstance, no time should be
lost in procuring Medical aid; yet much will be
gained by adopting the above measures previous
ly, and by constantly rubbing the patient, who
should keep most strictly a horizontal position,
for death has instantly followed when a person
laboring under tbe disease has attempted to stand,
or even to sit, in the half er ml position.
Such are the measures which the Board rec
ommend to be adoptod before a Medical person
visit the patient.
TREATMENT,
The following remarks upon the Spasmodic
Cholera, are derived from the best sources, and
the latest information. They are published by
the Board for the especial guidance of medical
practitioners in the country
Of the two great classes of functions perform
ed by the organs of which man is compused, one
only is attacked in this disease. The operations
of the senses and of the intelligence are left un
touched, or are afieeted in a secondary manner.
Those functions, on the contrary, hy which
existence as a living being is preserved, those
complicated powers by means of which we ure
for ever appropriating and converting into a part
of ourselves portions of the matter around us, are
all and at once deranged by the attack of this
terrible malady. Nutrition is annihilated; res
piration becomes difficult, irregular, and ineffi
cient; the involuntary muscles ru longer perform
their task, the voluntary are drawn into contrac
tions by other powers than the will; the blood
ceases to circulate; its physical properties are
altered; its serfous portions are suddenly thrown
out upon the intestial mucous surface of "the body;
the secretions are all arrested, and animal heat
is no longer produced. Under such rapidly des
tructive, and almost universal derangement of
the functions, 'he most energetic efforts should lie
directed to reproduce what the disease has ren
dered nature unable to keep up, viz:
1st. Fluidity, heat, and motion in the blood.
2d. Regulated action in the voluntary and
involuntary muscles.
3d and lastly, but above every other considera
tion, renewed energy in the nervous centre, the
source of all vitality and function.
>o remedy at all approaching to the nature of
n specific has been as yet discovered for this dis
ease. Iu fact no one mode of cure can be usc
tiilly employed under all the circumstances of
any disease. The grades of intensity, tod tho
grouping of the symlotus under which Spasmodic
Cholera makes its attacks, - ary wirh the condi
tions of tho subject; its treatmen t there!’<re, jMst
vary with these grades and conditions.
'the leading preliminary symt, ms generally
are, either diarrhoea, spasms, vertigo with nau
sea, imperfect voiaitiug, or various comumations