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Salaries to beallowed thekeepers of lightvessels.
For placing buoys on certain shoals at the mouth of Kennebeck River,in the state of Maine , one hundred and sixty dollars.
For placing buoys on shoals in Buzzard’s Bay, and at or near themouth of Aponeganset River, in the state of Massachusetts , one hundredand sixty dollars.
For placing buoys on Long Island Sound , near to Cornfield Point,and in Guildford Bay, one hundred and sixty dollars.
For placing a buoy at the mouth of Scuppernong River, in AlbemarleSound, in the state of North Carolina , forty dollars.
• For placing a beacon on Castle Island, and five buoys near Bristol Ferry,five hundred dollars.
For a pier and three buoys at the mouth of Saco River, and a pier atthe mouth of Well’s Harbour, ten. thousand dollars—five thousand dollarsto each of those places.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following annual salariesbe allowed and paid to the keepers of light vessels, to wit:
To the keeper of the Sandy Hook light vessel, seven hundred dollars;and for a mate, three hundred and fifty dollars.
To the keeper of the Smith’s Point light vessel,in the Chesapeake Bay ,five hundred dollars.
To the keeper of the Wolf Trap light vessel, in the same bay, fivehundred dollars.
To the keeper of the Willoughby Spit light vessel, in the same bay,five hundred dollars.
To the keeper of the Craney Island light vessel, four hundred and fiftydollars.
To the keeper of the light vessel to be placed at or near the shoals ofCape Hatteras, seven hundred dollars; and for a mate, three hundredand fifty dollars.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the UnitedStates be, and he is, authorized and requested to cause a proper site, ator near the mouth of the river Teche, in Louisiana , to be selected for alighthouse, and proper places designated for placing buoys near the same.[That,] to enable the President to accomplish these objects, a sum ofmoney, not exceeding five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby,appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri-ated.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
Statute I.
May 26, 1824. Chap. CLXXXI. — An Act to regulate the mode of practice in the courts of the
United States, for the district of Louisiana , ( a )
Mode of pro- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnitedceeding in all States of America, in Congress assembled , That the mode of proceed-
( a) Decisions of the Supreme Court as to the practice and principles regulating the proceedingsof the courts of law, which prevail in the Federal courts of Louisiana .
As, by the laws of Louisiana , questions of fact in civil cases are tried by the court, unless either ofthe parties demand a jury, in an action ofdebt on a judgment, the interest on the original judgmentmay be computed, and make part of the judgment in Louisiana , without a writ of inquiry, and theintervention of a jury. Mayhew v. Thatcher, 6 Wheat. 129 ; 5 Cond. Itep. 34.
By the provisions of the acts of Congress, Louisiana , -when she came into the Union, had organizedtherein a district court of the United States , having the same jurisdiction, except as to appeals andwrits of error, as the circuit courts of the United States in other states; and the modes of proceedingin that court were required to be according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courtsof equity, as contradistinguished from courts of common law. And whether there were or not, in theseveral states, courts of equity proceeding according to such principles and usages, made no difference,according to the construction uniformly given by the Supreme Court . Livingston v. Story, 9 Peters, 632.
The provisions of the act of Congress of 1824, relative to the practice of the courts of the UnitedStates in Louisiana , contain the descriptive term “ civil actions,” which embrace cases at law and inequity; and may be fairly construed as used in contradistinction to criminal causes. They apply equally tocases in equity j and if there arc any laws in Louisiana directing the mode of proceeding in equity