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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 228, 229. 1830.

Appropriation,50,000 dollars.

Statute I.May 31, 1830.

Act of May15, 1828,ch.53.

Invalid pen-sioners not to besubject to cer-tain deductions.

• Statute I.

May 31, 1830.

Mode of ad-vertising pro-perty for taxes.

Act of May26,1824, ch.195, sec. 7.

Election ofMayor.

Mayor protem.

to be sold, at such time, and on such terms as he may deem most condu-cive to the public interest, the site now occupied by the mint establish-ment, in Philadelphia , with the buildings and improvements thereon, andalso to cause the proceeds of the said sale to be paid into the treasuryof the United States .

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty thousanddollars be, and is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasurynot otherwise appropriated, to be applied to the completion of the mintestablishment at the new location, and for furnishing the same with therequisite machinery for conducting the operations thereof.

Approved, May 31, 1830.

Chap. CCXXVIII. —Jin Set to amend the act, entitled “ Sn act for the relief ofcertain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution.'’'’

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the second section ofthe act, entitled “ An act for the relief of certain surviving officers andsoldiers of the army of the revolution,” approved the fifteenth of May,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed toembrace invalid pensioners, and that the pension of invalid soldiers, shallnot be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.

Approved, May 31, 1830.

Chap. CCXX1X. — Sn Set to amend the charter of Georgetown.

Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That public notice of the timeand place of sale of any real property chargeable with taxes in George-town, in all cases hereafter, shall be given once in each week, for twelvesuccessive weeks, in some one newspaper in the county of Washington,in which shall be stated the number of the lot or lots, or parts thereof,intended to be sold, and the value of the assessment, and the amount ofthe taxes due and owing thereon; and that so much of the seventh sec-tion of an act of Congress , approved May twenty-sixth, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-four, as requires said notice to be given in theNational Intelligencer, and in a newspaper in Alexandria, be, and thesame is hereby repealed : Provided, That nothing in this act shall changethe manner of giving notice of the sales of property owned by personsnot residing in the District of Columbia .

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the fourth Monday of Feb-ruary next, and on the same day biennially thereafter, the citizens ofGeorgetown, qualified to vote for members of the two boards of the cor-poration of said town, shall, by ballot, elect some fit and proper personhaving the qualifications now required by law to be mayor of the corpo-ration of Georgetown, to continue in office two years, and until a succes-sor is duly elected, and the person having, at said election, which shallbe conducted by judges of election appointed by the corporation, thegreatest number of legal votes, shall be declared duly elected, and inthe event of an equal number of votes being given to two or more can-didates, the two boards in joint meeting, by ballot, shall elect the mayorfrom the persons having such equal number of votes.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in the event of the death orresignation of themayor, or of his inability to discharge the duties of hisoffice, the two boards of the corporation, in joint meeting, by ballot shallelect some fit person to fill the office until the next regular election.