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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 114,115,116. 1831.
Payment toJohn Culbert-son.
Interpreter
created.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Surveyor ge-neral created.
twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the sum of eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars be,and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in thetreasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1831.
Chap. CXIV .—Jin Act for the relief of John Culbertson, and to provide an inter-preter for the district court of the United States for the eastern district ofLouisiana .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of three hun-dred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents be paidby the marshal of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana to John Culbertson, for his services rendered as interpreter to the UnitedStates ’ court for said district, under the provisional appointment of thejudge, for each regular term of said court, from the December term ofone thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, inclusively, up to the timeof the passage of this act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the judge of the district courtof the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana be, and is hereby,authorized to appoint an interpreter to said court, and to allow him acompensation not exceeding three hundred and thirty-three dollars andthirty-three and one third cents, for his services at each regular term ofsaid court, to be holden subsequently to the passage of this act; and themarshal is authorized to pay the same upon the order of the judge:Provided, always, That it shall be the duty of the said interpreter, duringhis continuance in office, to attend all and every of the called or irregu-lar sessions of the said court, without any additional compensation there-for; Provided, also, That the said interpreter shall not receive, under thisact, more than one thousand dollars for each year.
Approved, March 3, 1831.
Chap. CXY. —An Act concerning vessels employed in the whale fishery.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That all the provisions of theact, entitled “ An act to authorize the register or enrollment, and license,to be issued in the name of the president or secretary of any incorpo-rated company owning a steamboat or vessel,” passed the third day ofMarch, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, shall extend and beapplicable to every ship or vessel owned by any incorporated company,and employed wholly in the whale fishery, so long as such ship or vesselshall be wholly employed in the whale fishery.
Approved, March 3,1831.
Chap. CXVI. —An Act to create the office of surveyor of the public lands for thestate of Louisiana .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That a surveyor general forthe state of Louisiana shall be appointed, who shall have the same autho-rity, and perform the same duties, respecting the public lands and privateland claims in the state of Louisiana , as are now vested in, and requiredof the surveyor of the lands of the United States , south of the state of