Acts Passed at the First Session of the 1st Congress - 3d Session of the 25th Congress, 2d Session of the 27th, 1st-2d of the 29th, 1st-2d of the 30th, 1st of the 31st, 1st-3d of the 37th, 2d of the 38th, 1st of the 39th, 2d-3d of the 40th 1st-3d of the 41st, 1st-3d of the 42d, 1st of the 43dRichard Folwell, 1813 - Law |
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... Representatives . GEO . CLINTON , Vice President of the United States , and President of the Senate . November 18 , 1811 . APPROVED , JAMES MADISON , CHAPTER II . AN ACT to alter the time of tain documents free of postage ·
... Representatives . GEO . CLINTON , Vice President of the United States , and President of the Senate . November 18 , 1811 . APPROVED , JAMES MADISON , CHAPTER II . AN ACT to alter the time of tain documents free of postage ·
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... CHAPTER III . AN ACT making a further appropriation for the support of a Library . BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That in addition to the balance of the ...
... CHAPTER III . AN ACT making a further appropriation for the support of a Library . BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That in addition to the balance of the ...
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... CHAPTER VI . AN ACT allowing further time for completing the payments on certain lands held by right of pre- emption , in the Mississippi territory . BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ...
... CHAPTER VI . AN ACT allowing further time for completing the payments on certain lands held by right of pre- emption , in the Mississippi territory . BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ...
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... CHAPTER VIII . AN ACT to authorise the surveying and making of certain roads , in the state of Ohio , as contemplat- ed by the treaty of Brownstown in the territory of Michigan . BE it enacted by the Senate and House Representatives of ...
... CHAPTER VIII . AN ACT to authorise the surveying and making of certain roads , in the state of Ohio , as contemplat- ed by the treaty of Brownstown in the territory of Michigan . BE it enacted by the Senate and House Representatives of ...
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... CHAPTER IX . AN ACT for the apportionment of Representatives among the several states , according to the third enumeration . BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled ...
... CHAPTER IX . AN ACT for the apportionment of Representatives among the several states , according to the third enumeration . BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled ...
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ACT authorising addition aforesaid agent allowed America in Congress appointed APPROVED April cents per month CHAPTER claims to land CLAY clerk commence commissary commission commissioners compensation Congress assembled contingent expenses corporation corps county of Alexandria CRAWFORD deputy dollars and fifty dollars per month dred duties election entitled An act exceeding February 27 fifty cents five dollars further enacted hereafter hereby authorised House of Representatives hundred and eleven hundred and twelve JAMES MADISON judge land office lars letters of marque manner ment military militia Mississippi territory non-commissioned officer owner paid pay and emoluments payment person port President pro-tempore propriations Provided Proviso public lands purchase purpose quarter-master rate of five respectively rica in Congress Secretary Senate and House ship or vessel Speaker Specific ap territory territory of Orleans thereof thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion tract Treasury not otherwise twenty United
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Page 78 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 131 - That there shall be in the said department an inferior officer, to be appointed by the said principal officer, to be employed therein as he shall deem proper, and to be called the chief clerk in the department of war, and who, whenever the said principal officer shall be removed from office by the President of the United States, or in any other case of vacancy, shall, during such vacancy, have the charge and custody of all records, books and papers, appertaining to the said department.
Page 204 - Assembly ; provided that, for every five hundred free male inhabitants, there shall be one representative, and so on progressively with the number of free male inhabitants shall the right of representation increase, until the number of representatives shall amount to twenty-five, after which the number and proportion of representatives shall be regulated by the legislature...
Page 203 - ... shall happen in the council by death or removal from office, the house of Representatives shall nominate two persons qualified as aforesaid, for each vacancy, and return their names to Congress ; one of whom Congress shall appoint and Commission for the residue of the term ; and every five years...
Page 182 - ... as shall be requisite for its immediate accommodation in relation to the convenient transaction of its business, and such as shall have been...
Page 405 - ... being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be sentenced...
Page 201 - Congress a secretary, whose commission shall continue in force for four years, unless sooner revoked; he shall reside in the district and have a freehold estate therein in five hundred acres of land while in the exercise of his office...
Page 210 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 186 - In case of excess, the directors, under whose administration .it shall happen, shall be liable for the same in their natural and private capacities; and an action of debt may, in such case, be brought against them, or any...
Page 345 - States, and leave a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death...