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pared and printed under the authority of the act entitled "An act to Jan. 20, 1817. authorize a new edition of the collection of laws respecting the public

ch. 4.

Distribution of land laws.

Fifty copies in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, for distribution.

250 copies in the library, &c.

Remainder in

the library for

members of Congress, as elected.

lands," shall be distributed in the manner following; that is to say: one copy shall be delivered to the President of the United States, the Vice President, and to each member of the Senate, House of Representatives, and delegate from territories; fifteen copies shall be delivered to the secretary of the Senate, and thirty copies to the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the use of said houses, respectively; one copy shall be delivered to each of the judges of the supreme court and clerk thereof, to each of the judges of the district courts, and to each of the clerks, marshals, and attorneys, of each district; one copy shall be delivered to the Secretary of State, to the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Secretary of War, to the Secretary of the Navy, to the Attorney General, to the director of the mint, to the first and second comptrollers of the treasury; to the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth auditors, and register of the Treasury; to the Treasurer; to the Postmaster General, and the two assistant postmasters general, and to the commissioner of the general land office; two copies shall be delivered to the legislatures of the several states and territories, respectively; and one copy shall be delivered to each of the governors of the several states and territories; and one copy shall be delivered to each of the judges of the courts of the several territories; one copy shall be delivered to the surveyor general of the United States, the surveyor of the lands of the United States south of Tennessee, to the surveyor of the public lands in the northern part of the late Mississippi territory, and the surveyor of the public lands in the territories of Illinois and Missouri; to each of the principal deputy surveyors one copy; there shall be delivered one copy to each of the registers and receivers of public moneys in the land offices established, or that may hereafter be established, in the several states and territories; and fifty copies shall be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be distributed among the officers and clerks in his department, as he may think proper; two hundred and fifty copies shall be placed in the library, and remain there under the same regulations as the other laws of the United States; and the remainder shall be placed in the library, and each member of Congress hereafter elected shall, so long as any remain, exclusive of the two hundred and fifty copies before mentioned, be entitled to one copy at the commencement of that session of Congress next succeeding his election.

APPROVED, March 9, 1818.

March 18, 1818. VI. RESOLUTION directing the judges of the Supreme Court to be furnished with

One set of Wait's edition

of state papers to be distributed to each of the judges of the Supreme Court.

Wait's state papers.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State cause to be distributed one set of state papers and public documents, printed by T. B. Wait and Sons, in pursuance of acts of Congress heretofore passed, to the chief justice, and to each of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States.

APPROVED, March 18, 1818.

March 18, 1818. VII. RESOLUTION authorizing the transportation of certain documents free of

Members of

Congress, &c. authorized to

postage.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the delegates from territories, the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk

transmit the President's

message of 14th

of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby authorized to
transmit, free of postage, the message of the President of the United
States, of the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and March, 1818.
eighteen, and the documents accompanying the same, printed by order

of the Senate and by order of the House of Representatives, to any post-
office within the United States and the territories thereof.
APPROVED, March 19, 1818.

VIII. RESOLUTION directing the publication and distribution of the journal and March 27, 1818. proceedings of the convention which formed the present constitution of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the journal of the convention which formed the present constitution of the United States, now remaining in the office of the Secretary of State, and all acts and proceedings of that convention, which are in the possession of the government of the United States, be published under the direction of the President of the United States, together with the secret journals of the acts and proceedings, and the foreign correspondence of the Congress of the United States, from the first meeting thereof down to the date of the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, except such parts of the said foreign correspondence as the President of the United States may deem it improper at this time to publish. And that one thousand copies thereof be printed, of which one copy shall be furnished to each member of the present Congress, and the residue shall remain subject to the future disposition of Congress. APPROVED, March 27, 1818.

Journal, &c. of the convention which formed the con

stitution of the United States, to be published tion of the Presi

under the direc

dent. Secret jour

nals of acts and proceedings, and foreign correspondence, of Congress, prior to the peace of 1783, to be also published.

Distribution.

IX.-RESOLUTION directing the distribution of the laws of the fourteenth Congress March 27, 1818.

among the members of the fifteenth Congress.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the
Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives be directed to procure
from the Secretary of State as many copies of the laws of the fourteenth
Congress as shall be necessary, and to distribute one copy thereof to each
senator, representative, and delegate from the territories, of the fifteenth
Congress who have not been supplied therewith.
APPROVED, March 27, 1818.

Distribution.

April 3, 1818.

X. RESOLUTION directing the Secretary for the Department of State to prepare an index to the acts and resolutions of Congress, after the close of every session. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United An alphabetiStates of America, in Congress assembled, That after the close of each cal index of the session of Congress, an alphabetical index of the acts and joint resolutions to be pretions passed at the preceding session shall be prepared, printed, and distributed, therewith, under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of State.

APPROVED, April 3, 1818.

acts and resolu

pared, printed, and distributed, therewith.

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XI. RESOLUTION requesting the President of the United States to present a sword to Colonel Richard M. Johnson.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to present to Colonel Richard M. Johnson a sword, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the daring and distinguished valour displayed by himself and the regiment of volunteers under his command, in charging, and essentially contributing to vanquish, the combined British and Indian forces, under Major General Proctor, on the Thames in Upper Canada, on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.

APPROVED, April 4, 1818.

April 4, 1818.

Thanks of Congress to General Harrison and Governor Shelby, &c.

Gold medals to them.

XII. Resolution directing medals to be struck, and, together with the thanks of Congress, presented to Major General Harrison, and Governor Shelby; and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby, presented to Major General William Henry Harrison, and Isaac Shelby, late governor of Kentucky, and, through them, to the officers and men under their command, for their gallantry and good conduct in defeating the combined British and Indian forces under Major General Proctor, on the Thames, in Upper Canada, on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, capturing the British army, with their baggage, camp equipage and artillery; and that the President of the United States be requested to cause two gold medals to be struck, emblematical of this triumph, and presented to General Harrison, and Isaac Shelby, late Governor of Kentucky. APPROVED, April 4, 1818.

April 20, 1818.

Surveys preparatory to the establishment of two naval arsenals to be resumed and completed, &c.

Plans of forti

fications and estimate of expense.

Survey of the Chesapeake Bay, &c.

Report, with a plan, &c.

XIII. RESOLUTION directing the completion of the survey of the waters of the
Chesapeake bay, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause to be resumed and completed the surveys heretofore cominenced, preparatory to the estab lishment of two naval arsenals; and that, to the naval officers employed in this service, officers of the corps of engineers be joined, with instructions to prepare plans of the fortifications necessary to be erected for the defence of such arsenals, with an estimate of the expense of erecting the same. And that the President be further requested to cause such a survey of the Chesapeake Bay to be made, as may be requisite to ascertain what points are necessary to be fortified for the protection of the commerce of said bay; and a report of the same, with a plan of the works necessary to be erected, with an estimate of the expense of the same, to be made to Congress in the first week of their next session. APPROVED, April 20, 1818.

ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the sixteenth day of November, 1818, and ended on the third day of March, 1819.

JAMES MONROE, President; DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. I.—An Act to provide for the removal of the library of Congress to the north wing of the Cupitol.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the joint library committee of Congress be, and they are hereby, authorized to cause suitable apartments, in the north wing of the Capitol, to be fitted up and furnished for the temporary reception of the library of Congress, and to cause the said library to be removed to, and placed in, the same.

Dec. 3, 1818.

[Obsolete.] Suitable

apartments to be fitted up for the library in the north wing of the capitol.

Accounts to be

treasury.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the settled at the accounts of the expenditures which may be incurred under this act; and that the amount, so settled, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the further purchase of books for the said library.

APPROVED, December 3, 1818.

2000 dollars further for books.

CHAP. II.-An Act to increase the number of clerks in the Department of War. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to employ an additional number of clerks in his department, not exceeding twelve; and that the sum of twelve thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for their compensation; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. This act to continue in force for one year, and no longer.

APPROVED, December 5, 1818.

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STATUTE II. Dec. 16, 1818.

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CHAP. III.-An Act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and to make good a deficit in the appropriation for holding treaties with the Indians. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United support of the States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to the objects herein specified, to wit:

Sums appropriated for the

army.

200,000 dolls. for subsistence. Deficit for holding treaties with Indians, 50,000 dolls.

For subsistence of the army of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.

For holding treaties with Indian tribes, being a deficit in the appropriations for that object in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, December 16, 1818.

STATUTE II.

Dec. 16, 1818.

No suit, action, &c. depending and un

determined on the 20th April, 1818, to be discontinued or abated, on account of the

court not having

been holden on

the first Monday

of June, 1818.

Act of April 20,

1818, ch. 108.

Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 170.

The court authorized to

nake rules and orders touching such suits, as if

it had been holden.

Suits, &c., hereafter trans

ferred to be deemed de

pending as if they had been

entered, and the court hold

en on the 20th

of June last.

CHAP. IV.—An Act concerning the western district court of Pennsylvania.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no suit, action, plea, process, or proceeding, at law or in equity, which, on the twentieth day of April last, was depending and undetermined in the district or circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, and by law directed to be removed to the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, shall be discontinued or abated on account of the said court not having been opened and holden on the first Monday of June last, agreeably to the act of Congress passed on the twentieth day of April last; but that all such suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, both at law and in equity, shall be deemed, taken, and, to all intents and purposes, be held to be depending in the said district court for the western district of Pennsylvania, as fully and effectually as if the said court had been opened and holden on the said first Monday of June last.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said court be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered, from time to time, to make all such rules and orders touching such suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, at law and in equity, as they might or could have done, if said court had been opened and holden on the said first Monday of June.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, pleas, process, and proceedings, aforesaid, which may be hereafter certified and transferred from the district or circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, to the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be depending in the said court on the said first Monday of June last, and the same proceedings may be had therein as if the same had been on that day entered in the said court agreeably to the act of Congress aforesaid.

APPROVED, December 16, 1818.

STATUTE II.

Feb. 4, 1819. [Obsolete.] Limits of the district.

CHAP. XII.—An Act to establish a judicial district in Virginia, west of the
Allegheny Mountain.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the state of
Virginia as is situate west of the summit of the mountains which sepa-

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