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ACTS

PASSED

AT THE SECOND SESSION

OF

THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

ELEVENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES;

At the second session, begun and held at the City of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine.

CHAPTER XVIII.

AN ACT to authorise the transportation of certain documents free of postage.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby respectively authorised to transmit free of postage, the message of the President of the United States, of the twenty-ninth of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine, and the documents accompanying the same, printed by order of the Senate, and by order of the House of Representatives, to any post-offiçe within the United States, and territories

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thereof, to which they may direct; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANDREW GREGG,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

December 9, 1809.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

tives, and to

for the election.

CHAPTER XIX.

AN ACT supplemental to an act, entitled "An act
extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana
territory, and for other purposes."

E it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of

America, in Congress assembled, That the Governor to governor of the Indiana territory, for the apportion the time being, be, and he is hereby authorised Representa and empowered to apportion the representaissue his writ tives among the several counties in said territory, as he shall think proper, having regard to the numbers limited in the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and to issue his writ for the election of such representatives agreeably to the apportionment which he may make, at such time as he shall deem most convenient for the citizens of the several counties in said territory.

Afterwards

to be appor

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That tioned by the so soon as the legislature of said territory shall be convened, the number of represen

general as

sembly.

tatives in each county thereof shall be regu; lated by the general assembly.

Governor to clamation for

issue a pro

cancy in the Congress.

delegation to

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall occur in the legisla-, tive council, by death, resignation or removal from office, or when from either of supplying vasaid causes there shall be no delegate from said territory to the Congress of the United States, the governor shall in either case be authorised to issue his proclamation, directing an election to be held to supply such vacancy according to law.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ANDREW GREGG,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

December 15, 1809.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER XX.

AN ACT extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of

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sue certain military land

America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of secretary of war be authorised to issue mi- war may islitary land warrants to such persons as have or shall, before the first day of March, one warrants. thousand eight hundred and thirteen, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied, shall, and may be located in the names of

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