territories, to take effectual measures to organize, arm and equip according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment’s warning, their respective proportions of one hundred thousand militia, officers included, to be apportioned by the President of the United States, from the latest militia returns in the department of war, and in cases where such returns have not been made, by such other data as he shall judge equitable.
Executives of states may accept corps of volunteers.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the executives of the several states and territories may accept, as part of the said detachment, any corps of volunteers who shall engage to continue in service six months after they arrive at the place of rendezvous.
Detachment of militia,—how to be officered.
General officers to be apportioned by the President.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the detachment of militia and volunteers aforesaid shall be officered out of the present militia officers, or others, at the option and discretion of the constitutional authority in the respective states and territories, the President apportioning the general officers among the respective states and territories, as he may deem proper.
Term of service of the detachment; allowance of pay, rations, &c.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said detachments shall not be compelled to serve a longer time than six months after they arrive at the place of rendezvous, and that during the time of their service, they shall be entitled to the same pay, rations and allowance for clothing, as are established by law for the army of the United States.
President may call the whole or part of detachment into service.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to call into actual service any part, or the whole of said detachment, when he shall judge that the exigencies of the United States require it; and, if a part only of said detachment shall be called into actual service, they shall be taken from such part thereof, as the President of the United States shall deem proper.
Appropriation.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding one million of dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the pay, subsistence, and support of such part of said detachment as may be called into actual service.
Limitation of this act.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force for the term of two years from the passing thereof, and no longer.
Approved, March 30, 1808.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XL.—An Act concerning the sale of the Lands of the United States, and for other purposes.[1]
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.
Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 35.
Act of June 30, 1812, ch. 110.
Public lands may be offered for sale in such proportions as the President chooses.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President of the United States has been or may be authorized to cause the public lands, in any land district, to be offered for sale, it shall be lawful, whenever he shall think it convenient, to offer for sale, at first, only a part of the lands contained in such district, and at any subsequent time or times, to offer for sale in the same manner, any other part, or the remainder of the lands contained in the same.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 46.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fourth section of an act passed the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, intituled “An act in addition to an act, intituled An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the state of Tennessee,” be revived and continued in force until the first day of October next: and in any case where a donation shall be granted in lieu of a pre-emption certificate, agreeable to the provisions of the said fourth section, the money, if any shall
- ↑ See notes to act of March 3, 1803, chap. 27.
