President’s message, &c. &c. of March 22, 1808, may be transported by mail free of postage.
By whom in that case to be sent.the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, and they are hereby authorized to transmit free of postage, the message of the President of the United States, of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and the documents accompanying the same, and the documents accompanying the message of the President of the United States, of the thirtieth of March, printed by order of the Senate and House of Representatives, to any post-office within the United States, and territories thereof, to which they may respectively direct; and it shall be a duty of the secretary of the Senate, and of the clerk of the House of Representatives, to send by the mail, the printed copies of the same message and documents, or any part thereof that may remain after Congress shall adjourn, and the same shall be conveyed free of postage as aforesaid, conformably to the directions of the members of each house of Congress respectively: any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, April 13, 1808.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Expired.]
Chap. XLVI.—An Act to continue in force, for a further time, an act intituled “An act for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction.”
Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 41, continued in force for two years.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, intituled “An act for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction,” passed on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, be, and the same hereby is continued in force for the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, April 19, 1808.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Expired.]
Chap. XLVII.—An Act to revive and continue in force “An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland and Georgia.”
Act of March 17, 1800, ch. 15, revived and continued in force until March 3, 1814.
1800, ch. 15.
1814, ch. 60.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act which passed the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred, intituled “An act declaring the assent of Congress, to certain acts of the states of Maryland and Georgia,” be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Approved, April 20, 1808.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLVIII.—An Act concerning public contracts.
