ACTS OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of November, 1811, and ended on the sixth day of July, 1812.
James Madison, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; William H. Crawford, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 26th of March, 1812; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chapter I.—An Act to authorize the transportation of certain documents free of postage.
Documents may be sent free of postage.Be 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 authorized to transmit, free of postage, the several messages of the President of the United States of the fifth and seventh days of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, 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 territories thereof, to which they may direct, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, November 18, 1811.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. II.—An Act to alter the time of holding one of the terms of the District Court in the district of Maine.
District court to be held at Wiscasset, on the second Tuesday of September annually.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, the district court of the United States for the district of Maine, shall be holden at Wiscasset, within said district, on the second Tuesday of September, annually, instead of the first Tuesday of said month, any thing, in any former act, to the contrary notwithstanding.[1]
Approved, November 28, 1811.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. III.—An Act making a further appropriation for the support of a Library.
- ↑ By the act of March 3, 1813, chap. 60, the time for holding the sessions of the district court at Wiscasset, was changed from the first Tuesday of March, to the last Tuesday of February.By the act of April 3, 1818, chap. 9, the district court of Maine, before holden on the last day of May in each year, shall be holden at the same place on the first Tuesday of June in each year.
