A public act.from and after the passing thereof, and shall to all intents and purposes be a public act.
Approved, May 16, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LXXXVIII.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to ascertain and designate certain boundaries.
President to cause the surveyor-general to designate the western and northern boundaries of Ohio, &c.
Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor general, under the direction of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby authorized and required, (as soon as the consent of the Indians can be obtained,) to cause to be surveyed, marked and designated, so much of the western and northern boundaries of the state of Ohio, which have not already been ascertained, as divides said state from the territories of Indiana and Michigan, agreeably to the boundaries established by the act, entituled “An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of the same into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes,” passed April thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and two; and to cause to be madeA plat to be made of the boundary which runs southeasterly of Lake Michigan.
Expense limited, &c. a plat or plan of so much of the boundary line as runs from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, particularly noting the place where the said line intersects the margin of said lake, and to return the same when made to Congress: Provided, that the whole expense of surveying and marking the said boundary lines shall not exceed five dollars for every mile that shall be actually surveyed and marked, which shall be paid out of the monies appropriated for defraying the expense of surveying the public lands.
Approved, May 20, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XC.—An Act to extend the right of suffrage in the Illinois territory, and for other purposes.[1]
Act of Feb. 3, 1809, ch. 13, vol. ii. 514.
Persons allowed to vote for members of the legislative council and house of representatives.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the admission of the Illinois territory into the second grade of territorial government, in conformity with the provisions of the act, entituled “An act for dividing Indiana into two separate governments,” each and every free white male person who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have paid a county or territorial tax, and who shall have resided one year in said territory previous to any general election, and be at the time of any such election, a resident thereof, shall be entitled to vote for members of the legislative council and house of representatives for the said territory.
- ↑ Illinois Territory:—An act for dividing the Indiana territory into two separate governments, February 3, 1809, chap. 13.An act to extend the right of suffrage in the Illinois territory, and for other purposes, May 20, 1812, chap. 90.An act supplemental to an act entitled, “An act for dividing the Indiana territory into two governments, June 10, 1812, chap. 98.An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States judges for the territory of Illinois, March 3, 1815, chap. 97.An act supplemental to the act entitled, “An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States judges for the territory of Illinois, and for vesting in the courts of Indiana a jurisdiction in chancery cases arising in the said territory,” April 29, 1816, chap. 154.An act to authorize the surveying and making a road in the territory of Illinois, April 27, 1816, chap. 131.An act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of the public lands, in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, April 29, 1816, chap. 151.
