“An act providing for the printing and distributing of such laws of the United States as respect the public lands,” passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, to be revised, and the acts passed, and treaties formed, subsequent to the publication of the said collection, and relating to the public lands,The acts to be digested, &c. and 1500 copies to be printed, &c. to be embraced therein; the acts to be digested and arranged in their proper order, and fifteen hundred copies thereof to be printed and preserved for the future disposition of Congress.
Approved, January 20, 1817.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. VII.—An Act making a partial appropriation for the subsistence of the army during the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
40,000 dolls. appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That towards the subsistence of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, there be appropriated the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 22, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. IX.—An Act to repeal, after the close of the present session of Congress, the act, entitled “An act to change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives and the delegates from the territories,” passed the nineteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
The act of the 19th March, 1816, ch. 30, repealed.
Proviso: no other act revived.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the close of the present session of Congress, the act, entitled “An act to change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives and the delegates from territories,” passed the nineteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to revive any act or acts, or parts of acts, repealed or suspended by the act hereby repealed.
Approved, February 6, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. X.—An Act to extend the provisions of the act to authorize certain officers and other persons to administer oaths, approved May the third, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Act of May 3, 1798, ch. 36.
The chairman of any standing committee empowered to administer oaths to witnesses, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the chairman of any standing committee, either of the House of Representatives or of the Senate of the United States, shall be empowered to administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses in any case under their examination; and any person who shall be guilty or perjury before such committee shall be liable to the pains, penalties, and disabilities, prescribed for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Approved, February 8, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. XIII.—An Act to repeal the second section of an act, entitled “An act concerning the pay of officers, seamen, and marines, in the navy of the United States.”
