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ment of state, at the rate of two dollars and a quarter for each five hundred pages contained in the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated1500 dollars appropriated. for the purpose aforesaid, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. CXII.—An Act for the relief of certain officers.
Relief of officers of Illinois territory.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the paymaster general be authorized, and is hereby required, to pay the general staff (the volunteer aids excepted) of the governor of the Illinois territory, while in service in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve; and that to each one be allowed the pay and emoluments of a major of infantry.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. CXIV.—An Act supplementary to “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due the United States.”
Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49.
Relief of persons imprisoned for debts due United States.
On conditions such as the President may deem proper.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person imprisoned upon execution for a debt due to the United States, which he shall be unable to pay, if his case shall be such as does not authorize his discharge by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the powers given him by the act, entitled “An act providing for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due to the United States,” may make application to the President of the United States, and upon proof being made to his satisfaction that such debtor is unable to pay the debt, and upon a compliance by the debtor with such terms and conditions as the President shall deem proper, he may order the discharge of such debtor from his imprisonment, and he shall be accordingly discharged, and shall not be liable to be imprisoned again for the same debt; but the judgment shall remain good and sufficient in law, and may be satisfied out of any estate which may then, or at any time afterwards, belong to the debtor.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
RESOLUTIONS.
I. Resolution for admitting the state of Indiana into the Union.
Indiana admitted into the union as a state.
Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57.Whereas in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the nineteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act to enable the people of Indiana territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of that state into the union,” the people of the said territory did, on the twenty-ninth day of June, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity with the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and state in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
