subpœna duces tecum, before, and to such commissioner or commissioners, at the time and place in such subpœna stated, such failure being proved to the satisfaction of the said judge, he may proceed to enforce obedience to the said process of subpœna duces tecum, or to punish the disobedience, in like manner as any court of the United States may do in case of disobedience to a like process, issued by such court; and when any such paper, writing, written instrument, book, or other document, shall be produced to such commissioner or commissioners, he or they shall, at the cost of the party requiring the same cause to be made, a fair and correct copy thereof, or of so much thereof as shall be required by either of the parties:Proviso. Provided, that no witness shall be deemed guilty of contempt for disobeying any subpœna directed to him by virtue of this act, unless his fees for going to, returning from, and one day’s attendance at the place of examination, shall be paid or tendered to him at the time of the service of the subpœna.
Approved, January 24, 1827.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. V.—An Act concerning the selection of certain lands heretofore granted by compact, to the state of Missouri, for seminaries of learning.
Certain lands to be selected for seminaries of learning.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the President of the United States, as soon as may be, to cause to be selected, from any of the public lands of the United States in Missouri, the sale of which is authorized by law, and in quantities not less than a section, according to the divisional lines of the public surveys, the several townships of land heretofore secured by compact to the state of Missouri, for the purposes of a seminary or seminaries of learning in that state, and to cause one descriptive list of such selections to be filed with the governor of Missouri, in the office of the secretary of that state; and another like list to be filed in the general land office of the United States; and the lands so selected shall, immediately thereupon, vest in the state of Missouri, according to and in satisfaction of, the above-mentioned compact with the United States.
Approved, January 24, 1827.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. VI.—An Act to allow the citizens of the territory of Michigan to elect the members of their legislative council, and for other purposes.
Members of the legislative council to be hereafter chosen by the people.
Act of Feb. 16, 1819, ch. 22.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 36.
Act of Feb. 5, ch. 6.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That at the next, and at each succeeding election of members of the legislative council of the territory of Michigan, the qualified electors of the said territory may, instead of choosing twenty-six, as heretofore directed, elect thirteen fit persons as their representatives, in the manner, and with the qualifications now, or hereafter to be, prescribed by law; which said representatives, so elected, shall be and constitute the said legislative council. And for the purpose of securing an equal representation, the governor and legislative council of said territory, are hereby authorized and required to apportion the representatives, so to be elected as aforesaid, among the several counties or districts, in the said territory, in proportion, as near as may be, to the whole number of inhabitants in each county or district, exclusive of Indians not taxed.
