THE
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
ACTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH 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 first day of December, 1823, and ended on the twenty-sixth day of May, 1824.
James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; John Gaillard, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
Chap. II.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish, for the use of the territory of Arkansas, an abstract of the military bounty lands, lying within the same.
An abstract to be made out of military bounty lands for the territory of Arkansas.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 Secretary of the Treasury, to cause a complete abstract to be made out and transmitted, for the use of the territory of Arkansas, to the governor of said territory, of all the military bounty lands, which have been patented to the soldiers of the late army, or to their legal representatives, lying within the same, designating the tract, the name of the patentee, and the time when issued.
Approved, January 1, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. III.—An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt.”
Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49.
Act of Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4.
Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 39.
The oath prescribed by the act of Jan. 6, 1800, to be administered by, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the oath prescribed by the act, entitled “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” passed on the sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred, may be, in all cases, administered to the person entitled to take the same, either by any judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, or by the district judge for the district within which such person may be, or by any person or persons commissioned by any judge of the Supreme Court, or the said district judge, for that purpose.
