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2511102United States Statutes at Large, Volume 2 — Public Acts of the Eleventh Congress, 3rd Session, XLVIIUnited States Congress


March 3, 1811.

Chap. XLVII.An Act concerning an act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the river Perdido, and south of the state of Georgia and the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes, and the declaration accompanying the same.[1]

This act, and the act referred to, not to be published until the end of the next session of Congress, unless, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this act, and the act passed during the present session of Congress, entitled “An act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the river Perdido, and south of the state of Georgia and the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes,” and the declaration accompanying the same, be not printed or published, until the end of the next session of Congress, unless directed by the President of the United States, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 3, 1811.


  1. The act here referred to will be found in Vol. III. p. 471.