CHAPTER CXLI.

RESOLUTION requesting the State of Georgia to assent to the formation of two States of the Mississippi Territory.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the legislature of the state of Georgia be, and they are hereby requested to give their assent by law to the formation of two states of the Mississippi territory: Provided, In the opinion of Congress a division of said territory for that purpose should hereafter be expeAient.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WM. H. CRAWFORD,
President of the Senate, pro-tempore.

June 17, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER CXLII.

RESOLUTION requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer.

IT being a duty peculiary incumbent in a time of public calamity and war, humbly and devoutly to acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God, and to implore his aid and protection:

Therefore,

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of

America in Congress assembled, That & joint committee of both Houses wait on the President of the United States, and request that he recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer to be observed by the people of the United States, with religious solemnity, and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety ard welfare of these States, his blessing on their arms, and the speedy restoration of

peace.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. H. CRAWFORD,

President of the Senate, pro-tempore.

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ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSIÓN OF THE
TWELFTH CONGRESS

An act to authorise the transportation of cer-

tain documents free of postage

An act to alter the time of holding one of the

terms of the district court in the district of

Maine

An act making a further appropriation for the

support of a library

An act extending the time for opening the seve-

ral land offices established in the territory of

Orleans

An act for the relief of Abraham Whipple,
late a captain in the navy of the United
States

An act allowing further time for completing the

payments on certain lands, held by right of

pre-emption in the Mississippi territory

An act for the relief of Josiah H. Webb

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An act to authorise the surveying and making

of certain roads in the state of Ohio, as con

templated by the treaty of Brownstown, in the

territory of Michigan

An act for the apportionment of representatives

among the several states, according to the

third enumeration

An act for completing the existing military es-

tablishment

An act authorising the President of the United

States to raise certain companies of rangers

for the protection of the frontier of the Unit-

ed States

An act to authorise the laying out and opening

a public road from the line established by the

treaty of Grenville, to the North Bend in the

state of Ohio

An act for the relief of John Burnham

An act to raise an additional military force

An act directing the terms on which lands sold

at public sale, and that revert for failure in

payment, shall again be sold

An act authorising the purchase of ordnance

and ordnance stores, camp equipage, and

other quarter master's stores and small arms

An act to alter the time of holding the district

courts of the United States for the North Ca

rolina district

An act to continue in force, for a further time,

the first section of the act, entitled "An act

further to protect the commerce and seamen

of the United States against the Barbary

powers"

An act to empower the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry to decide on the case of the ship Eliza Ann,
belonging to Ezekiel Hubbel; and the case of

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the ship Mary and Frances, belonging to Na-

thaniel Goddard

An act to alter the times for holding the dis

trict courts, within and for the district of Con-

necticut

An act authorising the President of the United

States to accept and organize certain volun-

teer military corps

An act for the revision of former confirma-

tions, and for confirming certain claims to

land in the district of Kaskaskia

An act making an appropriation for the expen-

ses incident to the six companies of mounted

rangers during the year one thousand eight

hundred and twelve

An act authorising the Secretary of the Treasury

to locate the lands reserved for the use of

Jefferson College in the Mississippi territory

An act for the more convenient taking of affi-

davits and bail, in civil causes, depending in

the courts of the United States

An act making appropriations for the support

of the military establishment of the United

States, for the year one thousand eight hun-

dred and twelve

An act making appropriations for the support

of an additional military force

An act for the relief of Captain Selah Benton

An act to establish a land district in the Illi-

nois territory, east of the district of Kaskas-

kia, and to attach certain public lands to the

district of Jeffersonville

An act supplementary to "An act to raise

for a limited time an additional military

force," passed on the twelfth day of April, one

thousand eight hundred and eight

An act for the relief of Thomas O'Bannon

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