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Public Acts of Congress.

Approved, March 3, 1817.

of all claims allowed by the aforesaid commis- then, or at any time afterwards, belong to the sioner less than two hundred dollars, and those of debtor. two hundred dollars and upwards, if confirmed by the Secretary of War, shall be paid in the manner prescribed in the tenth and fourteenth sec-Resolution for admitting the State of Indiana into the

tions of the act to which this is an amendment. Approved, March 3, 1817.

An Act authorizing a subscription for the printing of the tenth volume of Public Documents.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred copies of the tenth volume of public documents, proposed to be printed by Thomas B. Wait and Sons. The aforesaid volume to be delivered in strong leather binding, at the Department of State, at the rate of two dollars and a quarter for each five hundred pages contained in

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An Act supplementary to "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due the United States."

Be it enacted, &c., 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

Union.

Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act to enable the people of the 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 States in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Indiana shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever.

Approved, December 11, 1816.

Resolution to employ John Trumbull, to compose and execute certain paintings.

Resolved, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ John Trumbull, of Connecticut, to compose and execute four paintings commemorative of the most important events of the American Revolution, to be placed, when finished, in the Capitol of the United States.

Approved, February 6, 1817.

Resolution respecting contracts for the Printing for Congress.

Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, be directed, in making any future contract for the printing of Congress, to stipulate, and require, that the same, excepting only the bills, or when otherwise specially directed by either House, shall be done in royal octavo form, the size of the pages to be the same as those of the late edition of the laws of the United States; and that when any tables will not admit, with the use of a small type, of compression into that size, they shall be so printed as to fold conveniently into the volume.

Approved, March 3, 1817.


INDEX

TO THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE SECOND SESSION OF
THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS.

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Alteration of the Journal, Mr. Fromentin sub-
mitted a motion for an, in the record of pro-
ceedings on counting the Electoral votes
the motion negatived
American Manufactures, Mr. Roberts presented
a memorial of the Philadelphia Society
for promoting, &c., referred
Application of moneys transferred, report from
the Department of War on the
similar report from the Navy Department.
Army and Militia, a bill from the House of Rep-
resentatives making additional appropria-
tions to defray the expense of the, during
the late war, read -
read a second time, and referred

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reported with amendments

read a third time, and passed as amended
33 Army Register, forty copies of the, transmitted
by the Acting Secretary of War for the
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Additional Executive Office, and Attorney Gen-
eral; so much of the annual Message as
relates to an, referred to a select committee
a bill to establish an, &c., read
Additional Pension Agents, Mr. Lacock submit-
ted a resolution for the appointment of
resolution agreed to, and a committee ap-
pointed

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