TABLE NO. V. COMPRISING THE ACTS OF CONGRESS FROM 1789 TO 1845, INCLUSIVE, RELATING TO THE POST-OFFICE OF THE U. S. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Temporary Establishment_of_the_Post-Office. An act for the temporary establishment of the post-office. (Obsolete.) Sept. 22, 1789... Pago .... Vol. I. 70 .... Vol. I. 178 ... Vol. I. 218 ..... Vol. I. 232 Post-Office. An act to continue in force for a limited time an act entitled "An act for the temporary establishment of the post-office." (Expired.) Aug. 4, 1790 ........ Post-Office. An act to continue in force for a limited time an act entitled "An act for the temporary establishment of the post-office." March 3, 1791.... Post-Office and Post-Roads established. An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States. (Expired.) Feb. 20, 1792...... Post-Office and Post-Roads. An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States. (Repealed and supplied.) May 8, 1794..... ...Vol. I. 354 Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An act to amend the act entitled "An act to establish the postoffices and post-roads within the United States." (Repealed.) Feb. 25, 1795 ..... Vol. I. 419 Post-Office and Post-Roads. An act in addition to the act entitled "An act to establish the postoffice and post-roads within the United States." (Repealed.) March 3, 1797..... Vol. I. 509 Post-Office and Post-Roads. An act to continue in force the fifth section of an act entitled "An act in addition to the act entitled 'An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States.'' 19 (Obsolete and supplied.) March 28, 1798.... ..... ...Vol. I. 547 March 2, . Vol. I. 733 Post-Office. An act to establish the post-office of the United States. (Repealed.) 1799.... Postmaster-General to make a certain Contract. An act authorizing the Postmaster-General to make a new contract for carrying the mail from Fayetteville, in North Carolina, to Charleston, in South Carolina. (Obsolete.) Feb. 14, 1805. . Vol. II. 315 Post-Office. An act regulating the post-office establishment. (Repealed.) April 30, 1810..Vol. II. 592 Compensation of the Assistant Postmaster-General. An act to fix the compensation of the additional assistant Postmaster-General. Jan. 17, 1811.. .............. Vol. II. 615 Post-Office. An act in addition to an act to regulate the post-office establishment. (Repealed.) April 9, 1816.... .Vol. III. 264 Post-Office. An act authorizing the Postmaster-General to contract, as in other cases, for carry. ing the mail in steamboats between New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, and Louisville, in the State of Kentucky. March 2, 1819 ...Vol. III. 496 Post-Office. An act to repeal part of an act, passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act in addition to ‘An act regulating the post-office establishment." " March 3, 1819 ..... Vol. III. 536 Page Repairs of the Post-Office, &c. An act to authorize the Postmaster-General to pay for certain repairs to the general post-office, and keep the engine-house, the fire-engine and apparatus Vol. III. 784 in repair. March 3, 1823. Post-Office. An act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the post-office department. March 3, 1825 ..... Vol. IV. 102 . Vol. IV. 238 Post-Office. An act amendatory of the act regulating the post-office department. March 2, 1827 Increase of the Salary of the Postmaster-General. An act to increase the salary of the Postmaster-General. March 2, 1827..... ...Vol. IV. 239 ... Vol. V. 80 Post-Office. An act to change the organization of the post-office department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof. July 2, 1836.... Post-Office. A resolution to enable the Postmaster-General more readily to change the commencement of the contract year in the post-office department. March 2, 1837 ... Vol. V. 198 Express Mail. A resolution directing the postage on letters sent by the express mail to be paid in advance. (Obsolete.) Oct. 12, 1837. ..... Vol. V. 207 Fire-proof Building in the General Post-Office. An act providing for the erection of a fire-proof building for the use of the general post-office department. March 3, 1839 ....... Vol. V. 353 An Edition of the Laws of the United States and Regulations of the Post Office Department. An act to provide for the publication of a new edition of the laws and regulations of the post-office department, and a perfect list of the post-offices in the United States. Aug. 29, 1842. .. Vol. V. 538 Reduction of Postage, &c. An act to reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the post-office department. March 3, 1845 ... ..... Vol. V. 732 Reduction of Postage, &c. Joint resolution to fix the time when the act to reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the post-office department, passed at this session, shall go into effect. March 3, 1845. Vol. V. 800 POST ROADS. ... Vol. I. 354 Post-Office and Post-Roads established. An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States. (Expired.) Feb. 20, 1792.. . Vol. I. 232 Post-Office and Post-Roads. An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States. (Repealed and supplied.) May 8, 1794..... Post-Offices and Post-Roads. An act to amend the act entitled "An act to establish the postoffices and post-roads within the United States." (Repealed.) Feb. 25, 1795 ..... Vol. I. 419 Post-Office and Post-Roads. An act in addition to the act entitled "An act to establish the postoffice and post-roads within the United States." (Repealed.) March 3, 1797..... Vol. I. 509 Post-Office and Post-Roads. An act to continue in force the fifth section of an act entitled “An act in addition to the act entitled 'An act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States." " (Obsolete and supplied.) March 28, 1798..... ... Vol. I. 547 Post-Roads. An act to alter and establish sundry post-roads. (Obsolete. ) April 23, Vol. II. 42 Post-Roads. An act further to alter and to establish certain post-roads. (Repealed.) March 3, 1801... .Vol. II. 125 1800... ... Post-Roads. An act further to alter and establish certain post-roads, and for the more secure carriage of the mail of the United States. (Obsolete.) May 3, 1802..... . Vol. II. 189 Post-Roads. An act further to alter and establish certain post-roads, and for other purposes. March 26, 1804 Post-Roads. An act further to alter and establish certain post-roads, and for other purposes. March 3, 1505 ... ...Vol. II. 275 ..... Vol. II. 337 .Vol. II. 408 Post-Ronds. An act further to alter and establish certain post-roads, and for other purposes. (Obsolete) April 21, 1806 .... Page ........ . Vol. II. 444 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-roads, and for other purposes. (Repealed.) March 3, 1807 Post-Roads in Georgia and Ohio. An act to establish certain post-roads in the States of Georgia and Ohio. (Obsolete.) April 23, 1808 Vol. II. 491 .Vol. II. 579 Post-Roads. An act to establish post-roads. (Repealed.) April 28, 1810............. Post-Roads. An act to alter and establish certain post-roads. May 11, 1812............ . . . . . . Vol. II. 730 Post-Routes to be established by the President of the United States in certain cases. An act authorizing the President of the United States to establish post-routes in certain cases. (Obsolete.) Jan. 14, 1813.... . Vol. II. 790 Post-Roads in Louisiana. An act to establish certain post-roads in the State of Louisiana. (Obsolete.) Feb. 27, 1813..... . Vol. II. 806 Post-Roads. An act to alter and establish certain post-roads. April 18, 1814 ........ Vol. III. 130 Post-Roads. An act to establish post-roads. April 30, 1816 ..Vol. III. 334 Post-Roads. An act to alter and establish certain post-roads. (Obsolete.) March 3, 1817. Vol. III. 363 Post-Roads. An act to establish and alter certain post-roads. April 20, 1818 ... Vol. III. 453 Post-Roads. An act to alter and establish certain post-roads. May 13, 1820......... Vol. III. 577 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-roads and to discontinue others, and for other purposes. May 8, 1822.... ....... ..... Post-Roads. An act to discontinue certain post-roads, and to establish others. 1823.. . Vol. III. 702 Public Road in Florida. An act to authorize the laying out and opening certain public roads in the territory of Florida. (Obsolete.) Feb. 28, 1824............. ...... . Vol. IV. 5 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-roads, and to discontinue others. March 3, 1825.... .... Vol. IV. 95 Post-Roads in Mississippi. An act appropriating a sum of money for the repair of the postroads between Jackson and Columbus, in the State of Mississippi. April 20, 1826. Vol. IV. 154 Post-Roads. An act to establish sundry post-roads. March 2, 1827................ Post-Roads. An act to establish sundry post-roads, and to discontinue others. May 24, ..Vol. IV. 315 1828 Vol. IV. 221 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-roads, and to alter and discontinue others, and for other purposes. June 15, 1832 ... Vol. IV. 534 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-roads, and to alter and discontinue others, and for other purposes. July 2, 1836.... .Vol. V. 90 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-roads, and to discontinue others. July 7, 1838 ..Vol. V. 271 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-roads. April 14, 1842...... .Vol. V. 473 .....Vol. V. 568 Post-Roads. An act to establish certain post-routes. March 3, 1845 .... ..... Vol. V. 669 ....Vol. V. 778 FRANKING PRIVILEGE. Privilege of Franking to the Secretary of the Navy. An act to extend the privilege of franking letters and packets to the Secretary of the Navy. (Repealed and supplied.) June 22, 1798 Vol. I. 569 Privilege of Franking and Compensation to William Henry Harrison. An act extending the privilege of franking to William Henry Harrison, the delegate from the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio, and making provision for his compensation. (Obsolete.) Jan. 2, 1800. .Vol. II. Privilege of Franking to Martha Washington. An act to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Martha Washington. April 3, 1800........... Vol. II. 19 Page Franking Privilege. An act extending the privilege of franking letters to the delegate from the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, and making provision for his compensation. (Obsolete.) Dec. 15, 1800.... ...Vol. II. 88 Franking Privilege to John Adams. An act freeing from postage all letters and packets to John Adams. Feb. 25, 1801 ...Vol. IJ. 102 Franking Privilege extended to Delegates, and Compensation to Delegates. An act extending the privilege of franking and receiving letters free of postage to any person admitted, or to be admitted, to take a seat in Congress as a delegate, and providing compensation for such delegate. Feb. 18, 1802 .. .Vol. II. 130 Franking Privilege to Thomas Jefferson. An act freeing from postage all letters and packets from Thomas Jefferson. (Obsolete.) June 28, 1809 ... ........... Vol. II. 552 Franking Privilege given to James Madison. An act freeing from postage all letters and packets to and from James Madison. (Obsolete.) March 1, 1817..... Post-Office. Franking Privilege. An act in addition to an act entitled “An act regulating the post-office establishment." March 13, 1820 ... ... Vol. III. 350 ... Vol. III. 548 Franking Privilege to Mrs. Madison. An act to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Dolly P. Madison. July 2, 1836 .............. ...... Vol. V. 107 Franking Privilege granted to Mrs. Harrison. An act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison, free of postage. Sept. 9, 1841.......................... Vol. V. 461 Reduction of Postage, &c. An act to reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the post-office department. March 3, 1845 ... ..Vol. V. 732 TIIE® DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. VOL. I.-1. A 1 July 4, 1776. |