TENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES; At the second session, begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight. CHAPTER LXVIII. An ACT to authorize the transportation of a certain Message of the President of the United States, and documents accompanying the same. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Members of Congress and Delegates from the several territories of the United States be, and they are hereby authorized to transmit by mail, free of postage, the Message of the President of the United States of the eighth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, and documents accompanying the same, printed by order of the Senate, and by order of the House of Representatives, to any post-office within the United States and territories thereof, to which they may respectively direct, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON Vice-President of the United States, and November 18, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXIX. An ACT for the relief of Andrew Joseph Villard. BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Andrew Joseph Villard, the sum of one thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for his extra services and expense, in the mode of mounting heavy cannon for batteries, on a new construction for the use and benefit of the United States. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate, pro tempore. January 4. 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXX. An ACT authorizing the President of the United States to employ an additional number of revenue cutters. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby empowered to procure so many revenue cutters, not exceeding twelve, as may be necessary for the public service, the expense whereof shall be paid out of the product of the duties on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate, pro tempore. January 6, 1809, APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXI. An ACT authorizing the payment of certain pensions by the Secretary of War at the seat of government. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That every pension or arrearage of pension that shall be due on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and nine, or that may thereafter become due to any officer or soldier residing in either of the United States, or the territories thereof, in which there hath not been appointed an agent for the payment of pensions, shall be paid at the seat of the government of the United States, by the Se-. cretary for the War Department, and the name of the pensioner shall, on his application to the Secretary at War, be transferred from the books of the state in which it was originally inregistered to a register, to be opened for that purpose at the War Office of the United States. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President pro tempore of the Senate. January 7, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXII. An ACT to enforce and make more effectual an act, entitled, "An act laying an Embargo on all ships and vessels, in the ports and harbors of the United States," and the several acts supplementary thereto. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons shall put, place, or load on board any ship, vessel, boat or water |