agents, on his or their giving a bond with sureties, in the same manner ard on the same terms, conditions and restrictions, and on a compliance of the person or persons receiving the indulgence hereby granted, with all the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice-President of the United States, and January 12, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. 3 CHAPTER LXXVII. An ACT to alter the time for the next meeting of Congress. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress asssembled, That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the fourth Monday of May next. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. President to man & fit out certain frigates, CHAPTER LXXVIII. An ACT authorizing the employment of an additional naval force. RE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in addition to the frigates now employed in acauthorized tual service, there be fitted out, officered and manned, as soon as may be, the four following frigates, to wit: the United States, Essex, John Adams, and President: and moreover the President of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered to equip, man, and employ in actual service, so many of the public armed vessels, now laid up in ordinary, and gun boats, as in his public ves judgment the public service may require; and to cause the frigates, and other armed vessels, when prepared for actual service, respectively, to be stationed at such ports and places on the sea-coast as he may deem most expedient, or to cruise on any part of the coast of the United States or the territories thereof. And other sels. President authoriz additional number of seamen. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That to employ an for the purpose of carrying the foregoing provision into immediate effect, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to the number of petty officers, able seamen, ordinary seamen and boys, at present authorized by law, to appoint, and cause to be engaged and employed as soon as may be, three hundred midshipmen, three thousand six hundred able seamen, ordinary seamen and boys, who shall be engaged to serve for a period not exceeding two years; but the President may discharge the same sooner, if in his judgment their service may be dispensed with. And to satisfy the necessary expenditures to be incurred therein, a sum Appropria. not exceeding four hundred thousand dol. tion. lars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, and shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate pro tempore. January 31, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON, CHAPTER LXXIX. An ACT for the relief of Edmund Beamont. BE the E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Ed. mund Beamont, now imprisoned in the state of Connecticut, shall be and hereby is released and discharged from all claim and demand of the United States, to a certain judgment for a penalty of four hundred dollars, recovered, with costs, at their suit, before the district court for the district of Connecticut, holden at New-Haven, in the month of August, eighteen hundred and six; sav ing and reserving, nevertheless, the right and interest, if any there be, which belongs to any third person. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. February 1, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXX. An ACT for dividing the Indiana Territory into two separate governments. B of the E it enacted by the Senate and House of ed, and the ed. Indiana ter. America, in Congress assembled, That from ritory divid- and after the first day of March next, all that Illinois form part of the Indiana Territory which lies west of the Wabash river, and a direct line drawn from the said Wabash river and Post Vincennes, due north to the territorial line be tween the United States and Canada, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate territory, and be called Illinois. ment similar SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That A govern there shall be established within the said terto that ro- ritory a government in all respects similar to vided for the that provided by the ordinance of Congress, tory provid. passed on the thirteenth day of July, one N. W. terri ed. thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, for the government of the territory of the United States, north-west of the river Ohio; and by an act passed on the seventh day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, intituled, “An act to provide for the government of the territory north-west of the river Ohio;" and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to, and enjoy all and singular the rights, privileges and advantages, granted and secured to the people of the territory of the United States, north-west of the river Ohio, by the said ordinance.. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the officers for the said territory, who, by Officers' du. virtue of this act, shall be appointed by the ties, &c. &c. President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall respectively exercise the same powers, per form the same duties, and receive for their services the same compensations, as by the ordinance aforesaid, and the laws of the United States, have been provided and established for similar officers in the Indiana territory. And the duties and emoluments of superintendant of Indian affairs shall be united with those of governor: Provided, Proviso. That the President of the United States shall have full power, in the recess of Congress, to appoint and commission all officers herein authorized, and their commissions shall continue in force until the end of the next session of Congress. vernment of to SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the ordinance for the government Ordinance of the territory of the United States north for the gowest of the Ohio river, as relates to the orga- the N. W. territory nization of a general assembly therein, and be in force prescribes the powers thereof, shall be in in the Illiforce and operate in the Illinois territory, whenever satisfactory evidence shall be given to the governor thereof that such is the wish nois. |