Chapter CXXXVIII. *supplementary to the act entitled “An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps.”* July 6, 1812. [Repealed.] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That in a
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Chap. CXXXVIII.— An Act *supplementary to the act entitled “An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps.”* July 6, 1812. [Repealed.] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That in all cases whereAct of Feb. 6, 1812, ch. 21.Act of January 29, 1813, ch. 15, sec. 13.Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.President may appoint officers to volunteer corps. volunteers have offered or hereafter shall offer their services to the United States, under the act entitled “An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps,” it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to appoint and commission officers thereto, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided,* that prior to the issuing of such commissions, theProviso. volunteers aforesaid shall have signed an enrolment binding themselves to service, conformably to the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the President be, and he isCorps of volunteers to be formed into battalions, &c. hereby authorized to form the corps of volunteers into battalions, squadrons, regiments, brigades and divisions, and to appoint thereto, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, general, field and staff officers conformably with the military establishment of the United States, and who shall be entitled to the pay and emoluments of officers of a similar grade and corps in the army of the United States.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That it shall be lawful for thePresident may appoint the officers in the recess of the Senate. President of the United States, in the recess of the Senate, to appoint all the officers authorized by this act; which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate, at their next session, for their advice and consent. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted, *That in case the volunteers whenVolunteers to be paid for delivering up their arms at the ex- their term of service shall have expired, shall deliver their stand of arms and accoutrements, in good order, to the proper officer, they shall be 786 TWELFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Resolutions. 1812. piration of their term of service.entitled to receive in lieu thereof ten dollars for every stand of arms so delivered. Approved, July 6, 1812. RESOLUTIONS. Resolution I: granting permission to the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States to use the hooks in the Library of Congress. Resolution 2 Stat. 786 I 1812-03-02 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 12 1 public I. Resolution *granting permission to the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States to use the hooks in the Library of Congress.* March 2, 1812. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States to be allowed to use books in the library of Congress. That the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives for the time being be, and they are hereby authorized to grant the use of the books in the library of Congress to the judges of the supreme court of the United States, at the times, and on the same terms, conditions and restrictions, as members of Congress are allowed to use said books.
Approved, March 2, 1812. Resolution II: on the subject of Arts and Manufactures. Resolution 2 Stat. 786 II 1812-03-19 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 12 1 public II. Resolution *on the subject of Arts and Manufactures.* March 19, 1812. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Information obtained under the act of May 1, 1810, ch. 38, to be digested.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to employ a person to digest and reduce to such form, as shall be deemed most conducive to the interests of the United States, a statement of the number, nature, extent, situation and value of the arts and manufactures of the United States, together with such other details, connected with these subjects, as can be made from the abstracts and other documents and returns, reported to him by the marshals and other persons employed to collect information in conformity to the second section of the act of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and such other information as has been or may be obtained, which the subject will admit of; and that he report the same to Congress.
Approved, March 19, 1812. Resolution III: requesting the state of Georgia to assent to the formation of two States of the Mississippi territory. Resolution 2 Stat. 786 III 1812-06-27 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 12 1 public III. Resolution *requesting the state of Georgia to assent to the formation of two States of the Mississippi territory.* June 17, 1812. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Legislature of Georgia requested to consent to the formation of two states in the territory of Mississippi.
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 expedient. Approved, June 17, 1812. Resolution I: requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer. Resolution 2 Stat. 786 IV 1845-03-03 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 12 1 public IV. Resolution *requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer.* It being a duty peculiarly 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,* Resolution requesting the President to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer.
That a 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 and welfare of these States, his blessing on their arms, and the speedy restoration of peace. 12 2 1813 ACTS OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of November,* 1812, *and ended on the third day of March,* 1813.
James Madison, President of the United States; William H. Crawford, President of the Senate pro tempore; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.
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