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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 2 STAT. · Dec. 9, 1809 · Chapter I

Chapter I. *to authorize the transportation of certain Documents free of postage.* Dec. 9, 1809. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Certain documents to be free of postage

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Chap. I.— An Act *to authorize the transportation of certain Documents free of postage.* Dec. 9, 1809. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Certain documents to be free of postage. That the members of Congress, the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby respectively authorized to transmit free of postage, the message of the President of the United States, of the twenty-ninth of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine, and the 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 direct; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, December 9, 1809.
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