Chapter XVII. *concerning the Naval Establishment.* June 28, 1809. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* President in the event of a favourable change in the foreign relations authorized to discharge and lay up in ordinary suc
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Chap. XVII.— An Act *concerning the Naval Establishment.* June 28, 1809. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* President in the event of a favourable change in the foreign relations authorized to discharge and lay up in ordinary such of the frigates as he shall think proper.Act of Jan. 31, 1809, ch. 11. That the President of the United States, in the event of a favourable change in our foreign relations, be and he is hereby authorized to cause to be discharged from actual service and laid up in ordinary, such of the frigates and public armed vessels, as in his judgment a due regard to the public security and interest will permit.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the first section of an act, entituled “An act to authorize the employment of an additional naval force,” passed at the last session of Congress, as requires the public armed vessels to be stationed at such ports and places on the sea-coast, or to cruise on the sea-coast of the United States and territories thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved, June 28, 1809. 11 2 1810 ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH 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 twenty-seventh day of November,* 1809, *and ended on the first day of May,* 1810 James Madison, President;
George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Andrew Gregg, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 9th to the 19th of December, 1809; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 2d of March, and from the 20th of April to the 1st of May, 1810; J. B. Varnum, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.