Chapter XX. *making a further distribution of such laws of the United States, as respect the Public Lands.*Feb. 18, 1811. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Act of April 27, 1810, ch. 33
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Chap. XX.— 641 An Act *making a further distribution of such laws of the United States, as respect the Public Lands.*Feb. 18, 1811. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Act of April 27, 1810, ch. 33.Distribution of the land law. That the copies of the laws prepared and printed under the authority of “An act providing for printing and distributing of such laws of the United States as respect the public lands,” passed the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, not otherwise disposed of, shall be distributed in the manner following, that is to say:
The President and Vice PresidentHow to be distributed. of the United States, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, the secretaries of the state, treasury, war and navy departments, the attorney-general, the comptroller and register of the treasury, the judges of the supreme and district courts of the United States, the governors and judges of the territories, the surveyor-general of the United States, and the surveyor of the lands of the United States south of Tennessee, shall each receive one copy; the clerks in each of the departments of state, treasury and war, employed on land business, five copies; the secretary of the Senate, to be placed on his table for the use of the Senate, five copies; the clerk of the House of Representatives, to be placed on his table, for the use of the House of Representatives, ten copies; two hundred and fifty copies shall be placed in the library, and remain there under the same regulations as the other laws of the United States; one hundred copies shall be deposited in the treasury department for the use of the land boards, and offices which may hereafter be established; and the remainder shall be placed in the library, and each member of Congress hereafter elected, shall, so long as any remain, exclusive of the two hundred and fifty copies before mentioned, be entitled to, one copy at the commencement of that session of Congress next succeeding his election.
Approved, February 18, 1811. Chapter XXI: to enable the people of the Territory of Orleans to form a constitution and state government, and fur the admission if such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes. 2 Stat. 641 1811-02-20 Chapter XXI 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 11 3 public ELEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 20, 21. 1811.
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*making a further distribution of such laws of the United States, as respect the Public Lands.*Feb. 18, 1811. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Act of April 27, 1810, ch. 33
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