Chapter CVII. to repeal part of an act passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act in addition to “An act regulating the Post-office establishment.” March 3, 1819. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,
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Chap. CVII.— An Act to repeal part of an act passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act in addition to “An act regulating the Post-office establishment.” March 3, 1819. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That so much of the last clause Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 34. The clause of act of Feb. 27, 1813, for securing the regular transportation of the mail throughout the year, repealed.of the “Act in addition to ‘An act regulating the Post-office establishment,’” passed the twenty-seventh day of [February,] one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, as contains these words, being the concluding words of the clause, namely:
“And that such contracts shall secure the regular transportation of the mail throughout each year;” be, and the same is hereby, annulled and repealed. Approved, March 3, 1819. RESOLUTIONS. I: declaring the admission if the state of Illinois into the Union. Public Resolution I 3 Stat. 536 1818-12-03 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 2025-11-26 15 2 public I. Resolution declaring the admission if the state of Illinois into the Union. Dec. 3, 1818. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That, whereas, in pursuance Act of 18th April, 1818, ch. 67.of an act of Congress, passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states,” the people of said territory did, on the twenty-sixth day of August, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity to the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven:
Vol. i. 51. *Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the state of Illinois Illinois a state of the Union, on an equal footing.shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever. Approved, December 3, 1818. II: authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage.
Public Resolution II 3 Stat. 537 1818-12-05 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 2025-11-26 15 2 public FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 2, 3, 4, 5. 1819. 537 II. Resolution authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage. Dec. 5, 1818. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the members of Congress, Documents transmitted by the President, or heads of Departments, and printed, may be franked by members of Congress, &c.the delegates from territories, the Secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby authorized to transmit, free of postage, to any post-office within the United States or the territories thereof, any documents which have been, or may be, communicated to either House of Congress, during the present session, by the President of the United States, or either of the heads of departments, and printed for the use of Congress.
Approved, December 5, 1818. III: directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina. Public Resolution III 3 Stat. 537 1819-01-19 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 2025-11-26 15 2 public III. Resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina. Jan. 19, 1819. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the President of the The President requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, &c.United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout and Cape Fear, and of the shoals of those capes, respectively; and to cause such an examination to be made of those capes and shoals, respectively, as will ascertain the practicability of erecting lighthouses, beacons, or buoys, on or near the Latitude and longitude to be ascertained.
Result to be reported to Congress.extreme points of them, or either of them; and also to cause the latitude and longitude of the said capes, extreme points, and shoals, respectively, to be ascertained with as much exactness as may be practicable; and that the results of such surveys and examinations be reported to Congress. Approved, January 19, 1819. IV: for the distribution of Seybert’s Statistical Annals; and directing Pitkins Commercial Statistics to be deposited in the library.
Public Resolution IV 3 Stat. 537 1819-01-23 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 2025-11-26 15 2 public IV. Resolution for the distribution of Seybert’s Statistical Annals; and directing Pitkins Commercial Statistics to be deposited in the library. Jan. 23, 1819. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of State The Secretary of State to cause copies of Seybert’s Statistics to be delivered to the President, Vice President, &c.cause to be distributed one copy of Seybert’s Statistical Annals to the President of the United States; to the Vice President of the United States, and to the executive of each state and territory, one copy; two copies for the use of each of the Departments, viz:
State, Treasury, War, and Navy; one copy for the use of the Attorney General of the United States; and one copy to each member and delegate of the fifteenth Congress; and one copy to each college and university in the United States, if applied for by such college or university; and the residue of the five Residue, with Pitkin’s, to be deposited in the library.hundred copies of the Annals aforesaid, together with the two hundred and fifty copies of Pitkin’s Commercial Statistics, shall be deposited in the library of Congress, for the use of the members.
Approved, January 23, 1819. V: authorizing the transmission of the documents accompanying the report of the committee to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United [States] free of postage. Public Resolution V 3 Stat. 537 1819-02-15 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 2025-11-26 15 2 public V. Resolution authorizing the transmission of the documents accompanying the report of the committee to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United [States] free of postage.
Feb. 15, 1819. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the members of Congress, Members of Congress, secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House, empowered to frank the documents.the delegates from territories, the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they hereby, are authorized to transmit, free of postage, to any post-office within the United States, or the territories thereof, the documents accompanying the report of the committee appointed by the House of Representatives to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United States.
Approved, February 15, 1819. VI: directing the manner in which the printing of Congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers. Public Resolution VI 3 Stat. 538 1819-03-03 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 2025-11-26 15 2 public 538 FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Res. 6, 7. 1819. VI. Resolution directing the manner in which the printing of Congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers. March 3, 1819. *Resolved by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the printing of Congress, unless when otherwise specially ordered, shall be done in the following form and manner, viz: Form and manner of printing.
Bills, as heretofore, with english type, on foolscap paper. Rule or table-work, in royal octavo size, where it can be brought into that size, by any type not smaller than brevier; and where it cannot, in such form as to fold conveniently into the volume. All other printing with a small pica type, on royal paper, in pages of the same size as those of the last edition of the laws of the United States, including the marginal notes. And the following prices shall be allowed and paid for the above described Prices allowed.
Composition.work: For the composition of every page of bills, one dollar; of every page of small pica, plain work, one dollar; of every page of small pica, rule-work, two dollars; of every page of brevier, rule-work, three dollars and fifty cents; and for a larger form of brevier rule-work, in proportion. For the press-work of bills, including paper, folding, and stitching—for Press-work.fifty copies, twenty-five cents per page; for four hundred copies, one dollar and twenty-five cents per page; for the press-work of tables, other than those in the regular octavo form, for six hundred copies, including as above, five dollars and fifty cents per form; for the press work of the journals, of nine hundred copies, including as above, one dollar per page; for all other printing, in the octavo form, of six hundred copies, including as above, eighty-seven and a half cents per page; and for a larger or smaller number in proportion.
Each house to ballot for a printer. Printer to give bond, with sureties. That as soon as this resolution shall have been approved by the President of the United States, each House shall proceed to ballot for a printer to execute its work during the next Congress; and the person having the greatest number of votes shall be considered duly elected; and shall give bond, with sureties, to the satisfaction of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, for the In case of delay, &c.prompt, accurate, and neat, execution of the work; and in case any inconvenient delay should be, at any time, experienced by either House, in the delivery of its work, the secretary and clerk, respectively, may be authorized to employ another printer to execute any portion of the work of the Senate or House, and charge the excess, in the account of such printer, for executing such work, above what is herein allowed, to the printer Proviso.guilty of such negligence and delay: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall preclude the choice of the same printer by the Senate and by the House of Representatives.
Approved, March 3, 1819. VII: declaring the manner in which the vessels composing the navy of the United States shall be named. Public Resolution VII 3 Stat. 538 1819-03-03 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 2025-11-26 15 2 public VII. Resolution declaring the manner in which the vessels composing the navy of the United States shall be named.
March 3, 1819. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unite d States of America, in Congress assembled,* That all the ships of the navy Ships of the navy to be named by the Secretary, under direction of the President. First class after states. Second after rivers. Third after principal cities and towns. No two of the same name.of the United States, now building, or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the following rule, to wit:
Those of the first class shall be called after the states of this Union; those of the second class after the rivers; and those of the third class after the principal cities and towns; taking care that no two vessels in the navy shall bear the same name. Approved, March 3, 1819. 16 16 1 1819 1820 ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the sixth day of December,* 1819, *and ended on the fifteenth day of May,* 1820.
James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; James Barbour, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the fourteenth of December, 1819; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the twenty-eighth of January, 1820; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.
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Chapter CVII
to repeal part of an act passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, entitled “An act in addition to “An act regulating the Post-office establishment.” March 3, 1819. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,
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