Chapter CXIV. supplementary to “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due the United States.”March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49
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Chap. CXIV.— An Act supplementary to “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due the United States.”March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49. Relief of persons imprisoned for debts due United States. On conditions such as the President may deem proper. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That any person imprisoned upon execution for a debt due to the United States, which he shall be unable to pay, if his case shall be such as does not authorize his discharge by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the powers given him by the act, entitled “An act providing for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due to the United States,” may make application to the President of the United States, and upon proof being made to his satisfaction that such debtor is unable to pay the debt, and upon a compliance by the debtor with such terms and conditions as the President shall deem proper, he may order the discharge of such debtor from his imprisonment, and he shall be accordingly discharged, and shall not be liable to be imprisoned again for the same debt; but the judgment shall remain good and sufficient in law, and may be satisfied out of any estate which may then, or at any time afterwards, belong to the debtor.
Approved, March 3, 1817. RESOLUTIONS. Resolution I: for admitting the state of Indiana into the Union. Resolution I 1816-12-11 3 Stat. 399 United States Government Publishing Office 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 14 2 public I. Resolution for admitting the state of Indiana into the Union.Dec. 11, 1816. Whereas in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the nineteenth Indiana admitted into the union as a state. day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act to enable the people of Indiana territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of that state into the union,” the people Act of April 19, 1816, ch. 57. of the said territory did, on the twenty-ninth day of June, 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 with 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.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the state of Indiana shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of 400FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 2, 3. 1817. America, and admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever. Approved, December 11, 1816. Resolution II: to employ John Trumbull, to compose and execute certain paintings. Resolution II 1817-02-06 3 Stat. 400 United States Government Publishing Office 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 14 2 public II. Resolution to employ John Trumbull, to compose and execute certain paintings.February 6, 1817. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Four paintings to be placed in the capitol. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ John Trumbull, of Connecticut, to compose and execute four paintings commemorative of the most important events of the American Revolution, to be placed, when finished, in the capitol of the United States.
Approved, February 6, 1817. Resolution III: respecting contracts for the printing for Congress. Resolution III 1817-03-03 3 Stat. 400 United States Government Publishing Office 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 14 2 public III. Resolution respecting contracts for the printing for Congress.March 3, 1817. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Public documents printed in royal octavo page.
States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be directed, in making any future contract for the printing of Congress, to stipulate, and require, that the same, excepting only the bills, or when otherwise specially directed by either house, shall be done in royal octavo form, the size of the pages to be the same as those of the late edition of the laws of the United States; and that when any tables will not admit, with the use of a small type, of compression into that size, they shall be so printed as to fold conveniently into the volume.
Approved, March 3, 1817. 15 15 1 1817 1818 ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the first day of December,* 1817, *and ended on the twentieth day of April,* 1818. James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore, from December 1, 1817, to March 9, 1818, and from April 3, to April 20, 1818;
Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.
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Chapter CXIV
supplementary to “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due the United States.”March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49
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