Chapter CXLIII. authorizing the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia, to prepare a code of jurisprudence for the said district
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Chap. CXLIII.— An Act authorizing the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia, to prepare a code of jurisprudence for the said district.April 29, 1816. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Code of laws to be digested and formed for District of Columbia. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby authorized, to prepare and digest a code of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal, for the said district, to be hereafter submitted to the Congress of the United States, to be modified, altered or adopted, as to them shall seem proper.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of one thousand Appropriation. five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the said judges and the attorney aforesaid, as a compensation for their services in this respect, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 29, 1816.