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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · Jan. 20, 1817 · Chapter IV

Chapter IV. to authorize a new edition of the collection of laws respecting the public lands

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Chap. IV.— An Act to authorize a new edition of the collection of laws respecting the public lands.Jan. 20, 1817. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The collection of land laws to be revised, &c. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the President of the United States be, and hereby is, authorized to cause the collection of laws, resolutions, and treaties, printed under authority of an act, entitled 344FOURTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 7, 9, 10, 13. 1817.345 “An act providing for the printing and distributing of such laws of the Act of April 27, 1810, ch. 33. United States as respect the public lands,” passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, to be revised, and the acts passed, and treaties formed, subsequent to the publication of the said collection, and relating to the public lands, to be embraced therein; The acts to be digested, &c. and 1500 copies to be printed, &c. the acts to be digested and arranged in their proper order, and fifteen hundred copies thereof to be printed and preserved for the future disposition of Congress.
Approved, January 20, 1817.
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