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in such state and territory, under such rules and regulations as shall be by law prescribed by the legislature of each state and territory.

Approved, April 23, 1808.

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April 23, 1808.

Chap. LVI.An Act to establish certain post roads in the states of Georgia and Ohio.

Post roads established.
Repealed Repealed 1810, ch. 30.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following post roads be established, viz. from Darien, by John Jones’ to Milledgeville, and from thence to Athens; from Sparta to Milledgeville, and from thence by Jones’s Courthouse to the Garrison on Oakmulgee; from Milledgeville to Putnam Courthouse, and from thence to Morgan Courthouse, and to Randolph Courthouse; from New Lisbon to Canton, in Ohio.

Approved, April 23, 1808.

Statute Ⅰ.



April 23, 1808.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. LVII.An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in an appropriation for the support of government during the present year, and making an appropriation for defraying the expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States.

Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to make good a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of both houses of Congress, authorized by the act of the tenth of February last, the further sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated.

Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding five thousand four hundred and one dollars and twenty-seven cents, the balance of a former appropriation to that amount, for that object, having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for defraying the further expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States.

Approved, April 23, 1808.

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April 25, 1808.

Chap. LVIII.An Act concerning invalid pensioners.[1]

Names of persons to be placed on the pension list: and rates.
1806, ch. 25.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to place the following named persons, whose claims have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to a law passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times therein mentioned, that is to say:

Thomas Lamar Davis, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

Albert Chapman, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

Ambrose Homan, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.


  1. Some of the sections of this act are of a public and general character. Sec. 3, 4, p. 96.