the household of the President, to be laid out and expended for such articles of furniture as he shall direct.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. XLII.—An Act further to regulate the territories of the United States, and their electing delegates to Congress.
Delegates to Congress to be elected every second year.
vol. i, 51.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every territory of the United States in which a temporary government has been, or hereafter shall be established, and which by virtue of the ordinance of Congress of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, or of any subsequent act of Congress, passed or to be passed, now hath or hereafter shall have the right to send a delegate to Congress, such delegate shall be elected every second year, for the same term of two years for which members of the house of representatives of the United States are elected; and in that house each of the said delegates shall have a seat with a right of debating, but not of voting.
The citizens of Missouri to elect a delegate to Congress.
Act of June 4, 1812, ch. 95.
Provision to be made for the meeting of the general assembly.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, on the first Monday of August next, the citizens of the territory of Missouri, qualified according to the act, entitled “An act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri,” shall elect a delegate to Congress; and it shall be the duty of the general assembly of the said territory to make provision by law for the annual or biennial meetings of the said general assembly, as the interests of the territory may in their opinion require; and such annual or biennial meeting shall be on the first Monday of December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. and so much of any law, or laws, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. XLIII.—An Act to continue in force an act, entitled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.”
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
The act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes continued until the 1st of May, 1818.
Act of May 6, 1822, ch. 54.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was continued in force for a limited time by an act passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and no longer.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLIV.—An Act to alter and establish certain post-roads.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Post-roads discontinued. That the post-roads hereafter named be discontinued:
Pennsylvania.In Pennsylvania.—From Wysoxby, Orville and Warren to Nanticoke.
From Silver Lake or Montrose to Binghampton.
From Williamsport to Jersey Shore.
Virginia.In Virginia.—From Liberty to Fincastle.
Indiana.In Indiana.—From Brookville, by Bath and Lewistown, to Salisbury.
