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Accounts for Clerk hire in the Land-offices of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. An act to enable the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department to audit and settle the accounts of the surveyor of public lands in the States of Illinois and Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, for extra clerk hire in his office. (Obsolete.) March 3, 1823......

Circuit Court of Washington, &c. An act providing for the accommodation of the Circuit Court of the United States for Washington county, in the District of Columbia, and for the preservation of the records of said court. March 3, 1823........

An additional Land-office in Missouri established. An act to establish an additional land-office in the State of Missouri. March 3, 1823....

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Laws of the United States. An act to authorize the purchase of a number of copies of the sixth volume of the laws of the United States. March 3, 1823................. Claims to Lots in Peoria confirmed. An act to confirm certain claims to lots in the village of Peoria, in the State of Illinois. March 3, 1823............. 786 Lands granted to the State of Missouri for Education, &c. An act concerning the lands to be granted to the State of Missouri, for the purpose of education, and other public uses. March 3, 1823.....

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Ransom of American Captives. An act supplementary to "An act relating to the ransom of American captives of the late war." March 3, 1823..............

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National Armory on the western Waters. An act to establish a national armory on the western waters. March 3, 1823...

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Piracy. An act respecting the punishment of piracy. March 3, 1823....

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RESOLUTIONS.

1. Requiring from the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives an annual statement of the expenditures from the contingent fund of the two Houses. March 1, 1823...

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2. To direct the withholding of the compensation of certain prize agents. March 3, 1823. 789

APPENDIX.

I. Proclamations of the President of the United States respecting discriminating duties. 791 II. Proclamation of the President of the United States respecting the admission of Missour into the Union.......

III. Instructions to public and private armed vessels.

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THE

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH 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 twentyfourth day of May, 1813, and ended the second day of August, 1813.

JAMES MADISON, President; ELBRIDGE GERRY, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE I.

CHAPTER I.—An Act concerning certain streets in Georgetown.(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the ground to open a new street in the town of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, beginning at the termination of three hundred and seventy-eight feet and six inches from the intersection of Washington and Bridge streets, on the east side of Washington street and south of Bridge street, and thence running parallel with Bridge street to Rock creek, of the width of sixty feet, to be called Needwood street.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Greene street, in the said town, be opened and extended to Causeway street, in lines parallel with Washington street; and that Montgomery street, in the said town, be opened and extended from Bridge street to Needwood street, in lines parallel with Washington street.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the streets called and known by the names of Lovely and Wapping, and all that part of Montgomery street, south from Bridge street to Causeway street, not embraced in lines parallel with Washington street, lying between Washington street and Rock creek, in the said town, upon the opening and establishment of the said streets, between Washington street and Rock creek, be, and hereby vacated; and the title to the ground over which the same now runs, shall be vested in fee simple in the proprietors of the ground over which the streets to be opened and extended by virtue of this act, shall run, in proportion to the quantity owned by each proprietor. APPROVED, June 14, 1813.

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THE

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH 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 twentyfourth day of May, 1813, and ended the second day of August, 1813.

JAMES MADISON, President; ELBRidge Gerry, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE I.

CHAPTER I.—An Act concerning certain streets in Georgetown.(a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of the ground to open a new street in the town of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, beginning at the termination of three hundred and seventy-eight feet and six inches from the intersection of Washington and Bridge streets, on the east side of Washington street and south of Bridge street, and thence running parallel with Bridge street to Rock creek, of the width of sixty feet, to be called Needwood street.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Greene street, in the said town, be opened and extended to Causeway street, in lines parallel with Washington street; and that Montgomery street, in the said town, be opened and extended from Bridge street to Needwood street, in lines parallel with Washington street.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the streets called and known by the names of Lovely and Wapping, and all that part of Montgomery street, south from Bridge street to Causeway street, not embraced in lines parallel with Washington street, lying between Washington street and Rock creek, in the said town, upon the opening and establishment of the said streets, between Washington street and Rock creek, be, and the same are hereby vacated; and the title to the ground over which the same now runs, shall be vested in fee simple in the proprietors of the ground over which the streets to be opened and extended by virtue of this act, shall run, in proportion to the quantity owned by each proprietor. APPROVED, June 14, 1813.

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