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Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City ofWashington, in the District of Columbia , on Monday the first dayof December, 1823, and ended on the twenty-sixth day of May, 1824.
James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins , Vice President of theUnited States, and President of the Senate ; John Gaillard, Presi-dent of the Senate, pro tempore ; Henry Clay, Speaker of the Houseof Representatives .
STATUTE I.
Chap. II.— .in Jlct authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish, forthe use of the territory of Arkansas , an abstract if the military bounty lands,lying within the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty ofthe Secretary of the Treasury , to cause a complete abstract to be made out.and transmitted, for the use of the territory of Arkansas , to the governor ofsaid territory, of all the military bounty lands, which have been patented tothe soldiers of the late army, or to their legal representatives, lyingwithin the same, designating the tract, the name of the patentee, and thetime when issued.
Approved, January 1, 1824.
Chap. III.— An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “ An act for the reliefof persons imprisoned for (1011.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the oath prescribedby the act, entitled “ An act for the relief of persons imprisoned fordebt,” passed on the sixth day of January, Anno Domini one thousandeight hundred, may be, in all cases, administered to the person entitledto take the same, either by any judge of the Supreme Court of theUnited States , or by the district judge for the district within whichsuch person may be, or by any person or persons commissioned byany judge of the Supreme Court , or the said district judge, for thatpurpose.
Approved, January 7, 1824.
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Jan. 1, 1824.
Statute I.Jan. 7, 1824.
Act of June 6,1798, ch. 49.
Act of Jan. 6,1800, ch. 4.
Act of April22, 1824, ch. 39.
The oath pre-scribed by theact of Jan. 6,1800, to be ad-ministered by,&c.
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