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Page 86 - An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law...
Page 244 - President, under the acts supplementary to the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States.
Page 237 - An Act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee...
Page 163 - In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Page 265 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives oj the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954".
Page 208 - Indiana territory, whenever satisfactory evidence shall be given to the governor thereof, that such is the wish of a majority of the freeholders, notwithstanding there may not be therein five thousand free male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years and upwards : Provided, that until there shall be five thousand free male inhabitants of twenty-one years and upwards...
Page 178 - An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States;" and the several acts supplementary thereto, and for other purposes, passed the 25th April, 1808.
Page 247 - Congress above mentioned and an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States and the several acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed.
Page 253 - And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: Provided, that the expiration of the act shall not prevent or defeat a prosecution and punishment of any offence against the law, during the time it shall be in force.
Page 242 - States, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than one hundred dollars, nor...