be discharged from actual service and laid up in ordinary, such of the frigates and public armed vessels, as in his judgment a due regard to the public security and interest will permit.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the first section of an act, entitled "An act to authorise the employment of an additional naval force," passed at the last session of Congress, as requires the public armed vessels to be stationed at such ports and places on the sea coast, or cruise on the sea coast of the United States and territories thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANDREW GREGG,

President of the Senate pro tempore:

June 28, 1809.

APPBOVED,

JAMES MADISON.

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ACTS PASsed firsT SESSION ELEVENTH CONGRESS.

AN act respecting the ships or vessels owned by
citizens or subjects of foreign nations with
which commercial intercourse is permitted,
An act making further appropriations to complete
the fortifications commenced for the security of
the ports and harbors of the United States, and
to erect such fortifications as may be necessary
for the protection of the northern and western
frontiers of the United States,

An act authorising the appointment of an agent

for the land office at Kaskaskia, and allowing

compensation to the commissioners and clerk,

An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An

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act making appropriations for carrying into ef

fect a treaty between the United States and the

Chickasaw tribe of Indians," and to establish a

land office in the Mississippi territory,

An act to continue in force an act declaring the as-

sent of Congress to a certain act of the state of

South Carolina, passed the twenty first of De.

cember, one thousand eight hundred and four,

An act authorising the discharge of John Heard

from his imprisonment,

An act to fix the time for the next meeting of Con-

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An act for the remission of certain penalties and

forfeitures, and for other purposes,

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An act to amend and continue in force certain

parts of the act, entitled "An act to interdict

the commercial intercourse between the United

States and Great Britain and France, and their

dependencies, and for other purposes,"

An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An

act making further provision for the support of

public credit, and for the redemption of the pub.

lic debt,

An act making an appropriation to finish and fur-

nish the Senate chamber, and for other purpo-

ses,

An act to suspend for a limited time the recruit-
ing service,

An act authorising the discharge of Joseph Wil-
kinson, jun. from his imprisonment,

An act freeing from postage all letters and packets

from Thomas Jefferson,

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An act making appropriations for defraying the

expense of stationery, printing and all other con-

tingent expenses of the Senate and House of

Representatives, during the present session of

Congress,

An act authorising the accounting officers of the

treasury department to give credit to certain

collectors of the customs, for allowances paid

by them to the owners and crews of fishing ves

sels,

An act concerning the naval establishment,

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