OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. XI. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. WASHINGTON CITY: PRINTED AND SOLD BY R. C. WEIGHTMAN ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS. CHAPTER I. AN ACT to authorise the transportation of certain documents free of postage. Documents age. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Repre- may be sent sentatives be, and they are hereby respectively free of postauthorised to transmit, free of postage, the a several messages of the President of the United States of the fifth and seventh days of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and the documents accompanying the same, printed by order of the Senate and by order of the House of Representatives, to any post office within the United States and territories thereof, to which they may direct, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President of the United States, and November 18, 1811. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON, |