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ACT of February 2, 1813. 4 Bioren, 495.

An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for those purposes," and to increase the pay of volunteer and militia corps.

27. SEC. I. In every case in which a court martial shall have adjudged and determined a fine against any officer, noncommissioned officer, musician, or private, of the militia, for any of the causes specified in the act to which this act is a supplement, or in the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act to authorise a detachment from the militia of the United States," all such fines, so assessed, shall be certified to the comptroller of the treasury of the United States, in the same manner as the act to which this act is a supplement directed the same to be certified to the supervisor of the revenue.

ACT of April 18, 1814. 4 Bioren, 701.

28. SEC. 1. In addition to the officers of the militia provided for by the act, entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States," [Supra 3.] approved May the eighth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and by an act in addition to the said recited act, approved March the second, one thousand eight hundred and three, [Supra 24.] there shall be, to each division, one division inspector, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and one division quartermaster, with the rank of major; to each brigade, one aid de camp, with the rank of captain; and the quartermasters of brigade, heretofore provided for by law, shall have the rank of captain. And it shall be incumbent on the said officers to do and perform all the duties which, by law and military principles, are attached to their offices, respectively.

ACT of April 20, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 68.

An act concerning field officers of the militia.

29. SEC. 1. From and after the first day of May next, instead of one lieutenant colonel commandant to each regiment, and one major to each battalion of the militia, as is provided by the act, entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States," approved May the eighth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, there shall be one colonel, one lieutenant colonel and one major to each regiment of the militia, consisting of two battalions. Where there shall be only one battalion, it shall be commanded by a major: Provided, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to annul any commission in the militia which may be in force, as granted by authority of any state or territory, in pursuance of the act herein recited, and bearing date prior to the said first day of May next.

ACT of April 29, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 115.

An act concerning the annual sum appropriated for arming and equipping the militia. [See ARMS and ARSENALS, 16.]

SEC 1. The annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars, as appropriated for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the militia, either by purchase or manufacture, according to the act of the twenty-third of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, entitled" An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States, shall be paid, for each year, respectively, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 11. The sum appropriated to be paid as aforesaid, shall be applied for the purpose, and according to the intention specified in said act, without being liable at any time to be carried to the account of the surplus fund. And nothing in the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, entitled "An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the treasury, war, and navy departments," shall be construed to authorise the transferring of the sum annually appropriated as aforesaid, or any portion thereof, to any other branch of expenditure.

ACT of April 20, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 132.

30. SEC. I. The expenses incurred, or to be incurred by marching the militia of any state or territory of the United States to their places of rendezvous, in pursuance of a requisition of the president of the United States, or which shall have been, or may be, incurred in cases of calls made by the authority of any state or territory, which shall have been, or may be, approved by him, shall be adjusted, and paid in like manner as the expenses incurred after their arrival at such place of rendezvous, on the requisition of the president of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be considered as authorising any species of expenditure, previous to arriving at the place of rendezvous, which is not provided by existing laws to be paid for after their arrival at such place of rendezvous.

ACT of May 12, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 72.

An act to establish an uniform mode of discipline and field exercise for the militia of the United States.

31. SEC. 1. The system of discipline and field exercise which is and shall be ordered to be observed by the regular army of the United States, in the different corps of infantry, artillery, and riflemen, shall also be observed by the militia, in the exercises and discipline of the said corps, respectively, throughout the United States.

SEC, 11. So much of the act of congress, approved the eighth

(ACT of March 1st, 1817.)

day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, as approves and establishes the rules and discipline of the baron de Steuben, and requires them to be observed by the militia throughout the United States, is hereby repealed.

NOTES.

The court martial that imposes a fine upon a man not liable to militia duty, are equally trespassers with the officer who distrains for such duty. 3 Cranch, 331.

Authorised to form a state,
Boundaries,
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MISSISSIPPI.

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2 Representatives,

S Admitted into the union,

ACT of March 1, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 208.

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An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal footing with the original states.

1. SEC. 1. The inhabitants of the western part of the Mississippi territory be, and they hereby are, authorised to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state, when formed, shall be admitted into the union upon the same footing with the original states, in all respects whatever.

2. SEC. II. The said state shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning on the river Mississippi, at the point where the southern boundary line of the state of Tennessee strikes the same, thence east along the said boundary line of the Tennessee river, thence up the same to the mouth of Bear creek, thence by a direct line to the northwest corner of the county of Washington, thence due south to the Gulf of Mexico, thence westwardly, including all the islands within six leagues of the shore, to the most eastern junction of Pearl river, with Lake Borgne, thence up said river to the thirty-first degree of north latitude, thence west along the said degree of latitude to the Mississippi river, thence up the same to the beginning. SEC. 111. [Apportions the representatives at the convention among the counties.]

3. SEC. IV. The members of the convention, thus duly elected, are authorised to meet at the town of Washington, on the first Monday of July next; which convention, when met, shall first determine, by a majority of the whole number elected, whether it be or be not expedient, at that time, to form a constitution and

(ACT of March 1st, 1817.)

state government for the people within the said territory; and if it be determined to be expedient, the convention shall be, and hereby are, authorised to form a constitution and state government: Provided, That the same, when formed, shall be republican, and not repugnant to the principles of the ordinance of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, between the people and states of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, so far as the same has been extended to the said territory by the articles of agreement between the United States and the state of Georgia, or of the constitution of the United States: And provided also, That the said convention shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that the people inhabiting the said territory do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right or title to the waste or unappropriated lands lying within the said territory, and that the same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States; and moreover, that each and every tract of land sold by congress, shail be and remain exempt from any tax laid by the order, or under the authority, of the state, whether for state, county, township, parish, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years, from and after the respective days of the sales thereof, and that the lands belonging to citizens of the United States, residing without the said state, shall never be taxed higher than the lands belonging to persons residing therein; and that no taxes shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States, and that the river Mississippi, and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, or into the Gulf of Mexico, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said state, as to other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll, therefor, imposed by the said state.

4. SEC. v. Five per cent. of the nett proceeds of the lands lying within the said territory, and which shall be sold by congress from and after the first day of December next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for making public roads and canais; of which, three-fifths shall be applied to those objects within the said state, under the direction of the legislature thereof, and two-fifths to the making of a road or roads leading to the said state, under the direction of congress: Provided, That the application of such proceeds shall not be made until after payment is completed of the one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars due to the state of Georgia, in consideration of the cession to the United States, nor until the payment of all the stock which has been or shall be created by the act, entitled “An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory," shall be completed: And provided also, That the said five per cent. shall not be calculated on any part of such proceeds as shall be applied to the payment of the one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars due to the

(ACT of February 20th, 1819.)

state of Georgia, in consideration of the cession to the United States, or in payment of the stock which has or shall be created by the act, entitled "An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory."

5. SEC. VI. Until the next general census shall be taken, the said state shall be entitled to one representative in the house of representatives of the United States.

RESOLUTION of December 10, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 195.

6. Whereas in pursuance of an act of congress, passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union on an equal footing with the original states," the people of the said territory did, on the fifteenth day of August, in the present year, by a convention called for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and state government, which constitution and state government, so formed, is republican, and in conformity to the principles of the articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty

seven.

Resolved, &c. That the state of Mississippi shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever.

ACT of February 20, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 25.

An act providing for a grant of land for the seat of government in the state of Mississippi, and for the support of a seminary of learning within the said state.

7. SEC. 1. There shall be granted to the state of Mississippi, two entire sections of land, or fractional sections, or quarter sections, not exceeding the quantity contained in two entire sections, for a seat of government in the said state; which land shall be located in one entire tract, at such place as, under the authority of the said state, shall be designated for the seat of government therein, whenever the Indian title shall have been extinguished thereto, and before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding lands belonging to the United States.

SEC. II. In addition to the township of land granted for the support of Jefferson college, there shall be granted, in the said state, another township, or a quantity of land equal thereto, to be located in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, which shall be vested in the legislature of the said state, in trust, for the support of a seminary of learning therein; which lands shall be

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