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(ACT of August 7th, 1789.)

porals, forty-two drums and fifes, and seven hundred and fifty privates.

SEC. 11. The president of the United States shall cause the provisions of this act to be carried into effect on the first day of April next, or as soon thereafter as circumstances will admit, and cause any supernumerary officers to be discharged from the service of the United States; and to all persons so discharged, there shall be paid three months' additional pay.

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An act to provide for the government of the territory northwest of the river

Ohio.

1. Whereas in order that the ordinance of the United States in congress assembled, for the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio may continue to have full effect, it is requisite that certain provisions should be made, so as to adapt the same to the present constitution of the United States; [See Ap pendix 11.1

SEC. 1. In all cases in which by the said ordinance, any information is to be given, or communication made by the governor of the said territory to the United States in congress assembled, or to any of their officers, it shall be the duty of the said governor to give such information and to make such communication to the president of the United States; and the president shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint all officers which by the said ordinance were to have been appointed by the United States in congress assembled, and all officers so appointed, shall be commissioned by him; and in all cases where the United States in congress assembled, might, by the said ordinance, revoke any commission or remove from any office, the president is hereby declared to have the same powers of revocation and removal.

2. SEC. 11. In case of the death, removal, resignation, or necessary absence of the governor of the said territory, the secretary thereof shall be, and he is hereby authorised and required to execute all the powers, and perform all the duties of the governor,

(ACT of March 3d, 1817.)

during the vacancy, occasioned by the removal, resignation or necessary absence of the said governor.

ACT of January 14, 1805. 3 Bioren, 632.

3. SEC. I. From and after the thirtieth day of June next, all that part of the Indiana territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan, until it shall intersect lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate territory, and be called Michigan.

4. SEC. 11. There shall be established within the said territory, a government in all respects similar to that provided by the ordinance of congress, passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio; and by an act passed on the seventh day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio," and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to, and enjoy, all and singular the rights, privileges, and advantages, granted and secured to the people of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, by the said ordinance. [See Appendix, 11.]

5. SEC. III. The officers for the said territory, who, by virtue of this act, shall be appointed by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall, respectively, exercise the same powers, perform the same duties, and receive for their services the same compensations, as, by the ordinance aforesaid, and the laws of the United States have been provided and established for similar officers in the Indiana territory; and the duties and emoluments of superintendent of Indian affairs shall be united with those of governor.

SEC. IV. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed so as in any manner to affect the government now in force in the Indiana territory, further than to prohibit the exercise thereof within the said territory of Michigan, from and after the aforesaid thirtieth day of June next.

6. SEC. vt. Detroit shall be the seat of government of the said territory, until congress shall otherwise direct.

[See ACT of April 18, 1818, SEC. VII. ante page 343. ILLINOIS, 6.]

ACT of March 3, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 228.

An act further to regulate the territories of the United States, and their electing delegates to congress.

SEC. 1. In every territory of the United States in which a tem

(ACT of April 24th, 1820.)

porary government has been, or hereafter shall be established, and which by virtue of the ordinance of congress of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, or of any subsequent act of congress, passed or to be passed, now hath or hereafter shall have the right to send a delegate to congress, such delegate shall be elected every second year, for the same term of two years for which members of the house of representatives of the United States are elected; and in that house each of the said delegates shall have a seat with a right of debating but not of voting.

ACT of February 16, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 14.

7. SEC. 1. The citizens of the Michigan territory are hereby authorized to elect one delegate to the congress of the United States, who shall possess the qualifications, and exercise the privileges, heretofore required of, and granted to, the delegates from the several territories of the United States.

8. SEc. it. Every free white male citizen of said territory, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided therein one year next preceding an election, and who shall have paid a county or territorial tax, shall be entitled to vote at such election for a delegate to the congress of the United States, in such manner, and at such times and places, as shall be prescribed by the governor and judges of said territory.

SEC. It. The person, duly qualified according to law, who shall receive the greatest number of votes at such election, shall be furnished, by the governor of said territory, with a certificate, under his official seal, setting forth that he is duly elected, by the qualified electors, the delegate from said territory to the congress of the United States, for the term of two years from the date of said certificate, which shall entitle the person to whom the same shall be given to take his seat in the house of representatives in that capacity.

ACT of April 24, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 53.

9. SEC. 1. The laws of the Michigan territory in force, shall be printed, under the direction of the secretary of state, and a competent number of copies thereof shall be distributed among the people of said territory, as the governor and judges thereof shall direct: Provided, That the expense of such printing shall not exceed twelve hundred and fifty dollars.

SEC. 11. Fifteen sets of the laws of the United States, which were compiled by order of congress, and published by Bioren and Duane, in one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall be transmitted by the secretary of state, to said territory, to be distributed therein, as the local government thereof may direct.

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ACT of May 8, 1792. 2 Bioren, 293.

An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States.

1. SEC. 1. Each and every free able bodied white male citizen of the respective states, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years, (except as is hereinafter excepted,) shall, severally and respectively, be enrolled in the militia by the captain or commanding officer of the company, within whose bounds such citizen shall reside, and that within twelve months after the passing of this act. And it shall, at all times hereafter, be the duty of every such captain or commanding officer of a company, to enrol every such citizen, as aforesaid, and also those who shall, from time to time, arrive at the age of eighteen years, or, being of the age of eighteen years and under the age of forty-five years, (except as before excepted,) shall come to reside within his bounds; and shall, without delay, notify such citizen of the said enrolment, by a proper noncommissioned officer of the company, by whom such notice may be proved. That every citizen so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket, or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein to contain not less than twentyfour cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball: or, with a good rifle, knapsack, shot pouch, and powder horn, twenty balls, suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder; and shall appear, so armed, accoutred, and provided, when called out to exercise, or into service; except, that when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack. Infra, 25.] The commissioned officers shall, severally, be armed with a sword or hanger, and espontoon; and that, from and after five years from the passing of this act, all muskets for arming the militia, as herein required, shall be of bores sufficient for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound. And every citizen so enrolled, and providing himself with the arms, ammunition, and accoutrements, required as aforesaid, shall hold the same exempted from all suits, distresses, executions, or sales, for debt, or for the payment of taxes.

(ACT of May 8th, 1792.)

2. SEC. 11. The vice president of the United States; the officers, judicial and executive, of the government of the United States; the members of both houses of congress, and their respective officers; all customhouse officers, with their clerks, all post officers, and stage drivers, who are employed in the care and conveyance of the mail of the post office of the United States; all ferrymen employed at any ferry on the post road; all inspectors of exports; all pilots; all mariners, actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States; and all persons who now are, or may hereafter be, exempted by the laws of the respective states, shall be, and are hereby exempted from militia duty, notwithstanding their being above the age of eighteen, and under the age of forty-five years. [See Post office.]

3. SEC. 11. Within one year after the passing of this act, the militia of the respective states shall be arranged into divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies; as the legislature of each state shall direct; and each division, brigade, and regiment, shall be numbered at the formation thereof; and a record made of such numbers in the adjutant general's office in the state; and when in the field, or in service in the state, each division, brigade and regiment shall, respectively, take rank according to their numbers, reckoning the first or lowest number highest in rank. That, if the same be convenient, each brigade shall consist of four regiments; each regiment of two battalions; each battalion of five companies; each company of sixty-four privates. That the said militia shall be officered by the respective states, as follows: To each division, one major general and two aids de camp, with the rank of major; to each brigade, one brigadier general, with one brigade inspector, to serve also as brigade major, with the rank of a major; to each regiment, one lieutenant colonel commandant; and to each battalion one major; to each company one captain, one lieutenant, one ensign, four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, and one fifer or bugler. That there shall be a regimental staff, to consist of one adjutant and one quarter master, to rank as lieutenants; one paymaster; one surgeon, and one surgeon's mate; one sergeant major; one drum major, and one fife major. [Infra, 26, 28, 29.]

4. SEC. IV. Out of the militia enrolled, as is herein directed, there shall be formed, for each battalion, at least one company of grenadiers, light infantry, or riflemen, and that, to each division, there shall be at least one company of artillery, and one troop of horse: there shall be to each company of artillery, one captain, two lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, six gunners, six bombardiers, one drummer, and one fifer. The officers to be armed with a sword, or hanger, a fusee, bayonèt and belt, with a cartridge box, to contain twelve cartridges; and each private, or matross, shall furnish himself with all the equipments of a private in the infantry, until proper ordnance and field artillery is pro

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