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criminal, returnable to or having day in the said court during the session thereof, shall be returnable to and have day in the sessions of the said court as prescribed by this act.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if at any time the day prescribed by this act for commencing a session of the said court shall be a Sunday, the said court shall commence and hold its sessions on the following day.

Approved, March 24, 1814.


Statute II.


March 24, 1814.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XXXII.An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act laying duties on sales at auction of merchandise and of ships and vessels.”

Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 26.
Condition of bonds given by auctioneers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the condition of the bond required to be given by every auctioneer by the third section of the act, entitled “An act laying duties on sales at auction of merchandise and of ships and vessels,” passed the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, that the said auctioneer shall render the quarterly account, in writing, required of him by the said act, within twenty days after the first day of April, July, October and January, in each year, and that in the said quarterly return shall be stated the aggregate amount of goods, wares, merchandise and effects, liable to duty, sold by him on each day during the quarter, with the date of each sale, any thing in the said act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 24, 1814.


Statute II.


March 28, 1814.

Chap. XXXVI.An Act concerning Shawneetown.

A town to be laid off.
Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 35.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a tract of land not exceeding two sections, in the Illinois territory, adjoining Shawneetown, shall, under the directions of the Surveyor General, be laid off into town lots, streets, and avenues, and out-lots, in the same manner, under the same restrictions as are prescribed by the sixth section of the act, entitled “An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” approved the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten. And it shall be the duty of the Surveyor General, or the person by him authorized to carry this act into effect, to select the two sections so as to extend the said town to the high lands in the rear of the town as it is now laid out.

Lots to be offered for sale.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lots in said town shall be offered for sale at the same time, and on the same terms and conditions as are approved by the sixth section of the before recited act.

Approved, March 28, 1814.


Statute II.


March 28, 1814.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XXXVII.An Act for the better organizing, paying, and supplying the army of the United States.

Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Certain regiments composing a corps to be formed into battalions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first, second, and third regiments of artillery be formed into one corps, and organized into twelve battalions, as follows, to wit: six lieutenant colonels, six majors, twelve adjutants, twelve quarter-masters, and forty-eight companies.

Component parts of companies.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each company shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, one third lieutenant, five serjeant, one quarter-master’s serjeant, eight corporals, four musicians, and one hundred privates.

Particular duties assigned to one of the lieutenants of each companies.
Their extra pay.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President be authorized to assign one of the two second lieutenants hereby provided for each company, as a conductor of artillery for said company, whose duty it shall be