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or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued and not yet satisfied, shall and may be located in the name of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships, and the frictional quarter townships reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants. And patents shall be granted for the land located under this act, in the same manner as is directed by former acts for granting military lands.

Approved, July 5, 1813.

Statute Ⅰ.

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July 13, 1813.

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Chap. Ⅷ.—An Act to reward the officers and crew of the sloop of war Hornet; and Lieutenant Elliott and his officers and companions.

Prize money to the officers and crew of the Hornet, and to Lieutenant Elliott, his officers and companions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to have distributed as prize money to Captain James Lawrence, late of the sloop of war Hornet, his officers and crew, or their widows and children, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the capture and destruction of the British brig Peacock; and to Lieutenant Elliott, and his officers and companions, or their widows and children, the sum of twelve thousand dollars, for the capture and destruction of the British brig Detroit; and that the sum of thirty-seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the purpose aforesaid, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, July 13, 1813.

Statute Ⅰ.

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July 13, 1813.

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Chap. Ⅸ.—An Act freeing from postage all letters and packets to and from the superintendent general of military supplies.

Privilege of franking to superintendent general of military supplies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all letters and packets to and from the superintendent general of military supplies, which relate to his official duties, shall be free from postage.

Approved, July 13, 1813.

Statute Ⅰ.

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July 13, 1813.

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[Obsolete.]

Chap. Ⅹ.—An Act to relinquish the claims of the United States to certain goods, wares, and merchandise, captured by private armed vessels.

Claim of the United States to British goods relinquished in cases where they have been condemned for the benefit of the captors, &c. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all right and claim which may have accrued to the United States, under an act, entitled “An act to prohibit the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes,” and an act, entitled^[1] “An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes,”^[2] and an act supplementary to the last mentioned act,^[3] to goods, wares, and merchandise, being the property of British subjects, and shipped from the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, since the declaration of war by the United States against that

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1. Act of March 1, 1809, chap. 24.
2. Act of May 1, 1810, chap. 39.
3. Act of March 2, 1811, chap. 29.