PRIVATE ACT OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS or rm: UNITED STATES, Passed at the jirst session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of September, 1837, and ended on the sixteenth day of October, 1837. MARTIN VAN BUREN, President; RICHARD M. JOI>INs0N, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; JAMES K. Pour, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. CHAP. VI.—An Act for the relief of D. P. Madison. Oct. 14, 1837. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of Allowed to the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to Plgbllshgn {gi; cause to be executed, a grant and re-conveyance to Mrs. D. P. Madison, {gf',};,,`:;, cfs' her executors, administrators, and assigns, of the right to publish in the convemion, foreign countries, for her own benefit, the manuscript debates of the &°· Convention which formed the Constitution of this Government, as well as the nett avails of any such publication which may have been ordered by her: Provided, however, That she shall not be allowed to withdraw from the possession of the Government either of the copies of said debates which accompanied her conveyance. APPROVED, October 14, 1837. 3 1 2 (70l)
