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CHAPTER I.
AN ACT to authorise the transportation of certain

documents free of postage.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of

America in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the Secretary of the

Documents Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Repre may be sentatives be, and they are hereby respectively free of postauthorised to transmit, free of postage, these several messages of the President of the United States of the fifth and seventh days of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and the documents ac. companying the same, printed by order of the Senate and by order of the House of Representatives, to any post office within the United States and territories thereof, to which they may direct, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. .

H. CLAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEO. CLINTON,
Vice President of the United States, and

President of the Senate.
November 18, 1811.
APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.