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marshal for the district of New Jersey, the sum of two hundred dollars, in addition to the fees and emoluments heretofore allowed them by law.

, February 25, 1808.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every free white male person in the Indiana territory, above the age of twenty-one years, having been a citizen of the United States, and resident in the said territory, one year next preceding an election of representatives, and who has a legal or equitable title to a tract of land of the quantity of fifty acres, or who may become the purchaser from the United States of a tract of land of the quantity of fifty acres, or who holds in his own right a town lot of the value of one hundred dollars, shall be entitled to vote for representatives to the general assembly of the said territory.

, February 27, 1808.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing in the shall be so construed as to prohibit the importation of the following articles, that is to say:

First. Wrappers and outside packages, in which goods, the importation of which is not prohibited, usually are and shall be wrapped or packed, at the time of their importation.

Second. Bags or sacks in which salt shall be imported.

Third. Glass bottles or phials in which drugs, medicines, or any other article, the importation of which is not prohibited, shall be imported.

Fourth. Printed books, maps and charts.

Fifth. Watches, tradesmen’s and artificers’ tools; mathematical, astronomical and surgical instruments; gilt buttons, locks and all other articles manufactured partly of brass, and partly of any other metal.

Sixth. Shalloons and woollen stuffs, muskets, bayonets, swords, cutlasses and pistols.

. And be it further enacted, That the articles of the following description shall be held and considered as being embraced by the description of articles, the importation of which is prohibited by the, that is to say:

All articles manufactured entirely of silk and wool, or of silk and flax, or of flax and wool; floor cloths; woollen cassimeres, carpets, carpeting and mats, whose invoice prices shall exceed five shillings sterling per square yard.

. And be it further enacted, That no articles imported on board any vessel of the United States, cleared out before the fourteenth day of December last, from any port within the United States, or the territories thereof, shall be subject to the prohibition enacted by the : Provided, that such vessels which may have cleared for any port beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall return to some port in the United States, or its territories, within twelve months: And provided, that such vessels as shall have cleared from any other port shall return as aforesaid within six months from the said fourteenth day of December.

, February 27, 1808.