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the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday of November next.

, July 6, 1812.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the army of the United States shall receive the same pay, forage, rations, clothing, and other emoluments, as the officers of the same grade and corps, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, are entitled to by the act, entitled “,” passed April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and eight; and to the aid-de-camp of a brigadier, to a brigade quartermaster, brigade inspector and adjutant, there shall be allowed forage for one horse only, or in lieu thereof ten dollars per month; and to the brigade majors, under the, there shall be allowed forage for one horse, or in lieu thereof ten dollars per month; and the pay of a quartermaster sergeant shall be nine dollars per month.

, July 6, 1812.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the shall be, and they are hereby extended to the several purchasers of the fractional sections, which were by the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, classed together for sale, according to the ninth section of an act, entitled “,” passed on the twentieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, notwithstanding the quantity of land contained in any one tract, composed of such fractional sections, so classed, together, and purchased by a single contract, shall exceed six hundred and forty acres.

. And be it further enacted, That the assignee or assignees of any original purchaser of land from the United States, the lands being purchased prior to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of the, and the last preceding section, in every case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public monies of the district within which the land may lie, that the assignment by which he or they so claim was bona fide made prior to the passing of the aforesaid act, that the whole lands claimed by virtue of such assignment does not exceed six hundred and forty acres, unless it comes within the provision of the preceding section, and that the lands or some one tract thereof is inhabited and cultivated by or for the use of the assignee or assignees.

. And be it further enacted, That in every case where any tract or tracts of land purchased prior to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, unless such tract shall come within the provision of the first section of this act, has since the first day of April last, reverted, or that may before the first day of August next, revert to the United States, for default of