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shall revert in like manner, if the sum due with interest be not at such sale bidden and paid: Provided, That the benefit of this act shall not extend to any person or persons on account of any purchase of any tract or tracts of land made at any of the land offices, northwest of the river Ohio, prior to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and nine.

February 19, 1814.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “,” passed the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, be and the same is hereby continued in force for one year from and after the date of the passage of this act.

February 24, 1814.

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 receive into service of the United States such proportion of the volunteers authorized by the, and the , and accepted under the authority of said acts, as in his judgment the public service may require: Provided, That the volunteers so received shall engage to serve for five years or during the war, unless sooner discharged.

. And be it further enacted, That the volunteers which shall be taken into service under the authority of the preceeding section, shall be entitled to the same bounty, pay, rations, clothing, forage, and emoluments of every kind, and to the same benefits and allowances as the regular troops of the United States.

. And be it further enacted, That the officers of corps of volunteers which shall be taken into service, shall rank according to grade and the rates of their commissions or appointments with other officers of the army.

February 24, 1814.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to authorize the collectors of the customs to grant permission to ships or vessels of the United States, which, at the time when the masters thereof received notice of the act passed on the seventeenth day of December last, “,” were in a district other than that where the said ships or vessels were owned or belonged, to return to the district where the owner or owners of such ships or vessels reside, in ballast, or with the cargoes other than