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the household of the President, to be laid out and expended for such articles of furniture as he shall direct.

, March 3, 1817.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every territory of the United States in which a temporary government has been, or hereafter shall be established, and which by virtue of the ordinance of Congress of the thirteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, or of any subsequent act of Congress, passed or to be passed, now hath or hereafter shall have the right to send a delegate to Congress, such delegate shall be elected every second year, for the same term of two years for which members of the house of representatives of the United States are elected; and in that house each of the said delegates shall have a seat with a right of debating, but not of voting.

. And be it further enacted, That, on the first Monday of August next, the citizens of the territory of Missouri, qualified according to the act, entitled “,” shall elect a delegate to Congress; and it shall be the duty of the general assembly of the said territory to make provision by law for the annual or biennial meetings of the said general assembly, as the interests of the territory may in their opinion require; and such annual or biennial meeting shall be on the first Monday of December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. and so much of any law, or laws, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

, March 3, 1817.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was continued in force for a limited time by an, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and no longer.

, March 3, 1817.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the post-roads hereafter named be discontinued:

In Pennsylvania.—From Wysoxby, Orville and Warren to Nanticoke.

From Silver Lake or Montrose to Binghampton.

From Williamsport to Jersey Shore.

In Virginia.—From Liberty to Fincastle.

In Indiana.—From Brookville, by Bath and Lewistown, to Salisbury.