Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-04-03

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PRINTING.
The Journal Of the Senate in royal
octave form, the size of the pages to be
the same as those of the text of the late
edition Of the laws OF the United States,
THAT of Bioren, Duane l. Weightman) !;
on a good snail plea type, single loaded,
on good royal printing paper, using three
columns on a page where the yeas and
nays occur: Per halfsheet OF eight pages,
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|ly be compressed into the octave form,
as described for printing the reports.
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Heading each skin Of parchment for
both houses, on suitable type, with
these words =" fifteenth congress OF the
United States,
at the first session,
"Begun and hs!d in the city OF Wash
|inston, in the district Of Columbia, on
Monday the first day Of December, enc
thousand eight hundred and seventecu.
An act
1" Be it enacted by the Senate and
house Of Representatives Of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled, That"