Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-03-28

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these words fifteenth congress OF th'
United States,
| 6, At the first session,
"Begun and held in the city Of Wash
Ellington, in the district of Columbia. OF
Monday the FIRST day of December, ONT
b aousand eight hundred and seventeen
An act
Il "Be it enacted by the Senate am
house Of Representatives of the Unite
Estates Of America in congress assem-
|bled, That"