Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-03-29

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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 Il Weightman)
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HORNS on sheet per qulre
Heading each skin Of parchment Tor
both houses, on suitable type, with
these words L" fifteenth congress OF the
United States,
I" At the FIRST session,
.Begun and held in the city Of Wash
IIayten, in the district Of Columbia, on
Monday the FIRST day Of December, one
thousand eight hundred aud seventeen
" An act
/ "Be it enacted BY the Senate and
house of Representatives of,the United
States of America in congress assem-
Ibled, Thst"