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Public Law 10–XLIV
to authorize the transportation of certain documents by mail, free of postage.
Approved April 13, 1808
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the transportation of certain documents by mail, free of postage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the members of Congress,
President’s message, &c. &c. of March 22, 1808, may be transported by mail free of postage.
TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 46, 47, 48. 1808.the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby authorized to transmit free of postage, the message of the President of the United States, of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and the documents
By whom in that case to be sent.
accompanying the same, and the documents accompanying the message of the President of the United States, of the thirtieth of March, printed by order of the Senate and House of Representatives, to any post-office within the United States, and territories thereof, to which they may respectively direct; and it shall be a duty of the secretary of the Senate, and of the clerk of the House of Representatives, to send by the mail, the printed copies of the same message and documents, or any part thereof that may remain after Congress shall adjourn, and the same shall be conveyed free of postage as aforesaid, conformably to the directions of the members of each house of Congress respectively: any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, .