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Public Law 13–XIX
to establish the mode of laying off the territory of Indiana into districts, for the election of its members of the legislative council.
Approved March 4, 1814
Statutory text
An Act
to establish the mode of laying off the territory of Indiana into districts, for the election of its members of the legislative council.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the House of Representatives of the Indiana territory be, and it is hereby empowered, from time to time, to lay off the said territory into five districts for the election of the members of the legislative council of the territory aforesaid.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the districts established by
Those already laid off to remain as the authorized ones till others are established.
Governor Harrison, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, shall remain, as the lawfully authorized districts for the election of the members of the legislative council of said territory, until the House of Representatives thereof shall have exercised the power vested in that body by the first section of this act.
Approved, .