Volume 3
Public Law 14–CXLIII
authorizing the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia, to prepare a code of jurisprudence for the said district.
Approved April 29, 1816
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia, to prepare a code of jurisprudence for the said district.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Code of laws to be digested and formed for District of Columbia.
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby authorized, to prepare and digest a code of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal, for the said district, to be hereafter submitted to the Congress of the United States, to be modified, altered or adopted, as to them shall seem proper.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand
Appropriation.
five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the said judges and the attorney aforesaid, as a compensation for their services in this respect, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .