persons shall be bailable unless for capital Rights seoffences where the proof shall be evident or cured to the the presumption great. All fines shall be mo- people. derate, and no cruel or unusual punishment shall be inflicted. No man shall be deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judg ment of his peers and the law of the land. If the public exigencies make it necessary for the common preservation to take the property of any person, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same. No ex post facto law or law im. pairing the obligation of contracts shall be made. No law shall be made which shall lay any person under restraint, burthen or disability, on account of his religious opinions, professions or mode of worship, in all which he shall be free to maintain his own, and not burthened for those of another. Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be encouraged and provided for from the public lands of the United States in the said territory, in such manner as Congress may deem expedient. Education. assembly. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That Limitation of the general assembly shall never interfere with the powers of the primary disposal of the soil by the United the general States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulation Congress may find necessary to make for securing the title in the bona fide purchasers: No tax shall ever be imposed on lands the property of the United States. The lands of non-resident proprietors shall 2 F and Missouri, never be taxed higher than those of residents. Mississippi The Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and the &c. to be free. navigable waters flowing into them, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free to the people of the said territory and to the citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty or impost therefor. Laws to con &c. This act not to vacate Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That the tinue in force, laws and regulations in force in the territory of Louisiana, at the commencement of this act, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, shall continue in force until altered, modified or repealed by the general assembly. And it is hereby declared that this act shall not be construed to vacate the commission of any commissions. officer in the said territory, acting under the authority of the United States, but that every such commission shall be and continue in full force as if this act had not been made. And so much of an act, entitled "An act further providing for the government of the territory of Louisiana," approved on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, and so much of an act, entitled "An act for erecting Louisiana into two territories and providing for the temporary government thereof," approved the twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, as is repug nant to this act, shall from and after the first Monday in December next be repealed. On which first Monday in December next this act of December, shall commence and have full force: Provided, so much of it as requires the Governor of said territory to perform certain duties previous to Repugnant provisions repealed. This act to commence 1st Monday 1812. Proviso. the Treasury to pay him BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper officers of the Treasury Department be, Officers and they are hereby authorised and required to pay to William Garrard the additional sum $1500. of one thousand five hundred dollars, in consideration of his services as a land commissioner in the territory of Orleans; which shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro-tempore. June 10, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. bargo not to be computed, &C CHAPTER XCVII. AN ACT to extend the time for exporting, with privilege of drawback, goods, wares and merchandise entitled thereto by law. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time during which the act entitled "An act Time of Em- laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States for a limited time," shall continue in force, shall not be computed as making part of the term of twelve calendar months, during which goods, wares or merchandise imported into the United States, must be re-exported in order to be en. titled to a drawback of the duties paid on the importation thereof. CHAPTER XCVIII. AN ACT supplemental to an act, entitled "An act for dividing the Indiana territory into two sepa rate governments." BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons in whose favor there now are or hereafter may be rendered, any final judgment or judgments, decree or decrees, in the general court or court of chancery of the territory aforesaid upon any suit or suits, pleas, process or proceedings which were pending in the said courts on the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and nine, to sue out of the office of the clerk of the general court or court of chancery aforesaid, without delay, any writ or writs of Execution to execution, upon the judgments or decrees issue as usuaforesaid, and to cause the said judgments or decrees to be fully executed by the same of ficers, and in the same manner as if the Indiana territory had remained undivided. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro-tempore. June 10, 1812. APPROVED, al. JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XCIX. AN ACT making further provision for settling the claims to land in the territory of Missouri. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame- certain lots rica in Congress assembled, That the rights, adjoining to titles and claims, to town or village lots, out certain. lots, common field lots and commons, in, ad- firmed. towns, con |