Ralph J. Bunche Library to begin a collection of laws of the states, and $25 for the purchase of foreign gazettes and subscriptions to American newspapers that would be sent to American representatives overseas. In that same year, the Library also became, by law, the office of record to receive laws, public documents, and copyrights. During the War of 1812, the invading British burned the Capital, the White House, and other government buildings including that which housed the State Department and its library on August 24, 1814. While Dolley Madison famously saved the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington hanging in the White House,
Orient (1814 ship) Orient (1814 ship) Orient was launched in 1814 at Calcutta. She sailed to England and from then on was based there. She traded with India into the 1830s. She participated in a naval punitive expedition in 1819, and performed four voyages for the British East India Company. From the 1840s she cntinued to sail widely until she was condemned in 1865 and sold for breaking up. Shortly after her launch "Orient" sailed to England. She first appeared in "Lloyd's Register" in 1815 with W. Rutter, master, Js. Murry, owner, and trade London–Bengal. From 1814 the EIC lost its monopoly on