Prefident of the United States) and as many workmen, as the Secretary for the department of War fhall, from time to time, deem neceffary, so that the whole number, at all the armouries, fhall not exceed one hundred. And the faid fuperintendants shall each receive, as a compenfation, seventy dollars per month, and the said mafter-armourers each, fifty dollars per month. military Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there Superinhall be employed an officer, whofe duty it tendant of fhall be (under the direction of the depart- ftores. ment of war) to fuperintend the receiving, fafe-keeping and diftribution of the militaryftores of the United States, and to call to account all perfons to whom the fame may be entrusted; he fhall receive for his compenfa- His comtion, at the rate of one hundred and twenty- penfation, five dollars per month, and shall be appointed and by by the Prefident of the United States. whom ap pointed. Appropri carrying Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That a fum not exceeding fifty-nine thousand dollars ation for be appropriated for the erecting and repairing this inof the arfenals and magazines aforefaid, and a to effect. fum not exceeding twenty-two thousand eight hundred and fixty-five dollars, for defraying the expense of the national armouries, for one year; and the further fum of three hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be applied, under the direction of the Prefident of the United States, in the purchase of arms, ammunition, and military ftores; which faid feveral fums fhall be paid out of the duties on imports and tonnage, to the end of the prefent year. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That an Annual ac annual account of the expenfes of the national count of exarmouries be laid before the legislature of the mouries to penfe of ar be laid be- United States, together with an account of the arms made and repaired therein. fore the legiflature. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, April the fecond, 1794: An Act for the Relief of Stephen Paranque. (PRIVATE.) CHAPTER XVI. An Act transferring, for a limited Time, the Jurifdiction of Suits and Offences from the Dif trict to the Circuit Court of New-Hampshire, and affigning certain Duties in Refpect to Invalid Penfioners, to the Attorney of the fais District. An Act to authorize the Prefident of the United States, in certain Cafes, to alter the Place for holding a Seffion of Congress. BR E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That whenever the Congress fhall be about to convene, and, from the prevalence of contagious fickness, or ! rized to al the existence of other circumftances, it would, Prefident FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, a fellion of CHAPTER XVIII. An Act to provide for placing Buoys on certain Sec. 1. BE E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That the Secretary of the Treafury be authorized Secretary and directed to caufe to be placed buoys to place of treasury on the rocks called Black Ledge, or South- buoys off weft Ledge, Gofhen Reef, Bartlet's Reef, and harbours. Race Rock, off the harbour of New-London, in the state of Connecticut, at an expenfe, not to exceed the fum of twelve hundred dollars ; and to caufe to be erected a beacon, and certain to be placed two buoys in the harbour of Portímouth, in the state of New-Hampshire, at an expenfe, not to exceed the fum of three hundred dollars: And likewife, to caufe to be placed in Providence river, in the ftate of Rhode Island, and in Savannah river, in the ftate of Georgia, and at the mouth of the fame, buoys, not exceeding ten in number, for each river, and at an expenfe, not to exceed the fum of five hundred dollars, for each; the fame to be placed in fuch parts of the faid rivers, as he may judge moft advantageous for the navigation thereof, refpectively. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated and paid out of the monies arifing from the duties on imports and tonnage, the fum of two thoufand five hundred dollars for the purpose aforefaid. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, CHAPTER XIX. An Act for the Relief of Leffert Lefferts and others. (PRIVATE.) An Act to authorize Ephraim Kimberly to locate the Land-Warrant iffued to him for Services in the late American Army. B to locate land-war rant. ftrictions. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That permif- Ephraim fion be, and the fame is hereby granted to Kimberly Ephraim Kimberly, now refident on the weft permitted bank of the Ohio, near Indian Short-creek, certain within the territory north-weft of the Ohio, to locate the land-warrant iffued to the faid Kimberly, for three hundred acres of land, for his fervices in the late American army, fo as to include the land where he now refides, or as convenient as may be, thereto : Provided, he Under doth not interfere with any existing claim, lo- what recation or furvey: And upon the faid Kimberly's procuring the faid land to be furveyed, in fuch way and manner, as fhall be pointed out and directed by the Prefident of the United States, and returning his faid warrant into the Treafury of the United States, the President of the United States fhall be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to iffue letterspatent, in the name, and under the feal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to the faid Ephraim Kimberly, the three hundred acres of land, that fhall be fo located and furveyed. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, |