Acts of Congress. aggregate amount in acres due to the said line by the laws aforesaid. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said agents to locate to and for the use of the said troops, between the rivers Sciota and Little Miami, such a number of acres of good land as shall, together with the number already located between the said two rivers, and the number already located on the southeasterly side of the river Ohio, be equal to the aggregate amount, so to be returned as aforesaid by the Secretary of the Department of War. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to finish the light-house on Portland Head, in the District of Maine. Be it enacted, &c., That there be appropriated and paid out of the moneys arising from the duties on imports and tonnage, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, for the purpose of finishing the light-house on Portland Head, in the District of Maine; and that the Secretary of the Treasury, under the directions of the President of the United States, be authorized to cause the said light-house to be finished and completed accordingly. Approved, August 10, 1790. An Act to alter the times for holding the Circuit courts of the United States in the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, and providing that the District court of Pennsylvania shall in future be held at the city of Philadelphia only. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said agents, as soon as may be after the locations, surveys, and allotments are made and completed, shall enter in regular order, in a book to be by them provided for that purpose, the bounds of each location and survey between the said two rivers, annexing the name of the officer, non-commissioned officer, or private originally entitled to each; which entries being certified by the said agents, or the majority of Be it enacted, &c., That the circuit courts of them, to be true entries, the book containing the United States in the districts of South Cathe same shall be filed in the office of the Se-rolina and Georgia shall for the future be held cretary of State. as follows, to wit: in the district of South CaSec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it rolina on the twenty-first day of October next, shall be lawful for the President of the United at Charleston, and in each succeeding year at States to cause letters patent to be made out in Columbia on the twelfth day of May, and in such words and form as he shall devise and di- Charleston on the twenty-fifth day of October; rect, granting to such person so originally en- in the district of Georgia, on the fifteenth day titled to bounty lands, to his use, and to the of October next, at Augusta, and in each sucuse of his heirs or assigns, or his or their legal ceeding year at Savannah, on the twenty-fifth representative or representatives, his, her, or day of April, and at Augusta on the fifteenth their heirs or assigns, the lands designated in day of October; except when any of those days the said entries. Provided always, That be-shall happen to be Sunday, in which case the fore the seal of the United States shall be affix-court shall be held on the Monday following. ed to such letters patent, the Secretary of the And all process that was returnable under the Department of War shall have indorsed there- former law at Charleston, on the first day of on that the grantee therein named was origi- October next, and at Augusta on the sevennally entitled to such bounty lands, and that teenth day of October, shall now be deemed he has examined the bounds thereof with the returnable respectively at Charleston on the book of entries filed in the office of the Secre- twenty-fifth day of October next, and at Autary of State, and finds the same truly inserted; gusta on the fifteenth day of October next; any and every such letters patent shall be counter-thing in the former law to the contrary notwithsigned by the Secretary of State, and a minute of the date thereof, and of the name of the Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so grantee, shall be entered of record in his office, much of the act entitled "An act to establish in a book to be specially provided for the pur-the judicial courts of the United States," as directs that the district court for the district of Pennsylvania shall be held at Yorktown in the said State, be repealed; and that in future the district court for Pennsylvania be held in the city of Philadelphia. pose. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, as soon as may be after the letters patent shall be so completed and entered of record, to transmit the same to the Executive of the State of Virginia, to be by them delivered to each grantee; or in case of his death, or that the right of the grantees shall have been legally transferred before such delivery, then to his legal representative or representatives, or to one of them. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That no fees shall be charged for such letters patent and record, to the grantees, their heirs or assigns, or to his or their legal representative or representatives. Approved, August 10, 1790. standing. Approved, August 11, 1790. An Act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Be it enacted, &c., That the consent of Congress be, and is hereby, declared to the operation of the acts of the several States, hereinafter mentioned, so far as the same relate to the levying a duty on the tonnage of ships and vessels, for the purposes therein mentioned, until the Acts of Congress. tenth day of January next, that is to say: an of three dollars and one-third of a dollar per act of the General Assembly of the State of month, from the first day of April, one thouRhode Island and Providence Plantations, sand seven hundred and eighty-six. That Jaat their session held in January, one thou- cob Newkerk, a disabled soldier of Colonel sand seven hundred and ninety, entitled "An John Harper's regiment of New York State act to incorporate certain persons, by the troops, be allowed a pension, at the rate of name of the River Machine company, in the three dollars per month, from the twenty-setown of Providence, and for other purposes cond day of October, one thousand seven huntherein mentioned;" and also an act of the Ge-dred and eighty. That David Poole, a disabled neral Assembly of the State of Maryland, at seaman lately in the service of the United their session in April, one thousand seven hun-States, be allowed a pension of five dollars per dred and eighty-three, entitled "An act ap- month, to commence on the fifth of March, one pointing wardens for the port of Baltimore thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. Town, in Baltimore county;" as also another Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Caact of the General Assembly of the same State, leb Brewster, lately a lieutenant, who was passed at their session in November, one thou-wounded and disabled in the service of the sand seven hundred and eighty-eight, entitled United States, be allowed three hundred and "A supplement to the act entitled An act for forty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents, the appointing wardens for the port of Baltimore amount of his necessary expenses for sustenance county; and also an act of the State of and medical assistance, while dangerously ill Georgia, "for levying and appropriating a duty of his wounds, including the interest to the first on tonnage for the purpose of clearing the river of July,one thousand seven hundred and ninety. Savannah, and removing the wrecks and other And that the said Brewster be allowed a penobstructions therein." sion equal to his half-pay as a lieutenant from the third of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, he first having returned his commutation of half-pay. Approved, August 11, 1790. An Act for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen lately in the service of the United States, and of Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Nathe service of the United States, be allowed a thaniel Gove, a disabled lieutenant, lately in certain other persons. pension, at the rate of six dollars and twoBe it enacted, &c., That Stephen Califfe, Je-thirds of a dollar per month, from the twenremiah Ryan, Joseph McGibbon, Samuel Gar-tieth of May, one thousand seven hundred and retson, Ephraim McCoy, Christian Khun, Da- seventy-eight, to the first day of July, one thouvid Steele, Joseph Shuttlief, and Daniel Culver, sand seven hundred and eighty-six, and that disabled soldiers lately in the service of the he be allowed at the rate of thirteen dollars and United States be allowed pensions at the rate one-third of a dollar per month, from the said of five dollars per month from the time their first day of July, one thousand seven hundred pay in the army respectively ceased. That and eighty-six. Christian Wolfe, a disabled soldier, be allowed Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the a pension at the rate of four dollars per month commissioner of army accounts be authorized from the date of his discharge. That Edward and directed to settle the pay and depreciation Scott, a disabled soldier, be allowed a pension of pay of John Stevens, a hostage in the late at the rate of three dollars per month from the war at the capitulation of the Cedars, as a capdate of his discharge. That David Weaver and tain in the line of the army, and that he issue George Schell, disabled soldiers, be each allow-certificates accordingly. That he also issue a ed a pension, at the rate of two dollars per certificate to Charles Markley, lately a captain month, from the date of their respective dis-in Armand's corps, for the commutation of his charges. That Seth Boardman, a disabled soldier, be allowed a pension, at the rate of three dollars and one-third of a dollar per month, from the seventeenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six. That Severinus Koch, a disabled captain of Colonel Jacob Klock's regiment of New York militia, be allowed a pension, at the rate of five dollars per month, from the twentieth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven. That John Younglove, a disabled major of Colonel Lewis Van Woort's regiment of New York militia, be allowed a pension, at the rate of six dollars per month, from the thirtieth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one. That William White, a disabled private of Colonel Williams's regiment of New York militia, be allowed a pension, at the rate half-pay. That he also settle the accounts of James Derry and Benjamin Hardison, who were made prisoners in Canada, in May, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and forcibly detained in captivity among the Indians, and that he issue certificates for the balance of their pay respectively, to the third of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the several pensions mentioned in this act, due or to become due from the fifth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall be paid according to such laws as have been made, or shall be made relative to invalid pensioners; and that the arrears of the said pensions, due before the said fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, Acts of Congress. An Act for the relief of the persons therein mentioned or described. thereto, or from the time to which the same had been paid, as the case may be, which shall be ascertained and certified by the said Secretary for the Department of War, and which annuity shall be liquidated to the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eightynine, from which day the United States have assumed the payment of the pensions certified by the several States. And in case of the death of any person so entitled, the certificate shall pass to his heirs or legal representative or representatives. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the widow or orphan of each officer, non commissioned officer, or soldier who was killed or died whilst in the service of the United States, and Be it enacted, &c., That the Register of the who is now placed on the books in the office of Treasury shall, and is hereby required to grant the said Secretary, as entitled to a pension, by unto Sarah, the widow of the late Major-gene- virtue of any act of the said late Congress, or any ral Earl of Stirling, who died in the service of law of this Congress, and for whom provision the United States, a certificate to entitle her to has not been made by any State, and to whom a sum equal to an annuity for seven years' half- any arrears of such pension are due, and which pay of a major-general, to commence as from have arisen prior to the said fourth day of the fourteenth day of January, one thousand March, one thousand seven hundred and eightyseven hundred and eighty-three, in conformity nine, shall receive a certificate therefor in like to the act of the late Congress, passed on the manner, and on the same principles, as certifitwenty-fourth day of August, one thousand cates are by this act directed to be given to seven hundred and eighty; the amount for which officers, non-commissioned officers, and solthe said certificate is to be granted, to be ascer-diers, who were wounded or disabled as aforetained by the Secretary of the Treasury, and on similar principles as other debts of the United States are liquidated and certified. said. Approved, August 11, 1790. tioned. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said register shall grant unto Frances Eleanor An Act making certain appropriations therein menLaurens, the orphan daughter of the late lieutenant-colonel John Laurens, who was killed whilst in the service of the United States, a Be it enacted, &c., That there be appropricertificate to entitle her to a sum equal to an ated to the purposes hereinafter mentioned, to annuity for seven years' half-pay of a lieute- be paid out of the moneys arising from the dunant-colonel, to commence as from the twenty-ties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported, fifth day of August, one thousand seven hun- and on the tonnage of ships or vessels, the foldred and eighty-two, according to the act of lowing sums, to wit: the sum of thirty-eight the late Congress of the twenty-fourth day of thousand eight hundred and ninety-two dollars August, one thousand seven hundred and and seventy-five cents, towards discharging eighty; the amount for which the said certifi- certain debts contracted by Abraham Skinner, cate is to be granted, to be ascertained by the late commissary of prisoners, on account of the Secretary of the Treasury in manner aforesaid. subsistence of the officers of the late army And whereas no provision hath heretofore while in captivity; the sum of forty thousand been made for discharging the arrears of pen-dollars, towards discharging certain debts consions due to officers, non-commissioned officers, tracted by Colonel Timothy Pickering, late and soldiers who were wounded and disabled quartermaster-general, and which sum was inwhilst in the service of the United States: cluded in the amount of a warrant drawn in therefore, his favor by the late superintendent of the Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That each of finances of the United States, and which warthe officers, non-commissioned officers, and sol-rant was not discharged; the sum of one hundiers who are so wounded and disabled, and who are now placed on the books in the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, as a pensioner, or to be so placed in conformity to any law of this Congress, shall receive from the Register of the Treasury, who is hereby required to grant the same, a certificate, to be liquidated and settled in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, for a sum equal to the pension annually due to him, to commence from the time he became entitled dred and four thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents, for the several purposes specified in an estimate accompanying the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the fifth instant, including one thousand dollars for defraying the expenses of certain establishments for the security of navigation of the like nature with those mentioned in the act entitled "An act for the establish ment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers;" but not particularly Acts of Congress. its market price, if not exceeding the par or true value thereof. specified therein; the sum of one hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-two cents, for reimbursing the Secretary at War an advance Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the by him made on account of George Morgan purchases to be made of the said debt shall be White Eyes, over and above the sum hereto made under the direction of the President of fore appropriated on account of the said George the Senate, the Chief Justice, the Secretary of Morgan White Eyes; the sum of six hundred State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the and thirty-two dollars and eighty cents, for the Attorney General for the time being; and who, services and expenses of Isaac Guion, employ- or any three of whom, with the approbation of ed by direction of the President of the United the President of the United States, shall cause States, in relation to the resolution of Congress the said purchases to be made in such manner of the twenty-sixth of August last; the sum of and under such regulations as shall appear to forty-one dollars and forty-seven cents, for re- them best calculated to fulfil the intent of this imbursing the Treasurer of the United States act. Provided, That the same be made openly, the costs by him paid on a protested bill; the and with due regard to the equal benefit of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, for the several States. And provided further, That to salary of an interpreter of the French language, avoid all risk or failure, or delay in the payemployed in the Department of State; the sum ment of interest stipulated to be paid for and of three hundred and twenty-six dollars and during the year one thousand seven hundred six cents, for sundry expenditures by Richard and ninety-one, by the act entitled "An act Phillips, on account of the household of the late making provision for the debt of the United President of Congress, and for certain unsatis-States," such reservations shall be made of the fied claims against the same; the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars, towards compensating the late loan officer of Pennsylvania for his services in relation to the re-exchange of certificates granted by the State of Pennsylvania, in lieu of certificates of the United States; which several sums so included in the said sum of one hundred and four thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents, are hereby authorized and granted; and the further sum of fifty thousand dollars, towards discharging such demands on the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, and which are of a nature according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie. Approved, August 12, 1790. said surplus as may be necessary to make good the said payments, as they shall respectively become due, in case of deficiency in the amount of the receipts into the Treasury during the said year, on account of the duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported, and the tonnage of ships or vessels, after the last day of December next. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That accounts of the application of the said moneys shall be rendered for settlement as other public accounts, accompanied with returns of the amount of the said debt purchased therewith, at the end of every quarter of a year, to be computed from the time of commencing the purchases aforesaid; and that a full and exact report of the proceedings of the said five persons, or any three of them, including a statement of the disbursements and purchases made under their direction, specifying the times thereof, the prices at which, and the parties from whom An Act making provision for the reduction of the the same may be made, shall be laid before public debt. It being desirable by all just and proper means to effect a reduction of the amount of the public debt, and as the application of such surplus of the revenue as may remain after satisfying the purposes for which appropriations shall have been made by law, will not only contribute to that desirable end, but will be beneficial to the creditors of the United States, by raising the price of their stock, and be productive of considerable saving to the United States. Congress, within the first fourteen days of each session which may ensue the present, during the execution of their said trust. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be borrowed, on behalf of the United States, a sum or sums not exceeding in the whole two millions of dollars, at an interest not exceeding five per cent., and that the sum or sums so borrowed be also applied to the purchase of the said debt of the United States, under the like direction, in the like manner, and subject to the like regulations Be it enacted, &c., That all such surplus of and restrictions with the surplus aforesaid. Prothe product of the duties on goods, wares, and vided, That out of the interest arising on the merchandise imported, and on the tonnage of debt to be purchased in manner aforesaid, there ships or vessels to the last day of December shall be appropriated and applied a sum not next, inclusively, as shall remain after satisfy-exceeding the rate of eight per centum per aning the several purposes for which appropriations shall have been made by law to the end of the present session, shall be applied to the purchase of the debt of the United States, at num on account both of principal and interest towards the repayment of the two millions of dollars so to be borrowed. Approved, August 12, 1790. Acts of Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in America in Congress assembled, That all treaties made, or which shall be made and promulgated under the authority of the United States shall, from time to time, be published and annexed to their code of laws by the Secretary of State. Approved, June 14, 1790. Resolved, &c., That all surveys of lands in the Western Territory, made under the direc tion of the late geographer, Thomas Hutchins, agreeable to contracts for part of the said lands made with the late Board of Treasury, and perfected by the Secretary of the Treasury, so as to complete the said contracts; and that the said Secretary be, and is hereby, authorized to direct the making and completing any other surveys that remain to be made, so as to comply on the part of the United States with the several contracts aforesaid, in conformity to the terms thereof. Approved, August 12, 1790. ACTS OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FIRST CONGRESS. An Act supplementary to the act entitled "An act | making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States." Whereas no express provision has been made for extending the act, entitled "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," to the collection of the duties imposed by the said "Act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States," doubts concerning the same may arise: therefore, Be it enacted, &c., That the act, entitled "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," doth and shall extend to, and be in force for the collection of the duties specified and laid in and by the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States," as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, provision, clause, matter, or thing therein contained, had been inserted in and reenacted by the act last aforesaid. FRED. A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of GEORGE WASHINGTON, An Act to provide for the unlading of ships or vessels, in cases of obstruction by ice. Whereas it sometimes happens that ships or vessels are obstructed by ice in their passage to the ports of their destination, and it is necessary that provision should be made for unlading such ships or vessels: Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases where a ship or vessel shall be prevented by ice from getting to the port at which her cargo is intended to be delivered, it shall be lawful for the collector of the district, in which such ship or vessel may be so obstructed, to receive the report and entry of any such ship or vessel,and with the consent of the naval officer (where there is one) to grant a permit or permits for unlading or landing the goods, wares, or merchandise imported in such ship or vessel at any place within his district, which shall appear to him to be most convenient and proper. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the report and entry of such ship or vessel, and of her cargo, or any part thereof, and all persons concerned therein, shall be under and subject to the same rules, regulations, restrictions, penalties, and provisions, as if the said ship or vessel had arrived at the port of her destination, and had then proceeded to the delivery of her cargo. Approved, January 7, 1791. An Act to continue an act, entitled "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," so far as the same respects the States of Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Be it enacted, &c., That the act, passed the last session of Congress, entitled "An act, declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," shall be continued, and is hereby declared to be in full force, so far as the same respects the States of Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for the further term of one year, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Congress, and no longer. Approved, January 10, 1791. An Act declaring the consent of Congress, that a |