Bounty, in lieu of draw

back, on dried and pickled

endar months after payment made, or security given, shall be exported to any foreign port or place, except one per centum on the amount of the said duties, which shall be retained as an indemnification for whatever expense may have accrued concerning the same.

§4. That there shall be allowed and paid on dried and pickled fish, of the fisheries of the United States, and on other provisions salted within the said states, which, after the said last fish, and salt- day of December next, shall be exported therefrom to any foreign ed provisions, port or place, in lieu of a drawback of the duty on the salt which shall have been expended thereupon, according to the following rates, namely: Dried fish, per quintal, ten cents; pickled fish, and other salted provisions, per barrel, ten cents.

&c.

Duties and

proportion to

§ 5. That where duties by this act are imposed, or drawbacks drawbacks in allowed on any specific quantity of goods, wares, and merchanquantity. dise, the same shall be deemed to apply in proportion to any quantity, more or less, than such specific quantity. Duties accru- § 6. That all the duties which, by virtue of the act, entitled ing under the "An act for laying a duty on goods, wares, and merchandises, act of 4th July, 1789, between imported into the United States," accrued between the time specertain times, cified in the said act for the commencement of the said duties, remitted, &c. and the respective times when the collectors entered upon the Act of 1789, duties of their respective offices, in the several districts, be, and they are hereby, remitted and discharged, and that, in any case in which they may have been paid to the United States, restitution thereof shall be made.

ch. 2.

Duties impos7. That the several duties imposed by this act, shall coned by this act, tinue to be collected and paid, until the debts and purposes for to continue till which they are pledged and appropriated shall be fully discharg debts are paid, ed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed Proviso; as to to prevent the legislature of the United States from substituting substitution of other duties or taxes of equal value to any or all of the said duother duties, ties and imposts. [Approved, August 10, 1790.]

&c.

&c.

Vol. i.

p.

Act of 17th

364.

Lands origi.

nally assign ed, insufficient.

CHAP. 67. [40.] An act to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, on continental establishment, to obtain titles to certain lands, lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little Miami and Sciota.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act of congress of the sevenJuly, 1788, re-teenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, pealed. relative to certain locations and surveys made by, or on account of, the Virginia troops, on continental establishment, upon lands between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, northwest of the Ohio, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. And whereas the agents for such of the troops of the state of Virginia, who served on the continental establishment in the army of the United States, during the late war, have reported to the executive of the said state, that there is not a sufficiency of good land on the southeasterly side of the river Ohio, according to the act of cession from the said state to the United States, and within the limits assigned by the laws of the said state, to satisfy the said troops for the bounty lands due to them, in conformity to the said laws to the intent, therefore, that the difference between what has already been located for the said troops, on the southeasterly side of the said river, and the aggregate of what is due

to the whole of the said troops, may be located on the north- Other lands westerly side of the said river, and between the Sciota and Lit. assigned, &c. tle Miami rivers, as stipulated by the said state:

executive of

§ 2. That the secretary of the department of war shall make Secretary of return, to the executive of the state of Virginia, of the names war to make of such of the officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates, return to the of the line of the said state, who served in the army of the Virginia, of United States, on the continental establishment, during the late those entitled war, and who, in conformity to the laws of the said state, are to bounty entitled to bounty lands; and shall, also, in such return, state the aggregate amount in acres due to the said line by the laws aforesaid.

lands, &c.

acres to be lo

§ 3. That it shall and may be lawful for the said agents to A sufficient locate, to and for the use of the said troops, between the rivers number of Sciota and Little Miami, such a number of acres of good land, cated between as shall, together with the number already located between the the Sciota and said two rivers, and the number already located on the south- Little Miami. easterly 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.

the bounds of

4. That the said agents, as soon as may be after the loca. Agents to entions, surveys, and allotments, are made and completed, shall ter in a book enter, in regular order, in a book to be by them provided for each location, that purpose, the bounds of each location and survey between &c. the said two rivers, annexing the name of the officer, noncommissioned officer, or private, originally entitled to each; which entries being certified by the said agents, or the majority of Vol. i. p. 364. them, to be true entries, the book containing the same shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

made out, &c.

§ 5. That it shall be lawful for the president of the United President to States to cause letters patent to be made out, in such words and cause letters form as he shall devise and direct, granting to such person, so patent to be originally entitled to bounty lands, to his use, and to the use of his heirs or assigns, or his or their legal representative or representatives, his, her, or their heirs or assigns, the lands designated in the said entries: Provided always, That, before the seal of the United States shall be affixed to such letters patent, the secretary of the department of war shall have endorsed thereon, that the grantee therein named was originally entitled to such bounty lands and that he has examined the bounds thereof with the book of entries filed in the office of the secretary if state, and finds the same truly inserted; and every such letters patent shall be countersigned by the secretary of state, and a minute of the date thereof, and of the name of the grantee, shall be entered of record in his office, in a book to be specially provided for the purpose.

§ 6. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of state, as Secretary of soon as may be after the letters patent shall be so completed and state to transmit patents to entered of record, to transmit the same to the executive of the the executive state of Virginia, to be by them delivered to each grantee; or, of Virginia, in case of his death, or that the right of the grantees shall have &c. been legally transferred before such delivery, then to his legal representative or representatives, or to one of them.

No fees for is- § 7. That no fees shall be charged for such letters patent and suing patents. record, to the grantees,-their heirs or assigns, or to his or their legal representative or representatives. [Approved, August 10, 1790.]

Obsolete.

Circuit courts.

olina.

In Georgia.

CHAP. 69. [42.] 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.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the circuit courts of the United States, in the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, shall, for the future, be held as follows, to wit: In the district of South In South Car- Carolina, on the twenty-fifth day of October next, at Charleston, and, in each succeeding year, at Columbia, on the twelfth day of May, and in Charleston, on the twenty-fifth day of October; in the district of Georgia, on the 15th day of October next, at Augusta, and, in each succeeding year, at Savannah, on the twenty-fifth day of April, and at Augusta, on the fifteenth day Vol. i. p. 53, of October; except when any of those days shall happen to be Sunday, in which case the court shall be held on the Monday following. And all process that was returnable under the former law at Charleston, on the first day of October next, and at Augusta, on the 17th day of October, shall now be deemed returnable respectively, at Charleston, on the twenty-fifth day of October next, and, at Augusta, on the fifteenth day of October next; any thing in the former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

365, 466.

Return of process, &c.

Part of a former act re

pealed.

§ 2. That so much of the act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," as directs that the district court for the district of Pennsylvania, shall be held at District court York Town, in the said state, be repealed; and that, in future, nia, in future the district court for Pennsylvania be held in the city of Philadelphia. [Approved, August 11, 1790.]

of Pennsylva

at Philadel

phia.

Vol. i. p. 224, 421.

CHAP. 70. [43.] An act declaring the assent of congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the consent of congress be, and Consent of is hereby, declared, to the operation of the acts of the several congress to the acts here- states, hereinafter mentioned, so far as the same relate to the in mentioned. levying a duty on the tonnage of ships and vessels, for the pur

poses therein mentioned, until the tenth day of January next, that is to say: an act of the general assembly of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, at their session held in January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, entitled "An act to incorporate certain persons, by the name of the River Machine Company, in the town of Providence, and for other purposes therein mentioned;" and also, an act of the general assembly of the state of Maryland, at their session in April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An act appointing wardens for the port of Baltimore Town, in Baltimore county" as, also, another act of the general assembly of the same state, passed at their session in November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "A supplement to the act, entitled "an act for appointing wardens for the port of Bal

timore Town, in Baltimore county;" and also, an act of the state of Georgia, "for levying and appropriating a duty on tonnage, for the purpose of clearing the river Savannah, and removing the wrecks, and other obstructions, therein." [Approved, August 11, 1790.]

CHAP. 74. [47.] An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt.

It being desirable, by all just and proper means, to effect a Reduction of reduction of the amount of the public debt, and as the appli- desirable, &c. the public debt cation of such surplus of the revenue as may remain, after satis- Vol. i. p. 200, fying the purposes for which appropriations shall have been made 263. 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 :

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all such surplus of the product of Surplus of the duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported, and on product of duties on goods the tonnage of ships or vessels, to the last day of December next, and tonnage inclusively, as shall remain after satisfying the several purposes to Dec. 31, 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 its market price, if not exceed ing the par or true value thereof.

1790, to be applied to the purchase of the public debt, &c. Under whose chases are to

direction pur

§ 2. That the purchases to be made of the said debt, shall be made under the direction of the president of the senate, the chief justice, the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, and be made. the attorney general for the time being; and who, or any three of whom, with the approbation of the president of the United States, shall cause the said purchases to be made in such manner, and under such regulations, as shall appear to them best calculated to fulfil the intent of this act: Provided, That the Proviso; as same be made openly, and with due regard to the equal benefit to the manof the several states: And provided further, That to avoid all risk ner. or failure, or delay in the payment of interest stipulated to be Proviso; as paid for and during the year one thousand seven hundred and tions of surninety-one, by the act, entitled "An act making provision for the plus to pay debt of the United States," such reservations shall be made of interest in the 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.

to reserva

1791.

§3. That accounts of the application of the said moneys shall Accounts of be rendered for settlement as other public accounts, accompa- debt, to be setpurchases of nied with returns of the amount of the said debt purchased there- tled as other with, at the end of every quarter of a year, to be computed from public ac the time of commencing the purchases aforesaid: and that a full counts, &c. and exact report of the proceedings of the said five persons, or Report of proany three of them, including a statement of the disbursements ceedings to be and purchases made under their direction, specifying the times laid before thereof, the prices at which, and the parties from whom, the congress, &c.

President authorized to

borrow two

millions of

same may be made, shall be laid before congress, within the first fourteen days of each session which may ensue the present, during the execution of their said trust.

4. 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 dollars, at an millions of dollars, at an interest not exceeding five per cent. interest not and that the sum or sums so borrowed, be also applied to the exceeding five purchase of the said debt of the United States, under the like diper cent. to purchase debt. rection, in the like manner, and subject to the like regulations Proviso; as to and restrictions with the surplus aforesaid: Provided, That out appropriation of the interest arising on the debt to be purchased in manner payment of aforesaid, there shall be appropriated and applied a sum, not exthe 2,000,000 ceeding the rate of eight per centum per annum, on account both of principal and interest, towards the repayment of the two millions of dollars so to be borrowed. [Approved, August 12, 1790.]

towards re

dolls. to be borrowed.

All treaties made and promulged to be published

with the laws.

RESOLUTION.

No. 2. Resolved, &c. That all treaties made, or which shall be made and promulged, 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.]