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ing the same, shall, prior to such landing, be and shall also cause to be laid off and confirmproduced to the said inspector, who, by an en-ed to such persons, the several tracts of land dorsement thereupon under his own hand, shall which they may have possessed, and which, signify the production thereof to him, and the before the year one thousand seven hundred time when; after which, and not otherwise, it and eighty-three, may have been allotted to shall be lawful to land the teas mentioned in them according to the laws and usages of the such permit. And the said inspector shall Government under which they had respectivemake an entry of all such permits, and of the ly settled: Provided, nevertheless, That if such contents thereof; and each chest, box, or pack-persons, or their heirs, do not return and ocage, containing any teas, shall be marked by the officer under whose immediate inspection the same shall be landed, in legible and durable characters, with progressive numbers, and with the name of the vessel in which the same shall have been imported. And the said officer shall grant a certificate for each such chest, box, or package, specifying therein the name or names of the importer or importers, the ship or vessel in which the same shall have been imported, and the number thereof, to accompany the same wheresoever it shall be sent.

And whereas, for the payment of the duties accruing on Madeira wines, and which may be secured by bond, the term of twelve months is allowed; and it is proper to extend, in like manner, the payment of the duties accruing on other wines;

Sec. 5. Therefore, Be it enacted, That, for the payment of the duties on other than Madeira wines, and which shall be secured by bond, such bond shall be taken with condition for the payment of the duties in twelve months, in like manner as by law is directed for the payment of the duties on Madeira wines.

Approved, March 3, 1791.

An Act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes, and the Illinois country, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions.

Be it enacted, &c., That four hundred acres of land be given to each of those persons, who, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, were heads of families at Vincennes, or in the Illinois country, on the Mississippi, and who, since that time, have removed from one of the said places to the other. And the Governor of the territory northwest of the Ohio is hereby directed to cause the same to be laid out for them, at their own expense, either at Vincennes or in the Illinois country, as they shall severally elect.

cupy the said lands within five years, such lands shall be considered as forfeited to the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That one hundred and fifty acres of land, heretofore in possession of the Piankeshaw Indians, and now under actual improvement, and constituting a part of the village of Vincennes, be given to the persons who are severally in possession of the said land.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That where lands have been actually improved and cultivated at Vincennes, or in the Illinois country, under a supposed grant of the same, by any commandant or court claiming authority to make such grant, the Governor of the said territory be, and he hereby is, empowered to confirm to the persons who made such improvements, their heirs or assigns, the lands supposed to have been granted as aforesaid, or such parts thereof as he, in his discretion, may judge reasonable, not exceeding to any one person four hundred acres.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a tract of land, containing about five thousand four hundred acres, which, for many years, has been fenced and used by the inhabitants of Vincennes as a common, also a tract of land including the villages of Cohos and Prairie du Pont, and heretofore used by the inhabitants of the said village as a common, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to the use of the inhabitants of Vincennes, and of the said village, respectively, to be used by them as a common, until otherwise disposed of by law.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the governor of the said territory be authorized to make a grant of land, not exceeding one hundred acres, to each person who hath not obtained any donation of land from the United States, and who, on the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, was enrolled in the militia at Vincennes, or in the Illinois country, and has done militia duty, the said land to be laid out at the expense of the grantees, and in such form and place as the said Governor shall direct: Provided, nevertheless,

wise, shall be admitted within a tract of land heretofore occupied by the Kaskaskia nation of Indians, and including their village, which is hereby appropriated to the use of the said Indians.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted and declared, That the heads of families at Vincennes, or in the Illinois country, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, who after-That no claim founded upon purchase or otherwards removed without the limits of the said territory, are, notwithstanding, entitled to the donation of four hundred acres of land made by the resolve of Congress of the twenty-ninth of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight; and the Governor of the said territory, upon application to him for that purpose, is hereby directed to cause the same to be laid out for such heads of families, or their heirs;

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That two lots of land, heretofore in the occupation of the priests at Cahokia, and situated near that village, be, and the same is hereby, granted in fee

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to P. Gibault; and that a tract of land at Kas-case a major general, brigadier general, quarkaskia, formerly occupied by the Jesuits, be termaster, aid-de-camp, brigade major, and laid off and confirmed to St. Jam Beauvais, who chaplain, should be appointed, their pay and claims the same in virtue of a purchase thereof. allowances shall be, respectively, as herein Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so mentioned. The major general shall be enmuch of the act of Congress of the twenty-titled to one hundred and twenty-five dollars, eighth of August, one thousand seven hundred monthly pay, twenty dollars allowance for forand eighty-eight, as refers to the locations of age, monthly, and for daily subsistence fifteen certains tracts of land directed to be run out rations, or money in lieu thereof, at the contract and reserved for donations, to the ancient set-price; the brigadier general shall be entitled to tlers in the Illinois country, be, and the same is ninety-four dollars, monthly pay, with sixteen hereby, repealed, and the Governor of the said dollars allowance for forage, monthly, and for territory is directed to lay out the same, agree- daily subsistence twelve rations, or money in ably to the act of Congress of the twentieth of lieu thereof, at the contract price; that the June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-quartermaster shall be entitled to the same pay, eight. rations, and forage, as the lieutenant colonel commandant of a regiment; that the aid-decamp be entitled, including all allowances, to the same pay, rations, and forage, as a major of An Act for raising and adding another regiment to a regiment; that the brigade major be entitled, the military establishment of the United States, including all allowances, to the same pay, raand for making further provision for the protections, and forage, as a major of a regiment; tion of the frontiers.

Approved, March 3, 1791.

Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be raised an additional regiment of infantry, which, exclusive of the commissioned officers, shall consist of nine hundred and twelve non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said regiment shall be organized in the same manner as the regiment of infantry described in the act, entitled "An act for regulating the military establishment of the United States."

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the troops aforesaid, by this act to be raised, including the officers, shall receive the same pay and allowances, be subject to the same rules and regulations, and be engaged for the like term, and upon the same conditions, in all respects, excepting the bounty hereinafter mentioned, as are stipulated for the troops of the United States, in the beforementioned act.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That each non-commissioned officer, private, and musician, who has enlisted, or shall enlist, pursuant to the act aforesaid, or who shall enlist pursuant to this act, shall be entitled to receive six dollars as a bounty.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in case the President of the United States should deem the employment of a major general, brigadier general, a quartermaster, and chaplain, or either of them, essential to the public interest, that he be, and he hereby is, empowered, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint the same accordingly. And a major general, so appointed, may choose his aid-decamp, and a brigadier general his brigade major, from the captains or subalterns of the line: Provided always, That the major general and brigadier general so to be appointed, shall, respectively, continue in pay during such term only, as the President of the United States, in his discretion, shall deem it requisite for the public service.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in

that the chaplain be entitled to fifty dollars per month, including pay, rations, and forage.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if, in the opinion of the President, it shall be conducive to the good of the service, to engage a body of militia to serve as cavalry, they furnishing their own horses, arms, and provisions, it shall be lawful for him to offer such allowances, to encourage their engaging in the service, for such time, and on such terms, as he shall deem it expedient to prescribe.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if the President should be of opinion that it will be conducive to the public service to employ troops enlisted under the denomination of levies, in addition to, or in place of, the militia which, in virtue of the powers vested in him by law, he is authorized to call into the service of the United States, it shall be lawful for him to raise, for a term not exceeding six months, (to be discharged sooner if the public service will permit,) a corps, not exceeding two thousand non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians, with a suitable number of commissioned officers. And in case it shall appear probable to the President that the regiment directed to be raised by the aforesaid act, and by this act, will not be completed in time to prosecute such military operations as exigencies may require, it shall be lawful for the President to make a substitute for the deficiency, by raising such further number of levies, or by calling into the service of the United States such a body of militia as shall be equal thereto.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he hereby is, empowered to organize the said levies, and alone to appoint the commissioned officers thereof, in the manner he may judge proper.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the commissioned and non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians, of the militia, or said corps of levies, shall, during the time of their service, be subject to the rules and articles

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of war; and they shall be entitled to the same pay, rations, and forage, and in case of wounds or disability in the line of their duty, to the same compensation as the troops of the United States.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians, of the said corps of levies, shall be entitled to receive such proportional quantity of clothing, as their time of service shall bear to the annual allowance of clothing to the troops of the United States, subject, however, to a proportional deduction from their pay.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That each of the non-commissioned officers, privates, and musicians, of the said levies, shall be entitled to receive three dollars as a bounty.

Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That in case the nature of the service upon which the troops of the United States may be employed, should require a greater number of surgeon's mates than are provided for in the beforementioned act, the President of the United States may engage, from time to time, such additional number of surgeon's mates as he shall judge

necessary.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the commissioned officers, who shall be employed to recruit men for the said regiments, shall be entitled to receive, for every recruit who shall be duly enlisted and mustered, the sum of two

dollars.

posed upon spirits distilled within the United States, and from stills, by the act, entitled "An act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same;" together with the excess of duties which may arise from the duties imposed by the said act on imported spirits, beyond those which would have arisen by the act, entitled "An act making farther provision for the payment of the debts of the United States."

And to the end that the public service may not be impeded for want of necessary means:

Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President to take on loan the whole sum by this act appropriated, or so much thereof as he may judge requisite, at an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum; and the fund established for the abovementioned appropriation is hereby pledged for the re-payment of the principal and interest of any loan to be obtained in manner aforesaid; and in case of any deficiency in the said fund, the faith of the United States is hereby also pledged to make good such deficiency.

Approved, March 3, 1791.

Whereas Congress did, by a resolution of the twenty-third day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, recommend to the several States to pass laws, making it expressly the duty of the keepers of their jails, to receive and safe keep therein, all prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, in order, therefore, to ensure the administration of justice.

Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expense, for one year, of the additional regiment to be raised by virtue of this act; for defraying the expense, for a like term, of the officers mentioned in the seventh section of this act; for defraying the expense of the said militia horse, militia foot, and levies, which may be called into, or engaged for, the service Resolved, &c., That in case any State shall of the United States, pursuant to this act; for not have complied with the said recommendadefraying the expense of such surgeon's mates tion, the marshal in such State, under the dias may be appointed pursuant to the fifteenth rection of the judge of the district, be authorized section of this act; for defraying the expense to hire a convenient place to serve as a tempoof recruiting the said two regiments; and for rary jail, and to make the necessary provision defraying the expense of any military posts for the safe keeping of prisoners committed which the President shall judge expedient and under the authority of the United States, until proper to establish, there be, and hereby is, ap- permanent provision shall be made by law for propriated, a sum not exceeding three hundred that purpose; and the said marshal shall be aland twelve thousand six hundred and eighty-lowed his reasonable expenses incurred for the six dollars and twenty cents, to be paid out of above purposes, to be paid out of the Treasury the moneys which, prior to the first day of of the United States. January next, shall arise from the duties im

Approved, March 3, 1791.

INDEX TO THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES IN THE SENATE
OF THE FIRST CONGRESS.

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Accounts between the United States and individual
States, a bill from the House for the settle-
ment of, 53; passed, 56.
Acts and records, a bill for the safe keeping of them,
76; passed, 77.

Adams, John, elected Vice-President of the U. States.
Adjournment of the session, 96.

Amendments to the constitution recommended, 73;
agreed to, 80.

Answer to the address of the President of the U.
States, 32.

Appropriation, a bill making appropriations for the
service of the present year, 91; passed, 94.

Second Session.

Accounts between the United States and the several
States, a bill from the House to provide for
the settlement of, 1028; bill committed
and passed, 1042.

a bill from the house, for adding two com-
missioners to the board for settling the
above accounts, 1064; rejected, 1965.
Acts and records, bill from the House, to prescribe
the mode in which the public acts, records,
&c. in each State shall be authenticated,
so as to take effect in every other State,
1005; bill passed, 1007.

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Balances due the United States, a bill concerning
them, in certain cases, 1813; bill postposed
till next session, 1815.

Adjournment, a resolution from the House, propos-
ing the appointment of a committee to re-
port what business it is necessary to act Bank of the United States, a bill introduced for its
upon previous to adjournment, 1021.
report made and laid on the table, 1031.
resolution proposing to adjourn on the 27th
July, laid on the table.

resolution from the House, proposing to ad-
journ on the 10th August, 1065; concurred
with, 1067.

resolution repealing the last resolution, and
fixing the 12th of August for adjournment,

1071.

Algiers and Tunis, the plan of a truce presented
between those Regencies and the United
States, 974.

Amendments to the constitution-See constitution.

Answer of the Senate to the President's speech, 971.
Appropriation, a bill from the House making appro-

priations for the service of the present year,
991; amended and passed, 993.
Appropriations, a bill from the House, making cer-
tain appropriations therein mentioned, 1070;
bill passed, 1072.

Army accounts, a resolve from the House, providing
for the salaries of the clerks in the office of
the commissioner of army accounts, 1051.

establishment; passed, 1791.

a bill supplementary to the above, was re-
ceived from the House, and read the first
time, 1808; passed its third reading, 1813.
First Session.

C.
Chaplain.-Rev. Dr. Wm. Lynn appointed, 24.
City Hall of New York tendered and accepted by
Congress, 18.

Congress, a bill for altering the time of its next
Constitution of the United States, VIII-
meeting, 87; passed, 91.

proposed amendment to-See amendments.

Crimes, a bill reported for the punishment of certain
crimes, 55; postponed till next session, 84.

Second Session.
Census, a bill received from the House for enumerat-
ing the inhabitants of the United States,
980; amended and passed, 984.

a bill to extend the act to Rhode Island, 1034;
bill passed, 1039.
Chaplain.-Rev. Dr. Samuel Provost appointed, 968.

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