And re their heirs or affigns, fhall be entitled to, and receive a patent for the fame from the Prefident of the United States, any thing in any ocive pa- former law to the contrary notwithstanding. Prefident Provided, That no letters-patent fhall be if of United fued for a greater quantity of land, than fhall tent from Statcs. To be endorfed by appear to remain due on fuch warrant, and that, before the feal of the United States fhall be affixed to fuch letters-patent, the Secretary of the department of war fhall have endorsed. thereon, that the grantee therein named, or the perfon under whom he claims, was ori ginally entitled to fuch bounty lands, and every fuch letters-patent fhall be counterfigned by the Secretary of State, and a minute of And coun- the date thereof, and the name of the granterfigned by Secreta- tee, fhall be entered of record in his office in a ry of State, book to be fpecially provided for that purpose. Secretary of War. &c. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED, June the ninth, 1794: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LXIII. An Act making Appropriations for certain Purpofes therein expreffed. Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That there be appropriated for the feveral propria purposes hereinafter fpecified, the respective Additional fums following, to wit: To defray the ex- specific appenfes which fhall be incurred, purfuant to tions. the act, intitled, "An act to provide a naval armament," fix hundred and eighty-eight thoufand, eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars, and eighty-two cents: In addition to the fum heretofore granted for the erection of fortifications for the protection of ports and harbors, thirty thousand dollars: For the payment of a fum granted to lieutenant-colonel Touzard, in lieu of his penfion for life, three thousand fix hundred dollars: For the payment of the falary allowed to the officer who fhall be appointed to fuperintend the receiving, fafe-keeping and diftribution of the military stores of the United States, pursuant to the act of the fecond of April laft, eight hundred and feventy-five dollars: For the falary of an additional clerk, and office rent, in the department of ftate, four hundred and eighty-four dollars, and seventy-eight cents : For the payment and fubfiftence of captain John Inglis, of the North-Carolina line, one hundred and eight dollars, and ninety-one cents To defray the farther contingent expenfes of the House of Representatives authorized during the prefent feffion, one thousand dollars For the fervice of the war department, in addition to the fums heretofore appropriated, the fums following, to wit: To defray the expenfe of a corps of artillerifts and engineers established during the prefent feffion, fixty-fix thoufand, four hundred and twenty-nine dollars, and eighty-feven cents: For the further protection and defence of the fouth-western frontier, two hundred thousand dollars: For the purposes of the act dires Additional ting a detachment from the militia of the Unifpecific ap- ted States, two hundred thousand dollars : propria. mons. Prefident ted States to borrow a fum not ex ceeding For the equipment of gallies or other veffels pursuant to an act of the present feffion, eighty thousand dollars: For the expense of additional clerk-hire in the department of war, feven hundred and fifty dollars: For defraying the contingent expenfes of government, to be applied, under the direction of the Prefident of the United States, according to the regulations and provifions provided in respect of a fum of ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the like purpose, twenty thousand dollars; amounting in the whole to one million, two hundred and ninety-two thousand, one hundred and thirty-feven dollars, and thirty-eight cents: which feveral fums fhall be paid out of the proceeds of fuch revenues as fhall have been provided during the prefent feffion of Congrefs. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the of the Uni- Prefident of the United States be empowered to borrow, on behalf of the United States, of the bank of the United States, (which is hereby authorized to lend the fame) or of any 1,000,000 other body or bodies politic, perfon or perfons, any fum not exceeding in the whole, one million of dollars, to be applied to the purpofes aforefaid, and to be reimburfed, as well intereft as principal, out of the proceeds of the faid revenues. dollars. Certain fum to be Sec. 3. Provided always, and be it further enacled, That there fhall be referved out of the referved. proceeds of the faid revenues, a fum fuffici ent, to pay the intereft of whatever monies may be borrowed pursuant to the act, intitled, "An act making further provision for the expenfes attending the intercourfe of the United States with foreign nations; and further to FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, June the ninth, 1794: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. An Act making certain Alterations in the Act for eftablishing the judicial Courts, and altering the Time and Place of holding certain Courts. BE commif Sec. I. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe Diftri& of Reprefentatives of the United judges to States of America, in Congress affembled, That appoint the district judges of the United States be au- fioners., thorized to appoint a commiffioner or commiffioners, before whom, appraifers of fhips or veffels, or goods, wares and merchandize, feized for breaches of any law of the United States, may be fworn or affirmed; and that Before whom ap fuch qualifications made before fuch commifpraifers of fioner or commiffioners, fhall be, to all intents veffels feiz- and purposes, as effectual, as if the fame were taken before the faid judges in open court. ed may be fworn, of certain diftrict courts, changed Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Stated term stated terms of the diftrict-courts of Maffachufetts, Pennfylvania, and Georgia, be changed, and that, in future, the faid courts in Maffachusetts fhall be held on the third Tuesday in March, the fourth Tuesday in June, the second Tuesday in September, and the first Tuesday in December; in Pennsylvania, on the third Mondays in February, May, Auguft and November; and in Georgia, at the times and places following; in the city of Savannah, on the fecond Tuesdays in February, May and Auguft, and in Augusta, on the fecond Tuesday in November: And that the circuit court of the diftrict of Delaware hereafter commence on the fecond Monday in June, instead of the twentyfeventh day of April, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. N. Caro ded into three diftrics. Sec. And be it further enacted, That the 3. Hina divi- ftate of North-Carolina fhall be divided into three districts, in which the district-court of the faid ftate fhall be held at fuch times and places, as are already afcertained by law, that is to fay; the district of Wilmington to include all the counties of the ftate-diftricts of Morgan, Salisbury, Fayetteville and Wilmington: the diftrict of Newbern to include all the counties of the ftate diftricts of Hillsborough, Halifax and Newbern; and Edenton to include all the counties of the diftrict of Edenton: and that all procefs, pleas, actions, fuits and other proceedings, originating in the districts, where re refpectively, fhall be returnable to the feffion tarnable, of faid court, to be held at the place directed Process, &c |