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the fame; thence along.the faid boundary-line, to the Tufcaroras branch of the Muskingum river, at the croffing-place above Fort Lawrence; thence up the faid river, to the point, where a line, run due west from the place of beginning, will interfect the faid river; thence along the line fo run to the place of beginning; and fhall cause the said tracts to be divided into townships of five miles fquare, by running, marking and numbering the exterior lines of the faid townships, and marking corners in the faid lines, at the diftance of two and one-half miles from each other, in the manner directed by the act, intitled, " An act providing for the fales of the lands of the United States, in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river ;" and that the lands above defcribed, except the falt fprings therein, and the fame quantities of land adjacent thereto, as are directed to be referved with the falt fprings, in the faid recited act, and fuch tracts within the boundaries of the fame, as have been heretofore appropriated by Congrefs, be, and they are hereby, fet apart and referved for the pur. pofes herein-after mentioned.

Duty of

the Sec'ry

herein.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the faid land fhall be granted only in tracts containing a quarter of the township to which they of the belong, lying at the corners thereof; and that Treafury the Secretary of the Treafury fhall, for the fpace of nine months, after public notice in the several states and territories, register warrants for military fervices, to the amount of any one or more tracts, for any perfon er per-fons holding the fame; and fhall immediately after the expiration of the faid time, proceed to determine, by lot, to be drawn in the

location

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prefence of the Secretaries of State and of War, the priority of location of the said regifPriority of tered warrants; and the perfon or persons how deter holding the faine, fhall feverally make their locations, after the lots fhall be proclaimed, on a day to be previously fixed in the beforementioned notice; in failure of which, they fhall be poftponed in locating fuch warrants, to all other perfons holding registered warrants And the patents for all lands located and parents under the authority of this act, fhall be granted in the manner directed by the before-mentioned act, without requiring any fee therefor.

granted.

Privilege

to certain

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the time limited for making the locations, as aforefaid, any perfon or perfons holding warwarrants, rants, of the before, mentioned description, fuf

perfons holding

and lands unlocated alter the

1 Jan.

ficient to cover any one or more tracts, as aforefaid, fhall be at liberty to make their locations, on any tract or tracts not before located.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the lands fet apart by the first section of this act, which fhall remain unlocated on the first day of January, in the year one thoufand eight hundred, fhall be releafed from the faid referdifpofition vation, and fhall be at the free difpofition of the United States, in like manner as any other

to be at

of United

States.

Claims li mited.

vacant territory of the United States. And all warrants or claims for lands on account of military fervices, which fhall not, before the day aforefaid, be registered and located, fhall be forever barred.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the faid Surveyor-General be, and he is hereby required, to caufe to be furveyed, three several tracts of land, containing four thousand acres

each, at Shoenbrun, Gnaden-hutten, and Se-3 tracts to lem; being the tracts formerly fet apart, by be furveyed for fociety an ordinance of Congress of the third of Sep- for propa tember, one thousand seven hundred and eigh- gating the gotpel ty-eight, for the fociety of United Brethren among the for propagating the gofpel among the heathen; heathen. and to iffue a patent or patents for the faid three tracts to the faid fociety, in truft, for the uses and purposes in the faid ordinance fet forth.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all Refervanavigable ftreams or rivers within the territo- tions, ry to be difpofed of, by virtue of this act, fhall be deemed to be and remain public highways. And that, in all cafes, where the oppofite banks of any stream not navigable shall belong to different perfons, the ftream and the bed thereof fhall be common to both.

JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of
the House of Reprefentatives.

SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Prefident of the

Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED, June the firft, 1796:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XLVII.

An Act for the Admiffion of the State of
Tenneffee into the Union.

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HEREAS by the acceptance of the deed of ceffion of the ftate of NorthCarolina, Congrefs are bound to lay out into

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Tenneffee.

one or more states, the territory thereby ceded to the United States :

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Reterritory prefentatives of the United States of America, in declared to Congress affembled, That the whole of the terunder the ritory ceded to the United States by the state of North-Carolina, shall be one state, and the fame is hereby declared to be one of the United States of America, on an equal footing with the original ftates, in all refpects whatever, by the name and title of the ftate of Tenneffee. That until the next general cenfus, the faid ftate of Tennessee shall be entitled to one Representative in the House of Representatives of the United States; and in all other refpects, as far as they may be applicable, the laws of the United States fhall extend to, and have force in the state of Tennessee, in the fame manner, as if that ftate had originally been one of the United States.

JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Prefident of the

Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED, June the first, 1796:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

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An Act making an Appropriation to fatisfy certain
Demands attending the late Infurrection; and
to increase the Compenfation to Jurors and
Witneffes in the Courts of the United States.

Sec. I.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United ation for States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That defraying a fum, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, trial of out of any monies not otherwise appropriated, Poncerned be, and the fame are hereby appropriated to in the late the discharge of certain incidental demands, tion. occafioned by the trial of persons for crimes and offences during the late infurrection, for the payment of which no fpecial provision has been made by law.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacled, That in addition to the compenfation now allowed by compenfalaw to jurors and witneffes, attending in the tion to jurors, &c. courts of the United States, there fhall be allowed and paid to each grand and petit juror, for his attendance, fifty cents per day; and to each witness, for like attendance, fifty cents per day.

courts and

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Approprifum of ten thousand dollars, out of any mo- ation for nies not otherwise appropriated, be, and the clerks of fame is hereby appropriated, for defraying the jurors. expense of clerks of courts, jurors and witneffes, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-fix, in aid of the fund arifing from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and of

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