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IX. An act to provide for the defence of
certain ports and harbors in the Uni-
ted States,

X. An act making appropriations for the
fupport of the military establishment of
the United States, for the year one
thousand feven hundred and ninety-
four,
XI. An act to prohibit the carrying on the
flave-trade from the United States to
any foreign place or country,
XII. An act to provide a naval armament,
XIII. An act allowing to major-general La
Fayette his pay and emoluments while
in the fervice of the United States,
XIV. An act to provide for the erecting and
repairing of arsenals and magazines,
and for other purposes,

XV. An act for the relief of Stephen Pa

ranque,
XVI. An act transferring, for a limited

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time, the jurifdiction of fuits and offences from the district to the circuit court of New-Hampshire, and affigning certain duties in refpect to invalid penfioners, to the attorney of the faid district, 30 XVII. An act to authorize the Prefident of the United States, in certain cafes, to alter the place for holding a feffion of Congrefs, XVIII. An act to provide for placing buoys on certain rocks off the harbour of NewLondon, and in Providence river, and other places,

XIX. An act for the relief of Leffert Lef
ferts and others,

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XX. An act to authorize Ephraim Kimberly
to locate the land-warrant issued to him
for fervices in the late American army, 33
XXI. An act limiting the time for prefenting
claims for destroyed certificates of cer-
tain defcriptions,

XXII. An aet allowing lieutenant-colonel Tou-
fard an equivalent for his penfion for
life,

XXIII, An act to establish the post-office and
poft-roads within the United States,
XXIV. An act providing for raifing and orga
nizing a corps of artillerifts and engi-

neers,

XXV. An act fuplementary to an act to pro-
vide for the defence of certain parts and
harbors in the United States,"

XXVI. An act for the remiffion of the duties
an eleven bogfheads of coffee which
have been destroyed by fire,

XXVII. An act directing a detachment from the militia of the United States, XXVIII. An act to erect a light-house on the Head-Land of Cape Hatteras; and a lighted beacon on Shell Castle island, in the harbor of Occacock in the state of North-Carolina,

XXIX. An act providing for the payment of
certain expenfes incurred by Fulwar
Skipwith, on public account,

XXX. An act for the relief of Reuben Smith
and Nathan Strong,

XXXI. An act for erecting a light-houfe on the
iland of Seguin in the District of
Maine, and for erecting a beacon and
placing three buoys at the entrance of
Saint Mary's River, in the ftate of
Georgia,

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XXXII. An act further to authorize the adjournment of circuit courts,

XXXIII. An act prohibiting, for a limited time, the exportation of arms and ammunition, and encouraging the importation of the fame,

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XXXIV. An act to continue in force the act for the relief of perfons imprisoned for debt, 68 XXXV. An act to alter the time for the next annual meeting of Congress,

XXXVI. An act further extending the time for receiving on loan the domeftic debt of

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the United States,

XXXVII. An act making provision for the payment of the intereft on the balances due to certain ftates, upon a final fettlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual states,

XXXVIII. An act to compenfate Arthur St. Clair, XXXIX. An act to authorize the fettlement of the account of Lewis Dubois for his fervices in the late army of the United

States,

XL. An act providing for the payment of the
fecond inftalment due on a loan made of
the bank of the United States,

XLI. An act to authorize the Prefident of
the United States to lay, regulate, and
revoke embargoes,

XLII. An act for extending the benefit of a
drawback and terms of credit in cer-
tain cafes, and for other purposes,

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XLIII. An act to extend the term of credit for
teas imported in the fhip Argonaut;
and to permit the export of goods faved
out of the wreck of the fnow Freelove, 74

XLIV. An act for the relief of John Robbe,

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XLV. An act laying duties upon carriages for the conveyance of perfons, XLVI. An act to authorize the Prefident of the United States, during the recess of the prefent Congress, to caufe to be purchafed or built a number of vessels to be equipped as gallies, or otherwife, in the fervice of the United States, XLVII. An act authorizing a fettlement of cer

tain expenfes of the Commiffioners of

Loans,

XLVIII. An act laying duties on licenfes for felling wines and foreign distilled spirituous liquors by retail,

XLIX. An act making further provifion for
fecuring and collecting the duties on
foreign and domeftic diftilled fpirits,
Stills, wines and teas,

L. An act in addition to the act for the
punishment of certain crimes against
the United States,

LI. An act laying certain duties upon fnaff
and refined fugar,

LII. An act in addition to the "act for mak-
ing further and more effectual provision
for the protection of the frontiers of the
United States,

LIII. An act for the remiffion of the duties
on certain distilled fpirits deftroyed by
fire,
LIV. An act laying additional duties on goods,
wares and merchandize imported into
the United States,

LV. An act allowing an additional compen-
fation to the principal clerks in the De-
partment of State, and the Treafury
and War-Departments, for the year one

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LVI. An act to make provifion for the widow
and orphan children of Robert Forsyth, 112
LVII. An act concerning invalids,
LVIII. An act fupplementary to the act, inti-
tuled, "an act to promote the progress
of useful arts,
LIX. An act to continue in force for a limi-
ted time, the act fupplementary to the
act for the establishment and fupport of
light-houfes, beacons, buoys, and public
piers,
LX. An act for the relief of Nicholas Rieb, 114
LXI. An act declaring the confent of Con-

grefs to an act of the state of Mary-
land, paffed the twenty-eighth of De-
cember, one thousand feven hundred
and ninety-three, for the appointment
of a Health-Officer,
LXII. An act to amend the act, intituled,
"an act to enable the officers and fol-
diers of the Virginia line on continental
eftablishment, to obtain titles to certain

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lands lying north-west of the river
Ohio, between the little Miami and
Sciota,

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LXIII. An act making appropriations for cer-
tain purposes therein expreffed,
LXIV. An act making certain alterations in
the act for establishing the judicial
courts, and altering the time and place
of holding certain courts,

LXV. An act laying duties on property fold at
auction,

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