* fand feven hundred and ninety-five, from Cape May to Trenton. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED-February 25, A. D. 1801. JOHN ADAMS, Prfident of the United States. CHAPTER LXXXII. An ACT to continue in force the acts laying duties on licences for felling wines and foreign diftilled fpirits by retail, and fo much of the act laying certain duties on fnuff and refined fugar as refpects a duty on refined fugar, on property fold at auction, and on carriages for the conveyance of persons. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Re rica, in Congress affembled, That an act paffed. on the fifth day of June, in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four, intituled, "An act laying duties on licences for felling wines and foreign distilled fpirituous liquors by retail;" and that fo much of an act paffed on the fifth day of June, in the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-four, intituled, "An act laying certain duties upon fnuff and refined fugar," as refpects a duty upon refined fugar, and that an act paffed on the ninth day of June in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four, intituled, "An act laying duties on property fold at auction," and which acts were, by an act paffed on the third day of March, in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-five, continued in force until the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, fhall be, and the fame are hereby continued in force without limitation of time; any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That fo much of the thirteenth fection of an act, paf- " Act laying fed on the twenty-eighth day of May, in the duties upon year one thousand feven hundred and ninety- carriages," fix, intituled, "An act laying duties upon ed without carriages for the conveyance of perfons, and limitation. repealing the former act for that purpose," as limits the duration of said act, fhall be, and the fame is hereby repealed, and faid act is hereby continued in force, without limitation of time. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-President of the United States, and APPROVED-February 25, A. D. 1801. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. CHAPTER LXXXIII. An ACT declaring the confent of Congress to an act of the state of Maryland, paffed the twenty eighth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, for the appointment of a Health Officer. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Re rica in Congress affembled, That the confent of Congrefs be, and is hereby granted and declar M m ed, to the operation of an act of the General Affembly of Maryland, paffed the twenty eighth day of December, one thousand feven hundred and ninety three, intituled, "An act to appoint a Health Officer for the Port of Baltimore, in Baltimore county," fo far as to enable the state aforefaid to collect a duty of one cent per ton, on all veffels coming into the district of Baltimore from a foreign voyage, for the purposes in faid act intended. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act fhall be in force for three years, from the paffing thereof, and from thence to the end of the next feffion of Congrefs thereafter, and no longer. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-President of the United States, and February 27th, A. D. 1801.-APPROVED. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LXXXIV. An ACT to allow the transportation of goods, wares and merchandife, to and from Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Saffafras. BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That any goods, wares and merchandife, which lawfully might be tranfported to or from the City of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Elkton, Bohemia or Frenchtown, and Port Penn, Appoquinimink, New-Castle, Chriftiana-Bridge, Newport or Wilmington, fhall and may lawfully be tranfported, to and from the city of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Saffafras river, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and advantages, and fhall be fubject to all the provisions, regulations, limitations and restrictions, exifting in the cafe of goods, wares and merchandise, tranfported by any of the routes before men tioned. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. TH: JEFFERSON, Vice-President of the United States, and APPROVED February 27, A. D. 1801. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States. CHAPTER LXXXV. An ACT for the relief of Arnold Henry Dorbman, or his legal representatives. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Re rica in Congress assembled, That the Prefident of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to iffue a patent for the thirteenth township, in the feventh range, to Arnold Henry Dorhman or his legal reprefentatives, agreeably to a refolution of Congress of the in the district. first day of October, in the year one thousand feven hundred and eighty-feven. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED. February 27, 1801. JOHN ADAMS, BE Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LXXXVI. An ACT concerning the district of Columbia. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of AmeLaws of Vir- rica, in Congress affembled, That the laws of ginia and Ma- the fate of Virginia, as they now exift, fhall ryland conti be and continue in force in that part of the nued in force diftrict of Columbia, which was ceded by the faid ftate to the United States, and by them accepted for the permanent feat of government; and that the laws of the flate of Maryland, as they now exift, fhall be and continue in force in that part of the said diftrict, which was ceded by that flate to the United States, and by them accepted as aforefaid. It fhall be formed into two counties. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the faid diftrict of Columbia fhall be formed into two counties; one county fhall contain all that part of faid district, which lies on the east fide' of the river Potowmac, together with the iflands therein, and fhall be called the county of Washington; the other county fhall contain all that part of faid diftrict, which lies on the weft fide of faid river, and fhall be called the county of Alexandria; and the faid river in its whole courfe through faid district shall be ta |