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to continue for a longer time, an act declar-
ing the affent of Congress to certain acts of'
the States of Maryland, Georgia, and
Rhode-Ifland and Providence Plantations,
fo far as the fame refpects the states of
Georgia, and Rhode-Island and Provi-
dence Plantations,
XI. An act to provide for the fettlement of the
claims of widows and orphans barred by
the limitations heretofore established, and
to regulate the claims to invalid penfions,
XII. An act providing for the fettlement of the
claims of perfons under particular circum-
ftances barred by the limitations heretofore
established,

XIII. An act for the relief of certain 'widows,
orphans, invalids, and other perfons,
XIV. An act fupplemental to the act for making
farther and more effectual provifion for
the protection of the frontiers of the United

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States,
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XV. An act for finishing the light-houfe on
Bald-head, at the mouth of Cape-Fearriver,
in the ftate of North-Carolina,

XVI. An act establishing a mint, and regulating
the coins of the United States,

XVII. An act fupplementary to the act for the efta-
blifhment and fupport of light-houses, bea-
cons, buoys, and public piers,

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XVIII. An act to erect a light-house on Montok
Point, in the State of New-York,
XIX. An act for afcertaining the bounds of a tract
of land purchased by John Cleves Symmes, 49
XX. An act for fixing the compenfations of the
door-keepers of the Senate and House of
Reprefentatives in Congress,
XXI. An act for altering the times of holding the
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circuit courts, in certain districts of the
United States, and for other purposes,

XXII. An act to compenfate the corporation of
trustees of the public grammar-fchool and
academy of Wilmington, in the fate of B-
laware, for the occupation of, and damages
done to the faid fchool, during the late war,
XXIII. An act, for apportioning reprefentatives
among the feveral ftates, according to the
first enumeration,

XXIV. An act concerning confuls and vice confuls,
XXV. An act authorifing the grant and convey-

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ance of certain lands to the Ohio company of
affociates,

XXVI. An act to indemnify the estate of the late
Major General Nathaniel Green, for a

certain bond entered into by him during the

late war,

XXVII. An act for raising a farther fum of money for the protection of the frontiers, and for other purposes therein mentioned,

XXVIII. An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, fupprefs infurrections and repel invafions,

XXIX. An act for the relief of perfons imprisoned for debt,

XXX. An act anthorifing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to John Cleves Symmes and his affociates,

XXXI. An act to alter the time for the next annual meeting of Congress,

XXXII. An act concerning the duties on fpirits dif tilled within the United States,

XXXIII. An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States, XXXIV. An act relative to the compenfations to cer

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tain officers employed in the collection of the duties of impoft and tonnage, XXXV. An act to continue in force the act, intitled, "an act to provide for mitigating or remitting the penalties and forfeitures accruing under the revenue laws in certain cafes, and to make further provifion for the payment of penfions to invalids,

XXXVI. An act for regulating proceffes in the courts of the United States, and providing compenfation for the officers of the faid courts, and for jurors and witnesses,

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XXXVIII. An act fupplementary to the act making
provifion for the debt of the United States, 115
XXXIX. An act to provide for a copper coinage,
XL. An act for making compenfations to the com-
miffioners of loans for extraordinary ex-
penfes,
XLI. An act making certain appropriations there-
in fpecified,
XLII. An act respecting the government of the
territories of the United States north-west
and fauth of the river Ohio,

XLIII. An act to compenfate the fervices of the
late colonel George Gibfon,

XLIV. An act concerning the claim of John Brown
Cutting against the United States,

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I. An act concerning the registering and re-
cording of fhips or vessels,

II. An act to amend an act, intitled, " an act

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eftablishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States," fo far as refpects the coinage of copper, III. An act to provide for the allowance of intereft on the fum ordered to be paid by the refolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-five, as an indemnity to the perfons therein named, IV. An act to continue in force for a limited time, and to amend the act, intitled, “ An act providing the means of intercourfe between the United States and foreignnations," 159 V. An act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes,

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VI. An act relative to claims against the Uni

ted States, not barred by any act of limita-
tion, and which have not been aiready ad-
justed,
VII. An act refpecting fugitives from justice,
and perfons efcaping from the fervice of
their mafters,

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VIII. An act for enrolling and licensing fhips or
veffels to be employed in the coafting trade
and fisheries, and for regulating the fame, 168
IX. An act providing compenfation to the Pre-
fident and Vice-Prefident of the United
States,
X. An act to repeal part of a refolution of
Congress of the twenty-ninth of August,
one thousand feven hundred and eighty-
eight, refpecting the inhabitants of Poft
Saint Vincents,

XI. An act to promote the progress of useful
arts; and to repeal the act heretofore made
for that purpofe,

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XII. An act to authorize the comptroller of
the treasury to fettle the account of Thomas
Wifbart, late a lieutenant in the army of
the United States,

XIII. An act to authorize the adjustment of a claim
of Jofeph Henderfon against the United
States,

XIV. An act making provision for the perfons
therein mentioned,

XV. An act for repealing the feveral impoft-
laws of the United States, fo far as they
may be deemed to impofe a duty on useful
beafts imported for breed,

XVI. An act in addition to, and alteration of
the act, intitled, "an act to extend the

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time limited for fettling the accounts of the United States with the individual states," 209 XVII. An act to regulate the claims to invalid penfions, XVIII. An act making appropriations for the fuppart of government for the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-three, XIX. An act to regulate trade and intercourfe with the Indian tribes,

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XX. An act to afcertain the fees in admiralty
proceedings in the district courts of the Uni-
ted States, and for other purposes,
XXI. An act making an appropriation to defray
the expenfe of a treaty with the Indians
north-west of the Ohio,

XXII. An act in addition to the act, intitled, "an

act to establish the judicial courts of the
United States,'

An act to alter the times and places of hold-
ing the circuit courts, in the eastern district,
and in North-Carolina, and for other
purpofes,

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