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appropriated for the faid purpose. And all the lots in the city of Wafhington, now vefted in the faid commiffioners, or in truftees in any manner for the use of the United States, and now remaining unfold, excepting thofe fet apart for public purposes, fhall be, and are hereby declared and made chargeable with the re-payment of the faid fum of ten thoufand dollars, which shall be advanced in pursuance of this act, and the interest accruing thereon.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the Purchase purchase of fuch books as may be neceffary for of books. the use of Congrefs at the faid city of Washington, and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them and for placing them therein, the fum of five thoufand dollars fhall be, and hereby is appropriated; and that the faid purchase shall be made by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the Houfe of Reprefentatives, pursuant to fuch directions as fhall be given, and fuch catalogue as fhall be furnished by a joint committee of both houfes of Congrefs to be appointed for that purpose; and that the faid books fhall be placed in one fuitable apartment in the capitol in the faid city, for the ufe of both houses of Congrefs and the members thereof, according to fuch regulations as the committee aforefaid shall devise and establish.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Appro- feveral appropriations aforefaid fhall be paid priations how to be out of any monies in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.

pail.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and
Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED-April 24th, A. D. 1800.
JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

An ACT to authorize the Prefident of the Unitea States to accept, for the United States, a ceffion of jurifdiction of the territory west of Pennfyl vania, commonly called the Western Reserve of Connecticut.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre

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fentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Prefident of the The PreUnited States be, and he hereby is authorized fident to execute and deliver letters patent in the name may iffue letters paand behalf of the United States, to the governor tent reof the state of Connecticut for the time being, leafing for the use and benefit of the perfons holding the right and claiming under the state of Connecticut, or to the their heirs and affigns forever, whereby all the foil of the right, title, intereft and eftate of the United Weftern States, to the foil of that tract of land lying west Reserve. of the weft line of Pennfylvania, as claimed by the state of Pennsylvania, and as the fame has been actually fettled, ascertained and run in conformity to an agreement between the said state. of Pennsylvania and the state of Virginia, and extending from faid line weftward one hundred and twenty ftatute miles in length, and in breadth throughout the faid limits in length from the completion of the forty-firft degree of north latitude, until it comes to forty-two degrees and two minutes north latitude, including all that territory commonly called the Western Referve of Connecticut, and which was excepted by said state of Connecticut out of the ceffion by the faid ftate heretofore made to the United States, and accepted by a refolution of Congress of the fourteenth of September, one thoufand seven hundred and eighty-fix, fhall be releafed and conveyed as aforefaid to the faid governor of Connecticut, and his fucceffors in faid

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office, forever, for the purpofe of quieting the grantees and purchafers under faid ftate of Connecticut, and confirming their titles to the foil of the faid tract of land.

Provided however, That fuch letters patent

shall not be executed and delivered, unless the Provided, tate of Connecticut fhall, within eight months Connedi- from paffing this act, by a legiflative act, recut all nounce forever, for the ufe and benefit of the cede to United States, and of the feveral individual ftates who may be therein concerned refpectivewestern ly, and of all thofe deriving claims or titles from lands; them or any of them, all territorial and jurif dictional claims whatever, under any grant, charter or charters whatever, to the foil and jurifdiction of any and all lands whatever lying weftward, north,weftward, and south-westward of those counties in the ftate of Connecticut, which are bounded westwardly by the eastern line of the state of New-York, as afcertained by agreement between Connecticut and NewYork in the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three, excepting only from such renunciation the claim of faid ftate of Connecticut, and of those claiming from or under the faid state, to the foil of said tract of land herein described under the name of the Western Referve of Connecticut.

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And provided afo, That the faid ftate of Conand exe- necticut fhall, within the faid eight months from and after paffing this act, by the agent or agents of faid ftate duly authorized by the legiflature. thereof, execute and deliver to the acceptance of the Prefident of the United States, a deed exprefsly releafing to the United States the jurif dictional claim of the said state of Connecticut, to the said tract of land herein described under the name of the Western Referve of Connecti

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cut, and fhall depofit an exemplification of faid act of renunciation. under the feal of the faid ftate of Connecticut, together with faid deed releafing faid jurifdiction, in the office of the Department of State of the United States, which deed of ceffion when fo depofited (hall veft the jurifdiction of faid territory in the United States: Provided, that neither this act, nor any thing contained therein, fhall be conftrued fo as in Saving of any manner to draw into queftion the conclu- conftruc five fettlement of the difpute between Penn- tions. fylvania and Connecticut, by the decree of the Federal Court at Trenton, nor to impair the right of Pennsylvania or any other state, or of any perfon or perfons claiming under that or any other state, in any exifting difpute concern. ing the right, either of foil or of jurisdiction, with the state of Connecticut, or with any per.. fon or perfons claiming under the state of Connecticut: And provided alfo, that nothing herein contained fhall be conftrued in any manner to pledge the United States for the extinguishment of the Indian title to the faid lands, or further than merely to pass the title of the United States thereto.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

Vice-President of the United States, and
Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED-April 28th, A. D. 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,

President of the United States.

Lighthoufe at N. Lon

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Clark's Point.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

An ACT to provide for re-building the lighthouse at New-London; for the fupport of a light-house at Clark's Point; for the erection and fupport of a light-houfe at Wigwam Point, and for other purposes.

Sec. I. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, there fhall be purchased for the ufe of the United States, so much land contiguous to their territory, now occupied for the light-house at New-London, as fhall be fufficient for vaults. and any other purpose, neceffary for the better fupport of the faid light-house: Provided, that the legislature of the state of Connecticut fhall cede to the United States the jurifdiction of fuch additional territory.

Sec..2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treafury fhall be, and he is hereby authorized, at his difcretion, to procure a new lanthorn with suitable diftinctions, and to cause convenient vaults to be erected, and the faid light-house at New-London to be re-built.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Light light-houfe lately erected at Clark's Point, fo called, at the entrance of Accufhnet river, within the town of New-Bedford, in the ftate of Maffachusetts, fhall and may be fupported at the expense of the United States: And the Secretary of the Treasury fhall and may appoint a keeper thereof, and take further order refpecting the fame as in other cafes: Provided, that the property and jurifdiction of the faid lighthouse, and fufficient territory for the accommodation thereof fhall be fully ceded and legally vefted in the United States.

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