appear just and reasonable: Provided always, That the relative valuations of different tracts of unfeated land in the fame fub-divifion fhall not be changed or affected. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the faid commiffioners may direct the deductions and additions aforefaid to be made out and completed by the principal affeffors of the aforefaid affeffment diftricts refpectively, or, if they fhall deem it more proper, by their own clerk and by fuch affiftants as they fhall find neceffary and appoint for that purpose: Provided always, that the compenfation to be made to the faid affiftants fhall not exceed the pay allowed to the affiftant affeffors by the act aforefaid. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED-May 10, A. D. 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LIV. An ACT Supplementary to an act, intituled " An act to establish the compenfation of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on impoft and tonnage." Sec. 1. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, there fhall be allowed and paid annually, to and for the use of the feveral collectors and furveyors collectors. appointed, and to be appointed pursuant to law, Allow ance to certain and employed in the collection of the duties of imports and tonnage, in the districts hereinaftermentioned, in addition to their fees and emoluments otherwise allowed by law, the fums following refpectively; that is to fay: To the collectors of Paffamaquody, Waldoborough, and St. Mary's, two hundred and fifty dollars each: To the collectors of Machias, Great Egg Harbour, Little Egg Harbour, Perth Amboy, Bridgetown, Sunbury and Georgetown in Maryland, one hundred dollars each; and to the collectors of Sagg Harbour, Brunswick in Georgia, and Dumfries, fifty dollars each: To the furveyors of Bermuda Hundred, one hundred and fifty dollars; and to the furveyors of Newport, Providence, Port Royal, Alexandria and Saybrook, one hundred dollars each. collector Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the commiffions heretofore, allowed by Commiflaw, there fhall, from and after the thirtieth day fions to of June next, be allowed to the collectors for certain the districts of Alexandria, Petersburgh and Richmond respectively, two and an half per centum, on all monies which fhall be collected and received by them: To the collector for the diftrict of Bofton and Charlestown, and to the collectors of Baltimore and Philadelphia, three-eights of one per centum : To the collectors of Charleston, South-Carolina, Salem and Norfolk and Portfmouth, three-quarters of one per centum: To the collector of the dif trict of Portland, one per centum, for and on account of the duties arifing on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of fhips and veffels. Certain Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it fhall collectors be the duty of the collectors of the feveral dif- to depofit tricts of Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, Bal- bank for timore, Norfolk and Charlefton, and they are collection bonds in hereby respectively directed to deposit for collection in the bank of the United States, or at an office of discount and depofit of the faid bank, all the bonds taken, or to be taken by them, for duties by virtue of any law of the United States; but on all money collected by the faid banks the commiffions aforefaid are to be allowed the faid collectors in like manner as if received by them. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-President of the United States, and APPROVED-May 10, A. D. 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LV. An ACT to amend the act, intituled "An act Sec. 1. E it enacted by the Senate and House of America, in Congress affembled, That for the difFour land pofal of the lands of the United States, directed ofices ef- to be fold by the act, intituled "An act protablished, viding for the fale of the lands of the United direction States, in the territory north-weft of the Ohio, of Regif- and above the mouth of Kentucky river," under the ters. there fhall be four land-offices eftablished in the faid territory: One at Cincinnati, for lands below the Little Miami, which have not heretofore been granted; one at Chilicothe, for lands east of the Sciota, fouth of the lands appropriated for fatisfying military bounties to the late army of the United States, and weft of the fifteenth range of townfhips; one at Marietta, for the lands eaft of the fixteenth range of townships, fouth of the before-mentioned military lands, and fouth of a line drawn due weft from the north-west corner of the first township of the second range, to the faid military lands; and one at Steubenville, for the lands north of the laft mentioned line, and eaft or north of the faid military lands: Each of the faid offices shall be under the direction of an officer, to be called "The Register of the Land-Office," who shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and confent of the Senate, and fhall give bond to the United States, with approved fecurity, in the fum of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office; and fhall refide at the place where the land-office is directed to be kept. to tranf Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the Surveyor-General, and he is Surveyor hereby exprefsly enjoined, to prepare and tranf- General mit to the Registers of the feveral land-offices, mit cerbefore the days herein appointed for commenc- tain plats. ing fales, general plats of the lands hereby directed to be fold at the faid offices refpectively, and alfo to forward copies of each of the faid plats to the Secretary of the Treafury. tain lines Sec. 3. And be it further enafled, That the Surveyor-General fhall cause the townships weft He shali of the Muskingum, which by the above-menti- caufe ceroned act are directed to be fold in quarter town- to be run fhips, to be fub-divided into half fections of three and markhundred and twenty acres each, as nearly as ed. may be, by running parallel lines through the fame from east to west, and from fouth to north, 1 at the distance of one mile from each other, and marking corners, at the distance of each half mile on the lines running from east to west, and at the distance of each mile on those running from fouth to north, and making the marks, notes, and defcriptions, prescribed to furveyors by the above-mentioned act: And the interior lines of townships interfected by the Muskingum, and of all the townships lying eaft of that river, which have not been heretofore actually fub-divided into fections, fhall alfo be run and marked in the manner prescribed by the faid act, for running and marking the interior lines of townships directed to be fold in sections of fix hundred and forty acres each: And in all cafes where the exterior lines of the townships, thus to be fub-divided into fections or half fections, thall exceed or shall not extend fix miles, the excefs or deficiency fhall be fpecially noted, and added to or deducted from the western and northern ranges of fections or half fections in fuch township, according as the error may be in running the lines from east to west, or from fouth to north; the fections and half fections bounded on the northern and weftern lines of fuch town.fhips fhall be fold as containing only the quantity expreffed in the returns and plats refpectively, and all others as containing the complete legal quantity: And the Prefident of the United States fhall fix the compenfation of the deputy-furveyors, chain-carriers, and axemen: Provided, the whole expense of furveying and marking the lines, fhall not exceed three dollars, for every mile that shall be actually run, furveyed and marked. Sec. 4. And be it further enaced, That the lands thus fub-divided (excluding the fections referved by the above-mentioned act) shall be |