may be with drawn fere in any manner with those of perfons claiming the fame lands under entries, locations, or furveys, heretofore made in pursuance of warrants, granted by the state of Virginia to the officers and foldiers in the line of that state on continental establishment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in eveIn case of 1y case of interfering claims under military wareviction, rants, to lands within the territory so reserved warrants by the state of Virginia, when either party to fuch claims fhall loofe, or be evicted from the land, every fuch party fhall have a right, and and loca- hereby is authorized to withdraw his, her or ted elfe- their warrant, refpectively, to the amount of fuch loss or eviction, and to enter, furvey, and patent the fame, on any vacant land within the bounds aforefaid, and in the fame manner as other warrants may be entered, furveyed and patented. where. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED-May 13, A. D. 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LX. An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Surveyors of the Revenue. Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That whenever it shall appear to the furveyor of the revenue, appointed or to be appointed in any affeffment district within the United States, under be enter the act, intituled "An act to provide for the Lands valuation of lands and dwelling-houfes, and and dwel the enumeration of flaves, within the United fes, omitling houStates," that any tract of land or dwelling- ted in the house, fituated within his faid district, and di- lifts, may rected by the faid act to be included in the ed by the lifts, thereby required to be rendered and kept, furveyors hath been omitted in the faid lifts, then and in of the reevery such case it fhall be the duty of fuch fur- venue. veyor, and he hereby is authorized and required to inform himself of the value of fuch tract of land or dwelling-houfe, by entry, view, or other lawful ways and means, and to make a lift and valuation thereof, in the form and manner prescribed in and by the said act, and to enter and record the said lifts and valuation with and among the lifts and valuations by him to be kept and recorded pursuant to the said act; and to charge the amount of the faid valuation. to the perfon or perfons to whom the fame ought to be charged, purfuant to the faid act and to the act, intituled, " An act to lay and Unfeated collect a direct tax within the United States;" lands, efand that where any affeffor, no lift having been timated rendered, shall have estimated any tract of un- too large feated land, to contain a greater number of a quantiacres than the said tract fhall by the patent or ty, may furvey of the fame actually appear to contain, be exoneit fhall appear to the furveyor of the affeffment district in which the faid land fhall be fituate, by the production of the faid patent or furvey thereof, that there has been a mistake in estimating the said number of acres, it fhall be lawful for fuch furveyor to credit the proprietor or proprietors thereof with the number of acres fo over-charged: Provided, That the faid credit. shall not operate to leffen the fum directed to be collected by virtue of the present law to lay VOL. V. B 2 to contain rated. and collect a direct tax: And provided alfo, That no credit fhall be valid until the fame fhall have been approved by the infpector of the furvey, or the supervisor of the diftrict, if comprehending but one furvey of infpection; and if any erError in ror has happened, by charging any perfon with charging being the proprietor of any tract or parcel of a perfon unfeated land, who was not the owner thereof on the first day of October one thousand seven er; or in hundred and ninety-eight, or by affeffing to any charging perfon any tract or parcel of unfeated land the owner more than once as proprietor thereof, it shall more than be lawful in all or any of these cases, for the who is not the own once. Allow ance to the furveyors of the revenue. furveyor of the district in which the faid error fhall have happened, to correct the fame by giving the person so charged fuch credit in his account refpecting the faid land as may be just and equitable, Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the fervices aforefaid, the furveyors of the revenue fhall respectively be entitled to, and receive from the United States, the following compenfations, that is to say: For every tract of land or dwelling-houfe, valued and recorded as aforefaid without entry and view, feventy-five cents; for every tract of land or dwelling-house fo valued and recorded with entry and view, two dollars; for every mile of neceffary travel in going to make fuch entry and view and returning, five cents; and that the accounts for the faid compenfations fhall be prefented to the supervisors of the diftricts refpectively, and if allowed by them, fhall be paid by them and credited to their accounts respectively, in the fettlement thereof with the Treasury Department. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any perfon fhall have been charged, pur ment, the fuant to the above-mentioned acts or either of In cafe of them, or to this act, with the amount of the legal valuation of any tract of land or dwelling. ejecthoufe; and fuch perfon, or his or her legal representatives or affigns, fhall afterwards in due perfon charged course of law have been ejected from fuch land may be or dwelling-houfe, or have had a decifion a- exoneragainst him, her or them, upon the title there- ted. of, then, and in every fuch cafe, it fhall be the duty of the furveyor of the revenue within whose affeffment diftrict the faid land or dwelling-houfe fhall be fituated'; and he is hereby authorized and required, on the application of such person, or of his or her legal reprefentatives or affigns, as the cafe may be, and on the payment or tender by them, or any of them, of the fum of one dollar for every fuch tract of land or dwelling-houfe, which fum the faid furveyor is hereby authorized to demand and receive in fuch cafe, to cancel the valuation on fuch land or dwelling-houfe, fo far as refpects. the perfons fo applying, and to discharge him or her therefrom. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-President of the United States, and APPROVED-May 13, A. D. 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States of America. CHAPTER LXI. ' An ACT to amend an act, intituled " An act to eftablish the Judicial Courts of the United States. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That jurors to ferve in the courts of the United States fhall be defignated by lot, or otherwise, in each state or district respectively, according to the mode of forming juries to serve in the highest courts of law therein now practifed; fo far as the fame fhall render fuch defignation practicable by the courts and marshals of the United States. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED-May 13, A. D. 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LXII. An ACT to appropriate a certain fum of money to defray the expenfe of holding a treaty or treaties with the Indians. Sec. 1. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That a fum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated, to defray the expenfe of fuch treaty or treaties, as the Prefident of the United States shall deem it expedient to hold with the Indians fouth of the river Ohio; Provided, nothing in this act contained fhall be conftrued to admit an obligation on the part of the United States to extinguish, for the benefit of any state or individual citizen, Indian claims to any lands lying within the limits of the United States; and that the compenfation to be allowed to any of the commiffioners, who may be appointed for negotiating fuch treaty or treaties, fhall not exceed, exclufive of travelling expenses, the |