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CHAPTER LXX.

An ACT fupplementary to the act establishing the Mint, and regulating the coins of the United States.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of Amerisa, in Congress affembled, That until the fourth day of March one thoufand eight hundred and one, the Mint fhall remain in the city of Philadelphia, and be carried on as heretofore under the laws now in force; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. URIAH TRACEY,

Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED-May 14, A. D. 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER LXXI.

An ACT to make further provifion for the children of colonel John Harding, and major Alexander Trueman, deceased.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amerita, in Congress affembled, That there shall be annually paid to the guardians refpectively of the fons and daughters of the late colonel John Harding, deceased, and to the guardian of the daughter of the late major Alexander Trueman, deceased, for each fon and daughter aforefaid, the fum of one hundred dollars, until they shall have respectively attained the age of twenty-one years, to be applied by the faid feveral

guardians to the suitable education of the said fons, and to the use of the said daughters.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. URIAH TRACEY,

Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED-May 14, A. D. 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

ESOLVED by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That a marble monument be erected by the United States, in the death of Capitol, at the city of Washington, and that general the family of general Washington be requested Washing to permit his body to be depofited under it;

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and that the monument be fo defigned as to commemorate the great events of his military and political life.

And be it further refolved, That there be a funeral proceffion from Congress Hall to the German Lutheran Church, in honor of the memory of general George Washington, on Thurf day the twenty-fixth inftant, and that an ora tion be prepared at the request of Congress to be delivered before both houses on that day; and that the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, be defired to request one of the members of Congrefs to prepare and deliver the fame.

And be it further refolved, That it be recommended to the people of the United States to wear crape on the left arm as mourning, for thirty days.

And be it further refolved, That the Prefident of the United States be requested to direct a copy of these refolutions to be tranfmitted to Mrs. Washington, affuring her of the profound respect Congress will ever bear to her perfon and character; of their condolence on the late afflicting difpenfation of Providence; and intreating her affent to the interment of the remains of general George Washington, in the manner expreffed in the first resolution.

And be it further refolved, That the Prefident of the United States be requested to iffue a proclamation, notifying to the people throughout the United States the recommendation contained in the third refolution.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE,

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Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED December 24, 1799.

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JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

ESOLVED by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That it be recom- Relative mended to the people of the United States to to the affemble on the twenty-fecond day of February death of next, in fuch numbers and manner as may be general Washingconvenient, publicly to teftify their grief for the death of general George Washington, by fuitable eulogies, orations and difcourfes, or by public prayers.

And be it further refolved, That the Prefident be requested to iffue a proclamation for the VOL. V.

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N. Carolina.

purpose of carrying the foregoing refolution into effect.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

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

APPROVED January 6, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

RESOLVED

ESOLVED by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Secretary Laws for of State be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to procure and tranfmit to the governor of the state of North-Carolina, a number of the copies of the laws of the United States, equal to the number which the Secretary was heretofore authorized to tranfmit to the governor of the said state by an act, intituled, "An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States," to be depofited and distributed agreeably to the provisions of the said act, for the use and information of the citizens of the United States within the said state.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

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

APPROVED-February 3, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Re

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prefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Prefident In honor of the United States be requested to prefent to of captain captain Thomas Truxton, a golden Medal, emblematical of the late action between the United States' frigate Constellation, of thirty-eight guns, and the French fhip of war La Vengeance, of fifty-four; in teftimony of the high fense entertained by Congress of his gallantry and good conduct in the above engagement, wherein an example was exhibited by the captain, officers, failors, and marines, honorable to the American name, and inftructive to its rifing navy.

And it is further refolved, That the conduct of James Jarvis, a midshipman in faid frigate, who gloriously preferred certain death to an abandonment of his poft, is deferving of the highest praise, and that the lofs of fo promifing an officer is a fubject of national regret.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives,

TH: JEFFERSON,

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

APPROVED-March 29, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

President of the United States.

Refolution refpecting the copper mines on the fouth fide of Lake Superior.

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rica, in Congress affembled, That the Prefident Copper
of the United States be authorized to employ mines on
an agent, who fhall be inftructed to collect all Lake Su-
material information relative to the copper

ESOLVED by the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives of the United States of Ame-

perior.

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