The agreements and terms above concluded by the two contracting parties, fhall be punctually observed with the will of the Most High: And for the maintenance and exact obfervance of the faid agreements, we have caused their contents to be here tranfcribed, in the prefent month of Rebia Elul, of the Hegira one thoufand two hundred and twelve, correfponding with the month of Auguft, of the Chriftian year one thousand seven hundred and ninetyfeven. (Seal) WHEREAS the PRESIDENT of the United States of America, by his letters patent, under his fignature and the seal of State, dated the eighteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninetyeight, vested Richard O'Brien, William Eaton, and James Leander Cathcart, or any two of them in the absence of the third, with full pow. ers to confer, negotiate and conclude with the Bey and Regency of Tunis, on certain alterations in the treaty between the United States and the government of Tunis, concluded by the intervention of Jofeph Etienne Famin, on behalf of the United States, in the month of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety feven, We, the underwritten William Eaton and James Leander Cathcart (Richard O'Brien being absent) have concluded on and entered, in the foregoing treaty, certain alterations in the eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth articles, and do agree to said treaty with said alterations, referving the fame nevertheless for the final ratification of the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. In teftimony whereof we annex our names and the confular feal of the United States. Done in Tunis, the twentyfixth day of March, in the year of the Christian era one thoufand feven hundred and ninety nine, and of American independence the twenty-third. (Signed) WILLIAM EATON, JAMES LEANDER CATHCART. Table of Contents. AN act for reviving and continuing fuits and proceedings in the circuit court for the dif- An act extending the privilege of franking to Wil- An act, fupplementary to the act, intituled, " An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of flaves within the United States." An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt. An act for the prefervation of peace with the Indian tribes. PAGE 12 An act to repeal part of an act, intituled, " An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cafes therein mentioned, and to continue in force the refidue of the fame." An act for the relief of John Vaughan. An act giving further time to the holders of military warrants, to register and locate the fame. ibid. An act to fufpend in part, an act, intituled, “An act of the United States; to augment An act further to fufpend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof. 13 14 15 An act for the relief of James Yard. An act providing for the fecond cenfus or enumera PAGE 23 24 tion of the inhabitants of the United States. An act in addition to an act, intituled, " An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military fervices, and for the fociety of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen." An act providing for falvage in cafes of re-capture. 38 An act declaring the affent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland and Georgia. An act to alter the times of holding the district court in North-Carolina. An act for the relief of Campbell Smith. An act to discharge Robert Sturgeon from his im- An act to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New-Orleans, and therein to amend the act, intituled, "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." An act to continue in force "An act concerning certain fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein," and for other purposes as therein mentioned. 32 42. 43 44 45 ibid. 83 84 • ibid. An act to alter the form of certain oaths and affirmations directed to be taken by the act, entitled, "An act providing for the fecond cenfus, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States." An act for the relief of the corporation of Rhode- 86 87 |