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or reprefentatives.

FREDERICK. AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, Auguft the tenth, 1790:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States:

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An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treafury to finish the Light-Houfe on Portland-Head, in the District of Maine!

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E it enaded by the Senate and Houfe of Re prefentatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress affembled, That there be ap- 1500 dolpropriated and paid out of the monies arifing priated. from the duties on imports and tonnage, a fum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, for the purpose of finishing the Light-House on Portland-Head, in the district of Maine; and that the Secretary of the Treafury, under the directions of the President of the United States, be authorized to cause the faid light-houfe to be finished and completed accordingly. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, Auguft the tenth, 1790:

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Circuit courts when and where to be held.

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former act

CHAPTER XLII.

An Act to alter the Times for holding the Circuits Courts of the United States in the Districts of South-Carolina and Georgia, and providing that the District Court of Pennsylvania, fhall in future be held at the city of Philadelphia only.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That the circuit courts of the United States in the districts of South-Carolina and Georgia, fhall for the future be held as follows, to wit: In the diftrict of South-Carolina on the twentyfifth day of October next, at Charleston, and in each fucceeding year at Columbia, on the twelfth day of May, and in Charleston on the twenty-fifth day of October; in the district of Georgia on the fifteenth day of October next, at Augufta, and in each fucceeding year at Savannah, on the twenty-fifth day of April, and at Augufta on the fifteenth day of October; except when any of those days fhall happen to be Sunday, in which cafe the court fhall be held on the Monday following. And all procefs that was returnable under the former law at Charleston, on the first day of October next, and at Augufta on the feventeenth day of October, fhall now be deemed returnable respectively at Charleston on the twenty-fifth day of October next, and at

Augufta on the fifteenth day of October next;

any thing in the former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That fo repealed. much of the act, entitled, "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," as

directs that the diftrict court for the diftrict of Pennsylvania fhall be held at Yorktown in the faid state, be repealed; and that in future the diftrict court for Pennsylvania be held in the city of Philadelphia.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, Auguft the eleventh, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

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An Act declaring the Affent of Congress to certain Acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode-Inland and Providence Plantations. (EXPIRED.)

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An Act for the Relief of difabled Soldiers and
Seamen lately in the Service of the United
States, and of certain other Perfons.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That Stephen Califfe, Jeremiah Ryan, Jofeph McGibbon, Samuel Garretfon, Ephraim Perfons enM'Coy, Chriftian Khun, David Steele, Jofeph Shuttlief, and Daniel Culver, difabled foldiers penfions, & lately in the fervice of the United States, be rate.

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Ferfons en- allowed penfions at the rate of five dollars per penfions, & month from the time their pay in the army re

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fpectively ceafed. That Chriftian Wolfe, a difabled foldier, be allowed a pension at the rate of four dollars per month from the date of his difcharge. That Edward Scott, a disabled foldier, be allowed a penfion at the rate of three dollars per month from the date of his dif charge. That David Weaver and George Schell, difabled foldiers, be each allowed a penfion, at the rate of two dollars per month, from the date of their respective discharges. That Seth Boardman, a difabled foldier, be allowed a penfion, at the rate of three dollars and one third of a dollar per month, from the feventeenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-fix. That Severinus Koch, a difabled captain of colonel Jacob Klock's regiment of New-York militia, be allowed a penfion, at the rate of five dollars per month, from the twentieth day of Auguft, one thousand seven hundred and feventy-feven. That John Younglove, a difabled major of colonel Lewis Van Woort's regiment of New-York militia, be allowed a penfion at the rate of fix dollars per month, from the thirtieth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one. That William White, a difabled private of colonel Williams regiment of New-York militia, be allowed a penfion, at the rate of three dollars and one third of a dollar per month, from the first day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-fix. That Jacob Newkerk, a difabled foldier of colonel John Harper's regiment of New-York ftate troops, be allowed a penfion, at the rate of three dollars per month, from the twenty-fecond day of October, one thousand feven hundred and eighty.

That David Poole, a difabled feaman lately in the fervice of the United States, be allowed a penfion of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of March, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-nine.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Ca- Sum grantleb Brewster, lately a lieutenant, who was fion allowwounded and difabled in the fervice of the ed to Caleb United States, be allowed three hundred fortyeight dollars and fifty-feven cents, the amount of his neceffary expenfes for fuftenance and medical affiftance, while dangerously ill of his wounds, including the interest to the first of July, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety. And that the faid Brewfter be allowed a penfion equal to his half pay as lieutenant, from the third of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, he first having returned his commutation of half pay.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Na- Pension althaniel Gove, a difabled lieutenant, lately in lowed to N. the fervice of the United States, be allowed a pension, at the rate of fix dollars and two thirds of a dollar per month, from the twentieth of May, one thousand seven hundred and feventy-eight, to the first day of July, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-fix, and that he be allowed at the rate of thirteen dollars and one third of a dollar per month, from the faid first day of July, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-fix.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enqcted, That the commifcommiffioner of army account be authorized fioner of and directed to fettle the pay and depreciation counts to of pay of John Stevens, a hoftage in the late feule pay, war at the capitulation of the cedars, as a cap-tain o tain in the line of the army, and that he iffue cera.

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