The pen paid accor made or that here after may be made. certificates accordingly. That he also iffue a certificate to Charles Markley, lately a captain in Armand's corps, for the commutation of his half pay. That he alfo fettle the accounts of James Derry, and Benjamin Hardifon, who were made prisoners in Canada, in May, one thousand feven hundred and feventy-fix, and forcibly detained in captivity among the Indians, and that he iffue certificates for the balance of their pay refpectively, to the third of November, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-three. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the fions to be feveral penfions mentioned in this act, due or ding to laws to become due from the fifth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, fhall be paid according to fuch laws as have been made, or fhall be made relative to invalid penfioners And that the arrears of the faid pen-. fions, due before the faid fifth day of March, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, fhall be paid in fuch manner as Congress may hereafter provide for paying the arrears of penfions. Allowance ing. S. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That there o S, Hard- fhall be allowed to Seth Harding, for three months and ten days fervices on board the Alliance frigate, during the late war, at the rate of fixty dollars per month, being the pay of a captain, to be paid out of the monies arifing from impofts and tonnage. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MÜHLENBERG, 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. CHAPTER XLV. An Act for the Relief of the Perfons therein mentioned or defcribed. Sec. 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the the treafu to S. Stife United States of America in Congress affembled, That the register of the treafury fhall, and is Regifter of hereby required to grant unto Sarah, the wi- ry to grant dow of the late major-general Earl of Stirling, acertificate who died in the fervice of the United States, ling; a certificate to entitle her to a fum equal to an annuity for feven years half pay of a majorgeneral, to commence as from the fourteenth day of January, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-three, in conformity to the act of the late Congrefs, paffed on the twenty-fourth day of Auguft, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty; the amount for which the faid certificate is to be granted, to be afcertained by the Secretary of the Treafury, and on fimilar principles as other debts of the United States are liquidated and certified. ry to grant E. Laurens Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Regifter of faid regifter fhall grant unto Frances Eleanor the treafuLaurens, the orphan daughter of the late lieu- a certificate tenant-colonel John Laurens, who was killed to Frances whilft in the fervice of the United States, a certificate to entitle her to a fum equal to an annuity for seven years half pay of a lieutenant-colonel, to commence as from the twenty-fifth day of Auguft, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-two, according to the act of the late Congrefs of the twenty-fourth day of Auguft, one thousand feven hundred and eighty; the amount for which the said certificate is to be granted, to be afcertained by the Secretary of the Treafury in manner aforefaid to invalid And whereas no provifion hath heretofore been made for difcharging the arrears of penfions due to officers, non-commiffioned officers, and foldiers, who were wounded and difabled whilft in the fervice of the United States: Therefore, Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That each of penfioners. the officers, non-commiffioned officers and foldiers, who were fo wounded and difabled, and who are now placed on the books in the office of the fecretary for the department of war, as a penfioner, or to be fo placed in conformity to any law of this Congrefs, fhall receive from the regifter of the treafury, who is hereby required to grant the fame, a certificate, to be liquidated and fettled in fuch manner as the Secretary of the Treafury fhall direct, for a fum equal to the penfion annually due to him, to commence from the time he became entitled thereto, or from the time to which the fame had been paid, as the cafe may be, which shall be ascertained and certified by the faid Secretary for the department of war, and which annuity fhall be liquidated to the fourth day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-nine, from which day the United States have affumed the payment of the penfions certified by the several states. And in cafe of the death of any person so entitled, the certificate fhall pafs to his heirs or legal reprefentative or representatives. ry to grant Regifter of Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the the treafu- widow or orphan of each officer, non-comcertificate miffioned officer or foldier who was killed or to widows died whilft in the fervice of the United States, & orphans of officers and who is now placed on the books in the & foldiers. office of the faid Secretary, as entitled to a penfion, by virtue of any act of the faid late Congress, or any law of this Congress, and for FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, . APPROVED, August the eleventh, 1790: CHAPTER XLVI. An Act making certain Appropriations therein B mentioned. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That there be appropriated to the purposes herein after mentioned, to be paid out of the monies arising from the duties on goods, wares and merchandize imported, and on the tonnage of fhips or veffels, the following fums; to wit: The fum of thir- Sum granty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety- Skinner, & two dollars and feventy-five cents, towards discharging certain debts contracted by Abra ted to A. and for purposes eftimated in a report of the fecretary of the treafu ry. ham Skinner, late commiffary of prifoners, on account of the fubfiftence of the officers of the late army while in captivity: The fum of forty thousand dollars, towards difcharging cerT. Picker- tain debts contracted by colonel Timothy Picking; ering, late quartermafter-general, and which fum was included in the amount of a warrant drawn in his favor by the late fuperintendant of the finances of the United States, and which warrant was not discharged: The sum of one hundred and four thoufand three hundred and twenty-feven dollars and twenty-two cents, for the feveral purposes fpecified in an estimate accompanying the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the fifth inftant, including one thousand dollars for defraying the expenfes of certain establishments for the fecurity of navi gation of the like nature with those mentioned in the act, intituled, "An act for the eftablishment and fupport of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers," but not particularly fpecified therein: The fum of one hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-two cents, for reimburfing the Secretary at War an advance by him made on account of George Morgan White Eyes, over and above the fum heretofore appropriated on account of the faid George Morgan White Eyes: The fum of fix hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty cents, for the fervices and expenfes of Ifaac Guion, employed by direction of the Prefident of the United States, in relation to the refolution of Congrefs of the twenty-fixth of Auguft laft: The fum of forty-one dollars and forty-feven cents, for reimburfing the treafurer of the United States the cofts by him paid on a protefted bill: The fum of two hundred and fifty dollars, for the falary of an interpreter of |