permuts given for

entered by

and

fpector fhall inake an entry of all fuch permits, and of the contents thereof; and each cheft, Its landing box or package containing any teas, fhall be them and marked by the officer under whofe immediate infpection the fame fhall be landed, in legible containing it marked, and durable characters, with progreffive numbers, and with the name of the veffel in which the fame fhall have been imported. And the correfpon- faid officer fhall grant a certificate for each ficates fuch cheft, box or package, fpecifying therein the name or names of the importer or importers, the fhip or veffel in which the fame fhall have been imported, and the number thereof to accompany the fame wherefoever it fhall be fent.

dent certi

granted.

Terra for

the duties

And whereas, for the payment of the duties accruing on Madeira wines, and which may be fecured by bond, the term of twelve months is allowed; and it is proper to extend, in like manner, the payment of the duties accruing on other wines;

Sec. 5. Therefore, Be it enacted, That for the payment of the duties on other than Mapayment of deira wines, and which fhall be fecured by bond, fuch bond fhall be taken with condition prolonged. for the payment of the duties in twelve months, in like manner as by law is directed for the payment of the duties on Madeira wines.

on wine

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, March the thifd, 1791, GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XXVII.

An Act for granting Lands to the Inhabitants and Settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois Country, in the Territory north-west of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their Poffeffions.

Sec. I.

B

400 acres

granted to

E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That four hundred acres of land be given to each of thofe perfons, who in the year one of land thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, were sach head heads of families at Vincennes or in the Illi- of a family, nois country, on the Miflifippi, and who fince and that time have removed from one of the faid places to the other. And the governor of the territory north west of the Ohio is hereby directed, to caufe the fame to be laid out for them, at their own expenfe either at Vincennes or in the Illinois country, as they shall fe verally elect.

alfotsthofe

territory,

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted and declared, That the heads of families at Vincennes who have or in the Illinois country in the year one thou- removed fand seven hundred and eighty-three, who af- from faid terwards removed without the limits of the faid territory, are notwithstanding, entitled to the donation of four hundred acres of land made by the refolve of Congress of the twenty-ninth of Auguft, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-eight; and the governor of the faid territory, upon application to him for that purpofe, is hereby directed to caufe the fame to be laid out for fuch heads of families or their heirs; and fhall alfo caufe to be laid off and confirmed to fuch perfons the feveral, VOL. I. Y 2

tracts of land which they may have poffeffed, and which before the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three may have been allotted to them according to the laws and ufages of the government under which they had refpectively fettled: Provided nevertheless, That if fuch perfons or their heirs do not return and turn within occupy the faid lands within five years, fuch five years. lands fhall be confidered as forfeited to the United States.

if they re

Lands for

anketha

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That one merly pof- hundred and fifty acres of land, heretofore in feffed by Pipoffeffion of the Piankefhaw Indians, and now under actual improvement, and conftituting a part of the village of Vincennes, be given to poffeffors. the perfons who are feverally in poffeffion of the faid land.

Indians confirmed

to prefent

of lands

elaiming under a fuppofed grant, to have their

firmed.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That Improvers where lands have been actually improved and cultivated at Vincennes, or in the Illinois country, under a fuppofed grant of the fame, by any commandant or court claiming authorielaims con- ty to make fuch grant, the governor of the faid territory be, and he hereby is empowered to confirm to the perfons who made fuch improvements, their heirs or affigns, the lands fuppofed to have been granted as aforefaid, or fuch parts thereof as he, in his discretion, may judge reafonable, not exceeding to any one perfon, four hundred acres.

Lands here.

as a com

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a tofore uled tract of land, containing about five thoufand nion to b: four hundred acres, which for many years has appropria. been fenced and ufed by the inhabitants of icd thereto. Vincennes as a common, alfo a tract of land

including the villages of Cohos and Prairie du Pont, and heretofore ufed by the inhabitants

of the faid villages as a common, be, and the fame are hereby appropriated to the use of the inhabitants of Vincennes and of the faid villages refpectively, to be used by them as a common, until otherwise difpofed of by law.

any

not obtain

nation of

and, to re

ceive 100

acres.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the governor of the said territory be authorized to Militiamen make a grant of land not exceeding one hun- who have dred acres, to each person who hath not obtain- ed any doed donation of land from the United States, and who, on the first day of Auguft, one thous sand seven hundred and ninety, was enrolled in the militia at Vincennes or in the Illinois country, and has done militia duty, the said land to be laid out at the expense of the grantees, and in fuch form and place as the said governor fhall direct. Provided nevertheless, AppropriaThat no claim founded upon purchase or other- tion of a wife, fhall be admitted within a tract of land Kafkafkia heretofore occupied by the Kafkafkia nation Indians. of Indians, and including their village, which is hereby appropriated to the use of the said Indians.

tract forthe

Beouvais.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That two Grant of to lots of land heretofore in the occupation of P. Gibault the priests at Cahokia, and fituated near that & St. Jam village, be, and the fame is hereby granted in fee to P. Gibault; and that a tract of land at Kafkafkia, formerly occupied by the Jesuits, be laid off and confirmed to St. Jam Beouvais, who claims the fame in virtue of a purchase: thereof.

lands to be

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That fo Donationmuch of the act of Congrefs of the twenty- laid out aceighth of Auguft, one thousand seven hundred cording to and eighty-eight, as refers to the locations of grefs of certain tracts of land directed to be run out June 2cth

act of Con

1788.

and referved for donations, to the ancient fettlers in the Illinois country, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the governor of the faid territory is directed to lay out the fame, agreeably to the act of Congrefs of the twen tieth of June, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-eight.

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

APPROVED, March the third, 1791:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

An Act for raifing and adding another Regiment to the Military Eftablishment of the United States, and for making farther Provision for the Protection of the Frontiers.

(REPEALED.)