RESO ESOLVED by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That it be recommended to the Legislatures of the feveral ftates to pafs laws, making it exprefsly the duty of the keepers of their gaols, to receive and fafe keep therein all prifoners committed under the aûï thority of the United States, until they fhall be difcharged by due courfe of the laws thereof, under the like penalties as in the cafe of prisoners committed. under the authority of fuch ftates refpectively; the United States to pay for the use and keeping of fuch gaols, at the rate of fifty cents per month for each pri foner that fhall, under their authority, be committed thereto, during the time fuch prifoners fhall be therein confined; and affoto fupport fuch of faid prifoners as fhall be committed for offences.. T FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, September the 23d, 1789: R GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESOLVED, That it fhall be the duty of the Secretary of State, to procure from time to time fuch of the ftatutes of the feveral ftates as may not be in his office. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, September the 23d, 1789: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. TREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE United States of America AND MIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY. L HE Moft Christian King and the United States of North-America; to wit: NewHampshire, Maffachufetts-bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennfylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, NorthCarolin olina, and Georgia, having this day concluded a treaty of Amity and Commerce, for the reciprocal advantage of their fubjects and citizens, have thought it neceffary to take into confideration the means of ftrengthening thofe engagements, and of rendering them ufeful to the fafety and tranquility of the two parties; particularly in cafe Great-Britain in refentment of that connection and of the good correfpondence which is the object of the faid treaty, fhould break the peace with France, either by direct hoftilities, or by hindering her commerce and navigation in a manner contrary to the rights of nations, and the peace fubfifting between the two crowns: And his Majefty and the faid United ་ |