mands; and Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That a fum certain spenot exceeding one hundred and forty-feven thou- cific defand one hundred and fixty-nine dollars, and fifty-four cents, be appropriated out of the monies arifing as aforefaid from the duties on imports and tonnage, for discharging the demands which exift against the United States, as fpecified by the Secretary of the Treafury in his report made to the House of Representatives on the first of March inftant, including therein a provifion for building a light-house on Cape- ing a lightHenry in the state of Virginia, and for defray- houfe on ing the expences arifing from the act, intituled, Cape HenAn act for the establishment and fupport of light-houses, beacorts, buoys, and public piers." for build ry; and which cer ments, not before provided for Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That out of the aforefaid appropriation of one hundred and forty-feven thoufand one hundred and fix- out of ty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents, the payment tain pay of the following fums, not heretofore provided for by law, and estimated in the aforefaid report of the Secretary of the Treafury of the by law, are first of March inftant, is hereby authorised and authorized, intended to be made, to wit: For the expences of the late office of foreign affairs, fix hundred and fifty dollars: To Roger Alden, for his fervices, including his office expences, and the allowance to his clerks, eight hundred and feventy-three dollars, and feventy cents: To the late commiffioner for fettling the accounts of the departments of the late quartermafter-general, and commiffaries general of purchafes and iffues, for his own and clerk's fervices, from the eighth of May to the first of Auguft, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, one thousand and ten dollars, and fifty-five cents: To the late commiffioner for VOL. I. M For Jehoia kim M Tokfin, James Ma thers, and G. Dalley fettling the accounts of the late marine, clothing, and hofpital departments, for his own and clerk's fervices, from the eighth of May to the third of Auguft, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-nine, fix hundred and twenty-eight dollars, and twenty-fix cents: To the late commiffioner for adjusting the accounts of the fecret and commercial committees of Congrefs, for his falary from the firft of July to the third of August, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and feventy-four dollars, and fixteen cents: For defraying the extraordinary expences of the late Prefident of Congrefs, three hundred and eighteen dollars, and fifty-three cents: For paying falaries to the late loan-officers of the feveral ftates, from the thirtieth day of June to the thirty-first day of December, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, including office-charges, fix thoufand feven hundred and twenty-five dollars: For paying the intereft due on the loans made by the Secretary of the Treafury, two thoufand four hundred and fourteen dollars, and fixty one cents. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the fum of one hundred and twenty dollars, be paid out of the monies arifing from the aforefaid duties on imports and tonnage, to Jehoiakim M'Tokfin, in full compenfation for his fervices as an interpreter and guide in the expedition commanded by major-general Sullivan, in the year one thousand feven hundred and feventynine; and alfo the fum of ninety-fix dollars to James Mathers and Gifford Dalley, each, for fervices during the late recefs of Congrefs. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Prefident of the United States be authorised to if neceffa ry, may aud empower the Secretary of the Treafury, if he President, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, March twenty-fixth, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. propriati ons. CHAPTER V. An Act to prevent the Exportation of Goods not duly infpected according to the Laws of the Several States. Section 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, collectors, That the collectors and other officers of the &c. not to grant clearcustoms in the feveral ports of the United ances, unStates, be, and they are hereby directed to pay due regard to the infpection-laws of the ftates fpection is in which they may refpectively act, in fuch man- produced. ner, that no veffel having on board goods liable to inspection, fhall be cleared out until the mafter or other proper perfon fhall have pro til a certificate of in duced fuch certificate, that all fuch goods have FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, April the 2d, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Recital of the deed of ceffion, by the fenators of N. Carolina, to the United States; and CHAPTER VI. An Act to accept a Ceffion of the Claims of the State of North-Carolina, to a certain District of Western Territory. A DEED of ceffion having been executed, and in the Senate offered for acceptance to the United States, of the claims of the state of North Carolina, to a district of territory therein defcribed; which deed is in the words following, viz. To all who fhall fee thefe Prefents. We, the underwritten SAMUEL JOHNSTON and BENJAMIN HAWKINS, Senators in the Congrefs of the United States of America, duly and conftitutionally chofen by the Legiflature of the state of North-Carolina, fend greeting. WHEREAS the General Affembly of the ftate of North-Carolina, on the day of December, in the year of our Lord one thoufand seven hundred and eighty-nine, paffed an act, entitled, "An Act for the purpose of ceding to the United States of America, certain western lands therein defcribed," in the words following, to wit: ture of that execution of WHEREAS the United States in Congress affembled, have repeatedly and earneftly recommended to the respective states in the Union, of the act of claiming or owning vacant western territory, the legislato make ceffions of part of the fame, as a fur- late, by ther means, as well of haftening the extinguifh- which the ment of the debts, as of establishing the harmo- the faid ny of the United States; and the inhabitants deed is of the faid western territory being alfo defirous authorifed. that fuch ceffion fhould be made, in order to obtain a more ample protection than they have heretofore received: Now this ftate, being ever defirous of doing ample justice to the public creditors, as well as the establishing the harmony of the United States, and complying with the reasonable defires of her citizens; Be it enacted by the General Affembly of the state of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the fame, That the Senators of this ftate, in the Congrefs of the United States, or one of the Senators and any two of the Reprefentatives of this ftate in the Congrefs of the United States, are hereby authorised, empowed and required to execute a deed or deeds on the part and behalf of this state, conveying to the United States of America, all right, title Boundaries and claim which this ftate has to the fovereignty and condiand territory of the lands fituated within the tions of the chartered limits of this state, west of a line beginning on the extreme height of the Stone ceffion. |