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Power of Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Governor governor and judges of the territory north & Judges weft of the river Ohio fhall be, and hereby herein. are authorized to repeal their laws by them. made, whenfoever the fame may be found to be improper.

Power of

ries.

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3.

And be it further enacted, That the the fecreta- official duties of the secretaries of the faid territories fhall be under the controul of fuch laws, as are or may be in force in the faid territories.

One fupreme

Judge may

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any one of the fupreme or fuperior judges of the hold court. faid territories, in the abfence of the other judges, fhall be and hereby is authorized to hold a court.

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whom

vided.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the when pro- Secretary of Sate provide proper feals for the several and respective public offices in the faid territories.

Their limi

disappro

ved.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the tation act limitation act, paffed by the governor and judges of the faid territory, the twenty-eight day of December, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty eight, be and hereby is disapproved.

Certain ex

lowed to John C. Symmes, &c.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the penfes al- expenfes incurred by John Cleves Symmes and George Turner, two of the judges of the faid territory, in fending an exprefs, and in purchafing a boat to go the circuit, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, shall be liquidated by the officers of the treasury,

and paid out of the treafury of the United

States.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident pro

tempore of the Senate.

APPROVED, May eighth, 1792:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XLIII.

An Act to compenfate the Services of the late Colonel George Gibfon. (PRIVATE.)

CHAPTER XLIV.

An Act concerning the Claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States. (PRIVATE.)

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ESOLVED, by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury caufe to be provided, for the ufe of the feveral collectors in the United States. printed clearances, on the back whereof fhall be a printed account of the methods, which have been found to answer for obtaining freth, from falt water, and of constructing extempore ftills, of fuch implements, as are generally on board of every veffel, with a recommendation, in all cafes, where they shall have occafion to refort to this expedient for obtaining water, to publish the refult of their trial in fome gazette, on their return to the United States, or to communicate it for publication, to the office of the Secretary of State, in order that others may, by their success, be encouraged to make fimilar trials, and be benefited by any improvements or new ideas, which may occur to them in practice.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives.

RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident pro

tempore of the Senate:

APPROVED, May eighth, 1792:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

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