Copying fees. repealed. of State, confequent on fuch petition, and fhall pafs to the account of clerk-hire in that office. Provided nevertheless, That for every copy, which may be required at the faid office, of any paper respecting any patent, that has been granted, the perfon obtaining fuch copy, fhall pay at the rate of twenty cents, for every copy-fheet of one hundred words, and for every copy of a drawing, the party obtaining the fame, fhall pay two dollars of which payments, an account fhall be rendered, annually, to the treafury of the United States, and they fhall also pass to the account of clerk-hire, in the office of the Secretary of State. Se&t. 12. And be it further enacted, That the act, paffed the tenth day of April, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, inFormer act titled, " An act to promote the progress of ufeful arts," be, and the fame is hereby repealed. Provided always, That nothing, contained in this act, fhall be conftrued to invalidate any patent, that may have been granted under the authority of the said act; and all patentees under the faid act, their executors, administrators and affigns, fhall be confidered within the purview of this act, in respect to the violation of their rights: Provided, fuch violations fhall be committed, after the paffing of this act. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, February twenty-firft, 1793: GEORGE WASHINGTON, CHAPTER XII. An Act to authorize the Comptroller of the Trea fury to fettle the Account of Thomas Wishart, late a Lieutenant in the Army of the United States. (PRIVATE.) CHAPTER XIII. An Act to authorize the Adjustment of a Claim of Jofeph Henderson against the United States. (PRIVATE.) CHAPTER XIV. An Act making Provifion for the Perfons therein mentioned. W HEREAS Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, while employed in carrying meffages of peace to the hoftile Indians, were killed by the faid Indians: to the wi children BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That four hundred and Allowance fifty dollars per annum for seven years, be al- dows and lowed to the widow and orphan-children of orphan the faid Colonel John Harding, and the fum of of J. Harthree hundred dollars per annum, for the fame ding & term of seven years, to the orphan-children man. of the faid Major Alexander Trueman, to commence on the first day of July, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-two, and to be paid Alex.True half yearly, at the Treafury, to the faid widow, and to the guardians of the faid orphan-children, or to their legal attornies. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, February twenty-feventh, 1793: Duty on CHAPTER XV. An Act for repealing the feveral Impoft-Laws of the United States, fo far as they may be deemed to impofe a Duty on ufeful Beafts imported for Breed. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the feveral laws beats im- of the United States, impofing duties on goods, ported for wares and merchandize imported into the Unirepeated. ted States, fo far as they may be deemed to impofe a duty on horfes, cattle, fheep, fwine or other useful beafts, imported into the United States, for brced, fhall be repealed. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, February twenty-feventh, 1793: Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XVÍ. An Act in Addition to, and Alteration of the ing powers commif. Section 1.DE it enacted by the Senate and 28 fee of Houfe of Reprefentatives of the ad extendUnited States of America, in Congress affembled, of the That the fecond fection of the act, intitled, board of "An act to extend the time limited for fet- fioners retling the accounts of the United States with the pealed. individual ftates," which extended the powers of the board of commiffioners to the fettlement of the accounts between the United States and the state of Vermont, be and here by is repealed. not to be Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Vermont board of commiffioners eftablished to fettle regarded the accounts between the United States and in apportioning bathe individual ftates, in apportioning the ag- lances, gregate of all the balances due to each state, between the ftates, agreeably to the act, intitled, "An act to provide more effectually for the fettlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual ftates," fhall have no regard to the ftate of Vermont. included Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in and Kenthe apportioning of the balances aforefaid, the lucky to be ftate of Kentucky fhall be deemed to be in- with Vircluded in the state of Virginia, the admiffion VOL. II. D 2 ginia, of the faid ftate of Kentucky as a member of the union notwithstanding. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United Prefident of the United States. Sections of mer act re- CHAPTER XVII. An Act to regulate the Claims to Invalid Penfions. W HEREAS the act, paffed at the laft feffion of Congrefs, intitled, " A act to provide for the fettlement of the claims of Widows and Orphans barred by the limi tations heretofore eftablished, and to regulate the claims to Invalid Penfions," is found by experience inadequate to prevent the admiffion of improper claims to invalid penfions, and not to contain a fufficient facility for the allowance of fuch as may be well founded: Therefore, Sec. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the second, third and fourth fections of the faid act, be repealed, and that in future, all claims to fuch penfions fhall be regulated in the manner following, to wit: |