Where to

be located.

fon, not less than eighteen years of age, being an actual fettler at the time of fuch conveyance.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the faid quantities of two hundred and fourteen thoufand, two hundred and eighty-five acres, and of one hundred thousand acres, fhall be located within the limits of the tract of one million, five hundred thoufand acres of land, defcribed in the indenture aforefaid, and adjoining to the tract of land described in the first fection of this act, and in fuch form as the Prefident in the letters patent, fhall prefcribe for that purpose.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident pre

tempore of the Senate.

APPROVED, April twenty firft, 1792:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

Estate of the late General

Green, in

CHAPTER XXVI.

An Act to indemnify the Eftate of the late Major General Nathaniel Green, for a certain Bond entered into by him during the late War.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of Ameri ca, in Congress affembled, That the United States demnified fhall and will indemnify the estate of the late of a certain General Green, for the fum of eight thoufand bond. fix hundred and eighty eight pounds fix fhil

for amount

lings fterling money, being the amount due on the first day of May, one thousand feven hun dred and eighty-fix, on a certain bond executed to Meffieurs Newcomen and Collet, by the faid General Green, as furety for John Banks and Company, and the intereft thereon; excepting therefrom a certain conditional bond given in June one thousand feven hundred and eighty fix, for about one thousand fix hundred pounds fterling, (be the fame more or less) being part of the aforefaid fum of eight thoufand fix hundred and eighty eight pounds fix fhillings, which was to be paid, only in cafe on certain the faid General Green fhould recover from conditions. the faid Banks, or Banks and Company, a fum fufficient for his indemnity; Provided, it fhall appear upon due investigation, by the officers of the Treasury, that the said General Green, in his life-time, or his executors, fince his decease, have not been already indemnified, or compensated for the faid fum of eight thoufand fix hundred and eighty eight pounds fix fhillings, except as aforefaid: And also provided, That the faid executors fhall account for a fum being about two thoufand pounds fterling, (be the fame more or lefs) recovered of John Ferrie, one of the partners of the faid Banks and Company, by the faid executors, to be in part of the indemnification aforefaid; and alfo fhall make over to the Comptroller of the Treasury and his fucceffors, for the United States, all mortgages, bonds, covenants, or other counter-fecurities whatsoever, now due, which were obtained by the faid General Green, in his life-time, from the faid Banks and Company, on account of his being furety for them as aforefaid, to be fued for in the name of the faid executors for the ufe of the United States,

the treafu

ury of the And the officers of the Treasury are hereby nicers of authorized to liquidate and fettle the fum due ry herein. to the estate of the faid General Green, to indemnify the fame, as aforefaid, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, and to pay the fame, out of the Treafury of the United States, to the faid executors, to be accounted for by them, as part of the faid estate.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives.

RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident pro

tempore of the Senate.

APPROVED, April twenty-feventh, 1792:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

On 30th

duties.now

CHAPTER XXVII.

An Act for raising a farther fum of Money for the Protection of the Frontiers, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

Sec. 1.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, June 1792, That from and after laft day of June next, the in force on duties now in force upon the articles hereincertain ar- after enumerated and defcribed, at their imceafe and portation into the United States, fhall ceafe, others to and that in lieu thereof, there shall be thenceted in their forth laid, levied and collected upon the faid articles, at their faid importation, the feveral and refpective rates or duties following: viz:

ticles to

be collec

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WINES, namely: Madeira, of the quality of Specific du London particular, per gallon fifty fix cents: ties on cerMadeira, of the quality of London market, merated ar per gallon, forty nine cents: Other Madeira ticle. wine, per gallon, forty cents: Sherry, per gallon, thirty three cents: Saint Lucar, per gallon, thirty cents: Lisbon, per gallon, twenty five cents: Oporto, per gallon, twenty five cents: Teneriffe and Fayall, per gallon, twenty cents: All other wines, forty per centum ad valorem, Provided that the amount of the duty thereupon fhall, in no cafe, exceed thirty cents per gallon.

SPIRITS, diftilled wholly or chiefly from grain: Of the firft clafs of proof, per gallon, twenty eight cents: of the fecond clafs of proof, per gallon, twenty nine cents of the third clafs of proof, per gallon, thirty one cents of the fourth clafs of proof, per gallon, thirty four cents of the fifth clafs of proof, per gallon, forty cents: of the fixth clafs of proof, per gallon, fifty cents.

ALL OTHER DISTILLED SPIRITS: Of the fecond clafs of proof and under, per gallon, twenty five cents: of the third clafs of proof and under per gallon, twenty eight cents of the fourth clafs of proof and under, per gallon, thirty two cents: of the fifth class of proof and under, per gallon, thirty eight cents of the fixth clafs of proof and under, per gallon, forty fix cents. Which feveral claffes or denominations of proof fhall be deemed and taken to correfpond with thofe mentioned in the "act "repealing after the laft day of June next, "the duties heretofore laid upon diftilled fpi"rits imported from abroad, and laying others "in their stead, and also upon spirits diftilled

Specific du "within the United States, and for appropriating the fame."

ties on cer

tain enumerared articles.

Beer, ale and porter, per gallon, eight cents: fteel, per hundred weight, one hundred cents: nails, per pound, two cents: cocoa per pound, two cents chocolate, per pound, three cents: playing cards per pack, twenty five cents: fhoes and flippers of filk, twenty cents: all all other fhoes and flippers for men and women, clogs and golofhoes, ten cents: all other thoes and flippers for children, feven cents: on hemp, for every one hundred and twelve pounds, one hundred cents: on cables, for every one hundred and twelve pounds, one hundred and eighty cents: on tarred cordage, for every one hundred and twelve pounds, one hundred and eighty cents: on untarred cordage and yarn, for every one hundred and twelve pounds, two hundred and twenty five cents on twine and packthread, for every one hundred and twelve pounds, four hundred cents on coal, per bufhel, four and a half cents on falts called Glauber-falts, for every one hundred and twelve pounds, two hundred cents.

ARTICLES AD VALOREM: China wares, looking glafs, window and other glafs and all manufactures of glafs, black quart bottles excepted; mufkets, piftols, and other fire arms; fwords, cutlaffes, hangers and other fide arms; ftarch; hair powder; wafers; glue; laces, lines, fringes, taffels, and trimmings, commonly ufed by upholsterers, coachmakers and faddlers, and paper hangings; painters colors, whether dry or ground in cil, fifteen per centum ad valorem; caft, flit and rolled iron, and generally, all manufactures of iron, fteel, tin, pewter, copper, brafs, or of which either of