a dollar per acre, and making the refervations specified in the faid contract. one other trast. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the To grant President be and he hereby is further authorized and empowered, by letters patent as aforefaid, to grant and convey to the faid John Cleves Symmes and his affociates, and to their heirs and affigns in fee fimple, one other tract of one hundred and fix thoufand eight hundred and fifty feven acres, with the refervations as aforefaid: Provided, That the faid John Cleves Symmes, or his agents or affociates, or any of them, fhall deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, within fix months, warrants which iffued for army bounty rights fufficient for that purpose, according to the provifion of the refolves of Congress of the twenty third of July, and fecond of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty feven; but in case, so many warrants fhould not be delivered, then the letters patent laft aforefaid to be given for fuch number of acres, as shall be in proportion to the warrants fo delivered. ed for fe Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the one townPrefident be and he is hereby authorized and hip grantempowered, by letters patent as aforefaid, to minaries of grant and convey unto the faid John Cleves learning. Symmes and his affociates, their heirs and affigns, in truft for the purpofe of establishing an academy and other public fchools and feminaries of learning, one compleat township, conformably to an order of Congress of the fecond of October, one thousand feven hun-dred and eighty-feven, made in confequence of the application of the faid John Cleves Symmes, for the purchase of the tract aforesaid. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the feveral quantities of land, to be granted and VOL. II. L The lands conveyed as aforefaid, fhall be included and to be loca- located within fuch limits and lines of bounable to a dary, as the Prefident may judge expedient, former act agreeably to an act paffed the twelfth day of ted agreca April, one thousand feven hundred and ninety two, "for afcertaining the bounds of a tract of land purchased by John Cleves Symmes." JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident pro tempore of the Senate. APPROVED, May fifth, 1792: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXXI. An Act to alter the Time for the next annual Former du ties after CHAPTER XXXII. An Act concerning the Duties on Spirits distilled Sec. I. within the United States. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, the last day That from and after the last day of June next, of June to ceafe, and the prefent duties upon fpirits diftilled within the United States, and on stills, shall cease, and that in lieu thereof, upon all spirits which after the faid day fhall be diftilled within the United States wholly or in part from molaffes, fugar or other foreign materials, there fhall be paid the duties following, that is to say: ties to be foreign ma For every gallon of those spirits of the firft Other du clafs of proof, ten cents; for every gallon of paid upon those spirits of the second class of proof, eleven fpirits difcents; for every gallon of thofe fpirits of the tiled from third clafs of proof, twelve cents; for every terials. gallon of thofe fpirits of the fourth clafs of proof, fourteen cents; for every gallon of thofe fpirits of the fifth clafs of proof, eighteen cents; for every gallon of thofe fpirits of the fixth class of proof, twenty five cents. upon all fpirits which after the faid day fhall be diftilled within the United States from materials of the growth or produce of the United States, in any city, town or village, at any diftillery at which there fhall be one or more ftills which fingly or together fhall be of the capacity of four hundred gallons or upwards, there fhall be paid the duties following, that is to fay; And diftilled of U. States. For every gallon of those spirits of the first On fpirits clafs of proof, feven cents; for every gallon of the materithose spirits of the second clafs of proof, eight als of the cents; for every gallon of those spirits of the third clafs of proof, nine cents; for every gallon of thofe fpirits of the fourth clafs of proof, eleven cents; for every gallon of those spirits of the fifth class of proof, thirteen cents; for every gallon of those spirits of the fixth class of proof, eighteen cents. And upon ftills which after the faid day fhall be employed in diftil- Duty on ling fpirits from materials of the growth or produce of the United States, at any other fills. place than a city, town or village, or at any dif tillery in a city, town or village at which there fhall be one or more ftills, which fingly if only one, or together if more than one, shall be of less capacity than four hundred gallons, there fhall be paid the yearly duty of fifty four cents for every gallon English wine measure of the capacity or content of each and every fuch ftill including the head thereof: Provided, That it fhall be at the option of the proprietor or poffeffor of any fuch still, instead of the faid yearly duty, either to pay feven cents for every gallon of spirits by him or her distilled, or to pay at the rate of ten cents per gallon of the capacity for each and every month of Owners in the employment of any fuch ftill; and in cafe what cafes the faid proprietor or poffeffor fhall elect to make entry pay either the said rate of feven cents per galof ftills, &c. lon, of the fpirits by him or her diftilled, or how paid. &c. how to and to ob ing them. the faid monthly rate of ten cents, according to the capacity of his or her ftill or stills, he or fhe at the time of making entry of his or her ftill or ftills in manner herein after directed, fhall by writing under his or her hand, tain licence left at the office of infpection where fuch enfor work try fhall be made, notify the faid election, and if the fame fhall be to pay the faid monthly rate of ten cents, fhall demand a licence for the term of time, fpecifying the day of commencing and the day of ending, during which he or fhe fhall intend to work his or her still or ftills, which licence fhall without delay or expense to the faid proprietor or poffeffor be granted, and shall be figned by the supervisors of the revenue and counterfigned by the officer at whofe office application for the fame fhall have been made. And in the cafe of an election to pay the faid monthly rate of ten cents, it shall not be lawful for any person by whom the fame shall have been made, to work his or her still or ftills, at any time, within the year from the date of his or her entry thereof, other than that for which a licence fhall have been granted, unless he or she shall have previously obtained another licence for fuch further time, which upon like application fhall, and may be granted, in like manner; and if any fuch perfon fhall work his or her ftill or ftills, contrary to the direction or provifion aforefaid, he or she fhall forfeit and pay for Penalty for every fuch offence, two hundred dollars. And working in every cafe in which any proprietor or pof- out licence. feffor of a still or ftills fubject to the payment of duty according to the capacity of fuch ftill or ftills, fhall not make election to pay according to one or the other of the alternatives aforefaid; or shall not duly comply therewith, he or she shall be liable to pay, and fhall pay the faid yearly rate of fifty four cents for every gallon of the capacity or capacities of his or her ftill or ftills.. ftills with ty for en Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there Office of inbe in each county comprehended within any fpection in district, at least one office of infpection, at each counwhich every perfon having or keeping a ftill try of fills, or stills within such county, fhall between the &c. last day of May, and the first day of July in each year, make entry of fuch ftill or ftills; and at which every perfon, who being a refident within the county fhall procure a still or ftills, or who removing within a county, shall bring therein a still or stills, shall within thirty days after fuch procuring or removal, and before he or she shall begin to use such still or ftills, make entry thereof. And every entry besides describing each still and the capacity |