and may bring and maintain a fuit upon the said bond, in law or equity, in his, her or their own name or names, for the recovery of the monies which fhall have been paid thereupon. And it is further declared, That the cafes of infolvency in the faid forty fourth fection mentioned, fhall be deemed to extend, as well to cafes in which a debtor, not having fufficient property to pay all his or her debts, fhall have made a voluntary affignment thereof, for the benefit of his or her creditors, or in which the eftate and effects of an abfconding, concealed or absent debtor fhall have been attached by procefs of law, as to cafes, in which an act of legal bankruptcy fhall have been committed. of U. States Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That the Prefident Prefident of the United States be, and hereby to appoint is authorized to appoint such place within the port of endistrict of Vermont to be the port of entry and livery in try and de delivery within the faid diftrict, as he may deem Vermon expedient, any thing in the act, intituled "An act giving effect to the laws of the United States within the state of Vermont," to the contrary notwithstanding. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident prø APPROVED, May fecond, 1792:. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXVIII. An Act to provide for calling forth the Militia CHAPTER XXIX. An Act for the Relief of Perfons imprisoned to grant a acres to J. Conditions. CHAPTER XXX. An Act authorizing the Grant and Conveyance of certain Lands to John Cleves Symmes, and his Affociates. Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and Prefident United States of America in Congress affembled, authorized That the Prefident of the United States be certain and he hereby is authorized and empowered number of to iffue letters patent in the name and under C. Symmes, the feal of the United States, thereby granting on certain and conveying to John Cleves Symmes and his affociates, and to their heirs and affigns, in fee fimple, fuch number of acres of land as the payments already made by the said John Cleves Symmes, his agents or affociates, under their contract of the fifteenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, will pay for, eftimating the lands at two thirds of 1 a dollar per acre, and making the refervations specified in the faid contract. one other tract. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the To grant Prefident 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 Treafury, within fix months, warrants which iffued for army bounty rights fufficient for that purpofe, according to the provifion of the refolves of Congrefs of the twenty third of July, and fecond of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven; but in cafe, so many warrants fhould not be delivered, then the letters patent last 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 townPresident 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 Congrefs of the fecond of October, one thousand seven hundred 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 ted agreca able to a The lands conveyed as aforefaid, fhall be included and to be loca located within fuch limits and lines of boundary, as the President may judge expedient, former at agreeably to an act paffed the twelfth day of April, one thousand seven 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 diftilled within the United States. Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe 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 fpirits 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 tilled from foreign ma For every gallon of those spirits of the first Other duclafs of proof, ten cents; for every gallon of tit paid upon those spirits of the second class of proof, eleven fpirits difcents; for every gallon of those spirits of the 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 clafs of proof, twenty five cents. upon all spirits 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 distillery 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 thofe fpirits of the firft On fpirits clafs of proof, feven cents; for every gallon of the materithofe fpirits of the second class of proof, eight als of the cents; for every gallon of thofe fpirits 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 clafs 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 ftills. |