ment for 1792. the fupport of the military establishment of the For milita United States, in the year one thousand seven ry establishhundred and ninety-two, the payment of the annual allowances to the invalid penfioners of the United States, for defraying all expenses incident to the Indian department, and for defraying the expenfes incurred in the defenfive protection of the frontiers against the Indians, during the years one thoufand feven hundred and ninety, and one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-one, by virtue of the authority vefted in the Prefident of the United States, by the acts relative to the military establishment, passed the twenty-ninth of September, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, and the thirtieth of April, one thousand feven hundred and ninety, and for which, no appropriations have been made, there fhall be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred and thirty-two thousand, four hundred and forty-nine dollars, seventy-fix cents, and two thirds of a cent; that is to say, For the pay of the troops, one hundred and two thousand fix hundred and eighty-fix dollars. For fubfiftence, one hundred and nineteen thousand, fix hundred and eighty-eight dollars, and ninety-feven cents. For clothing, forty-eight thousand dollars. For forage, four thoufand one hundred and fifty-two dollars. For the hofpital-department, fix thousand dollars. For the quarter-master's department, fifty thousand dollars. For the ordnance department, seven thou Compenfation to fun &c. fand two hundred and four dollars and fixtyfour cents. For the contingent expenses of the war department, including maps, hire of expreffes, allowances to officers for extra-expenfes, printing, lofs of ftores of all kinds, advertising and apprehending deferters, twenty thousand dollars. For the discharge of certain fums due for dry officers, pay and fubfiftence of fundry officers of the late army, and for pay of the late Maryland line, for which no appropriations have been made, ten thoufand four hundred and ninety dollars, and thirty-fix cents. To invalid For the payment of the annual allowances. penfioners. to invalid penfioners, eighty-feven thousand four hundred and fixty-three dollars, fixty cents and two thirds of a cent. Indian department. For defraying all expenfes incident to the Indian department, authorized by law, thirtynine thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars, and feventy-one cents. Frontiers, .. For defraying the expenfes incurred in the defenfive protection of the frontiers, as before recited, thirty-feven thousand, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and forty-eight cents. for the fe tions, Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the The funds feveral appropriations, herein before made, shall veral ap be paid and difcharged out of the funds followpropria ing, to wit; firft, out of the fum of fix hundred thousand dollars, which, by the act, intituled, "An act making provifion for the debt of the United States," is referved, yearly, for the fupport of the government of the United States, and their common defence; and fecondly, out of fuch furplus as fhall have accrued to the end of the present year, upon the revenues JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United CHAPTER IV. An Act for carrying into Effect a Contract between the United States and the State of Pennfylvania. OR duly conveying to the state of Penn FOR fylvania a certain tract of land, the right to the government and jurisdiction whereof was relinquifhed to the faid ftate by a refolution of Congrefs of the fourth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, and whereof the right of foil has been fold by virtue of a previous refolution of Congrefs of the fixth day of June in the faid year; veyed to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- Tract of prefentatives of the United States of America in land conCongrefs affembled, That the Prefident of the PennfylvaUnited States be authorized, on fulfilment of nia on cer the terms ftipulated on the part of the state of tions. tain condi Pennsylvania, to iffue letters patent, in the name and under the feal of the United States, granting and conveying to the said state forever the faid tract of land, as the fame was afcertained by a furvey made in purfuance of the resolution of Congrefs of the fixth day of June, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-eight. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, January the third, 1792: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. miffioners for fettle counts con CHAPTER V. An Act to extend the Time limited for fettling the Accounts of the United States with the Individual States. Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Board com- That the powers of the Board of Commiffioners, which, by an act paffed in the second sesment of ac fion of the firft Congrefs, was established to tinued till fettle the accounts between the United States and individual ftates, fhall continue until the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, unless the business shall be fooner accomplished.. 3793. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforefaid act shall extend to the fettlement of the accounts between the United States and To fettle the state of Vermont: and that until the first with Vere day of December next, fhall be allowed for the mont. faid ftate to exhibit its claims. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the paffing of this act, the pay of the Pay of principal principal clerk of the faid Board fhall be the clerk. fame as the pay of the principal clerk in the Auditor's office. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER VI. An Act concerning certain Fisheries of the United States, and for the Regulation and Government of the Fishermen employed therein. Section 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That the allowance now made upon the expor Allowance on cxporta tation of dried fish of the fisheries of the United in lieu of States, in lieu of a drawback of the duties paid drawback on the falt ufed in preferving the fame, fhall tion of Sriceafe on all dried fifh exported after the tenth ed fifh liday of June next, and as a commutation and Jane 17923 equivalent therefor, there fhall be afterwards 'mited to |