AN ACT making certain appropriations therein fpecified. BE it enacted by t' e Senate and House of Representatives of the Urjited States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be granted and appropriated the following funis for the following purposes, to wit: For the dikitarge oi: a balance to the commUT'oners, appointed under the ast of Congress of the fifteenth of March, otjc thou (and feveu hundred and eighty five, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents: For additional salary to the iirft clerk of the commiflioners for fettling accounts between the United States and individual ftatess one hundred and eighty-leven dol lars and ninety-one cents: For defraying the e&pence of -flut ing and printing certain public accounts pursuant to the order of the House of Representatives of the thirtieth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one,eight hundred dol lars : For discharging the accounts of officers of the courts oi the United States, jurors and witnelles, in aid of the fund here tofore appropriated, seventeen thousand dollars: For making good deficiencies in former appropriations for defraying the ex pence of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, four thousand fix hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty-nine cents: For discharging certain accounts againit the treasury department, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, including a sum of fix hundreddollars for furnifhing the supervisors of the revenue with fcrew-proiTes, seals and other articles, one thousand nine hundred and fifty five dollars and fixty-oue cents : For a balance due to Lieute nant John Freeman, of the late Maryland line, on account of . subsistence for the years one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, and one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, forty one dollars and feventy-five cents : For compensations to the clerks'of the a&ing commillioner of army accounts, and con tingencies of his office, one thousand three hundred and twenty nine dollars and sixteen cents: For additional.compensations to the door-keepers of the House of Reprefeutatives, pursuant to.a resolution of the House of the twenty-fourth of March la ft, seven hundred dollars: For the di (charge of such demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as ■ftiall have been ascertained aad admitted, in due course of* settle ment at the treasury, and which are of a nature according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, five thousand dollars : All which said sums, amounting together to thirty four thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety cents, shall and may be paid out of the funds following, any or all of them; namely, the furplulfes* which may remain cf ap propriations heretofore made, after fatisfying the purposes of iuch appropriations; monies which have been paid iftto the treasury, in consequence of balances which have been found due froth individuals, relating to tranfa&ions prior to the pre sent government of the United States; the surplus not here tofore appropriated, of the duties on imports and tonnage, which accrued to the end of the year one thousand even hun dred and ninety-one. And be it further enacted, That To much of the aforefaid (iirplus of the duties on impost and tonnage, which accrued to the end of the year one thonfand seven hundred and ninety one, as may be neceiTarv, flia.ll be and is hereby appropriated, in addition to the provilion heretofore made, towards defray ing the expences, which shall have been incurred in the execu tion of the ast for raising and adding another regiment to the military eftahlifhment of the United and for making further provilion for the protection of the frontiers, within the limits o* the sum of three hundred and twelve tioufand, fix hundred and eighty-fix dollars and twenty cents, thereby au thorised ; and towards reimbursing any funis which may have been borrowed, or advances of money which may have been obtained for that purpose. And be it further enacted, That a sum of fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the provision heretofore made, be appro priated to defray any expence which may be incurred in rela tion to the intercour/e between the United States and foreign nation?, to be paid out of any monies which may be in the trea sury, not otherwise appropriated and to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, who, if necef fury, is authorised to borrow on the credit of the United States, the said sum of fifty thousand dollars; an account of the ex penditure thereof, as soon as may be, shall be laid before Congress. JONATHAN TRUMBULI., Speaker of the House of Rtprefentatives. RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prejtient pro tempore ojthe Senate. APPROVED MAY THE EIGHTH, 1792. A" ACT refp«Sing the Government of the Ter ritories of the United S-tates North Well and South of the River Ohio. "D E '-t cnafted by the Senate and Htmfe of Keprcfentatives of -L* tiie Ignited States of America, in Congress afiembled, JTliat the laws of the territory no; th weft of the river Ohio, that have been or hereafter may be enacted by the governor and judges thereof, shall be printed under the direction of the Secretary of State, and two hundred copies thereof, together with ten sets of the laws of the United States, (hall be deliver ed to the said governor and judges, to be distributed among the inhabitants fur their information, and that a like number oi the laws of the United States, shall be delivered to the go vernor and judges fonth weft of the river Ohio. And be it further enacted, That t!ie governor and judges o. t.ie territory north weft of the river Ohio shall be, and here by are authorized to repeal their laws by them made, whenso ever tue fame may be found improper. And be it further enacted, That'the official duties of the f cietaries ot the fa id territories ftiaU be under the control of such laws, as are or may be in force in the said territories. And be it further enacted, That any one of the fnpreme or superior judges of the said territories, in the absence of the other judges, shall be and hereby is authorized to hold a court. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of slate, provide proper seals for the several and refp<fti\ e public offices in the said territories. And be it further enacted, That the limitation act. pa/Ted by the governor and judges of the said territory, the 28th day of December, one thousand leven hundred and eightv-eight be and hereby is disapproved. Andbeit furtherenafted, That the expenfesincurredbv John Cleves Syrames and George Turner, two of the judges of the said territory, in fending an exprefs,and in purchasing a boat to go the circuit, in the year one thousand seven hundred ;• nd nine ty, mall be liquidated by the officer, of the treasury, ard paid cut ol the treasury of the United States. -JONATHAN TRUMBUIL, Speaker oj the Hcufe ol RepTeUntatives. RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prejdcrt pro tempore oj the Senate. APPROVED, MAY -HE llr-HTH, 1792. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prejidcnt of the United States. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President as the United States. AN ACT autliorifing the grant and conveyance of certain Lands to John Clsves Symutts, and his Aflociates BE itenafted by the Senate and Ha use of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congref; That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to ilTue letters patent in the name and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to John Cleves Symmes and his affeciatc , and to their heirs and afiigns, in fee limple, such" number of acres of land as the payments already made by the said John Cleve~, Symmes, his agents or afVociates, under their contract of the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty eigiit, will pay for, estimating the lands at two-thirds of a dol lar per acre, and making the reservations fpecified in the faiid contract. And be it further endfted, That the President be, and he hereby is further authorized and empowered, by letters patent as aforefaid, to grant and convey to the laid John Cleves Symmes and his aflbciates,and to their heirs and afiigvis in fee simple, one other tract of one hundred and fix thousand eight hundred and fifty-feven acres, with the reservations as afore faid :—Provided, That the said John Cleves Symmes, or his agents or aiiociates, or any of them, shall deliver to the Secre tary of the Treasury, within fix months, warrants which iiTued for army bounty rights fufficient for that purpose, according to the provfion of the resolves of Congress of the twenty-third of July, and second of O&ober, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven; but in cafe so many warrants (hould not he delivered, then the letters patent last aforefaid to be given for such number of acres, as lha.il be in proportion to the war rants so delivered. And be it further enabled, That the President be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, by letters patent as afore faid, to grant and convey unto the said John Cleves Symmes and his alTociates, their heirs and afligns, in trull for the pur ne'e of eftablilhing an academy and other public schools and feminavies of learning, one compleat townlhip, conformably to an order of Congress of the second of October, one thousand leven hundred and eighty-lever, made in of the application of the said John Cleves Symmes, for the purchase of the trart aforefaid. And be it further enacted, That the several quantities of land, to be granted and conveycd as aforefaid, shall be included and located within fnch limits and lines of boundary, as the President may judge expedient, agreeably to an ast palled the twelfth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, " for ascertaining the bounds of a tract of land purthafed by John Cleves Symmes. JONATHAN TRUMBULI, Speaker oj the Houje oj ReprcfevtJtiveJ. RICHARD HENRY LEE, President pro tempore of the Senate. APFROVED MAY THE FIFTH, 179 2. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President oj the United Stutes. STOCKHOLM, March 20. The following account of the attempt to aflaf finate the King, in the night of the 16th March, was read in the Royal Chancery and published by authority in the public papers of the 18th. " Last Friday the i6th of March, at three quarters past eleven o'clock night, a fhorttime after the King had entered the nialked ball-room in theßoyal Opera Houfe,an unknown mafic forc ed his way through the croud of masks which surrounded the King, and fired a pistol at him, the charge wher.eof .entered a little above the left hip and touched the back bone. " Although so severely wounded, the King had yet strength enough to walk to the next clo set, whei e he reclined on a fopha, andconverfed with some of the gentlemen of the court, as well as some of the principal officers of State, who had obtained leave to follow him, with thegreat eft chearfulnefs until the surgeons arrived, when ttie wound was examined and the firft drefling laid on.—His Majesty was then carried to the palace, and at 4 o'clock in the morning be was bled. " Immediately after the fliot was fired thcfre were found in the Opera Room two pistols, one of which the aflaflin had made use of ; but the other was yet loaded with two buck-shot, a quan tity of fniall shot, and some points of cut nails. " The afiaffin, a discharged captain, John Ja cob Ankerftrom, was discovered the nexc day, the 17ih of March about 10 o'clock in the fore noon and arrested. He confeded his crime, and acknowledged that the pistol he fired had been loaded with two bulleis, the one round, the o ther beat square, besides with 12 grains of (hot and 7 small nail points ; that the other piitol had been loaded nearly in the fame manner ; and that he held besides a knife in the other hand, which he had bought,but a week before and had caused it 10 be ground with an edge on each fide. " Though the wound has not been fullv clear ed yet of the many parts of the charge, the fur geons heverthelefs have been able to a fibre '.he diftrefl'ed Royal Family, as well as the afloniflied inhabitants of this capital, tliat the ftiot did not touch those parts whose violation might have produced more dangerous consequences for the life of the King. His Majesty is as well as his circuniftances will permit, and has enjoyed now and then some rell in his Deep. '< His Majesty not only sustained the exami nation of tile wound, and other pains with thc't perfeift serenity and strength of mind, which have dilhnguifhed Co many atfttons of the life of the King, but he likewise received the Roval family, numbers of the court, officers of state, and foreign ministers at his bed fide. His Ma jcitj in the fame iitnuiicr himfelf regulaicd the 454 Royal Regency dictated their inflations, and signed both lnit runients with his own h tnd " The examinations respecting this horrid deed, and all that has any connexion therewith continue in the forenoon and afternoon before the Royal Court of Chancery, and the public will receive in tins manner all poflible elucida tion refpetf ing an event, which nearly concerns every faithful fubjeJt, and which, until 'litis im portant moment, never had been heard ofiu the kingdom of Sweden/' Let.ter lo the King of Sweden,apprizing him of die intended aflafiiuation. " Sire, " Deign to attend the information of a jnan who, though not honoured by serving yon, noc ambitious of your favour, and not flattering' four foibles ; yet endeavors to avert the danger whicb menaces your life. They are about to aflaffi nate you : do not doubt it. They were in des pair to fee themselves disappointed when the ball was last week put off, but they refolveJ ta try it to day. Keep yourfeif private, and avoid the ensuing entertainments, at least for t his sea son—give the ccyifpirators time to moderate their passions ; please to avoid alfo-the lower patt of the caflle of Haga.—ln,a word, use every cir cumi'petftion, at least .for onft month.—Do not take pains to discover the author of this letter : he happened by chance to be acquainted with the bloody scheme that threatens your life ; and belive that he is not interested id destroying the .plan which threatens you.—ln cafe your mercenary loldiers had atfed with violence a gain It the citizens at Gefte, the author of this letter would have opposed you sword in hand i but he detelts aliallination." PARIS, March '* Several cirizens of colour, reiident rn Paris, prefenred an address of thanks to the legiflacive aflembly on the decree which restores them to their rights in the colonies. An account was received on Wednesday even ing, that the iufurgcnts in the city of Aries had surrendered, and marched out to receive tbe troops sent against them. All the plots of the enemies of our liberties fail in regular fuccefi'jon, and we hear of their projetfs and defeats almost in the fame breath. M. La Fayette is f'et out for Meiz, in company with Meflrs. Montesquieu, De Crillon, Cadet, De Tracy, and Le Wimpfen, ail members of the Conftiment Aflembly, and who are employed in his division of the army in quality of General Officers.—Bon Voyage ! M. Gamier, whom the King had named tq be Minister of Justice, has declined. M. Claviere, late President of the Jacobins, has been named Minister of public contributions, in the room of M. Tarbi, resigned. The King has flgnifiecf all tliofe appointments to the Lfcgiflature, in a« elegant note, which he addrefled to them on Sa turday The di farming of the regiment of Ernest has 3een taken up in the molt ("erious manner by the Swiss Cantons ; the republic of Berne have made a Reclamation to the King, againll the hostile conduct of the National Guards of Marfei|les, and have formally demanded their retreat, and the restoration of their arms. Since the installation of our new ministry, the iitmoft tranquility reigns in Paris.and as foonas time will permit, their operations from the ar rangement of the accounts of their predeccflors, we hope to liearof the fame peaceable difpofitioii throughout the reft of the kingdom. MADRAS, (K. 1.) November 25. By advices from the Southward, we learn, that the gallant Chalmers, after a lioble defence, in which he displayed the greatest bravery, joined to an exertion of equal abilities, has at length been obliged to surrender Cointbatore to the enemy VIENNA, March 7. All that has hitherto transpired relative to the <leath of the Emperor, tends to icfnte tlieiuppo 'itiotis of those who attribute his death to any bui natural caul'es. , Inflead therefore of indulging suspicions at al times odious, the cauft" of the disorder which 11- leritly undermined the Emperor's conflitntion, may he ascribed to a dysentery toofuddenly »°P ped last year, the time of his coronation, as King of Bohemia, at Prague. March 10. The Empress Dowager, overcome with giief, has been very unwell, was bled ti e times, and received the Sacrament, but has much better fines yefterdav. HAGUE, Mareh 27- An extraordinary council was held the cbj c fore yelterday, By the Prince of Orange, leiative 'o the derangement of finances of the Rep" c t which are in a much worse condition than is 0 nci :illv believed Weal e yet uncertain what answer will *>e K 1 * . to tbe niemerial tranfinitted by tbe 1 e ® c .' i. nifter relative to tlie insult committed at B 1 hourg againlt tbe French National flag-
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