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United States, heretofore contracted, or to be con-
tracted during the present year.
Approved, May 13, 1800.

An Act appointing the time, and directing the place of the next meeting of Congress.

Be it enacted, &c., That the session of Congress next ensuing the present shall be held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, and said session shall commence on the third Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred. Approved, May 13, 1800.

laid. levied, and collected upon those articles respectively, at their importation into the United States from any foreign country or place; that is to say: upon all brown sugar, one-half cent per pound; upon all sugar candy, two cents and onehalf per pound; upon all molasses, one cent per gallon; and upon all goods, wares, and merchandises, now paying a duty of ten per cent. ad valorem, two and one-half per centum ad valorem. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the duties now imposed and payable on wines, imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, shall cease and be abolished; and that in lieu thereof the following duties shall thenceforth be laid, levied, and collected upon all wines so An Act to make provision relative to rations for Indians, and to their visits to the seat of Government. imported in casks, bottles, or other vessels; that is to say: Upon all Malmsey, Madeira, and London Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the Particular Madeira wine, fifty-eight cents per gal- United States shall be, and hereby is, authorized lon; upon all other Madeira wine, fifty cents per and empowered to cause such rations as he shall gallon; upon all Burgundy, Champaign, Rhen-judge proper, and as can be spared from the army ish, and Tokay wine, forty-five cents per gallon; provisions without injury to the service, to be issuupon all Sherry wine, forty cents per gallon; upon ed, under such regulations as he shall think fit to all Saint Lucar wine, forty cents per gallon; upon establish, to Indians who may visit the military all Claret and other wines not enumerated, when posts of the United States on the frontiers, or imported in bottles or cases, thirty-five cents per within their respective nations. gallon; upon all Lisbon, Oporto, and other Portugal wines, thirty cents per gallon; upon all Teneriffe, Fayal, Malaga, Saint George, and other Western Island wine, twenty cents per gallon; and upon all other wines when imported, otherwise than in bottles or cases, twenty-three cents per gallon.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed, in respect to all such goods, wares, and merchandises as aforesaid, as shall after the said thirtieth day of June be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the duties laid by this act shall be levied and collected in the same manner, and under the same regulations and allowances as to drawbacks, mode of security, and time of payment, respectively, with the several duties now in force on the respective articles herein before enumerated.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That on account of the additional duties laid on brown sugar and molasses by this act, the following sums respectively shall, from and after the thirty-first day of December next, be added to the drawbacks now allowed by law, on sugar refined within the United States and exported therefrom, and on spirits distilled from molasses within the United States and exported therefrom, that is to say: On all sugar so refined and exported, one cent per pound; and on all spirits so distilled and exported, one cent per gallon; which additional drawbacks shall be allowed and paid according to the regulations now established by law, respecting the present drawbacks allowed on the said articles.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of the duties, laid by this act, shall be solely appropriated and applied for the discharge of the interest and principal of the debts of the

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is, further authorized and empowered to cause to be defrayed, on the part of the United States, the reasonable expenses of such Indians as may from time to time visit the seat of Government thereof, for their journeys to, stay at, and return from the same; and also to cause to be given to such Indians, during their stay as aforesaid, such presents as he shall judge necessary.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That a separate account of all rations issued, and expenses defrayed as aforesaid, and of the expenditures, occasioned by such presents as are aforesaid, shall be kept at the Department of War. Approved, May 13, 1800.

An Act supplementary to the act to suspend part of an act, entitled "An act to augment the Army of the United States, and for other purposes."

Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to suspend any further military appointments, under the act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes; and under the ninth section of the act for the better organizing of the troops of the United States, and for other purposes; according to his discretion, having reference to economy and the good of the service.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered to discharge, on or before the fifteenth day of June next, all such officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, as have heretofore been appointed, commissioned, or raised, under and by virtue of the said acts, or either of them, except the engineers, inspector of artillery, and inspector of fortifications: Provided always, That nothing in this act contained shall be con

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ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 17, 1800.

AN ACT extending the privilege of franking letters to the delegate from the Territory of the United States Northwest of the river Ohio; and making provision for his compensation.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the present delegate to Congress from the Territory of the United States Northwest of the river Ohio, and every future delegate from the said Territory, shall be entitled to the privilege of sending and receiving letters, free of postage, on the same terms, and under the same restrictions, as are provided for the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives of the United States, by the act entitled "An act to establish the Post Office of the United States."

any moneys which may be in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 30, 1801.

An Act to provide for the more convenient organization

of the Courts of the United States. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the next session of the Supreme Court of the United States, the said court shall be holden by the justices thereof, or any four of them, at the City of Washington, and shall have two sessions in each and every year thereafter, to commence on the first Monday of June and December, respectively; and that if four of the said justices shall not attend within ten days after the times hereby appointed for the commencement of the said sessions, respectively, the said court shall be continued over till the next stated session thereof: Provided always, That any one or more of the said justices, attending as aforesaid, shall have power to make all necessary or

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the present delegate from the aforesaid Territory be authorized to receive, free of postage, under the said restrictions, any letters directed to him, and which shall have arrived at the seat of Government, priorders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of erto the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said delegate, and every future delegate from the Territory of the United States Northwest of the river Ohio, shall receive, for his travelling expenses and attendance in Congress, the same compensation as is, or may be allowed, by law, to the members of the House of Representatives of the United States; to be certified and paid in the same man

ner.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Vice President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.

Approved, December 15, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS.
President of the United States.

An Act to provide for the erection and support of a light-house on Cape Poge, at the northeasterly part of Martha's Vineyard.

ror, process, pleadings, or proceeding, returned to the said court or depending therein, preparatory to the hearing, trial or decision of such action, suit, appeal, writ of error, process, pleadings, or proceedings.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said court shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to issue writs of prohibition, mandamus, scire facias, habeas corpus, certiorari, procedendo, and all other writs not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of its jurisdiction, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the next vacancy that shall happen in the said court, it shall consist of fiye justices only; that is to say, of one chief justice, and four associate justices.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, for the better establishment of the circuit courts of the United States, the said States shall be, and hereby are, divided into districts, in manner following; that is to say, one to consist of that part of the Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts, which is called the district Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized of Maine, and to be called the district of Maine; and directed to cause a sufficient light-house to be one to consist of the State of New Hampshire, and erected on Cape Poge, (so called.) on Martha's to be called the district of New Hampshire; one Vineyard, in the State of Massachusetts, and to to consist of the remaining part of the State of appoint a keeper, and otherwise to provide for the Massachusetts, and to be called the district of Massupport of such light-house, at the expense of the sachusetts; one to consist of the State of Rhode United States: Provided, That sufficient land for Island and Providence Plantations, and to be called the accommodation of such-light house, together the district of Rhode Island; one to consist of the with the jurisdiction thereof, shall be duly and State of Connecticut, and to be called the district legally granted to, and vested in the United States. of Connecticut; one to consist of the State of VerSEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there mont, and to be called the district of Vermont; shall be, and hereby is, appropriated for the erec-one to consist of that part of the State of New York tion of said light-house on Cape Poge, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be paid out of

which lies north of the counties of Dutchess and Ulster, and to be called the district of Albany;

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SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That there shall be in each of the aforesaid circuits, except the sixth circuit, three judges of the United States, to be called circuit judges, one of whom shall be commissioned as chief judge; and that there

for each of the aforesaid circuits, to be composed of the circuit judges within the five first circuits respectively, and in the sixth circuit, by a circuit judge, and the judges of the district courts of Kentucky and Tennessee; the duty of all of whom it shall be to attend, but any two of whom shall form a quorum; and that each and every of the said circuit courts shall hold two sessions annually, at the times and places following, in and for each district contained within their several circuits respectively: that is to say, the circuit court of the first circuit, at Providence, on the eighth day of May, and at Newport, on the first day of November, in and for the district of Rhode Island; at Boston, in and for the district of Massachusetts, on the twenty-second day of May and the fifteenth day of October;_at Portsmouth on the eighth day of June, and at Exeter on the twenty-ninth day of September, in and for the district of New Hampshire; in and for the district of Maine, at Portland on the fifteenth day of June, and at Wiscasset on the twenty-second day of September. The circuit court of the seeond circuit, at New Haven on the fifteenth day of April; and at Hartford, on the twenty-fifth day of September, in and for the district of Connecticut; at Windsor, on the fifth day of May, and at Rutland on the fifteenth day of October, in and for the district of Vermont; at the city of Albany, in and for the district of Albany, on the twentieth day of May and twenty-fifth day of October; at the city of New York, in and for the district of NewYork, on the fifth day of June and the tenth day of November. The circuit court of the third circuit, at Trenton, in and for the district of Jersey, on the second days of May and October; at the city of Philadelphia, in and for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of May and eleventh day of October; at Bedford. in and for the Western district of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fifth day of June and twenty-fifth day of November; and at Dover, in and for the district of Delaware, on the third day of June and twentyseventh day of October. The circuit court of the fourth circuit at Baltimore, in and for the district of Maryland, on the twentieth day of March and fifth day of November; at Lexington in RockSEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the bridge county, in and for the Western district of said districts shall be classed into six circuits, in Virginia, on the fifth day of April and twentieth manner following; that is to say: the first circuit day of November; and at the city of Richmond, shall consist of the districts of Maine, New Hamp-in and for the eastern district of Virginia, on the shire, Massachusetts, and Rhode-Island; the second, of the districts of Connecticut, Vermont, Albany, and New York; the third, of the districts of Jersey, the eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania and Delaware; the fourth, of the district of Maryland, and the eastern and western districts of Virginia; the fifth, of the districts of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia; and the sixth, of the districts of East Tennessee, West Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio.

one to consist of the remaining part of the State of New York, and to be called the district of New York; one to consist of the State of New Jersey and to be called the district of Jersey; one to consist of that part of the State of Pennsylvania which lies east of the river Susquehanna, and the north-shall be a circuit court of the United States, in and east branch thereof, to the line betwixt Northumberland and Luzerne counties; thence westwardly along said line, betwixt Northumberland and Luzerne, and between Luzerne and Lycoming counties, until the same strikes the line of the State of New York, and to be called the eastern district of Pennsylvania; one to consist of the remaining part of the State of Pennsylvania, and to be called the western district of Pennsylvania; one to consist of the State of Delaware, and to be called the district of Delaware; one to consist of the State of Maryland, and to be called the district of Maryland; one to consist of that part of the State of Virginia, which lies to the eastward of a line to be drawn from the river Potomac at Harper's Ferry, along the Blue Ridge, with the line which divides the counties on the east side thereof from those on the west side thereof, to the North Carolina line, to be called the eastern district of Virginia; one to consist of the remaining part of the said State of Virginia, to be called the western district of Virginia; one to consist of the State of North Carolina, and to be called the district of North Carolina; one to consist of the State of South Carolina, and to be called the district of South Carolina; one to consist of the State of Georgia, and to be called the district of Georgia; one to consist of that part of the State of Tennessee which lies on the east side of Cumberland mountain, and to be called the district of East Tennessee; one to consist of the remaining part of said State, and to be called the district of West Tennessee; one to consist of the State of Kentucky, and to be called the district of Kentucky; and one to consist of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the Ohio, and the Indiana Territory, and to be called the district of Ohio.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted. That where any two adjoining districts of the United States shall be divided from each other, in whole or in part, by any river, bay, water, water-course, or mountain, the whole width of such river, bay, water, water-course, or mountain, as the case may be, shall be taken and deemed, to all intents and purposes, to be within both of the districts so to be divided thereby.

twenty-fifth day of April, and fifth day of December. The circuit court of the fifth circuit, at Raleigh, in and for the district of North Carolina, on the first day of June and the first day of Novem ber; at Charleston on the sixth day of May, and at Columbia on the thirtieth day of November, i and for the district of South Carolina; at Savannah on the tenth day of April, and at Augusta on the fifteenth day of December, in and for the district of Georgia; and the circuit court of the sixth

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circuit at Knoxville, in and for the district of East authority of the United States, and committed Tennessee, on the twenty-fifth day of March and within their respective districts, or upon the high twenty-fifth day of September; at Nashville, in seas: and also of all cases in law or equity, arising and for the district of West Tennessee, on the under the Constitution and laws of the United twentieth day of April and twentieth day of Oc- States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, tober; and at Bairdstown, in and for the district under their authority; and also of all actions, or of Kentucky, on the fifteenth day of May and fif- suits of a civil nature, at common law, or in equity, teenth day of November; and at Cincinnati in and where the United States shall be plaintiffs or comfor the district of Ohio, on the tenth day of June plainants; and also of all seizures on land or waand on the tenth day of December; and so on the ter, and all penalties and forfeitures, made, arising several days and at the several places aforesaid, or accruing, under the laws of the United States; in each and every year afterwards: Provided al- which cognizance of all penalties and forfeitures, ways, That when any of the said days shall hap-shall be exclusively of the State courts, in the said pen on Sunday, then the said court hereby direct- circuit courts, where the offence, by which the ed to be holden on such day, shall be holden on penalty or forfeiture is incurred shall have been the next day thereafter; and provided also, that committed within fifty miles of the place of holdthere shall be appointed, in the sixth circuit, a ing the said courts; and also of all actions or suits, judge of the United States, to be called a circuit matters or things, cognizable by the judicial authorjudge, who together with the district judges of ity of the United States, under and by virtue of Tennessee and Kentucky, shall hold the circuit the Constitution thereof, where the matter in discourts, hereby directed to be holden, within the pute shall amount to four hundred dollars, and said circuit; and that whenever the office of dis- where original jurisdiction is not given by the trict judge, in the districts of Kentucky and Ten- Constitution of the United States to the Supreme nessee, respectively, shall become vacant, such va- Court thereof, or exclusive jurisdiction by law to cancies shall respectively be supplied by the ap- the district courts of the United States: Provided pointment of two additional circuit judges, in the always, That in all cases where the title or bounds said circuit, who, together with the circuit judge of land shall come into question, the jurisdiction first aforesaid, shall compose the circuit court of of the said circuit courts shall not be restrained, the said circuit. by reason of the value of the land in dispute.

SEC. 8. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the said circuit courts hereby established shall have power, and hereby are authorized, to hold special sessions, for the trial of criminal causes, at any other time or times than is hereby directed, at their discretion.

SEC. 9. And provided also, and be it further enacted, That if, in the opinion of any judge of any of the said circuit courts, it shall be dangerous to hold the next stated session of such court, for any district within the circuit to which such judge shall belong, at the place by law appointed for holding the same; it shall be lawful for such judge to issue his order, under his hand and seal, to the marshal of such court, directing him to adjourn the said session, to such other place within the same district as the said judge shall deem convenient; which said marshal, thereupon, shall adjourn the said court pursuant to such order, by making, in one or more public papers, printed within the said district, publication of such order and adjournment, from the time when he shall receive such order, to the time appointed by law for commencing such stated session; and that the court so to be held, according to, and by virtue of such adjournment, shall have the same powers and authorities, and shall proceed in the same manner, as if the same had been held at the place appointed by law for that purpose.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the said circuit courts, respectively, shall have cognizance, concurrently with the district courts, of all cases which shall arise, within their respective circuits, under the act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States; and that each circuit judge, within his respective circuit, shall and may perform all and singular the duties enjoined by the said act, upon a judge of a district court: And that the proceedings under a commission of bankruptcy, which shall issue from a circuit judge, shall in all respects be conformable to the proceedings under a commission of bankruptcy, which shall issue from a district judge, mutatis mutandis.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That where any action or suit shall be, or shall have been commenced, in any State court within the United States, against an alien, or by a citizen or citizens of the State in which such suit or action shall be, or shall have been commenced against a citizen or citizens of another State, and the matter in dispute, except in cases where the title or bounds of land shall be in question, shall exceed the sum or value of four hundred dollars, exclusve of costs, and the defendant or defendants in such suit or action shall be personally served with the original process therein, or shall appear thereto; or where, in any suit or action, so commenced or to be commenced, final jugdment, for a sum exceeding four hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, shall have been rendered in such State court, against such defendant or defendants, without return of personal service on him, her, or them, of the original proSEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the cess in such suit or action, and without an apsaid circuit courts respectively shall have cogni-pearance thereto by him, her, or them, and a writ zance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the of error, or writ of review, shall be brought by 6th CoN.-49

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the circuit courts shall have, and hereby are invested with, all the powers heretofore granted by law to the circuit courts of the United States, unless where otherwise provided by this act.