Secretary of State to transmit the same to the executive of Virginia.
Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62.be so completed and entered of record, to transmit the same to the executive of the state of Virginia, to be by them delivered to each grantee; or in case of his death, or that the right of the grantees shall have been legally transferred before such delivery, then to his legal representative or representatives, or to one of them.
Letters patent obtained without fees.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That no fees shall be charged for such letters patent and record, to the grantees, their heirs or assigns, or to his or their legal representative or representatives.
Approved, August 10, 1790.
Statute ⅠⅠ.August 10, 1790.
Chap. XLI.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to finish the Lighthouse on Portland Head, in the District of Maine.
$1500 appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be appropriated and paid out of the monies arising from the duties on imports and tonnage, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, for the purpose of finishing the lighthouse on Portland Head, in the district of Maine; and that the Secretary of the Treasury, under the directions of the President of the United States, be authorized to cause the said lighthouse to be finished and completed accordingly.
Approved, August 10, 1790.
Statute ⅠⅠ.August 11, 1790.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLII.—An Act to alter the Times for holding the Circuit Courts of the United States in the Districts of South Carolina and Georgia, and providing that the District Court of Pennsylvania shall in future be held at the city of Philadelphia only.
Circuit courts when and where to be held.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the circuit courts of the United States in the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, shall for the future be held as follows, to wit: InSouth Carolina 1789, ch. 20, sec. 5. the district of South Carolina on the twenty-fifth day of October next, at Charleston, and in each succeeding year at Columbia, on the twelfth day of May, and in Charleston on the twenty-fifth day of October; inGeorgia 1789, ch. 20, sec. 5. the district of Georgia on the fifteenth day of October next, at Augusta, and in each succeeding year at Savannah, on the twenty-fifth day of April, and at Augusta on the fifteenth day of October; except when any of those days shall happen to be Sunday, in which case the court shall be held on the Monday following. And all process that was returnable under the former law at Charleston, on the first day of October next, and at Augusta on the seventeenth day of October, shall now be deemed returnable respectively at Charleston on the twenty-fifth day of October next, and at Augusta on the fifteenth day of October next; any thing in the former law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Part of a former act repealed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entitled “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,” as directs that the district court for the district of Pennsylvania shall be held at Yorktown in the said state, be repealed;Pennsylvania 1789, ch. 20, sec. 3. and that in future the district court for Pennsylvania be held in the city of Philadelphia.
Approved, August 11, 1790.
Statute ⅠⅠ.August 11, 1790.
Chap. XLIII.—An Act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
1792, ch. 10.
[Expired.]
Act of May 12, 1796.
[Expired.]
Certain acts of several states, that relate to the tonnage of vessels declared to be in operation till the tenth of January next.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress be, and is hereby declared to the operation of the acts of the
