be requested to issue a proclamation, notifying the people throughout the United States the recommendation contained in the third resolution.
Approved, December 24, 1799.
Relative to the death of General Washington.II. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it be recommended to the people of the United States to assemble on the twenty-second day of February next, in such numbers and manner as may be convenient, publicly to testify their grief for the death of General George Washington, by suitable eulogies, orations and discourses, or by public prayers.
And it is further resolved, That the President be requested to issue a proclamation for the purpose of carrying the foregoing resolution into effect.
Approved, January 6, 1800.
Laws for North Carolina.III. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to procure and transmit to the governor of the state of North Carolina, a number of the copies of the laws of the United States, equal to the number which the Secretary was heretofore authorized to transmit to the governor of the said state by an act, intituled “An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States,” to be deposited and distributed agreeably to the provisions of the said act, for the use and information of the citizens of the United States within the said state.
Approved, February 3, 1800.
In honour of Captain Truxton, &c.IV. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to present to Captain Thomas Truxton, a golden medal, emblematical of the late action between the United States frigate Constellation, of thirty-eight guns, and the French ship of war La Vengeance, of fifty-four; in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his gallantry and good conduct in the above engagement, wherein an example was exhibited by the captain, officers, sailors, and marines, honourable to the American name, and instructive to its rising navy.
And it is further resolved, That the conduct of James Jarvis, a midshipman in said frigate, who gloriously preferred certain death to an abandonment of his post, is deserving of the highest praise, and that the loss of so promising an officer is a subject of national regret.
Approved, March 29, 1800.
V. Resolution respecting the Copper Mines on the south side of Lake Superior.
Copper mines on Lake Superior.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized to employ an agent, who shall be instructed to collect all material information relative to the copper mines on the south side of Lake Superior, and to ascertain whether the Indian title to such lands as might be required for the use of the United States, in case they should deem it expedient to work the said mines, be yet subsisting, and if so, the terms on which the same can be extinguished. And that the said agent be instructed to make report to the President in such time, as the information he may collect may be laid before Congress at their next session.
Approved, April 16, 1800.