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CONTENTS.

A.

ACT to open a road from the Susquehanna river, from Nescopeck

Falls, &c., 20.

touching electing Justices of the Peace, 31.

to establish a Department of War, 133, 139..

to lay duty on goods, and regulate the collection of duties,
139, 430.

to provide for the government of the N. W. of the Ohio river,

139.

for establishing salaries of Executive officers, 167.

for the safe keeping of the acts and records, &c., of the Uni-

ted States, 167.

to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States, 187.

to explain and amend an act for registering and clearing ves-

sels, &c., 187.

to recognize and adopt the Constitution of the United States,

the establishment of troops, &c., 787.

providing to pay invalid pensioners, 206.

to allow Baron Glaubeck the pay of a Captain in the army of

the United States, 187.

to establish temporary post-offices, 187.

touching pay of the Judges of the Supreme Court, &c., 187.

to allow compensation to the President and Vice President of

the United States, 189.

to regulate process in the Courts of the United States, 206.

Act to alter the time for meeting of Congress, 206.

for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned, in re-

spect to the State of Rhode Island, 384.

providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the Uni-

ted States, 430.

to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, 430.

to accept a session of the claims of North Carolina to a certain

district of Western territory, 430.

to promote the useful arts, 430.

to encourage learning by securing copy-rights, 430.

to prescribe the manner in which public records, &c., in each

State, shall be authenticated, 430.

providing the means of intercourse between the United States

and Foreign Nations, 431.

to establish the temporary and permanent Seat of Govern-

ment of the United States, 431.

to sell the Barracks in Lancaster, 325.

for establishing a Light-house, 418.

to regulate trade and treaties with the Indians, and for hold-

ing treaties, 415.

regulating of seamen, 415.

to enable officers and soldiers of the Virginia line to obtain

titles for lands between Miame and Sciote rivers, 433.

to alter the time to hold Circuit Courts, 433.

to regulate the Military establishment, 424.

Arms, public ones repaired, 14.

Address presented to His Excellency the President of the United

States, 25, 57.

from George Washington, 59.

Abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania, 33, 210.

Attainted traitors, land sold, 26, 540.

resolution in Council relative to a general par-

don of, 528.

Auctioneer for Philadelphia elected, 36.

additional ones appointed, 313.

Annuities of widows & children of soldiers, touching, 140.

Allen Andrew, an attainted traitor, 146.

Allegheny county divided into townships, 150.

Armstrong Williams, attainted of high treason, 298.

Accounts of pensioners, 332, 337.

B.

BARRACKS in Lancaster, sold, 325, 351.

Bartram Alexander, an attainted traitor, 283.

Bedford town, road from to Pittsburg, 51, 466.

Board of Property, Mr. Breading appointed a member, 509.
Bounty lands of soldiers in Ohio, 433.

Brown James and Wm. Stephens, convicts, pardoned, 547.

C.

Canal, contemplated from Reading to the Susquehanna river, 275,

277.

Captures by the Indians on the Ohio, 458,

Cession of certain claims of North Carolina, 329.

Cherokee Nation Chiefs on their way to N. Y. 135.

Comptroller General, instructions given him, 80.

Connecticut settlers, touching, 332, 352.

Convention prisoners at Reading, 348.

Cornplanter, grant of land to, 36.

and other Indians at Phila., 497.

make a representation to Council,

501 to 506.

Council's replies to Cornplanter and other Indians, 507, 510.

D.

DELAWARE RIVER, viewed by Commissioners with a view to improve

the same, 182, 222, 274, 278, 315, 346, 348, 366.

Disorderly houses in Philadelphia, 2, 121, 165.

Department of War established, 133.

Donation lands, 272, 433.

E.

ERIE LAKE, lands on, 37, 375.

Escort to the President of United States, 24.

Elections of Justices of the Peace, complaint of in Bucks county,

129.

Escheator General's report, 179.

Excise, touching in Westmoreland county, 300.

Elections, General -See General Elections.

F.

FORT FREELAND, in Northumberland county, 130.

Fort Bird, in Western Pennsylvania, 223, 280.

Franklin John, a State prisoner, 421.

Frankstown, road from to Loyalhanning creek, 256, 437.

Franklin Benjamin, his portrait presented by his executors, &c.,
361.

Fines remitted that had been imposed, 461, 518, 520, 522, 528,
538, 540, 542, 544, 547.

G.

GASKILL, C. G, her claims to certain lots in Philadelphia, 153.

General elections, returns of, 193, 194, 195, 198, 210, 211, 215,

490, 491, 518, 521, 527, 542.

Germany, sundry papers from, 48, 315.

German passengers, register of, 222.

German Reformed congregation, grant of land to, 5000 acres, 296,
422.

Goods for Indians purchased, 68.

Gunpowder Magazine, &c., 367, 389.

H.

HULING'S ISLAND, in the Allegheny river, 288-

I.

ILLUMINATIONS of windows in Philadelphia, suggested not to be,

25.