R ESOLVED by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Secretary for the Department of War, return to the respective district Judges, the names of all fuch perfons, as have been transmitted to him by the several district Judges, pursuant to the act for the regulation of claims to invalid penfions; and in whofe cafes, the examining phyficians have neglected to fpecify the ratio of difability; together with fuch defective returns of phyficians. And the faid district Judges, refpectively, fhall forthwith caufe the examining physicians to specify the several rates of difability, which have been fo neglected; or, in cafe of fickness, death, or removal of one or both fuch phyficians, to make new appointments, and caufe the feveral rates of disability to be fpecified, and by the faid phyficians returned to them, as foon as may be; of which, they fhall make return to the Secretary at War; who fhall, at the feffion of Congrefs holden next after, or at the time of fuch receipt, make return thereof, with fuch obfervations, as he may think proper to fubjoin, that the proper order may be taken thereon by Congrefs. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, April the eighteenth, 1796: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. A CT S PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE United States of America, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, In the State of Pennsylvania, On Monday the fifth of December, IN THE YEAR M,DCC, XCVI. AND OF THE Independence of the United States, THE TWENTY-FIRST. ACT S OF CONGRESS. CHAPTER LV. An Act to amend the Act, intituled, "An Aft for the more general Promulgation of the Laws of the United States." B fion, how E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Se- Acts of cretary for the Department of State, fhall prefent fe caufe to be included in the edition of the laws published. of the United States, directed to be printed by the faid act, the laws of the United States which may be paffed during the present sesfion of Congrefs: Provided, the fame can be done at an expense which he fhall judge reafonable. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, December the twenty-firit, 1796: VOL. III. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. B 3 Laws to Tenneffec. CHAPTER LVI. ¿ An Act giving Effect to the Laws of the United BE Sec. 1. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United extend to States of America, in Congress affembled, That all the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, ought to have, and fhall have, the fame force and effect within the ftate of Tenneffee, as elsewhere within the United States. Diarict courts. Salary of And to the end, that the act, intituled, "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," may be duly administered within the ftate of Tenneffee, Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the faid ftate fhall be one district, to be denominated Tenneffee district, and there fhall be a districtcourt therein, to confift of one judge, who fhall refide in the faid diftrict, and be called the diftri&t judge, and annually hold four feffions; the firft to commence on the first Monday in April next, and the three other feffions progreffively, on the like Mondays of every three calendar months afterwards. The faid diftrict-courts fhall be held alternately at Knoxville and Nashville, beginning at Nashville. And the faid judge, fhall, in all things, have, and exercife the fame ju rifdiction and powers, which by law, are given to the judge of the diftrict of Kentucky. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That there fhall he judge. be allowed to the judge of the faid diftrictcourt, the yearly compenfation of eight hundred dollars, to commence from the date of |