Chapter XXVII. *to alter the Time for the next Meeting of Congress.*Sept. 29, 1789
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Chap. XXVII.— An Act *to alter the Time for the next Meeting of Congress.*Sept. 29, 1789. Section 1. [Expired.]*Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday in January next. Approved, September 29, 1789. RESOLUTIONS Resolution 1 Stat. 96 1 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 1 1 public 1. Resolved, Survey directed by act of June 6, 1788, to be made and returned by Secretary of the Treasury without delay.That the Survey directed by Congress in their act of June the sixth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, be made and returned to the Secretary of the Treasury without delay; and that the President of the United States be requested to appoint a fit person to complete the same, who shall be allowed five dollars per day whilst actually employed in the said service, with the expenses necessarily attending the execution thereof.
Approved, August 26, 1789. Resolution 1 Stat. 96 2 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 1 1 public 2. Recommendation to the Legislatures of the several States to pass laws making it the duty of keepers of their gaols toResolved *by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That it be recommended to the legislatures of the several States to pass laws, making it expressly the duty of the keepers of their gaols, to receive and safe keep therein all prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, until they shall be discharged by due course of the laws thereof, under the FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Resolutions. 1789. 97 like penalties as in the case of prisoners committed under the authorityreceive and keep prisoners committed under authority of the United States. of such States respectively; the United States to pay for the use and keeping of such gaols, at the rate of fifty cents per month for each prisoner that shall, under their authority, be committed thereto, during the time such prisoner shall be therein confined; and also to support such of said prisoners as shall be committed for offences.
Approved, September 23, 1789. Resolution 1 Stat. 97 3 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 1 1 public 3. Secretary of State to procure the statutes of the States.Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, to procure from time to time such of the statutes of the several states as may not be in his office.
Approved, September 23, 1789. Resolution 1 Stat. 97 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 1 1 public The Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added;
And as extending the ground of public confidence in the government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution— Resolved, *by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United*Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. *States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring*, That the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the constitution of the United States, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, viz.:
Articles in addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution. Art. I. After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.
Art. II. No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. Art. III. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment ofAdopted. religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Art. IV. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security ofAdopted. a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Art. V. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any houseAdopted. without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. Art. VI. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,Adopted. papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, sup- FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Resolution. 1789. 98ported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Art. VII. Adopted.No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
Art. VIII. Adopted.In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
Art. IX. Adopted.In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact, tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. Art. X. Adopted.Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Art. XI. Adopted.The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Art. XII. Adopted.The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Resolution 1 Stat. 98 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 1 1 public *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That John White, late a commissioner to settle the accounts between the United States and the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and his clerks, John Wright, and Joshua Dawson, be considered as in office until the fourth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
Approved, September 29, 1789. 1 2 1790 ACTS OF THE FIRST CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of New York on Monday, the fourth day of January*, 1790, *and ended on the twelfth day of August*, 1790. George Washington, President, John Adams, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. Chapter I: for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned, in respect to the stale of North Carolina, and other purposes. 1 Stat. 99 1790-02-08 Chapter I Charles C.
Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 1 2 public Chapter I.— An Act *for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned, in respect to the stale of North Carolina, and other purposes.*Feb. 8, 1790.[Obsolete.] Sec. 1. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofThe provisions of the acts of 1789, ch. 2, and of the act of 1789, laying duties on imports and tonnage declared in force as to the state of N.
Carolina after thirty days from the passing this act. the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the several and respective duties specified and laid, in and by the act, intituled “An act for laying a duty on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States;” and in and by the act, intituled “An act imposing duties on tonnage,” shall be paid and collected upon all goods, wares and merchandises, which, after the expiration of thirty days from the passing of this act, shall be imported into the state of North Carolina, from any foreign port or place, and upon the tonnage of all ships and vessels, which, after the said day, shall be entered within the said state of North Carolina, subject to the exceptions, qualifications,Act of July 4, 1789, ch. 2. allowances and abatements in the said acts contained or expressed; whichAct of July 20, 1789, ch. 3. acts shall be deemed to have the like force and operation within the said state of North Carolina, as elsewhere within the United States.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That for the due collection of theAnd for due collection five districts established; said duties, there shall be in the said state of North Carolina five districts; one to be called the district of Wilmington, and to comprehend all the waters, shores, bays, harbours, creeks and inlets, from Littletheir limits. River inlet, inclusive, to New River inlet, inclusive. Another to be called the district of Newbern, and to comprehend all the waters, shores, bays, harbours, creeks and inlets, from New River inlet, exclusive, to Occacock inlet, inclusive, together with Pamticoe Sound, (except that part of it into which the Pamticoe, or Tarr and Machapunga rivers empty themselves, and which lies between the Royal Shoal extended to Machapunga Bluff, and the shoal which projects from the mouth of Pamticoe River towards the Royal Shoal.
) Another to be called the district of Washington, and to comprehend all that part of Pamticoe Sound excepted out of the district of Newbern, and the waters, shores, bays, harbours, creeks and inlets adjacent to, and communicating with the same. Another to be called the district of Edenton, and to comprehend all the waters, bays, harbours, creeks and inlets from the channel between Pampticoe Sound and Albemarle Sound, inclusive. The other to be called the district of Cambden, and to comprehend North River, Pasquotank and Little Rivers, and all the waters, shores, bays, harbours, creeks and inlets, from the junction of Currituck and Albermarle Sounds, to the northern extremity of Back Bay.
That in the district of Wilmington, the town of Wilmington shall be a port of entryPorts of entry and delivery. and delivery, and Swansborough a port of delivery only; and there shall be a collector, naval officer and surveyor to reside at the said town of 99FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1. 1790.100Wilmington, and a surveyor to reside at Swansborough. That in the district of Newbern, the town of Newbern shall be a port of entry and delivery, and the town of Beaufort a port of delivery only; and there shall be a collector to reside at Newbern, and a surveyor to reside at Beaufort.
That in the district of Washington, the town of Washington shall be the sole port of entry and delivery, and there shall be a collector to reside at the same. That in the district of Edenton, the town of Edenton shall be a port of entry and delivery; and Hartford, Murpheysborough, Plymouth, Winsor, Skewarkey, Winton, and Bennet’s Creek, ports of delivery; and there shall be a collector at the town of Edenton, and a surveyor at Hartford, another surveyor at Murpheysborough, one surveyor at each of the ports of Plymouth, Winsor, Skewarkey, Winton, and Bennet’s Creek.
That all ships or vessels intending to proceed to Hartford, Plymouth, Winsor, Skewarkey, Winton, Bennet’s Creek, or Murpheysborough, shall first come to and enter at the port of Edenton. That in the district of Cambden, Plankbridge on Sawyer’s Creek, shall be the port of entry and delivery, and Nixonton, Indiantown, Newbiggin Creek, Currituck Inlet, and Pasquotank River bridge, ports of delivery; and there shall be a collector at Plankbridge on Sawyer’s Creek, and a surveyor at each of the ports of Nixonton, Indiantown, Extent of the authority of the officers of each district.Currituck Inlet, Pasquotank River bridge, and Newbiggin Creek: and that the authority of the officers of each district shall extend over all the waters, shores, bays, harbours, creeks and inlets comprehended within such district.
Sec. 3. Sole ports of entry for ships or vessels not registered or licensed, or ships &c. beyond the (Cape of Good Hope.*And be it further enacted,* That the ports of Wilmington, Newbern, Washington, and Edenton, shall be the sole ports of entry within the said state of North Carolina, for ships or vessels not registered or licensed within the United States, according to law, and for all ships or vessels whatsoever, which shall arrive from the Cape of Good Hope, or any place beyond the same.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That all the regulations, provisions, exceptions, allowances, compensations, directions, authorities, penalties, forfeitures, and other matters whatsoever, contained or expressed Regulations, provisions, &c. for due collection.in the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States,” and not Act of July 31, 1789, ch. 5.locally inapplicable, shall have the like force and effect within the said state of North Carolina, for the collection of the said duties, as elsewhere within the United States, and as if the same were repeated and re-enacted Act of Sept. 16, 1789, ch. 11.in this present act.
Sec. 5. Operation of parts of former laws declared to cease.*Provided always, and be it declared,* That the thirty-ninth section of the said act, and the third section of an act, intituled “An act to suspend part of an act, intituled An act to regulate the collection of the Act of Sept. 16, 1789, ch. 15.duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandises imported into the United States, and for other purposes,” did, by virtue of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, by the said state of North Carolina, cease to operate in respect to the same.
Sec. 6. Act for regulating the coasting trade, declared in force as to N. Carolina after thirty days from the passing this act.*And be it further enacted and declared,* That the act intituled “An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes,” shall, after the expiration of thirty days from the passing of this act, have the like force and operation within the said state of North Carolina, as elsewhere within the United States, and as if the several clauses thereof were repeated and re-enacted in this present act.
Sec. 7. Part of another act revived as to R. Island and N. Carolina until the 1st of April.*And be it further enacted,* That the second section of the act, intituled “An act to suspend part of an act, intituled An act to regulate the collection of duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States, FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2. 1790. 101and for other purposes,” passed the sixteenth day of September last,Act of Sept. 16, 1789, ch. 15. shall, with respect to the inhabitants and citizens of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, be revived, and also that the fourth section of the said act shall be revived, and both continue in force until the first day of April next, and no longer.
Approved, February 8, 1790.
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Chapter XXVII
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