Congress of the United States: At the second session, begun and held at the city of New-York, on Monday, the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. An act providing for holding a treaty or treaties to establish peace with certain Indian tribes. — Act providing for holding a treaty

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Congress of the United States: AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday, the Fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
An ACT providing for holding a Treaty or Treaties to establish Peace with certain Indian Tribes.

BE it enacted by the SENATE and HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the balance unexpended, of the sum of twenty thousand dollars, appropriated by the act, intituled, "An act providing for the expences which may attend negociations or treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of commissioners for managing the same," a farther sum, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, arising from the duties on imports and tonnage, shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated for defraying the expences of negociating, and holding a treaty or treaties, and for promoting a friendly intercourse, and preserving peace with the Indian Tribes.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.

APPROVED, July the twenty-second, 1790.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.

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