of claims for renewal certificates. CHAPTER XXI. An Act limiting the Time for prefenting Claims for deftroyed Certificates of certain Defcrip tions. Section 1. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Limitation United States of America, in Congress affembled, That all claims for the renewal of certificates of certain of the unfubfcribed debt of the United States, of the descriptions commonly called "LoanOffice Certificates," or "Final Settlements," which may have been accidentally deftroyed, fhall be forever barred and precluded from fettlement or allowance, unless the fame fhall be prefented at the treafury, on or before the first day of June, in the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-five. Proceed had for establishing claims. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no jugs to be claim fhall be allowed for the renewal of loanoffice certificates destroyed before the fourth day of March, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, unless the deftruction of the fame was advertised, according to the refolution of Congrefs, of the tenth day of May, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty; or before that time, was notified to the office from which the fame was iffued, nor fhall claims be allowed for the renewal of loan-office certificates deftroyed on or after the faid fourth day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-nine, nor of final-fettlement certificates destroyed at any time, unlefs the deftruction of the fame was fo far made public, as to be known to at leaft two credible witneffes, foon after it happened, and fhall have been before the prefentation of the claim, as herein-after provided, advertised for at least fix weeks fucceffively, in fome one of the newspapers of the state in which the deftruction happened; and also, in fome-one of the newfpapers of the state in which the certificate iffued, if that was another ftate; the advertisement or advertisements, in fuch case, expreffing with as much precision as poffible, the number, date, and amount of the certificate alledged to have been destroyed, and the name of the perfon to whom the fame was iffued, together with the time when, the place where, and the means by which the same was destroyed. received. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all elaims for the renewal of destroyed certificates, and how By whom of either of the defcriptions aforefaid, not pre- long to be cluded by this act, fhall be receivable, with the evidence in fupport of the fame, by the Auditor of the Treasury, until the faid firft day of June, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-five, and fhall, by the accounting officers of the Treafury, be duly examined; and if fatisfactorily fupported, the claimants fhall be entitled to receive certificates of registered debt, equal to the fpecie-value of the loan-office or final-fettlement certificates fo proved to have been destroyed. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, April the twenty-firft, 1794: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXII. An Act allowing Lieutenant-Colonel Toufard an ment of after first An Act to establish the Poft-Office and Poft- Sec. 1.DE it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That Establish- the following be eftablished as post-roads, poft-roads namely: From Paffamaquoddy, in the dif June next. trict of Maine, to Saint Mary's in Georgia, by the following route, to wit: From Paffamaquoddy, through Machias, Gouldsborough, Sullivan, Trenton, Bluehill, Penobscott, Frankfort, Belfast, Ducktrap, Camden, Thomafton, Warren, Waldoborough, Bristol, Nobleborough, Newcastle, Wifcaffett, Bath, Brunf wick, North Yarmouth, Portland, Biddeford, Wells, York, Portsmouth, Newburyport, Ipf wich, Salem, Bofton, Worcester, Brookfield, Springfield, Hartford, Middletown, New-Haven, Stratford, Fairfield, Norwalk, Stamford, New-York, Newark, Elizabeth-Town, Bridgetown, Woodbridge, Brunfwick, Princeton, Trenton, Bristol, Philadelphia, Chefter, Wilmington, Chriftiana, Elkton, Charlestown, Havre-de-Grace, Harford, Baltimore, Bladenfburg, the city of Washington, GeorgeTown, Alexandria, Colchester, Dumfries, Fredericksburg, Bowling-Green, Hanover Courthoufe, Richmond, Petersburg, Goldfon's, War post-roads renton, Lewisburg, Raleigh, Averyborough, Enabli Fayetteville, Lumberton, Cheraw Court-houfe, ment of Camden, Columbia, Edgefield Court-houfe, after firft Augusta and Wayne'fborough, to Savannah; June nexts and thence by Newport-Bridge, and SaintSavilla, to the town of Saint Mary's: From Portland, by New Gloucefter, Green, Monmouth, Winthrop, and Hollowell Court-houfe, to Pittstown on the river Kennebeck: From Portsmouth, by Exeter, Chester, Amherst, Keen, and Walpole, to Charlestown: From Chester, by Concord and Plymouth, to Haverhill: From Exeter to Hampton-falls: From Salem to Gloucefter: From Salem to Marblehead: From Boston to Plymouth, Sandwich and Falmouth; and from Falmouth to Edgar-town on Martha's Vineyard: From Sandwich to Barnftable and Yarmouth: From Boston to Taunton and New Bedford, and thence to Nantucket: From Boston to Hartford in Connecticut, by Dedham, Mendon and Pomfret: From Boston to Keen: From Bofton, through Andover and Haverhill, to Chefter: From Taunton to Providence; and from Taunton, by Dighton and Somerset, to Warren: From New-Bedford to Newport: From Bofton, by Providence, Norwich, New-London, Saybrook and Guilford, to New-Haven: From Newport, by Briftol and Warren, to Providence: From Newport, by Eaft-Greenwich, to Providence: From Newport, by Westerly and Stonington-point, to New-London: From Springfield, by North-Hampton, Greenfield, Brattleborough, Westminster, Charlestown, Windfor, Hanover and Haverhill, to Newbury: From Springfield, by Stockbridge, to Kinderhook: From Brookfield, by North-Hampton, Pittsfield and New-Lebanon, ment of poft-roads after firft June next. Eftablifh to Albany: From Hartford, by New-Hartford, through Norfolk, Canaan, Sheffield, and Hillfdale, to the city of Hudfon: From Hartford to Norwich: From Hartford, by Middletown, to New-London: From Hartford, bv Farmington, Harwinton, Litchfield, NewMilford, Newtown,Danbury,Ridgefield, Poundridge, Salem, North Castle, and White-Plains, to New-York: From New-York, by Peekfkill, Fishkill, Poughkeepfie, Rhinebeck, Redhook, Clermont, Hudson, and Kinderhook, to Albany: From Albany, by Lanfingburg, Bennington, Manchester, Rutland, Middlebury and Vergennes, to Burlington, on Lake Champlain: From Rutland to Windfor, in the ftate of Vermont From Albany, by Schenectady, Johnston, Connojoharrie, and Whiteftown, to Kanandorque; and from fome convenient point in that line, through Cherry-Valley, to the court-houfe in Cooper'ftown, in the county of Otfego: From the city of New-York, by the most useful route, to Sagg-harbor: From Newark or Elizabeth-town, by Morristown and Rockaway, to Suffex court-house; and from thence, by Hacket'ftown and Morristown, to Elizabeth-town or Newark: From Woodbridge to Amboy: From Trenton, by Allentown, Monmouth Court-houfe, Shrewsbury and Spotfwood, to Brunswick; and from Brunfwick, by Somerfet Court-houfe, New Germantown, Pittfton and Flemington, to Trenton: From Philadelphia, by Bethlehem, Eafton, Suffex Court-houfe, Gothen, Ward'sbridge, and Kingston, to Rhinebeck: From Bethlehem to Reading: From Philadelphia, by Woodbury, Sweedfborough and Salem, to Bridgetown, in Weft New-Jersey: From Philadelphia, by Norristown, Pottfgrove, Rea |