1. For the former report, see Randolph to GW, 5 June. For the following laws as published, see Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 6:16-17 for numbers 38, 39, 44, 53, 56, and 60, and Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 1:370-400 for the remaining numbers. Number 53 is printed in both Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 1:390 and Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 6:17.

2. During the Revolutionary War, Lewis Duboys (Dubois; 1728-1802) served as colonel of the 5th New York Regiment. Dissatisfied with a congressional decision about his precedence among colonels, he resigned his commission in December 1779 and became a colonel of New York state levies. This act extended to him the benefits of half-pay voted to Continental officers by Congress in 1780.

3. John Robbe of Stoddard, N.H., a sergeant in the 5th New Hampshire Militia Regiment, was wounded at Bennington, Vt., on 16 Aug. 1777. He had received an invalid pension from New Hampshire, but this act extended a federal pension to him. He remained on the pension rolls as late as 1835 (Hammond, Rolls, 3:331, 439-42; White, Genealogical Abstracts, 3:2901).

4. Jabez Rogers, Jr. (1764-1839) was a merchant and distiller at Middlebury, Vermont. This act remitted the duties on some of his spirits that were destroyed in a fire.

5. Both Nicollas Rieb and his son Peter Rieb served as shoemakers in the Regiment of Artificers during the Revolutionary War. This act directed settlement of the account of Peter Rieb, who had later been lost at sea.

6. "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to lay, regulate and revoke Embargoes," 4 June, gave GW that power "whenever, in his opinion, the public safety shall so require," but only when Congress was not in session and only until fifteen days after the next meeting of Congress (Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 1:372). "An Act to authorize the President of the United States during the recess of the present Congress, to cause to be purchased or built a number of Vessels to be equipped as Galleys, or otherwise, in the service of the United States," 5 June, authorized GW to commission officers as well as purchase and equip the vessels. It appropriated $80,000 and authorized GW to take out a loan for that sum (Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 1:376). "An Act to amend the act intituled ’An act to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental Establishment, to obtain titles to certain Lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little Miami and Sciota,’" 9 June, stated that the president would issue a patent when the soldier produced a warrant, a certificate that the warrant was "unsatisfied," and a survey of the tract, "any thing in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding" (Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 1:394).

7. "An Act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," 5 June, provided for punishment of those citizens who enlisted to serve "a foreign prince or state" at war, who were involved in fitting out or arming a vessel to be used by a foreign prince, or who "set on foot" or provided the means for a "military expedition" from the United States against a territory with which the United States was at peace. Section 7 of the act gave the president "or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose" authority to employ military force to seize such vessels or prevent such an expedition. Section 8 authorized the president or his agent to employ force "to compel any foreign ship or vessel to depart the United States, in all cases in which, by the laws of nations or the treaties of the United States, they ought not to remain within the United States" (Stat description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends . 1:381-84).