required to make, on or before the first day of December next, a full report to the Secretary of the Treasury of all claims that have been, or may be laid before them for lands held by warrant of survey and improvement in cases where the claim ants were minors, and not heads of families, at the time such warrants were issued, with the circumstances which occasioned the issuing of such warrants, and the validity which has been considered as attached to the same.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted. That, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the execution of so much of the twelfth section of the act to which this act is a supplement, as excepts "such town lots, not exceeding two, in the town of Natchez, and such an out-lot adjoining the same, not exceeding thirty acres, as may be the property of the United States, to be located by the Governor of the Mississippi Territory for the use of Jefferson College," be, and the same is hereby, suspended until the end of the next session of Congress.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That transcripts of the records of the British province of West Florida, to claims for land therein, and which have been delivered to the Government of the United States, may be produced as evidence, and shall be entitled to the same weight in any court of the United States, as if the same had been delivered, or shall be delivered to either of the Registers of the land offices in the Mississippi Territory, before the last of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, anything in this act, or in the fifth section of the act to which this is a supplement, to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of extending the external commerce, and exploring the lim

its of the United States in the new acquired territory of Louisiana, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That Major General Lafayette be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to locate and survey the lands allowed him by the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act to revive and continue in force an act in addition to an act, entitled 'An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, and for other purposes," on any lands, the property of the United States, in the Territory of Orleans; and on presenting the survey of the said land to the Secretary of the Treasury, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to issue letters patent to the said Major General Lafayette for the quantity of lands allowed by the said act.

Approved, March 27, 1804.

Resolution to instruct the Joint Committee of Enrolled Bills to wait on the President of the United States, respecting a variance between an engrossed and enrolled bill.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Joint Committee for Enrolled Bills be instructed to wait on the President of the United States, and lay before him the engrossed bill, entitled "An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda, and Mirboha," with the several amendments thereto, as the same was finally passed by both Houses of Congress; and to state the variance between the said engrossed bill and the enrollment thereof, as approved by the President, and to request that he will cause the said enrolled bill to be returned to the House in which it originated, for the purpose of rendering the said bill conformable with the engrossed bill and the amendments thereto, as passed by the two Houses of Congress.