I have directed a number of copies of the treaty made by you at Fort Harmar with the Wyandots, etc., on the 9th of January last to be printed and forwarded to you, together with the ratification and my proclamation enjoining the observance thereof. As it may be of high importance to obtain a precise and accurate knowledge of the several waters which empty into the Ohio on the northwest and of those which discharge themselves in the Lakes Erie and Michigan, the length of the portages between, and nature of the ground, an early and pointed attention thereto is earnestly recommended. Given under my hand, in the city of New York, this 6th day of October, A.D. 1789, and in the thirteenth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States. Go. WASHINGTON. [From The Freeman's Journal; or, The North American Intelligencer, Philadelphia, October 21, 1789.] CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. AN ACT providing for the payment of the invalid pensioners of the United States. _Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That the military pensions which have been granted and paid by the States, respectively, in pursuance of the acts of the United States in Congress assembled, to the invalids who were wounded and disabled during the late war shall be continued and paid by the United States from the 4th day of March last for the space of one year under such regulations as the President of the United States may direct. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, _Speaker of the House of Representatives._ JOHN ADAMS, _Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate._ Approved, September 29, 1789. Go. WASHINGTON, _President of the United States._ WAR OFFICE, _October 13, 1789._ In pursuance of the above-recited law, information is hereby given to all the invalid pensioners of the United States that the amount of one year's pension from the 4th day of March last will be paid to them or their attorneys, respectively, in two equal payments, the first of which will be made on the 5th day of March, 1790, and the second on the 5th day of June following, at such places in each State and by such persons as shall hereafter in due season be publicly made known. The payments will be made according to the following regulations, to wit: The returns which have been or shall be made to the Secretary for the Department of War by the several States of the pensions which have been granted and paid by them, respectively, will, together with the vouchers herein required, be considered as the evidence whereon the payments are to be made. Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers: First. The certificate given by the State, specifying that the person possessing it is in fact an invalid and ascertaining the sum to which as such he is annually entitled.