Congrefs 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 to authorise the Purchase of a Tract of Land for the Use of the United States. BE it enacted by the SENATE and HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, and he is hereby authorised to cause to be purchased for the use of the United States, the whole, or such part, of that tract of land situate in the State of New-York, commonly called West-Point, as shall be by him judged requisite for the purpose of such fortification and garrisons as may be necessary for the defence of the same. 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 5th, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. [True Copy.] Th: Jefferson Secretary of State.