Whereas James Rurasey, of Berkeley county, in Virginia, hath represented to this House, that he hath invented, or improved divers engines, machines, and devices, hereinafter particularly mentioned, upon principles and constructions not before used, and by actual experiments, hath demonstrated the practicability and utility thereof, and hath in the office of plans of the said several inventions and improvements, vnih explanations thereof, in order particularly to designate and distinguish them from other engines, machines, and devices heretofore used for purposes somewhat similar. Which engines, machines and devices, are called by the following names, and known by the following distinguishing characters, viz.

RuMSEY's Pipe Boiler, for the more ample and easy generating of steam, by passing a small quantity of water through an uicurvated tube, placed in a furnace, whereby the action of fire is communicated to the water and steam in all its passage from the entrance to the exit, and which kind of boiler can be easily adapted to every species of fire or steam engines.

Rumsey's Steam Boat, a practical mode of propelling vessels by means of the reaction of a stream of water, forced by the agency of steam through a trunk or cylinder, parallel to the keel, out at the stern.

Rumsey''s Improvement Upon Savery's Machine, or steam engine, whereby water may be raised in great quantities to any reasonable height, for the turning of mills, or for agricultural or other purposes.

Rumsey's Improvement Upon Doctor Barker's Mill, a mode by which millstones and other machinery, requiring a circular or retrograde motion, may be turned by or worked with a sinalJer quantity of water than by any plan yet exhibited to the public, and entirely free from the difficulties which prevented Doctor Barker's invention from coming into use.