Certain articles subject to duties as on foreign goods. chocolate, manufactured or made in the states of North Carolina, or Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and imported or brought into the United States, shall be deemed and taken to be, subject to the like duties, as goods of the like kinds, imported from any foreign state, kingdom or country, are mode subject to.
Rehoboth established a port of entry Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That Rehoboth, in the state of Massachusetts, shall be a port of entry and delivery, until the fifteenth day of January next, and that a collector be appointed for the same.
Approved, September 16, 1789.
Statute Ⅰ.Sept. 22, 1789.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVI.—An Act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office.[1]
Powers and salary. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed a Postmaster General; his powers and salary[2] and the compensation to the assistant or clerk and deputies which he may appoint, and the regulations of the post-office shall be the same as they last were under the resolutions and ordinances of the late Congress. The Postmaster General to be subject to the direction of the President of the United States in performing the duties of his office, and in forming contracts for the transportation of the mail.
Limitations.
Continued by
act of August 4, 1790, ch. 36.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, September 22, 1789.
Statute Ⅰ.Sept. 22, 1789.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVII.—An Act for allowing Compensation to the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, and to the Officers of both Houses.[3]
Senators, their allowance for attendance and travelling, prior to the 4th of March, 1795.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That at every session of Congress, and at every meeting of the Senate in the recess of Congress, prior to the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, each Senator shall be entitled to receive six dollars, for every day he shall attend the Senate, and shall also be allowed, at the commencement and end of every such session and meeting,Act of March 10, 1796, ch. 4.
Act of April 29, 1802, ch. 35.
six dollars for every twenty miles of the estimated distance, by the most usual road, from his place of residence to the seat of Congress; and in case any member of the Senate shall be detained by sickness on his journey to or from any such session or meeting, or alter his arrival shall be unable to attend the Senate, he shall be entitled to the same daily allowance; Provided always, That no Senator shall be allowed a sum exceeding the rate of six dollars a day, from the end of one such session or meeting to the time of his taking his seat in another.
- ↑ The acts passed for the establishment and regulation of the Post-office Department, and which are obsolete, have been, in addition to this act:
Act of August 4, 1790, chap. 36;
act of March 3, 1791, chap. 23;
act of February 20, 1792;
act of May 8, 1794;
act of March 3, 1797, chap. 19;
act of March 28, 1798, chap. 24;
act of March 2, 1799, chap. 43;
act of December 23, 1814;
act of February 27, 1815;
act of February 1, 1816, chap. 7;
act of April 9, 1816, chap. 43;
act of March 3, 1825, chap. 64.
The acts in force in reference to the Post-office Department are, the “act concerning public contracts,” April 21, 1808, chap. 48; act of March 2, 1827, chap. 61. An act to change the organization of the post-office department, and to provide more effectively for the settlement of the accounts thereof, July 2, 1836, chap. 270; resolution of March 2, 1837; act of March 3, 1845, chap. 23, 34.
- ↑ By an act passed March 2, 1827, chap. 62, an addition was made to the salary of the Postmaster General of two thousand dollars, making the annual salary of that officer six thousand dollars.
- ↑ The acts of Congress, subsequent to this act, allowing compensation to members of the Senate and House of Representatives, &c., have been: Act of July 6, 1797, chap. 13; act of March 19, 1816, chap. 30; act of January 22, 1818, chap. 5; act of 1796, chap. 4.
