Exemption of vessels under 20 tons, from entering and clearing extended to vessels of 50 tons having on board goods, &c., the growth or produce of the U.S.and not less than five tons burthen, employed between any of the districts of the United States, in any bay or river, and having a license from the collector of the district to which such vessel belongs, from entering and clearing for the term of one year, be extended to vessels not exceeding fifty tons: provided, such vessels shall not have on board goods, wares or merchandise, other than such as are actually the growth or produce of the United States.
Act of July 31, 1789.
Act of Sept. 1, 1789.
Ruble of Russia, rate of.
Repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, intituled, “An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States,” as hath rated the ruble of Russia at one hundred cents, be, and the same is hereby repealed and made null and void.
Approved, September 29, 1789.
Statute Ⅰ.Sept. 29, 1789.
[Expired.]
Chap. XXIII.—An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the present year.
Specific appropriations of money for expenses of civil list and war department;Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be appropriated for the service of the present year, to be paid out of the monies which arise, either from the requisitions heretofore made upon the several states, or from the duties on impost and tonnage, the following sums, viz. A sum not exceeding two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars for defraying the expenses of the civil list, under the late and present government; a sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars for defraying the expenses of the department of war;also to discharge warrants of late board of treasury, and for pensions to invalids. a sum not exceeding one hundred and ninety thousand dollars for discharging the warrants issued by the late board of treasury, and remaining unsatisfied; and a sum not exceeding ninety-six thousand dollars for paying the pensions to invalids.
Approved, September 29, 1789.
Statute Ⅰ.Sept. 29, 1789.
Chap. XXIV.—An Act providing for the payment of the Invalid Pensioners of the United States.
Act of July 16, 1790, ch. 27.
[Expired.]
Military pensions heretofore paid by the States to be paid from 4th March last for one year, and under what regulations.Section 1. 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 fourth day of March last, for the space of one year, under such regulations as the President of the United States may direct.
Approved, September 29, 1789.
Statute Ⅰ.Sept. 29, 1789.
[Repealed.]
Chap. XXV.—An Act to recognize and adopt to the Constitution of the United States the establishment of the Troops raised under the Resolves of the United States in Congress assembled, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Establishment of 3d Oct. 1787, recognized for troops in the service of U.S.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the establishment contained in the resolve of the late Congress of the third day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, except
