nine thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and other expenses; nor a greater sum for the same, than four thousand five hundred dollars per annum to a charge des affaires;charge des affaires, and
minister’s secretary;
and to account specifically. nor a greater sum for the same, than one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars per annum to the secretary of any minister plenipotentiary: And provided also, That the President shall account specifically for all such expenditures of the said money as in his judgment may be made public, and also for the amount of such expenditures as he may think it advisable not to specify, and cause a regular statement and account thereof to be laid before Congress annually, and also lodged in the proper office of the treasury department.
Continuance of this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force for the space of two years, and from thence until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.
Approved, July 1, 1790.
Statute ⅠⅠ.July 5, 1790.
Chap. XXV.—An Act giving effect to an act intituled “An act providing for the enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States,” in respect to the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Act for enumeration declared in force as to R. Island.
Act of March 1, 1790, ch. 2.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed the present session of Congress, intituled “An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” shall be deemed to have the like force and operation within the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as elsewhere within the United States; and all the regulations, provisions, directions, authorities, penalties, and other matters whatsoever, contained or expressed in the said act, and which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the like force and effect within the said state, as if the same were repeated and re-enacted in and by this present act.
Salary of the marshal.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the marshal of the district of Rhode Island shall receive, in full compensation for the performance of all the duties and services confided to, and enjoined upon him by this act, one hundred dollars.
Approved, July 5, 1790.
Statute ⅠⅠ.July 5, 1790.
Chap. XXVI.—An Act to authorize the purchase of a tract of land for the use of the United States.
President authorized to purchase West Point, for purpose of fortifications, &c.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 authorized 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 fortifications and garrisons as may be necessary for the defence of the same.
Approved, July 5, 1790.
Statute ⅠⅠ.July 16, 1790.
Chap. XXVII.—An Act further to provide for the Payment of the Invalid Pensioners of the United States.
Act of March 3, 1791, ch. 24.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 former acts of the United States in Congress assembled, and such as by acts passed in the present session of Congress, are or shall be declared to be due to invalids who were wounded and disabled during
