Unappropriated surplus how to be applied.of this and every succeeding year, shall be applied to the reduction of the public debt, in like manner as is directed by the act, intituled “An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt,”1790, ch. 34.
1790, ch. 47. and provided by the act, intituled “An act making provision for the debt of the United States;” unless the said surplus, or any part thereof, shall be required for the public exigencies of the United States, and shall, by special acts of Congress, be appropriated thereto.
Duties hereby imposed how long to continue.Sec. 62. And be it further enacted, That the several duties imposed by this act, shall continue to be collected and paid, until the debts and purposes for which they are pledged and appropriated, shall be fully discharged and satisfied, and no longer. Provided always, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to prevent the legislature of the United States from substituting other duties or taxes of equal value to all or any of the said duties and imposts.
Approved, March 3, 1791.
Statute ⅠⅠⅠ.March 3, 1791.
Chap. XVI.—An Act making an appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned.
$20,000 appropriated for effecting a recognition of the treaty with emperor of Morocco; andBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of effecting a recognition of the treaty of the United States, with the new emperor of Morocco, there be, and hereby is appropriated a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of the monies which prior to the first day of January next, shall arise from the duties imposed upon spirits distilled within the United States, and from stills by the act, entitled 1791, ch. 15.“An act repealing after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and also upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same,” together with the excess of duties which may arise from the duties imposed by the said act, on imported spirits beyond those which would have arisen by the act entitled “An act making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States.” President authorized to borrow said money.
1790, ch. 39.And the President is hereby authorized to take on loan, the whole sum by this act appropriated, or so much thereof as he may judge requisite, at an interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, and the fund established for the above mentioned appropriation, is hereby pledged for the repayment of the principal and interest of any loan to be obtained in manner aforesaid, and in case of any deficiency in the said fund, the faith of the United States is hereby also pledged to make good such deficiency.
Approved, March 3, 1791.
Statute ⅠⅠⅠ.March 3, 1791.
Chap. XVII.—An Act to amend “An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States.”
1790, ch. 28.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, intitled “An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States,” as requires that the whole of the district of territory, not exceeding ten miles square, to be located on the river Potomac, for the permanent seat of the government of the United States, shall be located above the mouth of the Eastern Branch, be and is hereby repealed, and that it shall be lawful for the President to make any part of the territory below the said limit, and above the mouth of Hunting Creek, a part of the said district, so as to include a convenient part of the Eastern Branch, and of the lands lying on the lower side thereof, and also the town of Alexandria, and the territory
