Penalties how recovered and disposed of.
1790, ch. 35.may be sued for, prosecuted and recovered, in such courts, and be disposed of in such manner, as any penalties and forfeitures which may be incurred for offences against the act, intituled “An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels,” may legally be sued for, prosecuted, recovered and disposed of: Provided always, That if any officer entitled to a part or share of any such penalty or forfeiture, shall be necessary as a witness, on the trial for such penalty or forfeiture, such officer may be a witness upon the said trial; but in such case, he shall not receive, nor be entitled to any part or share of the said penalty or forfeiture; and the part or share, to which he would otherwise have been entitled, shall accrue to the United States.
When this act shall take effect, &c.
Repealed 1789, ch. 11.Sec. 30. And be it further enacted, That from and after the last day of March next, this act shall be in full force and effect; and so much of the act, intituled “An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes,” as comes within the purview of this act, shall, after the said last day of March, be repealed.
Approved, December 31, 1792.
Statute Ⅱ.Jan. 14, 1793
Chap. II.—An Act to amend an act intituled “An act establishing a Mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” so far as respects the coinage of copper.
Act of April 2, 1792, ch. 16.
Contents of cents and half cents.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every cent shall contain two hundred and eight grains of copper, and every half cent shall contain one hundred and four grains of copper; and that so much of the act, intituled “An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” as respects the weight of cents and half cents, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, January 14, 1793.
Statute Ⅱ.Jan. 14, 1793
Chap. III.—An Act to provide for the allowance of interest on the sum ordered to be paid by the resolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, as an indemnity to the Persons therein named.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That lawful interest, from the sixteenth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, shall be allowed on the sum of two hundred dollars, ordered to be paid to Return Jonathan Meigs, and the legal representative of Christopher Greene, deceased, by a Resolve of the United States in Congress assembled, of the twenty-eighth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.
Approved, January 14, 1793.
Statute Ⅱ.Feb. 9, 1793
Chap. IV.—An Act to continue in force for a limited time, and to amend the act intituled “An act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations.”
July 1, 1790, ch. 22.
1796, ch. 41.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, intituled “An act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations,” which would expire at the end of the present session of Congress, be, and the same hereby is, together
