shall in their judgment require; so however that no principal clerk shall receiveIncrease of compensation to one of the clerks of the director of the mint.
1796, ch. 40. more than at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, and that the aggregate of the compensations for clerks in either of the said departments shall not for the said year exceed the aggregate of the compensations allowed for clerks in the same department for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and that an additional compensation not exceeding the rate of two hundred dollars per annum be allowed for one clerk employed by the director of the mint during the present year.
Clerk hire of the commissioners of loans, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be allowed for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to the commissioners of loans in the states of Massachusetts and New York respectively not exceeding five clerks at the rate of five hundred dollars each; to the commissioner of loans in the state of Connecticut not exceeding two clerks at the rate of four hundred dollars each; and to the commissioner of loans in the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina respectively not exceeding two clerks at the rate of five hundred dollars each. The aggregate of the compensations for clerks employed by either of the said commissioners to be apportioned among them at his discretion. That there be allowed for the year aforesaid in lieu of clerk hire to the commissioner of loans in the state of New Hampshire three hundred and fifty dollars; to the commissioner of loans in the state of Rhode Island four hundred dollars; to the commissioner of loans in the state of New Jersey three hundred dollars; and to the commissioner of loans in the state of Maryland two hundred and fifty dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1795.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅬⅢ.—An Act authorizing the exportation of Arms, Cannon and Military Stores in certain cases.
President may in certain cases permit the exportation of arms, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in cases connected with the security of the commercial interest of the United States, and for public purposes only, the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorized to permit the exportation of arms, cannon and military stores, the law prohibiting the exportation of the same to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1795.
Ⅰ. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be and hereby is requested to give directions to the Attorney General to collect, digest and report to the next Congress, the charters, treaties and other documents relative to, and explanatory of the title to the land situate in the South Western parts of the United States and claimed by certain companies under a law of the State of Georgia passed the seventh day of January last, namely, a tract of land claimed by James Gunn, Matthew McAllister, and George Walker, and their associates; also a tract of land claimed by Nicholas Long, Thomas Glascock, Ambrose Gordon, and Thomas Cumming, and their associates; also a tract of land claimed by John B. Scott, John C. Nightingale, and Wade Hampton, and their associates; and also a tract of land claimed by Zachariah Cox, and Mathias Maher, and their associates.
