Military appropriations for 1797.For finishing the frigates United States, Constitution, and Constellation, the sum of one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars.
For the payment of military pensions, including an allowance to the widows and children of officers, under an act, intituled 1794, ch. 52.“An act in addition to the act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States,” the sum of ninety-six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
To satisfy and discharge claims for militia services on the frontiers of Georgia, the sum of seventy thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-five cents: for militia services on the frontiers of Kentucky, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-six cents; and for militia services on the frontiers of South Carolina, the sum of forty-eight thousand four hundred dollars and twenty-five cents.
For the payment of general John Sevier and his brigade, for services in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, the sum of twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety-five cents.
For the payment of six months’ pay and subsistence to each of the officers discharged under the act 1796, ch. 39.“to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States,” a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars; which sums shall be solely applied to the objects for which they are respectively appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the surplus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereon, to the end of the present year.
Approved, March 3, 1797.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅦ.—An Act to suspend, in part, the Act, intituled “An act to alter and amend the Act, intituled An Act laying certain duties upon Snuff and refined Sugar,” and to grant relief in certain cases arising under the said Act.
Act laying duty on snuff repealed.Section 1. 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, intituled “An act to alter and amend the act, intituled An act laying certain duties upon snuff and refined sugar,”1795, ch. 43.
1798, ch. 80. as respects the duties therein laid upon mills and implements employed in the manufacture of snuff, and the drawbacks therein allowed, upon the exportation of snuff manufactured within the United States, be suspended, from the passing of this act, until the end of the next session of Congress.
Relief granted in certain cases.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of licenses granted under the said act, where, by failure of water, or other casualty, occurring to the mill or mills, or to the implements or to the proprietor, or other person licensed, the use and benefit of such license has been lost, or considerably interrupted, and the duties thereon required or paid, may be considered as peculiarly unequal and injurious, the Secretary of the Treasury, upon due representation and proof of such ease, shall be, and hereby is authorized to cause to be refunded or remitted, such part of the duties paid, or secured on such license, as shall appear just and reasonable, under the circumstances of the case, and having regard to the loss, injury, or peculiar hardship sustained as aforesaid.
Approved, March 3, 1797.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅨ.—An Act in addition to the act intituled “An act to establish the Post-Office and Post Roads within the United States.”
[Obsolete.]
Post roads discontinued.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
