ACTS OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the thirteenth day of November, 1797, and ended on the sixteenth day of July, 1798.
John Adams, President; Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Theodore Sedgwick, President of the Senate pro tempore, from June 27th; Jonathan Dayton, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE II.
[Obsolete.]
Chapter Ⅰ.—An Act to postpone, for a limited time, the commencement of the duties imposed by the act intituled “An act laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper.”
July 6, 1797, ch. 11.
Commencement of the duties postponed until after 30th June, 1798.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 laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper,” as directs that the duties imposed by that act shall be levied, collected and paid “from and after the thirty-first day of December next,” shall be, and the same hereby is repealed; and that the duties aforesaid shall be levied, collected and paid, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, and not sooner; to which last mentioned day, all notices, certificates and other matters or things, directed by the said act and having respect to the commencement or collection of the said duties, or any of them, shall relate.
Approved, December 15, 1797.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. Ⅱ.—An Act making certain partial appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Appropriations relative to the War Department.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be, and the same hereby is appropriated towards defraying the expenses during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, of the quartermaster’s, and Indian departments, of the defensive protection of the frontiers, of bounties; and of the contingent charges of the war department; and a like sum towards defraying the expenses, during the said year, of the subsistence of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the army of the United States.
For awards in favour of British subjects under seventh article of the treaty of amity, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated for paying and discharging such awards as have been, or may be made, pursuant to the seventh article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Great Britain, in favour of British subjects whose property has been captured within the jurisdiction of the United States, or by vessels armed or fitted out therein.536
