United States, or of any state, in which action the certificate of the magistrate taking the said examinations shall be evidence.
Fees to the officers employed.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That each judge, justice, chancellor, mayor, recorder, intendant and justice of the peace, who shall be necessarily employed, pursuant to the directions of this act, and all sheriffs, constables, or other officers who may be employed to serve any of the warrants of summons or notifications herein provided for, shall have and receive from the party at whose instance such service shall have been performed, such fee or fees, as are or may be allowed for similar services in the states wherein such service shall be rendered, respectively.
Limitation.Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the end of the first session of the sixth Congress, and no longer.
Approved, January 23, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. Ⅹ.—An Act to amend the several act for laying duties on Spirits distilled within the United States, and on Stills.
Owners of stills to elect as to the time they will pay duties.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for all owners of stills within the United States, which shall have been duly entered according to law, to make their election, at any time of the year, both as to the rate of Repealed April 6, 1802. duty which they may choose to pay for the employment of their said stills, whether for a year, or for such other shorter period, as may be allowed by law; and also, as to the time of commencing such employment.
Approved, January 29, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. Ⅺ.—An Act supplementary to the act intituled “An act regulating Foreign Coins, and for other purposes.”
Act of Feb. 9, 1793, ch. 5.
Act of Feb. 9, 1793, suspended.
1802, ch. 38.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of an act, intituled “An act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby suspended, for and during the space of three years from and after the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, during which time the said gold and silver coins shall be and continue a legal tender, as is provided in and by the first section of the act aforesaid; and that the same coins shall thereafter cease to be such tender.
Approved, February 1, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅣ.—An Act appropriating a certain sum of Money to defray the expense of holding a Treaty or Treaties with the Indians.
