Specific appropriations.the United States not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, to wit:
For the payment of awards by the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the debts due by citizens of the United States, to British subject, three hundred thousand dollars.
For defraying the extraordinary expenses of ascertaining the river St. Croix, under the fifth article of the said treaty, twelve thousand dollars.
For defraying the extraordinary expense of running and marking the boundary line between the territories of the United States and Spain, twelve thousand dollars.
Approved, March 19, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Repealed.]
Chap. ⅩⅩ.—An Act to amend the act intituled “An act laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper.”
Deduction on the purchase of stamped paper, &c. where the duties amount to more than $10.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any person, other than officers employed in collecting the revenue of the United States, shall apply to any supervisor or inspector of the said revenue, at the office of such supervisor or inspector, for the purchase, at one time, of any quantity of vellum, parchment, or paper, stamped and marked in the manner directed by the act, intituled Ante, p. 527.“An act laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper,” the whole amount of the duties on which quantity shall be ten dollars, or upwards, such supervisor or inspector shall be, and hereby is authorized and required to deliver to such person, such quantity of vellum, parchment or paper, stamped as aforesaid; the said person paying down the amount of the said duties, after deducting therefrom seven and one half per centum on such amount; which deduction the said supervisor or inspector is hereby authorized and required to allow.
In such case purchaser to pay the value of the vellum also, which shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any stamped vellum, or parchment, shall be applied for, and delivered, in the manner aforesaid, the said purchaser, in order to become entitled to the aforesaid deduction, shall pay to the said supervisor, or inspector, in addition to the amount of the said duties, a reasonable rate for and on account of the price of the said vellum, or parchment, which rate the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to fix, as nearly as may be, according to the actual cost of those articles.
The same deduction to be made where paper is brought to be stamped.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any person, other than officers employed in the collection of the revenue of the United States, shall bring any vellum, parchment, or paper, to be stamped, in the manner directed by the aforesaid act, in any quantity, at one time, the whole amount of the duties for stamping which shall be ten dollars, or upwards, the officer stamping such vellum, parchment or paper, pursuant to the directions of the said act, shall be, and hereby is authorized and required to make to such person the same allowance and deduction on the amount of the said duties, as is directed by the first section this act, to be made in the cases therein mentioned.
No additional charge for the paper.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the stamped paper, required by the aforesaid act to be furnished to the citizens of the United States, by the treasury department, shall be furnished at the rate of duty provided by that act, without any additional charge on account of the price of paper, or any other expense, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding; and that all paper for the purposes aforesaid, shall be furnished at the expense of the United States, by the Secretary of the Treasury department, who is hereby authorized to employ annually aSecretary of the Treasury to employ a sufficient sum for the purchase of paper, &c.Provided that the price of vellum and parchment shall be paid by applicants, in addition to the duties.
