Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅩⅢ.—An Act for an additional appropriation to provide and support a Naval Armament.
Additional appropriations for completing and equipping the frigates.
For pay and subsistence of the officers and crews thereof;Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be and there hereby are appropriated a further sum, not exceeding one hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars, to complete and equip for sea, with all convenient speed, the frigates, the United States, the Constitution and the Constellation; and a further sum, not exceeding two hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars for the pay and subsistence, for the term of one year, of the officers and crews which are, or shall be engaged in the service of the United States on board the said frigates, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for those purposes, respectively, remaining unexpended; For contingencies of the naval armament;also, a sum, not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, to defray the wear, losses, expenditures of ammunition, and other current and contingent expenses of the naval armament; For salaries of officers and rent of the navy yards.also a sum not exceeding two thousand two hundred dollars, to defray the salaries of persons having charge of the navy yards at Norfolk, New York, and Portsmouth; and for the rents of the same.
Out of what fund the monies are to be paid.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid and discharged out of the surplus revenue and income of the current year, not before appropriated.
Approved, March 27, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Expired.]
Chap. ⅩⅩⅣ.—An Act to continue in force the fifth section of an act intituled “An act in addition to the act intituled, An act to establish the Post-Office and Post Roads within the United States.”
Fifth section of the Act of March 3, 1797, continued to March 3, 1799.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fifth section of the act, intituled “An act in addition to the act, intituled An act to establish the post-office and post roads within the United States,” which section will expire on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, shall be, and the same is hereby continued in force to the third day of March next.
Approved, March 28, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Expired.]
Chap. ⅩⅩⅤ.—An Act to continue in force for a limited time, a part of an act intituled “An act making further provision for securing and collected the duties of foreign and domestic distilled spirits, stills, wines, and teas.”
Act of June 5, 1794, continued to the end of the sixth Congress.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thirteenth section of the act passed on the fifth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and intituled 1794, ch. 49.“An act making further provisions for securing and collecting the duties on foreign and domestic distilled spirits, stills, wines and teas,” be, and the same hereby in continued in force, until the end of the first session of the sixth Congress.
Approved, April 7, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
Chap. ⅩⅩⅥ.—An Act for the relief of the Refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia.[1]
- ↑ The subsequent acts on this matter, are: Act of February 18, 1801; act of March 3, 1803; act of February 24, 1810; act of April 23, 1812.
