Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅬⅩⅩⅩⅥ.—An Act making certain additional appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Relative to the loan offices.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the compensation of clerks to the Commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, for and during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,Navy Department. That for the expenses incident to the Navy department for and during the present year, including the compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, his clerks and persons employed in his office, with the contingent expenses of the department, there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, the sum of six thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-two cents.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,Accountant of the Navy Department. That for the expenses incident to the office of the Accountant of the Navy department, for and during the present year, including the compensation of the accountant, his clerks and persons employed in his office, with all contingent expenses thereof, there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, the sum of two thousand and forty-five dollars and nine cents.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,Contingencies of this session of Congress. That for the additional expenses incident to the present session of Congress, for printing, stationery and other contingencies, there shall be, and hereby are appropriated, the following sums, viz.: For the Senate, one thousand dollars; for the House of Representatives, four thousand dollars.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,For repaying the Bank for certain protested bills. That for repaying to the Bank of the United States a sum advanced upon bills drawn by the treasury of the United States, in favour of the cashier of the said bank, upon the supervisor of the district of New Hampshire, and protested, there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, the sum of five thousand five hundred and six dollars.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted,How these appropriations shall be paid.
Ante, p. 138. That the aforesaid appropriations shall be paid out of the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act “making provision for the debts of the United States.”
Approved, July 16, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅬⅩⅩⅩⅧ.—An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to suspend the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof.”
Act of June 13, 1798, ch. 53.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provision for giving bond and finding sufficient surety or sureties, for vessels bound on foreign voyages, as required in the second section of the act, entitled “An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof,” shall extend no further, than to obligations to the amount of the value of the vessels respectively, and to a sum in addition thereto equal to one third of the value of the cargo. Provided, that in no case the surety or sureties shall be answerable for more than ten thousand dollars, any thing in the act above mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, July 16, 1798.