ACTS OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of November, 1804, and ended on the third day of March, 1805.
Thomas Jefferson, President; Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Joseph Anderson, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 19th to the 31st of January, and from the 1st to the 3d of March, 1805; Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE ⅠⅠ.
Chapter Ⅰ.—An Act making a further appropriation for carrying into effect the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America.
Appropriation for carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty between England and the United States.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding seventy thousand dollars, be, and the same hereby is appropriated, to be paid under the direction of the President of the United States out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America.
Approved, November 24, 1804.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. II.—An Act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in an appropriation for the support of government during the present year, and making a partial appropriation for the same object during the year one thousand eight hundred and five.
Specific appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to make good a deficiency of the appropriation for the contingent expenses of both houses of Congress, authorized by the act of the fourteenth of March last, the farther sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That towards defraying the expense of firewood, stationery and other contingent expenses of both houses of Congress, during the year one thousand eight and five, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated: which several sums shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars reserved by the act “making provision for the debt of the United States.”1790, ch. 34.
Approved, December 6, 1804.