approved the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby continued in force until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and six.
Approved, March 2, 1805.
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Chap. XXVIII.—An Act to amend the act, intituled “An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants’ service.”
Act of June 20, 1790, ch. 29.
Regulations of the 8th section of the act referred to, so far as that section related to a medicine chest for a vessel of 150 tons, extended to smaller vessels, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the provisions, regulations, and penalties which are contained in the eighth section of the act, intituled “An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants’ service,” so far as relates to a chest of medicines to be provided for vessels of one hundred and fifty tons burthen and upwards, shall be extended to all merchant vessels of the burthen of seventy-five tons, or upwards, navigated with six persons or more, in the whole, and bound from the United States to any port or ports in the West Indies.
Approved, March 2, 1805.
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Chap. XXIX.—An Act to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of building Gun Boats.
Appropriation for building a number of gun boats.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of sixty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of enabling the President to cause to be built a number of gun boats, not exceeding twenty-five, for the better protection of the ports and harbors of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1805.
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Chap. XXX.—An Act to authorize the erection of a bridge across a mill pond and marsh in the Navy Yard, belonging to the United States, in the town of Brooklyn, in the state of New York.
President authorized to grant permission for opening and improving a road from Brooklyn ferry, &c., in New York, to erect a bridge across a part of the navy yard of the U. S. in said town, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized, by a proper instrument in writing under his hand, in due form, to grant to such person or persons, or body corporate, by their proper name of incorporation, as shall be authorized by an act of the legislature of the state of New York, to open and improve a road from Brooklyn ferry, in that state, along the shore of the Wallaboght, to Bushwick, to erect a bridge across the mill pond and marsh, being part of the navy yard belonging to the United States, in the said town of Brooklyn, and to maintain such bridge under such restrictions and on such conditions as he shall prescribe:Proviso. Provided nevertheless, that if, at any future time, it shall appear to the President of the United States, that the property of the United States is injured by such bridge, he may revoke the permission granted by him for erecting the same:
Proviso.And provided also, That no toll shall be demanded at any time for any article the property of the United States which may be conveyed to or for their use, over or across the said bridge, or from any person or persons employed in the said navy yard, who may pass or repass on the said bridge.
Approved, March 2, 1805.