ACTS OF THE NINTH 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 seventeenth day of December, 1805, and ended on the twenty-first day of April, 1806.
Thomas Jefferson, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Samuel Smith, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 11th of December, 1805, and from the 28th of March, 1806; Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chapter Ⅰ.—An Act making an additional appropriation for the Naval service, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five.
Additional sum appropriated for 1805.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated towards defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five.
Out of what fund it is to be paid.
1804, ch. 46.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sum shall be paid, first, out of the monies accruing at the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and five, from the duties laid by the act, passed on the twenty-fifth day of march, one thousand eight hundred and four, intituled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers;” and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 11, 1805.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. II.—An Act supplementary to the “Act making provision for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States on the government of France, the payment of which has been assumed by the United States, by virtue of the convention of the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic.”
The unexpended balance of a sum heretofore appropriated for paying claims under the French convention, not to go to the surplus fund.
Act of Nov. 10, 1803, ch. 3.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the balance of the appropriation of three millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, made by the act to which this is a supplement, which may remain unexpended on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and five, shall not be carried to the credit of the surplus fund, but shall remain appropriated to the same purpose for which it was originally appropriated, any act to the contrary notwithstanding.
