Specific appropriations.wrecked at Ocracock; the amount of which loss the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized to liquidate and allow upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to them of such loss, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For carrying on the surveys of public lands in the state of Ohio, and in the several territories, seventy-three thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents at London, Paris, and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, six thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations heretofore made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States,1790, ch. 34. and out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1807.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXX.—An Act repealing the acts laying duties on salt, and continuing in force, for a further time, the first section of an act, intituled “An Act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States, against the Barbary powers.”
After the 30th June, 1807, the act of July 8, 1797, ch. 15, repealed so far as respects the duty on salt.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the act, intituled “An act laying an additional duty on salt imported into the United States, and for other purposes,” passed the eighth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, shall be, and the same hereby is repealed, and that from and after the thirty-first day of December next, so much of any act as lays a duty on imported salt, be, and the same hereby is repealed; and from and after the day last aforesaid, salt shall be imported into the United States free of duty:Proviso.
The recovery and receipt of outstanding duties, not to be impaired. Provided, that for the recovery and receipt of such duties as shall have accrued, and on the days aforesaid respectively remain outstanding, and for the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and the remission thereof, which shall have been incurred before and on the said days respectively, the provisions of the aforesaid act shall remain in full force and virtue.
Bounties on salt provisions and pickled fish taken off.
See vol. i. 27, 260, 533, 693.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of January next, so much of any act as allows a bounty on exported salt provisions and pickled fish, in lieu of drawback of the duties on the salt employed in curing the same, and so much of any act as makes allowance to the owners and crews of fishing vessels, in lieu of drawback of the duties paid on the salt used by the same, shall be, and the same hereby is repealed: Provided, that the provisions of the aforesaid acts shall remain in full force and virtue for the payment of the bounties or allowances incurred or payable on the first day of January next.
