Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LXV.—An Act to make good a deficit in the appropriation of eighteen hundred and seven, for completing the public buildings, and for other purposes.
Specific appropriations.
[Obsolete.]Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the appropriations already made, the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to the purposes herein after mentioned, that is to say:
For making good the deficit of eighteen hundred and seven, including the debt due from the public offices, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the wall of the President’s square, planting the ground so as to close this part of the expenditure, building a solid flight of steps to the principal door, and minor expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.
For carrying up in solid work, the interior of the north wing, comprising the Senate chamber, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For executing the work deficient in the interior of the south wing and for painting, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums of money hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 25, 1808.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LXVI.—An Act in addition to the act intituled “An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States,” and the several acts supplementary thereto, and for other purposes.[1]
Act of Dec. 22, 1807, ch. 5.
Act of Jan. 9, 1808, ch. 8.
Act of March 12, 1808, ch. 33.
Act of Jan. 9, 1809, ch. 5.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Additional regulations for coasting vessels.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That during continuance of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, no vessel of any description whatever, and wherever bound, whose employment is confined to the navigation of bays, sounds, rivers and lakes, within the jurisdiction of the United States, (packets, ferry-boats, and vessels exempted from the obligation of giving any bond whatever, only excepted,) shall be allowed to depart from any district of the United States, without having previously obtained a clearance, nor until the master or commander shall have delivered to the collector or surveyor of the port of departure, a manifest of the whole cargo on board, including articles of domestic growth or manufacture, as well as foreign merchandise. And it shall also be the duty of the owners, agents or master of every such vessel, to produce within two months thereafter, to the collector of the district from which the vessel departed, a certificate of the landing of the whole of such cargo, in a port of the United States, within the bay, sound, rivers or lakes, to which the navigation of such vessel is confined, signed by the collector or surveyor of the port where the cargo shall have been landed.
- ↑ See notes to act of December 22, 1807, chap. 5.
