Compensation to be certified by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House.shall be due to the members of the Senate, shall be certified by the President thereof, and that which shall be due to the representatives and delegates, shall be certified by the Speaker; and the same shall be passed as public accounts, and paid out of the public treasury.
All acts and parts of acts repealed.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, on the subject of compensation to members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, and delegates of the territories, be, and the same are hereby, repealed from and after the third day of March last.
Approved, January 22, 1818.
Statute I.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. VIII.—An Act making further provision for repairing public buildings.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 94.
200,000 dollars appropriated, to be applied by the commissioner of public buildings under the direction of the President of the United States.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of repairing the public buildings, a sum, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, and to be applied by the commissioner, under the direction of the President of the United States.
Approved, January 22, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. IX.—An Act to allow the benefit of drawback on merchandise transported by land conveyance from Bristol to Boston, and from Boston to Bristol, in like manner as if the same were transported coastwise.
Merchandise transported from Bristol to Boston, &c., entitled to drawback, &c., as if transported coastwise.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all goods, wares, and merchandise, duly imported into either of the ports of Bristol and Boston, which shall be transported by land conveyance from the port of Bristol, by the way of Dighton and Taunton, to Boston; or from Boston, on the same route, to Bristol; and which, being imported into Bristol shall be exported from Boston; or being imported into Boston shall be exported from Bristol; shall be entitled to the benefit of the drawback of the duties thereof, upon exportation to any foreign port or place, under the same provisions, regulations, restrictions, and limitations, as if the said goods, wares, and merchandise, were transported coastwise from one to another of the said districts; and on the proviso, that all the provisions, regulations, restrictions, and limitations, as if the said goods, wares, and merchandise, were transported coastwise from one to another of the said districts; and on the provide, that all the provisions, regulations, limitations, and restrictions, existing in the case of goods, wares, and merchandise, transported by any of the routes mentioned in the seventy-ninth section of the act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be duly observed.
Approved, February 6, 1818.
Statute I.
Chap. X.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of arrearages which have been incurred for the support of the military establishment, previous to the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
