the twenty-fourth day of June last, by virtue of the act of Congress of the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, imposing a new tonnage duty on French ships or vessels.
Upon ratification of second separate article of the convention, the extra duties to be levied only on the excess of value of imports over that of exports.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That, if the second separate article of the said convention, concluded on the twenty-fourth of June last, should be ratified by both the contracting parties thereto, and the ratifications thereof should be exchanged, on or before the twenty-third day of June next, then, from and after the expiration of two months, subsequent to the said exchange of ratifications, and during the continuance in force of the said separate article, the extra duties specified in the second section of this act shall be levied only upon the excess of value of the merchandise imported into the United States in any French vessel, over the value of the merchandise exported from the United States in the same vessel, upon the same voyage; so that, if the value of the articles exported shall equal or exceed that of the articles imported in the same vessel, (not including articles imported for transit or re-exportation,) no such extra duties shall be levied: and if the articles exported are less in value than those imported, the extra duties shall be levied only upon the amount of difference of their value.
Acts incompatible with the convention repealed.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts of acts, of Congress, incompatible with the execution of each and every article of the said convention, concluded on the twenty-fourth of June last, and of its ratified separate article, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
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Chap. XXVI.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
Specific appropriations for the military service for 1823.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, to wit:
For the pay of the army, and subsistence of the officers, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
For subsistence, two hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred dollars.
For forage for officers, thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, fifteen thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For the purchasing department, one hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation, mathematical instruments, books, and stationery, for the military academy, twelve thousand dollars.
For the pensions to the invalids, to the commutation pensioners, and to the widows and orphans, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million five hundred and thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars.