CHAP. XII.—An Act in addition to the law of the United States, concerning Consuls and Vice Consuls. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case it be found necessary, for the interest of the United States that a Consul be appointed to reside at Algiers; the President be authorized to allow him an annual salary not exceeding four thousand dollars. APPROVED, July 6, 1797. CHAP. XIII.—An Act for allowing full mileage to the members of the Senate and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That at the present extraordinary meeting and session of Congress, the respective members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives shall be entitled to receive a full allowance of mileage, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, July 6, 1797. CHAP. XIV.-An Act to revive and continue in force, for a limited time, an act, intituled "An act authorizing the transfer of stock standing to the credit of certain Stales." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several provisions of the act, intituled "An act authorizing the transfer of the stock standing to the credit of certain states," passed the second day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, be and they are hereby revived and continued in force until the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and no longer. APPROVED, July 6, 1797. STATUTE I. July 6, 1797. 14, 1792. Consul at Al giers. STATUTE I. July 6, 1797. [Obsolete.] Ante, p. 448. STATUTE I. July 6, 1797. [Obsolete.] 1795, ch. 10. STATUTE I. CHAP. XV.-An Act laying an additional Duty on Salt imported into the United July 8, 1797. States, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. 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 September next, there shall be levied, collected and paid upon all salt imported into the United States, in ships or vessels of the United States, in addition to the duty of twelve cents now payable by law, eight cents per bushel, and on all salt which, after the said thirtieth day of September, shall be imported into the United States, in ships or vessels not of the United States, the like additional duty of eight cents, and ten per centum thereon. [Repealed.] Eight cents additional duty on salt imported in vessels of the U. States. Eight cents and ten per cent. thereon, laid upon other ves sels. Drawbacks and allowances to apply to the additional duty. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all drawbacks and allowances now authorized by law, in relation to the existing duty on salt imported into the United States, shall apply to the additional duty laid by this act, and that in addition thereto, there shall be allowed and paid upon provisions salted within the United States, except upon dried fish, upon the exportation thereof to any foreign port or place as follows, viz: on pickled fish at the rate of twelve cents per barrel, and on other provisions at the rate of ten cents per barrel; and from and after the first day of drawbacks and January next there shall be an addition of thirty-three and a third per centum to the allowances now respectively granted to ships or vessels employed in the bank or other cod fisheries, and in the terms provided Additional allowances. by an act entitled "An act concerning certain fisheries of the United States and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein," and during the continuance of the said act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," shall extend to and be in full force for the collection of the additional duty laid by this act, and generally for the execution thereof, as fully and effectually, as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, provision, clause, matter and thing therein contained had been herein inserted and re-enacted. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for two years, and from thence unto the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer. APPROVED, July 8, 1797. STATUTE I. July 8, 1797. [Obsolete.] CHAP. XVI.-An Act authorizing a Loan of Money. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives New loan of of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Pre$800,000. sident of the United States be, and he is hereby empowered to borrow on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding eight hundred thousand dollars, at an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, reimburseable at the pleasure of the United States, or at such period as may be stipulated by contract not exceeding five years from the time of obtaining the loan, to be applied to such public purposes as are or may How to be paid. be authorized by law, and to be repaid out of the revenues accruing to In case of deficiency faith of the United States pledged to make provision for it. STATUTE I. July 10, 1797. [Obsolete.] Specific ap. propriations. the end of the present year and such further revenues as have been, or may be provided during the present session of Congress; and it shall be lawful for the Bank of the United States to lend the said sum. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the existing revenues of the United States, together with such further revenues as have been, or may be provided, during the present session, shall be insufficient to discharge and reimburse the said loan, the faith of the United States is hereby pledged to make such further provision therefor, as may be CHAP. XVII.-An Act making additional appropriations for the support of Government, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list; for the support of lighthouses; for the expenses of foreign intercourse; for certain expenses in relation to the military and naval establishments; and to satisfy certain miscellaneous demands the following sums be respectively appropriated; that is to say, For the compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants estimated for a session of two months, seventy-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents. For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing work, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, six thousand five hundred dollars. For printing the laws of the present session, one thousand and fifty dollars. For making good the allowance to clerks employed in the Department of State, agreeably to law, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy cents. For the salary of an additional clerk in the Department of State, to perform the duties of an accountant, and when not so employed to do the ordinary services of a clerk, eight hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of foreign intercourse for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven beyond the appropriations heretofore authorized by law, sixty thousand five hundred dollars. For defraying any advances incidental to the intercourse of the United States, with the Mediterranean powers, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, and according to his discretion, a sum not exceeding forty-five thousand dollars. For the salaries of two extra clerks in the office of the accountant of the War Department, eight hundred dollars. For completing and equipping the frigates United States, Constitution and Constellation, two hundred thousand dollars. For the pay and subsistence of the officers and crews of the said frigates, one hundred thousand dollars. For the extra expenses authorized by law, during the present session in relation to the revenue cutters, ten thousand dollars. For the repairs and fabrication of arms and cannon carriages, thirtynine thousand dollars. For completing the six months pay and subsistence of the officers discharged under the act of the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. For the Hospital Department, five thousand dollars. For making good a deficiency arising from the balance of monies of various appropriations being carried to the credit of the "Surplus Fund," in pursuance of the sixteenth section of the act passed the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, viz: for erecting a lighthouse on the head land of Cape Hatteras and a lighted beacon on Shell Castle Island, in the harbour of Ocracock, in the state of North Carolina, forty-four thousand dollars. For enabling a remittance to the commissioners of the Dutch loans at Amsterdam, in payment for a quantity of saltpetre, seventeen thousand and thirty-one dollars and eighty-nine cents. For repaying the Bank of the United States a sum advanced upon certain treasury bills drawn upon collectors of the revenue of the United States, in North Carolina, five thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars. For the payment of the commissioner of loans for the state of Rhode Island, on account of two clerks who were employed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, fifty-four dollars. How to be SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made shall be paid and discharged out of the surplus of paid. revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereon to the end of the present year. APPROVED, July 10, 1797." ACTS OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS Dec. 15, 1797. [Obsolete.] July 6, 1797, ch. 11. Commence ment of the du. ties postponed until after 30th June, 1798. STATUTE II. Jan. 15, 1798. [Obsolete.] Appropriations relative to the War Depart ment. For awards in favour of British subjects under of the treaty of amity, &c. seventh article OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of STATUTE II. CHAPTER I.—An Act to postpone, for a limited time, the commencement of the duties imposed by the act intituled "An act laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, intituled "An act laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper," as directs that the duties imposed by that act shall be levied, collected and paid "from and after the thirty-first day of December next," shall be, and the same hereby is repealed; and that the duties aforesaid shall be levied, collected and paid, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, and not sooner; to which last mentioned day, all notices, certificates and other matters or things, directed by the said act and having respect to the commencement or collection of the said duties, or any of them, shall relate. APPROVED, December 15, 1797. CHAP. II.—An Act making certain partial appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be, and the same hereby is appropriated towards defraying the expenses during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, of the quartermaster's, and Indian departments, of the defensive protection of the frontiers, of bounties; and of the contingent charges of the war department; and a like sum towards defraying the expenses, during the said year, of the subsistence of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the army of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated for paying and discharging such awards as have been, or may be made, pursuant to the seventh article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Great Britain, in favour of British subjects, whose property has been captured within the jurisdiction of the United States, or by vessels armed or fitted out therein. How to be SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sums shall be CHAP. VI.-An Act for allowing a compensation to the Doorkeeper of the Senate, and his assistant, for their services during the late Session of Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed to James Mathers, the doorkeeper of the Senate, two hundred dollars, and to Cornelius Maxwell, his assistant, one hundred and eighty dollars, as a compensation for their services during the late session of Congress. APPROVED, January 20, 1798. CHAP. VIII.-An Act to prescribe the mode of taking Evidence in cases of contested Elections for Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and to compel the attendance of Witnesses. STATUTE II. Jan. 20, 1798. [Obsolete.] STATUTE II. Jan. 23, 1798. Chancellor, justice or judge witnesses. Act of April SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That where any person, from and after the passing of this act, shall intend to contest an election for any member or members of the House of Representatives of the United States, or to support any such election so intended to be contested, and shall be desirous of obtaining testimony respecting such election, it shall be lawful for such person to make application to any judge of the courts of the United States, or to any chancellor, justice, 22, 1800, ch. 28. or judge of a superior or county court, or court of common pleas of any state, or to any mayor, recorder or intendant of a town or city, who shall, thereupon, issue his warrant of summons, directed to all such witnesses as shall be named to him by such applicant, or his agent duly authorized for that purpose, and requiring the attendance of such witnesses, before him, at some convenient time and place, to be expressed in the warrant, in order to be then and there examined, in the manner herein after provided, touching the subject matter of the aforesaid application. Manner of mons on wit. nesses, SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every such witness, as is above-mentioned, shall be duly served with such warrant, by a copy serving sumthereof being delivered to him or her, or left at his or her usual place of abode; and that such service shall be made a convenient time before the day on which the attendance of such witness is required, which time the magistrate issuing the warrant is hereby authorized and required to fix, for each witness, at the time of issuing it, having respect to the circumstances of such witness, and the distance of his or her residence from the place of attendance. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person, being summoned in the manner above directed, and refusing or neglecting to attend, pursuant to such summons, unless in case of sickness, or other unavoidable accident, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, by the party at whose instance the warrant of summons was issued, and for his use, by action of debt in any court, or before any other tribunal of the United States, or any state, having jurisdiction to the amount of such penalty. Penalty on not attending in pursuance of summons. Notification to SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the magistrate issuing the aforesaid warrant of summons, shall, at the time of issuing it, cause to the opposite be made out, under his hand, and delivered to the said applicant, or his party. agent authorized as aforesaid, a notification directed to the opposite party, and stating the time and object of the aforesaid application, the name of the applicant, and the time and place fixed for the examination VOL. I.-68 |