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money of Holland, for each dollar, if payable in Amsterdam.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That a sum equal to what will be necessary to pay the interest which may accrue on the said stock to the end of the present year, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for that purpose, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the end of the present year, (in addition to the annual sum of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars yearly appropriated to the Sink ing Fund, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States,") a further annual sum of seven hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the duties on merchandise and tonnage, be, and the same hereby is, yearly appropriated to the said fund, making in the whole, an annual sum of eight millions of dollars, which shall be vested in the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in the same manner, shall be applied by them for the same purposes, and shall be, and continue appropriated, until the whole of the present debt of the United States, inclusively of the stock created by virtue of this act, shall be reimbursed and redeemed, under the same limitations as have been provided by the first section of the abovementioned act, respecting the annual appropriation of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars made by the same.

for the expenses attending the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations,") to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, for the purpose of discharging the claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of France, the payment of which has been assumed by the Government of the United States, by virtue of a Convention made the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America and the French Republic, respecting the said claims.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be paid, at the Treasury of the United States, in conformity to the Convention aforesaid, the amount of such claims, above mentioned, as, under the provisions of the said Convention, shall be awarded to the respective claimants: which payments shall be made on the orders of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States for the time being, to the French Republic, in conformity with the Convention aforesaid, and the said Minister shall be charged on the Treasury books with the whole amount of such payments, until he shall have exhibited satisfactory proof, to the accounting officers of the Treasury, that his orders thus paid have been issued in conformity with the provisions of the said Convention.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to borrow, on the credit of the United States, to be applied to the purposes authorized by this act, a sum not exceeding one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, reimbursable out of the appropriation made by virtue of the first section of this act, at the pleasure of the United States, or at such period, not exceeding five years from the time of obtaining the loan, as may be stipulated by contract; and it shall be lawful for the Bank of the United States to lend the same.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the said further sum of seven hundred thousand dollars to be paid to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, in the same manner as was directed by the abovementioned act respecting the annual appropriation of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to cause to be applied and paid out of the said fund, yearly, and every year, at the Treasury of the United States, such sum and sums as may be annually wanted to discharge the annual interest and charges accruing on the stock SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much created by virtue of this act, and the several in- of the duties on merchandise and tonnage as may stalments, or parts of principal of the said stock, be necessary be, and the same hereby is, approas the same shall become due and may be dis-priated for the purpose of paying the interest charged, in conformity to the terms of the convention aforesaid, and of this act.

Approved, November 10, 1803.

An Act making provision for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States on the Government of France, the payment of which has been assumed by the United States, by virtue of the Convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic.

Be it enacted, &c., That a sum not exceeding three millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, (including a sum of two millions of dollars, appropriated by the act of the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three, entitled "An act making further provision

which shall accrue on the said loan.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, for defraying the expense incident to the investigation of the claims above-mentioned, there be appropriated a sum not exceeding eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the compensation to be made to any of the Commissioners appointed, or to be appointed, in pursuance of the above-mentioned Convention, shall not exceed the rate of four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars per annum; that the compensation of their secretary shall not exceed the rate of two thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollors per annum; and that the compensation of the agent shall not exceed the rate of one thousand dollars per annum. Approved, November 10, 1803.

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An Act making an appropriation for carrying into effect the seventh article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between the United States and His Britannic Majesty.

Be it enacted, &c., That a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated for the purpose of carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty concluded at London on the nineteenth day of November, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, between the United States of America and His Britannic Majesty.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow an interest, not exceeding the rate of six per centum per annum, on one third part of the amount of any award made in pursuance of the aforesaid article, and presented at the Treasury previous to the passing of this act, to be calculated from the time when such award shall have been presented. Approved, November 16, 1803.

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An Act to repeal the act, entitled "An act to allow drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act, entitled 'An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage."

Be it enacted, &c., That the act passed on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred,

entitled "An act to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act, entitled 'An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," be, and the same hereby is, repealed.

Approved, November 25, 1803.

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Be it enacted, &c., That the act of Congress passed on the fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, nevertheless, That the repeal of the said act shall in no wise affect the execution of

any commission of bankruptcy which may have been issued prior to the passing of this act, but every such commission may and shall be proceeded on and fully executed as though this act had not passed.

Approved, December 19, 1803.

An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and four.

Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and four, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively appropriated, that is to say:

For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and the pay of the seamen, two hundred and thirty8th CoN.-40

four thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

For provisions, one hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-two cents.

For medicine, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, four thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For repairs of vessels, store rent, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.

For the purchase of ordnance, and other military stores, five thousand dollars.

For the expense of navy-yards, docks, and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and laborers, fifty-two thousand dollars.

For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, fifty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty cents.

For clothing for the same, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventysix cents.

For military stores for the same, four hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, one thousand dollars.

For quartermaster's and barrackmaster's stores, officers' travelling expenses, armorer's and carpenter's bills, fuel, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand eight hundred and forty-seven

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of Washington, three thousand five hundred and For completing the marine barracks at the City eighty-four dollars and seventy-two cents.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the shall be paid, first, out of any balance remaining several sums herein specifically appropriated, unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the Navy, and secondly, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 31, 1804.

An Act to incorporate the Directors of the Columbian Library Company.

Be it enacted, &c., That Stephen B. Balch, Joseph Nourse, Charles D. Green, John Craven, Francis Lowndes, junior, and George French, and their successors, duly elected or appointed in manner hereinafter directed, be, and they are hereby, made, declared, and constituted a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style, and title of "The Directors of the Columbian Library Company in Georgetown."

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular, the goods and chattels heretofore given, granted, or devised, to the said Library Company, or to any person or persons, for the use thereof, or that may have been purchased for, or on account of the same, be, and the said goods and chattels are hereby vested in, and confirmed to the said corporation: And further, That the said corpora

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tion may take and receive any sum, or sums of money, or any goods or chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall, or may hereafter, be given, granted, or bequeathed unto them by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such gift or bequest; such money, goods, chattels or other effects to be laid out and disposed of in the purchase of books, maps, charts, drawings, specimens of minerals, fossils, and other natural and artificial productions, calculated to furnish a library and museum, for the use and benefit of the said company, agreeably to the intention of the donors.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation, by the name, style, and title aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter forever, able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be im pleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court or courts, or other places, and before any judge or judges, justice or justices, or other persons whatsoever within, the District of Columbia or elsewhere, in all, and all manner of suits, actions, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind or nature they may be, in as full and effectual a manner, as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do.

appoint, of which the directors shall cause public notice to be given in one or more of the newspapers that circulate in the vicinity; at which time and place, the members, or such of them as may be present, either personally or by proxy, and shall not be in arrears for any annual contribution, fines, or forfeitures, shall elect and choose by ballot six directors out of their own number, to serve for the year ensuing their election, and until others shall be elected and consent to serve in their place.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the directors shall cause the treasurer, secretary, and librarian, to keep, in suitable books for that purpose, just and proper entries of all the proceedings and accounts of the company and corporation, and have them laid before the company at every annual meeting, previous to taking the votes for directors; and shall always deliver the said books, together with all the property of the company, in good order to their successors in office, whenever required.

Approved, January 31, 1804.

dred and four, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:

For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and one thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars.

For forage, four thousand and fifty-six dollars. For the subsistence of the officers of the army and corps of engineers, twenty-eight thousand and eighty-two dollars and eighty three cents, and one half of a cent.

An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the excorporation shall have full power and authority to pense of the Military Establishment of the Unimake, have, and use, a common seal, with such de-ted States, for the year one thousand eight hunvice and inscription as they shall think proper, and the same to break, alter, and renew at their pleasure, to appoint a treasurer, secretary, and li brarian, to assign them their duties, fix their compensation, and remove him or them from office, and appoint another or others in their place, as often as they shall think fit; to make, ordain, es tablish, and execute such by-laws and ordinances as may be deemed useful to the institution, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate at pleasure; to fix the price of new shares and annual contributions on each share; to direct how transfers may be made and certified, and judge of the persons proper to be admitted members; to procure by purchase, rent, or otherwise, a suitable place for keeping the library and museum; to appoint the times for keeping the library open, and for taking out and returning books; to fill up vacancies that may happen in their number between two annual meetings; to levy and collect fines and forfeitures, and to determine upon, do, and transact all business and matters appertaining to the said corporation and library company, agreeably to the rules, ordinances, and by-laws thereof, during their For camp equipage, fuel, tools, expense of transcontinuance in office; Provided, That not less portation, and other contingent expenses of the than three of the said directors form a quorum to War Department, seventy-one thousand dollars. do business; that no by-law, rule, or ordinance, For fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and arshall be made repugnant to the laws of this Dis-mories, one hundred and nine thousand eight trict, and that no contribution be laid on any share, hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty eight in any one year, greater than one-fifth of the val- cents. ue of a share, without the consent of a majority of the members.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted. That there shall be an annual meeting of the members of the said library company at the library, or such suitable place as the directors may from time to time

For the subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, one hundred and sixty-three thousand eight hundred and thirtynine dollars and thirty-seven cents and one half of a cent.

For clothing, eighty thousand dollars.

For bounties and premiums, fourteen thousand dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, ten thousand dollars.

For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments for the War Department and military academy, one thousand dollars.

For the Indian department, seventy-five thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the

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several appropriations, herein-before made, shall be paid and discharged, first, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment, and secondly, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 10, 1804.

An Act continuing for a limited time the salaries of

the officers of Government therein mentioned. Be it enacted &c., That, from and after the last day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, the following annual compensations, and no other, be, and they are hereby granted to the officers herein enumerated, respectively, that is to say:

To the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.

The Secretary of War, four thousand five hun

dred dollars.

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An Act for laying and collecting duties on imports and tonnage within the territories ceded to the United States, by the Treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic; and for other purposes."

Be it enacted, &c., That the same duties which by law now are, or hereafter may be laid on goods. wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, on the tonnage of vessels, and on the passports and clearances of vessels, shall be laid on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the territories ceded to the United States by the Treaty of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic; and on vessels arriving in or departing from the said territories: and the following acts, that is to say, the act, entitled

"An act to establish the Treasury Department;" "An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels;"

"An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries ;"

"An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage;"

"An act to establish the compensations of officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes;"

"An act for the more effectual recovery of debts due from individuals to the United States;"

"An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of accounts between the United States and receivers of public money;"

"An act to authorize the sale and conveyance of lands, in certain cases, by the marshals of the United States, and to confirm former sales ;"

An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned;"

"An act to establish a Mint, and to regulate the coins of the United States;"

"An act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes;"

And the act supplementary to, and amendatory of the two last mentioned acts, or so much of the said acts as is now in force, and also so much of any other act or acts of the United States as is now in force, or may be hereafter enacted, for laying any duties on imports, tonnage, seamen, or shipping, for regulating and securing the collection of the same; for granting and regulating drawbacks, bounties and allowances in lieu of drawbacks; concerning the registering, recording, enrolling, and licensing of ships and vessels; to provide for the settlement of accounts between the United States and individuals; for the recovery of debts due to the United States; and for remitting forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities, shall extend to, and have full force and effect in the above-mentioned territories: Provided, however, and it is hereby further enacted, That ships or vessels, which, on the twentieth day of December last, were owned by persons then residing in the above-mentioned territories, and who either were citizens of the United States, or had resided in the said territories during five years next preceding, shall be entitled to the benefits and privileges of ships or vessels of the United States, whilst they shall continue to be wholly owned by such persons, or by citizens of the United States: Provided nevertheless, That the persons claiming such privileges for their ships or vessels, if not citizens of the United States, shall have previously taken an oath of allegiance to the United States, which oath the collector of the port is hereby authorized to administer.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of any act or acts of the United States, now in force, or which may be hereafter enacted, concerning the Bank of the United States, and for the punishment of frauds committed on the same; for the relief of sick and disabled seamen; for the protection of American seamen; for the govern

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ment and regulation of seamen in the merchant service; and for preventing the exportation of goods not duly inspected, shall extend to, and have full force and effect in the above-mentioned territories.

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distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, which shall have been incurred before the commencement of the operation of this act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the shores and waters of the town of Natchez shall SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much be one district, to be called the district of Natof any law or laws, laying any duties on the chez, and a collector shall be appointed who shall importation into the United States of goods, reside at Natchez, which shall be the only port of wares, and merchandise, from the said territories, entry or delivery within the said district, of any (or allowing drawbacks on the importation of the goods, wares, and merchandise, not the growth or same from the United States to the said territo- manufacture of the United States: Provided, nevries,) or respecting the commercial intercourse ertheless, That it shall be the duty of every masbetween the United States and the said territo- ter or commander of any ship or vessel destined ries, or between the several parts of the United for the said port of Natchez, to stop at New OrStates through the said territories, which is in-leans, and there deliver to the collector of said consistent with the provisions of the preceding port a manifest of the cargo on board such ship section, be, and the same hereby is, repealed; and or vessel agreeably to law, on penalty of five thouall duties on the exportation of goods, wares, and sand dollars: and it shall be the duty of said colmerchandise, from the said territories, as well as lector to transmit a certified copy of such maniall duties on the importation of goods, wares, and fest to the collector of the said port of Natchez, merchandise, into the said territories, on the trans- and to direct an inspector to go on board such fer of ships or vessels, and on the tonnage of ves-ship or vessel, and proceed therewith to the port sels, other than those laid by virtue of the laws of the United States, shall, from the time when this act shall commence to be in force, cease and determine: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the fees and other charges usually paid in the said territories on account of pilotage, wharfage, or the right of anchoring by the levee of the city of New Orleans, which several fees and charges shall, until otherwise directed, continue to be paid and applied to the same purposes as heretofore.

of Natchez, and there report such ship or vessel to the collector of said port of Natchez immediately after his arrival, when the duty of said inspector shall cease.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That foreign ships or vessels shall be admitted to unlade at the port of New Orleans, and at no other port within the district of Mississippi; and ships or vessels belonging to citizens of the United States coming directly from France or Spain, or any of their colonies, shall not be admitted to unlade at any port within the district of Mississippi other than New Orleans: and ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, or from any place beyond the same, shall be admitted to make entry at the port of New Orleans, and at no other port within the district of Mississippi: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall authorize the allowing of drawbacks on the exportation of any goods, wares, and merchandise, from the said port of New Orleans, other than on those which shall have been imported directly into the same from a foreign port or place.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That to the end that the laws providing 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 and vessels, and the laws respecting the revenue and navigation of the United States may be carried into effect within the said territories, the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty above-mentioned, and also all the navigable waters, rivers, creeks, bays and inlets, lying within the United States, which empty into the Gulf of Mexico, east of the river SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Mississippi, shall be annexed to the Mississippi district, and shall, together with the same, consti- master or commander of every ship or vessel tute one district, to be called the "District of Mis-bound to a port of delivery only, other than the sissippi." The city of New Orleans shall be the port of Bayou St. John, in the district of Mississole port of entry in the said district, and the sippi, shall first come to at the port of New Ortown of Bayou St. John shall be a port of deliv-leans with his ship or vessel, and there make reery; a collector, naval officer, and surveyor shall port and entry, in writing, and pay, or secure to be appointed to reside at New Orleans, and a sur-be paid, all legal duties, port fees, and charges, in veyor shall be appointed to reside at the port of manner provided by law, before such ship or vesBayou St. John; and the President of the United sel shall proceed to her port of delivery; and any States is hereby authorized to appoint, not ex- ship or vessel bound to the port of Bayou St. ceeding three surveyors, to reside at such other John, may first proceed to the said port, and afterplaces within the said district as he shall deem wards make report and entry at the port of New expedient, and to constitute each, or either, of Orleans within the time by law limited; and the such places ports of delivery only and so much master of every ship or vessel arriving from a of any law or laws as establishes a district on the foreign port or place, or having goods on board river Mississippi, south of the river Tennessee, is of which the duties have not been paid or secured, hereby repealed, except as to the recovery and and bound to any port within the district of Misreceipt of such duties on goods, wares, and mer-sissippi, (other than New Orleans, or Bayou St. chandise, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels, John,) shall take an inspector on board, at New as shall have accrued, and as to the recovery and Orleans, before proceeding to such port; and if

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