Proviso.

Declaratory clause.

Proviso:

between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," shall continue in force until the end of the next session of Congress: Provided, That nothing therein contamed shall be construed to prohibit any trade or commercial intercourse which has been or may be permitted in conformity with the provisions of the eleventh section of the said

act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts repealed, or mentioned or intended to be repealed by the said act to interdict commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, shall be and remain repealed, notwithstanding any part of the same act which has been or may hereafter be revoked or annulled, or which may expire by its own limitation: Provided, That all the penalties and forfeitures which may have been incurred, or shall hereafter be incurred on account of any infraction of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, or of any of the acts supplementary thereto, or of the act to enforce and make more effectual an act, entitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States," or of any of the provisions of the act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes, shall, after the expiration of any of the said acts or of any provision thereof, be recovered and distributed in like manner as if the

said acts and every provision thereof had continued in full force and virtue.

hibited from

ones to give bonds, &c. &c.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Vessels produring the continuance of this act, no ship going o interor vessel, except such as may be chartered dicted ports. or employed for the public service by the President of the United States, shall be per mitted to depart for any foreign port or place with which commercial intercourse has not been or may not be permitted by virtue of this act, or of the act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their depen lencies, and for other purposes. And no ship or vessel bound to a foreign Vessels going port or place with which commercial in- than forbidden to ports other tercourse has been or may be thus permitted, except such as may be chartered or em. ployed as aforesaid, shall be allowed to depart, unless the owner or owners, consignee or factor of such ship or vessel shall, with the master, have given bond with one or more sureties to the United States, in a sum double the value of the vessel and cargo, that the vessel shall not proceed to any port or place with which commercial intercourse is not thus permitted, nor be directly or indirectly engaged, during the voyage, in any trade with such port or place. And if any ship or vessel shall, contrary to the provisions of this section, depart from any port of the United States, without clearance, or without having given bond in the manner above mentioned, such ship or vessel, together with her cargo, shall be wholly forfeited, and the owner or owners, agent, freighter or factors, master or commander of such ship or vessel, shall moreover severally forfeit and pay a sum equal

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how to be re

distributed.

to the value of the ship or vessel, and of the cargo put on board the same: Provided arways, That the provisions of the eleventh section of the act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes, shall extend to the prohibitions imposed by this section; which prohibitions shall cease to operate in the manner and under the limitations prescribed by the eleventh section aforesaid, in relation. to any nation with which commercial intercourse may hereafter be permitted, in conformity with the provisions of the eleventh section aforesaid.

Penalties and SEC. 4 And be it further enacted, That all forfeitures, penalties and forfeitures arising under, or incovered nd curred by virtue of this act, shall, during the continuance and after the expiration thereof be recovered and distributed, and may be remitted or mitigated in the manner prescribed by the act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes, and the acts therein referred to.

Vessels which

rived in the U.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That may have ar- all the vessels which may have arrived at any 3. between the port or place within the United States from 20th May and Great Britain, her colonies or dependencies, empt from for between the twentieth day of May and the feiture, &c. &c eleventh of June, one thousand eight hun

11th June ex

dred and nine, shall be exempted from all the forfeitures and penalties incurred in consequence of any violation of any of the provisions of the said act to interdict the com. mercial intercourse between the United

States and Great Britain and France and

their dependencies.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANDREW GREGG,

President of the Senate pro tempore.

June 28, 1809.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER X.

An ACT supplementary to the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt."

BE

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the powers vested in the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, by the tenth section of the act to which this act is a supplement, shall extend to all the cases of reimbursement of any instalments or parts of the capital, or principal, of the public debt now existing, which may become payable according to law. And in every case in which a loan may be made accordingly, it shall be lawful for such loan to be made of the bank of the

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United States, any thing in any act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ANDREW GREGG,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

June 28, 1809.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

Specific propriation.

CHAPTER XI,

An ACT making an appropriation to finish and furnish the Senate Chamber and for other purposes.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of

ap- America, in Congress assembled, That to defray the expenses of finishing and furnishing the permanent Senate Chamber, its committee rooms, lobbies and other apartments, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That to defray the expense incurred in fitting Appropriation to delay the up the temporary Senate Chamber, and reexpence of the pairing and providing articles of furmure, temporary Se the further sum of sixteen hundred dollars be

nate Room,

appropriated, the same to be paid out of any