Proviso. tlements to be made. of the Senate; but in the recess of the Senate, the President is hereby authorised to make such appointments, which shall be submitted to the Senate at the next session thereafter, for their advice and consent; and no compensation shall be allowed to any charge des affaires, or any of the secretaries herein before described, who shall not be appointed as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorise any appointment of a secretary to any charge des affaires, or to any consul residing on the Barbary coast, or to sanction any claim against the United States for expense incident to the same, any usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Annual set- where any sum or sums of money shall be drawn from the treasury, under any law making appropriation for the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, the President shall be, and he hereby is authorised to cause the same to be duly settled annually, with the accounting officers of the treasury, in the manner following, that is to say: By causing the same to be accounted for specially, in all instances wherein the expenditure thereof may in his judgment be made public, and by making a certificate of the amount of such expenditures as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum or sums therein expressed to have been expended. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the consuls of the United States, residing on the Barbary coast, bary. or either of them, to expend or to disburse or pay, or cause to be paid for any purpose Limitations or on any pretence whatever, not authorised of sums to be paid to the by law, to any one of the Barbary powers, states of Baror to the officers or subjects thereof, a greater sum than three thousand dollars in any one year, with intent to charge the United States with the same, without first obtaining a special approbation in writing, from the President of the United States, for that purpose. And every such consul who shall after notice of this act, expend or disburse, or pay, or cause to be paid for any purpose, or on any pretence whatever, not authorised by law, to any one of the Barbary powers, or to the officers or subjects thereof, a greater sum than three thousand dollars in any one. year, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, without first obtaining the approbation of the President as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the treasury of the United States a sum equal to one half his yearly compensation : and shall moreover stand charged with, and be accountable for all monies so disbursed or paid, contrary to the provisions of this act. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of November next, no consul of the United States, residing on the Barbary coast, shall own in whole or in part any ship or vessel, to be concern ed directly or indirectly in the exportation from, or importation to any of the states on the coast of Barbary, of any goods, wares or merchandise, on penalty that every consul so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall for every offence forfeit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. Сс Consuls on the Barbary annual re ports to Con bursements and expendi U. States. Secretary of the treasury Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That coast to make it shall be the duty of the consuls residing on the Barbary coast to transmit to the Secregress of dis- tary of the Treasury annually, an account of all monies received, and of all disbursements tures made on or expenditures made by them respectiveaccount of the ly, for or on account of the United States, and the particular purpose to which the monies have been applied, and the vouchers to support the same: and the secretary of the treasury shall transmit to Congress, within them to Con- two months after the commencement of the first session thereof in every year, a statement of all the monies disbursed from the treasury of the United States, for expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers during the preceding year, therein noting, as faras can be ascertained at the treasury, the sums received by the respective agents or consuls, and the purposes to which the same have been applied. to transmit gress. Repealing clause. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the act, entitled "An act in addition to the law of the United States concerning con. suls and vice consuls," approved July sixth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and the act, entitled "An act to ascertain the compensation of public ministers," approved May the tenth, one thousand eight hundred, be, and the same are hereby repealed. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. May 1, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LXII. AN ACT authorising a loan of money, for a sum not exceeding the amount of the principal of the public debt, reimbursable during the year one thousand eight hundred and ten. rised. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Loan authePresident of the United States be, and he is hereby empowered to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding the amount of the principal of the public debt, which will be reimbursed, according to law, during the present year, by the commissioners of the sinking fund, at a rate of interest, payable quarter yearly, not exceeding six per centum per annum, and reimbursable at the pleasure of the United States, or at such period as may be stipulated by contract, not exceeding six years from the first day of January next; to be applied, in addition to the monies now in the treasury, or which may be received therein from other sources during the present year, to defray any of the public expenses which are, or may be authorised by law. The stock Stock made thereby created, shall be transferrable in the transferrable. same manner as is provided by law for the transfer of the funded debt. It shall be lawful for the bank of the United States to lend the said sum, or any part thereof; and it is further hereby declared, that it shall be deemed a good execution of the said power to borrow, for the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the Bank of the U. States authorised to lend the mo ney. the President, ence in sub the loan, to exchanged six per cent. United States, to cause to be constituted certificates of stock, signed by the Register of the Treasury, or by a commissioner of loans, for the sum to be borrowed, or for any part thereof, bearing an interest of six per cent. per annum, transferrable and reimbursable as aforesaid; and to cause the said certificates of stock to be sold: Provided, That no such stock be sold under par. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Secretary of the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is the treasury, hereby authorised, with the approbation of probation of the President of the United States, to give authorised to the preference, in the subscriptions which give prefer- may be made to the loan authorised by this scriptions to act, to the holders of the exchanged six per cent. stock, created by virtue of the second the holders of section of the act passed on the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, for an amount not exceeding, for each such stockholder, the amount of the said exchanged six per cent. stock held by him at the time of subscribing as aforesaid : -Provided, That the holders of the said stock, who may be desirous to subscribe to the said loan, shall notify the same in the manner and within the time to be designated by public notice, for that purpose, by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States: And provided also, That the sum which may be thus borrowed from the holders of the said exchanged six per cent. stock shall be reimbursable at the pleasure of the United States. Proviso. Proviso Funds pledged for the payment of principal and interest. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the funds constituting the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars for the payment of the principal and interest of |