fully and effectually as if they, and every of them, were specially named therein, except as to the penalty in such section mentioned, which, in case of any such clerk offending against the provisions of the said section, shall be five hundred dollars, and removal from office.

to take an

2. That each and every clerk, and other officer already Clerks and appointed in any of the departments of the United States, (and other officers who have not, since their appointment, taken the oath or affir- oath or afficmation hereafter mentioned) shall, within fifteen days after the mation, &c. passing of this act, and those who shall hereafter be appointed, shall, before they enter upon the duties of such appointment, take an oath or affirmation, before one of the justices of the supreme court, or one of the judges of a district court of the United States, to support the constitution of the United States, and also an oath or affirmation, well and faithfully to execute the trust committed to him, which oaths or affirmations, subscribed by such clerk, and certified by the person administering the same, shall be filed in the office of the person employing such clerk.

Principals in

public offices may apportion

§ 3. That it shall and may be lawful for the principal in any of the offices of the United States, who is authorized by law to appoint clerks under him, to allow to each clerk such compen- clerk's salasation for his services, as he shall, in the opinion of such officer, ries. deserve for the same: Provided, That the whole sum to be ex- Proviso; as to pended for clerks in any such office (except the chief clerk), amount of salshall not exceed a sum equal to five hundred dollars per annum aries. for every clerk employed therein.

one year to re

§ 4. That there shall be allowed for one year, commencing Additional alwith the passing of this act, to the register, two hundred and lowance for fifty dollars, and to the auditor, the comptroller of the treasury, gister, auditor, and the attorney general, four hundred dollars each, in addition comptroller, to their respective salaries, and to be paid in the same manner. and attorney general. [Approved, March 3, 1791.]

CHAP. 93. [19.] An act relative to the rix dollar of Denmark.

Obsolete.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of an act, entitled "An Vol i. p. 117, act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties 626. imposed by law on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into Part of the act, the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," as dollar of Denrating the rix hath rated the rix dollar of Denmark at one hundred cents, be, mark at 100 and the same is hereby, repealed; and that this repeal shall be cents, repealdeemed to operate in respect to all duties which have already arisen or accrued, as well as to such as shall hereafter arise or accrue. [Approved, March 3, 1791.]

CHAP. 94. [20.] An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act for establishing the salaries of the executive officers of government, with their assistants and clerks,"

ed.

lowance of

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passing of this Additional alact, there shall be allowed to the chief clerk of the auditor, the 200 dolls. to annual sum of two hundred dollars, in addition to the salary al- chief clerk of lowed to him by the act, entitled "An act establishing the sala- the auditor, ries of the executive officers of government, with their assistants Vol. i. p. 48. and clerks," to be paid at the treasury of the United States, in

&c.

Allowance of

ses in remov

quarterly payments, and from like appropriations as may be assigned for the payment of the other salaries mentioned in the above recited act.

§ 2. That there be allowed to the clerks employed in the clerks' expen- several offices attached to the seat of government, in addition ing from New to their respective salaries, their reasonable and necessary exYork to Phil- penses, incurred by the removal of congress from the city of adelphia, &c. New York to the city of Philadelphia.

See act of

1799, ch. 146.

400 dolls. additional allow

ed to assistant secretary of

the treasury, &c. Repealed. Vol i. p. 260.

Compensations to offi

cers of the ju

dicial courts, &c.

District attor

ney.

Clerk of the supreme court. Marshals.

Grand and petit jurors.

§ 3. That there be allowed to the assistant secretary of the treasury, in addition to his salary for one year, commencing with the passing of this act, four hundred dollars, to be paid in the same manner as his salary. [Approved, March 3, 1791.]

CHAP. 96. [22.] An act providing compensations for the officers of the judicial courts of the United States, and for jurors and witnesses, and for other pur

poses.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That there be allowed to the several officers following, in addition to the fees (except mileage to the marshals) to which they are otherwise by law entitled, and also to jurors and witnesses, in the courts of the United States, the following respective compensations, that is to say: To the attor ney of the United States for the district, for his expenses and time in travelling from the place of his abode to any court of the United States, on which his attendance shall be requisite, at the rate of ten cents per mile, going, and the same allowance for District Clerk. returning; to the clerk of the district court, for atttending in the district or circuit court, five dollars per day, and the like compensation for travelling, as is above allowed to the attorney for the district; to the clerk of the supreme court, for attending in court, eight dollars per day; to the marshal of the district, for attending the supreme, circuit, or district courts, five dollars per day; for summoning a grand jury, three dollars, and for summoning a petit jury, two dollars, and for serving and returning a writ, five cents per mile for his necessary travel; to the grand and petit jurors, each, fifty cents, per day for attending in court, and for travelling, at the rate of fifty cents for every ten miles, from their respective places of abode to the place where the court is held, and the like allowance for returning; to witnesses, summoned on the part of the United States, or in behalf of any prisoner to be tried for any capital offence in any of the courts thereof, the same compensation as is above allowed to grand and petit jurors. That the several officers above specified shall be deemed to have been entitled to the above respective compensations, from the time of their respective appointments; and that the grand and petit jurors and witnesses, who have heretofore attended, shall also be deemed entitled to the above compensation, in like manner as those who shall hereafter attend. That there shall also be paid to the marshal, the amount of the expense for fuel, candles and other reasonable contingencies for holding a court, as hath accrued, or shall accrue; and the compensations to the grand and petit jurors, and witnesses, shall be included in the account of, and paid to, the marshal, to the use of, and be by him accordingly paid over to, the several persons entitled to the

Officers, ju

rors, &c. enti

tled from time of appointment, &c.

Expenses for fuel, candles,

&c. allowed.

Marshals to pay jurors.

treasury, &c.

forfeitures, &c.

the times for

same and the accounts of the several officers for the compensa- Accounts to be tions aforesaid (except mileage to the marshal, for the service of paid at the writs in civil causes,) having been previously examined and certified by the judge of the district, shall be passed in the usual manner at, and the amount thereof paid out of, the treasury of the United States. And a sum, arising from the fines and Appropriation forfeitures to the United States, and equal to the amount there- out of fines and of, is hereby appropriated for the payment of the above accounts. § 2. That instead of the provisions in that respect heretofore Alteration of made, the first session of the circuit courts in the eastern circuit, holding the after the passing of this act, shall commence at the times follow- courts herein ing, that is to say: In New York district on the fifth, and in mentioned. Connecticut district, on the twenty-fifth, days of April next; in Massachusetts district, on the twelfth, and in New Hampshire district, on the twenty-fourth, days of May next; and in Rhode Island district, on the seventh day of Jane next; and the subsequent sessions in the respective districts, on the like days of every sixth calendar month thereafter, except when any of those days shall happen on a Sunday, and then the sessions shall commence on the next day following. And the sessions of the said circuit court shall be held in New Hampshire district, at Portsmonth and Exeter, alternately, beginning at the first: In Massachusetts district, at Boston; in Rhode Island district, at Newport and Providence, alternately, beginning at the first; in Connecticut district, at Hartford and New Haven, alternately, begin. ning at the last; and in New York district, at the city of New York only.

Richmond on

3. That from and after the passing of this act, instead of Circuit court the provisions in the act for that purpose, the sessions of the cir- of Virginia at cuit court for the district of Virginia, shall be holden in the city ly. of Richmond only.

§ 4. That this act shall continue in force until the end of the This act limitnext session of congress, and no longer. [Approved, March 3, ed, &c. 1791.]

CHAP. 97. [23.] An act to continue in force for a limited time, an act, entitled "An Repealed. act for the temporary establishment of the post office."

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act passed the first session of Vol. i. p. 50, congress, entitled "An act for the temporary establishment of 211. the post office," be, and the same is hereby, continued in full force until the end of the next session of congress, and no longer.

from treasurer,

2. That all letters to and from the treasurer, comptroller, Letters to and and auditor, of the treasury, and the assistant to the secretary &c. free, &c. of the treasury, on public service, shall be received and conveyed by the post, free of postage.

§3. That the post master general shall be, and he is hereby Mail from Alauthorized to extend the carrying the mail from Albany, in the bany to Bennington, &c. state of New York, to Bennington, in the state of Vermont. [Approved, March 3, 1791.]

Vol. i. p. 93, 257.

Pensions to in

year, from the 4th March, 1792, to be

CHAP. 98. [24.] An act to continue in force the act therein mentioned, and to make further provision for the payment of pensions to invalids, and for the support of light houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties, accruing under the revenue laws, in certain cases therein mentioned," shall be, and is hereby continued in force until the end of the next session of congress, and no longer.

§ 2. That the yearly pensions which have been allowed by or valids for one in pursuance of any act or law of the United States, to persons who were wounded and disabled during the late war, shall, for the space of one year from the fourth day of March next, be paid paid out of the out of the treasury of the United States, under such regulations as the president of the United States may direct.

treasury.

Expenses from 1st July, 1791, of all light houses, &c. to

be defrayed by the U. States, till July, 1792,

&c.

§ 3. That all expenses which shall accrue from the first day of July next, inclusively, for the necessary support, maintenance, and repairs of all light houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, shall continue to be defrayed by the United States, until the first day of July, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninetytwo, notwithstanding such light houses, beacons, buoys, or public piers, with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging, and the jurisdiction of the same, shall not, in the mean time, be ceded to or vested in the United States, by the state or states, respectively, in which the same may be, and that the said time be further allowed to the states, respectively, to make such cession. Proviso; as to Provided, That nothing in the said act shall be construed to lithe president's mit or restrain the power of the president of the United States, power to par- to grant pardons for offences against the United States. [Approved, March 3, 1791.]

don.

Obsolete.

CHAP. 99. [25.] An act supplementary to the act making provision for the reduction of the public debt.

Whereas it hath been made known to congress that the presiVol. i. p. 165. dent of the United States, in consequence of "An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt," hath caused a certain loan to be made in Holland, on account of the United Loan in Hol- States, to the amount of three millions of florins, bearing an inland of 3,000,000 florins, at terest of five per centum per annum, and reimbursable in six 5 per cent. per yearly instalments, commencing in the year one thousand eight hundred, and ending in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, or at any time sooner, in whole or in part, at the option of the United States :

annum,

whereon the charges are

And whereas it hath been also stated to congress, that the four and a half charges upon the said loan have amounted to four and a half per centum, whereby a doubt hath arisen, whether the said loan be within the meaning of the said last mentioned act, which limits the rate of interest to five per centum per annum ;

per cent.

Declared to be within the

And whereas it is expedient that the said doubt be removed; § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the loan aforesaid shall be deemed and construed to be within the true intent and meaning of the meaning of the act providing said act, entitled " An act making provision for the reduction of for the reduc- the public debt," and that any farther loan, to the extent of the public debt,&c. principal sum authorized to be borrowed by the said act, the in

tion of the

tr

terest whereof shall be five per centum per annum, and the charges whereof shall not exceed the said rate of four and a half per centum, shall, in like manner, be deemed and construed to be within the true intent and meaning of the said act. [Approved, March 3, 1791.]

CHAP. 100. [26.] An act making farther provision for the collection of the duties by law imposed on teas, and to prolong the term for the payment of the duties

on wines.

Obsolete.

Whereas it is conceived that the following regulations con- Regulations cerning teas may be conducive both to the accommodation of concerning the importers thereof, and to the security of the revenue;

teas.

without sure

ty, on deposit

ing teas, &c.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in addition to the provisions contained in the fortieth and forty-first sections of the act, entitled "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the du- Vol. i. p. 117, ties imposed by law, on goods, wares, and merchandise, import- 573. ed into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels," as they regard the payment, or securing the payment, of the duties on teas, it shall be lawful for every importer of teas, if he or she shall elect so to do, to give his or her bond to the col- Importers may give lector of the district in which any of the said teas shall be land- bond, payable ed, in double the amount of the duties thereupon, with condition in 2 years, for the payment of the said duties in two years from the date of such bond; which bond shall be accepted by such collector, without surety, upon the terms following; that is to say: The teas, for the duties whereof the said bond shall be accepted, shall be deposited at the expense and risk of the said importer, in one or more storehouse or storehouses, as the case may require, to be agreed upon between the said importer and the inspector, or other officer of inspection of the revenue, for the port where the said teas shall be landed; and upon every such Inspectors of store-house, the said inspector or officer of inspection shall cause revenue to su to be affixed two locks, the key of one of which locks shall be perintend stokept by such importer, his or her agent, and the key of the other ring teas, &c. of which locks shall be kept by the said inspector, or by such other person as he shall depute and appoint in that behalf; whose duty it shall be to attend, at all reasonable times, for the purpose of delivering the said teas out of the said storehouse or storehouses. But no delivery shall be made of any of the said teas No delivery of without a permit in writing, under the hand of the said inspector teas without or officer of inspection. And in order to the obtaining of such a permit; and permit, it shall be necessary that the duties upon the teas, for no permit which the same shall be required, the first paid, or, at the option granted withof the party or parties applying for the same, secured to be paid, being first in manner following; that is to say: The said party or parties shall paid or secur give bond, with one or more surety or sureties, to the satisfaction ed by bond of the said inspector, in double the amount of the duties upon the &c. quantity of teas in each case to be delivered, with condition for the payment of the said duties, if the same shall not exceed one hundred dollars in four months; or, if the same shall exceed one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars, in

out the duties

and surety,

eight months; or, if the same shall exceed five hundred dollars, Time allowed in twelve months: Provided always, That the time to be allowed for payment of VOL. I.

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