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in the report of the Secretary of the Trea- Specific ap fury, of the fourteenth of December laft, tions for there be appropriated a fum not exceeding fupport of thirty-feven thousand fix hundred and feventy- ment, for two dollars, and nine cents, that is to say: 1796.

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For the maintenance and fupport of lighthoufes, beacons, buoys, public piers, and ftakeage of channels, bars and fhoals, twentyfour thousand dollars.

To repay David Lenox, late marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, for payments made, with the approbation of the judge of the faid district, to fundry perfons, for fummoning jurors to attend the District Court of Pennsylvania, upon the trial of fundry perfons committed for high treafon, two hundred and fifty-fix dollars, and eighty-eight cents.

For the payment of a balance due to Lewis Pintard, agent for American prifoners in the city of New-York, during the late war, four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty

one cents.

For the payment of a balance due to the representatives of Thomas Smith, late commiffioner of the loan-office for the ftate of Pennsylvania, nine thousand and eleven dollars, and ninety-feven cents.

For the payment of a balance due to the representatives of Jofeph Clarke, late commiffioner of the loan-office for the ftate of Rhode-Ifland, one thoufand nine hundred and seventy-four dollars, and three cents.

For the discharge of fuch miscellaneous demands against the United States, other than thofe on account of the Civil Department, not otherwise provided for, and which fhall have been ascertained and admitted in due VOL. III.

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Specific ap- courfe of fettlement at the Treafury, and propria- which are of a nature, according to the fupport of ufage thereof, to require payment in fpecie, two thousand dollars.

government, for 1796.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the feveral appropriations herein before made, fhall be paid and discharged out of the fund of fix hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act "making provifion for the debt of the United States."

JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of
the Houfe of Reprefentatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, February the fifth, 1796:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER II.

An Act further extending the Time for receiving on Loan the domeftic Debt of the United States.

Sec. I.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the term for receiving on loan that part of the term of the domeftic debt of the United States, for receiv- which has not been fubfcribed, in pursuance ing on loan the domef of the provifions heretofore made by law for

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that purpose, be, and the fame is hereby further extended, until the thirty-first day of December next, on the fame terms and conditions, as are contained in the act, intitled,

An act making provifion for the debt of the United States:" Provided, That the books for receiving the said subscriptions fhall be opened only at the Treafury of the United States.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it Reimbursefhall be lawful to reimburse fo much of the ment of part of the principal of the debt or stock, which may be principal. fubfcribed, pursuant to this act, as will make the reimbursement thereof equal in proportion and degree, to that of the fame ftock fubfcribed antecedent to the present year; and the faid teimbursement shall be made at the expiration of the quarter in which fuch debt. or stock shall be subscribed, and pursuant to the rules and conditions prefcribed by the act, intitled, "An act making further provifion for the fupport of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt."

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That fuch of the creditors of the United States, for the payas have not fubscribed, and fhall not fubfcribe ment of into the faid loan, fhall, nevertheless, receive, non-fubduring the year one thousand feven hundred fcribers. and ninety-fix, a rate per centum on the amount of fuch of their demands as have been registered, or as fhall be registered at the Treafury, conformably to the directions in the act, intitled, "An Act making provifion for the debt of the United States," equal to the intereft which would be payable to them as fubfcribing creditors.

JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of
the House of Reprefentatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the
United States, and Prefident of the Senate.
APPROVED, February the nineteenth, 1796.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

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CHAPTER III.

An Act for the Relief of Benjamin Strother.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the proper accounting officers fettle the accounts of lieutenant Benjamin Strother, for fupporting a number of recruits, on their march to the. army, and allow him a reasonable fum for fuch expenditures, on his producing fatisfactory proof, that he has made fuch expenditures in the service of the United States.

JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.
APPROVED, February the twenty-fixth,'1796:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER IV.

An Act for allowing Compenfation to the Members of the Senate, and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States, and to certain Officers of both Houses.

Sec. 1.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That at every feffion of Congrefs, and at every meeting of the Senate in the recefs of Congress, from and after the third day of

Allowance

March in the present year, each Senator fhall be entitled to receive fix dollars for every to senaday he fhall attend the Senate; and fhall alfo tors. be allowed, at the commencement and end of every fuch feffion and meeting, fix dollars for every twenty miles of the estimated diftance, by the moft ufual road, from his place of refidence to the feat of Congrefs: And in cafe any member of the Senate fhall be detained by fickness, on his journey to or from any fuch feffion or meeting, or, after his arrival, fhall be unable to attend the Senate, he fhall be entitled to the fame daily allowance: Provided always, that no Senator fhall Provifo, be allowed a fum exceeding the rate of fix dollars per day, from the end of one fuch feffion or meeting, to the time of his taking a feat in another.

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fentatives.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That at Each feffion of Congrefs, each Reprefentative fhall be entitled to receive fix dollars for every day he fhall attend the Houfe of Representatives; and fhall be allowed, at the commencement and end of each feffion, fix to Repredollars for every twenty miles of the eftimated distance, by the most usual road, from his place of refidence to the feat of Congrefs And in cafe any Representative fhall be detained by fickness, on his journey to or from the feffion of Congrefs, or, after his arrival, fhall be unable to attend the House of Representatives, he fhall be entitled to the daily allowance aforefaid: And the Speaker of the House of Representatives fhall be entitled to receive, in addition to his compenfation as a Representative, fix dollars for every day he shall attend the Houfe: Provided always, That no Reprefentative fhall be al

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