Provifo. Allow anec lains; to the Se and the Clerk of the Houfe of Repre fentatives. lowed 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 seat in another. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there to the chap- fhall be allowed to each chaplain of Congress at the rate of five hundred dollars per annum, during the feffion of Congrefs; to the Secrecretary of tary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of the Senate Reprefentatives, fifteen hundred dollars per annum, each, to commence from the time of their refpective appointments; and alfo a further allowance of two dollars per day to each, during the feffion of that branch, for which he officiates. And the faid Secretary and Clerk fhall each be allowed (when the Prefident of the Senate, or Speaker fhall deem to Clerks; it neceffary) to employ one principal Clerk, who fhall be paid three dollars per day, and two engroffing Clerks, who fhall be paid two dollars per day, each, during the feffion, with the like compenfations to fuch Clerks, refpectively, while they fhall be neceffarily employed in the recefs. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That to the Ser. there fhall be allowed to the Serjeant-at-arms, the fum of four dollars per day, during every feffion of Congrefs, and while employed on the bufinefs of the House. jeant-at arms. How the faid com tified, &c. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the penfations faid compenfation, which fhall be due to the hall be cer- members and officers of the Senate, shall be certified by the Prefident; and that which fhall be due to the members and officers of the House of Reprefentatives, fhall be certi fied by the Speaker; and the fame fhall be JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER V. An Act providing Relief, for a limited Time, in certain Cafes of invalid Registers. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Re ry to allow cafes of in tain condi rica, in Congress affembled, That the Secretary fcribed by law, for fuch veffels refpectively, as may now be within the United States, within ninety days from the paffing of this act; and for others, within the fame time after their firft arrival within the United States. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, March the tenth, 1796: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER VI. An Act for the Relief of Ifrael Loring. B' E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the collector of the district of New-York be, and he is hereby authorized, at any time within fixty days after the paffing of this act, to allow the drawback upon fuch a quantity of ined to Ifrael digo, as was imported into New-York from Certain drawback to be allow Loring. New-Orleans, on the tenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, by Ifrael Loring, in the brigantine Diana, Allen Hill, mafter, and which was, on the nineteenth of Auguft following, entered for exportation on board the brig Lydia, John H. Shackerly, mafter, for Amfterdam; notwithstanding bonds were not given, and an bath was not taken, at the time of exporta tion: Provided, That every other requifite has been complied with, relative thereto, which, by law, is required to entitle him to the fame. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, March the tenth, 1796: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. An Act making a partial Appropriation for the Sec. I. Appropri E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That ation for the fum of five hundred thoufand dollars be, the expenfe and the fame is hereby appropriated towards tary estabdefraying the expenses of the military estab. lishment. lifhment, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-fix. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the faid fum fhall be paid and difcharged out of the funds following, to wit: First, the balance which may remain unexpended of the fum VOL. III. I 2 Out of of fix hundred thousand dollars, referved by what funds the act "making provision for the debt of payable. the United States," after fatisfying the appropriations made in the present feffion, for the fupport of government: Secondly, The furplus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereupon, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-fix. Provifion or difabled JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, March twelfth, 1796: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER VIII. An Act for the Relief of certain Officers and Soldiers who have been wounded or difabled in the actual Service of the United States. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of Amerifor perfons ca, in Congress affembled, That every comwounded miffioned, non-commiffioned officer, private in the mili. or mufician, who has been wounded or diftia, and for abled, while in the line of his duty, in actual in the like fervice, called out by authority of any law of the United States, while he belonged to the militia; or any volunteer not belonging to the militia, who has been wounded or difabled, while in the line of his duty, in actual volunteers |