1 his appointment, to be paid quarterly at the And to the end, that the laws providing for Collection Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That for the JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of An Act to augment the Compenfation of the At- BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the compen Compenfa fation allowed by law to the attorney-general tion to At- of the United States, fhall be, and the fame is General. hereby augmented, by an addition of the fum torney of five hundred dollars per annum, to commence on the first day of January, in the prefent year, and payable quarter-yearly, at the public Treafury. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of WILLIAM BINGHAM, Prefident of the APPROVED, March the fecond, 1797: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LVIII. An Act granting a certain Sum of Money to the Widow and Children of John de Neufville, deceased. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That in confideration of particular fervices rendered the United States, during the war of their revolution, by the late John de Neufville, of the United Netherlands, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to caufe to be paid, out of any monies which may be in the Treafury, not otherwife appropri ated, the fum of one thousand dollars to Anna de Neufville, widow of the faid John de Neuf- JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of WILLIAM BINGHAM, Prefident of the APPROVED, March the fecond, 1797 : GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. An Act to continue in Force for a limited Time, the B crimes E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Re- A& conprefentatives of the United States of Ame- coning rica, in Congress affembled, That the act, inti- continued. tuled, “An act, in addition to the act, for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," fhall continue and be in force, for and during the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the next feffion of Congrefs, and no longer. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of WILLIAM BINGHAM, President pro tempore of the Senate. APPROVED, March the fecond, 1797: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. 14,000 do! lars gran CHAPTER LX. An Act making Provifion for the further Accommodation of the Household of the Prefident of the United States. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of Ameted to the rica, in Congress affembled, That after the third Prefident day of March next, the President of the Unihouichold. ted States be, and he hereby is authorized and for his empowered, to caufe to be fold, fuch articles furnished by the United States, for the Prefident's houfehold, as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use, and that the proceeds of such sale, and so much of a fum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars in addition thereto, out of the proceeds of the duties on. imports and tonnage which may accrue during the present year, as the President of the United States may judge neceffary, be, and hereby areappropriated for the accommodation of the household of the Prefident, to be laid out and expended for fuch articles of furniture as he fhall direct. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. WILLIAM BINGHAM, Prefident pro tempore of the Senate. APPROVED, March the second, 1797: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. An Act, in Addition to an Act, intituled, "An Act concerning the registering and recording of Ships or Veffels," and to an Act, intituled, "An Act for enrolling and licensing Ships or Veffels employed in the Coafting-Trade and Fisheries, and for regulating the fame. B rized to grant car &c. in cer E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That whenever it fhall appear, by fatisfactory proof, to the Se- of Treafu cretary of the Treafury, that any fhip or veffel ry autho hath been fold and transferred by process of law; and that the regifter, certificate of en- tificates, rolment, or licenfe, as the cafe may be, of fuch tain cafes fhip or veffel, is retained by the former owners, it fhall be lawful for the faid Secretary, to order and direct the collector of the district to which fuch fhip or veffel may belong, to grant a new register, certificate of enrolment, or license, as the cafe may be, on the owners, under fuch fale, complying with fuch terms and conditions, as are, by law, required for granting of fuch papers; excepting only the delivering up JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of APPROVED, March the feeond, 1797: GEORGE WASHINGTON, |