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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this

Limita act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, and no longer. THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

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

APPROVED-January 17th, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER VI.

An ACT to repeal part of an act, intituled " An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and difabilities, accruing in certain cafes therein mentioned, and to continue in force the refidue of the fame.

E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the fourth section of an act intituled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cafes. therein mentioned," paffed on the third day of March, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-feven, fhall be, and the fame is hereby repealed, and the refidue of the faid act fhall be, and the same is hereby continued in full force without limitation of time.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

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

APPROVED-February 11, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

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CHAPTER VII.

An ACT for the relief of John Vaughan.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to fettle the account of John Vaughan, and to allow him the amount of the difference in his favour, which would refult from calculating the filver bullion by him depofited, previous to the month of December, in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-five, in the Mint of the United States, for coinage, at the rate of one thousand four hundred and eighty-five parts fine, to one hundred and feventy-nine parts alloy, instead of the rate of nine parts fine, to one part alloy, and that the fame be paid out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwife appropriated.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and
Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED-February 11, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER VIII.

An ACT giving further time to the holders of Military Warrants, to register and locate the fame.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Secretary of the

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Treasury shall for the space of fourteen days after the expiration of the nine months heretofore allowed for that purpofe, by the act, intituled "An act regulating the grants of land, appropriated for military fervices, and for the fociety of the United Brethren for propagating the gofpel among the Heathen," register warrants for military fervices in the form and manner as is prefcribed by the faid recited act; and the priority of location of faid warrants, and the warrants registered under the said recited act fhall be determined by lot, immediately after the expiration of the faid fourteen days, and a day for the location fhall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in a public notice given in one of the gazettes of the city of Philadelphia.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

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

APPROVED-February 11, 1800.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER IX.

An ACT to suspend in part, an act, intituled "An act to augment the army of the United States; and for other purposes."

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That all further enliftments under the fecond section of an act, intituled "An act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes," shall be suspended until the further order of Congrefs,

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unless in the recefs of Congrefs, and during the continuance of the exifting differences between the United States and the French Republic, war fhall break out between the United States and the French Republic, or imminent danger of invafion of their territory by the said Republic, fhall, in the opinion of the Prefident of the United States, be discovered to exist.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and
Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED-February 20th, 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER X.

An ACT further to fufpend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That all commercial intercourfe between any perfon or perfons refident within the United States or under their protection, and any perfon or perfons re- ed. fident within the territories of the French Republic, or any of the dependencies thereof, fhall be, and from and after the second day of March next, is hereby prohibited and farther fufpended, excepting only in the cafes hereinafter provided. And any ship or vessel, owned, hired or employed wholly or in part by any person or perfons refident within the United States, or any citizen or citizens thereof refident elsewhere,

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and failing therefrom after that day, which contrary to the intent hereof, fhall be voluntarily carried, or fhall be deftined or permitted to proceed, or fhall be fold, bartered, entrusted or transferred, for the purpofe that she may proceed, whether directly or from any intermediate port or place, to any port or place within the territories of that Republic, or any of the dependencies thereof; or fhall be engaged in any traffic or commerce, by or for any perfon refident within the territories of that Republic,, or within any of the dependencies thereof; and alfo any cargo which fhall be found on board of fuch fhip or veffel, when detected and interrupted in fuch unlawful purpose, or at her return from fuch voyage to the United States, fhall be wholly forfeited, and may be feized and condemned in any court of the United States having competent jurifdiction.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That exceptOn clear- ing for foreign fhips or veffels owned, hired, ing other and employed by perfons permanently refiding than cer- in Europe, and commanded and wholly navireign vef- gated by foreigners, no clearance for a foreign fels for a voyage fhall be granted to any fhip or veffel foreign whatever, until the owner or the employer for the voyage, or if not refident within the diftrict fecurity to be giv- where the clearance fhall be required, his factor or agent, with the mafter and one or more fufficient furety or fureties, to the fatisfaction of the Collector of the district, fhall give bond to the United States, fuch owner, employer, or factor, with the master, in a fum equal to the value of the veffel, and of one-third of her cargo; and fuch furety or fureties in a like fum, when it fhall not exceed ten thousand dollars; and if it fhall exceed, then in that fum, with condition that the fhip or veffel for which a

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