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AN ACT to amend the act, intituled, “An act to establish a General Stamp-Office."?

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presentatives of the United States of Ame- Mode of ob. rica, in Congress affembled, That whenever any taining a ftamp perfon or perfons fhall pay to a Collector of to an inftruthe Revenue, the duty chargeable by law on a deed, inftrument or writing, on which the ftamp duty chargeable by law shall not have been paid, together with the further fum of ten dollars, and fhall obtain the endorsement and receipt of fuch collector, upon fuch deed, inftrument or writing therefor, agreeably to the provifions of an act, intituled, "An act to establish a general ftamp-office," paffèd on the twenty-third day of April, in the year one thoufand eight hundred, it shall be lawful for such person or persons to produce fuch deed, inftrument or writing, to the Supervifor of the Revenue within whose district fuch perfon or perfons fhall refide; which Supervifor thereupon fhall certify under his hand and feal, and upon fome part of the faid deed, inftrument or writing, that the fame, so endorsed, has been produced to him, and that the faiden endorsement is, in his belief, genuine; after which faid endorsement and certificate, and not otherwife, fuch deed, inftrument or writing, fhall be to all intents and purposes as valid and available as if the fame had been or were ftamped, counter-ftamped, or marked as by law required; any thing in any act to the contrary notwithstanding,✨

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THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

JAMES HILLHOUSE,

Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED March 3, A. D. 1801.

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AN ACT providing for a Naval peace establish ment, and for other purposes.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre fentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Prefident of pycate to the United States be, and he hereby is authobai vertain rized, whenever the fituation of public affairs veffes. fhall in his opinion render it expedient, to

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cause to be fold, they being first divested of their guns and military ftores, which are to be carefully preferved, all or any of the ships and veffels belonging to the navy, except the fri gates United States, Conflitution, Prefident, Chefapeake, Philadelphia, Conftellation, Congref, New-York, Bofton, Effex, Adams, John Adams, and General Greene; and alfo to lay' up all the frigates thus to be retained, except fuch as are directed by this act to be kept in conftant service in time of peace.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted; That fix of the frigates to be retained fhall be kept in conftant ftant fervice. fervice in time of peace, and shall be officered

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and manned as the Prefident of the United States may direct, not to exceed however twothirds of the prefent complement of feamen, and ordinary feamen; the refidue of the frigates to be retained fhall be laid up in convenient ports, and there fhall be permanently attached to each frigate To laid up, one failing master, one boatfwain, one gunner, one carpenter, and one cook, one ferjeant or corporal of marines, and eight marines; and to the large frigates twelve, and to the fmall frigates ten feamen; the failing mafter fhall have the general care and fuperintendance of the fhip; and fhall generally execute fuch duties of a purfer as may be neceffary.

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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after the day when the reduction of the navy Component fhall take place as aforefaid, the navy ration parts of a rafhall confift of as follows; on Sunday, four- reduction of teen ounces of bread, one and a quarter pound of beef, half a pound of flour, one quarter of a pound of fuet, one half pint of diftilled fpirits; Monday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of peafe, one half pint of diftilled fpirits; Tuefday, fourteen-ounces of bread, one pound of beef, two ounces of cheese, one half pint of diftilled fpirits; Wednesday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of rice, one half pint of dif tilled fpirits; Thursday, fourteen ounces of rbread, one and a quarter pound of beef, half pound of flour, quarter pound of fuet, one half pint of diftilled fpirits; Friday, fourteen ounces of bread, four ounces of cheese, two ounces of butter, half pint of rice, half pint of molaffes, one half pint of distilled spiNnt

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rits; Saturday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of pease, half pint of vinegar, one half pint of diftilled spirits.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Prefident of the United States retain in the navy service in time of peace, nine captains, thirtyfix lieutenants, and one hundred and fifty midshipmen, including thofe employed on board of the fix frigates to be kept in fervice; and that he be authorized to discharge all the other officers in the navy service of the United States, But fuch of the aforefaid officers as fhall be retained in the fervice fhall be entitled to receive no more than half their monthly pay during. the time when they fhall not be under orders for actual fervice.

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all the Four months commiflioned and warrant officers, who shall be extra pay allowed to thofe difcharged as aforefaid, fhall be entitled to rewho are dif- ceive four months pay over and above what may be due to them respectively at the time of their discharge.

charged,

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JAMES HILLHOUSE,

Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED-March 3, A. D. 1801.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XCII.

AN ACT concerning the Mint.

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prefentatives of the United States of America,

in Congress affembled, That the mint fhall re- To remain st
main in the city of Philadelphia, until the fourth Philadelphia.
day of March, in the year one thousand eight
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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of the mint at the city of Certain duties Philadelphia, the duties now enjoined on the formed by the chief juftice of the United States, the Secretary and attorney of and Comptroller of the Treafury, the Secretary Penafylvania for the department of State, and the Attorney and the comGeneral of the United States, by the eighteenth loans. fection of the act, entitled, "An act establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States," paffed the second day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be performed by the district judge of Pennfylvania, the Attorney for the United S ates in the district of Pennfylvania, and the Commiffioner of Loans for the ftate of Pennsylvania.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives:

JAMES HILLHOUSE,

Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED-March 3, A. D. 180г.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United State

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