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Sec. 7. And be it farther enacted, That it fhall Powers of the be lawful for the fheriffs and collectors of public riffs and col- dues for the counties of Montgomery and Prince George's in the state of Maryland, and for the fheriffs of Fairfax county in the commonwealth of Virginia, and they fhall refpectively have full power and authority to enter into those parts of the now diftrict of Columbia, which were heretofore within the limits of their respective bailiwicks, for the purposes of collecting by distress or otherwise, as they were heretofore authorised to do, all officers fees, state taxes and county taxes, levies, fines and other public dues, which were due on the first Monday of December one thousand eight hundred, and still remain uncollected, from perfons refiding or having property, fubject to the payment of fuch officers fees, ftate taxes and county taxes, and levies within the said district; and all difputes or controverfies that do or may arife between fuch fheriff or collector, and the person or perfons from whom he or they may claim fuch public dues, fhall be cognizable before and tryed by the respective ftate courts to whom the trial of fuch controverfies heretofore belonged, and not before the court of the district of Columbia.

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Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for the fheriffs of the faid make certain counties of Montgomery and Prince George's in the state of Maryland, and for the fheriff of Fairfax county in the commonwealth of Virginia and they fhall respectively have full power and authority to enter into thofe parts of the now diftrict of Columbia, which were heretofore within the limits of their refpective bailiwicks, for the pur pofe of arrefting and conducting to the refpective jails under their keeping and care, as they heretofore might have done had the law to which this

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is a fupplement never paffed, each and every perfon within the limits of the district of Columbia, upon whom fuch fheriff hath heretofore ferved a writ of capias ad fatisfaciendum, capias ad refpondendum, attachment or other procefs, iffuing from any ftate court, which commands. and requires fuch fheriff to have the body of the perfon before the court from which fuch writ or process hath issued.

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Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That where by this act, and the act to which this is a fupple- judge and one ment, appointments are authorized to be made of the affociate juftices may by the circuit court of the diftrict, it fhall be law- make appointful for the chief judge, with one of the affociate justices of the faid court, to make fuch appoint

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THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

JAMES HILLHOUSE,
Prefident of the Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED-March 3d, A. D. 1801.

JOHN ADAMS,

President of the United States.

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CHAPTER XCVI.

AN ACT to amend the act altering the district of Bermuda Hundred and City Point.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled,That from and after the paffing of this act, the mafter or commander of any fhip or veffel arriving within the districts of Petersburg or Richmond, laden with goods,

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wares and merchandize, belonging or.configned to perfons refident within both the faid diftricts, fhall make entry of fuch fhip or reffel, in man ner already prefcribed by law, with the collector of that district wherein the owner or confignee, or the husband or acting manager of fuch fhip or veffel, fhall actually refide: And the faid maf ter or commander fhall, at the time of making the entry 'aforefaid, deliver a duplicate manifeft of the cargo as now required by law, to the faid collector, whofe duty it fhall then be, to certify the fame as a true copy, and to tranfmit it to the collector of the other diftrict, and the delivery of fuch goods, wares or merchandize, fhall be authorized by permits from the collector of each diftrict refpectively, in which the fame fhall have: been duly entered according to law: Provided, that no bona fide importer, owner or configneė of goods, wares or merchandize, refiding in either district, fhall be admitted to make an entry! of fuch goods, wares or merchandize with the collector of the district, in which fuch importer, owner or confignee fhall not refide: And provi ded alfo, that all entries for goods, wares or merchandize, made by agents, for perfons refiding in other diftricts, fhall be made with the col lector of the district in which fuch fhip or veffel: may discharge.

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THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

JAMES HILLHOUSE, Prefident of the Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED-March 3d, A. D. 1801.

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AN ACT authorizing the remiffion of duties on - certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs, in Providence, Rhode-Ifland.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the collector of the diftrict of Providence, in the ftate of RhodeIfland, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to remit the duties on fuch part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the port of Providence, in the fhip called the Refource, on the twenty-ninth day of July one thoufand eight hundred, by Thomas Lloyd Halley, John Corlis, William F. Megee, and Henry Smith, of the town of Providence, merchants, and on fuch part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the said port, in the fhip called the Ann and Hope, on the twenty-fecond day of Auguft, in the fame year, by John Innes Clark, of the faid town, merchant, as remained depofited to fecure the payment of duties, under the care of the officers of the customs, on the twenty-firft day of January laft, in the aforefaid town of Providence, and shall be proved, to the fatisfaction of the faid collector, to have been burned and deftroyed.

THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES HILLHOUSE,

Prefident of the Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED-March 3d, A. D. 1801.

Wema JOHN ADAMS,

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AN ACT making appropriations for the fupport of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and one.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That for the probriations. fupport of government, and to discharge certain claims and expenfes hereafter enumerated, the following fums be and are hereby appropriated, that is to say:

For the compensation granted by law to the Prefident and Vice-Prefident of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.

For the like compenfation to the members of the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives, their officers and attendants one hundred and ninetythree thousand four hundred and feventy dollars.

For the contingent expenfes of the two houfes of Congress, including the payment of certain articles of furniture purchased for the accommodation of Congress, and not provided for by former appropriations,feventeen thousand dollars.

For the compenfation granted by law to the judges of the United States, the attorney-general, the district attorneys, and marfhals, eightythree thousand four hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenfes of courts, jurors and witnesses, and for defraying the enpenfes of profecutions for offences against the United States, and for fafe keeping of prisoners, thirty thousand dollars.

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For compenfation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and perfons employed in his of fice, eleven thoufand three hundred and nine dollars, eighty-one cents.

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