•Specific appropriations.

one thousand eight hundred, for the expense of the miffion to France, eighty-five thousand dol

lars.

For carrying into effect the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States, and the king of Great-Britain, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and fixty-four dollars.

For a deficiency of former appropriations for carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and the King of Spain, forty-fix thoufand five hundred dollars.

For fulfilling the engagements of the United States with the Mediterranean powers, two hundred and fifty-fix thousand dollars.

For profecuting the claims of American citizens for property captured by the belligerent powers, fixty-four thousand dollars.

For the relief of American feamen, thirty thousand dollars.

For defraying the further expenfes incident to the valuation of houfes and lands, and the enumeration of flaves within the United States, forty thousand dollars.

For the fupport of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and other improvements in navigation, thirty-eight thousand fix hundred and twenty-two dollars, feventy cents.

For difcharging the expenfe of the fecond enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the fum of fixty thousand dollars.

For discharging fuch mifcellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as fhall be admitted at the Treafury, which according to the ufage thereof, require payment in fpecie, four thousand dollars.

For the expenfe of returning the votes for Prefident and Vice-Prefident of the United States one thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars, fifty cents.

For repairing the building occupied by the treafury department, the fum of two thousand dollars. For fatisfying the claim of Clement Biddle, twenty-nine thoufand eight hundred and fiftyfix dollars, fixty-three cents.

For errecting a light-houfe at old Point Comfort, the fum of three thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the feveral appropriations, herein before made, fhall be paid and difcharged out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwife appropriated.

THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

JAMES HILLHOUSE, Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

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

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XCIX.

AN ACT directing the mode of eftimating certain foreign coins and currencies, and of making out invoices in certain cafes.

Sec. I.

B

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That from and after the paffing of this act, the foreign coins and currencies herein after mentioned, fhall be estimated in the computation of duties, at the following rates; each ficca rupee of Bengal and each rupee of Bombay, at fifty cents; and each ftar pagoda of Madras, at one hundred and

eighty-four cents; any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the invoices of all goods, imported into the United States, and subject to a duty ad valorem, shall be made out in the currency of the place or country from whence the importation shall be made, and shall contain a true statement of the actual cost of such goods, in fuch foreign currency or currencies, without any refpect to the value of the coins of the United States, or foreign coins, which now are, or fhall be by law made current within the United States, in fuch foreign place or country.

THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

JAMES HILLHOUSE,

Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

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

AN ACT to augment the falaries of the district judges in the districts of Massachusetts, NewFork, New-Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, respectively.

Sec. i.

BE

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That instead of the compenfation at prefent allowed to the district judges for the districts of Massachu

fetts, New-York, Delaware, and Maryland, respectively, there fhall hereafter be allowed to the district judge for the diftrict of Maffachusetts,. the yearly falary of fixteen hundred dollars; to the district judge for the diftrict of New-York, the yearly falary of fixteen hundred dollars; to the district judges for the diftricts of New-Jersey and Delaware, the yearly falaries of twelve hundred dollars each, and to the district judge for the district of Maryland, the yearly falary of fixteen hundred dollars, to be paid at the treasury of the United States in quarter yearly payments.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the year one thoufand eight hundred and one there fhall be appropriated the fum of eight hundred dollars, to fatisfy the additional compenfation hereby allowed to the district judges, to be paid out of any monies in the treafury not otherwife appropriated.

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

Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

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

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER CI.

AN ACT in addition to an act, intituled" An act making provision for the further accommodation of the houshold of the Prefident of the United States."

Sec. I.

B'

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

Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to appoint a proper perfon, who fhall receive the public property belonging to the houfhold of the Preftdent of the United States, and, after taking an inventory of the fame, fhall deliver it, after the third day of March inftant, to the President of the United States.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That fuch articles of the furniture belonging to the Prefident's houfhold as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use, and as the Prefident of the United States for the time being, may direct, and all the public property, other than furniture, now belonging to the said houfhold, fhall be fold, under the direction of the heads of the feveral departments of state, of the treafury, of war, and of the navy; and that the proceeds of fuch fales be expended, in addition to the funds already appropriated for that purpose, under the direction of the fame officers, for the purpofe of providing furniture for the houfe erected for the accomodation of the Prefident of the United States.

THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JAMES HILLHOUSE, Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore.

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

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER CII.

AN ACT making appropriations for the navy of the United States, for the year one thoufand eight hundred and one.

Sec. I. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That for