Veffels bound to foreign ports to deliver ma nifefts of their car goes. Sec. 73. And be it further enacted, That the master or perfon having the charge or command of a fhip or veffel bound to a foreign port or place, fhall deliver to the collector of the diftrict from which fuch fhip or veffel fhall be about to depart, a manifest of the cargo on board the fame, and fhall make oath or affirmation to the truth thereof, whereupon the faid collector fhall grant a clearance for the faid fhip or veffel, and her cargo, but without fpecifying the particulars thereof, unlefs required by the faid master or person havPenalty for ing faid charge or command. And if any fhip or vessel bound to a foreign port or place, fhall depart on her voyage to fuch foreign port or place without fuch clearance, the faid mafter or perfon having the faid charge or command, fhall forfeit and pay the fum of two hundred dollars for fuch offence. neglect of clearance. Former as Sec. 74. And be it further enacted, That repealed. after the first day of October next, the act, intituled, "An act to regulate the collection of the duties impofed by law on the tonnage of fhips or veffels, and on goods, wares and merchandizes imported into the United States,' and alfo all other acts or parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, fhall be repealExceptions. ed, and thenceforth cease to operate, except as to the continuance of the officers appointed in pursuance of the faid act; except alfo as to the recovery and receipt of fuch duties on goods, wares and merchandize, and on the tonnage of fhips or veffels, as fhall have accrued, and as to the payment of drawbacks and allowances in lieu thereof, upon the exportation of goods, wares or merchandize which shall have been imported, and as to the recovery and diftribution of fines, penalties and forfeitures which fhall have been incurred before or upon the faid day, fubject neverthelefs to the alterations contained and expressed in this present act. And whereas by the act, intituled, tion re Ruffia. 66 An Declaraact to regulate the collection of the duties im- fpecting the pofed by law on the tonnage of fhips or vef- ruble of fels, and on goods, wares and merchandizes imported into the United States," it was declared that the ruble of Ruffia fhould be rated at one hundred cents, and by the act, intituled, "An act to explain and amend an act, intituled, "An act for registering and clearing veffels, regulating the coafting trade, and for other purposes," that part of the faid first mentioned act which fo rated the ruble of Ruffia was repealed and made null and void. And whereas it is doubted whether the faid repeal can operate with refpect to duties incurred prior thereto, as was intended by Congress: Sec. 75. Therefore be it enacted and declared, That the faid repeal fhall be deemed to operate in respect to all duties which may have arifen or accrued prior thereto. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, Auguft the fourth, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXXVI. An Act to continue in Force for a limited Time, an Act, intituled, "An Act for the tempo rary Establishment of the Poft-Office." (EXPIRED.) CHAPTER XXXVII. An Act for the Relief of John Stewart and An Act to provide more effectually for the Settlement of the Accounts between the United States and the individual States, Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, Board of 3 That a board, to confift of three commiffiononers to be ers, be, and hereby is established to fettle the appointed, accounts between the United States, and the commifli individual ftates; and the determination of a majority of the faid commiffioners on the claims, fubmitted to them, fhall be final and conclufive; and they fhall have power to employ fuch number of clerks as they may find neceflary. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the faid commiflioners fhall refpectively take an take an oath; oath or affirmation, before the chief juftice of who are t the United States, or one of the affociate or district judges, that they will faithfully and impartially execute the duties of their office. And they fhall each of them be entitled to receive at the rate of two thousand two hundred and their falas fifty dollars per annum, payable quarter year- ry ly at the treafury of the United States, for their refpective fervices. in examin ing claims. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it Mode of fhall be the duty of the faid commiffioners to procedure receive and examine all claims which fhall be exhibited to them before the firft day of July, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-one, and to determine on all fuch as thall have accrued for the general or particular defence during the war, and on the evidence thereof, according to the principles of general equity (although fuch claims may not be fanctioned by the refolves of Congrefs, or fupported by regular vouchers) fo as to provide for the final fettlement of all accounts between the United States and the states individually; but no evi dence of a claim heretofore admitted by a commiffioner of the United States for any state or district, shall be subject to such examination; nor fall the claim of any citizen be admitted as a charge against the United States in the account of any ftate, unless the fame was allowed by fuch state before the twenty-f -fourth day of September, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-eight, To liqui date to fpe cie value credits and Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the faid commiffioners to examine and liquidate to fpecie value, on principles of equity, the credits and debits of the debits of ftates already on the books of the treasury for fates. certain aggregate bills of credit fubfequent to the eighteenth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty. On the final Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the fettlement, commiflioners fhall debit each ftate with all of all the advances which have been, or may be made balances, to to it by the United States, and with the intertioned be- eft thereon to the last day of the year one thoutween the fand feven hundred and eighty-nine, and shall be appor ftates. The rule of ment. credit each state for its difbursements and advances on the principles contained in the third fection of this act, with intereft to the day aforefaid, and having struck the balance due to each state, shall find the aggregate of all the balances, which aggregate fhall be apportioned between the ftates agreeably to the rule herein after given; and the difference between fuch apportionments, and the refpective balances, fhall be carried in a new account to the debit or credit of the states refpectively, as the cafe may be. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the apportion rule for apportioning to the ftates the aggregate of the balances first abovementioned, fhall be the fame that is prescribed by the conftitution of the United States, for the apportionment of reprefentation and direct taxes, and according to the first enumeration which shall be made. Creditor ftates to have their balances funded. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the ftates who fhall have balances placed to their credit on the books of the treafury of the United States, fhall within twelve months after the fame fhall have been fo credited, be entitled to have the fame funded upon the fame terms with the other part of the domeftic debt of the United States; but the balances fo credited to any state fhall not be transferable. |