allowance auditor, lars per annum for every clerk employed therein. Additional Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the aufor one year thority aforefaid, That there fhall be allowed to regifter, for one year, commencing with the paffing of comptroller this act, to the Regifter, two hundred and & attorney- fifty dollars, and to the Auditor, the Comptroller of the Treasury, and the Attorney-General, four hundred dollars each, in addition to their respective falaries, and to be paid in the fame manner. general. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, March the third, 1791: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. An Act relative to the Rix-Dollar of Denmark. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress affembled, That fo much of an act, intituled, "An act to provide more efPart of the fectually for the collection of the duties imporix dollar of fed by law on goods, wares and merchandize Denmark imported into the United States, and on the repealed. tonnage of fhips or veffels," as hath rated the act rating. at xoc cents rix-dollar of Denmark at one hundred cents, be, and the fame is hereby repealed; and that FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, March the third, 1791: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XX. An Act in Addition to an Act, intituled, " An Act for establishing the Salaries of the Execu tive Officers of Government, with their Aff tants and Clerks. Section 1. Further an nual allow E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That from and after the paffing of this act, there fhall be allowed to the chief clerk of the auditor, the annual fum of two hundred ance of 200 dollars, in addition to the falary allowed to him by the act, intituled, " An act establishing the falaries of the executive officers of government, with their affiftants and clerks," to be paid at the treafury of the United States, in quarterly payments, and from like appro 99 chief clerk dollars to to the au ditor. Allowance of expenfes York to phia, to clerks em priations as may be affigned for the payment of the other falaries mentioned in the above recited act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in removing there be allowed to the clerks employed in from New- the feveral offices attached to the feat of goPhiladel- vernment, în addition to their respective falaries, their reasonable and neceffary expences ployed in incurred by the removal of Congress from the the feveral city of New-York, to the city of Philadelphia. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That and of 400 there be allowed to the affiftant fecretary of year to af- the treasury, in addition to his falary for one cretary of year, commencing with the paffing of this act, the treafu- four hundred dollars, to be paid in the fame manner as his falary. offices; dollars for fiftant fe ry. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, March the third, 1791: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXI. An Act for making Compenfations to the Commif fioners of Loans, for extraordinary Expenfes. (EXPIRED.) CHAPTER XXII. An Act providing Compenfations for the Officers of the Judicial Courts of the United States, and for Jurors and Witneffes, and for other Purposes. (REPEALED.) CHAPTER XXIII. An Act to continue in Force for a limited Time, 1 CHAPTER XXIV. An Act to continue in Force the Act therein mentioned, and to make further Provision for the Payment of Penfions to Invalids, and for the Support of Light-Houfes, Beacons, Buoys, and public Piers. B Sec. i. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That the act, entitled, "An act to provide Act for mi for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and tigating or remitting penalties accruing under the revenue laws in forfeitures, certain cafes therein mentioned," fhall be and c. conti is hereby continued in forcé until the end of the next feffion of Congress, and no longer. nued. invalids for Penfions to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the 1 year to be yearly penfions which have been allowed by or paid out of in purfuance of any act or law of the United treafury. States, to perfons who were wounded and dif Expenfes from Ift July next of all light houles, &c. to be de frayed by U. States till July 1792. abled during the late war, fhall for the pace of one year from the fourth day of March next, be paid out of the treafury of the United States, under fuch regulations as the President of the United States may direct. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all expenfes which fhall accrue from the first day of July next, inclufively for the neceffary fupport, maintenance and repairs of all lighthoufes, beacons, buoys, and public piers, shall continue to be defrayed by the United States, until the first day of July, in the year one thoufand seven hundred and ninety-two, notwithftanding fuch light-houfes, beacons, buoys, or public piers, with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging, and the jurisdiction of the fame, fhall not in the mean time be ceded to or vefted in the United States, by the ftate or ftates respectively, in which the same may be, and that the faid time be further allowed to the states respectively, to make fuch ceffion. the Prefi- Provided, That nothing in the faid act shall dent to par- be conftrued to limit or reftrain the power of the Prefident of the United States, to grant pardons for offences against the United States. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, March the third, 1791: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Power to don offen ces not restrained. Prefident of the United States. |