Specific ap- by the late government, two thoufand three propria- hundred and fixty-feven dollars and seventyfupport of three cents : tions for government for 1794. For payment of the annual allowance granted by Congress to Baron Steuben, two thoufand five hundred dollars: For the annual allowance to the widow and orphan children of Colonel John Harding, and to the orphan-children of Major Alexander Truman, by the act of Congrefs of the twentyfeventh of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, seven hundred and fifty dollars: For arrearages of penfion due to the widow and orphan-children of Colonel John Harding, and to the orphan-children of Major Alexander Truman, to the thirty-firft of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, fix hundred and feventy-five dollars: For the annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer, fon of the late Major-General Mercer, four hundred dollars : For the maintenance and repair of lighthouses, beacons, piers, stakes and buoys, twenty thousand dollars : To make good a deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-two, for the maintenance and repair of light-houses, beacons, piers, stakes and buoys, four thoufand dollars: For the purchase of hydrometers, for the ufe of the officers of the customs, and infpectors of the revenue, one thoufand five hundred dollars: For a balance ftated by the Auditor of the Treasury, to be due to the estate of the late Major-General Greene, pursuant to the act of Congrefs, of the twenty-feventh of February, i propriati govern one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, Specific ap- For defraying the expenfe incident to the For the payment of fuch demands, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been duly allowed by the officers of the treasury, five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the feveral appropriations herein before made, fhall be paid and discharged out of the funds following, to wit: First. The fum of fix hundred thousand dollars, referved by the act making provifion for the debt of the United States: Secondly. The furplus of revenue and income FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, GEORGE WASHINGTON, ation to between CHAPTER VII. An Act making further Provifion for the Expenfes attending the Intercourfe of the United States with foreign Nations; and further to continue in Force the Act, intitled, “ An A& providing the Means of Intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations. Sec. 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, Additional That a fum of one million of dollars, in addiappropri- tion to the provision heretofore made, be apfupport in- propriated to defray any expenfes which may be incurred, in relation to the intercourfe between the United States and foreign nations, States and to be paid out of any monies, which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and to be applied, under the direction of the Prefident of the United States, who, if neceffary, is hereby authorized to borrow the whole or any part of the faid fum of one million of dollars; an account of the expenditure whereof, as foon as may be, fhall be laid before Congrefs. foreign nations. Certain nued in Séc. 2. And be it further enacted, That the act, intitled, "An act providing the means of 2ts conti- intercourfe between the United States and foreign nations," paffed the first day of July, one thousand feven hundred and ninety, together with the fecond fection of the act, intitled, "An act to continue in force, for a limited time, and to amend the act, intitled, " An act providing the means of intercourfe between the United States and foreign nations,' paffed the ninth day of February, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-three, fhall be continued in force, for the term of one year FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, March the twentieth, 1794: CHAPTER VIII. An Act authorizing a Loan of one Million of BE of United borrow E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is autho- Prefident rized and empowered to borrow, on the cre- States audit of the United States, if, in his opinion, thorized to the public service fhall require it, a fum not 1,000,000 exceeding one million of dollars, at an intereft dollars. not exceeding five per centum per annum, reimburfable at the pleafure of the United States, to be applied to fuch public purposes, as are authorized by law, and to be repaid out of the duties on imports and tonnage, to the end of the prefent year: And that it shall be lawful for the bank of the United States, and VOL. III. C the faid bank hereby is authorized and em- FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Certain ports and harbors to be fortified. CHAPTER IX. An Act to provide for the Defence of certain Sect. I. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the following ports and harbors be fortified under the direction of the Prefident of the United States, and at fuch time or times, as he may judge neceffary, to wit: Portland in the diftrict of Maine; Portsmouth in the ftate of New-Hampshire, Gloucester, Salem, Marblehead and Boston, in the state of Maffachusetts; Newport in the ftate of RhodeIfland; New-London in the state of Connecticut; New-York; Philadelphia; Wilmington, in the state of Delaware; Baltimore, in the state of Maryland; Norfolk and Alexandria, in the state of Virginia; Cape-Fear river and Ocracock inlet in the ftate of NorthCarolina; Charleston and Georgetown, in the state of South-Carolina; and Savannah and Saint Mary's in the ftate of Georgia. |