Accounts of Benjamin Stro ther to be fettled. CHAPTER III. An Act for the Relief of Benjamin Strother. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That the proper accounting officers fettle the accounts of lieutenant Benjamin Strother, for fupporting a number of recruits, on their march to the army, and allow him a reasonable fum for fuch expenditures, on his producing fatisfactory proof, that he has made fuch expenditures in the service of the United States. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, February the twenty-fixth, 1796: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER IV. An Act for allowing Compenfation to the Members of the Senate, and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States, and to certain Officers of both Houses. Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That at every feffion of Congrefs, and at every meeting of the Senate in the recefs of Congress, from and after the third day of Allowance March in the present year, each Senator fhall fentatives. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That at each feffion of Congrefs, each Reprefentative fhall be entitled to receive fix dollars for every day he fhall attend the House of Reprefentatives; and fhall be allowed, at the Allowance commencement and end of each feflion, fix to Repredollars for every twenty miles of the eftimated distance, by the most ufual road, from his place of refidence to the feat of Congrefs And in cafe any Reprefentative fhall be detained by fickness, on his journey to or from the feffion of Congrefs, or, after his arrival, fhall be unable to attend the House of Representatives, he fhall be entitled to the daily allowance aforefaid: And the Speaker of the Houfe of Representatives fhall be en-titled to receive, in addition to his compenfation as a Representative, fix dollars for évery day he shall attend the Houfe: Provided always, That no Representative fhall be al Provifo. to the chap lains; to the Se and the Clerk of the Hoe of Repre fentatives. lowed a fum exceeding the rate of fix dollars per day, from the end of one fuch feffion or meeting, to the time of his taking a feat in another. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there Allowance fhall be allowed to each chaplain of Congress at the rate of five hundred dollars per annum, during the feffion of Congrefs; to the Secrecretary of tary of the Senate, and Clerk of the Houfe of the Senate Reprefentatives, fifteen hundred dollars per annum, each, to commence from the time of their refpective appointments; and also a further allowance of two dollars per day to each, during the feffion of that branch, for which he officiates. And the faid Secretary and Clerk fhall each be allowed (when the Prefident of the Senate, or Speaker shall deem to Clerks; it neceffary) to employ one principal Clerk, who fhall be paid three dollars per day, and two engroffing Clerks, who fhall be paid two dollars per day, each, during the feffion, with the like compenfations to fuch Clerks, refpectively, while they fhall be neceffarily employed in the recefs. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That to the Ser. there fhall be allowed to the Serjeant-at-arms, the fum of four dollars per day, during eve ry feffion of Congrefs, and while employed on the bufinefs of the House. jeant-at arms. How the faid com Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the penfations faid compenfation, which fhall be due to the Thall be cer- members and officers of the Senate, fhall tified, &c. be certified by the Prefident; and that which fhall be due to the members and officers of the House of Reprefentatives, fhall be certi fied by the Speaker; and the fame fhall be JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United GEORGE WASHINGTON, CHAPTER V. An Act providing Relief, for a limited Time, in certain Cafes of invalid Registers. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Re ry to allow cafes of in tain condi rica, in Congress affembled, That the Secretary of the Treafury be, and he is hereby em- Secretary powered, to allow to fuch veffels and their of Treafucargoes, whofe registers have already, or certain pri that may, before the clofe of the prefent fef- vileges in fion of Congrefs, become invalid, by reafon valid regifof a non-compliance with the terms of the ters on cerfifth fection of the act "concerning the re- tions, giftering and recording of fhips or veffels," the fame privileges and benefits, they would have been entitled to, if no fuch invalidity had taken place: Provided, it fhall appear to him, that fuch non-compliance did not proceed from wilful negligence or an intention of fraud And Provided alfo, that a new regifter fhall be obtained, in the manner pre fcribed by law, for fuch veffels respectively, as may now be within the United States, within ninety days from the paffing of this act; and for others, within the fame time after their firft arrival within the United States. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, March the tenth, 1796: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. Certain drawback CHAPTER VI. An Act for the Relief of Ifrael Loring. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the collector of the district of New-York be, and he is hereby authorized, at any time within fixty days after the paffing of this act, to alto be allow low the drawback upon fuch a quantity of ined to Ifrael digo, as was imported into New-York from New-Orleans, on the tenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, by Ifrael Loring, in the brigantine Diana, Allen Hill, mafter, and which was, on the nineteenth of Auguft following, entered for exportation on board the brig Lydia, John H. Shackerly, mafter, for Amfterdam; notwithstanding bonds were not given, and an Loring. |