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therefrom, and on fpirits diftilled from molaffes within the United States and exported therefrom, viz.onall fugar fo refined and exported, one cent per pound; and on all fpirits fo diftilled and exported, one cent per gallon; which additional drawbacks fhall be allowed and paid according to the regulations now eftablished by law, refpecting the prefent drawbacks allowed on the faid articles.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of the duties laid by this act, fhall be folely appropriated to the following purpofe; ation of that is to fay: Firft, for the payment of the prin- duties. cipal of the prefent foreign debt of the United States: Secondly, for the payment of the principal of the debt now due by the United States to the bank of the United States.

JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of
the House of Representatives.

WILLIAM BINGHAM, President of the

Senate pro tempore:

APPROVED, March third, 1797:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER LXV.

An Act repealing in Part, the " Act concerning
the Duties on Spirits diftilled within the United
States," paffed the eighth of May, one thou-
fand feven hundred and ninety-two; and impo-
fing certain Dutics on the Capacity of Stills of a
particular Defcription.
Sec. I. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe
of Reprefentatives of the United
States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That
in respect to stills employed in diftilling spirits,

BE

Option

certain

duties on diftilled

from materials of the growth and produce of refpecting the United States, at any other place than a city, town or village, or at any distillery in a city, town, or village, at which there are one Spirits abolished. or more ftills, which fingly, if only one, or together, if more than one, are of lefs capacity than four hundred gallons, the option and alternative of paying a duty of feven cents for every gallon of fpirits diftilled in fuch ftills, as fecured and allowed by the firft fection of the act, intituled," an act concerning the duties on fpirits diftilled within the United States, paffed on the eighth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, be, and the fame is hereby, declared to be abolished, from and after the thirtieth day of June, ensuing.

Duties

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the option and alternative aforefaid, according the proprietor, or poffeffor of any fuch ftill or to capacity of stills ftills, as are above-mentioned, fhall, and may, established. after the first day of July, enfuing, be charged

with, and fhall pay the following duties, to wit: For a licenfe for the employment of each and every fuch ftill, for and during the term of two weeks, fix cents per gallon, according to the capacity or content of every fuch ftill, including the head thereof: For a licenfe, for and during the term of one month, ten cents per gallon, as aforefaid: For a licenfe, for and during the term of two months, eighteen cents per gallon, as aforefaid: For a license, for and during the term of three months, twenty-four cents per gallon, as aforefaid: For a license, for and during the term of four months, thirty cents per gallon, as aforefaid: For a license, for and during the term of five months, thirtyfix cents per gallon, as aforefaid: And for a

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• Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That the department of the treafury, according to the the treafu. refpective duties of the feveral officers thereof, rer with refhall establish fuch forms and rules of pro- execution ceeding, for and touching the execution of of this act. this act, as fhall be conformable with the pro

vifions thereof.

gard to the

fioners of

execution

provifions

Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That Commifall the restrictions and regulations heretofore the finking established by law for regulating the execu- fund, in the tion of the duties enjoined upon the commif- of this act; fioners of the finking fund, fhall apply to, to be reguand be in as full force for the execution of analogous the analogous duties enjoined by this act, as other if they were herein particularly repeated and acts. re-enacted: And a particular account of all They hall lay before fales of stock, or of loans by them made, fhall Congrefs be laid before Congress, within fourteen days fales of after their meeting next after the making of stock or any fuch loan or fale of stock.

accounts of

loans made.

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may be

Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That in Loans unevery cafe in which power is given by this act to make a loan, it fhall be lawful for fuch made of the loan to be made of the bank of the United bank of U. States, although the fame may exceed the fum of fifty thousand dollars.

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Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That fo much of the act laying duties upon carriages tations of for the conveyance of perfons; and of the certain acts act laying duties on licenfes for felling wines and foreign diftilled fpirituous liquors by retail; and of the act laying certain duties upon fnuff and refined fugar, and of the act laying duties on property fold at auction, as limits the duration of the faid feve. ral acts, be, and the fame is hereby repealed; VOL. III.

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and that all the faid feveral acts be, and the
fame are hereby continued in force until the
first day of March, one thoufand eight hun-
dred and one.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
HENRY TAZEWELL, Prefident of the
Senate pro tempore.

APPROVED, March the third, 1795:

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

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An Act making further Appropriations for the military and naval Establishments, and for the Support of Government.

BE

Sec. 1. DE it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That including the appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars, made for the military establishment for the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-five, by an act of the Additional prefent feffion, there be appropriated for the tions for faid military establishment, a fum not exceed the milita ing one million four hundred and fixty-nine thoufand four hundred and thirty-nine dol lars, and twenty-nine cents; that is to fay: For the pay of the legion of the United States, three hundred and four thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars: For the pay of the corps of artillery, fifty-fix thoufand

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ty estab.

lishment.

eight hundred and fixty-eight dollars: For fubfiftence of the legion and artillery, three hundred and fixty-one thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty cents: For forage and cavalry, thirty-three thousand feven hundred and twenty dollars: For cloathing, one hundred and twenty thoufand four hundred and forty dollars: For equipments for the cavalry, feven thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars: For horfes for the cavalry, twenty-four thoufand dollars: For bounty, five thousand dollars: For the hofpital department, twenty thousand dollars: For the ordnance department, eleven thoufand three hundred and fixty-five dollars and ninety-nine cents: For the Indian department, eighty thousand dollars: For the quartermafter's department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: For contingencies of the war department, thirty thousand dollars : For the defenfive protection of the frontiers, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: For the completion of the fortifications, fifty thousand dollars: For additional pay and bounty to the legion and artillery, pursuant to an act of the prefent feffion, feventy-feven thoufand four hundred and fixty-four dollars.

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Morgan.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for Detach defraying the expense of fix months pay and ment of fubfiftence of a detachment of militia under der general the command of major-general Morgan, purfuant to an act of the prefent feffion, there be appropriated the fum of one hundred thoufand fix hundred and eighty-two dollars; that is to fay For the general staff, four thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars: For major Brooke's battalion, nineteen thoufand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars :

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