regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine; and such penalties and forfeit ures may be examined, mitigated or remitted, in like manner, and under the like conditions, regulations and restrictions, as are prescribed, authorised and directed by the act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," passed the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and made perpetual by an act passed the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred. of this act. Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until Continuance the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer; and that the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and har. Repeal of the bors of the United States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed from and after the end of the next session of Congress. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO: MILLEDGE, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 1, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. embargo acts. CHAPTER XCII. AN ACT making provision for the further accom modation of the household of the President of the United States. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the third day of March next, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised and empowered, to cause to be sold, such articles furnished by the United States, for the President's household, as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use; and that the proceeds of such sale, and so much of a sum not exceeding four. teen thousand dollars in addition thereto, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as the President of the United States may judge necessary, be, and hereby are appropriated for the accommodation of the household of the President, to be laid out and expended for such articles of furniture as he shall direct. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO: MILLEDGE, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 2, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER XCIII. AN ACT to extend the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States. E it enacted by the Senate and House of allowed for America, in Congress assembled, That every Further time person who hath heretofore purchased any completing of the public lands of the United States, at payments. any of the land offices established for the disposal of the said lands, whether. such purchase was made at public or private sale (sales by virtue of a pre-emption right only excepted) and whose lands have not already been actually sold or reverted to the United States, for non payment of part of the purchase money, and the time for making the last payment on account of such purchase according to former laws, may have expired, or shall expire, on or before the first day of January next, shall be allowed a further term of two years for the payment of the residue of the principal due on account of such purchase; which further term of two years shall be calculated to commence from the expiration of one year from and after the day on which the last payment on account of such purchase should, according to former laws, have become due, and shall be allowed only on the following conditions; that is to say-First, That all the arrears of inter- Condition. est, on the land purchased, to the end of one year from and after the day on which the last payment on account of such purchase should, according to former laws, have become due, shall have been paid at or before the end of such year. Second, That the residue of the sum, due on account of the principal of such purchase, shall be paid with interest thereon, in two equal annual payments, viz. one half of the said residue, with the interest which may then be duc thereon, within one year; and the other half of the said residue, with the interest which may then be due thereon, within two years after the expiration of one year from and after the day on which the last payment on account of such purchase should, according to former laws, have become due. And in case of failure in pay. ing either the arrears of interest on each of the two instalments of principal, with the accruing interest, at the time and times above mentioned, the tract of land shall be forthwith advertised and offered for sale, in the manner and on the terms and conditions now prescribed for the sale of lands purchased from the United States, and not paid for within the limited time; and shall revert, in like manner, to the United States, if the sum due, with interest, be not at such sale bidden and paid. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JNO: MILLEDGE, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 2, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON. 7 CHAPTER XCIV. ÅN ACT further to amend the judicial system of the United States: BE it enacted by the Senate and House of district of America, in Congress assembled, That Circuit court. |