court; and any judge of the supreme court of the United States, is authorized to do and perform all the duties, by any law of the United States enjoined upon the said district judge, except as is herein after provided; the fees to be the same as in the district court, in all such cases.
Claims to invalid pensions in N. Hampshire transferred to district attorney.
1793, ch. 17.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the duties enjoined the district judges, by the act “to regulate the claims to invalid pensions,” be, and the same are hereby transferred, as far as relates to the district of New Hampshire, to the attorney of the said district, whose duty it shall be to perform the same.
Limitation of this act.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force until the end of the next session of Congress, or until a new district judge be appointed in that district, and no longer.
Approved, April 3, 1794.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅦ.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States in certain cases to alter the place for holding a session of Congress.
President of United States in certain cases authorized to alter place for holding a session of Congress.
1799, ch. 12.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the Congress shall be about to convene, and, from the prevalence of contagious sickness, or the existence of other circumstances, it would, in the opinion of the President of the United States, be hazardous to the lives or health of the members to meet at the place to which the Congress shall then stand adjourned, or at which it shall be next by law to meet, the President shall be, and he hereby is authorized, by proclamation, to convene the Congress at such other place as he may judge proper.
Approved, April 3, 1794.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. ⅩⅧ.—An Act to provide for placing buoys on certain rocks off the harbor of New London, and in Providence river, and other places.
Secretary of Treasury to place buoys off certain harbors.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to cause to be placed buoys on the rocks called Black Ledge, or Southwest Ledge, Goshen Reef, Bartlet’s Reef, and Race Rock, off the harbor of New London, in the state of Connecticut, at an expense, not to exceed the sum of twelve hundred dollars; and to cause to be erected a beacon, and to be placed two buoys in the harbor of Portsmouth, in the state of New Hampshire, at an expense, not to exceed the sum of three hundred dollars: And likewise, to cause to be placed in Providence river, in the state of Rhode Island, and in Savannah river, in the state of Georgia, and at the mouth of the same, buoys, not exceeding ten in number, for each river, and at an expense, not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, for each; the same to be placed in such parts of the said rivers, as he may judge most advantageous for the navigation thereof, respectively.
Appropriation therefor.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated and paid out of the monies arising from the duties on imports and tonnage, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for the purpose aforesaid.
Approved, April 5, 1794.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅩⅠ.—An Act limiting the Time for presenting Claims for destroyed Certificates of certain Descriptions.
