by an act entitled “An act concerning certain fisheries of the United States and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein,” and during the continuance of the said act.
Mode of executing this act.
Ante, p. 145.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels,” shall extend to and be in full force for the collection of the additional duty laid by this act, and generally for the execution thereof, as fully and effectually, as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, provision, clause, matter and thing therein contained had been herein inserted and re-enacted.
Limitation.
Repealed March 3, 1807.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for two years, and from thence unto the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, July 8, 1797.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅥ.—An Act authorizing a Loan of Money.
New loan of $800,000.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby empowered to borrow on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding eight hundred thousand dollars, at an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, reimburseable at the pleasure of the United States, or at such period as may be stipulated by contract not exceeding five years from the time of obtaining the loan, to be applied to such public purposes as are or may be authorized by law,How to be paid. and to be repaid out of the revenues accruing to the end of the present year and such further revenues as have been, or may be provided during the present session of Congress; and it shall be lawful for the Bank of the United States to lend the said sum.
In case of deficiency faith of the United States pledged to make provision for it.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the existing revenues of the United States, together with such further revenues as have been, or may be provided, during the present session, shall be insufficient to discharge and reimburse the said loan, the faith of the United States is hereby pledged to make such further provision therefor, as may be necessary.
Approved, July 8, 1797.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅦ.—An Act making additional appropriations for the support of Government, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list; for the support of lighthouses; for the expenses of foreign intercourse; for certain expenses in relation to the military and naval establishments; and to satisfy certain miscellaneous demands the following sums be respectively appropriated; that is to say,
Specific appropriations.For the compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants estimated for a session of two months, seventy-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents.
For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing work, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For printing the laws of the present session, one thousand and fifty dollars.
For making good the allowance to clerks employed in the Department
