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is appropriated for the purpose of paying the interest which shall accrue on the said loan.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expense incident to the investigation of the claims above mentioned, there be appropriated a sum not exceeding eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:Expenses of investigation of claims how provided.
Not to exceed four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, beside secretary and agent’s salaries.
Provided, that the compensation to be made to any of the commissioners appointed, or to be appointed, in pursuance of the above-mentioned convention, shall not exceed the rate of four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars per annum; that the compensation of their secretary shall not exceed the rate of two thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum; and that the compensation of the agent shall not exceed the rate of one thousand dollars per annum.

Approved, November 10, 1803.

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Nov. 16, 1803.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. IV.An Act making an appropriation for carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States and his Britannic Majesty.

Expenses of treaty with Great Britain of 1794, provision for.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is appropriated for the purpose of carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty concluded at London, on the nineteenth day of November, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, between the United States of America and his Britannic Majesty.

Funds how to be provided.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to allow an interest, not exceeding the rate of six per centum per annum, on one third part of the amount of any award made in pursuance of the aforesaid article, and presented at the treasury previous to the passing of this act, to be calculated from the time when such award shall have been presented.

Approved, November 16, 1803.

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Nov. 16, 1803.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. V.An Act to repeal the act, intituled “An act to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act intituled An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”

Act of April 5, 1800, ch. 21.
Drawback on goods shipped to New Orleans abolished.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred, intituled “An act to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act, intituled An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” be, and the same hereby is repealed.

Approved, November 25, 1803.

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Dec. 19, 1803.

Chap. VI.An Act to repeal an act, intituled “An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States.”

Bankrupt act of April 4, 1800, repealed.
Act of April 4, 1800, ch. 19.
What commissions may yet be acted on.
Act of April 29, 1802, sect. 14, ch. 31.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of Congress passed on the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred, intituled “An act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. Provided nevertheless, that the repeal of the said act shall in no wise affect the execution of any commission of bankruptcy which may have been issued prior to the passing of this act, but every such commission may and shall be proceeded on and fully executed as though this act had not passed.

Approved, December 19, 1803.