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be in force until the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, and no longer.

Approved, January 17, 1800.

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Feb. 11, 1800.

Chap. VI.An Act to repeal part of an act, intituled “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned, and to continue in force the residue of the same.”[1]

Vol. i, 506.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth section of an act intituled “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned,” passed on the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the residue of the said act shall be, and the same is hereby continued in full force without limitation of time.

Approved, February 11, 1800.

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Feb. 11, 1800.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. VIII.An Act giving further time to the holders of Military Warrants, to register, and locate the same.

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 shall, for the space of fourteen days1796, ch. 46. after the expiration of the nine months heretofore allowed for that purpose, by the act, intituled “An act regulating the grants of land, appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen,” register warrants for military services in the form and manner as is prescribed by the said recited act; and the priority of location of said warrants, and the warrants registered under the said recited act shall be determined by lot, immediately after the expiration of the said fourteen days, and a day for the location shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in a public notice given in one of the gazettes in the city of Philadelphia.

Approved, February 11, 1800.

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Feb. 20, 1800.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. IX.An Act to suspend in part, an act, intituled “An act to augment the Army of the United States; and for other purposes.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all further enlistments under the second section of an act, intituled “An act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes,”Vol. i, 604. shall be suspended until the further order of Congress, unless in the recess of Congress, and during the continuance of the existing differences between the United States and the French Republic, war shall break out between the United States and the French Republic, or imminent danger of invasion of their territory by the said Republic, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, be discovered to exist.

Approved, February 20, 1800.

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Feb. 27, 1800.
[Expired.]

Chap. X.An Act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof.[2]

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all com-