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issued, or may hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms, as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to those terms to which they are severally changed by this act.

Approved, February 10, 1820.

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Feb. 10, 1820.

Chap. X.An Act making appropriations to supply the deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the completion of the repairs of the north and south wings of the Capitol, for finishing the President’s house, and the erection of two new executive offices.

Appropriations for supplying deficiencies of former appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of supplying the deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for completing the repairs of the north and south wings of the Capitol, for finishing the President’s house, and the erection of two new executive offices, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, that is to say:

North and south wings of Capitol.For completing the repairs of the north and south wings of the Capitol, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars.

President’s house.For finishing the President’s house, the sum of thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-six cents.

Two new executive offices.For erecting two new executive offices, the sum of eleven thousand and fifteen dollars and seventy-one cents.

Out of moneys in the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said several sums be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 10, 1820.

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Feb. 10, 1820.

Chap. XI.An Act to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign commerce of the United States.

The register of the treasury to prepare statistical accounts of the commerce of the United States.
To be laid before Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the register of the treasury shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, annually prepare statistical accounts of the commerce of the United States with foreign countries, for each preceding year; which accounts shall be laid before Congress, by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday in December in every year, or as soon after as possible.

Of goods, &c. exported.
Of goods, &c. imported.
Of all navigation employed in foreign trade.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such accounts shall comprehend and state all goods, wares, and merchandise, exported from the United States to other countries; all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States from other countries; and all navigation employed in the foreign trade of the United States; which facts shall be stated according to the principles, and in the manner, hereby directed.

Principles and manner of stating the exports and imports.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the kinds, quantities, and values, of all articles, exported, and the kinds, quantities, and values, of all articles imported, shall be distinctly stated in such accounts; except in cases in which it may appear to the Secretary of the Treasury that separate statements of the species, quantities, or values, of any particular articles, would swell the annual statements without utility; and, in such cases, the kinds and total values of such articles shall be stated together, or in such classes as the Secretary of the Treasury may think fit.

Exports, &c. to and from each country, and values, to be stated.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the exports shall be so stated as to show the exports to each foreign country, and their values; and that the imports shall be so stated, as to show the imports from each foreign country, and their values.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the exports shall be so stated,