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Contingencies for same.For contingencies for the same, three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Additional contingencies for the same.For contingencies additional for the same, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Military stores.For military stores for the same, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Medicines, &c.For medicines and hospital stores for the same, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Approved, May 24, 1828.

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May 24, 1828.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. CXVIII.An Act making appropriations for the payment of the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Sums respectively appropriated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the objects following, to wit:

To revolutionary pensioners.For the pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.

Widows, &c.For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, three thousand dollars.

Invalids, &c.For the invalid and half-pay pensioners, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Sums appropriated to be paid from treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Approved, May 24, 1828.

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May 24, 1828.

Chap. CXIX.An Act to authorize the licensing of vessels to be employed in the mackerel fishery.[1]

Duty of collectors after the passage of this act.
Act of Feb. 18, 1793, ch. 8.
Proviso.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the collector of the district to which any vessel may belong, on an application for that purpose by the master or owner thereof, to issue a license for carrying on the mackerel fishery, to such vessel, in the form prescribed by the act, entitled “An act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same,” passed the eighteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three: Provided, That all the provisions of said act, respecting the licensing of ships or vessels for the coasting trade and fisheries, shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to licenses and to vessels licensed for carrying on the mackerel fishery.

Approved, May 24, 1828.

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May 24, 1828.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. CXX.An Act in addition to “An act making an appropriation for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.”

1828, ch. 117.
Sums appropriated.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, viz:


  1. See notes of the acts of Congress in relation to ships and vessels, and persons employed in the fisheries, vol. iii. 49—and notes of the decisions of the Courts of the United States on the acts relating to the fisheries, vol. iii. 49.