PRIVATE ACTS OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS or rua UNITED STATE S, Passed at the _/irst session, which was begun and held at the City of Waslzington, in the District of Columbia, on ]VIondoy, the seventeenth day of October, 1803, and ended on the twenty-seventh day of.March, 1804. Tnoivms Jnrrnnson, President; Anton BURR, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Joniv Bnowiv, President of the Senate pro tempore from the 31st day of October to the 19th day of December, and from the 26th day of January to the 25th day of February, 1804; Jnsss F1zA1~:1tL1N, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 14th day of March; Nacmarsim. Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE 1. CHAP. VII.--An Act for the relief of John Coles. hm 14, 1804. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ofArnerica in Congress assembled, That the proper ac- Demurmge ,,l_ counting officers liquidate and adjust the claim of John Coles, owner of lowed on ship the ship Grand Turk, heretofore employed in the service of the United Grand Tum- States, for the detention of the said ship at Gibraltar, by direction of the American consul at that port, from the tenth day of May to the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and one, inclusive; and that he be allowed demurrage at the rate stipulated in the charter party, together with the interest thereon. Aernovnp, January 14, 1804.
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CHA?. V111.—·—An .t2ct for the relief of Paul Conlon. Jan 26, ]8O4_ Be it enacted, Qc., That there be paid to Paul Coulon, as agent for the captors of the ship Betty Catheart and brig Aaron, prizes to the D,,,,,,,,,,,, $,,1,,,, French privateer La Belloné, out of any moneys in the Treasury not ofprizesreotherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand two hundred and forty- t¤¤d·=d· one dollars and forty-four cents, being the amount retained by the Treasury Department from the sales of the ship Betty Catheart, for duties on the cargo of the brig Aaron. Armxovsp, January 26, 1804. Snrure I. CHAP. X.-An Act to incorporate the Directors tf the Columbian Library Com- Jim, 31 1804 pany. Be it enacted, ¢$~c., That Stephen B. Balch, Joseph Nourse, Charles D. Green, John Craven, Francis Lowndes, junior, and George French, Library com and their successors, duly elected or appointed in manner herein- pany constiafter directed, be, and they are hereby made, declared and constituted a *¤*°d· corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance (51)
