PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS; SSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH CONGRESS, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 1, 1806. ct to suspend the operation of an act, entitled n act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, res, and merchandise," and to remit the penalties urred under the same. it enacted by the Senate and House of Repretives of the United States of America, in ress assembled, That the operation of the passed on the eighteenth day of April last. led "An act to prohibit the importation of in goods, wares, and merchandise," be, and same hereby is, suspended until the first day aly next. c. 2. And be it further enacted, That all pens, fines, and forfeitures, which may have been red by virtue of the provisions of the aforeact, be, and the same hereby are, respectively, tted, on payment, by the parties, by whom penalty, fine, or forfeiture, may have been red, of all costs which have accrued, or may e before notice of this act shall have been ved by the attorneys of the several districts e United States. c. 3. And be it further enacted, That the ident of the United States be, and he is hereuthorized further to suspend the operation of foresaid act, if, in his judgment, the public est should require it: Provided, That such ension shall not extend beyond the second day in December next. NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. proved, December 19, 1806. TH. JEFFERSON. ct making appropriations for the support of the vy of the United States, during the year one usand eight hundred and seven. it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the exes of the Navy of the United States, during rear one thousand eight hundred and seven, ollowing sums be, and the same hereby are, ectively appropriated; that is to say: or the pay and subsistence of the officers, and of the seamen, two hundred and ninety-six sand and forty-eight dollars. | For repairs of vessels, one hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and eight dollars and sixtyseven cents. For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, seventy-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty cents. For clothing for the same, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For military stores for the same, five hundred and sixty dollars. For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For quartermasters' and barrackmasters' stores, officers' travelling expenses, armorers' and carpenters' bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. For the expense of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and laborers, sixty thousand dollars. For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 7, 1807. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the expense of the Military Establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven: For the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively appropriated; that is to say: For the pay of the army of the United States, or provisions, one hundred and twenty thou-three hundred and two thousand nine hundred and eight hundred and fifty dollars and three S. or medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, thousand dollars. 9th CoN. 2d SESS.-40 fifty-two dollars. For forage, four thousand six hundred and eight dollars. For the subsistence of the army and corps of Public Acts of Congress. engineers, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital departments, fifteen thousand dollars. For camp equipage, fuel, tools, and transportation, ninety thousand dollars. For fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, two hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars, five cents. For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments, one thousand five hundred dollars. For contingencies, eighteen thousand dollars. For the payment of such balances as have been ascertained, and which may be ascertained during the years one thousand eight hundred and six and one thousand eight hundred and seven, from actual settlements by the accountant from the War • Department, and which cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriation, eight thousand dollars. For the Indian department, one hundred thousand and six hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 10, 1807. An Act to alter the time of holding the Circuit and October; and at Edenton, in and for the district of Albemarle, on the first Tuesday which shall follow the Friday next after the first Mondays in February, June, and October. And that all actions, suits, writs, process, pleadings, or other proceedings, commenced or to commence, or which shall be now depending in any of the district courts of the district of North Carolina, shall be continued over, and have day in the next district court to be holden in the several districts as hereby established, anything in any former act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, February 4, 1807. An Act for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the Be it enacted, &c., That, instead of the times heretofore established by law, for the sessions of the circuit court for the district of North Carolina, the said courts shall hereafter commence and be holden on the twelfth day of May, and the twelfth day of November, in each year, anything contained in any former act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding. And all actions, suits, process, pleadings, and other proceedings of what nature or kind soever, civil or criminal, commenced or to commence in the said court, and all recognisances returnable to the said court, on the twen- An Act to provide for surveying the coasts of the Unitieth day of June next, shall be continued, returned to, and have day, in the session to be holden by this act, and the same proceedings shall be had thereon as heretofore, and shall have all the effect, power, and virtue, as if the alteration had never been made: Provided, nevertheless, That when the twelfth day of May, or the twelfth day of November shall happen on Sunday, the next succeeding day shall be the first juridical day of the term. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the district courts of the United States for the district of North Carolina, shall, after the passing of this act, commence, and be holden on the following days, instead of the times heretofore established by law; that is to say: at Wilmington, in and for the district of Cape Fear, on the first Mondays in February, June, and October; at Newbern, in and for the district of Pamptico, on the Friday next after the first Mondays in February, June, and ted States. Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause a survey to be taken of the coasts of the United States, in which shall be designated the islands and shoals, with the roads or places of anchorage, within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States; and also the respective courses and distances between the principal capes, or head lands, together with such other matters as he may deem proper for completing an accurate chart of every part of the coasts within the extent aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to cause such examinations and observations to be made, with respect to St. George's bank, and anf other bank or shoal and the soundings and cur rents beyond the distance aforesaid to the G Stream, as in his opinion may be especially sub rocks and shoals in the channel leading into the harbor of Salem, in the State of Massachusetts. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, for the President of the United States shall be, and he is purpose of defraying the expenses which may be hereby authorized and requested, for any of the incurred in the execution of this act, the following purposes aforesaid, to cause proper and intelligent sums shall be, and the same are hereby respectpersons to be employed, and also such of the pub-ively appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys lic vessels in actual service, as he may judge expe- in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated: that dient, and to give such instructions for regulating is to say, for building the light-house on Fair their conduct as to him may appear proper, ac- Weather island, five thousand dollars; for buildcording to the tenor of this act. ing the light-house at Naushawn island, two thousand five hundred dollars; for pulling down, and rebuilding the light-house on Smith's point, six thousand dollars; for rebuilding the light-house on North island, twenty thousand dollars; for fixing buoys and stakes in Winyaw bay, one thousand five hundred dollars; for fixing buoys and beacons in the channel leading to Salem harbor, one thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for carrying this act into effect there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 10, 1807. An Act authorizing the erection of certain light-houses, and the fixing of stakes, buoys and beacons, at certain places therein named. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and I directed to cause a good and sufficient light-house to be built at each of the following places, that is to say; on Fair Weather island, in the State of Connecticut, and at Naushawn island, near Tarpaulin cove, in the State of Massachusetts, at such points as the President of the United States may select for those purposes; and to appoint keepers, and otherwise provide for such light-houses, at the expense of the United States: Provided, That sufficient ground for the accommodation of said light-houses, respectively, can be obtained at a reasonable price: And provided, also, That the Legislatures of the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts, shall cede the jurisdiction over each respectively to the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause the light-house at present established on Smith's point, at the mouth of the river Potomac, to be taken down, and to cause another good and sufficient one to be built at such other spot on the said point, as the President of the United States may select: Provided, That sufficient ground for the accommodation thereof can be obtained at a reasonable price; and provided also, that the Legislature of the State of Virginia shall cede the jurisdiction over he same to the United States. And the Secreary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized and directed to cause the light-house heretofore stablished on North Island, at the entrance into Winyaw bay, in the State of South Carolina, to e rebuilt in such manner as may in his opinion e most likely to secure its future safety. Approved, February 10, 1807. An Act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States." Whereas it is desirable to adapt the nature of the provision for the redemption of the public debt to the present circumstances of the United States, which can only be done by a voluntary subscription on the part of the creditors: Be it enacted, fc., That a subscription to the full amount of the old six per cent. deferred and three per cent. stocks be, and the same is hereby proposed; for which purpose books shall be opened at the Treasury of the United States, and by the several Commissioners of Loans, on the first day of July next, to continue open until the seventeenth day of March next following, inclusively, the fourteen last days of each quarter excepted, for such parts of the abovementioned descriptions of stock as shall, on the day of subscription, stand on the books of the Treasury, and of the several Commissioners of Loans, respectively; which subscription shall be effected by a transfer to the United States, in the manner provided by law for such transfers of the credit or credits standing on the said books, and by a surrender of the certificates of the stock subscribed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the whole or any part of any sum which shall thus be described, in old six per cent. or deferred stock, credits shall be entered to the respective subscribers, and the subscriber or subscribers shall be entitled to a certificate, or certificates, purporting that the United States owe to the holder or holders thereof, his, her, or their assigns, a sum to be expressed therein, equal to the amount of principal of the stock thus subscribed, which shall reSEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the main unredeemed on the day of such subscription, Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, bearing an interest of six per centum per annum, uthorized and directed to cause proper and suffi-payable quarter yearly, from the first day of the ient buoys and stakes to be fixed in, and along le channel in Winyaw bay, leading to the haror of Georgetown, in the State of South Carona: and also, to cause proper and sufficient loys and beacons to be placed on, or near the quarter, during which such subscription shall have been made, transferable in the same manner as is provided by law for the transfers of the stock subscribed, and subject to redemption at the pleasure of the United States: Provided, That Public Acts of Congress. no single certificate shall be issued for an amount respectively, triplicate abstracts of the certificates greater than ten thousand dollars: And provided of stocks subscribed, and of the new certificates further, That no reimbursement shall be made issued by them, during such quarter, in order that except for the whole amount of any such new the proper credits may be entered on the books of certificate, nor till after at least six months previ- the Treasury, and of the Commissioners of Loans, ous public notice of such intended reimbursement. as the case may be, to the holders of such new SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the certificates. And the said agents, before they whole or any part of any sum which shall thus enter upon the execution of their several offices. be subscribed in three per cent. stock, credits shall shall, respectively, take an oath or affirmation for likewise be entered to the respective subscribers; the diligent and faithful execution of their trust, and the subscriber, or subscribers, shall be entitled and shall also become bound with one or more to a certificate, purporting that the United States sureties, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners owe to the holder or holders thereof, his, her, or of the Sinking Fund, or of the Secretary of the their assigns, a sum to be expressed therein, equal Treasury, in the penal sum of twenty thousand to sixty-five per centum of the amount of the dollars, with condition for their good behaviour principal of the stock thus subscribed, bearing an in their said offices. interest of six per centum, per annum, payable SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the quarter yearly, from the first day of the quarter, holders of old six per cent. deferred, or three per during which such subscription shall have been cent. stock, who may become subscribers, as made, and transferable and subject to redemption aforesaid, either in the United States or in Europe, in the same manner, and under the same regula- and who, on the first day of July next, and also tions and restrictions, as the stock created by the on the day of the subscription, shall be resident preceding section of this act: Provided, That no in Europe, may at their option, which must be part of the stock thus created, shall be reimburse-made at the time of subscribing, receive the interable without the assent of the holder or holders of such stock, until after the whole of the eight per cent. and four and a half per cent. stocks, as well as all the six per cent. stock which may be created by virtue of the preceding section, shall have been redeemed. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to appoint an agent in London, and another in Amsterdam, whose duty it shall be to receive subscriptions and transfers, and to issue new certificates in the manner, and at the times above mentioned, and as the officers of the Treasury Department, or the Commissioners of Loans might do; that is to say, the agent in London in favor of such stockholders residing in the dominions of Great Britain, in Europe, and the agent in Amsterdam, in favor of such stockholders, residing in any other part of Europe, as may respectively become subscribers: Provided, That the certificates issued by the said agents shall bear interest only from the first day of the quarter next succeeding that in which the subscription shall have taken place, and that in relation to subscriptions made in old six per cent, or deferred stocks, the sums expressed in such new certificates shall be equal to the amount of the principal of the old six per cent. or deferred stocks thus subscribed, which shall remain unredeemed after payment of the dividend payable on such stock, on that day from which the interest of the new certificates shall commence. The foreign stockholders thus subscribing with either of the said agents shall be entitled to receive the dividend on the old six per cent. deferred, or three per cent. stock subscribed by them, respectively, which shall be payable on that day, from which the interest on the new certificates shall commence. And it shall be the duty of the said agents, respectively, to transmit, before the end of each quarter, to the Register of the Treasury, and to the several Commissioners of Loans, est accruing on the stock created by virtue of the preceding sections of this act, either in the United States as other creditors, or at London, or Amsterdam: that is to say, the stockholders residing, at the times above mentioned, in the dominions of Great Britain, in Europe, at London, and at the rate of four shillings and six pence, sterling, for each dollar; and the stockholders residing, at the times above mentioned, in any other part of Europe, at Amsterdam, and at the rate of two guilders, and a half guilder, current money of Holland, for each dollar; in which last mentioned option the condition shall be expressed in the new certificates to be issued, and the credit, or credits, to be given to the proprietors thereof, shall be entered, and shall thereafter be transferable only on the books of the Treasury: Provided, however, That the interest thus payable in London and Amsterdam, shall not be payable until the expiration of six calendar months from the day on which the same would be payable in the United States, and shall be subject to a deduction of one half of one per cent. on the amount payable, for commission to the bankers paying the same: And provided also, That every proprietor of such stock may, on surrendering his certificate, receive another to the same amount, the interest whereof shall be payable quarter yearly in the United States, in the same manner as that accruing on the stock held by persons residing in the United States. SEC. 6 And be it further enacted, That the same funds which heretofore have been, and now are, pledged, by law, for the payment of the interest, and for the redemption or reimbursement of the stock which may be subscribed by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall remain pledge for the payment of interest accruing on the stock created by reason of such subscription, and fr the redemption or reimbursement of the princip of the same. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to cause to |