when a Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after Director the expiration of fix calendar months from the to publish time when there fhall have been paid into the certain fum treasury by the said director, in cents and half has been paid into cents, a fum not less than fifty thousand dollars, the treafuwhich time shall forthwith be announced by ry. the treasurer in at least two gazettes or newspapers, published at the feat of the government of the United States for the time being, no copper coins or pieces whatsoever, except the faid cents and half cents, fhall pafs current as money, or shall be paid, or offered to be paid or received in payment for any debt, demand, claim, matter or thing whatfoever; and all copper coins or pieces, except the faid cents Penalty for and half cents, which fhall be paid or offered offering to to be paid or received in payment contrary to copper the prohibition aforefaid, fhall be forfeited, coins. and every perfon by whom any of them shall have been fo paid or offered to be paid or received in payment, fhall alfo forfeit the fum of ten dollars, and the faid forfeiture and penalty fhall and may be recovered with costs of fuit for the benefit of any perfon or perfons by whom information of the incurring thereof fhall have been given: JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident pro APPROVED, May eighth, 1792: GEORGE WASHINGTON, pafs other VOL. II. CHAPTER XL. An Act for making Compenfations to the Com- Specific CHAPTER XLI. An Act making certain Appropriations therein Sec. 1. B Specified. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That appropria- there be granted and appropriated the following fums for the following purposes, to wit: For the discharge of a balance to the commiffioners appointed under the act of Congrefs of the fifteenth of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, two thousand seven hundred and eighty feven dollars and eighty eight cents; For additional falary to the first clerk of the commiffioners for fettling accounts between the United States and individual ftates, one hundred and eighty seven dollars and ninety one cents; For defraying the expenfe of ftating and printing certain public accounts, pursuant to the order of the Houfe of Reprefentatives of the thirtieth of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, eight hundred dollars; For discharging the accounts of officers of the courts of the United States, jurors and witneffes, in aid of the fund heretofore appropriated, feventeen thousand dollars; For making good deficiencies in former appropriations, for defraying the expense of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the Specific United States, four thoufand fix hundred and approprianinety five dollars, and fifty nine cents; For tions. difcharging certain accounts against the treafury department, to the end of the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety one, including a fum of fix hundred dollars, for furnifhing the fupervisors of the revenue with fcrew-prefles, feals, and other articles, one thousand nine hundred and fifty five dollars,, and fixty one cents; For a balance due to lieutenant John Freeman of the late Maryland line, on account of fubfiftence for the years one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, forty one dollars and seventy five cents; For compenfations to the clerks of the acting commiffioner of army accounts, and contingencies of his office, one thoufand three hundred and twenty nine dollars and fixteen cents; For additional compenfations to the doorkeepers of the House of Reprefentatives, pursuant to a refolution of the Houfe, of the twenty fourth of March laft, feven hundred dollars; For the discharge of such demands against the United States, not otherwife provided for, as shall have been ascertained and admitted, in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the ufage thereof, to require payment in fpecie, five thousand dollars: All which faid fums, amounting together, to thirty four thousand four hundred aud ninety feven dollars and ninety cents, fhall and may be paid out of the funds following, any, or all of them; namely; the furplufes which may out of what remain of appropriations heretofore made, af- funds payter fatisfying the purposes of fuch appropriations; monies which have been paid into the able. Additional appropriations for adding a nother reg. eftablish ment. 24 treafury, in confequence of balances which have been found due from individuals, relating to tranfactions prior to the prefent government of the United States; the furplus, not heretofore appropriated, of the duties on imports and tonnage, which accrued to the end of the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety one. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That fo much of the aforefaid furplus of the duties on expence of imports and tonnage, which accrued to the end of the year one thoufand feven hundred to military and ninety one, as may be neceffary, fhall be and is hereby appropriated, in addition to the provifion heretofore made, towards defraying the expenfes, which fhall have been incurred in the execution of the act for railing and adding another regiment to the military eftablifhment of the United States, and for making farther provifion for the protection of the frontiers, within the limits of the fum of three hundred and twelve thousand, fix hundred and eighty fix dollars, and twenty cents thereby authorized; and towards reimburfing any fums, which may have been borrowed, or advances of money which may have been obtained for that purpose. For inter foreigu na Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That a courfe with fum of fifty thousand dollars in addition to the tions. provifion heretofore made be appropriated to defray any expense which may be incurred in relation to the intercourfe between the United States and foreign nations, to be paid out of any monies, which may be in the treasury, not otherwife appropriated, and to be applied under the direction of the Prefident of the United States, who, if neceffary, is authorized to borrow, on the credit of the United States, Prefident may bor row 50,000 dols. the faid fum of fifty thousand dollars; an ac JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker RICHARD HENRY LEE, Prefident pro tempore of the Senate. APPROVED, May eighth, 1792: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XLII. An Act refpecting the Government of the Territories of the United States North West and South of the River Ohio. Sec. 1. B Laws of ed, diftri E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congrefs affembled, N. WeftThat the laws of the territory north-weit of ern territory how to the river Ohio, that have been or hereafter be publishmay be enacted by the governor and judges buted, &c. thereof, shall be printed under the direction of the Secretary of State, and two hundred copies thereof, together with ten fets of the laws of the United States, fhall be delivered to the faid governor and judges, to be distributed among the inhabitants for their information, and that a like number of the laws of the United States fhall be delivered to the governor and judges of the territory south-west of the river Ohio. |