How beer, fhe, for fuch omiffion or neglect, fhall forfeit and pay the value of the wine omitted to be entered, to be recovered with costs of fuit, for the benefit of any person who shall give information thereof, and the wines fo omitted to be entered, fhall be forfeited. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That from &c. shall be and after the laft day of December next, no brought in. to U. States, beer, ale, or porter fhall be brought into the United States, from any foreign port or place, except in cafks or in casks or vessels, the capacity whereof fhall not be lefs than forty gallons, or in packages containing not lefs than fix dozen of bottles, on pain of forfeiture of the faid beer, ale or porter, and of the fhip or veffel, in which the fame fhall be brought. Duties aforefaid how long to be col leted. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the feveral and refpective duties aforefaid, except that mentioned in the fourth fection of this act, fhall continue to be levied, collected and paid, until the debts and purposes, to and for which the duties, hereby directed to cease after the laft day of June next, were pledged and appropriated, fhall have been fully paid and fatisfied; and that fo much thereof, as may be neceffary, fhall be, and are hereby pledged and appropri ated, in the fame manner, for the fame purpo fes, and with the fame force and effect, as thofe, which are hereby directed to ceafe after the faid last day of June next, and that so much of the refidue thereof, as may be neceffary, fhall be, and are hereby appropriated for making good deficiencies in any funds, which may have been defignated for fatisfying grants and ap propriations heretofore made. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the additional duty of two and an half per centum of ad valo ad valorem, fpecified in the fourth fection of Limitation this act, fhall continue for the term of two rem duties years, from the commencement thereof, and fpecified in no longer. 4th fcation, Appropri furplus du Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That the fum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ation of out of the furplus of the duties, which accrued tic to the end of the year one thousand feven hun- ! dred and ninety one, and a farther fum of five hundred and twenty-three thoufand five hun dred dollars, out of the furplus of the duties hereby established as the fame fhall accrue, making together the fum of fix hundred and feventy-three thousand five hundred dollars, fhall be, and are hereby appropriated and ap plied, in addition to any former appropriation for the military establishment of the United States, towards carrying into execution the act, intituled, "An act for making farther and more effectual provifion for the protection of the frontiers of the United States."A Prefident of U. States to take on loan from the bank, Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That the Prefident of the United States be empowered to take on loan, on account of the United States, from the prefident, directors and com- &c. a cer pany of the bank of the United States, who are tain fum of hereby authorized and empowered to lend the money. fame, from any other body politic or corporate within the United States, or from any other perfon or perfons, the whole or any part of the aforefaid fum of five hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars, to be applied to the purpose, to and for which the fame is above appropriated, and to be reimbursed out of the aforefaid furplus of the duties by this act impofed, which furplus is, accordingly, appropriated to the faid reimbursement. Provi Rate of li vre tour-. nois of tered. ded, That the rate of intereft of fuch loans fhall not exceed five per centum per annum, and that the principal thereof may be reimbursed at the pleasure of the United States. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That fo much of the act, intituled "An act to provide France al more effectually for the collection of duties impofed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of fhips or veffels," as hath rated the livre tournois of France at eighteen and an half cents, be and the fame is hereby repealed. Mode of in cafes of Sec. 18. And be it enacted and declared, That procedure if the principal, in any bond which fhall be infolvency given to the United States, for duties on goods, of principal wares, and merchandize imported, fhall be in in bonds, &e. folvent, or if fuch principal being dead, his or her estate and effects, which shall have come to the hands of his or her executors or administrators, fhall be infufficient for the payment of his or her debts, and if, in either of the faid cafes, any furety in the faid bond, or the executors and adminiftrators of fuch furety, fhall pay to the United States the monies thereupon due, fuch furety, his or her executors or adminiftrators fhall have and enjoy the like advantage, priority and preference, for the recovery and receipt of the faid monies out of the eftate and effects of fuch infolvent or deceased principal, as are referved and fecured to the United States, by the forty fourth fection of the act, intituled "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of duties "impo"fed by law on goods, wares, and merchan"dize imported into the United States, and on "the tonnage of fhips or veffels," and fhall and may bring and maintain a fuit upon the faid bond, in law or equity, in his, her or their own name or names, for the recovery of the monies which fhall have been paid thereupon. And it is further declared, That the cafes of infolvency in the faid forty fourth fection mentioned, fhall be deemed to extend, as well to cafes in which a debtor, not having fufficient property to pay all his or her debts, fhall have made a voluntary affignment thereof, for the benefit of his or her creditors, or in which the eftate and effects of an abfconding, concealed or absent debtor fhall have been attached by procefs of law, as to cafes, in which an act of legal bankruptcy fhall have been committed. of U. States try and de Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That the Prefident Prefident of the United States be, and hereby to appoint is authorized to appoint fuch place within the port of endiftrict of Vermont to be the port of entry and livery in delivery within the faid diftrict, as he may deem Vermont expedient, any thing in the act, intituled “ An act giving effect to the laws of the United States within the state of Vermont," to the contrary notwithstanding. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker RICHARD HENRY LEE, President pro APPROVED, May second, 1792: GEORGE WASHINGTON, L CHAPTER XXVIII. An Act to provide for calling forth the Militia CHAPTER XXIX. An Act for the Relief of Perfons imprisoned CHAPTER XXX. An Act authorizing the Grant and Conveyance of certain Lands to John Cleves Symmes, and his Affociates. B Sec. 1. DE it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the Prefident United States of America in Congress affembled, authorized That the Prefident of the United States be to grant a certain and he hereby is authorized and empowered number of to iffue letters patent in the name and under acres to J. C. Symmes, the feal of the United States, thereby granting on certain and conveying to John Cleves Symmes and his affociates, and to their heirs and affigns, in fee fimple, fuch number of acres of land as the payments already made by the faid John Cleves Symmes, his agents or affociates, under their contract of the fifteenth day of October one thousand feven hundred and eighty eight, will pay for, eftimating the lands at two thirds of 'conditions. |