Allowance of expenfes priations as may be affigned for the payment of the other falaries mentioned in the above recited act.. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in removing there be allowed to the clerks employed in from New- the feveral offices attached to the feat of York to Philadelphia, to clerks em offices; go vernment, in addition to their respective falaries, their reasonable and neceffary expences ployed in incurred by the removal of Congrefs from the the feveral city of New-York, to the city of Philadelphia. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That and of 400 there be allowed to the affiftant fecretary of year to af- the treasury, in addition to his falary for one cretary of year, commencing with the paffing of this act, the treafu- four hundred dollars, to be paid in the fame manner as his falary. dollars fori fiftant fe ry. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United 4 APPROVED, March the third, 1791: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXI. An Act for making Compenfations to the Commif fioners of Loans, for extraordinary Expenses. (EXPIRED.) CHAPTER XXII. An Act providing Compenfations for the Officers of the Judicial Courts of the United States, and for Jurors and Witneffes, and for other Purpofes. (REPEALED.) CHAPTER XXIII. An Act to continue in Force for a limited Time, CHAPTER XXIV. An Act to continue in Force the Act therein mentioned, and to make further Provifion for the Payment of Penfions to Invalids, and for the Support of Light-Houfes, Beacons, Buoys, and public Piers. B Sec. 1. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That the act, entitled, "An act to provide Act for mifor mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and tigating or penalties accruing under the revenue laws in forfeitures, certain cafes therein mentioned," fhall be and &c. contiis hereby continued in force until the end of the next feffion of Congrefs, and no longer. VOL. I. X 2 remitting nued. invalids for Penfions to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the 1 year to be yearly penfions which have been allowed by or paid out of in pursuance of any act or law of the United treafury. States, to perfons who were wounded and difabled during the late war, fhall for the space of one year from the fourth day of March next, be paid out of the treasury of the United States, under fuch regulations as the Prefident of the United States may direct. Expenfes from Ift July next of all light houles, &c. to be de frayed by U. States till July 1792. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all expenfes which shall accrue from the first day of July next, inclufively for the necessary fupport, maintenance and repairs of all lighthoufes, beacons, buoys, and public piers, fhall continue to be defrayed by the United States, until the first day of July, in the year one thoufand seven hundred and ninety-two, notwithftanding fuch light-houses, beacons, buoys, or public piers, with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging, and the jurisdiction of the fame, fhall not in the mean time be ceded to or vested in the United States, by the ftate or ftates refpectively, in which the fame may be, and that the faid time be further allowed to the states respectively, to make fuch ceffion. the Prefi- Provided, That nothing in the faid act fhall dent to par- be construed to limit or reftrain the power of the Prefident of the United States, to grant pardons for offences against the United States. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, March the third, 1791: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Power to don offen ces not reftrained. Prefident of the United States: CHAPTER XXV. An Act fupplementory to the Act, making Provifion for the Reduction of the Public Ďebt. WE HEREAS it hath been made known 3,000,000 to Congress that the Prefident of the United States, in confequence of "An act making provifion for the reduction of the public debt," hath caufed a certain loan to be Loan in made in Holland, on account of the United Holland of States, to the amount of three millions of flo- florins, at 5 rins, bearing an intereft of five per centum per per cent. annum, and reimburfable in fix yearly inítalments, commencing in the year one thousand eight hundred, and ending in the year one thoufand eight hundred and fix, or at any time fooner, in whole or in part, at the option of the United States. per annum, are 4 & 1-2 And whereas it hath been alfo ftated to whereon Congress, that the charges upon the faid loan the charges have amounted to four and a half per centum, per cent. whereby a doubt hath arisen, whether the faid loan be within the meaning of the faid laft mentioned act, which limits the rate of intereft to five per centum per annum ; And whereas it is expedient that the faid doubt be removed; declared to BE it enacted and declared by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress, That the loan aforefaid be within fhall be deemed and conftrued to be within the mean. ing of the the true intent and meaning of the faid act, act proviintituled "An act making provifion for the ding for the reduction of the public debt," and that any of the pubfarther loan, to the extent of the principal fum lic debt, & authorized to be borrowed by the faid act, the loans on the intereft whereof fhall be five per centum per reduction allo further like terms annum, and the charges whereof fhall not exe ceed the faid rate of four and a half per centum, fhall, in like manner, be deemed and conftrued to be within the true intent and meaning of the faid act. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, March the third, 1791 : Prefident of the United States, CHAPTER XXVI. An Act making farther Provifion for the Collection of the Duties by Law impofed on Teas, and to prolong the Term for the Payment of the Duties on Wincs. WHE HEREAS it is conceived that the following regulations concerning teas may be conducive both to the accommodation of the importers thereof, and to the fecurity of the revenue; Section 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That in addition to the provifions contained in the fortieth and forty-firft fections of the act, intituled, "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties impofed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into |