Jan. 21, 1802. Feb. 3, 1802. The sense entertained by I. RESOLUTION, Authorizing the Secretary of State to furnish the Members of both RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United II. RESOLUTIONS, Expressing the sense of Congress on the gallant conduct of Lieut. Sterret,-the officers and crew of the United States schooner Enterprize. RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Congress of the States of America in Congress assembled, That they entertain a high sense of the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Sterret, and the other officers, seamen and marines, on board the schooner Enterprize, in the capture of a Tripolitan corsair, of fourteen guns and eighty men. gallant conduct of lieutenant Sterret in the capture of a Tripolitan cor. sair. President requested to pre sent a sword to him. An allowance of one month's pay made to the officers &c. Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to present to Lieutenant Sterret, a sword, commemorative of the aforesaid heroic action; and that one month's pay be allowed to all the other officers, seamen and marines, who were on board the Enterprize when the aforesaid action took place. APPROVED, February 3, 1802. ACTS OF THE SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, 1802, and ended on the third day of March, 1803. THOMAS JEFFERSON, President; AARON BURR, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; STEPHEN R. Bradley, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 14th of January, 1803, and from the 3d of March, 1803; NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. CHAP. I.—An Act making a partial appropriation for the Naval Service, during the year one thousand eight hundred and three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated towards defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and three. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sum shall be paid, first, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the same object; and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, January 14, 1803. CHAP. IV.—An Act authorizing the sale of a piece of land, parcel of the Navy Yard belonging to the United States, in Charlestown, in the state of Massachusetts, to the proprietors of the Salem turnpike road and Chelsea bridge corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered, by indenture of bargain and sale, in common form, to convey, in fee simple, to the proprietors of the Salem turnpike and Chelsea bridge corporation, by their proper name of incorporation, a certain piece of land, lying on the western corner, and being parcel of the navy yard belonging to the United States, in Charlestown, in the state of Massachusetts, containing fifteen square perches, or thereabouts, or so much thereof as is required to enable the said proprietors to lay out and make a turnpike road from Salem to Charlestown bridge, near Boston, according to the plan exhibited to Congress by the said proprietors. Jan. 14, 1803. [Obsolete.] STATUTE II. Feb. 10, 1803. Secretary of the Navy au thorized to convey a piece of land to the Salem bridge cor poration. persons and SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the A valuation to said secretary, prior to the making the said conveyance, to cause the be ascertained said piece of land to be valued by disinterested men, to be appointed in by disinterested such manner as he shall agree with the said proprietors; the amount of paid. which said valuation, being paid to the use of the United States, it shall then, and not before, be lawful for the said secretary to make the aforesaid conveyance. APPROVED, February 10, 1803. CHAP. V.-An Act to provide for the granting of Clearances to ships or vessels owned by citizens of the United States, lying in the river Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, and therein to amend an act, intituled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imposts and tonnage," and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, shall be intended to be exported from any of the ports of the United States within the Mississippi, by the way of New Orleans, to any foreign port, the identity of such articles shall be ascertained and certified in the same manner by the proper officers as has been or hereafter may be provided, for the transportation of the same articles to any of the ports of the United States, without the Mississippi. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs for the district of Mississippi, to grant to any ship or vessel owned by citizens of the United States, laden with articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said states, and actually lying in some part of the river Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, a clearance in the same manner as if such ship or vessel was lying within the said district, which clearance shall be of the form following, to wit: "District of Mississippi, to Port of Adams, burthen guns (if any) navigated with master tons or thereabouts, men These are to certify to all whom it doth concern, that or commander of the mounted with built, now lying in the river Mississippi, out of the limits of the United States, and bound for having on board (here specify the articles if required) being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, or (if no specification be required) being laden with articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, hath here cleared his said vessel according to law: Given under my hand and seal, at the custom-house of Fort Adams, this day of one thousand eight hundred and and in the year of the independence of the United States of America." Provided nevertheless, That such clearance shall not be granted until the identity of the articles laden on board such ship or vessel, as being of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, shall be established to the satisfaction of the said collector, either by the exhibition of a certificate to that effect, from the consul, vice-consul, or other authorized agent of the United States, residing at or near New Orleans on the said river or otherwise: And provided also, that before the departure of such ship or vessel for any foreign port or place without the said river, it shall be the duty of the master or commander thereof, to exhibit such clearance to the said consul, vice-consul, or other authorized agent of the United States, who shall certify thereon under his consular seal, if he be satisfied that the state of the cargo at the time of such exhibition correspond therewith, that such is the case; or if the whole or any part thereof shall have been unladen, or otherwise changed, so as not to agree with the tenor of such clearance, he shall accordingly state the same. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the consul, vice-consul, or other authorized agent of the United States, residing at New Orleans, or at such other place or deposit on the banks of the Mississippi, south of the southern boundary of the United States, as may be assigned by virtue of the treaty of San Lorenzo, shall be entitled to receive from the captains or owners of American vessels, two dollars for each certificate he shall sign, certifying that the articles contained in such certificate, are of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States; and he shall also be authorized to employ a proper person to attend to the landing and loading such articles, whose duty therein, and compensation, shall be the same as those of an inspector of customs in one of the ports of the United States, which compensation shall be considered as a charge against the revenue, and defrayed by the collector for the district of Mississippi, out of the monies received by him on account of the duties on tonnage and merchandise. APPROVED, February 19, 1803. STATUTE II. CHAP. VI.-An Act for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Ports Feb. 19, 1803. mouth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who, being indebted to the United States, for duties on merchandise, have given bond therefor, with one or more sureties, payable to the collector for the district of Portsmouth, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at that place, shall be, and they hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, upon giving to the said collector new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up or cancelled as aforesaid; and the said collector is hereby authorized and directed, to give up or cancel, all such bonds upon the receipt of others as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with, in all respects, like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: Provided however, that nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the twenty-sixth day of December last. APPROVED, February 19, 1803. CHAP. VII.-An Act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United WHEREAS, the people of the Eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, did, on the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and two, form for themselves a constitution and state government, and did give to the said state the name of the "State of Ohio," in pursuance of an act of Congress, intituled "An act to enable the people of the Eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes," whereby the said state has become one of the United States of America; in order therefore to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the said state of Ohio: All the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable to be in force there. and executed Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said state of Ohio, as elsewhere within the United States. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said state shall be one district, and be called the Ohio district; and a district court shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold at the seat of government to be held thereVOL. II.-26 Ohio to be one district. District court court, where to be held. in, to consist of of the said state, three sessions annually, the first to commence on the one judge. first Monday in June next, and the two other sessions progressively on Sessions of the the like Monday of every fourth calendar month afterwards, and he shall in all things have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which are by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district: he shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the court at the place of holding the same, and shall receive for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services. Its powers and jurisdiction. Clerk to be appointed. His place of residence, fees, &c. Salary of the judge to be 1000 dollars. 1807, ch. 16. District attor. ney to be ap- compen Marshal to be appointed. His duties and compensation. STATUTE II. Feb. 26, 1803. [Obsolete.] Further ap course. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court, the annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment, to be paid quarter-yearly at the treasury of the United States. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid by the United States, two hundred dollars annually, as a full compensation for all extra services. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a marshal shall be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees as are prescribed to marshals in other districts, and shall moreover be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services. APPROVED, February 19, 1803. CHAP. VIII.-An Act making further provision for the expenses attending the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the propriation for United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum of two foreign intermillions of dollars, in addition to the provision heretofore made, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of defraying any extraordinary expenses which may be incurred in the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, who shall cause an account of the expenditure thereof to be laid before Congress, as soon as may be. President authorized to borrow the money. The terms and time of reim bursement. Surplus of duties on imports and tonnage pledged for the payment of interest and reim bursement of principal. may, SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States if he shall deem it necessary, and he hereby is authorized to borrow the whole, or any part of the said sum, at an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, reimbursable before the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven: and it shall be lawful for the Bank of the United States to lend the whole, or any part of the same. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much as may be necessary of the surplus of the duties on imports and tonnage, beyond the permanent appropriation heretofore charged upon them by law, shall be, and hereby is pledged and appropriated for the payment of the interest, and reimbursement of the principal of all such monies as may be borrowed in pursuance of this act, according to the terms and conditions on which the loan or loans may be effected. APPROVED, February 26, 1803. |