Feb. 27, 1793
Chap. XV.—An Act for repealing the several impost laws of the United States, so far as they may be deemed to impose a duty on useful beasts imported for breed.
Duty on beasts imported for breed, to be repealed.
1799, ch. 22, sec. 94.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several laws of the United States, imposing duties on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, so far as they may be deemed to impose a duty on horses, cattle, sheep, swine or other useful beasts, imported into the United States, for breed, shall be repealed.
Approved, February 27, 1793.
Statute Ⅱ.Feb. 27, 1793
Chap. XVI.—An Act in addition to, and alteration of the Act, entitled “An Act to extend the time limited for settling the Accounts of the United States with the individual States.”
Second sec. of act extending powers of the board of commissioners repealed.
1792, ch. 5.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of the act, entitled “An act to extend the time limited for settling the accounts of the United States with the individual States,” which extended the powers of the board of commissioners to the settlement of the accounts between the United States and the state of Vermont, be and hereby is repealed.
Vermont not to be regarded in apportioning balances,Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the board of commissioners established to settle the accounts between the United States and the individual states, in apportioning the aggregate of all the balances due to each state, between the states, agreeably to the act, entitled “An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual states,”Act of August 5, 1790, ch. 38. shall have no regard to the state of Vermont.
and Kentucky to be included with Virginia.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in the apportioning of the balances aforesaid, the state of Kentucky shall be deemed to be included in the state of Virginia, the admission of the said state of Kentucky as a member of the Union notwithstanding.
Approved, February 27, 1793.
Statute Ⅱ.Feb. 28, 1793
Chap. XVII.—An Act to regulate the Claims to Invalid Pensions.
1792, ch 11.Whereas the act, passed at the last session of Congress, intituled “An act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions,” is found by experience inadequate to prevent the admission of improper claims to invalid pensions, and not to contain a sufficient facility for the allowance of such as may be well founded: Therefore,
Sections of certain former act repealed.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second, third and fourth sections of the said act, be repealed, and that in future, all claims to such pensions shall be regulated in the manner following, to wit:
First.Evidence relative to invalids, how taken.—All evidence relative to Invalids shall be taken upon oath or affirmation, before the judge of the district, in which such invalids reside, or before any three persons specially authorized by commission from the said judge.
Secondly.Evidence.—The evidence relative to any claimant must prove decisive disability to have been the effect of known wounds, received while in the actual line of his duty, in the service of the United States, during the late war. That this evidence must be the affidavits of the commanding officer or surgeon of the ship, regiment, corps or company, in