exceeding eight thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sum appropriated for public piers in the river Delaware.
On what conditions.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of the President of the United States, to cause to be expended, in repairing and erecting public piers, in the river Delaware, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars; and that the same be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: Provided, that the jurisdiction of the site where any such piers may be erected, shall be first ceded to the United States, according to the conditions in such case by law provided.
Approved, April 6, 1802.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXI.—An Act for the relief of the Marshals of certain districts therein mentioned.
Compensation for taking the census to be apportioned.
1800, ch. 12.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to apportion to the several marshals of the districts of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, respectively, who have been employed or concerned in taking the late census, the compensation allowed by the “Act providing for the second census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” according to the service each may have performed.
Approved, April 14, 1802.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXII.—An Act to authorize an advance of money to Samuel Dexter.
Specific appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to advance out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars to Samuel Dexter, for the purpose of assisting him in defraying the expenses of the suit of Joseph Hodgson against him in the circuit court of the district of Columbia, he, the said Dexter, to be accountable for the same.
Approved, April 14, 1802.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXIII.—An Act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia therein mentioned.
Act relative to the improvement of the Appomatox, assented to.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress is hereby given and declared to an act of the general assembly of Virginia, intituled “An act to amend and reduce into one, the several acts of assembly for improving the navigation of Appomatox river, from Broadway to Pocahontas bridge.”
Approved, April 14, 1802.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXV.—An Act to revive, and continue in force, an act, intituled “An act to augment the salaries of the officers therein mentioned,” passed the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
Former act revived and continued.
March 2, 1799, ch. 38.
For what time.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act, intituled “An act to augment the salaries of the officers therein mentioned,” be, and the same is hereby revived, and continued in force, for and during the term of two years, from the commencement of the present year.
