ACTS OF THE NINTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, 1806, and ended on the third day of March, 1807.
Thomas Jefferson, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; Samuel Smith, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 3d of March, 1807; Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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[Obsolete.]
Chapter I.—An Act to suspend the operation of an act, intituled “An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise,” and to remit the penalties incurred under the same.
Operation of a former act suspended.
Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the act, passed on the eighteenth day of April last, intituled “An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise,” be, and the same hereby is suspended until the first day of July next.
Remission of certain penalties.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all penalties, fines and forfeitures, which may have been incurred by virtue of the provisions of the aforesaid act, be, and the same hereby are, respectively, remitted, on payment, by the parties, by whom such penalty, fine or forfeiture may have been incurred, of all costs which have accrued, or may accrue before notice of this act shall have been received by the attornies of the several districts of the United States.
Further suspension.
Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized further to suspend the operation of the aforesaid act, if in his judgment the public interest should require it: Provided, that such suspension shall not extend beyond the second Monday in December next.
Approved, December 19, 1806.
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[Obsolete.]
Chap. II.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay and subsistence of the officers and pay of the seamen, two hundred and ninety-six thousand and forty-eight dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars and three cents.
For medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, five thousand dollars.
