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Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That Appropriathere fhall be, and hereby are appropriated, burfe certain for the re-imbursement of the merchants of merchants. Plymouth and Duxbury, for monies expended by them in erecting a temporary light on the Gurnet, a fum not exceeding two hundred and feventy dollars; for the rebuilding the light-house on the said Gurnet, a fum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; for the rebuilding of the lighthouse on the eastern end of New-Caftle Ifland a fum not exceeding four thousand dollars; and for the erection of the faid light-house on said Lynde's point, a sum not exceeding two thoufand five hundred dollars; for the erection of the light-house on Cumberland fouth point, a fum not exceeding four thousand dollars; and for taking the furvey, and for erecting light-houses and placing buoys in the found, a fum not exceeding eight thousand dollars to be paid. out of any monies which may be in the treafury, not otherwife appropriated.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be lawful for the fecretary of the treasury, under the direction of the Prefident of the United States, to caufe to be expended, in repairing and erecting public piers, in the river Delaware, a fum not exceeding thirty thoufand dollars; and that the fame be paid out of any monies in the treafury, not otherwife appropriated: Provided, That the jurifdiction of the fite where

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On what con- any fuch piers may be erected, fhall be first ceded to the United States, according to the conditions in fuch case by law provided.

NATHI. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
A. BURR,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefi

dent of the Senate.

APPROVED-APRIL 6, 1802.

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER XXI.

AN ACT for the relief of the marshals of certain diftricts therein mentioned.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the for taking the fecretary of the treafury be, and he hereby cenfus to be is authorifed and directed to apportion to

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the feveral marfhals of the diftrict of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, respectively, who have been employed or concerned in taking the late cenfus, the compenfation allowed by the "Act providing for the fecond cenfus or enumeration of the inha

bitants of the United States," according to the service each may have performed.

NATHL. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A. BURR,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefi-
dent of the Senate.

APPROVED-APRIL 6, 1802.

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER XXII.

AN ACT to authorize an advance of money to Samuel Dexter.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the Specific apfecretary of the treasury be, and he is here- propriation. by authorised and directed to advance out

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any money in the treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, the fum of five hundred dol-
lars to Samuel Dexter, for the purpose of
affifting him in defraying the expenses of
the fuit of Jofeph Hodgson against him in
the circuit court of the diftrict of Colum-
bia, he, the faid Dexter to be accountable
for the fame.

NATHL. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A. BURR,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Pre-
fident of the Senate.

APPROVED APRIL 14, 1802.

TH: JEFFERSON.

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CHAPTER XXIII.

AN ACT declaring the affent of Congress to an act of the General Affembly of Virginia, therein mentioned.

E it enacted by the Senate and House of

BRepresentatives of the United States of

America, in Congress affembled, That the affent 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 feveral acts of affembly for improving the navigation of Appomattox river, from Broad-way to Pocahuntas bridge."

NATHL. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.
A. BURR,

Vice-President of the United States, and Prefi-
dent of the Senate.

APPROVED-APRIL 14, 1802.

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER XXIV.

AN ACT for the relief of Thomas K. Jones.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of Debentures to America, in Congress affembled, That the be iflued to T. collector for the port of Bofton and Charlestown be, and he hereby is authorised to iffue to Thomas K. Jones, the debentures for the drawback of the duties on ten pipes

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of wine imported by faid Jones, in the fhip Juno, captain Thomas Dingley, and exported on the fifteenth day of June laft, in the fhip Enterprize, captain Hearly, for Havanna, on full and fatisfactory proof being made to the faid collector, of the actual quantity of wine in the faid pipes, at the time of their being shipped, as aforefaid: Provided, on what conThat every other requifite fhall have been dition. purfued, agreeably to law, for the obtaining the faid drawback.

NATHL. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

A. BURR, Vice-Prefident of the United States and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED APRIL 14, 1802.

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER XXV.

AN ACT to revive, and continue in force, an act, intituled, "An act to augment the falaries of the officers therein mentioned," paffed the fecond day of March, one thousand feven hundred and ninety

nine.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That an act, intituled "An act to augment the falaries of the officers therein mentioned," be, and the fame is hereby revived, and con

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