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Specific appropriations.

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act of Congress passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars:

For payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, for their pensions from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, ninety-three thousand dollars :

For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and for occasional improvement in the construction of lanthorns and lamps, and materials used therein, and other contingent expenses, including commissions to the superintendants of the said light-houses, at two and a half per centum, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-one dollars, and forty-four

cents:

For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars:

For defraying the contingent expenses of government, twenty thousand dollars:

For defraying the expenses of taking the second enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that object, twenty thousand dollars :

tions.

For defraying the expenses incident to Specific the purchase or erection of certain ware- appropria houses and stores for the reception of goods, wares and merchandise, under the "Act respecting quarantine and health laws," passed the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, sixtynine thousand and twenty-six dollars, and twelve cents:

For the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, sixty-four thousand and fifty dollars:

For the salaries of the Commissioners under the seventh article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States and Great Britain, including contingent expenses, twenty-four thousand and sixty-six dollars, and sixty-seven

cents:

For salaries of the Agents of the United States, in London and Paris, expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, twenty-nine thousand dollars :

For the salary of an Agent in London for the relief and protection of American seamen, and contingent expenses to be incurred therein; and for. relieving seamen elsewhere, fifteen thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars reserved by the act "making provision for the debt of the United States," and out of

any money which may be in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

NATHL. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.
APPROVED, MAY 1, 1802.

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

AN ACT further to
certain Post Roads;
secure carriage of the
States.

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alter and establish and for the more mail of the United

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Post-roads the following post-roads be discontinued: From Pelham, to Nottingham West, in New-Hampshire ;

discontinu

ed.

From Hanover, to Scituate, in Massachu

setts;

From Bridgewater to Taunton;

From New York to Saggharbour, in the state of New-York;

From Schenectady to Sandy Hill;

From Salem to Bridgetown, in New-Jer

sey;

From Lumberton, by Elizabethtown, to Andersonville in North Carolina;

From Rockford, by Scull Camp, to Grayson court-house;

From Amelia court-house, by Pridesville, to Paynsville in Virginia;

From Washington to Cincinnati;

From Franklin court-house, to Jackson court-house, in Georgia;

From Goldson's, by Geesbridge, St. Tammany's, Mecklenburgh court-house, Marshall's store, Christian's store, Lunenburg court-house and Edmund's store, to Goldson's.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That New postthe following post-roads be established:

In Maine.

From Dennysville to Eastport;

From Machias, by Dennysville, to Scodiac.

In New-Hampshire.

From Pelham, by Windham, to Londonderry ;

From Haverhill, by Bath and Littleton, to Lancaster.

In Massachusetts.

From Boston, by Easton, to Taunton;
From Hingham, by Cohasset, to Scitu-

ate;

From Springfield, by South Hadley, to Northampton;

From Salem, by Topsfield, to Haverhill.

In Vermont.

From Middlebury, by New-Haven, Moncton, Hinesburg, Williston, Jericho, Essex, Westford, Fairfax and Sheldon, to Huntsburg; to return from Huntsburg by Berkshire, Enosburg, Bakersfield, Cambridge,

roads established.

roads established.

New post- Underhill, Jericho, Richmond, Huntington, Starksboro' and Bristol, to Middlebury; From Danville, by St. Johnsbury, through Barnet, to return to Ryegate.

In Connecticut.

From Hartford, by Coventry, Windham and Canterbury, to Plainfield;

From Middletown, by Haddam, to Saybrook ;

From New-Haven, by Woodbridge, Waterbury and Watertown, to Litchfield; From Norwich, by Lisbon, Canterbury, and Brooklyn, to Pomfret.

In New-York.

From New-York, by Brooklyn, Jamaica, Hampstead, Merrick, Oysterbay South, Huntington South, Islip, Patchauge FirePlace, Moriches, West Hampton, Southampton and Bridgehampton, to Saggharbor;

From Hampstead, by Huntington, Smithtown, Brookhaven, and Riverhead, to Southhold;

From Newtown, in the county of Tioga, by Catharinetown, to Geneva;

From Schenectady to Ballstown Springs, Milton, Saratoga Springs, Greenfield, Hadley, Galloway, Charleton, and again to Schenectady;

From Sandy Hill to Fort George, and through the towns of Thermon and Jay, to Plattsburg, and thence to the northern line of said state.

In New-Jersey.

From Woodbury, by Bridgetown, Milville, Port Elizabeth, and Cape May courthouse, to Cape Island;

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