ing to the

state to be

ditors.

within two years from the paffing of this act, Certain transfers fhall and may be authorized, of fo flock stand much of the ftock ftanding to the credit of credit of a any state, pursuant to the report of the com- transferred, miffioners for fettling accounts between the to its creUnited States and individual ftates, and the act paffed thereon, intitled, " An act making provision for the payment of the intereft on the balances due to certain ftates, upon a final fettlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual ftates," to creditors. of fuch ftate, who were fuch, prior to the first day of July, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-three, as may be neceffary to fatisfy their refpective demands: Provided, That no Provifa. fuch transfer fhall be made but with the confent of the faid ftate and its creditors.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, January the second, 1795 : GEORGE WASHINGTON,

Prefident of the United States.

Certain inftalments of debt how to be paid.

CHAPTER LXXVI.

An Act providing for the Payment of certain Inftalments of foreign Debts; and of the third Inftalment due on a Loan made of the Bank of the United States.

E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Re

rica, in Congrefs affembled, That the Prefident of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to caufe any inftalments of the foreign debts, which may fall due in the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-five, and alfo the third instalment due on a loan made of the bank of the United States, in purfuance of the eleventh fection of the act for incorporating the fubfcribers to the faid bank, to be paid out of the proceeds of any foreign loans heretofore made. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, January the eighth, 1795:

CHAPTER LXXVII.

An Act for reviving certain Suits and Process which have been difcontinued in the District Court of Pennsylvania.

BE

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of Ame rica, in Congress affembled, That all fuits and

vived in

procefs which were pending in the district Certain
court of Pennsylvania, which, by law, ought fuits and
to have been holden on the third Monday of process re-
November laft, and which were difcontinued the district
by the failure to hold the fame; and all fuits court of
Pennfylva-
and process which were commenced for the nia.
faid court, or returnable thereto; and also all
fuits and process, which were pending in any
fpecial court of the faid district, and difconti-
nued by failure to hold the adjournment there-
of, on the day appointed, at any time fince
the last day of July last, be, and they are here-
by revived; and hereby day is given to all
the fuits and procefs aforefaid, in the district
court next by law to be holden in the fame
district; and the fame proceedings may be
had at the fame laft-mentioned court, in all
the fuits and procefs aforefaid, as by law might
have been had at the courts, refpectively, in
which the fame were pending, or to which the
fame were returnable.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, January the 28th, 1795:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER LXXVIII.

An Act further extending the Time for receiving on Loan the domeftic Debt of the United States.

CHAPTER LXXIX.

An Act for the Remiffion of the Tonnage-Duties
on certain French Veffels.
(PRIVATE.)

CHAPTER LXXX.

An Act to authorize the Settlement of the Claim
of Samuel Prioleau.
(PRIVATE.)

CHAPTER LXXXI.

An Act for the Relief of Epaphras Jones and

others.
(PRIVATE.)

New duty placed on specific articles.

CHAPTER LXXXII.

An Act fupplementary to the feveral Acts impofing Duties on Goods, Wares and Merchandize imported into the United States.

W

THEREAS difficulties have arifen in afcertaining the duties on certain articles imported into the United States, and further provifions for fecuring the collection of the impoft-duties, are found neceffary;

Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of Ame rica, in Congress affembled, That in lieu of the prefent duties, there fhall be levied, collected and paid, upon all printing-types, which, after

the last day of March next, fhall be imported into the United States, in fhips or veffels of the United States, at the rate of ten per cent. and upon all girandoles, at the rate of twenty per cent. ad valorem; that, after the faid laft day of March next, the prefent duties payable upon clayed fugars, fhall ceafe, and there fhall be paid upon all white clayed or white powdered fugars, three cents per pound, and upon all other clayed or powdered fugars, one and a half cent per pound; upon Malaga wine, twenty cents; upon burgundy and champaign, forty cents per gallon.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That af ter the faid laft day of March, teas, common- Duty on ly called imperial, gunpowder or gomee, fhall tea.

pay the fame duties as hyfon teas: and where Part of an any entire article is, by any law of the Uni- article to ted States, made fubject to the payment of pay proporduties, the parts thereof, when imported fepa- the whole. rately, shall be subject to the payment of the fame rate of duties.

tionably to

val. to be

at

the place

of exportation.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That af- Duties ad ter the faid last day of March, the valuation eftimated of all goods, wares and merchandize fubject to the payment of duties ad valorem, fhall be made upon the actual coft at the place of exportation, including all charges (commiffions, out-fide packages and infurance only excepted) that the duty on any wines imported into the United States fhall not be lefs than ten cents per gallon, and that bottles, in which any liquor is imported, fhall be fubject to the payment of the like duty as empty bottles.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the duties upon all goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, after the faid