On hats, caps, and bonnets of every fort, On groceries, to wit; cinnamon, cloves, On all marble, flate, or other stone, on bricks, tiles, tables, mortars, and other ftone, and generally, on all glafs, except window glafs, and on all stone and earthen ware, On cabinet wares, and all manufactures of wood, or of which wood is the material of chief value, On all manufactures of cotton or linen, or of muflins; of cotton and linen, or of which cotton or linen, is the material of chief value, being printed, ftained or coloured, Five per cent. ad valorem. On carriages, and parts of carriages, four and a half per cent. ad valorem. Sec, 2. And be it further enacted, That af Additional duties on certain articles imported in veffels of U. S. after 30th June. duties on certain ar ticles im ported in veffels of half Additional ter the faid laft day of June inftant, there shall be laid, levied and collected, in addition to the prefent duty thereupon, a duty of two and a per cent. ad valorem, upon all goods, U. S. after wares and merchandize, which, if imported 30th June. in fhips or veffels of the United States, are now chargeable, by law, with a duty of feven and a half per cent. ad valorem. 4th fection act on tinued to ary, 1797. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the of certain fourth fection of the act, intitled, "An act for raising a further fum of money for the proift Janu- tection of the frontiers, and for other purposes therein mentioned," whereby an additional duty of two and a half per cent. ad valorem, was laid upon certain goods, wares, and merchandize, be, and the fame is hereby continued in force, until the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-feven. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That an addition of ten per centum, fhall be made, to brought in the feveral rates of duties, above specified and foreign vef- impofed, in refpect to all goods, wares and merchandize, which, after the faid last day of June inftant, fhall be imported in fhips or veffels, not of the United States. Additional duty on faid articles fels. When du ties on goods, wares, &c. surned. Sec. 5. And be it further enacled, That all duties, which fhall be paid, or fecured to be paid, by virtue of this act, fhall be returned fhall be re- or difcharged, in respect to all fuch goods, wares or merchandize, whereupon they fhall have been fo paid, or fecured to be paid as within twelve calender months after payment made or fecurity given, fhall be exported to any foreign port or place, except one per cenExcept one tum on the amount of the said duties, which per cent. fhall be retained, as an indemnification for whatever expense may have accrued concerning the fame. Certain act tion of du this. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the act, intitled, “An act to provide more effec- in force as tually for the collection of the duties impofed to collecby law on goods, wares and merchandize im- ties under ported into the United States, and on the tonnage of fhips or veffels," fhall extend to, and be in full force for the collection of the duties specified and laid in and by this act, and generally, for the execution thereof, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, restriction, penalty, provifion, claufe, matter and thing, therein contained, had been herein inferted and re-enacted. fect certain Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That no- This a thing in this act fball be conftrued to extend not to afto, or affect the act, intitled, "An act pro- other act. hibiting, for a limited time, the exportation of arms and ammunition, and encouraging the importation of the fame." Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force until the first day of January, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-feven, and no longer. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. RALPH IZARD, Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, June the feventh, 1794: An Act allowing an additional Compenfation to the principal Clerks in the Department of State, and the Treafury and War-Departments, for the Year one thousand feven bundred and ninety-four. (EXPIRED.) Limitation of this aft. CHAPTER LVI. An Act to make Provifion for the Widow and Secretary at War to place certain perfons on penfion bit. B CHAPTER LVII. An Act concerning Invalids. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That the Secretary of the war department be, and he is hereby directed to place upon the list of invalid penfioners of the United States, all perfons who have been returned as fuch by the judges of the feveral diftricts, under the act of Congrefs of the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-three, intitled, "An act to regulate the claims to invalid penfions, and who by legal proofs, are by him found to come clearly within the provisions of the faid act, and are reported as having compleat evidence of their claims, in the report of the faid Secretary upon that fubject, made to Congress the twenty-fifth day of April, one How paid. thousand feven hundred and ninety-four; and all perfons placed by virtue of this act on the lift of invalid penfioners, fhall receive fuch fums as the returns of the diftrict judges have refpectively fpecified, and be paid, in the fame manner as invalid penfioners are paid, who have been heretofore placed on the lift: Provided, That every commiffioned officer, who fhall, by virtue of this act, be placed on the penfion lift, as entitled to a fum less than a full penfion, fhall receive fuch penfion, only upon compliance with the fame rule refpecting a return of the commutation which he may have received, as is provided for in the cafe of captain David Cook, by an act of Congress paffed December the fixteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. RALPH IZARD, Prefident of the Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, June the feventh, 1794: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER LVIII. An Act fupplementary to the Act, intitled, " An Suits, &c. revived. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of Ameri- had under ea, in Congress affembled, That all fuits, actions, certain ast procefs and proceedings, heretofore had in any district-court of the United States, under an act paffed the tenth day of April, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, intitled, "An act to promote the progrefs of useful arts," which may have been fet aside, fufpended or abated, by reafon of the repeal of the faid act, may be restored, at the inftance of the plaintiff or defendant, within one year from and after the paffing of this act, in the VOL. III. P |