Clerks additional allowance to, for the year 1796, iii. 346 --additional allowance to, for the year 1797, 430

ii. 105

of the fupreme, circuit, and diftrict courts, their power and duty, -in the treafury department may not be concerned in trading in the funds, or debts of the United States, or any state, or in any public property,

i. 341

Coin, foreign, rates of, when received for duties, i. 230 -rates at which it shall be a legal tender for debts, ii. 161 when it shall cease to be a tender except Spanish milled dollars,

-domeftic,

Coinage, domeftic, established,

Collection of duties, (See Duties, Collection of.)

162

46

37

Collectors of duties, officers of, established, (See Duties, Collection of.)

i. 262

463

Commiflion under a foreign prince not to be exercised in the United States, by a citizen thereof,

iii. 88 Commiffioner of loans to be appointed in each ftate, to fuperintend the fubfcriptions to the loan of the public debt, to transfer the credits on the public books from time to time, as fhall be requifite; to pay the intereft thereon, as it shall become due, and to obferve fuch directions and regulations, as the Secretary of the Treasury fhall prefcribe, touching the duties of his office,

-Salary of,

i. 151

155

155

-to take oath of office and give bond, Commiffioners' of loans, allowance to fome of them for clerk-hire, and others in lieu thereof, for the year 1796,

iii. 346

-board of, to fettle accounts between the United States and individual States,

-to purchase the debt of the United States,

i. 29. 244

268

268

COMMISSIONERS of the SINKING FUND. The Prefident of the Senate, the Chief Juftice, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treafury, and the Attorney-General, or any three of them, authorized, with the approbation of the Prefident of the United States, to purchase the public debt at a rate not exceeding par, i. 268 Surplus of duties on imports and tonnage to the last day of December, 1789, after satisfying prior appropriations applied to that purpose, Accounts to be fettled in the Treasury, and a report of their proceedings to be laid before Congress, 269 The Prefident of the Senate, the Chief Juftice, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treafury, and the Attorney-General, conftituted a, Board of Commiffioners, with the approbation of the Prefident of the United States, to purchase the public debt; and the intereft of fo much of the public debt, as has been, or fhall be purchased, or paid into the Treasury, and the furplus of monies appropriated to pay the intereft of the public debt appropriated to that purpose, and the commiffioners to render their account to Congrcfs, ii. 117 The intereft of fo much of the debt, as has been, or fhall be purchased or redeemed, or paid into the Treasury in fatisfaction of any debt, and the furplus of appropriations for the payment of the intereft of the public debt, are pledged and appropriated, to conftitute a fund for the purchase and redemption of the public debt, under the direction of the Board of Commiffioners, who are first to purchase as nearly as may be, in equal proportions of the several species of stock, till the annual amount of the funds, with the other provifion made by law, fhall be equal to two per centum of the fix per cent. ftock; then, fecondly, to the redemption of that stock, till the whole fhall be redeemed; and, laftly, to any other ftock unredeemed, till the whole debt fhall be extinguished, 118

119

All purchases to be made within thirty days after the quarterly payment of intereft, in open market, or by fealed proposals, Quarterly accounts to be rendered to the Treafury, and report to be made to Congrefs, within the firft fourteen days of their meeting,

119

Commiffioners of the Sinking Fund.1

208

Commiffioners of the finking fund authorized to borrow
not exceeding a million of dollars in one year, reim-
burfable in a year, in anticipation of the revenue, if ne-
ceffary to pay the intereft on the public debt, iii. 204
Additional appropriations to the sinking fund,
Monies accruing to the finking fund, to be under the di-
rection and management of the commiffioners, and fhall
be appropriated till the whole debt is redeemed,
Reimbursement of the capital of the public debt, both
foreign and domeftic, fhall be under the fuperinten-
dance of the commiffioners, who fhall have power, with
the approbation of the Prefident of the United States,
to borrow the fums requifite for the payment of any in-
ftalments,

210

211

212

They may create stock, and cause it to be fold in the mar-
ket, but not under par,
They fhall pay the fums which may rightfully be paid, on
fix
per cent. stock, bearing a present intereft-fuch fums
as may be due to the bank of the United States-fuch
as maybe rightfully paid on the deferred stock, and to
apply any furplus of the fund, to the purchase of the
public debt, till the whole fhall be redeemed,
213
They may not purchase unfunded debt, at higher rate than
the market price of funded,

214

They are to be directed by analogous provifions in other
acts, and to lay an account of fales of stock, and loans
before Congrefs, within the first fourteen days after this
meeting,
iii. 217
They are authorized to pay the public debt by dividends,

272

353

They may appoint a Secretary, and allow him a salary not
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars per annum,275
They are authorized to borrow, with the approbation of
the Prefident of the United States, five millions of dol-
lars, to pay the debt due to the bank of the United
States, the bank of New-York, or any instalment of the
foreign debt,
They may create certificates of ftock, and caufe them to
be fold in the United States, or elsewhere; but may
not difpofe of more than a moiety under par, and may,
if they judge it most advantageous, fell the bank ftock
of the United States for the payment of faid debts, 354
Commiffioner of the revenue,
ii. 112
Compenfation to the Prefident and Vice-Prefident, ii. 198

Compenfation to the judges and attorney-general, i. 45 -to the attorney-general augmented, iii. 379

to the executive officers of government and clerks,

i. 40. ii. 2431

-to officers of courts, jurors and witneffes, ii. 105

iii. 353

-to commiffioners of loans,

i. 155

-to the postmaster-general and affistant,

iii. 46

to the deputy-poftmafters,

iii. 56. 418

to the officers of the mint,

ii. 38

-to the members of Congress,

iii. 244

246

246

246

to the chaplains of Congrefs,
to the fecretary of the senate,

to the clerk of the House of Reprefentatives,
to the ferjeant-at-arms,

246 Reii. 50 iii. 300

to the doorkeepers of the Senate and House of
prefentatives,

to the furveyor-general,

-to commiffioner of the revenue,

to the accountant of the war department,
-to the superintendant of military ftores,
-to the purveyor of public fupplies,
-to the officers of the revenue,

Comptroller of the Treasury, his duty,

ii. 113. 243 iii. 316

29

175

ii. 167. 392

-convention with France refpecting,

-provifion made by law for executing the convention with France refpecting,

56

their duty in the ports or places for which they are appointed to receive protefts and declarations; from mafters, paffengers, and merchants of the United States and foreigners, relative to the intereft of citizens of the United States,

57 to take poffeffion of the perfonal effects of citizens of the United States, other than feamen, dying in their confulate; to take care thereof, and fettle their eftates, -in case of stranded veffels, to take care of their effects,

58

59

their fees,

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ii. 61

-Prefident authorized to grant a falary to confuls on
the coaft of Barbary,
-give bonds for the faithful difcharge of their duty, 61
To make provifion for mariners left in foreign ports,

61
-in cafe of fale of a veffel in a foreign port, unless the
crew are liable, by contract, to be difcharged, the
captain fhall find them a paffage home; and in cafe
of failure, the Conful (if the laws of the land will
permit) may arreft his fhip, goods and perfon to com-
pel it,
Provifo, that the fpecific powers, granted by the fta-
ftute, fhall not exclude the powers refulting from the
nature of the office,

Congress of the United States, how formed,

62

63

i. 5

to meet annually on the firft Monday in December,
unless otherwife directed by law,

-powers of,

-apportionment of Reprefentatives to,

-place of feffion may be altered by the Prefident, in
cafe of contagious fickness,

7

9

ii. 55

iii. 30

-to meet first Monday in November, 1797,

iii. 407

ii. 378

i. 462

16

Convention with France, respecting Confuls,

-between the United States and the States-General,

concerning veffels recaptured,

Conviction of crimes not to corrupt blood,

Copper coinage provided for,

ii. 120

when a fum not less than fifty thousand dollars has
been coined at the mint in cents and half-cents, and
paid into treasury, all other copper coins fhall cease
to pafs as money,

-weight of cents and half cents established,

121

158

-Prefident may reduce the weight of copper coin, and
give notice by proclamation,

-Mode of diftributing cents and half-cents,

COPYRIGHT.

iii. 224

224

Authors of Maps, Charts, or Books already printed within
the United States, being citizens thereof, or refident
therein, their executors, or affigns, who have not trans-
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the fole right of printing, publishing and vending the
fame, for the term of fourteen years from the time of