Resolved, That there ought to be laid an additional duty ofweight, on all Glauber salts imported.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid an additional duty of on all manufactured tobacco imported.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid an additional duty of on all snuff imported.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid an additional duty of on all cocoa imported.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid an additional duty of on all chocolate imported.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid an additional duty of on all pepper imported.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid an additional duty of on all pimento imported.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid a duty of colate manufactured within the United States.

Resolved, That there ought to be laid a duty of manufactured within the United States.

cents per hundred

cents per pound,

cents per pound,

cents per pound,

cents per pound,

cents per pound, cents per pound,

cents per pound, on all cho

cents per pound on all snuff

Ordered, That the said motion be referred to the Committee of the Whole House to whom is committed the report of the Committee of Ways and Means, of the third instant, on the subject of further revenues.

The House, according to the order of the day, again resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House on the report of the Committee of Ways and Means, of the sixteenth instant, to whom were referred the letter and report from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied with estimates of the sums necessary to be appropriated for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Dent reported that the committee had, according to order, again had the said report under consideration, and gone through the same, and made several amendments thereto; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same were severally twice read, and agreed to by the House.

The said report, as amended, was then read at the Clerk's table, and, on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the House, as followeth :

Resolved, That, for the expenditure of the civil list; for the extra expenses of foreign intercourse; for the support of the mint establishment, light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven; and to satisfy certain miscellaneous claims, stated in the report of the Secretary of the Trea sury, of the fifteenth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, together with the incidental and contingent expenses of the several Departments, and the offices thereof, the following sums be respectively appropriated; that is to say; For compensation to the President of the United States $25,000 Ditto to the Vice President

5,000

THE LEGISLATURE.

30,000

For compensation to the Senators and members of the
House of Representatives, their officers and clerks, and
for the contingent expenses of both Houses, estimating
the attendance of the whole number for four months:
Thirty-two members of the Senate, at six dollars per day, 23,360
Speaker of the House of Representatives, at twelve dol-
lars per day

One hundred and five members, at six dollars per day
Travelling expenses to and from the seat of Government
Secretary of the Senate, one year's salary -
Additional allowance, estimated for four months, at
$2 per diem,

1,460 76,650 26,000

. 1,500

243 33

1,743 33

1,095

1,460

166 67

500

Principal Clerk to the Secretary of the Senate, for 365 days, at three dollars per diem

Two engrossing clerks to ditto, at two dollars per day, each, for 365 days

Chaplain to the Senate, estimated for four months, at five hundred dollars per annum

Doorkeeper to the Senate, one year's salary

Principal Clerk in the office of the Clerk of the House
of Representatives, for 365 days, at three dollars per day
Two engrossing clerks, at two dollars per day each, for
365 days
Chaplain to the House of Representatives, estimated for
four months, at five hundred dollars per annum
Sergeant-at-arms, for the same time, at four dollars per day
Doorkeeper to the House of Representatives, one year's
salary

Assistant doorkeeper, ditto

Expenses of fire-wood, stationery, printing work, and all other contingent expenses of both Houses of Congress : For the Senate, estimate

The House of Representatives, do.
To make good a deficiency in the appro-
priation for the year 1796, occasioned by
the several grants of the House on the
last day of the session

4,000

7,500

1,743 $3

1,095

1,460

166 67 486 67

500

450

Ditto

1,500

800

of North Carolina

of Tennessee

of South Carolina
of Georgia

Ditto to the Attorney General

For defraying the expenses of clerks of courts, jurors, and witnesses, in aid of the fund arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties; and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury
Ditto, of clerks, agreeably to an arrangement for
the year 1796, in pursuance of the act of 30th of
May, 1796
Ditto, messenger and office-keeper

Compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury 2,650
Ditto, of clerks, agreeably to an arrangement for
the year 1796, in pursuance of the act of 30th
May, 1796

8,850

8,750

Government of the Territory Northwest of river Ohio.

Governor, for his salary as such, and for discharging the duties of Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Northern Department

Secretary of the said District

Three Judges, at 800 dollars each

Stationery, office-rent, &c.

For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the Civil Department, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and 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

PAYMENT OF ANNUITIES AND GRANTS.
Isaac Van Wart,Each a pension of 200 dollars per an-
John Paulding, num, pursuant to an act of Congress
David Williams, of the 25th of Nov. 1780
Dominique L'Eglize, per act of Congress of 8th August,
1782

John Traverse, per act of Congress of 8th August, 1782,
Samuel McKenzie, Per act of 10th September, 1783, en-
Joseph Brussels, titled to a pension of forty dollars
John Jordan,
each

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25,000