Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-09-15
mo. 81

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JOINT RESOLUTION constituting Macon Georgia Port
Of Entry for the time being for The purposes therein spe-
4 cited, and for other purposes. ~ ~
Whereas IL Is in contemplation, by the Cotton Planters
Convention Of the State Of Georgia, to institute and hold
fair in the month Of December the city Of Macon n
the State of Georgia and whereas it IS Contemplated by
foreign associston 10 exhibit their goods At such fair
and whereas Macon being neither port OF entry de-
under existing laws be exempted from duty, though ex
ported again when Withdrawn from exhibition: There
Be i resolved BY the Senate and House of Representa-
ves of the United States Of America in Congress
bled That Macon Georgia. be- and hereby constituted
port Of so TAR and TO such extent as to authorize be
to all existing laws prevailing at ports of entry
and applicable to bonded warehouses, the bonding Of
imported goods and merchandise, and the exporta
on of the Provided That the force and effect here
Of shall appertan only TO mperiatons made for the
poses exclusively above reced and for explorations the
having been exhibited, aud such time times
beve, during and after the said fair shall, in the judg
ment OF the Treasury seem reasonable for the aforesaid
I purposes thereof
: Approved April 6, 1860. a
mo II
A RESOLUTION to allow Credit to certain Dsbursng OF
ticers therein mentioned.
Whereas by the Of the thtieth of August eighteen
hundred aud fifty two, entitled "An making appropra-
tous for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers
the following appropriations aong ohers) made to
wit For the improvement of the navigation of the Misss
sppi River below the rapids ninety Thousand dollars the
Ohio including repairs of the dam at Cumberland Island
ninety thousand the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers each
forty thousand doars and for the construction and repair
of snagboas dredge-boas, dischargng scows and ma
chinery to be used ON the Mississippi Ohio Missouri Ar
kansas and oheS western rivers, hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and whereas it also appears that in
carrying into effect the said provision Of law the officers
and agents Of government nirused Herewith and with
the application and disbursement of said appropriations
dd apply and dsburse part Of the money appropriated
aforesaid rr The improvement Of the navigation Of said
rivers for the construction repairs of the said snagboas
dredgeboats dschargng scows machinery in aid Of and
in addition to the appropriation of hundred and fifty
thousand dollars made for this specific object which prov
ed TO be inadequate in consequence whereof and Of this
application To one object Of money appropriated to another
the officers agents unable settle their accounts,
though prepared they aege 10 show that said
has been expended in the service of the government be
il
Resolved by the Senate aud House of Representative of
the United States of America in Congress assembled That
the accounts Of the said officers and who charge
able aforesaid for the disbursement Of said appropa-
ons respectively shall be set led at the treasury Of the
United States upon equitable principles, aud all just credits
allowed for the building repairing of said bIats,
and machinery without regard the fact of their exceed
ing in amount the hundred and fifty Thousand dollars
appropriated for that purpose and though the appca
on To that purpose Of part of the Money appropriated
aforesaid 70 he Improvement of the navigation Of said
rivers had been lawful Provided That The credits allowed
shall not exceed the total Of said appropriations
Approved April l9 1860.