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 compensation, as is or may be allowed by law, to the members of the House of Representatives of the United States, to be certified and paid in like manner.

, December 3, 1794.

by the twenty-second section of the act entitled “,” it is provided that “Every justice or judge signing a citation on any writ of error, shall take good and sufficient security that the plaintiff in error shall prosecute his writ to effect, and answer all damages and costs, if he fail to make his plea good.” And whereas doubts have arisen as to the extent of the security to be required in certain cases:—

Be it enacted and declared by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the security to be required and taken on the signing of a citation on any writ of error, which shall not be a supersedeas and stay execution, shall be only to such an amount, as in the opinion of the justice or judge taking the same, shall be sufficient to answer all such costs as, upon an affirmance of the judgment or decree, may be adjudged or decreed to the respondent in error.

, December 12, 1794.

. Be it enacted by thee Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be empowered to borrow, on behalf of the United States, any sum not exceeding two million of dollars, at an interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, reimbursable at the pleasure of the United States, to be applied to such public purposes, as are authorized by law, and to be repaid out of the duties on impost and tonnage, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.

. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Bank of the United States, and the said bank hereby is authorized and empowered to loan the said sum, or any part thereof.

, December 18, 1794.

. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be appropriated for the pay, subsistence, forage and other expenses attending the militia in their late expedition to the western counties of Pennsylvania, a sum not exceeding one million, one hundred and twenty-two thousand, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and one cent; that is to say:—For the pay, subsistence and forage of the general staff, eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-four cents:—For the pay, subsistence and forage of the militia of New Jersey, eighty-eight thousand, seven hundred and eighteen dollars, and twenty-five cents:—For the pay, subsistence and forage of the militia of Pennsylvania, two hundred and ten thousand, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty cents:—For the pay, subsistence and forage of the