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 non-commissioned officers and privates, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars: For forage, the sum of sixteen thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars: For clothing, the sum of seventy thousand dollars: For purchase of horses for the cavalry, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: For bounties, the sum of ten thousand dollars: For the hospital department, the sum of thirty thousand dollars: For the ordnance department, the sum of forty thousand dollars: For the Indian department, the sum of sixty thousand dollars: For the quartermaster’s department, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars: For contingencies of the war department, the sum of thirty thousand dollars: For the defensive protection of the frontiers, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars: For the completion of the fortifications, magazines, store houses and barracks at West Point, the sum of twenty thousand dollars: For the pay and subsistence of three captains in the naval department, the sum of five thousand dollars: For the payment of military pensions, including an allowance to the widows and children of officers, under an act, intituled “,” the sum of one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the funds following, to wit: First, The surplus of the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act “;” and which shall accrue, during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six: Secondly, The surplus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereupon, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six; and, Thirdly, The surplus which shall remain unexpended, of the monies appropriated to the use of the war department, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.

. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be empowered to borrow, at an interest not exceeding six per centum, of the Bank of the United States, which is hereby authorized to lend the same; or of any body or bodies politic, person or persons, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and to be applied to the purposes aforesaid, and to be reimbursed, as well interest as principal, out of the funds aforesaid.

, June 1, 1796.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every case of a distiller, who hath entered his still or stills, in such manner, as to be liable to pay the duty of fifty-four cents upon the capacity or capacities thereof, for the year to end in June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, wherein it shall be made to appear to the supervisor of the district, that the said distiller has been really and truly prevented from employing or working his still or stills, during any part of the term aforesaid, by the destruction or failure of fruit and grain, or any other unavoidable cause within the district in which he resides, it shall and may be lawful for the said supervisor, on application made to him, any time before the last day of September next, to admit such distiller to the benefit of an election, to pay, in lieu of the duty on the capacity of his still or stills for the year, the monthly duty of ten cents per gallon of the capacity for the time he employed his still or stills.

, June 1, 1796.