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 United States, or of any state, in which action the certificate of the magistrate taking the said examinations shall be evidence.

. And be it further enacted, That each judge, justice, chancellor, mayor, recorder, intendant and justice of the peace, who shall be necessarily employed, pursuant to the directions of this act, and all sheriffs, constables, or other officers who may be employed to serve any of the warrants of summons or notifications herein provided for, shall have and receive from the party at whose instance such service shall have been performed, such fee or fees, as are or may be allowed for similar services in the states wherein such service shall be rendered, respectively.

. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the end of the first session of the sixth Congress, and no longer.

, January 23, 1798.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for all owners of stills within the United States, which shall have been duly entered according to law, to make their election, at any time of the year, both as to the rate of duty which they may choose to pay for the employment of their said stills, whether for a year, or for such other shorter period, as may be allowed by law; and also, as to the time of commencing such employment.

, January 29, 1798.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of an act, intituled “,” be, and the same is hereby suspended, for and during the space of three years from and after the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, during which time the said gold and silver coins shall be and continue a legal tender, as is provided in and by the first section of the act aforesaid; and that the same coins shall thereafter cease to be such tender.

, February 1, 1798.

. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, be appropriated to defray the expense of such treaty or treaties, as the President of the United States shall deem expedient to hold with the Indians: Provided, nothing in this act contained shall be construed to admit an obligation on the part of the United States to extinguish, for the benefit of any state or individual citizens, Indian claims to any lands lying within the limits of the United States, and that the compensations to be allowed to any of the commissioners appointed, or who may be