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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum of money not exceeding one one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to cause the ports and harbors of the United States to be better fortified and protected.

. And be it further enacted, That the money appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.

, March 3, 1807.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.

, March 3, 1807.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized, in addition to the present naval peace establishment, to employ a number of able seamen, ordinary seamen and boys, not exceeding five hundred, should the exigency of the public service require the same.

, March 3, 1807.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for carrying into effect a convention between the United States and the Cherokee nation of Indians, the following sums, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby are appropriated; that is to say—to the said Cherokee nation, two thousand dollars, and the further annual sum of two thousand dollars for four years successively; and to the Cherokee chief, called the Black Fox, the annual sum of one hundred dollars, during his natural life.

. And be it further enacted, That for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Piankeshaw tribe of Indians, concluded at Vincennes, on the thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and five, there shall be, and hereby are appropriated, in addition to appropriations for carrying into effect former treaties, a sum