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United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause a proper apartment to be immediately selected and prepared for a library room, and to cause the library lately purchased from Thomas Jefferson, to be placed therein during the ensuing recess of Congress.

. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the account of the expenditures incurred under this act; and that the amount so settled shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

March 3, 1815.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated annually for three years, towards the purchase and supply of a stock of every description of timber, required for ship building, and other naval purposes, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

March 3, 1815.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all acts or parts of acts, which prohibit the entrance of the vessels of any foreign nation into the harbours or waters under the jurisdiction of the United States be, and the same are hereby repealed.

. And be it further enacted, That the “,” passed the sixth day of July, eighteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

. And be it further enacted, That the “,” passed the second day of August, eighteen hundred and thirteen, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures which have been incurred by virtue of the acts or parts of acts hereby repealed, shall be recovered and distributed in like manner as if the same had continued in full force.

March 3, 1815.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sum already allowed by law to the sergeants at arms of the Senate and House of Representatives, be entitled to receive annually, the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars respectively, and that the additional compensation here allowed, be considered to take effect from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

March 3, 1815.