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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the thirteenth day of November, 1797, and ended the sixteenth day of July, 1798.

Author:John Adams (1735-1826), President; Author:Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate;, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the twenty-seventh day of June; , Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE Ⅱ.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in consideration of the important services rendered to the United States by the late Count de Grasse, there be paid annually, in quarter-yearly payments, during five years from the time of passing this act, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars to each of the four daughters of the said Count de Grasse, namely, Amelia de Grasse, Adelaide de Grasse, Melanie de Grasse, and Silvie de Grasse, if they shall, respectively, so long live.

, January 15, 1798.

Be it enacted, &c., That in the settlement of the accounts between the United States and William Carmichael, deceased, their late chargé des affaires in Spain, the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they hereby are authorized and directed to place to the credit of the said William Carmichael, the sum of eight thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-six cents, for and in full of his extraordinary expenses, as chargé des affaires aforesaid, from the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, to the twentieth day of April, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety.

. And be it further enacted, That in the settlement of the said accounts, the accounting officers aforesaid shall be, and they hereby are further authorized and directed to credit and allow to the said William Carmichael, at the rate of four thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents, annually, from the said twentieth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, to the said twentieth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, in full of all claims for his salary during that period.

, January 15, 1798.