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Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the port of Charleston, in the district of South Carolina, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to North and Vesey, of the city of Charleston, merchants, the amount of the duties paid by them on so much of a certain quantity of sugars, imported into the said port in the prize ship called the Amity, on the seventh day of April, one thousand seven hundred ninety-six, as shall be proved, to his satisfaction, to have been burnt and destroyed in the said city of Charleston: the said sugars not being liable to the payment of duties, the sale thereof having been prohibited.

, January 15, 1798.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Accountant for the department of war, be, and he is hereby directed to settle the accounts of John Frank, late a private in the second sub-legion of the army of the United States, and to allow him the same pay and emoluments as a soldier, from the nineteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, during the time of his captivity, as he would have been entitled to, had he not been discharged from the public service before he was made prisoner by the Indians.

, January 20, 1798.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to General Kosciusko, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, an interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, on the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-four cents, the amount of a certificate due to him from the United States, from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.

, January 23, 1798.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary for the Department of War, be, and he is hereby directed to place on the pension list of the United States, the several persons hereinafter named, who have been returned as pension claimants by the judges of the several districts, pursuant to the act of Congress, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled, “,” at the rates and proportions annexed to the names of the said persons respectively, that is to say:

Of the district of New Hampshire, Joseph Goodrich, a private, half a pension; Joseph Patterson, a private, half a pension; Cæsar Barnes, a private, one-third of a pension.

Of the district of Connecticut, John Downs, a serjeant, a full pension; Obadiah Perkins, a lieutenant, one-fourth of a pension.

Of the district of Vermont, Joseph Tyler, a private, half a pension; Peter Rider, a corporal, half a pension; Isaac Webster, a serjeant, half a pension; Ephraim Wilmarth, a serjeant, two-thirds of a pension.