Chapter XXII. *authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ Clerks for completing the abstracts of the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves.* March 3, 1801. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Tha
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Chap. XXII.— An Act *authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ Clerks for completing the abstracts of the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves.* March 3, 1801. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ clerks, for such compensation as he shall judge reasonable, to complete the abstracts of the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enume-112 SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 23. 1801. ration of slaves within the United States, under the direction of the com-missioners authorized to direct the completing of such abstracts, in those states where clerks cannot be procured by the commissioners, for the compensation allowed by law to clerks for performing that business, agreeably to the provisions of the following acts; that is to say, an act, intituled “An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses,1798, ch. 70. and the enumeration of slaves within the United States;” an act, intituled “An act supplementary to the act, intituled ‘An act to 1800, ch. 3.provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States;’” and an act, intituled “An1800, ch. 53. act to provide for equalizing the valuation of unseated lands.
” Approved, March 3, 1801.