Specific ap For the expense of printing one thousand copies of the digest of manufactures, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives propriations. of the ninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the support of sick and disabled seamen, in addition to the funds already appropriated by law, twenty thousand dollars. For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation, eighty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars. Forexpenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, ten thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, thirty thousand dollars. For expenses of agents at Paris and Copenhagen in relation to prize causes and captures of American vessels, four thousand dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 24, 1814. Out of what fund to be paid. Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34. STATUTE II. CHAP. XXIX.—An act to authorize a loan for a sum not exceeding twenty-five March 24, 1814. millions of dollars. 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 to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars, to be applied, in addition to the moneys now in the treasury, or which may be received from other sources, to defray any expenses which have been, or during the present year may be authorized by law, and for which appropriations have been, or during the present year may be made by law: Provided, That no engagement or contract shall be entered into which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums thus borrowed at any time after the expiration of twelve years from the last day of December next. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be constituted certificates of stock, signed by the Register of the Treasury, or by a Commissioner of Loans, for the sum to be borrowed by this act, or for any part thereof, and the same to be sold. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall lay before Congress, during the first week in the month of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, an account of all the moneys obtained by the sale of the certificates of stock in manner aforesaid, together with a statement of the rate at which the same may have been sold. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to employ an agent or agents for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the loan authorized by this act, or of selling any part of the stock to be created by virtue thereof. A commission not exceeding one quarter of one per cent. on the amount thus sold, or for which subscriptions shall have been thus obtained, may, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be allowed to such agent or agents; and a sum not [Obsolete.] Act of Dec. 26, 1814, ch. 17. Loan authorized. For what pur poses. Proviso. Secretary of the Treasury to cates of stock cause certifito be issued for the sum obtained by loan. An account to be rendered by him of this amount. Secretary of the Treasury to for procuring employ agents subscriptions, &c. Their com missions. exceeding sixty-six thousand dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for paying the amount of such commission or commissions as may be thus allowed, and also for defraying the expenses of printing and issuing the subscription certificates, and certificates of stock, and other expenses incident to the completing of the loan authorized by this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the funds constituting the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars for the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt of the United States, as may be wanted for that purpose, after satisfying the sums necessary for the payment of the interest and such part of the principai of said debt as the United States are now pledged annually to pay or reimburse, is hereby pledged and appropriated for the payment of the interest, and for the reimbursement of the principal of the stock which may be created by virtue of this act. It shall accordingly be the duty of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to cause to be applied and paid out of the said fund, yearly, such sum and sums as may be annually wanted to discharge the interest accruing on the said stock, and to reimburse the principal as the same become due, and may be discharged in conformity with the terms of the loan; and they are further authorized to apply, from time to time, such sum or sums out of the said fund, as they may think proper, towards redeeming, by purchase and at a price not above par, the principal of the said stock, or any part thereof. And the faith of the United States is hereby pledged to establish sufficient revenues for making good any deficiency that may hereafter take place in the funds hereby appropriated for paying the said interest and principal sums, or any of them, in manner aforesaid. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any of the banks in the District of Columbia to lend any part of the sum authorized to be borrowed by virtue of this act, any thing in any of their charters to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, March 24, 1814. STATUTE II. March 24, 1814. CHAP. XXXI.—An Act to alter the time for holding the District Courts of the Act of March Time of the United States for the Virginia district. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 23, 1804, ch. 31. States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the time heresessions of the tofore prescribed by law for the sessions of the District Court of the United court altered in States for the Virginia district, the said court shall hereafter commence the Virginia disits sessions on the following days in each year, that is to say; on the trict. twelfth day of April, and on the fifteenth day of October, in the city of Richmond, and on the first day of May, and on the first day of November, in the borough of Norfolk. This change not to affect the pleadings. Process returnable according to the change. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said court, at its sessions to be commenced by virtue of this act, on the twelfth day of April next. in the city of Richmond, and on the first day of May next, in Norfolk, shall have the same right, power, and jurisdiction over all actions, suits, process, notices, pleadings and recognisances, and of all other proceedings of what nature or kind soever, civil or criminal, as the said court might or could possess and lawfully exercise, if the sessions of the said court, instead of being commenced on the said twelfth day of April next, and the said first day of May next, should have been commenced on the days heretofore prescribed. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, all actions, suits, process, notices, pleadings and recognisances, and all other proceedings of what nature or kind soever, civil or (a) See notes to the act of February 4, 1819, ch. 12. criminal, returnable to or having day in the said court during the session thereof, shall be returnable to and have day in the sessions of the said court as prescribed by this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if at any time the day prescribed by this act for commencing a session of the said court shall be a Sunday, the said court shall commence and hold its sessions on the following day. APPROVED, March 24, 1814. STATUTE II. CHAP. XXXII.—An Act to amend the act, entitled "An act laying duties on sales March 24, 1814. at auction of merchandise and of ships and vessels." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the condition of the bond required to be given by every auctioneer by the third section of the act, entitled "An act laying duties on sales at auction of merchandise and of ships and vessels," passed the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, that the said auctioneer shall render the quarterly account, in writing, required of him by said act, within twenty days after the first day of April, July, October and January, in each year, and that in the said quarterly return shall be stated the aggregate amount of goods, wares, merchandise and effects, liable to duty, sold by him on each day during the quarter, with the date of each sale, any thing in the said act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, March 24, 1814. CHAP. XXXVI.—An Act concerning Shawneetown. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a tract of land not exceeding two sections, in the Illinois territory, adjoining Shawneetown, shall, under the directions of the Surveyor General, be laid off into town lots, streets, and avenues, and out-lots, in the same manner, under the same restrictions, as are prescribed by the sixth section of the act entitled "An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes," approved the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten. And it shall be the duty of the Surveyor General, or the person by him authorized to carry this act into effect, to select the two sections so as to extend the said town to the high lands in the rear of the town as it is now laid out. [Obsolete.] Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 26. Condition of bonds given by auctioneers. STATUTE II. March 28, 1814. A town to be laid off. Lots to be SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lots in said town shall be offered for sale at the same time, and on the same terms and conditions offered for sale. as are provided by the sixth section of the before recited act. APPROVED, March 28, 1814. STATUTE II. CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act for the better organizing, paying, and supplying the March 30, 1814. army of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first, second, and third regiments of artillery be formed into one corps, and organized into twelve battalions, as follows, to wit: six lieutenant colonels, six majors, twelve adjutants, twelve quarter-masters, and forty-eight companies. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each company shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, one third lieutenant, five serjeants, one quarter-master's serjeant, eight corporals, four musicians, and one hundred privates. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President be authorized to assign one of the two second lieutenants hereby provided for each company, as a conductor of artillery for said company, whose duty it shall be VOL. III.-15 K 2 [Obsolete.] Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 79. Certain regiments compos ing a corps to be formed into battalions. Component parts of nies. compa Particular du ties assigned to one of the lieu company. tenants of each to receipt and account for all ammunition, implements, and cannon, fur nished by the ordnance department for said company, and to do and perform such other services as the war department may direct; and that for Their extra pay. the performance of these services they be allowed each ten dollars extra pay per month. Two regiments of light dragoons form ed into one. Component parts of each troop. Officers of the corps of artillery and light dragoons, their pay. Additional rations to subal terns of corps. Allowances of blankets, &c. &c. President to prescribe the kind and amount of clothing. Regulations concerning waiters to the officers, &c. Further regulations. President may appoint assistant apothecaries. Their pay, &c. Promotions, how to be made. Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 108. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the two regiments of light dragoons now in service, there shall be organized one regiment, to consist of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, two majors, one adjutant, one quartermaster, one surgeon, two surgeon's-mates, one serjeant-major, one quartermaster-serjeant, one principal musician, one principal farrier, and eight troops. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each troop shall consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one third lieutenant, one cornet, five serjeants, eight corporals, one riding master, one master of the sword, two trumpeters or buglers, one farrier, one blacksmith, one saddler, and ninety-six privates. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the officers of the corps of artillery, and the regiment of light artillery, shall severally receive the same pay as is now provided by law for the light dragoons in the service of the United States; and the subalterns of all other corps shall be allowed one ration in addition to the pay authorized by existing laws. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed annually to each non-commissioned officer, musician and private in the corps of sea-fencibles one blanket, one knapsack and one canteen. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing to be issued annually to the troops of the United States. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of June next, the officers of the army shall be entitled to waiters agreeable to grade, as follows: a major general, four waiters; a brigadier general, three; a colonel, two; the physician and surgeon general, two; a lieutenant colonel, major, and hospital surgeon, each, one; the officers of each company, three; every commissioned officer who holds a staff appointment which gives the rank of captain, or any higher grade, one; and to every company officer who commands a separate post or detachment, one; any law or regulation heretofore existing to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That no officer shall be permitted to employ as a servant any soldier from the line of the army, and that the servants of officers, not exceeding the number allowed by the preceding section, shall be mustered with some corps of the army, and that on the muster rolls formed in consequence thereof payments shall be made in money to the officers employing them in lieu of wages, subsistence and clothing, by the paymasters of the several corps or districts where such servants are mustered, at the rate allowed to privates of infantry, which shall be published to the army annually, by the Secretary for the department of war. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be authorized to appoint so many assistant apothecaries as the service may, in his judgment, require; each of whom shall receive the same pay and emoluments as a regimental surgeon's mate. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, promotions may be made through the whole army in its several lines of light artillery, light dragoons, artillery, infantry, and riflemen respectively; and that the relative rank of officers of the same grade, belonging to regiments or corps already authorized, or which may be engaged to serve for five years, or during the war, be equalized and settled by the war department, agreeably to established rules; and that so much of the act, entitled "An act for the more perfect organization of the army of the United States," passed the twenty-sixth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, as comes within the purview and meaning of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Deficient re consolidated. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of avoiding unnecessary expenses in the military establishment, the President of the giments may be United States be, and he is hereby authorized, in case of failure in filling the rank and file of any regiment or regiments, to consolidate such deficient regiment or regiments, and discharge all supernumerary officers: Provided, That officers so discharged shall be allowed, in addition to the mileage already authorized by law, three months' pay to each. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That every non-commissioned officer and private of the army, or officer, non-commissioned officer, and private of any militia or volunteer corps, in the service of the United States, who has been, or who may be captured by the enemy, shall be entitled to receive during his captivity, notwithstanding the expiration of his term of service, the same pay, subsistence, and allowance to which he may be entitled whilst in the actual service of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle any prisoner of war, of the militia, to the pay and compensation herein provided after the date of his parole, other than the travelling expenses allowed by law. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That the five regiments which, by the first section of an act, entitled "An act to amend the act in addition to the act, entitled 'An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes, were authorized to be enlisted, at the discretion of the President of the United States, for and during the war, may be enlisted, at the option of the recruit, for five years, or for and during the war, unless sooner discharged; the provisions of the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the commissary general of ordnance may employ in his department, besides blacksmiths and wheelwrights, other mechanics, such as the public service may require, who shall, together with the said blacksmiths and wheelwrights, be mustered under the general denomination of artificers; and such artificers, being hereafter, or having been heretofore enlisted to serve for the term of five years, or during the war, shall be entitled to the same annual allowance of clothing as is or may be provided for the soldiers of the army. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the labourers who may be hereafter enlisted to serve in the ordnance department, for the term of five years, or during the war, shall be entitled to a bounty of twenty-five dollars in money, and the same annual allowance of clothing as is or may be provided for the soldiers of the army. SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the physician and the surgeon general of the army be entitled to two rations per day and forage for two horses; and that in addition to their pay, as at present established by law, the regimental surgeons and regimental surgeons' mates be entitled to fifteen dollars per month each. SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That the aids-de-camp of major generals shall be taken from the captains and subalterns of the line; and the aids-de-camp of brigadier generals from the subalterns of the line; and that it shall not be lawful to take more than one aid-de-camp from a regiment. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That in no case shall the district paymasters or quartermasters of any grade be taken from the line of the army. SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the officers of the volunteer corps, authorized by the act of the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be entitled to promotion in the line of the army; and that the President of the United States, with the ad Proviso. Pay of noncommissioned officers, &c. &c. of the army and officers of militia not affected by their capti vity. Proviso. Five regiments now authorized may be enlisted for five years or during the war. Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 4. Commissary general of ordnance may employ all needful aid in his department. Bounty and clothing to la bourers in that department. Allowance in rations to the medical staff, and increase of pay to part. Aids-de-camp of major generais, &c. &c. from what part of the army to be drawn. District pay and quartermas ters. Officers of vo lunteer corps ed in the line of may be promot the army. |