Acts of Congress. of this act, or shall demand other or greater sums than shall be authorized by law, shall be liable to pay a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars. to be recovered by and for the use of the party injured, with costs of suit, in any court having competent jurisdiction; and each and every collector shall, if required, give receipts for all sums by them collected, and retained, in pursuance of this act. SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That for collecting the said tax, there shall be allowed and paid the following sums, and no more, to be retained by the several officers hereinafter mentioned, in the final settlement of their accounts, respectively; that is to say, to each supervisor, one-half per centum on the whole amount of the moneys by him received and accounted for, under and by virtue of this act; to every inspector, onefourth per centum on the whole amount of the moneys to be by him received and accounted for as aforesaid; and to every collector, five per centum on the whole amount of the moneys by him to be received and accounted for, as aforesaid: Provided, That no collector shall receive the said allowance, for, or in respect to any sum for which a warrant of distress shall have been issued by him; and Provided also, That no collector who shall refuse or neglect to render, according to this act, any monthly account of moneys by him received, as aforesaid, or to pay over the same, as is hereby directed, shall be entitled to, or receive the said allowance, upon all or any of the moneys by him collected, within the month for which he shall so refuse or neglect to account and pay over as aforesaid. ry, now in the service of the United States, be augmented accordingly: Provided, always, That the President of the United States may, in his discretion, appoint and distribute such additional number of surgeon's mates, and for such length of time, as the exigencies of the service may require. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorized to raise, in addition to the present Military Establishment, twelve regiments of infantry, and six troops of light dragoons, to be enlisted for and during the continuance of the existing differences between the United States and the French Republic, unless sooner discharged; and the said six troops, together with the two troops of dragoons now in service, shall be formed into a regiment, and there shall be appointed thereto one lieutenant colonel commandant, two majors, one adjutant, one paymaster, one quartermaster, one sergeant major, and one quartermaster sergeant, whose pay and emoluments, as well as those of the cornets, respectively, shall be the same as are by law allowed to officers of the same grades in the infantry. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be two major generals, with two aids-decamp each; one inspector general, with the rank, pay, and emoluments of a major general, and two aids-de-camp; three brigadier generals, in addition to the present establishment; two assistant inspectors, (who shall be taken from the line of the Army ;) one adjutant general, with one or more assistant or assistants, to be taken from the line of the Army; and four chaplains. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the maSEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That there jor generals, respectively, shall be entitled to one shall be allowed to the surveyors of the revenue hundred and sixty-six dollars monthly pay, with respectively, to be paid by the supervisors respect- twenty dollars allowance for forage monthly, and ively, and exhibited in their accounts, as part of for daily subsistence fifteen rations, or money in the charge of the said collection, for preparing lieu thereof at the contract price; the adjutant collection lists, and computing the taxes payable general shall be entitled to the rank, pay, and for each individual, at the rate of one dollar for emoluments of a brigadier general; each chaplain every hundred taxables contained in any such list. to the pay and emoluments of a major; the aidsSEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That a sep-de-camp and assistant inspectors shall each be enarate account shall be kept at the Treasury of the United States of all moneys to be collected and received by virtue of this act; distinguishing the several amounts received from dwelling-houses, from slaves, and from lands, within each State, and also distinguishing the amount received in each State from each separate description of dwelling-houses, paying the same rate per centum. Approved, July 14, 1798. An Act to augment the Army of the United States, and for other purposes. titled to twenty-four dollars monthly, in addition to their pay in the line, and to four rations of provisions each for their daily subsistence; and whenever forage shall not be furnished by the public, ten dollars per month in lieu thereof. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each non-commissioned officer, private, and musician, who shall hereafter be enlisted for the Army of the United States, shall be able-bodied, and of a size and age suitable for the public service, according to the directions which the President of the United States shall and may establish; and shall be entitled to a bounty of twelve dollars; but the Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the pass-payment of four dollars thereof shall be deferred ing of this act, each regiment of infantry in the Army of the United States shall consist of one lieutenant colonel commandant, two majors, one adjutant, one paymaster, one quartermaster,one surgeon, two surgeon's mates, ten captains, ten lieutenants, ten ensigns, one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, two senior musicians, forty sergeants, forty corporals, twenty musicians, and six hundred privates; and that the several regiments of infant until he shall have joined the Army; and each commissioned officer, who shall be employed in the recruiting service, shall be entitled to receive for each such non-commissioned officer and private, and for each efficient musician duly enlisted and mustered, the sum of two dollars. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the monthly pay of the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, in the Army of the United Acts of Congress. States. from and after the fifth day of August next, shall be as follows: cadets, ten dollars and two rations per day; sergeant majors and quartermaster sergeants, ten dollars; senior musicians, eight dollars; sergeants, eight dollars; corporals, seven dollars; musicians, six dollars; privates, five dollars. Artificers to the infantry and artillery, and farriers and saddlers to the dragoons, shall be allowed each the monthly pay of ten dollars. That every non-commissioned officer, private, and musician, shall receive daily the following rations of provisions, to wit: one pound and a quarter of beef, or three-quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, a gill of rum, brandy, or whiskey; and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles, to every hundred rations. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to appoint a number, not exceeding four, teachers of the arts and sciences necessary for the instruction of the artillerists and engineers, who shall be entitled to the monthly pay of fifty dollars and two rations per day. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the first day of September next, no collector shall grant to any ship or vessel whose enrolment or license for carrying on the coasting trade has expired, a new enrolment or license before the master of such ship or vessel shall first render a true account to the collector, of the number of seamen, and the time they have severally been employed on board such ship or vessel, during the continuing of the license which has so expired, and pay to such collector twenty cents per month for every month such seamen have been severally employed, as aforesaid; which sum the said master is hereby authorized to retain out of the wages of such seamen. And if any such master shall render a false account of the number of men, and the length of time they have severally been employed, as is herein required, he shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the several collectors to make a quarterly return of the sums collected by them, respectively, by virtue of this act, to the Secretary of the Treasury; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized, out of the same, to provide for the temporary relief and maintenance of sick or disabled seamen, in the hospitals or other institutions now established in the several ports of the United States, or in ports where no such institutions exist, then in such other manner as he shall direct: Provided, That the moneys collected in any one district shall be expended within the same. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the of ficers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, raised by virtue of this act, shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed by the law, entitled "An act to ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States," and they shall be governed by the rules and articles of war, which have been or may be established by law, and shall be entitled to the legal emoluments in case of wounds or disabilities, received while SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any in actual service, and in the line of duty. And in surplus shall remain of the moneys to be collected, the recess of the Senate, the President of the Uni- by virtue of this act, after defraying the expense ted States is hereby authorized to appoint all the of such temporary relief and support, that the same, regimental officers proper to be appointed under together with such private donations as may be this act, and likewise to make appointments to fill made for that purpose, which the President is hereby any vacancies in the Army, which may have hap-authorized to receive, shall be invested in the stock pened during the present session of the Senate. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed an inspector of the artillery, taken from the line of artillerists and engineers, who shall be allowed thirty dollars per month in addition to his pay in the line, and four rations of provisions for his daily subsistence; and whenever forage shall not be furnished by the public, he shall be allowed ten dollars per month instead thereof. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the first day of September next, the master or owner of every ship or vessel of the United States, arriving from a foreign port into any port of the United States, shall, before such ship or vessel shall be admitted to an entry, render to the collector a true account of the number of seamen that shall have been employed on board such vessel since she was last entered at any port in the United States, and shall pay to the said collector, at the rate of twenty cents per month for every seaman so employed; which sum he is hereby authorized to retain out of the wages of such seaman. of the United States, under the direction of the President; and when, in his opinion, a sufficient fund shall be accumulated, he is hereby authorized to purchase or receive cessions or donations of ground or buildings, in the name of the United States, and to cause buildings, when necessary, to be erected as hospitals for the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate and appoint, in such ports of the United States as he may think proper, one or more persons, to be called Directors of the Marine Hospital of the United States, whose duty it shall be to direct the expenditure of the fund assigned for their respective ports, according to the third section of this act; to provide for the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen, under such general instructions as shall be given by the President of the United States for that purpose, and also subject to the like general instructions to direct and govern such hospitals as the President may direct to be built in the respective ports; and that the said directors shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the President, who is authorized to fill up all vacancies that may be occasioned Acts of Congress. by the death or removal of any of the persons so An Act for erecting a light-house at Gay Head, on Mar tha's Vineyard, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That, as soon as the jurisdiction of such land at Gay Head, on the western part of Martha's Vineyard, in the State of Massachusetts, as the President of the United States shall deem sufficient, and most proper for the accommodation of a light-house, shall have been ceded to the United States, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, which shall be approved by the President, for building a lighthouse thereon, and for furnishing the same with all necessary supplies; and, also, to agree for the salaries and wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the President, for the superintendence of the same; and the President is hereby authorized to make the said appointments. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as soon as such land, at the New Inlet of Cape Fear river, in the State of North Carolina, as the President of the United States shall deem sufficient and most proper whereon to erect a lighted beacon, shall have been ceded to the United States, together with the jurisdiction thereof, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, for erecting a lighted beacon thereon; and also for placing a buoy in the inlet aforesaid, and for furnishing the same with all necessary supplies. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose aforesaid, and also for the payment of such sum as shall be found due to the commissioners of pilotage of the port of Savannah, in the State of Georgia, for erecting a beacon, and placing sundry buoys at the said port, on a settlement of their accounts at the Treasury, there be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise particularly appropriated, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, always, That no payment shall be made for erecting the said beacon until the land whereon the same has been erected, together with the jurisdiction thereof, shall have been ceded to the United States, agreeable to law, and in like manner as has been done in other cases. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act to enable the President of the United States to borrow money for the public service. Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is, authorized to borrow, on behalf of the United States, from the Bank of the United States, which is hereby authorized to lend the same, or from any other body or bodies politic or corporate, or from any person or persons, and upon such terms and conditions as he shall judge most advantageous for the United States, a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars, in addition to the moneys to be received in the Treasury of the United States from taxes, for making up any deficiency in any appropriation heretofore made by law, or to be made during the present session of Congress; and defraying the expenses which may be incurred, by calling into actual service any part of the militia of the United States, or by raising, equipping, and calling into actual service, any regular troops or volunteers, pursuant to authorities vested or to be vested in the President of the United States by law: Provided, That no engagement nor contract shall be entered into which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums borrowed at any time after the expiration of fifteen years from the date of such loan. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much as may be necessary of the surplus of the duties on imports and tonnage, beyond the permanent appropriations heretofore charged upon them by law, shall be and hereby is pledged and appropriated for paying the interest of all such moneys as may be borrowed, pursuant to this act, according to the terms and conditions on which the loan or loans, respectively, may be effected: and also for paying and discharging the principal sum or sums of any such loan or loans, according to the terms and conditions to be fixed as aforesaid: and the faith of the United States shall be and hereby is pledged to establish sufficient permanent revenues for making up any deficiency that may hereafter appear in the provisions for paying the said interest and principal sums, or any of them, in manner aforesaid. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sums to be borrowed, pursuant to this act, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and there separately accounted for; and that the same shall be and hereby are appropriated in manner following: first, to make up any deficiency in any appropriation heretofore made by law, or to be made during the present session of Congress; and, secondly, to defray the expenses which may be incurred before the end of the next session of Congress, by calling into actual service any part of the militia of the United States, or by raising, equipping, and calling into actual service, any regular troops or volunteers, pursuant to authorities vested or to be vested in the President of the United States by law. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act to suspend, for a further time, the duties upon Acts of Congress. the end of the first session of the sixth Congress of the United States. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act to make a further appropriation for the additional naval armament. Be it enacted, &c., That the sum of six hundred thousand dollars shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to cause to be built and equipped three ships or vessels, to be of a force not less than thirty-two guns each, and of the dimensions and model which he shall deem most advantageous for the public service, as part of the additional naval armament authorized by law. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the timber and other materials belonging to the United States, proper for building and equipping the ships or vessels aforesaid, remaining in their several dock-yards, and elsewhere, may be employed, under the direction of the President of the United States, in effecting the purposes of this act, or may be othewise disposed of, as he shall think best. And the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act in further addition to the act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States." Be it enacted, &c., That the judges of the supreme court, and of the several district courts of the United States, and all judges and justices of the courts of the several States, having authority, by the laws of the United States, to take cognizance of offences against the Constitution and laws thereof, shall respectively have the like power and authority to hold to security of the peace, and for good behaviour, in cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, as may or can be lawfully exercised by any judge or justice of the peace of the respective States, in cases cognizable before them. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act making certain appropriations, and to authorize the President to obtain a loan on the credit of the direct tax, Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be, and there hereby are, appropriated, the following sums, that is to say, towards defraying the bounties, pay, and other expenditures, which shall and may accrue, in the augmentation of the Army of the United States, pursuant to the act, entitled An act to augment the Army of the United States, and for other purposes," the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars; and, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for such fortifications as the President of the United States shall cause to be erected or completed, the further sum of seventyfive thousand dollars; and for the further expenses of the commissioners appointed pursuant to the treaty between the United States and Spain, and for the extraordinary expenses of making and running certain boundary lines required by the same, in addition to the former appropriations, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid from any moneys which shall be in the Treasury of the United States, not already appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to borrow of the Bank of the United States, who are hereby enabled to lend the same, or of any other corporation, person or persons, the sum of two millions of dollars, upon the credit, and in anticipation of, the direct tax, laid and to be collected within the United States; which tax shall be, and is hereby, pledged for the re-payment of any loan which shall be obtained thereon, as aforesaid; and the faith of the United States shall be, and is hereby, pledged to make good any deficiency: Provided, That the interest to be allowed for such loan shall not exceed six per centum per annum; and that the principal shall be reimbursed at the pleasure of the United States. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act to alter and amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments. Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be in the nominated Accountant of the Navy, who shall be Department of the Navy, an officer to be decharged with the settlement of all accounts for moneys advanced and stores issued or distributed by or under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and who shall report, from time to time, all such settlements as shall have been made by him for money advanced or issued, for the inspection and revision of the accounting officers of the Treasury. And the compensation of the said accountant shall be a yearly salary of one thousand six hundred dollars. And all letters and packages to and from said accountant, by mail, shall be free of postage. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of the United States shall disburse all such money as shall have been previously ordered for the use of the Department of the Navy, by warrants from the Treasury, which disbursements shall be made pursuant to warrants from the Secretary of the Navy, countersigned by the accountant. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all purchases, and contracts, for supplies or services for the military and naval service of the United States, shall be made by or under the direction of the chief officers of the Departments of War and the Navy, respectively, and all agents or contractors for supplies or services as aforesaid, shall render their accounts for settlement to the accountant of the pro1er department for which such supplies or services are required, subject nevertheless to the inspection and revision of the officers of the Treasury in manner before prescribed. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Purveyor of Public Supplies, to execute all such orders as he may from time to time receive from the Secretary of War or Secretary of the Navy, relative to the procuring and providing of all kinds of stores and supplies; and shall render his accounts relative thereto to the Acts of Congress. ccountants of the proper departments, which acounts shall be subject to the inspection and reision of the officers of the Treasury, as aforesaid. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the proisions of the act passed on the eighth day of May ne thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, enitled "An act making alterations in the Treaury and War Departments," and the act passed n the twenty third day of February, one thousand even hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act o establish the office of Purveyor of Public Sup lies," so far as the same are repugnant to the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, epealed. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all conracts to be made, by virtue of this act, or of any aw of the United States, and requiring the advance of money, or to be in any manner conected with the settlement of public accounts, shall be deposited in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States, within ninety days after their dates, respectively. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act making certain additional appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. Be it enacted, &c., That for the compensation of clerks to the commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan officers, for and during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated the sum of thirteen thousand dollars. An Act authorizing the grant and conveyance of a certain lot of ground to Elie Williams. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to contract with Elie Williams, for the sale of a certain lot of ground, twenty perches in length, and sixteen perches in breadth, situate in the town of Cincinnati, in the Terrritory Northwest of the Ohio, it being the same lot on which certain buildings were erected by the said Elie Williams and Robert Elliot, deceased, when contractors for supplying the western army with provisions. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That on payment into the Treasury of the United States of such sum or sums of money as shall have been agreed upon between the said Elie Williams and the Secretary of the Treasury, as the price of the above-mentioned lot, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized, to grant a patent for the same, to the said Elie Williams, his heirs or assigns. Approved, July 16, 1798. An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof." Be it enacted, &c., That the provision for givSEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the ing bond and finding sufficient surety or sureties expenses incident to the Navy Department, for for vessels bound on foreign voyages, as required and during the present year, including the com- in the second section of the act, entitled, “An act pensation of the Secretary of the Navy, his clerks, to suspend the commercial intercourse between the and persons employed in his office, with the con- United States and France, and the dependencies tingent expenses of the Department, there shall be, thereof," shall extend no further, than to obligaand hereby is, appropriated the sum of six thou- tions to the amount of the value of the vessels resand two hundred and fourteen dollars and seven-spectively, and to a sum in addition thereto equal ty-two cents. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the expenses incident to the office of the Accountant of the Navy Department, for and during the present year, including the compensation of the Accountant, his clerks, and persons employed in his office, with all contingent expenses thereof, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated the sum of two thousand and forty-five dollars and nine cents. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the additional expenses incident to the present session of Congress, for printing, stationery, and other con tingencies, there shall be, and hereby are, appropriated the following sums, viz: for the Senate one thousand dollars; for the House of Representatives four thousand dollars. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That for repaying to the Bank of the United States, a sum advanced upon bills drawn by the Treasury of the United States, in favor of the cashier of the said Bank, upon the supervisor of the district of New Hampshire, and protested, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated the sum of five thousand five hundred and six dollars. to one third of the value of the cargo. Provided, That in no case the surety or sureties shall be answerable for more than ten thousand dollars, any thing in the act above-mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, July 16, 1798. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause to be printed a number of copies, not exceeding ten thousand, of the instructions to the Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States, to the French Republic, and of all the despatches hitherto received from them, and which have been communicated by the President of the United States to both Houses of Congress, and to cause the same to be distributed, gratis, throughout the United States, and particularly in such parts thereof, wherein the dissemination of information, through the medium of newspapers, is the most obstructed. Approved, June 22, 1798. |