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(ACT of January 2nd, 1813.)

provide a permanent assylum for disabled and decrepid naval officers, seamen, and marines.

SEC. IV. The secretary of the navy, is authorized and required, to prepare the necessary rules and regulations for the government of the institution, and report the same to the next session of congress.

SEC. V. When any navy officer, seaman, or marine, shall be admitted into a navy hospital, the institution shall be allowed one ration per day during his continuance therein, to be deducted from the account of the United States, with such officer, seaman, or marine; and in like manner, when any officer, seaman, or ma rine, entitled to a pension, shall be admitted into a navy hospital, such pension, during his continuance therein, shall be paid to the commissioners of the navy hospital, and deducted from the amount of such pensioner,

ACT of March 30, 1812. 4 Bioren, 399.

27. SEC. VI. The pursers in the navy of the United States, shall be appointed by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and from and after the first day of May next, no person shall act in the character of purser, who shall not have been thus first nominated and appointed, excepting pursers on distant service, who shall not remain in service after the first day of July next, unless nominated and appointed as aforesaid. And every purser, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall give bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, in the penalty of ten thousand dollars, conditioned faithfully to perform all the duties of purser in the navy of the United States. [Infra.]

ACT of January 2, 1813. 4 Bioren, 484.

An act to increase the navy of the United States.

28. SEC. 1. The president of the United States shall be, and he hereby is authorized, as soon as suitable materials can be procured therefor, to cause to be built, equipped, and employed, four ships to rate not less than seventy-four guns, and six ships to rate forty-four guns each.

SEC. 11. There shall be employed on board each of the said ships of seventy-four guns, one captain, six lieutenants, one captain, one first lieutenant, and one second lieutenant of marines, one surgeon, one chaplain, one purser, and three surgeon's mates.

SEC. II. There shall be employed in each of the said ships, carrying seventy-four guns, the following warrant officers, who shall be appointed by the president of the United States: one master, one second master, three master's mates, one boatswain, one gunner, one carpenter, one sailmaker, and twenty midshipmen; and the

(ACT of March 3d, 1813.)

following petty officers, who shall be appointed by the captains of the ships, respectively, in which they are to be employed, viz. one armorer, six boatswain's mates, three gunner's mates, two carpenter's mates, one sailmaker's mate, one cooper, one steward, one master at arms, one cook, one coxswain, one boatswain's yeoman, one gunner's yeoman, one carpenter's yeoman, ten quarter gunners, eight quartermasters, and one clerk; and one schoolmaster, also to be appointed by the captain.

SEC. IV. The crews of each of the said ships of seventy-four guns, shall consist of two hundred able seamen, three hundred ordinary seamen and boys, three sergeants, three corporals, one drummer, one fifer, and sixty marines.

29. SEC. v. The pay of the schoolmaster shall be twenty-five dollars per month and two rations per day.

ACT of January 20, 1813. 4 Bioren, 486.

30. SEC. 1. If any officer of the navy or marines shall be killed or die, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children, under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, which allowance shall continue for and during the term of five years: but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay for the remainder shall go to the child or children of the said deceased officer: Provided, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children, and the money required for this purpose shall be paid out of the navy pension fund under the direction of the commissioners of that fund,

ACT of March 3, 1813. 4 Bioren, 525.

An act supplementary to the act for increasing the navy.

31. SEC. 1. The president is hereby authorized to have built six sloops of war, and to have the same manned, equipped, and commissioned, for service; and the president is authorized to have built, or procured, such a number of sloops of war, or other armed vessels, to be manned, equipped, and commissioned, as the public service may require, on the lakes.

SEC. II. The president is hereby authorized to appoint such officers, and to employ the number of seamen which may be necessary, for such vessels as are authorized by law to be put in commission, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. IV. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars is appropriated for the purpose of establishing a dockyard, for repairing the vessels of war, in such central and convenient place on the seaboard as the president of the United States shall designate.

(ACT of April 18th, 1814.)

SEC. V. The president is hereby authorized to contract for the building any of the six forty-four gun ships authorized by law: Provided, That the building be under the inspection of an agent appointed by the secretary of the navy.

SEC. VI. The president of the United States shall be authorized to sell or dispose of such and so many of the gunboats belonging to the United States as may have become unfit for service, or as, in his judgment, may no longer be necessary to be retained by the government.

ACT of March 4, 1814. 4 Bioren, 652.

[See title Pensions.]

32. SEC. II. If any seaman or marine belonging to the navy of the United States shall die, or if any officer, seaman, or marine, belonging to the navy of the United Sates, shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children, under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, which allowance shall continue for the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term, of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of the deceased: Provided, That such half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the money required for this purpose shall be paid out of the navy pension fund, under the direction of the commissioners of that fund.

ACT of April 18, 1814. 4 Bioren, 690.

33. SEC. 1. The officers and seamen of the revenue cutters of the United States, who have been, or may be wounded or disabled in the discharge of their duty, while cooperating with the navy by order of the president of the United States, shall be entitled to be placed on the navy pension list, at the same rate of pension, and under the same regulations and restrictions as are now provided by law for the officers and seamen of the navy.

ACT of April 18, 1814. 4 Bioren, 705.

An act concerning the pay of officers, seamen and marines in the navy of the United States.

34. SEC. 1. The pay and subsistence of the respective commission and warrant officers shall be as follows: a lieutenant, other

(ACT of February 7th, 1815.)

than a master commandant, or lieutenant commanding a small vessel, forty dollars per month and three rations per day; a chaplain, forty dollars per month, and two rations per day; a sailing master, forty dollars per month, and two rations per day; a surgeon, fifty dollars per month, and two rations per day; a surgeon's mate, thirty dollars per month and two rations per day; a purser, forty dollars per month and two rations per day; a boatswain, twenty dollars per month and two rations per day; a gunner, twenty dollars per month, and two rations per day; a sailmaker, twenty dollars per month, and two rations per day; and the pay to be allowed to the petty officers and midshipmen, and the pay and bounty upon enlistment of the seamen, ordinary seamen, and marines, shall be fixed by the president of the United States: Provided, That the whole sum to be given for the whole pay aforesaid, and for the pay of officers, and that the amount of bounties upon enlistment of seamen and marines, shall not exceed, for any year, the amount which may, in such year, be appropriated for those purposes, respectively.

ACT of December 15, 1814. 4 Bioren, 25.

An act directing the staff officers of the army to comply with the requisitions of naval and marine officers in certain cases.

[See title ARMY, 74, ante page 66.]

ACT of February 7, 1815. 4 Bioren, 791.

An act to alter and amend the several acts for establishing a navy department by adding thereto a board of commissioners.

35. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint three officers of the navy, whose rank shall not be below a post captain, who shall constitute a board of commissioners for the navy of the United States; and shall have power to adopt such rules and regulations for the government of their meetings as they may judge expedient, and the board so constituted, shall be attached to the office of the secretary of the navy; and under his superintendance, shall discharge all the ministerial duties of said office, relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as all other matters connected with the naval establishment of the United States. And the said board shall appoint their own secretary, who shall receive, in compensation for his services, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum, who shall keep a fair record of their proceedings, subject at all times to the inspection of the president of the United States, and the secretary of the navy.

SEC. n. The said board of commissioners, by, and with the

(ACT of April 16th, 1816.)

consent of the secretary of the navy, are hereby authorized to prepare such rules and regulations as shall be necessary for securing an uniformity in the several classes of vessels and their equipments, and for repairing and refitting them, and for securing responsibility in the subordinate officers and agents; which regulations, when approved by the president of the United States, shall be respected and obeyed, until altered and revoked by the same authority, and the said rules and regulations thus prepared and approved, shall be laid before congress at their next session. It shall also be the duty of said board, upon the requisition of the secretary of the navy, to furnish all the estimates of expenditure which the several branches of the service may require, and such other information and statements as he may deem necessary.

SEC. III. The officer of the said board holding the oldest commission shall preside, and each commissioner shall be entitled to receive, in compensation for his services, three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, in lieu of wages, rations, and other emoluments, as naval officers; and all letters and packets to and from the said commissioners, which relate to their official duties, shall be free from postage.

SEC. IV. Nothing in this act shall be construed to take from the secretary of the navy, his control and direction of the naval fores of the United States, as now by law possessed.

ACT of March 3, 1815. 4 Bioren, 838.

SEC. 1. The board of navy commissioners are hereby authorized to appoint two clerks to be attached to their office, who shall receive for their services, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars each, per annum.

ACT of February 27, 1815. 4 Bioren, 814.

36. SEC. IV. The president of the United States is hereby authorized, to cause all the armed vessels thereof on the lakes, except such as he may deem necessary to enforce the proper execution of the revenue laws, to be sold or laid up, as he may judge most conducive to the public interest; such vessels being first divested of their armament, tackle and furniture, which are to be carefully preserved.

57. SEC. VI. The president of the United States, is hereby authorised to cause to be sold, they being first divested of their guns and military stores, which are to be carefully preserved; such and so many of the gun boats, as in his judgment, may no longer be necessary to be retained for the public service.

ACT of April 16, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 56.

An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act in relation to the navy pension

fund."

37. SEC. 1. In all cases of prizes captured by the public armed

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