(ACT of April 23d, 1800.)

two-twentieths; but where there is a captain, without a lieutenant of marines, these officers shall be entitled to two-twentieths and one-third of a twentieth, which third, in such case, shall be deducted from the share of the officers mentioned in article No. 3, of this section.

3. To chaplains, lieutenants of marines, surgeons, pursers, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and master's mates, two-twentieths.

4. To midshipmen, surgeon's mates, captain's clerks, schoolmasters, boatswain's mates, gunner's mates, carpenter's mates, ship's stewards, sailmakers, masters at arms, armorers, cockswains, and coopers, three-twentieths and an half.

5. To gunner's yeomen, boatswain's yeomen, quartermasters, quartergunners, sailmaker's mates, sergeants and corporals of marines, drummers, fifers, and extra petty officers, two-twentieths and an half.

6. To seamen, ordinary seamen, marines, and all other persons doing duty on board, seven-twentieths.

7. Whenever one or more public ships or vessels are in sight at the time any one or more ships are taking a prize or prizes, they shall all share equally in the prize or prizes, according to the number of men and guns on board each ship in sight.

No commander of a fleet or squadron shall be entitled to receive any share of prizes taken by vessels not under his immediate command; nor of such prizes as may have been taken by ships or vessels intended to be placed under his command, before they have acted under his immediate orders; nor shall a commander of a fleet or squadron, leaving the station where he had the command, have any share in the prizes taken by ships left on such station, after he has gone out of the limits of his said command.

14. SEC. VII. A bounty shall be paid by the United States, of twenty dollars, for each person on board any ship of an enemy at the commencement of an engagement, which shail be sunk or destroyed by any ship or vessel belonging to the United States of equal or inferior force, the same to be divided among the officers and crew, in the same manner as prize money.

15. SEC. VII. Every officer, seaman, or marine, disabled in the line of his duty, shall be entitled to receive, for life, or during his disability, a pension from the United States, according to the nature and degree of his disability, not exceeding one-half his monthly pay.

SEC. IX. All money accruing, or which has already accrued, to. the United States, from the sale of prizes, shall be and remain forever a fund for the payment of pensions and half pay, should the same be hereafter granted, to the officers and seamen who may be entitled to receive the same: and if the said fund shall be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is hereby pledged to

(ACT of March 26th, 1804.)

make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be applied to the making of further provision for the comfort of the disabled officers, seamen, and marines, and for such as, though not disabled, may merit by their bravery, or long and faithful services, the gratitude of their country.

SEC. X. The said fund shall be under the management and direction of the secretary of the navy, the secretary of the treasury, and the secretary of war, for the time being, who are hereby authorised to receive any sums to which the United States may be entitled, from the sale of prizes, and employ and invest the same, and the interest arising therefrom in any manner which a majority of them may deem most advantageous: And it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to lay before congress, annually, in the first week of their session, a minute statement of their proceedings relative to the management of said fund.

ACT of May 10, 1800. 3 Bioren, 382.

An act in addition to the act, entitled "An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the United States to any foreign place or country."

16. SEC. IV. [See title SLAVE TRADE.]

ACT of March 3, 1801. 3 Bioren, 427.

An act providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes. 17. SEC. III. The navy ration shall consist of as follows: on Sunday, fourteen ounces of bread, one and a quarter pound of beef, half a pound of flour, one quarter of a pound of suet, one half pint of distilled spirits; Monday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of peas, one half pint of distilled spirits; Tuesday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of beef, two ounces of cheese, one half pint of distilled spirits; Wednesday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of rice, one half pint of distilled spirits; Thursday, fourteen ounces of bread, one and a quarter pound of beef, half pound of flour, quarter pound of suet, one half pint of distilled spirits; Friday, fourteen ounces of bread, four ounces of cheese, two ounces of butter, half pint of rice, half pint of molasses, one half pint of distilled spirits; Saturday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of peas, half pint vinegar, one half pint of distilled spirits.

ACT of March 26, 1804. 3 Bioren, 615.

An act in relation to the navy pension fund.

18. SEC. 1. All the money accruing, or which has already accrued, to the United States, from the capture of prizes authorised by law, and which has not already been paid to the secretary of

(ACT of March 27th, 1804.

the navy, the secretary of the treasury, and the secretary of wars as commissioners of the navy pension fund, shall be paid to the treasurer of the United States.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the United States to receive all the money so accruing, and to disburse the same, pursuant to warrants from the secretary of the navy, countersigned by the accountant of the navy; and a distinct quarterly account of the moneys thus received and disbursed, shall be rendered by the said treasurer to the accounting officers of the treasury, in the same manner as is provided for other public money, received by him.

SEC. 1. [It shall be the duty of the accountant of the navy to receive and settle all accounts whatever, in relation to the navy pension fund, and report, from time to time, all such settlements as shall have been made by him, for the inspection and revision of the accounting officers of the treasury, in the same manner as in other cases of public accounts.]

SEC. IV. The comptroller of the treasury shall be fully authorised and empowered to direct suits for the recovery of any sums now due, or which may hereafter be due, to the United States, for prizes as aforesaid, and to prosecute the same in the name of the United States, in the same manner as in other cases for the recovery of moneys due to the United States.

SEC. V. The commissioners of the navy pension fund are hereby authorised to appoint a secretary, who shall perform all such duties, in relation to the fund, as they shall require of him; and shall receive for his services, a salary not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be paid quarter yearly, at the treasury of the United States, and charged to the same fund.

SEC. VI. The commissioners of the navy pension fund, are hereby authorised and directed to make such regulations as may to them appear expedient, for the admission of persons on the roll of navy pensioners, and for the payment of the pensions.

ACT of March 27, 1804. 3 Bioren, 619.

19. SEC. I. The president of the United States is hereby authorised to attach to the navy yard at Washington, and to the frigates and other vessels laid up in ordinary in the Eastern Branch, a captain of the navy, who shall have the general care and superintendence of the same; and shall perform the duties of agent to the navy department, and shall be entitled to receive for his services the pay and emoluments of a captain commanding a squadron on separate service. And the president of the United States is hereby further authorised to attach, permanently, to the said navy yard and vessels, one other commissioned officer of the navy, who shall receive for his services the pay and emoluments of a captain commanding a twenty gun ship; one surgeon, and one surgeon's mate, of the navy, who shall be severally al

(ACT of April 21st, 1806.)

lowed for their services the same pay, rations, and emoluments, as are allowed to a surgeon, and to a surgeon's mate, in the army of the United States; one sailing master, one head carpenter, one plumber, one head blockmaker, one head cooper, two boatswains, two gunners, one sailmaker, one storekeeper, one purser, one clerk of the yard; and, also, such seamen and marines, as, in the opinion of the president, shall be deemed necessary: Provided, That the number of seamen or marines shall not at any time be greater than what is at present authorised by the act to which this is a supplement.

ACT of April 21, 1806. 4 Bioren, 49.

An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes."

20. SEC. 11. The president of the United States is hereby authorised to keep in actual service, in time of peace, so many of the frigates and other public armed vessels of the United States, as in his judgment the nature of the service may require, and to cause the residue thereof to be laid up in ordinary in convenient ports.

SEC. II. The public armed vessels of the United States, in actual service in time of peace, shall be officered and manned as the president of the United States shall direct: Provided, That the officers shall not exceed the following numbers and grades, that is to say: thirteen captains, nine masters commandant, seventytwo lieutenants, and one hundred and fifty midshipmen; but the said officers shall receive no more than half their monthly pay, during the time when they shall not be under orders for actual service: And, provided further, That the whole number of able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, shall not exceed nine hundred and twenty-five, but the president may appoint for the vessels in actual service, so many surgeons, surgeon's mates, sailing masters, chaplains, pursers, boatswains, gunners, sailmakers, and carpenters, as may in his opinion be necessary and proper.

ACT of April 21, 1806. 4 Bioren, 64.

21. SEC. III. The president of the United States may direct any of the armed vessels of the United States to be sold, whenever he shall be of opinion that the said vessel is so much out of repair, that it will not be for the interest of the United States to repair the same.

22. [ACT of March 3d, 1807, entitled "An act authorising the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States in cases of insurrections," See title ARMY, 28, ante page 55.]

ACT of March 3, 1807. 4 Bioren, 116.

23. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is hereby authorised, in addition to the present naval peace establishment, to employ a number of able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, not exceeding five hundred, should the exigency of the public service require the same.

ACT of January 31, 1809. 4 Bioren, 198.

An act authorising the employment of an additional naval force. [Infra, 44.]

24. SEC. II. The president of the United States is hereby authorised and empowered, in addition to the number of petty offi cers, able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, at present authorised by law, to appoint, and cause to be engaged and employed, as soon as may be, three hundred midshipmen, three thousand six hundred able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, who shall be engaged to serve for a period not exceeding two years; but the president may discharge the same sooner, if in his judgment their service may be dispensed with.

ACT of March 3, 1809. 4 Bioren, 220.

25. [See title, ACCOUNTS, 13, 15, 16, 17. ante pages 4, 56.] ACT of February 26, 1811. 4 Bioren, 838.

An act establishing navy hospitals.

26. SEC. 1. The money hereafter collected by virtue of the act, entitled "An act in addition to "An act, for the relief of sick and disabled seamen," shall be paid to the secretary of the navy, the secretary of the treasury, and the secretary of war, for the time being, who are hereby appointed a board of commissioners, by the name and stile of commissioners of navy hospitals, which, together with the sum of fifty thousand dollars, hereby appropriated out of the unexpended ballance of the marine hospital fund to be paid to the commissioners aforesaid, shall constitute a fund for navy hospitals.

SEC. II. All fines imposed on navy officers, seamen, and marines, shall be paid to the commissioners of navy hospitals.

SEC. III. The commissioners of navy hospitals are hereby authorized and required, to procure, at a suitable place or places, proper sites for navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the scite, to cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as, with most convenience and least cost, will admit of subsequent additions as the funds will permit and circumstances require; and the commissioners are required, at one of the establishments to