Specific ap For the purchase of ironmongery, lead, wood, coals, stationery, office furniture, and for all other contingencies of the establishment of the propriations. mint, six thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For expense of firewood, stationery, printing, rent, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the Accountant of the War department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant of the War department, one thousand dollars. For the expense incident to the removal of the War department from Philadelphia to Trenton, during part of the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, including the extra expenses of the Secretary for the department, the accountant, clerks and messengers in each office, three thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-three cents. For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars. For expense of firewood, stationery, printing, rent, and all other contingencies in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For expense of removing the department of the Navy, from Philadelphia to Trenton, during part of the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, including the extra expenses of the clerks and messengers in the offices of the Secretary and Accountant for the department, four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fortyeight cents. For compensation to the Accountant of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant of the Navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the keeper of the navy store, and his assistant; laborers employed in the store, porterage, and store rent, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the Surveyor General, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the assistant surveyors, chain carriers, axe men, and other persons employed, stationery, and other contingent expenses in the Surveyor General's department (in addition to former appropriations) nine thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars. For compensation to the governor, secretary and judges of the territory northwest of the Ohio, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of stationery, printing patents for land, office rent and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor of the Mississippi territory, and for discharging the duties of superintendent of Indian affairs, during part of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand three hundred and two dollars and nineteen cents. For compensation to the secretary of the Mississippi territory, and for discharging the duties of secretary during part of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, four hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For compensation to three judges of the Mississippi territory, during part of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents. For compensation to the governor, secretary and judges of the Mis 7 Specific ap- sissippi territory, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninetypropriations. nine, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. 1793, ch. 14. Out of what funds the appropriations are to be paid. Ante, p. 138. For the expenses of stationery, office rent, printing patents for land, and other contingent expenses of the government of the Mississippi territory (including eight months of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight) five hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, one thousand dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For the annual allowance to the widow and orphan children of Colonel John Harding, and to the orphan children of Major Alexander Trueman, by the act of Congress of the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and for occasional improvement in the construction of lanterns and lamps, and materials used in them, including an allowance for the increased number of lighthouses, forty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and eight cents. For defraying the contingent expenses of the government (the amount of former appropriations unexpended being carried to the credit of the surplus fund) twenty thousand dollars. For the establishment and maintenance of trading houses with the Indians (the balance unexpended of a former appropriation being carried to the credit of the surplus fund) one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted, in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars. For compensation to the Postmaster General, assistant Postmaster General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster General's office, eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For expense of firewood, stationery, printing, rent and other contingent expenses, in the office of the Postmaster General, two 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," together with so much as may be necessary of the proceeds of the duties on imports, and the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the duties on domestic distilled spirits and stills, which shall accrue until the close of the present year. APPROVED, March 2, 1799. STATUTE III. March 2, 1799. Repealed by 1802. CHAP. XXVI.-An Act respecting Distillers of Geneva. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the act of April 6, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proprietor or possessor of any distillery situated in any place other than a city, town or village, and employed solely in the distillation of geneva, where such proprietor or possessor shall employ in such distillery any one still whose STATUTE III. March 2, 1799. Of what offi establishment shall consist. 1802, ch. 9. CHAP. XXVII.—An Act to regulate the Medical Establishment.(a) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the medi- cers the medical cal establishment of the United States, there shall be the following officers: A physician-general, who shall be charged with the superintendence and direction of all military hospitals, and generally of all medical and chirurgical practice or service concerning the army or navy of the United States, and of all persons who shall be employed in and about the same, in camps, garrisons and hospitals. An apothecary-general, and one or more deputies, who shall be charged with the safe-keeping and delivery of all medicines, instruments, dressings and other articles for the use of the hospital and army. A purveyor, who shall be charged with providing medicines, stores, and whatsoever else may be necessary in relation to the said practice or service. A competent number of hospital surgeons, who shall be liable to serve in the field, and who shall have the immediate charge and direction of such military hospitals as may be committed to their care respectively. A suitable number of hospital mates, who are to observe the directions of the hospital surgeons, and shall diligently perform all reasonable duties required of them for the recovery of the sick and wounded. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each military hospital shall have a steward, with a competent number of nurses and other attendants; which steward shall be charged with the procuring of such supplies as may not otherwise be furnished, and with the safe-keeping and issuing of all supplies. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said physician-general, hospital surgeons, purveyor, and apothecary and apothecaries, deputy or deputies, shall be appointed as other officers of the United States; that the said mates and stewards shall be appointed by the authority, and at the direction of the said physician-general, subject to the eventual арprobation and control of the President of the United States, and shall be removable by the authority of the said physician-general; and that the surgeon of each hospital shall appoint, employ and fix the compensations of the nurses and other attendants of such hospital, subject to the control of the said physician-general, or the hospital surgeon, of senior appointment, with a separate army, or in a separate district. Persons to at tend military hospitals. How the persons belonging to the medical establishment shall be appointed, &c. Regimental surgeons and mates SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That as often as the regimental sick will not suffer by the employing of regimental surgeons or mates in the temporary or other hospitals of the United States, the physician- hospitals. may be employed in the (a) The acts relating to the Medical departments of the army and navy, are: An act to regulate the medical establishment, March 2, 1799, chap. 27; an act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States, March 16, 1802, chap. 9, sec. 3; an act further to regulate the medical department of the army, May 8, 1820, chap. 75; an act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States, March 2, 1821, chap. 13, sec. 10; an act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy of the United States, May 24, 1828, chap. 121; an act to amend "an act for the better organ. ization of the medical department of the navy," approved 24th of May, 1828, January 21, 1829, chap. 7; an act to increase the number of surgeons and assistant surgeons, in the army of the United States, June 28, 1832, chap. 150; an act to increase and regulate the pay of the surgeons and assistant surgeons of the army, June 30, 1834, chap. 133. VOL. I.-91 3 P The physician general and hospital surgeons to frame a system of directions. Compensation and emoluments of the officers. Temporary general, or the hospital surgeon of senior appointment with a separate SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the compensations of the said several officers shall be as follows: Of the physician-general, one hundred dollars pay per month, and fifty dollars per month, which shall be in full compensation for forage, rations and travelling expenses: of the purveyor, one hundred dollars pay per month, in full compensation for his services and all expenses: of the apothecary-general, eighty dollars pay per month, and thirty dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations and all expenses: of each of his deputies, fifty dollars pay per month, and sixteen dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations and all expenses: of each hospital surgeon, eighty dollars pay per month, and forty dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations and all expenses of each mate, thirty dollars pay per month, and twenty dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations and all expenses of each steward, twenty-five dollars pay per month, and eight dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations and all expenses. Provided, that none of the officers aforesaid shall be entitled to any part of the pay or emoluments aforesaid, until they shall respectively be called into actual service. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That for the accommodation of and permanent the sick of the army and navy of the United States, the physician-genehospitals may be provided. ral and hospital surgeon of senior appointment, with the approbation of the general commanding the army within the district where he shall be, shall have power to provide temporary hospitals; and the physician-general, with the approbation of the President of the United States, shall have power to provide and establish permanent hospitals. Rules to which the said officers and others shall be subject, &c. A medical ine candidates. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all the said officers and others shall, as touching their several offices and duties, be liable to the rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the army; and shall be bound to obey, in conformity with law and the usages and customs of armies, the orders and directions of the chief military officers of the respective armies, and within the respective districts in which they shall respectively serve and be. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the physician-general, or in board to exam- his absence, the senior medical officer, with the approbation of the commander in chief, or commanding officer of a separate army, be, and hereby is authorized and empowered, as often as may be judged necessary, to call a medical board, which shall consist of the three senior medical officers then present, whose duty it shall be to examine all can J didates for employment or promotion in the hospital department, and CHAP. XXVIII. An Act making additional appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following additional appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be, and are hereby made; that is to say : For further expenses in carrying into effect the fifth article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between the United States and Great Britain, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the salaries, office rent, clerk hire, and contingencies of the commissioners under the sixth article of the said treaty, and for the salary of their secretary, sixteen thousand dollars. For enabling the President of the United States to defray the expenses which have been and may be incurred under the act passed June the thirtieth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, intituled "An act directing the appointment of agents in relation to the sixth article of the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States and Great Britain," a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose. For the salaries of the commissioners, under the seventh article of the said treaty, sixteen thousand, six hundred and sixty-six dollars, and sixty seven cents. For the salaries, clerk hire, office rent, and other contingencies of the two agents residing in England, on business relative to the said seventh article, nine thousand, eight hundred and thirty-three dollars, and thirtythree cents. For further expenses in carrying into effect the treaty of amity, navigation and limits between the United States and Spain, twenty thousand dollars. For making good deficiencies in former appropriations for carrying into effect the engagements of the United States with the Mediterranean powers, two hundred thousand dollars. For satisfying claims, other than for registered debt, which may be allowed at the treasury of the United States, pursuant to the act, intituled "An act respecting loan office and final settlement certificates" (in addition to former appropriations) the sum of thirty thousand dollars. For the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations during the present year, in addition to the sum of forty thousand dollars appropriated by law, for that purpose, the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, the sum of seventy-eight thousand, seven hundred dollars. For the reimbursement of such reasonable advances of money, as have been, or during the present year, may be made by the consuls of the United States, in affording relief to sick and destitute American seamen in foreign countries, or in aiding them to return to their homes, twenty thousand dollars. For the expenses already arisen, or which, during the present year, may be incurred, for the support and safe keeping of persons captured in French ships and vessels, eighteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is authorized to cause to be paid to certain subjects of Algiers and Tunis, the damages sustained by them from the capture or loss of certain merchandise freighted on board of vessels sailing under the flag of the United States; and that fifty-one thousand STATUTE III. March 2, 1799. [Obsolete.] Specific appropriations. 1797, ch. 6. 1798, ch. 51. Certain sub jects of Algiers indemnified. and Tunis to be |