Additional pay of enlisted troops.
1792, ch. 9.supporting the military establishment of the United States, as provided by the act, intituled “An act making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States,” there shall be allowed and paid, from and after the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to each non-commissioned officer, musician and private now in service, or hereafter to be enlisted, the additional pay of one dollar per month, during the terms of their respective enlistments; and to each soldier now in the service of the United States, or discharged therefrom, subsequent to the third day of March last, who shall re-enlist after the first day of January next, Additional bounty on reenlistment.an additional bounty of eight dollars, making the entire bounty sixteen dollars; and to each person not now in the army of the United States, or discharged, as above, who shall enlist after the said first day of January next, an additional bounty of six dollars, making the entire bounty fourteen dollars: Part of the additional bounty to be deferred.but the payment of four dollars of each additional bounty hereby granted, shall be deferred until the soldier enlisting shall join the regiment or corps, in which he is to serve.
Increase of rations to those employed in the military service of the U. States on the western frontiers.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That to those in the military service of the United States, who are, or shall be employed on the western frontiers, there shall be allowed, during the time of their being so employed. two ounces of flour or bread, and two ounces of beef or pork, in addition to each of their rations, and half a pint of salt, in addition to every hundred of their rations.
Approved, January 2, 1795.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. Ⅹ.—An Act authorizing the transfer of the Stock standing to the credit of certain States.
Certain stock standing to the credit of a state to be transferred to its creditors.
1794, ch. 37.
1797, ch. 14.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That at any time within two years from the passing of this act, transfers shall and may be authorized, of so much of the stock standing to the credit of any state, pursuant to the report of the commissioners for settling accounts between the United States and individual states, and the act passed thereon, intituled “An act making provision for the payment of the interest on the balances due to certain states, upon a final settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual states,” to creditors of such state, who were such, prior to the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, as may be necessary to satisfy their respective demands: Provided,Proviso. That no such transfer shall be made but with the consent of the said state and its creditors.
Approved, January 2, 1795.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. Ⅺ.—An Act providing for the payment of certain instalments of foreign debts; and of the third instalment due on a loan made of the Bank of the United States.
Certain instalments of debt how to be paid.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 hereby is authorized and empowered to cause any instalments of the foreign debts, which may fall due in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and also the third instalment due on a loan made of the Bank of the United States, in pursuance of the eleventh section of the 1791, ch. 10.act for incorporating the subscribers to the said bank, to be paid out of the proceeds of any foreign loans heretofore made.
Approved, January 8, 1795.