employed for account of the United States; and shall and may appoint one or more persons to superintend the said works, under the direction of the department of war. Accounts to be laid before Congress respecting the same.And an account of the expenditures which shall be incurred in forming and employing these establishments; and of the cannon and arms which shall be case and manufactured therein respectively, shall be laid before the Congress of the United States at their next session, and annually thereafter, so long as the same shall be continued.
Sec. 3.Appropriation for the foundries and armouries. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be and hereby is appropriated, and shall be paid out of any monies not before appropriated, for the hire, purchase and employ of the said founderies and armouries, respectively, in case such establishments shall be found necessary, as hereinbefore provided.
Approved, May 4, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅩⅩⅨ.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be purchased, or built, a number of small vessels to be equipped as gallies, or otherwise.
Section 1.President may provide ten gallies. 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 is hereby authorized, if the same shall appear to him necessary for the protection of the United States, to cause a number of small vessels, Post, p. 561.not exceeding ten to be built, or purchased, and to be fitted out, manned, armed and equipped as gallies, or otherwise, in the service of the United States, the officers and men to be on the same pay, and to receive the same subsistence, as officers of the same rank and men are entitled to, in the navy of the United States.
Sec. 2.Officers may be appointed by the President in the recess—employment of the gallies. And be it further enacted, That the said officers shall be appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States alone during the recess of the Senate; and the said gallies or vessels shall be stationed in such parts of the United States, as he may direct.
Sec. 3.Appropriation. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, the sum of eighty thousand dollars, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 4, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅬⅠ.—An Act directing the payment of a detachment of Militia, for services performed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, under Major James Ore.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers be, and they are hereby authorized to settle the accounts of the militia who served on an expedition commanded by Major James Ore, against the lower Cherokee Indians, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and that the same be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 8, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅬⅡ.—An Act, to continue in force, a part of an act respecting the compensation to the Officers and Mariners of the Revenue Cutters.
