cutters,” be, and the same is hereby continued in force to the end of the next session of Congress.
Approved, May 8, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅬⅢ.—An Act to revive and continue in force, the act respecting the compensation of clerks, and for other purposes.
Section 1.Act respecting compensation of clerks continued.
1796, ch. 40. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed on the thirtieth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, intituled “An act to regulate the compensation of clerks,” be and the same hereby is revived and continued in force, until the first day of January next.
Sec. 2.Additional compensation to clerks in the treasury and war departments for the present year. And be it further enacted, That to the aggregate of compensations for clerks in the present year, as fixed, pursuant to the aforesaid act, there shall be added, during the present year, the following sums, to wit: In the War department, one thousand six hundred dollars, for such additional clerks, and in such proportions, as the secretary of that department shall think fit: In the Treasury department, three thousand dollars for enabling the Comptroller and Auditor to employ such clerks as may be necessary in adjusting and settling the accounts which originated under the government of the United States, prior to the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
Sec. 3.Additional compensation to officers of the Senate and House of Representatives. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred dollars be allowed and paid, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, to each of the principal and engrossing clerks in the office of the secretary of the Senate, and of the clerk of the House of Representatives; also, the like sum to the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, and to each of the doorkeepers and assistant doorkeepers of the two Houses of Congress, in addition to the compensations heretofore allowed them by law.
Sec. 4.Additional allowance to a clerk in the mint.
How these sums are to be paid.
Ante, p. 138. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sums, together with the sum of two hundred dollars additional allowance for a clerk in the Mint, granted by the aforesaid act, shall be paid out of the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act “making provision for the debt of the United States.”
Approved, May 14, 1798.
Statute Ⅱ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. ⅩⅬⅥ.—An Act to amend the act intituled “An act to amend and repeal, in part, the act intituled An act to ascertain and fix the Military establishment of the United States.”
Section 1.The brigadier general may choose his brigade major and inspector from the commissioned officers.
Ante, p. 507.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Brigadier General who is now, or may hereafter be in the service of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to choose his brigade-major and inspector, or either of them, from the commissioned officers in the line of the army; and that so much of the second section of the act, intituled “An act to amend and repeal, in part, the act, intituled An act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States,” as confines the choice of brigade-major and inspector to the captains and subalterns of the line, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2.Allowance to Major Cushing as inspector.And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the treasury shall allow to Major Cushing the monthly pay, rations, forage and allowances for the same, as established by law for an inspector, during the time he has acted in said capacity by appointment of General Wilkinson.
Approved, May 22, 1798.