proprietor of possessor shall employ in such distillery any one still whose capacity shall exceed eight hundred gallons, from materials the growth or produce of the United States, may at his or her option be charged with and pay duty on the quantity of spirits thereat distilled, at the same rates, according to the proof thereof, as are now chargeable on such spirits distilled in cities, towns and villages, subject to the same regulations, provisions, penalties and forfeitures as are established for securing and collecting the duties on other domestic distilled spirits.
Approved, March 2, 1799.
Statute Ⅲ.
Chap. XXVII.—An Act to regulate the Medical Establishment.[1]
Of what officers the medical establishment shall consist.
1802, ch. 7.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the medical 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 serve the directions of the hospital surgeons, and shall diligently perform all reasonable duties required of them for the recovery of the sick and wounded.
Persons to attend military hospitals.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.
How the persons belonging to the medical establishment shall be appointed, &c.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 approbation 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.
Regimental surgeons and mates may be employed in the hospitals.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-general- ↑ 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. 34; an act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States, March 2, 1821, chap. 12, 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 organization 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.
