day, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of rice, one half pint of distilled spirits; Thursday, fourteen ounces of bread, one and a quarter pound of beef, half pound of flour, quarter pound of suet, one half pint of distilled spirits; Friday, fourteen ounces of bread, four ounces of cheese, two ounces of butter, half pint of rice, half pint of molasses, one half pint of distilled spirits; Saturday, fourteen ounces of bread, one pound of pork, half pint of pease, half pint of vinegar, one half pint of distilled spirits.
Number of officers to be retained.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States retain in the navy service in time of peace, nine captains, thirty-six lieutenants, and one hundred and fifty midshipmen, including those employed on board of the six frigates to be kept in service; and that he be authorized to discharge all the other officers in the navy service of the United States, but such of the aforesaid officers as shall be retained in the service shall be entitled to receive no more than half their monthly pay during the time when they shall not be under orders for actual service.
Four months extra pay allowed to those who are discharged.
Repealed April 21, 1806.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the commissioned and warrant officers, who shall be discharged as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive four months pay over and above what may be due to them respectively at the time of their discharge.
Approved, March 3, 1801.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXI.—An Act concerning the Mint.[1]
To remain at Philadelphia.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 36.
Act of April 1, 1808, ch. 41.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the mint shall remain in the city of Philadelphia, until the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three.
Act of Dec. 2, 1812, ch. 2.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 42.
Certain duties to be performed by the district judge and attorney of Pennsylvania and the commissioner of loans.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of the mint at the city of Philadelphia, the duties now enjoined on the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, the Secretary for the Department of State, and the Attorney General of the United States, by the eighteenth section of the act, intituled “An Act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” passed the second day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be performed by the district judge of Pennsylvania, the attorney for the United States in the district of Pennsylvania, and the commissioner of loans for the state of Pennsylvania.
Approved, March 3, 1801.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXII.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ Clerks for completing the abstracts of the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves.
- ↑ The 2d section of the act of March 3, 1823, chap. 42, provides that the duty of attending to the examination of the coins at the mint, shall be performed by the collector of the port of Philadelphia, instead of the commissioner of loans. By the 32d section of the act supplementary to an act entitled, “An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” passed January 18, 1837, chap. 1, the annual trial of the gold and silver coins of the United States is required to be made before the district judge of Pennsylvania, the attorney of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, and collector of the port of Philadelphia, and such other persons as the President of the United States shall, for that purpose, designate.
