Number of cadets limited to two hundred and fifty.
Regulations concerning them.riflemen or infantry, or that may be appointed as herein after provided, shall at no time exceed two hundred and fifty: that they may be attached at the discretion of the President of the United States, as students to the military academy, and be subject to the established regulations thereof; that they shall be arranged into companies of non-commissioned officers and privates, according to the directions of the commandant of engineers, and be officered from the said corps, for the purposes of military instruction; that there shall be added to each company of cadets four musicians; and the said corps shall be trained and taught all the duties of a private, non-commissioned officer, and officer; be encamped at least three months of each year, and taught all the duties incident to a regular camp: that the candidates for cadets be not under the age of fourteen, nor above the age of twenty-one years;Age and qualifications of the candidates.
Term of service. that each cadet, previously to his appointment by the President of the United States, shall be well versed in reading, writing and arithmetic, and that he shall sign articles, with the consent of his parent or guardian, by which he shall engage to serve five years, unless sooner discharged; and all such cadets shall be entitled to and receive the pay and emoluments now allowed by law to cadets in the corps of engineers.
When cadets shall be considered as candidates for promotion.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any cadet shall receive a regular degree from the academical staff, after going through all the classes, he shall be considered as among the candidates for a commission in any corps, according to the duties he may be judged competent to perform; and in case there shall not at the time be a vacancy in such corps, he may be attached to it at the discretion of the President of the United States, by brevet of the lowest grade, as a supernumerary officer, with the usual pay and emoluments of such grade, until a vacancy shall happen:Proviso. Provided, that there shall not be more than one supernumerary officer to any one company at the same time.
Appropriation for military academy.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for erecting buildings, and for providing an apparatus, a library and all necessary implements, and for such contingent expenses as may be necessary and proper, in the judgment of the President of the United States, for such an institution.
Twenty-sixth section of act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9, repealed.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the twenty-sixth section of the act entituled “An act fixing the military peace establishment, passed the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and two,” as confines the selection of the commander of the corps of engineers to the said corps, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, April 29, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Repealed.]
Chap. LXXV.—An Act further to amend the Charter of the City of Washington.[1]
Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 14.
Act of Feb. 27, ch. 44.
Act of Feb. 28, 1820, ch. 15.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 81.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 85.
Corporation of the city—how composed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first Monday of June next, the corporation of the city of Washington shall
- ↑ In the sales of lots, in the city of Washington, the lots are not chargeable for their proportion of the internal alley laid out for the common benefit of the lots; although the practice so to charge them has been heretofore universally acquiesces in by purchasers; and if a purchaser has acquiesced in that practice, and has received a conveyance accordingly without objection, yet he does not thereby acquire a fee simple in such proportion of the alley; and he may in equity, recover back the purchase money which he has paid therefor. Pratt and others v. Law, Campbell, &c., 9 Cranch, 456; 3 Cond. Rep. 460.In 1822, Congress passed an act authorizing the corporation of Washington to drain the ground in and near certain public reservations, and to improve and ornament certain parts of the public reservations. The corporation are empowered to make an agreement, by which parts of the location of the canal shall be changed, for the purpose of draining and drying the low grounds near the Pennsylvania avenue, &c. To effect those objects, the corporation is authorized to lay off in building lots in certain parts of the public
