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Chap. VI.—An Act to increase the Navy of the United States.
Act of March 3, 1813, ch. 54.
Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 62.
Ships of war to be built.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 shall be, and he hereby is authorized, as soon as suitable materials can be procured therefor, to cause to be built, equipped and employed, four ships to rate not less than seventy-four guns, and six ships to rate forty-four guns each.
Complement of officers on board the seventy-fours.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be employed on board each of the said ships of seventy-four guns each, one captain, six lieutenants, one captain, one first lieutenant and one second lieutenant of marines, one surgeon, one chaplain, one purser and three surgeons’ mates.
Warrant officers on board the seventy-fours.
Petty officers.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be employed in each of the said ships, carrying seventy-four guns, the following warrant officers, who shall be appointed by the President of the United States: one master, one second master, three masters’ mates, one boatswain, one gunner, one carpenter, one sail-maker, and twenty midshipmen; and the following petty officers, who shall be appointed by the captains of the ships respectively in which they are to be employed, viz. one armorer, six boatswains’ mates, three gunners’ mates, two carpenters’ mates, one sail-maker’s mate, one cooper, one steward, one master at arms, one cook, one coxswain, one boatswains’ yeoman, one gunner’s yeoman, one carpenter’s yeoman, ten quarter gunners, eight quarter masters, and one clerk; and one schoolmaster, also to be appointed by the captain.One schoolmaster.
Complements of men on board the seventy-four gun ships.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the crews of each of the said ships of seventy-four guns, shall consist of two hundred able seamen, three hundred ordinary seamen and boys, three sergeants, three corporals, one drummer, one fifer, and sixty marines.
Pay of the schoolmaster.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the pay of the schoolmaster shall be twenty-five dollars per month and two rations per day.
Specific appropriation of 2,500,000 dollars.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two millions five hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the building and equipping of the aforesaid ships of war.
Approved, January 2, 1813.
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Chap. VII.—An Act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines, forfeitures and penalties in certain cases.
Act of March 1, 1809, ch. 24.
Act of May 1, 1810, ch. 39.
1811, ch. 29.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where goods, wares and merchandise, owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, have been imported into the United States from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which goods, wares and merchandise were shipped on board vessels which departed therefrom between the twenty-third day of June last, and the fifteenth day of September last, and the person or persons interested in such goods, wars or merchandise, or concerned in the importation thereof, have thereby incurred any fine, penalty and forfeiture, under an act, entitled “An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain, and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes,” and an act, entitled “An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain, and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes,” and the act supplementary to the act last mentioned, on such person or persons petitioning for relief to any judge or court proper to hear the same, in pursuance
