United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 2
II. Resolutions, Expressing the sense of Congress on the gallant conduct of Lieut. Sterret, —the officers and crew of the United States schooner Enterprize.
The sense entertained by Congress of the gallant conduct of lieutenant Sterret in the capture of a Tripolitan corsair.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That they entertain a high sense of the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Sterret, and the other officers, seamen and marines, on board the schooner Enterprize, in the capture of a Tripolitan corsair, of fourteen guns and eighty men.
President requested to present a sword to him.
An allowance of one month’s pay made to the officers &c.Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to present to Lieutenant Sterret, a sword, commemorative of the aforesaid heroic action; and that one month’s pay be allowed to all the other officers, seamen and marines, who were on board the Enterprize when the aforesaid action took place.
Approved, February 3, 1802.