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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 131

Chap. CXXXI.—An Act making additional appropriations for the Military Establishment and for the Indian Department for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Specific appropriations. Act of March 28, 1812, ch. 46. Act of May 22, 1812, ch. 92. Act of April 29, 1812, ch. 72. May 16, 1812, ch. 86.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses incurred and to be incurred under the several acts, entitled “An act to establish a quartermaster’s department and for other purposes,” and an act to amend the same, “An act making further provision for the corps of engineers,” and “An act making further provision for the army of the United States,” for the Indian department and for satisfying certain outstanding claims, there be, and hereby is appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the sums already appropriated for the said objects respectively, the following sums, that is to say:
For the pay of the army, seventy-two thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For forage, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars.
For subsistence, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For clothing, three thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars.
For clerk hire and stationery, in the offices of the quartermaster general and commissary general of purchases, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the salary of the commissary general of purchases and compensations of the deputy commissaries, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Indian department, comprising the employment of temporary agents, presents to the Indians, and transportation, twenty thousand dollars.
For the payment of such balances as have been or may be ascertained from actual settlements made by the accountant of the department of war, and which cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriations, five thousand dollars.
Approved, July 6, 1812.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 136

Chap. CXXXVI.—An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act authorizing a Loan for a sum not exceeding eleven millions of dollars.”
Agents may be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the sale of stock of the United States. Act of March 14, 1812, ch. 41.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to employ, with the approbation of the President of the United States, an agent or agents for the purpose of selling, in conformity with the provisions of the act, entitled “An act authorizing a loan for a sum not exceeding eleven millions of dollars,” any part of the stock created by virtue of the said act. A commission not exceeding one eighth of one per cent. on the amount thus sold, may by the Secretary of the Treasury be allowed to such agent or agents; and a sum not exceeding five thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for paying the amount of such commission or commissions as may be thus allowed.
Approved, July 6, 1812.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 128

Chap. CXXVIII.—An Act for the safe keeping and accommodation of prisoners of war.
Repealed by act of March 3, 1817, ch. 34. Specific appropriations.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 be, and he is hereby authorized to make such regulations and arrangements for the safe keeping, support and exchange of prisoners of war as he may deem expedient, until the same shall be otherwise provided for by law; and to carry this act into effect, one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 6, 1812.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 133

Chap. CXXXIII.—An Act respecting the pay of the Army of the United States.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78. Pay of the army fixed. Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the army of the United States shall receive the same pay, forage, rations, clothing, and other emoluments, as the officers of the same grade and corps, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, are entitled to by the act, entitled “An act to raise for a limited time an additional military force,” passed April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and eight; and to the aid-de-camp of a brigadier, to a brigade quartermaster, brigade inspector and adjutant, there shall be allowed forage for one horse only, or in lieu thereof ten dollars per month; and to the brigade majors, under the act passed January the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, there shall be allowed forage for one horse, or in lieu thereof ten dollars per month; and the pay of a quartermaster sergeant shall be nine dollars per month.
Approved, July 6, 1812.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 132

Chap. CXXXII.—An Act fixing the time for the next meeting of Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after the adjournment of ​Congress to meet first Monday in November, 1812.the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday of November next.
Approved, July 6, 1812.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 31

Chap. XXXI.—An Act fixing the time for the next meeting of Congress.
Congress to meet on the first Monday of December, 1813.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday in December next.
Approved, July 26, 1813. ​
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 4

Chap. Ⅳ.—An act to amend the act in addition to the act, entitled “An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes.”
Act of January 29, 1813, ch. 15. Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78. Five of the regiments lately authorized to be raised may be enlisted for the war. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That five of the regiments which were authorized to be raised by an act in addition to the act, entitled “An act to raise an additional military force, and for other purposes,” passed the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, may, at the discretion of the President of the United States, be enlisted for and during the war, unless sooner discharged, and be limited as to service to the defence of the sea board of the United States, or of such part thereof as the President may elect and determine.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,Bounty, &c. &c. to recruits. That each man recruited under the authority of this act, be allowed the same bounty in money and land as is allowed by law to men enlisted for five years or for the war, and that the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, shall receive the same pay, clothing, subsistence and forage, be entitled to the same benefits, be subject to the same rules and regulations, and be placed in every respect on the same footing as the other regular troops of the United States.
Approved, July 5, 1813.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 27

Chap. XXVII.—An Act to authorize the raising a corps of sea fencibles.
Repealed by act of February 27, 1815, ch. 64. President may raise a certain number of sea fencibles.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 be, and he is hereby authorized to raise for such term as he may think proper, not exceeding one year, as many companies of raise a certain sea fencibles as he may deem necessary, not exceeding ten, who may be employed as well on land as on water, for the defence of the ports and harbours of the United States.
Of whom to consist.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each of the said companies of sea fencibles shall consist of one captain, one first, one second, and one third lieutenant, one boatswain, six gunners, six quarter gunners, and ninety men.
Compensations.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioned officers shall receive the same pay and rations as officers of the same grade in the army of the United States; that the boatswains, gunners, quarter gunners, and men shall receive the same pay and rations as warrant officers of the same grade and able seamen receive in the service of the United States.
Compensations in case of disability.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the officers, warrant officers, boatswains, and men raised pursuant to this act, shall be entitled to the like compensation in case of disability incurred by wounds or otherwise in the service of the United States, as officers, warrant officers, and seamen in the present naval establishment, and shall be subject to the rules and articles which have been or may hereafter be established by law, for the government of the army of the United States. ​Continuance of this act during the war.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be and continue in force during the present war between the United States of America and their territories, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependencies thereof.
President may appoint officers in recess of the Senate.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in the recess of the Senate, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint all the officers proper to be appointed under this act, which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate at their next session for their advice and consent.
Appropriation.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to carry this act into effect, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 26, 1813.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 36

Chap. XXXVI.—An Act supplementary to the acts heretofore passed on the subject of an uniform rule of naturalization.
Persons authorized to become citizens who were resident in the United States on the 18th June, 1812, and who had made a declaration of their intention to become citizens of the United States. Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That persons resident within the United States, or the territories thereof, on the eighteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, who had before that day made a declaration according to law, of their intentions to become citizens of the United States, or who by the existing laws of the United States, were on that day entitled to become citizens, without making such declaration, may be admitted to become citizens thereof, notwithstanding they shall be alien enemies at the times and in the manner prescribed by the laws heretofore passed on that subject: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be taken or construed to interfere with or prevent the apprehension and removal, agreeably to law, of any alien enemy at any time previous to the actual naturalization of such alien.
Approved, July 28, 1813.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 29

Chap. XXIX.—An Act making an appropriation for finishing the Senate Chamber and repairing the roof of the north wing of the Capitol.
Appropriation not exceeding $9,500.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding nine thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to finishing the Senate Chamber, and repairing the roof of the north wing of the Capitol; which sum shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 26, 1813.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 30

Chap. XXX.—An Act to provide for the accomodation of the household of the President of the United States.
Appropriation not exceeding $14,000.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 be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be sold, such part of the furniture and equipage belonging to his household, as may be decayed and out of repair, and that the sum of fourteen thousand dollars, together with the proceeds of such sales, be appropriated for the accommodation of the household of the President of the United States, to be laid out at his discretion and under his direction.
Approved, July 26, 1813.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 33

Chap. XXXIII.—An Act to authorize the transportation of certain documents free of postage.
Message of the President of July 12, 1813, to be transmitted free of postage, by members of Congress, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the members of ​Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby respectively authorized to transmit, free of postage, the message of the President of the United States of the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the documents accompanying the same, printed by order of the Senate and by order of the House of Representatives, and the report of the Committee of Foreign Relations on the same, printed by order of the House of Representatives, to any post office within the United States and the territories thereof to which they may direct, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, July 28, 1813.
# Vailima Letters/Chapter XXXVI

VAILIMA, JAN. 29TH, 1894.
MY DEAR COLVIN, - I had fully intended for your education and moral health to fob you off with the meanest possible letter this month, and unfortunately I find I will have to treat you to a good long account of matters here. I believe I have told you before about Tui-ma-le-alii-fano and my taking him down to introduce him to the Chief Justice. Well, Tui came back to Vailima one day in the blackest sort of spirits, saying the war was decided, that he also must join in the fight, and that there was no hope whatever of success. He must fight as a point of honour for his family and country; and in his case, even if he escaped on the field of battle, deportation was the least to be looked for. He said he had a letter of complaint from the Great Council of A'ana which he wished to lay before the Chief Justice; and he asked me to accompany him as if I were his nurse. We went down about dinner time; and by the way received from a lurking native the famous letter in an official blue envelope gummed up to the edges. It proved to be a declaration of war, quite formal, but with some variations that really made you bounce.
White residents were directly threatened, bidden to have nothing to do with the King's party, not to receive their goods in their houses, etc., under pain of an accident.
However, the Chief Justice took it very wisely and mildly, and between us, he and I and Tui made up a plan which has proved successful - so far. The war is over - fifteen chiefs are this morning undergoing a curious double process of law, comparable to a court martial; in which their complaints are to be considered, and if possible righted, while their conduct is to be criticised, perhaps punished. Up to now, therefore, it has been a most successful policy; but the danger is before us. My own feeling would decidedly be that all would be spoiled by a single execution. The great hope after all lies in the knotless, rather flaccid character of the people. These are no Maoris. All the powers that Cedarcrantz let go by disuse the new C. J. is stealthily and boldly taking back again; perhaps some others also. He has shamed the chiefs in Mulinuu into a law against taking heads, with a punishment of six years' imprisonment and, for a chief, degradation. To him has been left the sole conduct of this anxious and decisive inquiry. If the natives stand it, why, well! But I am nervous.
# Vailima Letters/Chapter XXXVII

FEB. 1894.
DEAR COLVIN, - By a reaction, when your letter is a little decent, mine is to be naked and unashamed. We have been much exercised. No one can prophesy here, of course, and the balance still hangs trembling, but I THINK it will go for peace.
The mail was very late this time; hence the paltryness of this note. When it came and I had read it, I retired with THE EBB TIDE and read it all before I slept. I did not dream it was near as good; I am afraid I think it excellent. A little indecision about Attwater, not much. It gives me great hope, as I see I CAN work in that constipated, mosaic manner, which is what I have to do just now with WEIR OF HERMISTON.
We have given a ball; I send you a paper describing the event. We have two guests in the house, Captain-Count Wurmbrand and Monsieur Albert de Lautreppe. Lautreppe is awfully nice - a quiet, gentlemanly fellow, GONFLE DE REVES, as he describes himself - once a sculptor in the atelier of Henry Crosse, he knows something of art, and is really a resource to me.
Letter from Meredith very kind. Have you seen no more of Graham?
What about my grandfather? The family history will grow to be quite a chapter.
I suppose I am growing sensitive; perhaps, by living among barbarians, I expect more civility. Look at this from the author of a very interesting and laudatory critique. He gives quite a false description of something of mine, and talks about my 'insolence.' Frankly, I supposed 'insolence' to be a tapua word. I do not use it to a gentleman, I would not write it of a gentleman: I may be wrong, but I believe we did not write it of a gentleman in old days, and in my view he (clever fellow as he is) wants to be kicked for applying it to me. By writing a novel - even a bad one - I do not make myself a criminal for anybody to insult. This may amuse you. But either there is a change in journalism, too gradual for you to remark it on the spot, or there is a change in me.
I cannot bear these phrases; I long to resent them. My forbears, the tenant farmers of the Mains, would not have suffered such expressions unless it had been from Cauldwell, or Rowallan, or maybe Auchendrane. My Family Pride bristles.
I am like the negro, 'I just heard last night' who my great, great, great, great grandfather was. - Ever yours,
R. L. S.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 23

Chap. XXIII.—An Act extending the time for obtaining military land warrants in certain cases.
The 2nd section of the act referred to not to apply to the heirs, &c. of persons killed, &c. Act of May 6, 1812, ch. 77.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provision of the second section of the act, entitled “An act to provide for designating, surveying, and granting, the military bounty lands,” passed on the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, which limits the ​time within which persons entitled to military bounty lands shall make their application for a land warrant to five years from and after such person shall have become entitled thereto, shall not be construed to apply to, affect, or bar, any application for a military land warrant, which may be made by the heirs and representatives for a deceased person, who was entitled thereto by services performed in the late war, or application by the heirs and representatives of any non-commissioned officer or soldier killed in action, or who died in the actual service of the United States, and entitled by existing laws to a bounty in lands;The heirs, &c. of such persons may make applications until 1st May, 1820. but the heirs and representatives of such persons shall be allowed to make their applications therefor at any time before the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; any act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 27, 1818.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 26

Chap. XXVI.—An Act allowing additional salary and clerk hire to the surveyor for the Illinois and Missouri territories, and for other purposes.
Surveyor of lands in Illinois and Missouri allowed two thousand dollars per annum, in lieu, &c. Three clerks, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor of the lands of the United States in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, shall hereafter be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, in lieu of the compensation now fixed by law, and shall allow be allowed three clerks, whose whole compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum.
Accounting officers of the treasury to settle the accounts of William Rector, and allow him the fees specified, in addition to salary. Proviso; no allowance where he has received similar fees from individuals.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized to adjust and settle the accounts of William Rector, for his services as principal deputy surveyor, and surveyor of the Illinois and Missouri territories, and to allow him, in addition to his salary as fixed by law, the following fees, that is to say: for examining and recording the surveys executed by any of his deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of the surveys executed under his direction in the offices aforesaid: Provided, The allowance shall not be made on surveys of private claims in any case where he has received, or is entitled to receive, similar fees from individuals.
Approved, April 3, 1818.