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Sec. 18. And be it farther enacted, That if any
noD-commitfioncd officer, mnfjcian or private (ball
defect (he feryice of the United States, he shall in
addition to die penalties mentioned in the rules
and articles of war, be liable to serve torand dur
ing fitch a period, ns shall with the time he may
have served previous to bis desertion, amount to
the full term of his enlistment ; and such soldier
fhdl and may be tried bv a court martial, and
ponifhed, although the term of his enliftmeut may
have eltpfed previous to his being apprehended
or tried.
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That every
Sec. io. And be it further enacted, That the
officer, uon-comrniflioncd officers, muficiamrand
privates of the said corps, that! be* governed by
the rules and'articles of war, * hich have been es
tablilhed by the United Stales in CJngrefs effem
bled, or by fucti rules and articles as may be here
after, by law, eftablithed : provided nevertheless,
that the sentence of general courts martial, ex
tending to the loss of lite, the difmdlion of a com
mifhoned^officer, or which ihall respect the gener
al officer, (hall, wi'h the whp'e °' the proceedings
of fitch cases, refye&ivel v, be laid before the Pre
sident of rl,e United States', " ho is hereby author -
ifed to direst the fame to be carried into execu
tion, or otherwise, as he shall judge proper.
Sec. 11. And be it farther enacted, That the
commiilioned officers, who flrall be employed in
the recruiting service, to keep up by voluntary
enlistment, the corps as aforefaid, shall be eutitleo
to receive for every effective able bodied citizen
of the United States who shall be duly entitled by
him for the term of five ye<it% and muttered, of at
lead five feet fix inches high, and between the
ages of eighteen and thirty live years, the sum of
two dollars: Provided nevertheless, that this re
gulation, la far as rtfpeas ffie height and age of
the recruit, shall not extend to musicians or to
thafe ibldiers who may re-enldt into the service :
And provided also that no person under the age
of twenty one years Ihall be enlilled by any offi
cer, or held in the service of the United States,
without th? consent of his parent, guardian or
mailer, firft had and obtained, :f any he have ;
and if any officer shall enlilt any person contrary
to the true intent and meaning of this act, lor
every such offence, he shall forfeit and pay the
amount of the bounty and clothing which the
person so recruited may have received from the
public, to be deducted out of the pay and emolu
ments of such officer.
Sec. 12. And be it further enabled, That there
shall be allowed and paid to each effective able
bodied citizen, recruited as aforefaid, to serve foi
the term of five year% a bounty of twelve dollars;
but the payment of fix dollars of the said bounty
shall be deferred until he shall be muttered and
have joined the corps in which he is to serve.
Sec. 13 And ve it further enabled, That the
said corps shall be paid in such manner, that the
arrears ihall, at no time, exceed two months, tin
lefs the circumstances of the case shall render it un
avoidable.
See 14, And be it farther evaded That if any
officer, non-commdlioned officer, mmician or pri
vate, in the cops compiling the peace ellabliih
ment, shall be difiblen by wounds or otherwise,
while in the line of his duty in public service, be
shall be placed on the lift of invalids of the Unit
ed States, at such rate of pay, and under Inch reg
ulations, as may be directed by the President of
the United States for- the time being ; l'iovided al
ways, that the compensation to be allowed for
such wounds or disabilities, to a connniilioned of
ficer, dull not exceed for the highest rate ot disa
bility half the monthly pay of such officer, nt the
time of his being disabled or wounded ; and that
no officer shall receive more than the half pay of a
lieutenant colonel ; and that the rale of cornpen
fation to non comruiffioned officers, musicians and
privates, shall not exceed five dollars per month :
And provided also, that all inferior disabilities
shall entitle the person so disabled to receive an
allowance proportionate to the higbeft disability.
Sec. 15. And'be it farther enacted; That if any
xcommilliuned officer in the military peace eftab
lifhmeut of the United States, thill, while in the
service of the United States, die, by region of any
wound received in actual service of the United
States, and leave a widow, or if no widow a child
or children under lixteen years of age, such wid
ow, or if no- widow, such child or chil
dren shall be entitled to and receive half the
monthly pay to which the deceased was-eniitled
at tile time of his death, for and during the term of
five years. But in case of the death or ntermarriage
offuch widow before the expiration of the said term
of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the
time, ihall go to the child or children of such de
chafed officer: Provided always, that such half
pay shall ceafeon the decease of such child or chil
dren.
• non-commidioned officer^, musicians and privates
to be discharged tronrthe service of the United
States from and alter Die frit day of April next,
or as foou thereafter as cirxumttanccs may per
mit.
Sec. 16. Aid be it farther ena'le?.. That the
prymifter shall perform the duties of his office, a
greeabiy to the direction of the Prefi lent of the
United Spates, for rhe time being ; and before lie
enters on the duties of the fame, fill'd give bonds,
with good and fadicient foreties, in such sums as
the President ih ill direct, for tire faithful dircharge
ot his said office; 7nd fli dl take an oath to exe
cute the duties thereof with fidelity: And it shall,
moreover, be his duty to appoint from the line,
with the approbation of the President of the Unit
ed States^ th? federal payrndters to diltridts and
allidints prescribed by th^s aft ; and he is hereby
authorized to require the said paymdter to dif
tilts, and affidants, to enter into bond, with goc d
and Sufficient Surety, for the faithful difeharge of
their respective duties,
Sec. 17. And be is farther enacted, That it shall
be the duty ot the military agents, designated
by this aft, to purchase, receive, and forward to
their proper demotion, all military dores and,
other articles for the troops in their refpe&iue
departments and all goods and annuities tor the
Indians, which they may be directed to purchase,
or which shall be ordered iiKo their care by the
department of war. They shall account with the
department of war, annually, for all the public
property which may pas ithrough their hands,
and all the monies which they may expend in dif
eharge of the duties of their offices, respectively :
previous to their entering on the duties of their
offices, they shall give bonds, with Sufficient Sure
ties, in filch sums as fr he President of the United
States shall direct, for the faithful difeharge of the
trust reposed in them: and shall take an oath
faithfully to perform the duties of their refpelt
office's.
Sec. 29. And be it further enacted, That so
much of any act or acts, now in force, as comes
within the perview of this aft, fhali be,and the
fame is hereby repealed ; faring nevertheless, such
parts thereof, as relate to the enlistments or term
of service of any of thetroops, which, by this aft,
are continued on the present military eltabldh
ment of the United States.
NATHANIEL MACON,
Speaker of the Houjetf RrprefenQves.
A. BURR,
Uice-Prefident of the United States, and PreJident
of the Senate.
Approved, March 16, 1802.
TH : JEFFERSON,
Prefdent of the United States.
Congtefs of tte Hniten States.
^^Q^^flQ^jQfc,.,„,
House of Reprefentatrces.
Monday, a,ril 5, 1802
Mr. Van'Nefs made the following motion, u hich
was referred:
Rejoined, That any ship or vcflel two thirds of
which ihall have been, or may be, rebuilt within
the United States, of American niateriah, and be
longiug wholly to a citizen or citizens of the Uni
ted States, may be registered and considered as an
American ship or veffei ; and that it shall be the
duty of the collector of the diHrift within which
such ship or veffei iy>r may be owned, upon fatis
faftory evidence of The above faffs, to grant such
person, who shall procure or entice a foldierin the
service of the United to defect, or who shall pur
chase from any Soldier, his arms, uniform eloath
ing, or any part thereof ; and every captain, or
;o.nmauding officer of any flop or veil'd, who
Ihall enter on board such ship or vessel as one
of his crew, know ing him to have detected or 0-
theru ife carry away any such soldier, or shall re-
N fufe to-deliver him up to fit orders of bis com-
place of difeharge to the place of his residence,
computing at the rate of twenty miles to a day.
Sec, 25. And be it furthers enc&d, That to each
commiflioned officer who shall be deranged by
virtue of this aft, there shall be allowed and paid,
in addition 10 the pay and emoluments to which
they will be entitled by law, at the time of their
difeharge—to each officer whole term of service
in any military corps of the United States shall
not have exceeded three years, three months pay ;
to all other'o fficers, so derang'd, one month's pay
of their grades, respectively, for each year of past
service in the army of the United States, or in
any regiment or corps now or formerly ih the
service thereof.
Sec. 26, And be it further enacted, That the Pre
fident of the United States is hereby authorifed
and empowered, when he Ihall deem it expedient,
to organize and eftablilh a corps ot engineers, to
coniilt of one one engineer, with the pa,
rank and emoluments of a major ; two
uffiftants engineers, with the pay, rank and
emoluments of captains ; two other affitlanis en
gineers, with the pay, rank and emoluments oi
firft lieutenants: two other affidant engineers,
with the pay, rank and emoluments of Second
lieutenants; and ten cadets, with the pay of six
teen dollars per month, and two ration's per day :
And the Preudeut of tie United States is, in like
manner, authorized, when he shall deem it prop
er, to make inch promotions in the laid corps,
with a view to particular merit, and without re
gard to rank, so as not to exceed one colonel,
0 le lieutenanrcolonel, two majors, four captains,
tour firlt beutenants, four fecund lieutenants,
and So as that the number of the whole cops shall,
at no time, exceed twenty officers and cadets.
Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That the
Said corps, when so organized, shall be Rationed at
Weft-Point in the State of New-York, and shall
c^idiiute a military academy ; and the engineers
aJillmt engineers, and cadets of the said corps,
ihall be Subject, at all times, to do duty in such
places, and oa such service, as the President of the
United States ihall direct.
Sec. 28. And be it further ena&d, That the
principal engineer, and in his absence the next in
rank, ihall have the fuperintendance of the said
military academy, under the direction es the Pre
sident of the United States: And the secretary
of war is hereby authorized, at the public ex
pense. under Rich regulations as Staff be directed
by the President of the United States, to procure
the neceflary books, implements and apparatus
for the Ofe and benefit ot the said institution.
manding officer, shall upon legal conviflion, be
fined at the discretion of any court having cogni
zance ot the lame, in any sum out exceeding three
hundred dc+.rs, or be imprisoned any term not
exceeding one year.
Sec. 20. And be it further encoded, That every
officer, non-commilliuned officer, mulician and
private, shall take and fubfertoe the following
oath or affirmation, to wit, " f, A. B, do folemly
swear, or affirm (as the case may be) that I will
bear true faith-and allegiance to the Waited States
of America, and that i will serve them honestly
and faithfully againfi their enemies oroppofers,
whomsoever ; and that 1 will observe and obey
the orders of the President of the United States,
and the orders of the officers appointed over me,
.according to the rules and articles of war."
Sec. 2i. And be it farther enacted, Thai when
ever a general court-martial shall be ordered, the
President of the United States may appoint fopie
fit person to aft adjudge advocate, who shall be
allowed in addition to his other pay, one dollar
and 25 cents for every day he shall be rieCeffarily
employed in the duties of the said court; and in
cases where the President shall not have made Rich
appointment, the Brigadier General, or tb| ffefi
dent of the court may make the fame.
Sec. 22. And be it further evaded, That where
any coinmiflioned officer shall be obliged to incur
any extra expence in travelling and fitting on
general courts martial, he Ihall be allowed a reas
onable compensation for such extra expence ac
tually incurred, not exceeding one dollar twenty
five cents per day, to officers who are not entitled
to forage, and not exceeding one dollar per day
to such as shall be entitled to forage,
Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That no non
commitiiontxl officer, mulician or private shall be
arretted, or fubjb& to arrefl, or to be taken in ex
ecution for any debt und.r the sum of twenty
dollars, contrasted before the enlifiment, nor for
any debt contrasted after enlifiment.
Sec. 24. And be it further evaded, That when
ever any officer or soldier Ihall be discharged from
the service, except byway of punishment fur any
offence, he shall be allowed his pay and rations,
or an equivalent in money, for such term of time
as shall be Sufficient for him to travel from the
regifler according to the rules by law eftahlifhed in
other cases.
Certain amendments'of the Senate to the
Natural teatinn Bill were committed.
The bill passed for advancing 500 dollars
to Mr. Dexter, for the defending of a suit
instituted against him for the loss of a house
occupied ^ a public office.
A bill for better securing money in the
hands of public agents was reported. One
feaiod, makes the bonds given by public
officers a lien on the landed property, the
t exiltence ot which bonds, not being record
ed, would nor be known to the purchaser.
Recommitted for amendment.
A refutation passed calling on the orefi
dent for information rcfpe&ing the repairing
of the Berceau, and the sums allowed to the
officers and men.
X Wtdncjday, April 7 1802.
I he bill for erecting a new State in the North
Weflern Territory, was difcufled io Committed
of the whole, and reported to the House. Mr.
Randolph advocated one of the amendments
proposed to this bill, from a desire, he said to a
void the introduction of too many imall States
into the union. A bill for the relief of Thomas
K. Jones, passed.
) Thursday, April 8, 1802.
A bij was reported, for incorporaing the juhabi
ants of the city el Wafliington.
The Senate's amendment to the Naturalization
application of public money, and for the account
ability of perfuns entrusted therewith, was read
referred.
Friday, April 9, 1802.
The North-Western Territory new State bill
passed—Yeas 47, Nays 29.
A bill to amend the Judicial System of the Uni
ted States was received from the Senate. The
chief alterations made from the old sftem conhit
in the holding the Supreme Court only once a year
by four juflices, and the establishment of fix cir
Cuits, within each difrict, of Uhich circuit courts
are to be holden tv ice a year, composed of one
juflice of the Supreme Court, and the judge of the
diflrift, m which said court is held. This bill
was read twice, and referred to a feled com.
A detailed report respecting the making appro
priation for the difeharge of the national debt,
was received from the Com. of Ways & Means.
Monday, April 12, 1802.
Several resolutions for the pay ment of nronies to
Eulwav Shipwith, were adopted, and a bill ordered.
A bill lor the relief of Col. Tousard was te
ported, read, and committed.
Resolutions were agreed to, for allowing to the
widows and children of the teamen loft co board
of the Injurgent and Picketing four mortis tea
men's pay ; and to the widows and children of the
officers loft in those vessels, five years half pay ;
and for allowing hereafter five years half pay to
the widows and childicn ol naval officers who
shall be /lain in battle, or die in the line of their
dutv. Bill ordered.
The bill for the relief of sick and diflreffed sea
men, was difenfled, in committee, and reported.
Ilie Committee on unfinished business reported
that an adjournment may take place in two « eeks.
_ Tuefday, April s 3.
The bill for fig relief'of sick fcamen,uas
taken up.- Mr. Bishop moved for 20,000
dollars for ahofpital @ in Massachusetts.—
Gen. Smith moved the sum to be 15,000.
Ibis last sum was adopted, Aves 39. Noes
29 Bill ordered to be engrofled.
The national debt reduaion bill was diC
:i ffed in committee.- Several amendments
were proposed ; but no decifiori had.
. Wednesday, April 14
The engrossed bill, for the bettei Security
of'Public Money in the hands of public a
gent^, was passed.
The engrossed bill to amend an a& for
the re-Fief and protection of disabled Seamen
was pafled —3 $ to 33.
Previotifly to the passage, Mr. Elmer
spoke at some length afyiidt the bill.
The House went intel, cons, on the bill
for redeeming the whole of the Public debt,
Mr. L. R. Morris in the chair. Mr. Ran
dolph spoke in favor of the retaining the 4th
feaion, and Mr. Griswold against it, when
the question was taken on /hiking out and
loft, 27 to 41. The 6th feaion under con
sideration, whir h authorifes the appointment
of an agent in Europe for the purpose of
tranfeaing any business refpeaing the dis
charge of the Public Debt, with a salary of
3000 dollars ; Mr. Grifweld moved to strike
out this feaion^ assigned his reasons there
for, and was answered by Mr. Randolph,
motion left, yeas 30, nays 38.
Thursday, April 15..
The engrossed bill, making provision for
the redemption of the whole of the Public
Debt, was read the third time. Mr. Dana
made a few remarks against the passage of
the bill, when the question was taken.on
the passage and carried—Yeas 55, Nays 19.
The House went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Davis in the chair, on the bill
to fix the compensation of the officers of the
Senate and House of Representatives. The
several blanks were tilled, on the motion of
Mr. Davenport, with the following firms :
an annual allowance of 2,000 dollars to the
Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the
House ot Representatives, to- the principal
Clerk of each house 1,300 dollars, to the en
grossing Clerk of each House 1,000 dols. 10
the Sargeant at Arms of each house 800 dis,
to the Door Keeper of the House of R. 500
dols. with a per diem allowance during the
session of two dols. and to the assistant Door
Keeper ot each house 450 dols. with a per
iein allowance during the session of 2 dols.
Ihe com. role and the house took up the
report, agreed to it, and ordered the bill to
a third reading ; afterwards read a third
time and passed. •.
By %£c© Mails,
Extraß ^ v letter from a member ,
• dated 7 tb inst. ^ a gentleman of ^
and communicated for publication.
It is not true that France has yet demands
ed payment tor the Insurgent.
b lt is not true that' the French charg#
d'affaires has solicited a loan of fix miflionf
of dollars. It is pot believed that be had'
any authority to a& a loan of any kind, even
if wanted.
It is true that the charge d'affairs of
the French Republic was desirous of felling
bills on fiance, so obr treasury ;-but tte
secretary had no occasion for bills at prefenf
and did not purchase.
It is true that a sum was unammouf,No{&^
to carry into effe& the convention with*-
France. The largest item of their dtnian,
is for the proceeds of prizes taken by ou#
public ships of war, carried into the British
Ilarios and there fold direa'ty contrary to lato,
without ans form of trial übateier. The
mode was, the captains called a survey on
the prizes, and the surveyors never failed ta
declare the prizes unfit to proceed to Amer
ica. She was then fold, the captors receiv
ed the money ; the other half was paid into*
the treasury ; so that in fad we lose only
that half received by the crews of our ships.
This improper condud was not ohly
winked at,, but countenanced.
ae-i- ig=!3w»~
NEW-YORK, 4PF.IL 1%
By Capt. Brown of the brig Favorite,
whoarnved this morning, in 12 days from
Cape-Francois, in ballad, we learn that the
Batavian fleet, confining of fix 74's and four
frigates with troops on board arrived at the
Caper previous to his failing. He further
adds, that in an engagement between the
French troops and Touiflaint, near the
Cape, in which the F ret ch were victorious,
Gen. Le Clerc was severely wounded, and
his aiddecamp killed. .Many of the negroes
had been taken prisoners, but Touffaint
was still in his flrong hold in the mountain
Capt. B. left there 90 fail of American ves
sels.
[We have seen letters from the Cape,
dated the 28th March and the 3d April,
from very inteligent and refpeaable
fourccs, wherein no mention is made of the
blacks being in large bodies about the Cape,-
threatening its deftruaion. On the contra-'
r y> from the tenor of these letters, every
thing remained tranquil ; and it appears'
that the French were only waiting for the
expe&ed reinforcements from Europe to
carry their plans into cffcd.
;'I he letters alluded to announce the arri
val of the Ereft division of the fleet on the
22d March ; that from Havre-de-Grace on
the 28th : & that part of the Batavian fleet
had entered the port at the time of writing
—the whole had arrived when capt. B. fail«
ed-T [Mer.Adv.
Vv e have the authority of the French Consul for
announcing that the port of Aux-Caves (in addi
tion 10 thole of Cape Francois and Port Republi
can) is declared by a Proclamation of General Le
Clerc to be open to all foreign veflela.—
From BOURDEAUX, 4th March, 1802.
To the Editor.—" I muff" acknowledge
myfelf under great obligations for your par
ticular attention in furnifhing me so regu
larly with your paper ; and promise, on
my part; not to forget you in any inflance,
where vessels arc bound to Befon, or your
neighbourhood.
"As for political information we have
only what we find in the paper which b
fend you ; —of course you will be equally
intruded with us, on that head.
"1 he regulations which exist, and may
take pijee, in the commercial laws of this
country, cannot fail of being interfiling ter
the merchants of the United States. The
new code of Commercial Laws will make
its appearance, it is said, in the month of
April ; which shall be lent you, as soon as
received. Until then, things will probably
remain in their present state, nearly the fame
as before the preliminaries were signed. _
American vessels may now come dired from
the French colonies to France, paying the
fame duties, as if from the United States-
It is thought this privilege will be continu
ed a year, but there are no assurances of ff,
“ During the war this government, as on
encouragement, exempted all merchandize
from duty imported in French vessels,
This regulation Rill exists ;—which pre
vents American (hipping being employed
by French citizens."
far The Paris papers received from our
correspondent, are down to the last of Feb-,
ruary r But they do not contain a single ar
ticle of news, which we confider as inter
efling. They are filled with {peculations (
on the various codes of laws about to be cn, ,
a&ed ; and various local particulars.—We
do not find a word on the fubje& of the ne
gociation at Amiens ; excepting that every
day or two the arrival ot the dispatches are
noticed ; but without any comment. £ome-