Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-11-05
PuBLIc-No 81.
AN ACTto establish and regulate the navy


AN ACTto establish and regulate the navy
ration.
Be it enacted BY the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States Of
America, in Congress assembled, That the
navy ration shall consist of the following
daily allowance of provisions for each per-
son:
One pound of sailed pork, with half
pint of peas or beans; or one pound of
sailed beef, with half a pound of -four and
quarter of a pound of raisns, dried APP
piles, or other dried fruits; or one pound
of salt beef, with half pound of rice,
two ounces of butter, and two ounces of
cheese, together with fourteen ounces of
biscuit, one quarter of an ounce of tea,
or ounce of coffee, or one ounce of cocoa;
two ounces of sugar, and one gill of spir-
its; and of weekly allowance of half a
pound of pickles or cranberres, half a
pint of molasses, and half pint of vine
gar.
Sec .. And be 1t further enacted, That
fresh meat may be substituted for salt beef
or pork, and vegetables or sour circuit for
the other articles usually issued with the
sailed meats, allowing one and quarter
pounds of fresh meat for one pound of
sailed beef or pork, and regulating the
quantity of vegetables or sour circuit so as
to equal the value Of those articles for
which they may be substituted.
Sec. 8. And be 1t further enacted. That
should it be necessary to vary the above
described daily allowance, it shall be law
full to substitute one pound of soft bread
or one pound of flour, or half a pound of
rice, for fourteen ounces Of biscuit; half
pint of wine for a gill of spirits; half a
pound Of rice for half pint of beans or
peas; half pint of beans or peas for half
a pound Of rice.
When it may be deemed expedient by
the President of the United States, Secre-
tary of the Navy, commander of a fleet
or squadron, or of single ship when not
acting under the authority of another Off
Ger on foreign service, the articles of but
ter, cheese, raisns, dried apples, or other
dried fruits, pickles and moasses, may be
substituted for each other and for spirits:
Provided, The article substituted shall not
exceed in value the article for which it
may be issued. according to the scale OF
prices which is or may be established for
the same.
Sec. 4. And be 1t further enacted, Thai
in cases of necessity the daily allowance
of provisions may be diminished or varied
by the discretion of the senior officer
present in command, but payment shall be
made to the persons whose allowance shal
be thus diminished, according to the scale
of prices which is OF may be established
for the same; but commander who shall
thus make a diminution or variation shall
report to his commanding officer, or TO The
Navy Department, the necessity for tht
same, and give to the purser written orders
specifying particularly the dimnution o.
reduction which is TO be made.
Sec. 5. And be 1t further enacted, Tha
3 no commissioned officer or midshipman, o
any person under twenty-one years o
, age, shall be allowed TO draw the spiri
, part of the daily ration; and all other per
sons shall be permitted to relinquish tina
part of their ration, under such restriction
as the President of the United States ma,
. authorize; and to every person who, b,
this section, is prohibited from drawing
or who may relinquish, the spirit part o
his ration, there shall be paid in lieu there
of, the value of the same in money, &C
: cording to the prices which are or may b
established for the same.
g Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, Tha
= the provisions of this act shall go into efec
in the United States on the first day of tn
succeeding quarter after il becomes a Law
and in vessels abroad on the first day {