The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-01
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the FIRST Session Of the Thirty
seUenth Congress.
1PUBLIC-No. Z.
AN ACT to alter and regulate the navy

1PUBLIC-No. T.
AN ACT to alter and regulate the navy
ration.
Be ii enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States Of Amer
icq in Congress assembled, That the navy
ration shall consist of the following daily
allowance OF provisions to each person: One
pound of salt pork, with half pint of beans
or peas; or one pound Of salt beef, with half
a pound of -four, ond two ounces of dried
apples or other dried fruit or three quart
ers of pound of preserved meat, with half
a pound of rice, two ounces of butter, and
one ounce of desiccated " mixed vegetables !"
or three-quarters of pound of preserved
meat, two ounces of butter, and two ounces
of desicated potato; together with four
teen ounces of biscuit, one-quarter of an
ounce of tea, or one ounce of coffee or
cocoa, two ounces of sugar, and a gill of
spirits and of weekly allowance of half
pound of pickles, half pint of molasses,
and half pint of vinegar.
Sec 2. Aad be ii further enacted, That
fresh or preserved meat may. be substituted
for salt beef or pork, and vegetables for the
other articles usually issued with the salted
meats allowing one and quarter pound
of fresh or three-quarters of pound of pre-
served meat for one pound of salted beef or
pork and regulating the quantity of vege
tables so as to equal the value of the articles
for which they may be substituted.
Sec. 3. Aasd be 1t further enacted, That
should it be necessary to. vary the above
described daily allowance it shall be lawful
to substitute one pound of soft bread, or
one pound of -four, or half q pound of
rice for fourteeui ounces of biscuit half a
pint of wine for gill off spirits; half a
pound of rice for half a pint of beans or
peas; halt pint of beans or peas for half a
pound of rice.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That,
in case 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 shall be
thus diminished, according to the scale of
prices which is or may be established for
the same; but commander who shall thus
make a diminution or variation shall re-
port to his commanding officer, or to the
Navy Department, the necessity for the
same, and give to the pay master written or
ders specifying particularly the diminution
or reduction which is to be made.
Sec. 5. Ind be it further enacted, That
no commissioned or warrant officer, or any
person under twenty-one years of age, shall
be allowed to draw the spirit part of the
daily ration and all other persons shall be
permitted to relinquish that part of their ra-
tions under such restriction as the Presi-
dent of the United States may authorize !;
and that the spirit portion of the daily ra-
tion may be suspended or stopped by the
commanding officer, whenever in his opin-
ion it shall be expedient for cause of drunk
enness; and to any person who, by this
section, is prohibited from drawing, or who
may relinquish the spirit part of his ration,
there shall be paid, in lien thereof the sum
of four cents per day.
Sec. s. Ind be At further enacted, That
the provisions of this act shall go into effect
in the United States on the first day of the
succeeding quarter after it becomes law /;
and in vessels abroad on the first day of the
succeeding quarter after its official receipt !;
that any acts and parts of acts which may
be contrary to or inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act shall be and are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 7. And be ii further enacted, That
the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to
procure the preserved meats, pickles. butter,
and desiceated vegetables in such manner
and under such restrictions and guarantees
as in his opinion will best insure the good
quality of said articles.
Approved, July Is, 1861.