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44. SECT. IV. There shall be appropriated and paid, out of the monies arising from imports and tonnage, the sum of five thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting the light-house as aforesaid on New Point Comfort; the sum of nine thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting the light-house as aforesaid on Smith's Point; and the sum of six thousand dollars for erecting the light-house as aforesaid on Faulkner's island in Long Island Sound, and the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for placing two buoys as aforesaid in the Narraganset Bay, in the

state of Rhode-Island.

ACT of April 6, 1802. (Vol. VI. p. 64.)

45. SECT. I. Under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, there shall be purchased, for the use of the united states, the land whereon lately stood the light-house on Gurnet Point, and so much land adjoining thereto, as may be sufficient for vaults and any other purpose necessary for the better support of the said light-house.

SECT. II. The secretary of the treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized, at his discretion, to procure a new lanthorn or lanthorns, with suitable distinctions, and to cause convenient vaults to be erected; and the said light-house, on the Gurnet, at the entrance on, Plymouth harbor, to be rebuilt.

46. SECT. III. The secretary of the treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be rebuilt, of such height as he may deem expedient, the light-house now situated on the eastern end of New Castle Island, at the entrance of Piscataqua river, either on the land owned by the united states, or on Pollock Rock: Provided, That if built on Pollock Rock, the legislature of New-Hampshire shall vest the property of the said Rock in the united states, and cede the jurisdic

tion of the same.

47. SECT. IV. The secretary of the treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause a sufficient light-house to be erected on Lynde's point, at the mouth of Connecticut river, in the state of Connecticut, and to appoint a keeper, and otherwise provide for such light-house, at the expense of the united states: Provided, That sufficient land for the accommodation of such light-house can be purchased at a reasonable price, and the legislature of the state of Connecticut shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the united states.

48. SECT. V. The secretary of the treasury shall be directed to cause proper light-houses to be built, and buoys to be placed, in the situations necessary for the navigation of the sound between Long Island and the main; and shall be, to that effect, authorized to cause, by proper and intelligent persons, a survey to be taken of the said sound, as far as may be requisite; and to appoint keepers and otherwise provide for such light-houses, at the expense of the united states: Provided, That sufficient land for the accommodation of the respective light-houses can be purchased at a reasonable price; and that the legislatures of RhodeIsland, Connecticut, and New-York, shall, respectively, cede the jurisdiction over the same to the united states.

49. SECT. VI. The secretary of the treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause a sufficient light-house to be erected on the south point of Cumberland island, at the entrance of St. Mary's river within the state of Georgia; and under the direction of the said secretary, there shall be purchased,if the same cannot otherwise be obtained, sufficient land for the erection of the said light-house, and accommodations for the better support thereof: Provided, That the legislature of Georgia shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the united states.

50. SECT. VII. There shall be, and hereby are appropriated, for the reimbursement of the merchants of Plymouth and Duxbury, for monies expended by them in erecting a temporary light on the Gurnet, a sum not exceeding two hundred and seventy dollars; for the rebuilding the light-house on the said Gurnet, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; for the rebuilding of the light-house on the eastern end of New-Castle island, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars; and for the erection of the said light-house on said Lynde's point, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; for the erection of the light-house on Cumberland south point, a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars; and for taking the survey, and for erecting lighthouses and placing buoys in the sound, a sum not exceeding eiglt thousand dollars to be paid out of any monics which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

51. SECT. VIII. It shall be lawful for the secretary of the treasury, under the direction of the president of the united states, to cause to be expended, in repairing and erecting public piers, in the river Delaware, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars; and the same shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the jurisdiction of the site where any such piers may be erected, shall be first ceded to the united states, according to the conditions in such case by law provided.

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1. SECT. I. In the medical establishment of the united states, there shall be the following officers:-A physician-general, who shall be charged with the superintendence and direction of all military hospitals, and generally of all medical and chirurgical practice or service

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concerning the army or navy of the united states, and of all persons who shall be employed in and about the same, in camps, garrisons and hospitals. An apothecary-general, and one or more deputies, who shall be charged with the safe keeping and delivery of all medicines, instruments, dressings and other articles for the use of the hospital and army. A purveyor, who shall be charged with providing medicines, stores, and whatsoever else may be necessary in relation to the said practice or service. A competent number of hospital surgeons, who shall be liable to serve in the field, and who shall have the immediate charge and direction of such military hospitals as may be committed to their care respectively. A suitable number of hospital mates, who are to observe the directions of the hospital surgeons, and shall diligently perform all reasonable duties required of them for the recovery of the sick and wounded.

2. SECT. II. Each military hospital shall have a steward, with a competent number of nurses and other attendants; which steward shall be charged with the procuring of such supplies as may not otherwise be furnished, and with the safe keeping and issuing of all supplies.

3. SECT. III. The said physician-general, hospital-surgeons, purveyor, and apothecary and apothecaries, deputy or deputies, shall be appointed as other officers of the united states-the said mates and stewards shall be appointed by the authority, and at the discretion of the said physician-general, subject to the eventual approbation and control of the president of the united states, and shall be removable by the authority of the said physician-general; and the surgeon of each hospital shall appoint, employ and fix the compensations of the nurses and other attendants of such hospital, subject to the control of the said physiciangeneral, or the hospital surgeon, of senior appointment, with a sepa rate army, or in a separate district.

4. SECT. IV. As often as the regimental sick will not suffer by the employing of regimental surgeons or mates in the temporary or other hospitals of the united states, the physician-general, or the hospital surgeon of senior appointment with a separate army, or in a separate district, with the consent of the general and commander in chief, or the officer commanding a separate army, may require the attendance of such surgeons or surgeon's mates, as, in his opinion, can be with safety so withdrawn from their regiments.

5. SECT. V. It shall be the duty of the physician-general with two or more hospital surgeons, to frame a system of directions relative to the description of patients to be admitted into the hospitals; to the means of promoting cleanliness in the hospitals; to the prevention of idleness, skulking and gambling in the hospitals; to the prevention of the spread of infectious distempers in the camps and hospitals, and the government of nurses, and all others charged with the care of the sick, in camps or hospitals, subject in the first instance to the approbation and revision of the commander in chief, the commander of a separate army, or in a separate district, as the case may be, and eventually to the approbation and control of the president of the united states. Provided always, That the said directions having received the sanction of

the commander in chief, or the commander of a separate army, shall be operative, and remain in full force, unless altered or annulled by the president of the united states.

6. SECT. VI. The compensations of the said several officers shall be as follows: Of the physician-general, one hundred dollars pay per month, and fifty dollars per month, which shall be in full compensation for forage, rations and travelling expenses: Of the purveyor, one hundred dollars pay per month, in full compensation for his services and all expenses: Of the apothecary-general, eighty dollars pay per month, and thirty dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations and all expenses; of each of his deputies, fifty dollars pay per month, and sixteen dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations, and all expenses: Of each hospital surgeon, eighty dollars pay per month, and forty dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations, and all expenses; of each mate, thirty dollars pay per month, and twenty dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations, and all expenses: Of each steward, twenty-five dollars pay per month, and eight dollars per month in full compensation for forage, rations, and all expenses. Frovided, That none of the officers aforesaid shall be entitled to any part of the pay or emoluments aforesaid, until they shall respectively be called into actual service.

7. SECT. VII. For the accommodation of the sick of the army and navy of the united states, the physician-general and hospital surgeon of senior appointment, with the approbation of the general commanding the army within the district where he shall be, shall have power to provide temporary hospitals; and the physician-general, with the approbation of the president of the united states, shall have power to provide and establish permanent hospitals.

8. SECT. VIII. All the said cfficers and others shall, as touching their several offices and duties, be liable to the rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the army; and shall be bound to obey, in conformity with law and the usages and customs of armies, the orders and directions of the chief military officers of the respective armies, and within the respective districts in which they shall respectively serve and be.

9. SECT. IX. The physician-general, or in his absence, the senior medical officer, with the approbation of the commander in chief, or commanding officer of a separate army, shall be, and hereby is authorized and empowered as often as may be judged necessary, to call a medical board, which shall consist of the three senior medical officers then present, whose duty it shall be to examine all candidates for employment or promotion in the hospital department, and certify to the secretary at war the qualifications of each.

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1. SECT. I. Each and every free able bodied white male citizen of he respective states, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years, (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in he militia by the captain or commanding officer of the company, withwhose bounds such citizen shall reside, and that within twelve months fter the passing ofthis act. And it shall at all times hereafter be the duty every such captain or commanding officer of a company to enrol every ach citizen, as aforesaid, and also those who shall, from time to time, rive at the age of eighteen years, or being of the age of eighteen years nd under the age of forty-five years (except as before excepted) shall ome to reside within his bounds; and shall without delay notify such itizen of the said enrollment, by a proper non-commissioned officer of company, by whom such notice may be proved.

2. Every citizen so enrolled and notified, shall within six months reafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box herein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity powder and ball: Or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch and power-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pond of powder; and shall appear, so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise, or into service, except, that when called o on company-days to exercise only, he may appear without a knaps ck. The commissioned officers shall severally be armed with a sword or hanger and espontoon, and from and after five years from the passing of this act, all muskets for arming the militia as herein required, shall be of bores sufficient for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound. And every citizen so enrolled and providing himself with the arms, ammuniti and accoutrements required, as aforesaid, shall hold the same emed from all suits, distresses, executions or sales, for debt or for ment of taxes.

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