cerning pensions to persons on board private armed vessels. An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vsssels of the United States. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Regulations con- assembled, That if any officer, seaman, or marine serving on board of any private armed ship or vessel bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall die, or shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by reason of a wound received in the line of his duty, leaving a widow, or if no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children shall be placed on the pension list by the Secretary of the Navy, who shall allow to such widow, child, or children, half the monthly pension to which the rank of the deceased would have entitled him for the highest rate of disability, under "An act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships;" which allowance shall continue for the term of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow before the expiration of the term of five years, the half pay for the remainder of the term shall go to the child or children of the deceased: Provided, That the half pay shall cease on the death of such child or children. And the several pensions hereby directed shall be paid by di rection of the Secretary of the Navy out of the fund provided by the seventeenth section of an act, entitled "An act concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods," and from no other. Proviso. Widows and children of seamen serving in the public vessels of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any seaman or marine belonging to the navy of the United the U. States pro- States, shall die, or if any officer, seaman, or marine belonging to the navy of the United States, shall have died since the eighteenth day of June, in the vided for. year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and March 4, 1814, 2d ses. 18th Con. An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act allowing a bounty to the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessels of the United States." SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the bounty now allowed by law, the sum of one hundred dollars be paid to the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessels of the United States, commissioned as letters of marque, for each and every prisoner by them captured and delivered to an agent authorized to receive him in any port of the United States, or of a power at war with Great Britain, or delivered at any station within the dominions of the King of Great Britain established for the exchange of prisoners of war, whereby such prisoner shall be actually placed and allowed by the government of The sum of100 dol lars to be paid out the treasury to privateers men for each prisoner ta ken by them. Specific appropri ation. of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the account of prisoners to the credit of the United States. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, or cause to be paid, to such owners, officers, and crews of private armed vessels commissioned as aforesaid, or their agents, the aforesaid sum for each prisoner captured and delivered as aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes aforesaid, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be and the same is hereby appropriated. March 19, 1814, 2nd ses. 13th Con. tured property claimed by resi dents of the U. States. An act providing for salvage in cases of recapture. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in ConSalvage on recap-gress assembled, That when any vessel, other than a vessel of war or privateer, or when any goods which shall hereafter be taken as prize by any vessel, acting under authority from the government of the United States, shall appear to have before belonged to any person or persons, resident within or under the protection of the United States, and to have been taken by an enemy of the United States, or under authority, or pretence of authority from any prince, government or state, against which the United States have authorized, or shall authorize, defence or reprisals, such vessel or goods not having been condemned as prize, by competent authority, before the recapture thereof, the same shall be restored to the former owner or owners thereof, he or they paying for and in lieu of salvage, if retaken by a public vessel of the United States, one eighth part, and if retaken by a private armed vessel of the United States, one sixth part of the true value of the vessel or goods so to be restored, allowing and excepting all imposts and public duties to which the same may be liable. And if the vessel so retaken, shall appear to have been set forth and armed as a vessel of war, before such capture or afterwards, and before the retaking thereof as aforesaid, the former owner or owners, on the restoration thereof, shall be adjudged to pay for and in lieu of salvage, one moiety of the true value of such vessel of war or privateer. recaptured pro perty claimed by the U. States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any Compensation for vessel or goods, which shall hereafter be taken as prize, by any vessel acting under authority from the government of the United States, shall appear to have before belonged to the United States, and to have been taken by an enemy of the United States, or under authority or pretence of authority from any prince, government, or state, against which the United States have authorized, or shall authorize, defence or reprisals, such public vessel not having been condemned as prize, by competent authority, before the recapture thereof, the same shall be restored to the United States. And for and in lieu of salvage, there shall be paid from the treasury of the United States, pursuant to the final decree which shall be made in such case by any court of the United States, having competent jurisdiction thereof, to the parties who shall be thereby entitled to receive the same, for the recapture as aforesaid, of an unarmed vessel, or any goods therein, one sixth part of the true value thereof, when made by a private vessel of the United States, and one. twelfth part of such value when the recapture shall be made by a public armed vessel of the United States; and for the recapture as aforesaid of a public armed vessel, or any goods therein, one moiety of the true value thereof, when made by a private vessel of the United States, and one fourth part of such value, Salvage on recap tured property friends. when such recapture shall be made by a public armed vessel of the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any claimed by alien vessel or goods, which shall be taken as prize, as aforesaid, shall appear to have before belonged to any person or persons permanently resident within the territory, and under the protection of any foreign prince, government, or state, in amity with the United States, and to have been taken by an enemy of the United States, or by authority or pretence of authority, from any prince, government, or state, against which the United States have authorized, or shall authorize, defence or reprisals, then such vessel or goods shall be adjudged to be restored to the former owner, or owners thereof, he or they paying for and in lieu of salvage, such proportion of the true value of the vessel or goods so to be restored, as by the law or usage of such prince, government, or state, within whose territory such former owner or owners shall be so resident, shall be required, on the restoration of any vessel or goods of a citizen of the United States, under like circumstances of recapture, made by the authority of such foreign prince, government, or state; and where no such law or usage shall be known, the same salvage shall be allowed as is provided by the first section of this act: Provided, That no such vessel or goods shall be adjudged to be restored to such former owner or owners, in any case where the same shall have been, before the recapture thereof, condemned as prize by competent authority, nor in any case whereby the law or usage of the prince, government, or state, within whose territory such former owner or owners shall be resident as aforesaid, the vessel or goods of a citizen of the United States, under like circumstances of recapture, would not be restored to such citizen of the United States: Provided also, That nothing herein shall be construed to contravene |