Penalty for un persons on board public vessels. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any commander lawfully employ. ing or receiving of a public vessel of the United States shall knowingly employ, or permit to be employed, or shall admit or receive, or permit to be admitted or received, on board his vessel, any person whose employment or admission is prohibited by the provisions of this act, he shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars for each person thus unlawfully employed or admitted on board such vessel. [SEC. 8 relates to private vessels.] Circumst'nc's un der which Ameri SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this can seamen or sub- act contained shall be construed to prohibit any commander, jects of a foreign or master, of a public or private vessel of the United States, received on board whilst in a foreign port or place, from receiving an American in a foreign port. seaman in conformity to law, or supplying any deficiency of seamen on board such vessel, by employing American seamen, country may be What for'gn seamen may be employed. Nothing in this arrangement be or subjects of such foreign country, the employment of whom shall not be prohibited by the laws thereof. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted. That the provisions of this act shall have no effect or operation with respect to the employment, as seamen, of the subjects or citizens of any foreign nation which shall not, by treaty or special convention with the government of the United States, have prohibited, on board of her public and private vessels, the employment of native citizens of the United States, who have not become a citizen or subject of such nation. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act to prevent any act contained shall be so construed as to prevent any arrangetween the United ment between the United States and any foreign nation, States and any which may foreign nation. take place, under any treaty or convention, made and ratified in the manner prescribed by the Constitution of the United States. Commencement of suit for forfeiture. Officers and seamen of revenue operating with the [SECTIONS 12 and 13 relate to qualifications of citizenship, &c.] SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That no suit shall be brought for any forfeiture or penalty incurred under the provisions of this act, unless the suit be commenced within three years from the time of the forfeiture. Approved March 3, 1813. (Vol. 2, p. 809.) AN ACT granting pensions to the officers and seamen serving on board the revenue cutters in certain cases. Be it enacted, &c., That the officers and seamen of the cutt'rs wounded or revenue cutters of the United States who have been, or may disabled while co- be, wounded or disabled in the discharge of their duty whilst navy to be placed Co-operating with the navy, by order of the President of the on navy pension United States, shall be entitled to be placed on the navy pension list, at the same rate of pension, and under the same regulations and restrictions, as are now provided by law for the officers and seamen of the navy. list. Approved April 18, 1814. (Vol. 3, p. 127.) AN ACT to provide for the collection and preservation of such flags, standards, and colors, as shall have been, or may hereafter be, taken by the land and naval forces of the United States from their enemies. of Secretaries collect all flags, &c. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &., That the Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments be, and they are hereby, directed to cause to be collected and transmitted to them, at the seat of the government of the United States, all such flags, standards, and colors, as shall have been, or may hereafter be, taken, by the army and navy of the United States, from their enemies. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the flags, stand- Flags, &c., to be ards, and colors, of the description aforesaid, which are now public place, as the displayed in some in the possession of the departments aforesaid, and such as President shall dimay be hereafter transmitted to them, be, with all convenient despatch, delivered to the President of the United States, for the purpose of being, under his direction, preserved and displayed, in such public place as he shall deem proper. Approved April 18, 1814. (Vol. 3, p. 133.) * * rect. AN ACT concerning the pay of officers, seamen, and marines in the navy of the United States. * and the pay and bounty upon enlistment of the seamen, ordinary seamen, and marines,* shall be fixed by the President of the United States: Provided, That the whole sum to be given, for the whole pay aforesaid, and for the pay of officers, and that the amount of bounties upon enlistment of seamen and marines, shall not exceed, for any year, the amount, which may, in such year, be appropriated for those purposes respectively. Approved April 18, 1814. (Vol. 3, p. 136.) Pay and bounty The whole sum not to exceed am't appropriated to seamen. any year. in AN ACT directing the staff officers of the army to comply with the requisitions of naval and marine officers, in certain cases. and marines co-op provided with ra SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be the duty of the Officers, seamen, several officers of the staff of the army of the United States erating with the to provide the officers, seamen, and marines, of the navy of land forces to be the United States, when acting, or proceeding to act, on shore, tions, camp equip. in co-operation with the laud troops, upon the requisition of age, &c. the commanding naval or marine officer of any such detachment of seamen or marines, under orders to act as aforesaid, with rations, also the officers and seamen with camp equipage, according to the relative rank and station of each, and the military regulations in like cases, together with the necessary transportation, as well for the men as for their baggage, pro * By law, marines are paid as infantry in the army. the rations to be of the army to fur Contract price of visions, and cannon: Provided, nevertheless, That the contract reimbursed. price of the rations which may be furnished shall be reimbursed out of the appropriations for the support of the navy. Quartermasters SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the respective nish commanding quartermasters of the army shall, upon the requisition of the naval officers, &c., commanding naval officer of any such detachment of seamen or marines, furnish the said officer, and his necessary aids, with horses, accoutrements, and forage, during the time they may be employed in co-operating with the land troops as aforesaid. Approved December 15, 1814. (Vol. 3, p. 151.) with horses, forage &c. Lands producing live oak and red reserved. AN ACT making reservation of certain public lands to supply timber for naval purposes. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Navy cedar timbers to be be authorized, and it shall be his duty, under the direction of explored and tracts the President of the United States, to cause such vacant and unappropriated lands of the United States as produce the live oak and red cedar timbers to be explored, and selection to be made of such tracts or portions thereof, where the principal growth is of either of the said timbers, as, in his judgment, may be necessary to furnish for the navy a sufficient supply of the said timbers. The said Secretary shall have power to employ such agent, or agents, and surveyor,* as he may deem necessary for the aforesaid purpose, who shall report to him the tracts by them selected, with the boundaries ascertained, and accurately designated, by actual survey or water-courses, which report shall be laid before the President, which he may approve or reject, in whole or in part; and the tracts of lands thus selected, with the approbation of the President, shall be reserved, unless otherwise directed by law, from any future sale of the public lands, and be appropriated to the sole purpose of supplying timber for Proviso. Rights the navy of the United States: Provided, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to prejudice the rights of any person or persons claiming lands which may be of persons claiming not to be prejudiced. Pursers to enter into bond in the reserved as aforesaid. * * Approved March 1, 1817. (Vol. 3, p. 347.) AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "An act concerning the naval establishment.' SEC. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That every purser now in serpenalty of $25,000, vice, or who may hereafter be appointed, shall, instead of the bond required by the act to which this is a supplement, with two or more sureties. * An act of May 15, 1820, vol. 3, 607, repeals the power given here to the Secretary of the Navy to appoint an agent, or agents, and surveyor, and directs that the duties and services required by this section be performed by such surveyors of public lands as may be designated by the President. See acts of March 2, 1831, and March 3, 1859, as o punishment of persons cutting and destroying timber on reserved lands. enter into bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, in the penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of all his duties as purser in the navy of the United States,* which said sureties shall be approved by the judge, or attorney, of the United States for the district in which such purser shall reside. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the first day of May next, no person shall act in the character of purser who shall not enter into bond as aforesaid, excepting pursers on distant service who shall not remain in service longer than two months after their return to the United States, unless they shall comply with the provisions of the first section of this act. Approved March 1, 1817. (Vol. 3, p. 350.) AN ACT to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts. the United States SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after All claims and the said third day of March next, all claims and demands accounts in which whatever by the United States, or against them, and all are concerned to accounts whatever, in which the United States are concerned, Treasury Departeither as debtors or as creditors, shall be settled and adjusted ment. in the Treasury Department. SEC. 4... * be settled in the ditors. and it shall be the duty of Duty of the Authe Fourth Auditor to receive all accounts accruing in the Navy Department, or relative thereto; and the Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors, aforesaid, shall examine the accounts respectively, and certify the balance, and transmit the accounts, with the vouchers and certificate, to the Second Comptroller, for his decision thereon. * the examination of War and Navy SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Duties of the Auduty of the Auditors, charged with the examination of the ditors charg'd with accounts of the War and Navy Departments, to keep all ac- the accounts of the counts of the receipts and expenditures of the public money Departments. in regard to those departments, and of all debts due to the United States on moneys advanced relative to those departments; to receive from the Second Comptroller the accounts which shall have been finally adjusted, and to preserve such accounts, with their vouchers and certificates, and to record all warrants drawn by the Secretaries of those departments, the examination of the accounts of which has been assigned to them by the preceding section. And it shall be the duty of the said Auditors to make such reports on the business assigned to them as the Secretaries of the War and Navy De * An act of July 14, 1862, vol. 12, 575, repeals the words in italics, and says that such bonds shall be deemed and taken to be satisfactory and sufficient whenever the Secretary of the Navy shall be satisfied, on such evidence as he shall consider proper, that the bonds ought to be approved and accepted. The present practice is to require a certificate, as to the ability of the sureties, from some United States judge or attorney. Duty of the Sec partments may deem necessary and require for the services of those departments. * * * * SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the ond Comptroller. duty of the Second Comptroller to examine all accounts settled by the Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors, and certify the balances arising thereon to the Secretary of the department in which the expenditure has been incurred; to countersign all warrants drawn by the Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments which shall be warranted by law; to report to the said Secretaries the official forms to be issued in the different offices for disbursing the public money in those departments, and the manner and form of keeping and stating the accounts of the persons employed therein; and it shall also be his duty to superintend the preservation of the public accounts, subject to his revision. Certific'tes of the Auditors charged Navy Departm'ts dence in suits. * SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the provision with the accounts contained in the second section of the act passed the third of the War and March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, entito be legal evi- tled "An act to provide more effectually for the settlement of accounts between the United States and receivers of public money," which directs that, in every case where suit has been, or shall be instituted, a transcript from the books and proceedings of the treasury, certified by the Register, shall be admitted as evidence, be extended, in regard to the accounts of the War and Navy Departments, to the Auditors respectively charged with the examination of those accounts, and that certificates, signed by them, shall be of the same effect as that directed to be signed by the Register. Auditors empow oaths, &c. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Auditors of ered to administer the public accounts shall be empowered to administer oaths, or affirmations, to witnesses, in any case in which they may deem it necessary for the due examination of the accounts with which they shall be charged. Duty of Comptroller in regard to balances. * * SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That, in the annual statement of all accounts, on which balances appear to have been due more than three years, which the Comptroller is now required by law to make,* he shall hereafter distinguish those accounts, the balances appearing on which shall, in his opinion, be owing to difficulties of form, which he may think it equitable shall be removed by an act of Congress; and where the debtors, by whom such balances shall have been due more than three years, shall be insolvent, and have been reported to Congress for three successive years as insolvent, the Comptroller shall not be required, in such case, to continue to include such balances in the statement above mentioned. * * * Approved March 3, 1817. (Vol. 3, p. 366.) Required by sec. 2, act of March 3, 1809, page 20. |