money remaining in the treasury not other wise appropriated.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JN. M LLEDGE,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

March 3, 1809.

APPROVED,

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER C.

AN ACT authorising an augmentation of the Marine Corps.

E it enacted by the Senate and House

of Representatives of the United States Augmenta

authorized

of America, in Congress assembled, That the tion of the President of the United States shall be, and Marine corps he is hereby authorised to cause the Marine Corps in the service of the United States, to be augmented, by the appointment and enlistment of not exceeding one major, two captains, two first lieutenants, one hundred and eighty-five corporals, and five hundred and ninety-four privates, who shall be respectively allowed the same pay, bounty, clothing and rations, and shall be employed under the same rules and regulations to which the said Marine Corps are, or shall, be entitled and subject.

Term of es.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, all en- tablishments listments in the said Corps, shall be for the

term of five years, unless sooner discharged,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JN: MILLEDGE,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.

March 3, 1809.

APPROVED,

TH: JEFFERSON.

Further ap

CHAPTER CI.

AN ACT supplemental to the act, intituled, "An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes.”

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of

Representatives of the United States of propriation. America, in Congress assembled, That a sum, not exceeding forty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for the purpose of carrying on trade and intercourse with the Indian nations, in the manner prescribed by the act, intituled, " An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes," be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eight hundred dollars be, and the Appropria- san.e is hereby appropriated out of any motion for an nies in the Treasury of the United States not clerk in the otherwise appropriated, for an additional Superinten clerk in the office of the superintendant of Indian trade.

addition 1

dant's office.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proviso to the twelfth section of the act, A proviso of intituled, "An act for establishing tradinghouses with the Indian tribes," be, and the

same is hereby repealed.

a former law repealed.

of the one to

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the act to which this is a supplement, and Continuance also this act, shall, from and after the twen- of this act & ty-first day of April next, commence and be which it is a continued in force, for and during the term supplement. of three years, and no longer.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representative

JN: MILLEDGE,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

March 3, 1809.

APPROVED,

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER CII.

An ACT to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing Cotton and Wool Cards.

BE

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all the privileges and benefits granted to Amos Whittemore, of the state of Massachusetts, in consideration of a machine invented by him for the manufacture of Cotton and Wool Cards within the United States, by a patent issued from the Department of State, and bearing date the fifth day of June, one thou

sand seven hundred and ninety-seven, be, and the same are hereby extended to Amos Whittemore, and William Whittemore, junior, as joint proprietors of the said machine, for and during the term of fourteen years, to commence on the fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eleven; any thing in the act, intituled, "An act to promote the progress of useful arts; and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose," to the contrary notwithstanding.

J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JN: MILLEDGE, President of the Senate, pro tempore.

March 3, 1909.

APPROVED,

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER CIH.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the military establishment, and of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and

nine.

B America, in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, for the Indian department, and for the expense et fortifications, arsenals, magazines and ar

E it enacted by the Senate and House of

mories, the following sums be, and the same. hereby are respectively appropriated, that

is to say:

For the pay of the army of the United

States, eight hundred and sixty-eight thou- Specific ap sand two hundred and forty dollars:

For forage, sixty four thousand six hun

dred and twenty-four dollars:

For subsistence, six hundred and fortyone thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents:

For clothing, two hundred and ninetythree thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars:

For bounties and premiums, fifteen thou sand dollars:

For the medical and hospital departments, forty-five thousand dollars:

For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, two hundred and seventy thousand doilars:

For ordnance, seventy-five thousand dollars:

For purchasing horses, saddles and bridles for the light dragoons, and for the light artillery fifty one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars:

For forage for the horses for the regiment of light artillery, ten thousand eight hundred dollars:

For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, two hundred and nineteen thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventy five cents: For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars:

For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars

propriations.