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the president,

&c.

assembled, That the following ports and harbors be for- fortified under tified, under the direction of the president of the United the direction of States, and at such time or times as he may judge necessary, to wit: Portland, in the district of Maine; Portsmouth, in the state of New-Hampshire; Gloucester, Salem, Marblehead, and Boston, in the state of Massachusetts; Newport, in the state of Rhode Island; New-London, in the state of Connecticut; New York; Philadelphia; Wilmington, in the state of Delaware; Baltimore, in the state of Maryland; Norfolk and Alexandria, in the state of Virginia; Cape Fear river, and Ocracock Inlet, in the state of North Carolina; Charleston and Georgetown, in the state of South Carolina; and Savannah, and Saint Mary's, in the state of Georgia.

may employ the United States as

shot, &c. to be provided, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be The president lawful for the president of the United States to employ, troops of the as garrisons, in the said fortifications, or any of them, garrisons, &c. such of the troops on the military establishment of the United States as he may judge necessary; and to cause cause cannon, to be provided one hundred cannon, of a caliber, each, to carry a ball of thirty-two pounds weight, and one hundred other cannon, of a caliber, each, to carry a ball of twenty-four pounds weight, together with the carriages. and implements necessary for the same, and carriages with the necessary implements for one hundred and fifty other cannon, with two hundred and fifty tons of cannon shot.

receive cessions

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be The president to lawful for the president of the United States to receive of, or to pur from any state (in behalf of the United States) a cession chase lands, &es of the lands on which any of the fortifications aforesaid, with the necessary buildings, may be erected, or intended to be erected; or, where such cessions shall not be made, to purchase such lands, on behalf of the United States: Provided, That no purchase shall be made where such lands are the property of a state.*

[Approved, March 20, 1794.]

CHAPTER XIX.

An act to provide for the erecting and repairing of arsenals and maga

gazines, and for other purposes.†

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- Three or four presentatives of the United States of America in Congress arsenals, with

*See the constitution, article 1, section 8, clause 16.

†See chapter 32, making further provisions for procuring arms, &c. also chapter 44, and 56.

established, un

nagazines, to be assembled, That, for the safe keeping of the military der the direction stores, there shall be established, under the direction of of the president, the president of the United States, three or four arsenals,

&c.

not to be erected

purchased, &c.

A national armory at each of the arsenals, &c.

with magazines, as he shall judge most expedient, in such places as will best accommodate the different parts of the United States. Either, or both, of the arsenals heretofore used at Springfield and Carlisle, to be continued as part of the said number, at his discretion: Proviso; arsenals Provided, That none of the said arsenals be erected, until the land is until purchases of the land, necessary for their accommedation, be made, with the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same is intended to be erected. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be established, at each of the aforesaid arsenals, a national armory, in which shall be employed one superintendent, and one master armorer, (who shall be appointed by the president of the United States,) and as many workmen as the secretary for the department of war shall, from time to time, deem necessary, so that the whole number, at all the armories, shall not exceed one Compensation to hundred. And the said superintendents shall, each, reand master ar- ceive, as a compensation, seventy dollars per month, and the said master armorer, each, fifty dollars per month.*

superintendents

morers, &c.

An officer to su perintend the re

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be ceiving, &c. of employed an officer, whose duty it shall be, (under the military stores, direction of the department of war,) to superintend the receiving, safe keeping, and distribution, of the military stores of the United States, and to call to account all persons to whom the same may be intrusted; he shall receive, for his compensation, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, and shall be appointed by the president of the United States.

His compensation; and to be

appointed by the president.

Not exceeding

59.000 dulls a

propriated for

pairing arsenals,

eceding 22,865

dolls. for armo

ries,

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding fifty-nine thousand dollars, be appropriated for erecting and re- the erecting and repairing of the arsenals and maga&e and not ex-zines aforesaid; and a sum, not exceeding twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars, for de&c. fraying the expense of the national armories, for one year; and the further sum of three hundred and forty be applied, un- thousand dollars, to be applied, under the direction of dent's direction, the president of the United States, in the purchase of ammunition, and military stores; which said seof arms, &c. arms, veral sums shall be paid out of the duties on imports and tonnage, to the end of the present year.

340 000 dolls. to

der the presi

in the purchase

*See act of 7th of May, 1800, chap. 44, sec. 1.

of expenses of be laid before

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That an annual ac- Annual account Count of the expenses of the national armories be laid armories, &c. to before the legislature of the United States, together congress. with an account of the arms made and repaired therein. [Approved, April 2, 1794.]

CHAPTER XX.

*

sioned officers,

three years, &c.

An act for raising and organizing a Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- 764 non-commis presentatives of the United States of America in Congress privates, &c. to assembled, That the number of seven hundred and six. be raised for ty-four non-commissioned officers, privates, and artifi- Commissioned cers, to serve as privates, and musicians, shall be en- pointed, &c. gaged for the term of three years, by voluntary enlistments; and that the proper proportion of commissioned officers shall be appointed to command the same.

officers to be ap

rated with the

ry, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid To be incorpo commissioned and non-commissioned officers, privates, corps of artille artificers, and musicians, shall be incorporated with the' corps of artillery now in the service of the United States, Entire number and denominated the corps of artillerists and engineers; of the corps of and that the entire number of the said corps, exclusively engineers to be of the commissioned officers, shall be nine hundred and, exclusively, ninety-two.

artilierists and

the corps, as

mentioned.

SEC. S. And be it further enacted, That the organi- Organization of zation of the said corps be as herein mentioned, to wit: one lieutenant-colonel commandant, one adjutant. one surgeon; four battalions, each to consist of one major, one adjutant and paymaster, and one surgeon's mate; and four companies, cach to consist of one captain, two lieutenants, two cadets, with the pay, clothing, and rations of a sergeant, four sergeants, four corporals, forty-two privateś, sappers, and miners, and ten artificers to serve as privates, and two musicians.

vates to receive

go

troops, to be same rules, &c.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the additional officers and pricommissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, pri- the same pay, vates, artificers, and musicians, by this act directed to &e. as other be raised, shall receive the same pay and allowances, in verned by the all respects, as the troops already in the service of the United States; and they shall also be governed by the same rules and articles of war, which have been, or may be, by law established.

* Continued by acts of 3d March, 1795, chap 24, and 30th May, 1796, chap 26. An additional regiment provided by act of 27th April, 1798, chap. 30. Repeated and supplied by act of 16th March, 1802, chap. 46, sections 1, 2, 26, 27, 28 and 29.

The secretary of

books, appara tus, &c.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the wars provide duty of the Secretary of war to provide, at the public expense, under such regulations as shall be directed by the president of the United States, the necessary books, instruments, and apparatus, for the use and benefit of the said corps.

The president to

the corps to

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the president cause portions of of the United States shall cause such proportions of the serve as he may said corps to serve in the field, on the frontiers, or in the fortifications on the sea coast, as he shall deem consistent with the public service.

deem consistent,

&e.

[Approved, May 9, 1794.]

The port and

fied, &c.

CHAPTER XXI.

An act supplementary to "An act to provide for the defence of certain ports and harbors in the United States."

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reharbor of Anna presentatives of the United States of America in Congress polis, to be forti assembled, That the port and harbor of the city of Annapolis be fortified, in such manner, and at such time or times, as the president of the United States may direct; and that it shall be lawful for the president of the United States to employ a garrison in the said fortification, provide cannon and equipments, and receive, from the state of Maryland, a cession of the lands on which the said fortification, and its necessary buildings, may be erected, agreeably to the second and third sections of the act to which this is a supplement. * [Approved, May 9, 1794.]

The president garrison at Annapolis, &c. re

may employ a

ceive a cession of land, &c.

Half pay for five

CHAPTER XXII.

An act in addition to the "act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States."t

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reyears to the wi- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress dows or orphans assembled. That if any commissioned officer in the officers dying in troops of the United States shall, while in the service

of commissioned

*See original act, chapter 18.

†The 1st and 2d sections of this act were superseded and supplied by act of 16th March, 1802-See chap. 46, sections 13 & 15. The 3d was continued with some modification by acts of 3d March, 1795, and 30th May, 1796, chap. 24, sec 9, and chap. 26, sec. 11, but formally repealed by act of 3d March, 1797-see chap. 27, scc. I.

wounds, &c.

of the United States, die, by reason of wounds received the service from in actual service of the United States, and shall leave a widow, or if no widow, shall leave a child or children, under age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall be entitled to, and receive, the half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years: And in case of the death or intermarriage of such widow, before the expiration of the said term of five years, the half pay, for the remainder of the term, shall go to the child or children of such deceased officer, while under the age of sixteen years, and, in like manner, the allowance to the child or children of such deceased, where there is no widow, shall be paid no longer than while there is a Proviso; no child or children under the age aforesaid. Provided That greater allow no greater sum shall be allowed, in any case, to the wi- case, than the dow or to the child or children, of any officer, than the tenant colonel. half pay of a lieutenant-colonel.

ance. in any

half pay of lieu

army not to ex

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the army be Arrears of the in future paid in such manner that the arrears shall at ceed 2 months. no time exceed two months.

may augment the on the frontiers,

circumstances

,

SEC. S. And be it further enacted, That to such of the The president troops as are, or may be, employed on the frontiers, rations of troops and under such special circumstances as, in the opinion under special of the president of the United States, may require an &c. augmentation of some parts of their rations, the president be authorized to direct such augmentation as he may judge necessary, not exceeding four ounces of beef, two ounces of flour, and half a gill of rum, or whiskey, in addition to each ration, and half a pint of salt to one hundred rations. [Approved, June 7, 1794.]

CHAPTER XXIII.

An act to establish the office of Purveyor of Public Supplies.*

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- A purveyor of presentatives of the United States of America in Congress in the depart public supplies, assembled, That there shall be, in the department of the ment of the trea treasury, an officer, to be denominated "Purveyor of Public Supplies," whose duty shall be, under the direction and supervision of the secretary of the treasury,† to

*The office of Purveyor abolished by act of March 28th, 1812-See chap. 64, sec. 9

Altered by act of 16th July, 1798-See chap. 37, sec. 3.

sury, &c.

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