Allowance to officers discharged, private, during the term of his service, shall be arrested on mesne process, or taken or charged in execution for any debt or debts contracted before enlistment, which were severally under twenty dollars at the time of contracting the same nor for any debt whatever contracted after enlistment. Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That whenever any officer or soldier shall be discharged from the service, except by way of and soldiers punishment for any offence, he shall be allowed his pay and rations, or an equivalent in money, for such term of time as shall be sufficient for him to travel from the place of discharge to the place of his residence, computing at the rate of twenty miles to a day. for returning home. Rate of rations. Chaplains to Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That the subsistence of the officers of the army, when not received in kind, shall be estimated at twenty cents per ration. Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed to each brigade one be appoint chaplain, who shall be entitled to the same pay and emoluments as a major in the infantry. ed. General and field officers to receive pay only for the time when they are in actual service. Sec 25. And be it further enacted, That no general, field or staff officer, who may be appointed by virtue of this act, shall be entitled to receive any pay or emoluments until he shall be called into actual service, nor for any longer time than he shall continue therein. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President of the United States, and January 11, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XV. AN ACT directing the terms on which Lands sold at public sale, and that revert for failure in payment, shall again be sold. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no tract or tracts of the reserved sections or other public lands of the United States, that have been or may hereafter be sold at public sale, and which may have, or shall, on account of failure to complete the payment of the purchase money, revert to the United States, shall hereafter be sold at private sale, at a price less than that for which the same tract was sold at public sale. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice-President of the United States, and January 14, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XVI. AN ACT authorising the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage and other Quarter-Master's stores and small arms. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum D Specific ap- of one million five hundred thousand dollars propriation. be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase, under the direction of the President of the United States, of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage and other quarter-master's stores for the use of the army of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Specific ap sum of four hundred thousand dollars be, and propriation. the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase, under the direction of the President of the United States, of saltpetre and sulphur, for making the same into powder, and for ordnance and small arms for the use of the navy of the United States. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice-President of the United States, and January 14, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER XVII. AN ACT to alter the time of holding the district courts of the United States, for the North Ca rolina district. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That instead of the time heretofore established by law for the sessions of the district courts of the United States, in the North Carolina district, the said Sessions of courts shall hereafter commence and be holden the court changed. on the following days in each year, that is to say: At Edenton, in and for the district of Albermarle, on the third Monday of April, and third Monday of October; at Newbern, in and for the district of Pamptico, on the first Monday after the third Monday of April, and third Monday of October; at Wilmington, in and for the district of Cape Fear, on the second Monday after the third Monday of April, and third Monday of October, any thing contained in any former act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding. And all ac- Process, &c. tions, suits, process, pleadings, recognizances, &c. to be reand all other proceedings of what nature or &c.accordingkind soever, civil or criminal, commenced or ly. to be commenced, and made returnable to any of the said courts, in the month of February next, shall be continued respectively, and shall be returned to, and have day in the term of said courts next to be holden by virtue of this act, and the same proceedings shali be had thereon, with the same effect and power, they would have had if this alteration had not been made. turnable, &c. the non-at Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the judge of the district courts aforesaid should fail to attend on the first day of the term of any of the said courts, respectively, it shall and Marshal may may be lawful for the marshal of the district, adjourn the and he is hereby authorised to adjourn the said court or courts, until the next succeeding day, and if the said judge does not attend before the expiration of the second day of the term of the said court or courts, respectively, it shall and may be lawful for the marshal aforesaid to adjourn the said court or courts to court upon tendance of the judge, the two first days, the term next in course, any thing in any for mer act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice-President of the United States, and January 23, 1812. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. tinued in force. CHAPTER XVIII. AN ACT to continue in force for a further time, the first section of the act, entitled "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary Powers." of BE it enacted by the Senate and House Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of The act con- the act passed on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers," as is contained in the first sec. tion of the said act, and which was revived and continued in force for the time therein mentioned, by an act, entitled "An act to re: vive and continue in force for a further time, the first section of the act, entitled 'An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers," passed on the twelfth day of January, |