sioned officers, musicians and privates, viz: one lieutenant colonel commandant, nine captains, twenty-four first lieutenants, sixteen second lieutenants, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster and one quartermaster, to be taken from the said captains and lieutenants, seventy-three corporals, forty-two drums and fifes, and seven hundred and fifty privates.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States cause the provisions of this act to be carried into effect on the first day of April next,Supernumerary officers to be discharged, &c. or as soon thereafter as circumstances will admit, and cause any supernumerary officers to be discharged from the service of the United States; and to all persons so discharged, there shall be paid three months’ additional pay.
The President may appoint any of the officers in the recess.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States may, in the recess of the Senate, appoint any of the officers authorized by this act, which appointments shall be submitted to the Senate at their next session, for their advice and consent.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXVII.—An Act making an appropriation for opening and cutting out a road therein described.
4,000 dolls. appropriated for cutting out a road agreeably to the survey, &c. of Johnson and Dickson.
Under direction of the Secretary of War.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of four thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, and payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of opening and cutting out a road from Reynoldsburg, on Tennessee river, in the state of Tennessee, through the Chickasaw nation, to intersect the Natchez road near the south end of the Chickasaw old town, agreeable to the survey and marked lines heretofore made by Messrs. Johnson and Dickson, commissioners, appointed by the President of the United States; and that the opening of said road shall be under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXIX.—An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to cause repayments to be made of certain alien duties.
Discriminating duties paid on British vessels, from the 17th Aug. to 22d Dec. 1815, to be repaid, &c.
Exception.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to cause to be repaid, or remitted, all alien or discriminating duties, either upon tonnage or merchandise imported, in respect to all British vessels which have been entered in ports of the United States at any time between the seventeenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the twenty-second of December in the same year, excepting only such duties as may have been paid or secured on the tonnage of ships, or upon the merchandise imported therein, which ships have been entered in the United States from a colony or district, into or with which vessels of the United States are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXXXV.—An Act to repeal so much of any acts now in force as authorize a loan of money, or an issue of Treasury notes.
