and bounty,Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That each of the non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians of the said levies, shall be entitled to receive three dollars as a bounty.
and engage surgeon’s mates.Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That in case the nature of the service, upon which the troops of the United States may be employed, should require a greater number of surgeon’s mates than are provided for in the before-mentioned act, the President of the United States may engage, from time to time, such additional number of surgeon’s mates, as he shall judge necessary.
Allowance to officers for recruiting.Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the commissioned officers, who shall be employed to recruit men for the said regiments, shall be entitled to receive for every recruit who shall be duly enlisted and mustered, the sum of two dollars.
Appropriation of monies for carrying this act into effect, andSec. 15. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expense, for one year, of the additional regiment to be raised by virtue of this act; for defraying the expense, for a like term, of the officers mentioned in the seventh section of this act; for defraying the expense of the said militia-horse, militia-foot, and levies, which may be called into, or engaged for the service of the United States, pursuant to this act; for defraying the expense of such surgeon’s mates, as may be appointed pursuant to the fifteenth section of this act; for defraying the expense of recruiting the said two regiments; and for defraying the expense of any military posts which the President shall judge expedient and proper to establish, there be and hereby is appropriated a sum, not exceedingits amount; three hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty cents, to be paid out of the monies which, prior to the first day of January next, shall arise from the duties imposed upon spirits distilled within the United States, and from stills, by the act, intituled1791, ch. 15. “An act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same;” together with the excess of duties which may arise from the duties imposed by the said act on imported spirits, beyond those which would have arisen by the act, intituled1790, ch. 39. “An act making farther provision for the payment of the debts of the United States.”
And to the end that the public service may not be impeded for want of necessary means;
which may be borrowed if necessary.Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President to take on loan the whole sum by this act appropriated, or so much thereof as he may judge requisite, at an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum; and the fund established for the above-mentioned appropriation, is hereby pledged for the repayment of the principal and interest of any loan to be obtained in manner aforesaid; and in case of any deficiency in the said fund, the faith of the United States is hereby also pledged to make good such deficiency.
Approved, March 3, 1791.
Feb. 18, 1791.
Andrew Brown or any other printer under direction of the Secretary of State to print the laws.Ⅰ.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Andrew Brown, or any other printer, be permitted, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to collate with, and correct by the original rolls, the laws, resolutions and treaties of the United States, to be by him printed. And that a certificate of their having been so collated and corrected be annexed to the said edition. Provided, That such collation and correction be at the expense of the said Andrew Brown, or such other printer, and that the person or persons to be by him or them employed in that service, be approved by the Secretary of State.
Approved, February 18, 1791.
