aforesaid, with rations, also the officers and seamen with camp equipage, according to the relative rank and station of each, and the military regulations in like cases, together with the necessary transportation, as well as for the men, as for their baggage, provisions, and cannon: Proviso.Provided nevertheless, That the contract price of the rations which may be furnished, shall be reimbursed out of the appropriations for the support of the navy.
Naval officers while co-operating with land forces, to have certain supplies.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the respective quartermasters of the army shall, upon the requisition of the commanding naval officer of any such detachment of seamen or marines, furnish the said officer and his necessary aids with horses, accoutrements, and forage, during the time they may be employed in co-operating with the land troops as aforesaid.
Approved, December 15, 1814.
Statute III.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XIV.—An Act making additional appropriations for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment during the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law to that object, the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay of the army, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the subsistence of the army, one million of dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, five hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing, five hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be appropriated for the purposes herein recited, that is to say:
For defraying the compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
For defraying the contingent expenses of the Senate of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated.
For defraying the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 15, 1814.
Statute III.
Chap. XV.—An Act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on spirits distilled within the United States, and territories thereof, and by amending the act laying duties on licenses to distillers of spirituous liquors.[1]
act of Dec 23, 1817, ch. 58.
Act of July 24, 1813, ch. 25.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of February next, there shall be paid upon all spirits, unless hereinafter specially excepted, which, after the said day, shall be distilled within
- ↑ Repealed by act of Dec 23, 1817, ch. 1.
