United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 22
Chap. XXII.—An Act regulating pensions to persons on board private armed ships.
1812, ch. 107.
1813, ch. 58.
Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 60.
Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 60.
Act of Jan. 22, 1824, ch. 15.
Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.
Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 40.
The two per cent. reserved in the hands of the collectors and consuls, to be paid into the treasury, to constitute a fund, &c.
Secretary of the Navy to place certain persons on the pension list.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the two per centum reserved in the hands of the collectors and consuls by the act of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An act concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods,” shall be paid to the treasury, under the like regulations provided for other public money, and shall constitute a fund for the purposes provided for by the seventeenth section of the before mentioned act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and required to place on the pension list, under the like regulations and restrictions, as are used in relation to the navy of the United States, any officer, seaman or marine, who, on board of any private armed ship or vessel bearing a commission of letter of marque, shall have been wounded or otherwise disabled in any engagement with the enemy; allowing to the captain a sum not exceeding twenty dollars per month; to lieutenants and sailing master a sum not exceeding twelve dollars each per month; to marine officer, boatswain, gunner, carpenter, master’s mate and prize masters, a sum not exceeding ten dollars each per month; to all other officers a sum not exceeding eight dollars each per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; and to a seaman, or acting as a marine, the sum of six dollars per month, for the highest rate of disability, and so in proportion; which several pensions shall be paid, by direction of the Secretary of the Navy, out of the fund above provided, and from no other.
Commanding officers to enter the names, &c. of wounded persons in a journal.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commanding officer of every vessel having a commission, or letters of marque and reprisal, shall enter in his journal the name and rank of any officer, and the name of any seaman, who, during his cruise, shall have been wounded or disabled as aforesaid, describing the manner and extent, as far as practicable, of such wound or disability.
Collectors to transmit a transcript of such journals to the Secretary of the Navy, &c.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That every collector shall transmit quarterly to the Secretary of the Navy, a transcript of such journals as may have been reported to him, so far as it gives a list of the officers and crew, and the description of wounds and disabilities, the better to enable the secretary to decide on claims for pensions.
Approved, February 13, 1813.