inined. ner prescribed by the act, paffed on the third inftituted day of March, one thousand seven hundred and and deter ninety-feven, intituled " An act to provide more effectually for the fettlement of accounts between the United States, and receivers of public money ;" and in all fuits inftituted against an inspector of any furvey, or collector of the revenue, transcripts from the books of the fupervifor of the proper district, or copies of any papers or other documents relating to the accounts hall be of fuch infpector or collector, duly authentica- evidence. ted, under the feal of the faid fupervifor, fhall have equal validity, and be entitled to the fame credit which would be due to the original papers, if produced in open court; fubject nevertheless to the condition mentioned in the fecond fection of the act above recited. What Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the when the bond of any supervisor or other officer of the bonds of revenue, who fhall neglect or refufe, for more fors, &c. fupervithan fix months, to make up, and render to fhall be the proper officer, his accounts of all duties forfeited: collected or fecured, pursuant to fuch forms and regulations as have been, or fhall be prefcribed, according to law, or to verify fuch accounts on oath or affirmation, if thereto required, or to pay over the monies which shall have been collected, fhall be deemed forfeited, and judgment thereon fhall and may be taken Judgment at the return term, on motion, to be made in at the reopen court, by the attorney of the United turnterin. States, unless fufficient caufe to the contrary be fhewn to, and allowed by the court: Provided always, That the writ or process, in fuch cafe, fhall have been executed at least fourteen days before the return day thereof, thereon Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That the Lien upon amount of all debis due to the United States, the real the reve nue for eftate of by any fupervifor or other officer of the reve officers of nue, whether fecured by bond or otherwise, fhall, and hereby is declared to be a lien upon debts due the lands and real eftate of fuch fupervisor or to the U. other officer of the revenue, and their fureties, States. from the time when a fuit fhall be inftituted for recovering the fame; and for want of goods and chattels, or other perfonal effects of fuch fupervisor, or other officer of the revenue, or their fureties, to fatisfy any judgment which fhall or may be recovered against them, refpectively, fuch lands and real estates may be fold at public auction, after being advertised for at least three weeks, in not lefs than three public places in the proper diftrict, furvey or divifion, their real and in one newspaper printed in the county, if any there be, at least fix weeks prior to the propofed time of fale; and for all lands and real eftate fold in pursuance of the authority aforefaid, the conveyances of the marshals, or their deputies, executed in due form of law, fhall afford a valid title against all perfons claiming under fuch fupervisor, or other officer of the revenue, or their fureties, refpectively. Mode of fale of cftate. laws au Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That from and after the faid first day of July, inftant, fo Repeal of much of any law or laws as authorizes the Prethorizing fident of the United States, to fix or vary the the Pret compenfation of the officers employed in the dent to fix collection of the internal revenues, or limits the the com- yearly fums to be allowed to them, be, and the nous, &c. fame is hereby repealed. or vary penfa JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the THEODORE SEDGWICK, President of the ¿PPROVED, July 11, 1798: Senate, pro tempore. JOHN ADAMS, Profident of the United States. CHAPTER LXXXIX. An Alt for the establishing and organizing a Marine Sec. 1. B Corps. A corps of fed. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That in addition to the prefent military establishment, there fhall be raised and organized a corps of ma- marines rines, which shall confift of one major, four cap- to be raitains, fixteen first lieutenants, twelve fecond lieutenants, forty-eight ferjeants, forty-eight corporals, thirty-two drums and fifes, and feven hundred and twenty privates, including the marines who have been enlifted, or are authorized to be raised for the naval armament; and Formation the faid corps may be formed into as many of it. companies or detachments, as the Prefident of the United States fhall direct, with a proper diftribution of the commiffioned and non-commiffioned officers and muficians to each company or detachment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Pay and pay and subsistence of the faid officers, privates fubfiftand muficians, fhall be as follows, to wit: To a ence. major, fifty dollars per month, and four rations per day; to a captain, forty dollars per month, and three rations per day; to a first lieutenant, thirty dollars per month, and three rations per day; to a fecond lieutenant, twenty-five dollars per month, and two rations per day; and to the non-commiffioned officers, privates and muficians, conformably to the act, intituled, "An act providing a naval armament," as shall be fixed by the Prefident of the United States: Prefident And the Prefident of the United States fhall be, may com and is hereby authorized to continue the inlift. miffion of ment of marines, until the faid corps fhall be the recef compleat; and of himself, to appoint the commiffioned officers, whenever, in the recefs of the Senate, an appointment fhall be neceffary. ficers in Inlift three If order ed to do duty on fhore, Staff-offi And the inlistments, which fhall be made by ments for virtue hereof, may be for the term of three years, &c. years, fubject to be discharged by the President of the United States, or by the ceafing or repeal of the laws providing for the naval armament. And if the marine corps, or any part of it, fhall be ordered by the Prefident to do duty on fhore, and it fhall become neceffary to appoint an adjutant, paymaster, quarter-mafter, ferjeant-major, quarter-master-ferjeant, and drum and fifeto be ap- major, or any of them, the major or commanpointed. dant of the corps, is hereby authorized to appoint fuch ftaff-officer or officers, from the line of fubalterns, ferjeants and mufic, refpectively, who fhall be entitled, during the time they fhall do fuch duty, to the fame extra pay and emoluments, which are allowed by law, to officers acting in the fame capacities in the infantry. cers how ments of to be in quotas ef for the frigates, &c. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Detach- detachments of the corps of marines hereby authe corps thorized, fhall be made in lieu of the refpective quotas of marines, which have been establieu of the lifhed or authorized for the frigates, and other tablished armed veffels and gallies, which fhall be employed in the fervice of the United States: And the Prefident of the United States may detach and appoint fuch of the officers of this marine corps, to act on board the frigates, and any of the armed veffels of the United States, refpectively, as he fhall, from time to time, judge neceffary; any thing in the act" providing a naval armament" to the contrary hereof, notwithftanding. They fhall Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the officers, non-commiffioned officers, privates and take an musicians aforefaid, fhall take the fame oath, cath; and and fhall be governed by the fame rules and arfhall be ticles of war, as are prefcribed for the military governed. eftablishment of the United States, and by the how they ance in rules for the regulation of the navy, heretofore, or which fhall be established by law, according to the nature of the service in which they fhall be employed, and fhall be entitled to the fame allowance, in cafe of wounds or Allowdifabilities, according to their respective ranks, cafe of as are granted by the act" to afcertain and fix wounds, the military establifhment of the United States." &c. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the non-commiffioned officers, musicians, feamen tion front Exempand marines who are or fhall be enlifted into arreft for the fervice of the United States; and the noncommiffioned officers and musicians, who are or fhall be enlifted into the army of the United States, fhall be, and they are hereby exempted, during their term of fervice, from all perfonal arrefts, for any debt or contract. debts and contracts. fhall be Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the What marine corps, established by this act, fhall, at duty they any time, be liable to do duty in the forts and fubje& garrisons of the United States, on the sea coast, or any other duty on fhore, as the Prefident, at his discretion, fhall direct. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the THEODORE SEDGWICK, President of the to do. Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, July 11, 1798: JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XC. An Act establishing an annual salary for the Surveyor of BE VOL. IV. V |