tants general, inspectors general, quartermasters general, deputy quartermasters general, topo- graphical engineers, and assistant deputy quar- termasters general, from the line or not, as the President may deem expedient, ib.; officers transferred from the line to the staff to receive only the pay, &c. attached to the rank in the staff, ib.; transfer not to prejudice their rank, ib.; promotion to proceed as if transfer had not taken place, ib.; Secretary of War to prepare general regulations defining and prescribing the respective duties and powers of the officers of the staff, s. v. 425; to be approved by the Presi- dent, respected, and obeyed, ib., and to be laid before Congress, ib.; assistant deputy commis- saries of ordnance not to exceed sixteen, s. vi. 425; entitled to brevet rank, pay, &c. of a first lieutenant of infantry, ib.; a physician and sur- geon general to be appointed, s. vii. 426; with an annual salary of $2,500, ib; and an apothe cary general, ib.; with an annual salary of $1,800, ib., their duties and powers to be pre- scribed by the President, ib.; forage, waggon, and barrackmasters to be appointed as hereto- fore, s. viii. 426; each quartermaster general, attached to any separate army, command, or district, may, with the approbation of the Secre- tary of War, appoint as many forage, waggon, and barrackmasters, and employ as many artifi- cers, mechanics, and laborers, as the public ser- vice may require, ib.; the President may ap point assistant deputy quartermasters 'general, s. ix. 426; and transfer officers from the line to the staff, ib.; all other new appointments autho- rised by the act of March 3d, 1813, for the bet- ter organization of the general staff, to be made by the President and Senate, except in the re- cess of the Senate, ib.; every act within the purview of the act of March 3, 1813, for the better organization of the general staff, repealed, s. x. 426; letters and packets to and from the adjutant and inspector general, adjutants gene,
ral, inspectors general, quartermasters general, commissary general of ordnance, physician and surgeon general, and apothecary general, relat- ing to their official duties, to be free of postage, s. xii. 427; President authorised to appoint any of the additional number of general officers au- thorised by the act of the 25th February, 1813, during the recess of the Senate, s. xii. 427; those officers not entitled to pay or emolument till called into actual service, ib.; nor for a longer time than they continue therein, ib. ARMSTRONG, JOHN, payment of bills drawn by him suspended, ch. CXXVI
ARTIFICERS, a corps to be attached to the quarter- master general's department, and sub- ject to the orders of the officers thereof, ch. LIX s. i. 113; the corps to consist of 1 superintendent, 4 assistants, 2 mas- ter masons, 2 master carpenters, 2 mas- ter blacksmiths, 2 master boat builders, 2 master armorers, 2 master saddle and harness makers, 20 house carpen ters, 5 ship carpenters, 20 blacksmiths, 16 boat builders, 16 armorers, 12 sad- dle and harness makers, and 24 laborers, ib.; to be selected from the privates of the army, by the general, or engaged from among the citizens, by the super- intendent, ib.; pay of the superinten- dent, assistants, &c. s. ii. ib.; superin tendent to make a monthly report to the quartermaster general, and to make out the payroll on oath, s. ii. 113, 114; the corps to be engaged for three years, s. iv. 114; appropriation to defray the ex- penses of the institution, s. v. 114. See engineers.
ATTWATER, REUBEN, to be paid $ 500 additional allowance as secretary of Michigan and commission- er of land claims, ch CLXVII 375.
BAINBRIDGE, Captain, officers and crew. See Con- stitution. Resolutions.
BAIL, and affidavits. See courts.
BANKS, the tenth section of an act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of the United States, repealed, ch. XLIII s. i. 76, 77. See Columbia. BARBARY POWERS, the first section of an
further to protect the com- merce and seamen of the United States against them, continued till March 4th, 1813, ch. XVIII s. i. 28, 29. The first section of the same act further continued till the 1st of April, 1814, ch. CLXXXII 399, 400.
BEALL, WILLIAM D. allowed the pay and emolu-
ments of adjutant and inspec-
tor of the army for a certain time, ch. CV 230.
BENTON, SELAH, to be placed on the pension list,
and allowed $20 per month,
from the 1st July, 1811, ch. XXVIII s. i. 44, 45.
BIBLE SOCIETY, of Philadelphia, the duties remitted on certain stereotype plates import-
ed by it, ch. CLIX 361, 362.
BINNION, JOHN, permitted to withdraw his en tries in the land-office of Madison county, Mississippi, ch. CLVIII 360, 361,
BOUNTY. See army, volunteers, &c.
BURNHAM, JOHN, to be paid $ 126 72 cents, with
interest thereon from 30th May, 1796, in addition to the sum allowed him by the act of that date, reimbursement of the mo ney advanced by him for his ransom from the Algerines, ch. XIII 15, 16.
CAPITOL, the roof to be repaired, ch. CXCVIII s. ii. 433. See appropriations.
CHACHERIE, LEWIS, to be paid $1,400 as transla- tor of French and Spanish,
COLUMBIA, District of, Trustees of the Lancaster School of Georgetown incorporated, ch. XLIV s. i. 77; property vested in and confirmed to them, s. ii. 77, 78; powers of the corporation, ib, may sue and be sued, s. iii. 78, 79; may make a common seal, appoint officers and establish bye- laws, s. iv. 79; five trustees a quorum to do business, ib., election for trustees to be held on the second Monday in Febru- ary annually, s. v. 79; trustees to be 12 in number, s. v. 80; entries of proceed- ings, and accounts to be kept, and laid before the society at every annual meet- ing previous to taking the votes, s. vi. 80; children may be bound to the corpora- tion, s. vii. 80.-Charter f the City of Washington amended.ch. LXXV s. i. 144; corporation composed, from the first Monday of June, 1812, of a mayor, a board of aldermen, and a board of com- mon council, b.; to be elected by ballot, ibs constitution of the two boards, s. i.
144, 145; qualifications of the elected and electors, s. ii. 145; mayor to be elect- ed on the second Monday in June annu- ally by ballot of both boards in joint meeting, s. iii. 145, 146; a majority of all the votes necessary to a choice, ib., upon an equality of votes between two persons after the third ballot, the boards to determine by lot, ib.; oath and duties of the mayor, ib.; who shall be elegible to the office of mayor, s. iii. 147; in case of vacancy the two boards to elect ano. ther, ib.; members of the boards of al- dermen and common council to be elect- ed on the first Monday in June annually, s. iv. 147; elections to be held by com- missioners, ib.; their duties, s. iv. 147, 148, 149; to take an oath, s. iv. 148; form of it, ib.; each board to judge of the le- gality of the elections, returns and quali- fications of its own members, s. iv. 149; and supply vacancies, ib.; members of each board to take an oath, ib.; form of it, ib.; the corporation empowered to lay taxes, s. v. 149, 150; objects of expendi ture of the taxes raised, ib.; poor rates to be charged on each ward in proportion to population or taxation, ib.; improvement of streets, s. v. 150, 151; erection of lamps, ib.; enumeration of the powers of the corporation, s. vi. 151, 152, 153; in the case of lotteries the President's ap- probation necessary, ib.; persons com- mitted to be kept by the marshal within the jail for Washington county at the ex- pense of the City, s. vii. 154; clerk of the circuit court for Washington county to issue capias ad satisfaciendum upon a re turn of nulla bona, ib.; sale of lots for payment of taxes, s. viii. 154; notice of sale, ib.; title to lots thus sold, s. viii. 155; corporation styled "The mayor, al-
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