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... crews of offending vessels to be taken into custody , and delivered to the civil authority , ........... 148 262. Safe keeping , support , and removal out of the U. S. of the ..... negroes , & c . and agents on the coast of Africa ...
... crews of offending vessels to be taken into custody , and delivered to the civil authority , ........... 148 262. Safe keeping , support , and removal out of the U. S. of the ..... negroes , & c . and agents on the coast of Africa ...
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... crews of each of the Complement said ships of seventy - four guns , shall con- of seamen . sist of two hundred able seamen , three hundred ordinary seamen and boys , three sergeants , three corporals , one drummer , one fifer , and ...
... crews of each of the Complement said ships of seventy - four guns , shall con- of seamen . sist of two hundred able seamen , three hundred ordinary seamen and boys , three sergeants , three corporals , one drummer , one fifer , and ...
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... crews of such merchant or other vessels , on pain of making such reparation as a court of admiralty may award , and of suf- fering such further punishment as a court martial shall adjudge . ART . 23. If any commander , or other Art ...
... crews of such merchant or other vessels , on pain of making such reparation as a court of admiralty may award , and of suf- fering such further punishment as a court martial shall adjudge . ART . 23. If any commander , or other Art ...
Page 100
... crew attend them and keep the place clean ; and if necessary , shall di- rect that cradles and buckets with covers be made for their use : And when his crew is finally paid off he shall attend in person , or appoint a proper officer ...
... crew attend them and keep the place clean ; and if necessary , shall di- rect that cradles and buckets with covers be made for their use : And when his crew is finally paid off he shall attend in person , or appoint a proper officer ...
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... in case of the assignment of wages , the power shall specify the precise time they commence . But the commander of every vessel is required to discourage his crew from selling any part of their wages or prize 102 GOVERNMENT OF THE NAVY .
... in case of the assignment of wages , the power shall specify the precise time they commence . But the commander of every vessel is required to discourage his crew from selling any part of their wages or prize 102 GOVERNMENT OF THE NAVY .
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17th Congress accounts ACT authorizing ACT in addition aforesaid agent appointed Approved April Auditors boatswains captain capture cause cers child or children Circuit Court clerk Comptroller Congress court martial crime of piracy disabled district dollars per month duty Edward Preble enacted entitled An act frigates gold medal gunboats guns half pay held to service hereby authorized judge jurisdiction letter of marque lieutenant March marine corps ment midshipmen moiety mulatto Navy Departments navy pension fund negro or mulatto offending offi paid person of colour person or persons petty officers piratical port or place President President United prize prosecute Provided punishment purser rations per day receive repealed seamen Secretary SECT seized sels service or labour ship or vessel ship's company silver medal sion sloop sloop of war sold squadron suffer death sureties term of five thorized thousand eight hundred tion Treasury United warrant widow
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Page 42 - No advance of public money shall be made in any case unless authorized by the appropriation concerned, or other law. And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of the United States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment.
Page 144 - ... the States or Territories of The United States, with intent to make such Negro or Mulatto a Slave, or shall, on board any such Ship or Vessel...
Page 110 - That the proceeds of all ships and vessels, and the goods taken on board of them, which shall be adjudged good prize, shall, when of equal or superior force to the vessel or vessels making the capture, be the sole property of the captors; and when of inferior force, shall be divided equally between the United States and the officers and men making the capture.
Page 124 - States, die, by reason of any wound received in actual service of the United States, and leave a widow, or, If no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to and receive half the monthly pay...
Page 137 - Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen,' shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War for the time being, who are hereby appointed a Board of Commissioners, by the name and style of Commissioners of Navy Hospitals...
Page 77 - The naval force to be maintained upon the American lakes by His Majesty and the Government of the United States shall henceforth be confined to the following vessels on each side, that is — "On Lake Ontario, to one vessel, not exceeding one hundred tons burden, and armed with one eighteen-pound cannon. "On the upper lakes, to two vessels, not exceeding like burden each, and armed with like force.
Page 198 - ... with intent to make such negro or mulatto a slave, or shall land or deliver on shore from on board any such ship or vessel any such negro or mulatto, with intent to make sale of, or having previously sold such negro or mulatto as a slave, such citizen or person shall be adjudged a pirate, and on conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States for the district wherein he may be brought or found shall suffer death.
Page 183 - States to be manned and employed to cruise on any part of the coast of the United States, or territories thereof, where he may judge attempts will be made to violate the provisions of this act...
Page 170 - ... thousand dollars, one moiety thereof to the use of the United States, and the other moiety to the use of any person or persons who shall sue for and prosecute the same to effect.
Page 13 - Navy ; and, under his superintendence discharges all the ministerial duties of that office relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials, and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment, of vessels of war, as well as other matters connected with the Naval Establishment of the United States.