United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/5th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 36
Chap. XXXVI.—An Act in addition to “An act for the relief of sick and disabled Seamen.”[1]
Manner of expending monies collected.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is authorized to direct the expenditure of any monies which have been or shall be collected by virtue of an act, entitled1802, ch. 51. “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen,” to be made within the state wherein the same shall have been collected, or within the state next adjoining thereto, excepting what may be collected in the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; any thing in the said act contained to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.
Secretary of the Navy to deduct a certain sum from the pay of the navy.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy shall be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to deduct, after the first day of September next, from the pay thereafter to become due, of the officers, seamen and marines of the navy of the United States, at the rate of twenty cents per month, for every such officer, seaman and marine, and to pay the same quarter annually to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be applied to the same purposes, as the money collected by virtue of the above mentioned act is appropriated.
Officers, seamen, &c. of the navy entitled to the benefits of this act.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the officers, seamen and marines of the navy of the United States, shall be entitled to receive the same benefits and advantages, as by the act above mentioned are provided for the relief of the sick and disabled seamen of the merchant vessels of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1799.
- ↑ An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, July 16, 1798, chap. 77.