THIRTEENTH Congress, Session I, Volume 3, Chapter 84.

An Act concerning the pay of officers, seamen, and marines, in the navy of the United States.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the pay and subsistence of the respective commissioned and warrant officers be as follows: a lieutenant, other than a master commandant, or lieutenant commanding a small vessel, forty dollars per month and three rations per day; a chaplain, forty dollars per month and two rations per day; a sailing-master, forty dollars per month and two rations per day; a surgeon, fifty dollars per month and two rations per day; a surgeon's mate, thirty dollars per month and two rations per day; a purser, forty dollars per month and two rations per day; a boatswain, twenty dollars per month and two rations per day; a gunner, twenty dollars per month and two rations per day; a sailmaker, twenty dollars per month and two rations per day; and that the pay to be allowed to the petty officers and midshipmen, and the pay and bounty upon enlistment of seamen, ordinary seamen, and marines, shall be fixed by the President of the United States: Provided, That the whole sum to be given, for the whole pay of the aforesaid, and for the pay of officers, and that the amount of bounties upon enlistment of seamen and marines, shall not exceed, for any year, the amount which may, in such year, be appropriated for those purposes respectively.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to make an addition, not exceeding twenty-five per cent., to the pay of officers, petty officers, midshipmen, seamen, and marines, engaged in any service, the hardships or disadvantages of which shall, in his judgment, render such an addition necessary.

Approved, April 18, 1814.