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seamen desert-ing to be ar-rested and de-livered up.
Or detained.
Proviso: de-tention not tobe longer thantwo months.
Proviso: thisact not to re-lease seamanfrom custody asan offenderagainst laws ofUnited States .
Sections 6, 7,8, 9, and 10,of act of April14,1818,ch.61,and section 8,of March 2, •1821, ch. 13,continued forfive years.
Two commis-saries created.
in writing, stating that the person therein named has deserted from avessel of any such government while in any port of the United States ,and on proof by the exhibition of the register of the vessel, ship’s roll, orother official document, that the person named belonged, at the time ofdesertion, to the crew of said vessel, it shall be the duty of any court,judge, justice, or other magistrate, having competent power, to issuewarrants to cause, the said person to be arrested for examination; and if,on examination, the facts stated are found to be true, the person arrested,not being a citizen of the United States , shall be delivered up to the saidconsul or vice-consul, to be sent back to the dominions of any such go-vernment, or, on the request, and at the expense, of the said consul orvice-consul, shall be detained until the consul or vice-consul finds anopportunity to send him back to the dominions of any such government:Provided, nevertheless, That no person shall be detained more than twomonths after his arrest; but at the end of that time shall beset at liberty,and shall not be again molested for the same cause: And provided, fur-ther, That if any such deserter shall be found to have committed anycrime or offence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribunal beforewhich the case shall be depending, or may be cognisable, shall havepronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall have been carried intoeffect.
Approved, March 2, 1829.
Chap. XLII .—An Ad to continue the present mode of supplying the army of the
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sixth, seventh, eighth,ninth, and tenth sections of the act, entitled “An act regulating thestaff of the army of the United States, ” passed April the fourteenth, eigh-teen hundred and eighteen, and the eighth section of the act, entitled“ An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the UnitedStates, ” passed March the second, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, arehereby continued in force for five years from the passing of this act, andthence to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and nolonger.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the better to enable thecommissary general of subsistence to carry into effect the provisions ofthe above specified acts, there be appointed two commissaries, to be takenfrom the line of the army, one of whom shall have the same rank, pay, andemoluments, as quartermaster; and the other with the rank, pay, andemoluments, of assistant quartermaster.
Approved, March 2, 1829.
Chap. XLIII .—An Ad for the relief of the navy hospitalfund.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hun-dred and twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appro-priated to the navy hospital fund; and that the same be paid by the Se-cretary of the Treasury, on the requisition of the commissioners of thesaid fund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1829.