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out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defrayany expenses which have been, or may be incurred, in preventing orsuppressing the hostilities of any Indians; to be expended under thedirection of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the 19th of March, and the second of July last, and of the actstherein referred to.
Approved, March 2, 1S37.
Chap. XXI. —-in -id to provide for the enlistment of hoys for the naval service,and to extend the term of the enlistment of seamen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawfulto enlist boys for the navy, with the consent of their parents or guar-dians, not being under thirteen, nor over eighteen years of age, to serveuntil they shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years; and it shall belawful to enlist other persons for the navy, to serve for a period notexceeding five years, unless sooner discharged by direction of thePresident of the United States ; and so much of an act entitled “ Anact to amend the act entitled ‘ An act to amend the act authorizingthe employment of an additional naval force,’ ” approved fifteenthMay, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as is inconsistent withthe provisions of this act, shall be, and is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the time of service ofany person enlisted for the navy, shall expire, while he is on board anyof the public vessels of the United States , employed on foreign service,it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of the fleet, squadron, orvessel, in which such person may be, to send him to the United States in some public or other vessel, unless his detention shall be essential tothe public interests, in which case the said officer may detain him untilthe vessel in which he shall be serving shall return to the United States ;and it shall be the duty of said officer, immediately to make report tothe Navy Department, of such detention and the causes thereof.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That such persons as may bedetained after the expiration of their enlistment, under the next pre-ceding section of this act, shall be subject, in all respects, to the lawsand regulations for the government of the navy, until their return tothe United States , and all such persons as shall be so detained, and allsuch as shall voluntarily re-enlist to serve until the return of the vesselin which they shall be serving, and their regular discharge therefromin the United States , shall, while so detained and while so servingunder their re-enlistment, receive an addition of one-fourth to theirformer pay.
Approved, March 2, 1837.
Chap. XXII. —Jin Act concerning Pilots, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may
How to be ex-pended.
Statute II.March 2, 1837.
Boys may beenlisted.
Other personsmay be enlistedfor five years.
So much ofact 15th May,1820, cli. 131,as is inconsis-tent with tliisact, repealed.
Any personwhose time ex-pires while onforeign service,to be sent to U.States, &c.
Persons de-tained to besubject to laws,&.C., of navy.
Those whore-enlist to re-ceive additionalpay.
Statute IX.March 2, 1837.
Upon waterswhich are the
( a) Cases decided in the courts of the United States , as to Pilots and Pilotage.
What a pilot does beyond the limits of his duty, as such, may be the foundation of a claim forsalvage; but not such acts as were within his duties. Hand v. The Elvira, Gilpin’s D. C. R. 65.
Where a steamboat was hired for the purpose of towing a vessel, to which she was fastened, andboth were under the direction of a licensed pilot, the owner of the steamboat is not entitled to damageson account of injury sustained in the course of navigation, and not caused by negligence of the pilot.P,.eeves et al. v. The Ship Constitution, Gilpin's D. C. R. 579.
Assisting vessels in distress, beyond what the mere duty of pilot requires, entitles pilots to compen-sation. Delany, a Pilot v. The Sloop Peragio, Bee’s Adm. Rep. 212.
The brig Hope, with a valuable cargo, had been conducted, in the evening, by a pilot inside ofMobile point, where pilots of the outer harbor usually leave vessels which they pilot inside of thatbar. The pilot was discharged, and the Hope proceeded up the bay of Mobile. The wind soon afterchanged, blew a violent gale from the northwest, both anchors parted, and the Hope was driven on a
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