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Extract from an Act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States.
Detailed description of rations and provisions allowed, as determined by rank.
General Otho Williams Papers, MS# 908.Authorizing Payment to Invalid Pensioners
An Act providing military pensions for one year to invalids who were wounded or disabled during the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Jefferson CollectionAuthorization of the Purchase of West Point
Congress authorizes the President to purchase for the use of the United States a tract of land situated in the State of New York, commonly called West Point, as shall be judged by him requisite for …
Thomas Jefferson CollectionAn ACT for granting LANDS to the Inhabitants and settlers at VINCENNES and the ILLINOIS Country, in the Territory north-west of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their Possessions
Land grant of 4,000 acres to each head of family in the above mentioned counties who were removed from their previous residence.
Etting CollectionSupplement Act Regarding Treasury Department and Compensation
Outlined compensation for clerks within the treasury department and extended the regulations and laws from act that established Treasury Department to include clerks. Further requires all employees of …
Etting CollectionCommittee Report, Expenses of Naval Force
List of costs for arming ships to sufficiently protect American merchants from Algerian corsairs.
FO 5/4 Foreign Office Correspondence, America(United States), General Correspondence.Copy of the Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs Received at Knoxville April 16, 1794
Copy of the report of the Committee on Indian Affairs received at Knoxville April 16, 1794, forwarded for the information of Mero District. Discusses measures for protection of citizens against …
James Robertson PapersAct to Ascertain and Fix the Military Establishment of the United States
Created standing army of artillerists and engineers. Outlines number and type of officers in each unit. Pay, clothing, food, supplies,
General CollectionAn Act authorizing a detachment from the Militia of the United States.
Authorization of Congress for President to raise militia through orders directed to heads of state governments. Number of troops, type, and duration of service specified.
Anthony Walton White Papers [Box].An Act Authorizing a Detachment from the Militia of the United States
This is an Act of Congress that authorizes the President to require the executives of the several States to organize, arm, equip, and hold in readiness eighty thousand effective militia to be …
Oliver Wolcott Jr. Papers.Act for the further defense of the ports and harbours of the United States.
Act gives president the power to order the construction and defense of ports and harbors at the expense of individual states. Land for fortifications to be ceded to the federal government.
BroadSides 1797Report of the Committee appointed on the 5th instant to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the President of the United States to appoint an agent to purchase of the Indians, Atract Ofland on the South-side of Lake Superior which shall include the Great Copper Bed.
Authorization for president to appoint a representative to purchase land on Lake Superior from Indians due to its rich copper deposits.
American Indian FileReport of the Committee Appointed to Prepare a Bill for Regulating Grants of Land
Details of types of relief allocated to Canadian refugees in United States, according to recommendations from the Secretaries of the War and the Treasury and altered by the committee.
Congress; 1st Session to the 9th Congress, 1st Session to House of Representatives
