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 a certificate of such registry shall be required, in proof of the term of residence, by the court to whom such application shall and may be made.

. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the penalties established by this act, shall and may be recovered in the name, and to the use of any person, who will inform and sue of the same, before any judge, justice, or court, having jurisdiction in such case, and to the amount of such penalty, respectively.

, June 18, 1798.

. 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 is hereby authorized, when he shall think fit to increase the strength of any revenue cutter, for the purposes of defence, against hostilities near the sea coast, to employ on board the same, at his discretion, not exceeding seventy marines and seamen: anything in the act, intituled “,” to the contrary hereof, notwithstanding.

. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized to fix the degree of rank, and the rate of pay and subsistence, not exceeding what is allowed upon the naval establishment, which shall be granted and allowed to the officers who shall be duly commissioned in the service of the United States on board of any small vessel or galley, which shall be fitted out under his orders, pursuant to the act, intituled “;” anything therein to the contrary hereof, notwithstanding.

, June 22, 1798.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all letters and packets to or from the Secretary of the Navy, shall be received and conveyed by post, free of postage, under the like restrictions and limitations as are provided respecting letters and packets to or from the heads of the other departments of the government, by the nineteenth section of the act, entitled “.”

, June 22, 1798.

. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the companies of volunteers, and the members of each company, who shall be duly engaged and accepted by the President of the United States, and organized with proper officers commissioned by him, pursuant to the third section of the act, intituled “,” shall submit to, and observe such rules of training and discipline, as shall be thought