Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-05-03 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, if.Jort, T. 120 0 125 0
, Pearl — 13° 0 '4° 0
Allum, C. 6 0 0 0
Anchors, so oil 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 0
Butter lb 0 12 0 14
• < Mess B. 14 50 15 0
„ JCareo No. 1, — 13 0 13 50
m N 0.2, —ll 0 0 0
© (Refufe — 7 0 0 0
Beans, white bu. 1 0 0 0
Brandy, Spanilh 0 pr. G. 150 160
, Naples 4th pr. — 1 0 150
Barley bn. 092 095
Brimitone, C. 350 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 °
Corn, Indian -- 0 75 °B3
Rye - 083 087
Cassia lb °67 0 0
Cloves -1 33 1 42
Coffee -- < >2l 0 23
Cheefe,Ameticah — 0 6 010
CottonJoteignfcarce — 040 0 0
, American — 0 20 0 21
Cordage, American C. 12 0 13 °
, Foreign, -- 11 0 12 0
Chocolate, common fb 020 0 0
, best N 0.2811 -- 028 033
Candles, mould — 018 0 0
, dipt — 014 0 '5
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- 17 0 19 0
Copperas, C. 35° 4 °
Cloth, Tow yd. 016 017
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (Far Case) 2a 2% per cent. adv.
do. do. : : : bo days, : : do. : 1^ a 2 do. do.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : 1 do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : par a 1 pr. cent, adv,
do. on Amsterdam, payablein do. 60 days, : : do. do. do.
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[Pub/ifeed by Authority.)
SEVENTH CONGRESS
OF THE
Unites ^teteg ;
At the Second Session,
and held at the City of UaJhington, in the
territory of Columbia, on Monday, the Jixth
of December, one thoujand eight hundred
and two.
AN ACT
Supplementary to tie 66 Abt concerning Confab
and Pite-Confuls, and far the further pro
tection of American Seamen."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri
ca, in Congrejs affembied, That before a
clearance be granted to any vessel bound on
a foreign voyage, the mailer thereof shall
deliver to the collector of the customs, a lift,
containing the names, places of birth and
refidebce, and a description of the persons
who tompofe his fhip's company, to which
lift the oath or affirmation of the captain
fliall beannexed, that the said lilt contains
the names of his crew, together with the
places of their birth and residence, as far as
he can afeettaih them, and the said collector,
shall deliver him a certified copy thereof,
for which the collector shall be entitled to
receive the sum of twenty- five cents ; and
the said mailer (hall moreover enter into
bond with fufficient security, in the sum of
four hundred dollars, that he shall exhibit
the aforefaid certified copy of the lift to the
firft boarding officer, at the firft port in the
United States, at which he shall arrive on his
return thereto, and then and there also pro
duce the persons named therein, to the said
boarding officer, whose duty it shall be to
examine the men with such lift, and to re-
NUMBER 36. VOL. IV.]
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STA, LS
OXten pou Sail tbefe Beetig relate fpenk of tbem ag tbep are : Dotting extenuate, not set Detain ougit in malice.
Republican Ledger,
AND
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Russia, tfguat. Bt. 20 0 0 0
Duck, Ravens -- 10 50 II 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 0 0
Fiih, Merchant, C. 450 5 0
,W. India mark. — 4 0 45°
Scale -- 3 ° 3 [ 7
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel -- 850 9 0
Flour, super. frefh -- 75° 80
, fine -u 7 0 0 0
, middlings -- 6 0 650
, country C. 375 4 °
Fuftick T. 35 0 0 0
Bristol ct. loby 8, bx. 15 50 16 0
%( 9by 7, -- 14 0 0 0
Bby 6, — it 0 11 50
^ ) Hamburg loby 8, -- 11 0 12 c
0/ 7by9, — ii 0 11 5°
Gun Powder ft) 0 4° °s c
Geneva, Holland ij?,r G. 112 117
, American, -- 0 90. 094
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard $ 010 0 12
Iron, Philadelphia T.llO 0 0 0
, Russia —IOO 0 100 10
, Swedes —llO 0 115 0
Logwood T. 40 0 45 0
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry — 15 0 16 0
, red •- 10 0 0 0
, Ihect — !3 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 0
, , merch. — 95° 11 0
©bolefale prices Current, at portfmoutb, jaeto^ampfyire.
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
—►.M/..<+<g<g<g«s^^fr^+ >•>->->
port the fame to the colledlor, and it shall
be the duty of thecolledor at the said port
of arrival, (0 here the fame is different from
the port from which the vessel originally
failed) to transmit a copy of the lift so report
ed to him, to the colledor of the port from
which laid vellel originally failed : Provided,
That the said bond shall not be forfeited
on account of the said mailer not producing
to the firft boarding officer, as aforefaid,
any of the persons contained in the said lift,
who may be difeharged in a foreign country
with the content of the consul, vice-consul,
commercial agent or vice-commercial a
gent there residing, lignified in writing,
under his hand and official feat, to be pro
duced to the collector with the other per
sons computing the crew as aforefaid ;
nor on account of any such pe.n dying or
absconding, or being forcibly impressed in to
other service, of which fitistadory proof
shall be then also exhibited to the col
leaor.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled, I hat it
shall be the duty of every matter or comman
der of a ship or vessel, belonging to citizens
of the United States who shall fail from any
port of the United States, after the firft day
of May next, on his arrival at a foreign
port, to deposit his register, sea letter, and
Mediterranean pallport,with the conful,vice
consul, commercial agent, or vice-commer
cial agent, (if any there be at such port ;)
that in case of refufal or negle& of the said
mailer or commander, to deposit the said
papers as aforefaid, he shall forfeit and pay
five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the
said consul, vice-consul, commercial agent,
or vice-commercial agent, in his own
name, for the benefit of the United Spates,
in any court of competent jurifdiaion; and
it shall be the duty of such consul, vice-con
sul, commercial agent or vice-commercial
agent,on such master or commander produc
ing to him a clearance from the proper
officer of the port, where his ship or vessel
may be, to deliver to the said matter or
commander all of his said papers : Pro
vided, such matter or commander shall have
complied with the ^rovifions contained in
Goutfe of Grebange, at Lofton, Hpril 18,
'
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1803.
INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days jight, (For Calh) ^a 1 per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, : : do. : do. do. do.
do. New-York, : : do. : de. do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or 1 ,
New. York, ) 60 d ^s, : do. r a2 do.
N. B. Bills at shorter fight, proportionably higher.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Singles -1 50 2 20
Lemons fre/b bx. 7 50 8 50
Lime, halt hhd. 1 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, fb 022 023
Molasses G. 045 048
Nutmegs tt) 5 ° 0 0
Nail Rods fcarcc C. 7 0 75°
relent M ° °33 0 0
z 61 j ' — 066 0 o
, 6d, wrought —1 8 1 10
< I 101, do. iafpefted - - 1 58 167
Z< I 2od, do. do. -- 233 0 0
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 IL 50
^( Liver jcarce B. 11 0 12 0
Q ^Linfeed G. 120 125
Pepper lb 028 0 0
^ ( Bone Middlings, 20 0 21 0
No.l 16 50 17 0
fl No.a 15 6° 16 0
Peas bu. 1 25 I 50
Pimento lb 0 20 0 0
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 3 75 4 °
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raisins /re/b calk 850 , 0 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 1 5
, Windward 3d pr.— 0 80 0 85
Rice scarce C. 6 0 0 0
Rosin Jcarce B. 450 0 0
Soap, white ft, 014 0 16
, brown -- 0 10 016
, caltle -- 017 020
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India -- 12 0 12 50
this atl, and those of the a£t to which this
is a fupplement A
Sec. 3. And be it further enabled, That
whenever a ship or vessel belonging to a cit
izen of the United States, shall be fold in
a foreign country, and her company dis
charged, or when a seaman or mariner, a
Citizen of the United States, shall, with his
own consent, be difeharged in a foreign
country, it shall be the duty of the mailer or
commander to produce to the consul, vice
conful, commercial agent, or vice-commer
cial agent,the lift of his fhip's company, cer
tified as aforefaid ; and to pay to such con
sul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice
commercial agent, lor every teaman 01
mariner so dilcharged, being <<h,iatec
on such lift as a citizen of the United States,
three months pay, over and above the wages
which may then be due to such mariner
or seaman, two thirds thereof to be paid by
such consul, or commercial agent, to each
seaman or mariner so difeharged, upon bis
engagement on board of any vessel to re
turn to the United States, and the other re
maining third to be retained for the purpose
of creating a fund for the payment of the
pallages ot seamen or mariners, citizens of
the United States, who may be desirous of
returning to the United States, and for the
maintenance of American seamen who may
be destitute, and may be in such foreign
port, and the several firms retained for such
fund shall be accounted for with the treas
ury every fix months by the persons receiv
ing the fame.
Sec. 4. And be it further enabled, That it
shall be the duty of the confuls,vice-confuls,
commercial agents, vice commercial agents
of the United States, from time to time to
provide for the mariners and seamen of the
United States, who may be found destitute
within their difirias refpe&ively, fufficient
subsistence & palfages to lome port in the U
nited States, in the most reasonable manner,
at the expence of tire United States, subject
to such intiruaions as the secretary of date
shall give ; and that all masters and com
manders ot vessels belonging to citizens ot
the Unital States, and bound to feme portl
[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PEI
Current prices of per from ~
D. C D. c'
Sugar, Welt-India -- i 0 0 12 0
Starch, Poland so 0 18 0 0
, American -- 0 12= o[7
Sugar, Loaf ffi 022 0 0
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 550 0 0
, Turk's Illand - - 550 9 °
, Liverpool -- 4 0 0°
, Rock -- 650 0 °
Steel, German ffi 013 015
, English -- 014 015
Salt Petre, refined -- 034 04,
Shot Patent, C. 0 0 0 0
, fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
1 I do. do. heading - - 26 0 28 0
>)W. O. bbl. — 10 0 12 co
R. O. hhd. -- 12 0 L 3 0
to do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. 120 I 3 o
Tin in Ibects bx. 18 0 20 0
' ar B. 3 0 325
Turpentine — 4 o 4 5 o
Tea, Hyfon h lb. 1 10 1}&
, Souchong -- 070 0 75
, Bohea — 032 0 0
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia - - 550 0 0
Twine, sewing . doz. 5 0 5 5 o
, seine — 5 q 5
. ^Madeira G. 217 283
I Lisbon farce, — 1 40 0 0
Z < Sherry, — ] 2§ [ 2?
I Malaga farce q.c. 29 0 0 0
? [Red Port — 142
of the fame, are hereby required and en
joined to take such mariners or seamen on
board of their (hips or vessels, at the request
of the said consuls, vice-confuls,commercial
a,ents or vice-commercial agents tefpe&-
ively, and to trahfport them to the port
in the United States to which such ships
or vefleis may be bound, on such terms
not exceeding ten dollars for each per
lon, as may be agreed between the said
matter and consul, or commercial agent.
And the laid mariners or seamen shall if
able, be bound to do duty on board such
ships or velkls accmrirn? , to their several
abilities § Provided, 1 hat no matter or
captain ot any ship or vessel shall be oblig
ed to take a greater number than two men
'0 every one hundred tons burthen of the
said flop or vellel, on any one vovage ; and
it any such captain or matter fha'l icfufe
the fame on the requelt or order of the con-
Ini, vice-consul, commercial agent or vice
commercial agent, such captain or mailer
shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred
dollars for each mariner or seaman so re
fufed, to be recovered tor the benefit of the
United Spates .in any court of competent
jurifdiaion. And the certificate of any
such consul or commercial agent, given un
der his hand and official seal, shall be
prima facie evidence erf such refufal in
iy court of law having jurifdiaion
for the recovery of the penalty atorefuid.
Sec. 5. And be it further enabled, That
the seventh and eighth fedion of the act,
intitled, " An a& concerning consuls
and vice-consuls," be and the fame are
hereby repealed ; and that the secretary o<
date be authorized to teimburfe the consuls,
vice-consuls, commercial agents, or vice
commercial agents, such reasonable sums
as they may heretofore have advanced for
the relief of seamen, though the fame should
exceed the rate of twelve cents a man per
diem.
Sec. 6. And be it further enabled, That
it shall and may be lawful for every consul,
vice-consul, commercial agent & vice-com
mercial agent of the United States, to take &
receive for every certificate of dilcharge of