Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-07-13 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, effort, T. 95 0 100 0
, Pearl -- 120 0 125 c
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, lb- 011 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 4 5 0 7 0
Butter lb 0 12 ° ! 3
Beef, common B. 9 ° 12 0
mes -- [ 3 0 '3 5°
Beans, white bu. 112 116
Brandy, Spanish 41b pr. G. 150 156
, Naples 4/^/>r.-- 1 40 1 45
Barley bu - 1 0 0 0
Brimstone, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 4 5° 5 °
Corn, Indian -- 075 0 8°
Rye - 095 ic
Caffia' lb o to 06 5
Cloves -1 33 0 °
Coffee -- 0 20 0 22
Cheefe,American -- 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign scarce -- 040 0 0
, American -- 0 24 0 c
Cordage, American C. 14 0 0 0
, Foreign, -- 12 0 13 °
Chocolate, common ft, °~° 0 0
,beft^2&i - 02 " °3 2
Candles, mould - 0 ° 7
, dipt -- 0 16 0 °
Coals; foreign Ch. 14 0 0 °
, American none, -- 0 0 0
Copperas, C.> 35° 4 °
Cloth, Tow yd. 01° 017
Duck, Russia, iftqual. Bt. 16 0 17 o.
FOREIGN BILLS.
tills on London : 30 days, : (fr Cajb) par A I pr. cent. dis.
do. do. : : : todays, : : do. : 1a I| do. do.
do, do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : i| a 2 do. do.
Edls on Hamburg, payable in Lindon, at 60 days, ': : 2 a 2} d>do.
do. on Amfcrdum, payable in do. 60 days, - : do. do. do.
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{Published by Authority]
SEVENTH CONGRESS
OF THE
United ^tat%
AT THE FIRST SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of Washington, In the
territory of Columbia, on Monday, the Sevent 1
of December, one thousand eight hundred am
one. •
AN ACT
Additional to, and amendatory of, an aR, e^ti
tuled, "An abl concerning the difrici of
Columbia."
BE it enabled by the Senate and, H^fe of
Representatives of the United States of A
rierica, in Congiefs assembled, That the
circuit court of the county of Washington,
in the territory of Columbia, (hall have pow
er to proceed in all common law and chan
cery causes which now are, or hereafter
shall be instituted before it, in which either
of the parties refine without the said terri
tory, in the fame way that non-relidents are
proceeded against in the general court or U)
the court of chancery in the Rate of Mary
land.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled, That
the circuit court of the county of Alexin
dria, in the diftrid of Columbia, shall have
power to proceed in all common law and
chancery causes which now are, or hereaf
ter shall be instituted before U, in which
either of the parties arc non-refidepts of said
diftrid of Columbia, in the fame way, an^
under the fame regulations observed by the
diftria court or by the high court of chan
cery in Virginia, in proceeding against non
residents.
Sec. 3. And bejt further enabled, That
the courts for the counties of Alexandria
and Washington, Shall hereafter be holden
NUMBER 46. VOL. III.]
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER CF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
OTsen ?ou Wall t^efe beets relate fpeai of themas t^eg are : Retiring extenuate, ret set toton oug^t in malice.
Republican Ledger,
AND
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Ravens -- 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 1 5
Filh, Merchant, C. 4 0 4 2 5
,W. India mark. — 325 350
Scale -- 225 233
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 c
Mackerel -- 75° 8 0
Flour, super. frefh -- 750 0 0
, fine — 650 0 0
, middlings -- 6 o o c
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick , T. 45 0 0 c
. , Bristol cr. loby 8, bx. 15 50 16 c
^) gby y,— 14 0 0 0
< < _Bby 6, -- 11 0 ii 50
^ /Hamburg ioby 8, -- 13 0 13 50
' 7 b Y9> -- 12 0 12 5 c
Gun Powder ffi 050 0 55
Geneva, Holland if pr G. 1 5 0 0
, Americanize -- 090 0 c
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard fb 012 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 0 0
, Russia -- 115 0 120 0
, Swedes —A zq w & d <jv
Logwood T. 40 0 45 °
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry -- 15 0 0 0
, red — 866 9 0
, sheet — 11 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 0 18 0
, , merch. — 95° 10 0
shingles -1 50 2 20
at the periods following, to wit : for the
county of Alexandria, on the fourth Mon
day of June and November, and for the
county of Washington, on the fourth Mon
day of July and December, in each year ;
and all process heretofore issued from the
offices of the said courts and not yet return
ed, shall be returnable to the firft day of the
sessions of the said courts, refpe&ively, and
all causes now depending in the fame shall
stand adjourned and continued over to the
next fellions of the said courts, as establish
ed by this a&. And the said courts are here
by invefled with the fame power of holding
adjourned sessions that are exeicifed by the
courts of Maryland.
Sec. 5. And be it further enabled, That
so much of the original aft to which this is
a further supplement, as confines the jurif
di&ion of the courts of this territory to ca
ses between parties who are inhabitants of,
or residents within the fame, shall not be
Sec. 4. And be it further enabled, That
no capias ad Jatisfaciendum shall hereafter if
fuc on any judgment rendered by a single
magistrate, or in any case where the judg
ment exclusive of costs, shall not exceed
twenty dollars,; but that in such cases, ex
ecution shall be only on the goods and chat
tels of the debtor, and shall issue by order of
the justice who may have taken cognizance
of the action, from the clerk's office, and
shall be returnable thereto. That all such
executions be returnable on the firft Mon
day in every month ; and that the fame,
and also the warrant to bring the party be
fore the justice, be directed to one of the con
stables whofeduty it shall be to obey the fame:
that each of the said constables, shall give
bond, with one fufficient surety, to be ap,
proved of by any one of the diftridljudges,
for the faithful execution of the duties of
his office, in the sum of five hundred dollars
—That the clerk's fees for issuing and fil
ing the return of every such execution, shall
be twenty-five cents ; the constable's fees
for return and service, shall be fifty cents ;
and that a commission of eight per cent, be
allowed the constable for every sum thereon
bv him levied.
WboUVale prices Current, at portfinoutb, Beto--pampfyire,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
—>..„<..<.<^ c g^g l gA^.,,>+,.>..>..>..| r
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1802.
Course of Grcbange, at Lofton,
INLAND BILLS.
Billon Baltimore, 30 days fight, (Fol Cash) 1 per cent dis.
do. Philadelphia, ; do. : do. do. do.
<r New-York, , : , do. : do. do. do.
do. Philadelphia, or 1,
New-York, f 6 ° da ! s > : d ° 2 ' do -
N. B, Bills at Shorter fight, proportionably higher.
construed to extend to any case where, by
the laws of Maryland and Virginia, refpcc
'tively, attachments may issue to affect the
property of absconding debtors, or others
having property within the diflria, and
whose persons are not answerable to the
process of the court.
Sec. 6. And be it further enabled, That
the taxes to be levied in the county of Alex
andria, shall hereafter be assessed by the jus
tices of the peace of the said county, and
the poor of the town and country parts of
'he said county of Alexandria shall be pro
-vided for refpe&iv£ly, in like manner as the
county and corporation courts were author
ized to do by the laws of Virginia, as they
flood in force within the said county, on
the firft Monday of December, in the year
one thousand eight hundred.
See. 7. And be it further enabled, That
no part of the laws ot Virginia or Mary
land, declared by an a& of Congress, pall
ed the twenty-seventh day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and one, " concern
ing the diftria of Columbia," to be in force
within the said dillrift shall ever be constru
ed so as to prohibit the owners of slaves to
hire them within or remove them to the
said diftria, in the fame way as was pradif
ed prior to the passage of the above recited
a&.
Sec. 8. And be it further enabled, That
so much of two a6ts of Congress, the one
passed on the twenty-seventh day of Febru
ary, one thousand eight hundred and one,
entitled “ An ad concerning the diftria of
Columbia the other passed the third of
March, one thousand eight hundred and one,
supplementary to the atorefaid a6l, as pro
vides for the compensation to be made to
certain juftices' of the peace thereby created
—and for compensation to jurors attending
the courts within said dittria, except so
much thereof as relates to their travelling
expences attending the fame, shall be, and
is hereby repealed : And jurors, in future
shall serve in the said courts, and be sum
moned to attend the fame in like manner as
jurors serve and were summoned in the
courts of Virginia, prior to the passage of
the above recited a&.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Lemons frejb bx. Io o II o
Lime, half hhd. 1 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ft ) 020 0 0
Aolatles G. 040 045
Nutmegs lb 5 ° 55°
Nail Rods scarce C. 750 8 0
. M - °34 0 0
^I 6dj ' -- 066 0 0
^I 6d, wrought -- 117 0 0
< } lod, do. infpe&ed - - 175 180
^ I 2od, do. do. -- 245 25 r
[Sheathing, cut C. It 0 11 50
-1 f Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
Q I Linked G. 1 0 1 8
Pepper lb 02 8 0 0
Pork, bed pieces B. 20 0 0 0
, common -- 14 ° 15 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento ib 017 0 18
Pitch, B. 6 0 oc
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 °
Redwood r. 55 0 60 0
Rai fins frejb cafl< 80 0 0
Rum, Jamaica G. I 4 I 15
, Windward ?A pr.— 0 80 0 85
Rice scarce C. 5 50 6 0
Rosin Jcarce B. 450 0 0
Soap, white lb 0 I 4 016
, brown -- 010 012
, castle — 017 0 0
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India -- 12 0 13 °
, Wcft-India -- 9 0 12 0
[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
Sec. 9. And be it further enabled, That
ordinary licenses, retailers licenses, and
hawkers and pedlars licences, shall be
granted by the circuit court of the said dif
tria, in the refpeaive counties, as the fame
were heretofore granted by the courts of
Maryland and Virginia, refpeaively. And
the federal judges of the said circuit court
shall have like authority to grant such li
cences in vacation, as the juftrces of the
courts of Maryland and Virginia heretofore
possessed ; and the money arising from such
licences shall be applied to the use and ben
efit of the said counties, refpeaively, in such
manner, and to such purposes, as the justi
ces of the levy courts in the fame shall ap
point and dire&.
Sec. 10. . And be it further enabled, That
the martial of the diftritl of Columbia be,
and he hereby is authorized and directed,
with the approbation of the President of the
United States to cause a good and fufficient
jail to be built within the city of Washing
ton, and that a sum not exceeding eight
thousand. dollars be—and the fame hereby is
appropriated to that purpose, to be paid out
of any unappropriated monies in the treasu
ry.
Sec. It. And be it further enabled, That
the corporation of Georgetown, in the dif
tri6t of Columbia, shall have full power and
authority to tax any particular part or dif
trief of the town, for paving the streets, lanes
or alleys therein, or for finking wells, or e
renting pumps which may appear for the be
nefit of such particular part or diftria. Pro
vided that the rate of tax so to be levied shall
not exceed two dollars per foot front, and
that the fame shall be enforced and collected
in the fame manner that the taxes which the
said corporation had heretofore been autho
rifed to lay and collect.
Sec. 12. And be it further enabled. That
articles infpe&ed at one port in the said dif
tri6 tgall not be lubjea to a second inspec
tion at any other port in the said diffria.
Sec. 13. And be it further enabled, 1 hat
the President of the United States be autho
rifed to cause the militia of the refpeaive
counties of Washington and Alexandria to
be formed into regiments and other corps,
Current prices of per from to
D. C D. C.
Starch, Poland lb 017 0 c
, American — 0 I2| 01^
Sugar-Loaf ffi 025 0 0
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 0 0
, Turk's liland -- 6 0 6 0
, Liverpool — 450 5 °
, Rock -7 0 0 0
Steel, German ffi 0 14 0 0
, English -- 016 018
Salt Petre, refined -- 025 0 0
Shot Patent, C. 11 0 0 0
fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading — 26 0 28 0
>) W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 50
<] R. O. hhd. -- 10 0 11 75
I do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W. O. do. I 20 1 30
Tin in fhects bx. 18 0 2o 0
Tar B. 325 0 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 45°
Tea, Hyfon lb. 1 10 0 0
, Souchong -- 065 0 0
, Bohea -- 033 034
Tobacco, jamesßiver C. 70 0 0
, Georgia -- 550 6 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 55°
, seine — 50 550
A [Madeira G. 217 283
^ I Lisbon fyr — x 33 0 0
z; < Sherry, — 117 125
^ I Malaga scarce q.c. 32 0 0 0
(Red Port — 140