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Which district (hall be called the diftrid of Albe
marle, and a dithift court in and for the fame,
shall be holden at Edenton by the district judge of
North Carolina on the third Tuefday in April, on
the third Tuefday in August, and on the third
Tuefday in December, in each and every year ;
one other to be called the dittrift of Pamplico,
and to cunfift of all that part of North Carolina
which by the laws of the far'd Rate now forms the
districts of Newbern and Hillfborough, together
with all that part of the diftißt of Wilmington
which lies to the northward and eatiward of new
river ; for which diffract ot Pamplico,^ district
court shall be holden it Newbern by the district
judge lad aforefaid on the second Tuefday in A
pril, on the second Tuefday in August and on the
second Tuefday in December, in each and every
year ; and one other to consist of the remaining
part of the laid diflrift ot North Carolina, and to
be called the dit^riCt of Cape Fear, in and tor
which a district court (ball be holden at Wilming
ton by the dillrift judge last aforefaid, on the firft
Tuefday in April, on the firft Tuefday in August,
and on the firfl Tuefday in December, in each
and every year ; which said diftrift courts here
by directed to be holden shall respectively have
and exercise within their several diflrifts, the fame
powers, authority and jurisdiction, which are veil
ed by law in thediftrift courts of the United States.
Sec. 8, /Ind be it further enahed, That the cir
cuit court and district courts tor the diftrift of
North Carolina shall appoint clerks for the said
courts refpetlively, which clerks shall reside and
fr c <- p the records or the said courts at the places of
holding the courts, whereto they shall refpeftively
belong, and shall perform the fame duties and be
entitled to, and receive the fame emoluments and
fees, respectively, which are by law ettablifh
ed tor the clerks of the circuit and diltrift courts
of the United States, refpeftively.
Sec. 9. And be it further entitled, That all ac
tions, causes, pleas, process and other proceedings
relative to any cause, civil or criminal, which fltall
be returnable to, or depending in thg several cir
cuit or dillrict courts ot the United States on the
firfl day of July next, shall be and are hereby de
clared to be respectively transferred, returned and
continued to the Several circuit and diftrift court!
constituted by this a cl, at the times herein before
and herein after appointed for the holding of each
of the said courts, and shall be heard, tried and de
termined therein in the fame manner and with the
fame effect, as if no change had been made in the
said courts. And it shall be the duty of the clerk
of each and every court hereby conflitnted, to re
ceive and to take into his fafe keeping the writs,
process, pleas, proceedings and papers of all those
causes and actions which by this alt shall be trans
ferred, returned or continued to such court, and
also all the records and office papers of every kind
respectively belonging to the courts abolished by
the repeal of the act entitled "an aft to provide
for the more convenient organization of the courts
of the United Slates," and from which the said
causes shall have been transferred as aforefaid.
Sec. 10. And be it further enabled, That all
filits, process, pleadings and other proceedings, of
what nature or kind soever, depending in the cir
cuit court in the diftrift of Ohio, and which shall
have been, or may hereafter be commenced within
the territory of the United States north weft of
the river Ohio, in the said court, shall, from and
after the firfl day of July next, be continued over,
returned, and made cognizable, in the Superior
court of the said territory next thereafter to be
holden, and all actions, suits, process, pleadings,
and other proceedings as aforefaid depending in
the circuit court of the said dihrict, and which
shall have been or may hereafter be commenced
within the Indiana territory in said court, shall,
from and after the firfl day of July next, be con>
tinned over, returned and made cognizable in the
superior court of the said Indiana territory, next
thereafter to be holden.
Sec. 11: And be it further evattedmiat in all cases
in which proceedings shall on the fe'd firfl day of
July next, be pending under a commission of bank
ruptcy issued in pursuance of the aforefaid aft,en
titled "an alt to provide for the more convenient
organization of the courts ot the United States,"
the cognizance of the fame shall be, and hereby is
transferred to, and veiled in, the district judge of
the diflrift within which such commission fliall
have issued, who is hereby empowered to proceed
therein in the fame manner and to the fame effect,
as if such conrniflion of bankruptcy had been is
sued by his order.
Sec. 12. And be it further enatted, That from
and after the tirtt day of July next, the diflrift
judges of Kentucky and Tennessee, shall be and
hereby are Severally entitled to a salary of fifteen
hundred dollars, annually, to be paid quarter year
ly at the treasury ot the United States.
Sec. 13. And be it further enabled, That the
marshals and attornies ot the United States, for
the districts which were not divided, or within the
limits of which, new districts were not -erected,
by the act entitled "an alt to provide for the
more convenient organization of the courts of the
United States," passed the thirteenth day of Fe
bruary,one thousand eight hundred and one, fliall
continue to be marshals and attornies for such dif
trifts refpeftively, unless removed by the President
of the United States, and in all other districts
which were divided or within the limits of which
new diflrifts were erected by the last recited all,
the President of the United States, be and hereby
is empowered, from and after the firft day of July
next, to difeontinne all such supernumerary mar
shals and district attornies of the United States, in
such diftrifts refpeftively, as he fliall deem expe
dient, so that there shall be but one marshal and
district attorney to each district ; and every mar
shal and district attorney who shall be continued
in office, or appointed by the President of the U
nited States in such districts, shall have* and exer
cise the fame powers, perform the fame duties,
give the fame bond with sureties, take the fame
oath, be subject to the fame penalties and regula
tions as are, or may be [prefcribed by law, in re
spect to the marshals and district attornies of the
United States. And every marshal and district at
torney who shall be so difeonfinued as aforefaid
shall be holden to deliver over all papers, matters,
and things in relation to their respective offices, to
.such marshals and district attornies respectively
who shall be so continued or appointed as aforefajd
in such diflrict in th, fame manner as is required
by law, in cases of refiguation or removal from
. office.
Sec. 14. And be i\ further enabled. That there
shall be appointed by the President of the United
States, from time to time, as many general com
missioners of bankruptcy, in each district of the U
nited S ates, as he n[ay deem neceffafy ; and upon
petition to the judge of a district court for a corn
million of bankruptcy, he shall proceed as is pro
vided in and by an act, entitled "An act to eilab-
Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That all ac
tions, suits, process, pleadings and proceedings, of
what nature or kind foevter, which shall be depend
ing or exiting in the sixth circuit of the United
States within the circuit courts of the districts of
East and Weft Tenneflee, shall be and hereby are
continued over to the district court eflablifhed by
this act in manner following, that is to fay : All
such as shall on the firft day of July next, be de
pending and undetermined, or flrail then have been
commenced, and made returnable before the cir
cuit court ol East Tennessee, to the next district
Yourt hereby directed to be holden, within and for
the district of East Tennessee ; all such as shall be
depending and undetermined, or fliall have
been commenced apd made returnable before the
circuit court of Weit Tenneflee, to the next district
court, hereby directed to be holden, within and
for the diflrict of Weft Tenneflee, and all the said
suits shall tlien be equally regular and effectual,
and fliall be proceeded in, in the fame manner as
they could have been if thelaw, authorizing the
establishment of the sixth circuit of the United
States, had not been Repealed. \
Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, .That the
next session of the district court for the diflrict of
Maine, fliall be holden 011 the last Tuefday in May
next ; and that the session of the said court hereto
fore holden on the third Tuefday June , annually,
fliall thereafter be holden, annually, qn the last
Tuefday in May.
lifh an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout
the United States," and appoint, not exceeding
three of the said general cominiffiohers as commis
sioners of the particular bankrupt petitioned a
gainst ; and the said commiflioners, together with
the clerk, shall each be allowed as a full coropen
fation tor their services, when fitting and acting
under their commissions, at the rate of fix dol
lars per day for every day which they may be em
ployed in the fame bufinefy to be apportioned a
mong the several causes on which they may act on
the fame day, and to be paid out of the respective
bankrupt's eflates : Provided, That the commillion
ers, who may have been, or may be appointed in
any district before notice fliall be given of the ap
pointment of commissioners for such diflrict by the
President in pursuance of this act, and who fliall
not then have completed their business, shall be au
thorized to pi oceed and finish the fame, upon the
terms of their original appointment.
Sec. ,5. And be it further enaded, That the da
ted session of the district court, for the diflrict of
Virginia, heretofore directed to be holden in the
city of Williamfburg,Jhall be holden in the town
of Norfolk, from and after the firft day of July
next, and the dated sessions of the diflrict court for
the district of Maland, shall hereafter be holdem
in the city of Baltimore onb ; and in the district of
Georgia, the Hated session! of the diflrict court
shall be held in the city of Savannah only.
Sec. 16. And be it further enabled, That for the
better eltablifliment of the courts of the United
States within the slate of Tenneflee, the said date
fliall be divided in two districts, one to confid of
that part of said slate, which lies on the east fide
of Cumberland mountain, and to be called the dif*
trict of East Tennessee, the other to confitt of the
remaining part of said date, and to be called the
diflrict of Weft Tennessee.
Sec. 17. And be it further enaffed, That the
district judge of the United States, who shall here
after perform the duties of diflrict judge, within
the date of Tenneflee, shall annually held four
sessions ; two at Knoxville, on the fourth Monday
of April and the fourth Monday of October, in and
for the district of East Tennessee, and two it Nash
% ille, on the fourth Monday of May, and th? fourth
Monday of November, in and for the district of
Weft Tennessee.
Sec. :8, And be it further enafled, That there
shall be a clerk for each of the said districts, pf East
and Weft Tenneflee, to be appointed by the judge
thereof, who shall reside and keep the records of
the said courts, at the places of holding the courts,
whereto they respectively shall belong, anti shall
perform the fame duties, and be entitled 0, and
receive the fame emoluments and fees, wlich are
established by law for the clerks of the diflrict
courts of the United States, respectively.
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, Thatthere
shall be appointed, in and for each of the districts
of East and Well Tennessee, a marshal whose duty
it fliall be to attend the district courts hereby es
tablished, and who shall have and exercise within
such diflrict, the fame powers, perform the fame
duties, be subject to the fame penalties, give the
fame bond with sureties, take the fame oath, be en
titled to the fame allowance, as a full compenfa
tiori for all extra services, as hath heretofore been
allowed to the marshal of the diflrict of Tennessee,
by a law, passed the 28th day of February, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and shall
receive the fame compensation and emoluments,
and in all respects be subject to the fame regula
tions as are now prescribed by law, in respect to
the marshals of the United States, heretofore ap
pointed : Provided, That the marshals of the dis
tricts of East and Weft Tenneflee, how in office,
shall, during the periods for which they have Men
appointed, unless sooner removed by the President
of the United States, be and continue hiarfliais tot
the several districts hereby established, within
which they respectively reside.
Sec. 20. And be it further enctfied, Thn tthere
shall be appointed for each of the districts of East
and Weft Tennessee, a person learned in the law,
to act as attorney for the United States within
such diflrict ; which attorney shall take an oath or
affirmation for the faithful performance of the du
ties of his office, and shall prosecute in such dis
trict, all delinquencies, for crimes and offence,
cognizable under the authority of the United
States, and all civil actions or suits, in which the
United States shall be concerned ; and shall be en
titled to the fame allowance, as a full compensa
tion for all extra services, as hath heretofore been
allowed to attornies of-the diflrict of Tennessee,
by a law palled the twenty-eight day of Februa
ry, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine,
and shall receive such compensation, emoluments
and fees, as by law are or shall be allowed to the
diflrict attornies of the United Stately respective
ly : Provided, That the diflrict attornies of East
and Well Tennessee, now in office, fliall severally
and respectively be attornies for those districts,
within which they reside, until removed by the
President of the United States.
Sec. 23. And be it farther enacted, That all
writs and process which fh'all have been issued,
and all recognizances returnable, and all suits and
other proceedings which have been continued to
the said dittrift court on the third'Tuefday in June
next, flrall be returned and held continued to the
said latt Tuefday of May next.
Sec. 24. And be it farther enafled, That the
chief judge of the diftrift of Columbia, shall hold
a diftrift court bf the United States, in and tor
the didria on the firft Tuefday bf April, and on
the firft Tuefday of October in every year ; which
London, Mat 22.
THE registers opened in France, upon
the question whether Bonaparte shall be Con
sul for Life? are represented to be fillingve
ry rapidly : If we may believe the Paris pa
pers; the answer will be an unanimous affir
mative« It is rather extraordinary that none
of the Paris papers to the 19th inst. take the
flighted notice of the proportion submitted
by the Mayoralites of Paris, to the Prefe&
for giving to^Bonaparte, in addition to the
Consulate for life, the power of nominating
his successor. Yet it is certain that such a
proposition has been made, and that the Pre
fed did not discourage it.
• —
Extract of a Letter.
Paris, MAY 17.
"My last letter informed you that mea
sures of the firft importance, whicn I had
some time since intimated, were about to be
carried into immediate efta ; that it was
not only certain that Bonaparte wQuld be
appointed Consul for life, but that it was al
so in contemplation to fuperadd a privilege
unexpe&ed by the great mass of the nation,
by empowering him to nominate his succes
sor ! It was not on light grounds, you may
rest assured, that I stated a business of so
much magnitude, and which has for its ten
dency to alter the nature of the Government,
by making the First Magistrate hereditary,
instead of elective. I intimated also, what
fort of a reception this proportion was like
ly to meet with when made."
OF BONAPARTE.
The French papers are as full of anec
dotes pf Bonaparte, as ever they were dur
ing the ancient regime, of the Grand Mo
narques. A deputation of 102 members of
the Legislative Body, was lately introduced
Sec, 27. And be it further enacted, That from
and after the hrlt day ol July next, there fliall be
holden, annually, in the diflrict of Vermont, two
Hated sessions of the diflrict court, which fliall
commence on the tenth day of October, at Rut
land, and on the seventh day of May, at Windsor,
in each year ; and when either of the said days
shall happen on a Sunday, the said court hereby
directed to be holden on such day, fliall be holden
011 the day next thereafter.
Sec. 28. And be it further erased, that the ~ct
entitled " An act altering the time of holding the
diflrict court in Vermont, and so much of the fe.
cond section of the act entitled " An act giving
effect to the laws of the United States within the
state of Vermont," as provides for the holding
four sessions, annually, of the said diflrict court in
said diflrict, from and after the firft day of July
next, be and hereby are repealed;
Sec. 29. And be it further enacted, That the
clerk of the said district court fliall not issue a pro
cess to fumrtion, or cause to be returned, to any
session of the said district court, a grand jury, Ull
-by special order of the diflrict judge, and at
the request of the diflrict attorney ; nor shall he
cause to be fumtnoned or returned a petit jury to
such sessions of the fafd diflrict court, in which
there fhalfappear to be no issue proper for the
trialby jury, unless by special order of the judge
as aforefaid. And it shall be the duty of the cir
cuit court in the diflrict of Vermont, at their da
ted feffions,to give in charge to the grand juries, all
crimes,offences,&mifricmeanors,as art cognizable,
as well in the said diflrict court as 4fohid circuit
court, and such bills of indictmeffas fliall be
found in the circuit court, and cognizable in the
said district court, shall, at the discretion of the
said circuit court, be transmitted by the clerk of
the said court, pursuant to the order of the Gid
circuit court, with all matters and things relating
therto, to the district court next thereafter to be
holden, in said district, and the fame proceedings
shall be had thereon in said district court, as though
said bill of indictment had originated and been
found in the said diflrict court. And all recogni
zances of witnesses. taken by any magifirate in said
district, for their appearance to teltify in any
case cognizable in either of the said courts, shall
be to the circuit court next, thereafter to be hol
den in said diflrict.
Sec. 30. And be it further enacted, That from
and after the puffing ot this act, no special juries
shall be returned by the clerks of any of the said
circuit courts ; hut that in oil cafto in n fllcli ft
was the duty of the said clerks to return special
juries before the pa fling of this act, it shall be the
duty of the marshal for the diflrict where such
circuit court may be held, to return special juries,
in the fame manner and form, as, by the laws of
the respective slates, the said clerks w ere required
to return the fame.
Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That in all
suits in equity, it fliall be at the discretion of the
court, upon the request of either party, to order
the teflimony of the witness therein, to be taken
by depositions ; which depositions shall betaken
in confor rtilty to the regulations prescribed by law
for the courts of the highest original Jurisdiction
in equity, in cases of a Similar nature, in that State
in which the court of the United States may be
holden : Provided however, That nothing herein
contained shall extend to the circuit courts which
may be holden in those slates, in which teflimony
in chancery is not taken by deposition.
Sec. 26. And be it further enafled, That there
fliall be a clerk for the diflrict court of Norfolk,
to be appointed by the judge thereof, which clerk
shall reside and keep the records of the said court
at Norfolk aforefaid, and fliall perform the fame
duties, and be entitled to, and receive the fame
fees and emoluments which are eflablifhed by law
for the clerks of the district courts of the United
States.
court ftal! bav, and exercise, within the said dif
tii&, the fame powers and jurifdiftion which are
by law veiled in the district courts of the United
States.
NATHL MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, April 29, 1802.
TH : JEFFERSON,
President of the United States.
foreign articles.
ted gaiety was diffufed over the countenan
ces of the whole company. The presence
of many of our most diftiuguilhed revolution
ary characters excited a lively recolleaion of,
and deep interest jn, those sublime feenes
which our fuccefsful struggle developed ; and
a sentiment of gratitude pervaded every heart,
that the intrepid asserters of our rights amidst
the storms of a revolution, were preserved to
perpetuate, extend and enjoy them in peace.
At four o'clock a dinner was given at the
Navy-Yard. The company confided of a
bout one hundred and fifty ladies and gentle
men, among whom were the Secretary of
State, the Secretary of the Treafurv, the Se
cretary of War, the Post- Mader-General,
the re(pe&ive Officers of the Treafurv, War
and Navy Departments, the French Charge
des Affaires, the Officers of the Army and
Navy, other officers of the general govern
ment, and strangers of«iiftin&ion.
General Dearborn Prefixed, supported by
Mr. Carrol and Capt. Tingey, as Vice-Pre
sident.
The arrangements at the Navy-Yard were
made, under the direaion of Capt. Tingey
and Col. Burrows, with a very happy regard
to elegance and accommodation. The La
dies were received under a handsome Mar
kee, until dinner time, when the company
was arranged at an extensive table in the
form of a hollow square, under 2 lofty tent,
covered with the colors of the frigates, which
lay within view, ornamented with the flags
of all nations.
After the firft Toasts were drank, the La
dies retired to a spacious apartment in the
Marine Ware-House, just finifhed, where a
Ball terminated the entertainment of the
day.
Besides these celebrations, there were ma
ny others in different parts of the city, all of
which were conducted with the greatest har
mony and conviviality.
May every returning Anniversary of this,
day find the American people as happy, uni
ted and free as they now are !
Poffcript to a Letter from an American at
Paris, of the 17th May, 1802.
" Since writing the foregoing, a law has
b cen proposed and will pass, fixing the du-
to an audience ; to express the conctnrear^
of the Legislature individually, in the tclti
mony of national gratitude exhibited in th^
vote to eka him Consul for life ; and of
their conviction that the public gratitude
would soon be declared. — Bonaparte, in his
reply, said : " Let the people manileit their
will in all its freedom— in all its indeptn
dence---it shall be obeyed.—Whatever may
be my destiny, whether Consul or private Ci
tizen---! Ihall cxift only for the grandeur
and happinels of France."
—.— .„
To a fircilar Deputation from the Tribu
nate, he observed :—"Bonaparte w ill be al
ways himfelf. It will be his chief desire
that his memory may descend without tar
nish to the latest poflerity ; and none wiR
ever be able to fay of Bonaparte, that he has
lived too long by many years."
P.!RI9, 2, Fioreal.
In the Tribunate yeftefday, the law for
promulgating the Treaty of Amiens, passed
unanimously ; as did 2 vote of thanks to Jo
seph Bonaparte, the negociator.
Gen. Menou, of the late army of Egypt,
has been ele&ed a member of the Tribunate.
—
Boston, JULY 17.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
^ SINCE our last, the ihip Confidence,
Capt. Redman, from Liverpool, has furnilh
ed London papers to the 27th May. They
do not contain any interesting intelligence.
The London "Courier" of the 27th May,
gives the following :—
A- most extraordinary report has been
brought from Calais to Dover last night. It
fs, that the life of Bonaparte has been
again attempted—on the parade at the
review the 24th inst. The conspirators sur
rounded him, and (tabbed him. Happily the
wound was flight ;. an Aid-dt-Camp, how
ever, near him, was mortally wounded. We
give this adds the Courier, "as a rumour,
without pledging ourselves in the flighted de
gree tor its authenticity, ft may be an echo
of a report circulated here ft me days ago, on
the authority ot fume private accounts from
Paris, which mention, that a conspiracy a
gaintt Bonaparte's life had been planned,
but had been difeovered." A Dover article
of the 26th, gives the fame intelligence as re
port.
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^2 tlje Q^aiU.
- Washington, July 4/
AT WASHINGTON CITY
The Anniversary of our Freedom,
was celebrated with univerlal enthusiasm.
At fun-rife, the day was ushered in by a dis
charge of artillery from the navy-yard. At
noon the President of the U. S. received the
Ladies of the City and George Town, and
was waited on generally by the citizens, a
mong whom refrefhments were liberally dis
tributed,and a part of the Mammoth Checfe,
which was cut on the occasion. An anima-