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AN ACT
making an appropriation fir the Jupport of the Na
vy of the United States, for the year one thow
Janet eight hundred and two
Sec. I. BE it enabled by the Senate and Houje of
Representatives of the United States of America in
Congr<Js afembled, That the following sums, in
cluding any @n which mav have been, or might
be expended during the present year, by virtue of
any former appropriation, be, and the fame are
hereby respectively appropriated, to defray the
ex penfs of the Navy of the United States during
the year one thousand eight hundred and two;
that is to fay :
For ti.e pay and fuhfiftence of the, officers, the
pay of the seamen, provisions and repairs, ffi e hun
dred and eight thousand CAO hundred and twenty
fix dollars :
For medicines, instruments, and hospital (lores
ten thousand dollars:
For the purchase of ordnance and other military
Hores, twenty thousand dollars:
fonformably, as nearly as may be, to the laws
of Maryland and Virginia, as they flood in
force in the said counties, refpe&ively, on
the tirft Monday in December in the year one
thousand eight hundred ; and that he appoint
and commission, during pleasure, all such offi
cers of the militia of the said diftri&, as he
may think proper ; that he be authorifed to
call them into service, in like manner as the
executive of Maryland and Virginia were au
thorifed in the counties of Washington and
Alexandria rcfpeclively, on the firit Monday
of December, one thousand eight hundred.
And that such militia, when in actual ser
vice, be entitled to the fame pay and emolu
ments as the militia of the United States,
when called out by the President.
NATHL MACON,
Speaker of the Houje of Representatives
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
Prefdetd of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, Mg 3, 1802.
TH : JEFFERSON,
President of the United States.
AN ACT
To empower John James Dufour, and bis as-
Jociates; to purchase certain lands.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Reprejentatives of the United States of Ameri
ca, in Congress affembied, That to encourage
the introduction, and to promote the culture
of the vine within the territory of the Unit
ed States, north weft of the river Ohio, it
shall be lawful for John James Dufour, and
his associates, to purchase any quantity not
exceeding four feaions of the lands of the
United S ate„ lying between the Great Mia
mi river and the Indian boundary line, at the
rate of two dollars per acre, payable without
interest, on or before the firft day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled, That
it ihall be the duty of the Register of the
land-office, eftablilhed at Cincinnati, to re
ceive and to enter on his entry book, the ap
plications of the laid Dufour, and his asso
ciates, for any unappropriated fedtions with
the adjoining fractions, if any, not to exceed
in the whole four /cations, and lying within
the diftria aforefaid ; Rating in each entry
the date of the application and the number of
the fetation or fradion, township and range
applied for ; and it (hall also be the duty of
the said Register to deliver, to the laid Du
four and his associates, a copy of each entry
thus made ; also a copy of the description or
field notes, and of the plat of each tract, with
a certificate Rating that the fame has been
purchased under the authority of this aft, at
the rate of two dollars per acre, payable with
out interest, on or before the firft day of Ja
nuary, one thoufar.d eight hundred and four
teen.
Sec. 3. And be it further enabled, That
payment for laid land may be made at the
treasury of the United States, or to the re
ceiver of the land office at Cincinnati, either
in specie, or in the evidences of the pub
lic debt of the United S ates, at the rates pre
scribed, by an act entitled " An adt to autho
rize the receipt of evidences ot the public
debt in payment for the aids of the United
States," and a difeount at the rate of fix per
cent, a year (hall be allowed on any pay
ments, which (hall be made before the fame
shall become due.
Sec. 4. And be it further enabled, That
on producing to the fecretaiy of the treasury
copies of the entries aforefaid, and of the
plats of the tra&s applied for, also the certi
ficate of the register of the land office estab
lished at Cincinnati, that the fame have been
putchafed in conformity to the provisions of
this a&, the President of the United States
shall be, and lie hereby is authorifed and em
powered to ilFue letters patent in the usual
form, unto the said Dufour, his associates,
and their heirs, for the said lands ; with con
dition expressed in the said letters patent, that
on failure to pay the purchase money when
the fame shall become due the lands therein
described, with the improvements thereon,
shall be deemed forfeited, and shall reveft in
the United States. „
- NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
Prefdent of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, May 1, 1802.•
TH : JEFFERSON,
Prefdent of the United States.
4th. That the difference between the value of
payments in paper money, accepted by the credi
itors of their agents, during the war, and the fter
hng value of the money, in which the debt was
contrasted, is a loss within the meaning of the
treaty of amity.
sth. That payments into the treasury as loan
offices of the dates during the war are lawful im
pediments to the recovery of debts to the extent
of foch payments.
6th. That creditors are not required to proceed
in chancery, or otherwise to set aside conveyances
fraudulently made by their debtors.
7th. That creditors are excused from bringing
suits now, for the recovery of debts, for which
compensation is claimed.
Bth. That creditors are not bound by the treaty
of amity, to prove the solvency of their debtors,
at the peace, but the United States are to prove
their insolvency.
91b. That claimants attainted of high treason
whose debts were confifeated for crimes, and who
—deferring the American fide, joined the British,
and continued on that fide until the peace, are
creditors within meaning of the 4th article of the
treaty of peace.
A recapitulation of the amount of each description
cf debt, which would rejult from the principles
adopted by the Board, as made by Mr. Reed, and
including interefl, to different dates within the
year 1798.
L. S. D. Q
The interest during the war
alone, 120; 645 11 1 1-4
For payments into the Trea
fur, and Loan office, 17L797 00 6 1-2
For impediments, by inllal
ment laws of South Caro
lina. 337,868 2 6
For alledging unlawful deci
fions of courts, 24,658 4 3 34
By firms, in part Citizens
of the U S. 162,483 12 4 34
Debts due from Rates late pro
vinces of the United States, 4 838 14
All descriptions of refugees,,
except North-Carolina, 753,182 4 21-2
Debt difeharged in depreciated
money, 205,795 15 5 3-4
Proprietary debts, 296,775 13 8
Legal impediments, generally, 3,560,585 10 4 14
Total Rerling, 5,638,629 81
Dolls. 24,309.969 37 , f
Claims to compensation for fpoliatiems preferred
under the 7th art cle of the treaty, amounted to
£1,250,000 Rerling.
For Talaries of fuperintendants of navy yards,
storekeepers and clerks, (lore rent, hire of labor
ers, &c. twelve thousand dollars :
For the purchase and expense of transportation
of timber, and other materials, including ordnance
for the feventy-foor gun (hips, one hundred and
ninety thousand five hundred and seventy five dol
lars .
The Resolutions of the board of commissioners,
under the 6th article of Jay's treaty, embrace
the following proportions, as appear from a
letter from John Reed, jun. agent ot the Unit
ed States to the Attorney General, dated 25th
of April, 1801.
id. That the laws passed by the state of South
Carolina, generally called instalment laws, are
lawful impediments, within the meaning of the
6th article of the treaty of amity.
2d. That certain laws in the state of Virgina,
the period of wtiote Hmßatfon did not expire till
after the peace, and which were afterwards con
tinued in force, operated as lawful impediments,
within the meaning of the treaties, unless the U
iiited states can (hew that the delays, loss of value
and security, were occasioned by other causes,
which would have equally operated, bad not thole
laws existed since the decision of the question re
fpefting war interests. This stands unaffected by
tie proviso, in all cases, except when the debtor
can be proved to be insolvent at the peace, which
is a go, d defence against the claim.
3d. That interest during the war, is to be paid
i. all cases, except when it is not part of the con
trast, or there are special circumstances in the
case.
[We have been furnifhed with the following
important document, by the Hon. John Brown.
Bv it our readers will be enabled to difeover the
motives which actuated the American govern
ment in negociating the convention with Great
Britain, for the payment ot £600,000 sterling in
ditchage of all claims which might arise under
the 6th article of the treaty concluded by Mr. Jay
—lt will be seen by this convention the United
States are exonerated from all responsibility for
upwards of £5 000,000 Derling, which might have
been claimed under the 6th article of the British
treaty] Aurora.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks, and
wharves, fifty thousand dollars :
For contingencies, ten thousand dollars :
For the pay and subsistence, including provisions,
for those on Shore, and forage for the ftaff of the
marine corps, seventy one thousand (even hundred
and fifty-four dollars, and forty cent/:
For clothing tor the sane, fifteen thousand five
hundred and nineteen dollars :
For military (lores for the fame, one thousand
two hundred and twenty four dollars, and sixty
cents :
For the quarter master's department, compri
sing quarters for the officers, and barlacks tor the
men at different Nations, fuel, Uationfo, camp 11-
tenfils, &c. seven thousand and sixty-one dollars :
For medicine, medical services, and hospital
flores, one thousand dollars :
For officers travelling expences, arnpurers and
carpenters bills, and other contingent expentes,
two thousand five hundred and fifty dohrs.
Sec. 2. And be it farther enabled. That so much
of the said teveral funis of money, herein before
fpecifically appropriated, and amounting together
to the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars, as
shall not have been expended by virtue of any for
mer appropriation, shall be paid, firft, out of any
balance remaining unexpended of former appro
priations for the Support of the navy ; and fecond
ly,out of any monies in the treasury of the United
States, not otherwise appropriated by law.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the Hottfe of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, Olay 1, 1802.
TH : JEFFERSON,
President of the United States.
IMPORTAA T DOCUMENT.
The anti republicans have often excited our ri
Ability, by their inconfillency. In sass, their dif
tim9:ion either of principle, fv ftetn or consistency
can promote no other sensations than those of a
contemptible smile. They have abused Congress
and the Maryland Legislature for repealing judi
ciary laws, which repeal they pronounce to be un
conjlitutional. When 10, a leader of their own
party, differing from their genius only by the vir
tue and integrity of a well-informed mind, J. T.
With all the modern improvements in the arts
and sciences ; with the multiplied powers of me
chanical inventions in facilitating the product of
industry ; still it is on the earth, as on a common
parent that we must all depend. Is it pfobable
that this state will ever approve of waste and ex
travagance in the national contrasts, when even
our highest federalifls, enjoy no less a personage
than the lieutenant governor to superintend the
building of a poor house ? Who will fay, after;
such an example of primitive simplicity, which 1
they have given in the present legislature, that it
is not in the flrißeft sense democratic ; since it so
happily combines the more imp< rtant affairs of
Hate with this humble employment ? It was thus
that Cincinnatus, in the infancy of an ancient re.
public, alternately exchanged the ftaff of office, or
the consular fafees, for the more ufeful occupa
tions of infpetting the arrangement of bricks, the
composition of mortar, or the direction of the
ploughshare!
Our federalifm, if by federalism is intended an
approbation of lavish expenditures, multitudinous
officers, high salaries, unseasonable parade & os
tentation, or the foppery of courts, is a mere vox
—an empty found, and nothing more. If the lib
erty of the citizens was foil every where else, the
yeomanry of Massachusetts would still druggie to
maintain her influence in this republic.
Boflon Chron.
VheAVrmjGOT
An Alarm !—A Federal Alarm !
The federalifls are greatly alarmed at the Mam
moth Cheese Infurrettion. They have had a
council of war, and the Eflex Junto are ordered
to be in immediate readiness to repair to Wash-I
ington to suppress the threatened rebellion. The
maggot regiments are represented to be well dis-I
ciplined, which greatly intimidates the Junto war-1
riors, but it is expefted that a fufficient number
will be draughted for the expedition. Who will
be the Commander in Chief on their dangerous en
terprize, we have not yet learnt ; but the man
who can show tire greatest number of wounds he
has received from the bite of fleas, bugs, lice or|
other bodily associates, it is probable will be ele&-|
ed. There are many candidates for the office,l
who are well acquainted with the properties of
Virmen, and as the season is so favorable to gen
erate this species of animals, it is thought that the^
recruits arising from their ovm corps, will be muchj
more numerous before they arrive at Wadiington
than the enemy. The Jaw Bone of an Ass is the
only weapon allowed the troops to attack the en-I
emy, and it is expected when they enter the mag-;
got encampment, there will be a great (laughter1
with this convenient inffrument. [Gazetteer. l
The federalifts have rung every peal of scurril
ity against the administration, till at length they
have fettled down on the dull note of the " mam
mouth cheese infurredion." They are so ignorant I
as not to know what a burlefqwe this mammouth;
rebellion is upon all their former conduct. Their
tub plots, massacres, French demands, &c, are all
of a piece. 'A demand ! a demand !—a plot ! a
plot !—a massacre ! a massacre ! have long ding'd
in our ears ; and now the cry is— a rebellion /;
maggots .'maggots ! —-Where, where ? is the inqui
ry. The whole group aflemble in the utmost sur
prise, and behold it is in— the mammouth cheje!
Wonderful difeovery truly ; call forth your dis
banded troops, go foward and attack the foes,
major ! But “ pause I pause ! for heaven's fake
pause !" and approach not too near the entrench
ments of the enemy, leatt you become food tor|
worms before your time. Rally your veteran;
phalanx ; " rule New-England" rule ; Sharpen
your amputating knives, for “ Columbians never,
never will be (laves." Man the (hips least the mag
gots crawl from their present quarters, and de
flroy the remains of our navy !
The maggot alarm is more terrific than any we
have yet experienced. An express has arrived to
the editor of the Centinel with the wonderful nar
rative ! Turn out ! turn out ! ye federalifls, or the
country will be overrun with vermin ! The
plagues of Egypt will soon visit our land —navy
yards must, therefore, be bought with all possible
expedition ! The northern States are threatened
with an invasion—the Junto are in consternation
—but to sooth their fears, we hear the redoubtable
major is to be appointed generalising of the
maggot Expedition ! !1 [Chron.
" Head-quarters of good principles." r
There is not a more attesting and important
truth, in the w hole compass of our various politi
cal intereiis in this commonwealth,than that in the
great mass of our well informed and well dilpofed
citizens, the moderate federalifis are republicans,
and the moderate republicans federalists. This
immense majority differ only in points of inferior
confequer.ee, and the more they underhand one
another the better they agree together. Ou party
queltions of a personal nature, the pride and feel
ings of individuals may have a certain effe& in de
ciding their votes or conduct ; but on practical in
ferences from acknowledged principles, these in
dividuals never fail to meet in a Common centre.
There is not a person who knows any thing of
the tremfections of the last or the present general
court, in this (late, that will not subscribe to the
truth of every thing here said. The country in
terest, almost without exception, are tenacious of
their property —averse to internal taxes of every
fort—frugal, acute, intelligent and independent.
In this date, federal as it is called, there is not
a single supernumerary officer, nor a single public
agent th it is not held to a perfect rt fponfibiiity,
A governor has but 2,670 dollars a year, a lieute
nant governor 600, a judge of the supreme cout
1200 pei haps a little " more or less," at the Will
of the legislature, and a member of either fenete
or boufe, 2 dollars a day during the term of his
attendance. Our wonderfully federal legislature,
in their late sessions, resolved ten times successively,
by handsome majorities, to impose an excise of 5
per cent, on bank dividends, notwithstanding the
almost united opposition of every member from
the seaports. The landed interest, on a question
of principle, are as firm as could be wished. The
people and their delegates equal) know how hard
it is to procure the money necessary for their pri
vate and occasional expences. They b gin also to
underhand that they muff finally bear the weight
of every tax, direct or indirect, as the land they
cultivate is the only effective source of national
wealth.
The "FRANKLIN ASSOCIATION" celebrated
। the day. In the forenoon an Oration wat deliv
-lered before them and a refpeftable audience at
:Franklin Hall, by Mr. Wm. Burdick; which did
I honor to the Author and the Society of which he
is Vice-President.—ln the afternoon, the Aftcia
tien, with a number of invited guefis, partook of
a genteel Entertainment, during which the follow
li°gli°g appropriate and technical Toasts were given:
1. The Auuiverfary of American Independence;
elegantly imprefed by our Heroes ; it commands
the envy and admiration of the world. May we
never go too fart, nor too far in the pull, to dis
seminate its principles.- 2. Benjamin Frank
lin ; one of the fairefl characters ver cufi in the
"matrix" of any age or country. He hever need
ed the plainer nor the bodkin 3. Our Brother;
the Orator ot the Day. 4. Washington ; his
heap is off without a slur or mackle. Jhere are
but tew proof sheets like his, that wanted no cor
re&ion ! 5. The Typographical Affiliations of
New-York and Philadelphia. May'.'Judice, Rea-,
son, Honor, Charity," constitute the insignia of
their characters. 6. Our etleerned Brethren
who have become Masers ; may they ever be free
from the picks of fortune and the squabbles ot ad
versity. 7. Irregular Workmen ; soak raw
pelts in the profeffonal tub. 8. Prii ters
throughout the world ; may they ever do honor to
their profeHioß, and their profcffion honor them.
And, like great Fatst l present to human fight.
New proofs of wi/d&m, in the form rs t) pe.
9. The Press ; "free but not licentious :" may
it be foftered and encouraged, as the firfl token of
a nation's e'ory. 10. Literature, the Arts and
Sciences ; May America prove a title page for the
encouragement of their own authors in preference
to others 11. The Conflitution of the U. S.
May theirgalleys be warpYfobo wify to fbake its
frame 12. The Federal and State Govern
ments, all of a heighth, though of different sizes ;
nray they ever exhibit a just proportion of Union.
——l3. Our rights as Freemen ; may they ever be
well lock'd in the chaje of good order and patriot
ism ; but never be batter'd by tPe sheep's foot of an
enemy- 14. Thofe# who toiled and fought in %
the cause of Freedom and Independence ; may his
press run hard indeed, and his work be fpoilt, who
refufes them his gratitude. 15. Agriculture
and Commerce ;fhootingflicks to hhEraß the weeds
of Ceres ; plenty ot cannon and gun powder to
protect the pride of Ni PTUNE from all maraud
ers. 16. The Female Sex :—.brilliant charac
ter ; clean sheets ; animating impressions 17.
The seventeenth S'ate ; an additional quoin to lock
(till tighter the American Un ; on.
VOLUNTEERS The Beflon Franklin Aft
ciation ; —may their honed exertions in correcting
foul print and foul Printers be attended with coni
pleat fnccefs.—The American Navy ; with large
fonts of cannon and balls well distributed, may they
pelt, chafe, beat and lock up the Barbarians uho
would infelt our Commerce No breaks to our
Chafe, Esq. a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ma
ryland, together wi h his colleagues, have denote- °
ced that opinion, and deci red tie rq eali,c co
to be Strictly constitutional. What coudu
fions may we not draw, when the party do not un
derhand each other ? Let common briefly find
tbe anfwer!'
A w-Yo.va, JUNE 30.
Capt. Rogers, from St. Aug: ffine, informs that
the Indians had become very troublefume—they
had committed depredations within four miles of
that place—that ore white man, had been put to
death in a mod Locking manner—and that they
had carried off seven negroes from within the vi
cinity of St. Augustine.
Boston. J jir 3.
The American Merchants, and Sh p Masters in
the Rio de la Plata, h ve presented a Spirited re
monttrance to the Spanish Governor againSt the
unrighteous seizure and detention ot their vessels;
the injury of their merchandize ; and the impris
onment, and ill treatment ot many of them, and
their countrymen, who have been rigorously cor.-
fined in common prifbns, and Some have occupied
the fame horrid appartments w irh the vilest male
fi&ors,and the mangled limbs of executed assas
sins ; and this without the confcioufnets, or even
the accusation ot a crime ! ! ! This r.monfr mce
is dated at Beunos Ayres, 26th March ißc2-
The American vessels detained at Montevideo, En
fenada de Boneg^n, and Buonos-A' res, are Forty
two in number; measures 10523 tons ; with 0-
ther property to the amount of three millions of
dollars.
A CURIOUS MARAUDER.
St. Mary's, (Creo.) JUNE 2.
By a gentleman arrived in town lati Sunday e
vening from the Greek Nation, we are'informed,
that the noted Gen. Bowles has commissioned a
privateer under the command of a Capt. Gibson,
of New-Providence—which privateer captured
a Spanish veCel bound from New-Orleans, to the
Havanna, loaded with artillery, ammunition and
flour ; which prize arrived in Catabouchee river
about the iff ot May, and was condemned by
Bowles. The provih>n were distributed amongst
his adherents; the Privateer w as formerly of New-
Providence, but now falls under Bow les's Muikog
gy flag. Capt. Gibson was formerly of the Lark
privateer, ot Providence. We are further inform
ed that Bowles intended an attack on St. M rks,
having found two mortars, &c. on board of the
prize.
Phi' A ELPHIA, 7UNE 23.
MELANCHOLY.
On Monday the 7th intt. M ry Gallon,daughter
of Mr. John Gullon, Stone-cutter, ot this city, on
gong near the wheel ot the Marble Saw Mill, at
Falls Run, Schuylkill Falls, to place some butter
in a Spring Chamber, was unfortunately caught
by the crank and hurried into eternity in an in
iflant, bereaving her parents ot a most amiable
young woman in the 14th sear of her age.
B STON, jfoLY 8.
THE anniversary of our National Independence
was celebrated on Monday last in this town with
more than usual hilarity, by all descriptions of ci
tizens.
Fort Independence was elegantly illuminated—.
Fire-works and other pleating p ft mes engaged
'be attention ot all orders and claffi-s ot citizens ,
fully evincing that neither time, p rty,nor preju
dice, had in paired those feelings, manners and
principles which in 1776 led to the Independence
of the American People from the Thraldom of
Great-Britain.
In all the Towns we have heard from, the jo,
evinced has been sincere ; and the testimonials
thereof, honorable and appropriate.