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he treasurer of the company (hall give bond,
. with such penalty, and such security, as the
said president and direaors, or a majority of
them ihall dire&.
Sec. rg. And be it further enabled, That
the said president and directors, so eluded,
and their fucceifors, or a majority of them
assembled, shall have full power and autho
rity to demand and receive of the proprie
tors, the remaining nine tenths of the Shares,
-from time to time, as they may be required
by previous advertisement, at least one month
in the Washington, Georgetown, and Alex
andria gazettes ; and if any of the said pro
prietors Ihall refufe or neglect to pay their
proportions within one month after the fame
so ordered and advertised, as aforefaid, the
said shares of defaulters (hall be forfeited.
Sec. 14. And be it farther enabled. That
the said president and diredors, so elected,
and their successors, or a majority of them,
Ihall not begin to collect whaifarge or tolls,
until the canQ is made pra&icab!e for boats
and scows to pass through the fame from the
Potomac to the Eastern Branch.
Sec. 15. And be it further enabled, That
'every president and director, before he a&s
as such, shall take an oath or affirmation for
the faithful difeharge of his office.
Sec. 16. And be it further enabled, That
there Ihall be a general meeting of the pro
prietors on the firft Monday in June, and
the firft Monday in December, every year,
in the city of Washington ; to which meet
ing the president and directors shall make a
report, arid render diftin& and just accounts
of all their proceedings, and on finding them
fairly and juflly dated, the proprietors, then
present or a majority of them, shall give a
certificate thereof, and at such half yearly
general meetings, afjfl leaving in the bands
of the treasurer such sum as Ihall be judged ne
cessary for repairs, improvements or contin
gent charges, an equal dividend of all the nett
profits arising from the wharfage and tolls
hereby granted, shall be ordered and paade
to, and among all the proprietors of the said
company, in proportion to their several
shares.
Sec. 17. And be it further enabled, That
for and in consideration of the expenses the
said proprietors shall incur, not only in cut
ting canals, but in ere&ing locks, and in
maintaining and keeping the fame in repair,
and in temporary enlargement and improve
ment of the fame, that for the space of fifty
years, when this a& shall cease on repay
ment of the principal of the sums expended,
the company is hereby authorifed to collect
the fame rates of wharfage on all articles and
materials landed on each fide of the canal,
as are now legally received at the wharfs of
Georgetown : And it shall and may be law
ful for the said president and diredors, for
fifty years, and as much longer as their prin
cipal sums expended remain unpaid, to de
mand and to receive, at the most convenient
place for all commodities carried through a
lock or locks of the canal, a toll not exceed
ing half a dollar on each loaded boat, and a
quarter of a dollar on each loaded scow ; but
no toll to be paid returning. But when the
wharfage shall produce the annual interest of
tight per cent, on the sums expended by the
president and dire&ors, exclusive of the tolls,
then the tolls shall cease, and the canal and
forks thereof, shall be entirely free for paf
fige ; and when the wharfage shall exceed
the annual interest of twelve per cent, then
the president and direaors shall appropriate
one half of the surplus to such public pur
pose as Congress may direct, or reserve the
fame as a fund to pay off the principal : Pro
vided always, That all public property Ihall
pass free of toll and wharfage.
Sec. 18. Presided nevertbelefs, and be it
further enabled. That in case the said Wash
ington company created by this aft Ihall not,
within the term of five years, complete said
canal in such a manner as to admit boats
drawing three feet of water to pass through
the whole extent of said canal, that the said
canal shall revert to the United States, and
all right and authority hereby granted to said
company shall cease and determine.
NATHL. MACON.
Speaker of the House of Reprefentat lies.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, ,
• President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, May 1, 1802.
TH : JEFFERSON,
President of the United States.
From the Independent Chronicle.
SIU ^o#
OCCASIONS [ -REFLECTIONS:
• THE present state of politics in this
country, muff exhibit in the United States as
a phenomenon in view of European nations.
To observe individuals in a republican so
ciety contending againftthofe vital principles,
on which its legitimate permanency must
cxift to read publications fraught with the
molt malignant calumny against the man
who is desirous to fubfta.ntiate the full ener
gy of those defines, which have ever been
considered as the bulwark of a free govern
„mept —to ice papers which are ftiledfamt/,
The present controversy is not merely an
opposition to Mr. Jefferfon, it is no more
nor less than the outrageous effufions of the
enemies of our Revolution, against Repub
licanism ; they ,may sweeten the pill with
Federalism, to make it palateable, but de
pend on it the most component parts are the
poisonous ingredients of Toryfm. These peo
ple find that the President is reverting to o
riginal principles ; they are anxious there
fore to rally under falfe colours ; they cry
out L^^Lmghred ^nj, Ulf j^&is, TvOUld sa
lute him "hail, matter, and kiss him," but,
at the fame time, would if in their power,
crucify him and every man who profeffes to
be his defciple.
The Tories always spoke one language—
they do not argue, but declaim ; they do not
reason, but denounce ; they do not attempt
to convince, but alarm. They declared in
1775 that we had broken the Constitution ;
that deftruaion would follow our opposition
to Britain ; that we ought to pay Taxes ;
that it was proper to have a Standing Army ;
that a numerous body of Officers, to live on
the earnings of the People, was congenial
with liberty ; that a Republican Govern
ment was a volcano, which generated in its
bosom the lava of its dissolution. They at
tempted to divide the union of the Stated by
(hutting up the port of Boston, and giving
exclusive privileges to the other sea-ports ;
they spread alarms among the people, and
kept the continent in one constant date of
perturbation ; they told us that Adams and
Hancock were Traitors, and that a perma
proftrituted to the base purpose of diffolvirg
the Union !—to find toasts circulated around
the feftive board, tending to excie the most
abhorrent passions, and countenanced by cle
rical characters, who profefs to inculcate the
benign maxim of "peace on earth and good
will towards men" —to hear thefuil toned
organ (dedicated to hymns of praise and
thanksgiving to the great Ruler of the Uni
verse) leading in difeordant notes to the san
guinary song of blood and carnagehmong the
citizens of the refpedive States Unftead of
the angel of peace, to portray " the amputa
ting knife," in the temple of Hip, who de
clared, that " whosoever drew , the sword
should perish by the sword !" Tl notice the
hypocrisy of those, who, while tley pretend
to eulogize Washington, are decoying the
great Legacy of Union, which he bequeathed
at the lalt moments of his exigence ! To ob
serve the base intrigues of men,who by fal
fhood and deception mislead the toneft Yeo
manry and Tradesmen of MdTachufetts,
New-Hampshire and Conne&icQ,to coun
teraa the principles so earneflly recommend
ed by this departed patriot ! When, fellow
citizens, we view these things fyftmatically
pursued, have we not reason to pause and ex
amine the charaaers who are doink the mif
chief ?
In the firft place, if we look though the
town of Boston, can we find one man who
was opposed to the Revolution, tut what is
a revilcr of President Jefferfon ; Or, is there
one man among them, who was mimical to
Washington, but what is now it opposition
to Jefferfon ?—Thefe men treated Washing
ton, during our Revolution, in the fime man
ner they now do Jefferfon. Did they not re
present him as the leader of an ntolerant
faaion ? Was not his conciliatory conduct
treated with every indignity ?— Were not
his attempts to relieve us from Internal Brit
ish Taxes, considered as infringirg on the
prerogative of King, Lords and Commons?
—Was not his opposition to the establish
ment of a Judiciary, the Judges of which
were to remain permanent under the pay of
the Crown, denounced by the tien British
Fa&ion, as a violation of the Cpnjlitution ?
Was not the Declaration of Independence,
though fanaioned by the fignatire of Han
cock and enforced by the sword cf Washing
ton, called the "speaking trumps of Rebel
lion" ? Were we not then calledhpon in the
fame tone of energy which now fefignates a
Morris or a Bayard, to "pause, fir Heaven's
fake pause" ? Were not the patriots of Con
gress denounced as a body of Inftrgents, and
were not the American Army defined to the
gibbet, in case their prowess had not been e
qua! to the great objects of our Indepen
dence ? -
If we had not succeeded, Samuel Adams,
John Hancock, George Washington and a
host of heroes would have been handed down
in the American hiftory, in the sane degrad
ing point of view, as President Jefferfon not<
hands in those papers devoted to a Junto,
who from the beginning were unfriendly to
every republican character within the Unit
ed States ; and should any prominent charac
ter in the time of the Revolution, be now
countenanced by this party, it Would have
been only in proportion to bis ap^acy from
the great cause which brought hind from ob
feurity, and gave him a political reputation.
In every inflance, the Federaiifls have sup
ported the old Revolutionary Patriots so far,
and no fartherthan they have renounced their
Republican creed. Though a man might at
those days oppose a feudad system, yet if he
is now in favor of a hereditary President and
Senate, they will receive him into full com
munion.
Why then, fellow-citizens, is all this
rancorous tempor excited r How degrading
must we appear in Europe, to find us abu
sing the mah, whose whole conduct appears
directed to the public good. It is impossi
ble, that the real friends to our country are
the authors of that calumny which daily ap
pears in our papers—they must be enemies,
lurking in our seaports and interior, men
who are baffled in their designs to establish
themselves and families on the ruin of our
general prosperity. Let us be colleaed;
cool and deliberate, and by perjeveriug in
the glorious catife of Republicanism, we
must obtain the viaory ; we (hall " rife
conquerors, yea more than conquerors,"
To (hew the unreafonablenef^of the at
tack on President Jefferfon's condud, let us
suppose that he had been at the head of the
administration the last four years ; that the
public debt had encreafed, though the reve
nue had been so abundantly projuaive from
the European war ; that he had raised 'an
army evidently unnecessary at the period of
its establishment ; that he had burdened the
citizens with excises, stamp-duties and a di
re& tax ; that he had borrowed money at
the unprecedented interest of 8 per cent.
Suppose he had pursued a system of expen
diture upon a scale similar to the above
items, in most of his tranfaaions—(hould
we not confider it a happy event, if Mr.
Adams had been chosen and in a few months
had adopted measures exadly conformable
to the present administration 'Would not
the people have thought it was a change for
the better ? Would they not have reason to
be thankful, that the finances of government
were adequate to all our purposes, while
they felt themselves relieved from foch a
number of burthenfome taxes ? This is a
fair Statement- of the quettion, and if the
Federalists deny it, let them Rate their ob
je&ions.
nent Judiciary, paid by the Crown, was the
only basis of tnglifh liberty.
Is it not necessary then, fellow-citizens,
to examine the designs of these men ? Why
is calumny heaped on the present Adminis
tration r Why is disunion advocated as the
desideratum of public happiness ? Why is
the President treated with such pointed dif
refpe& ? Are you distressed by being relieved
from Taxes ? Is the repeal of the Excise on
distilled spirits injurious, when on the com
mencement of this Tax, Gov. Strong and
Mr. Dalton, Senators from this State, were
opposed to the measure r If we now fay the
repeal is unjuftifiable, we condemn Gov.
Strong, as he was, from the firfl introduc
tion of this a&, in the opposition. Can it
be disadvantageous to our citizens, when we
paid 80,coo dollars, and Virginia only
40,000 r Can it be beneficial for us to con
tinue a tax which took twenty dollars out of
every hundred to support the various officers
for collecting it, and which amounted to
180,000 yearly ; every cent of which is sa
ved to the people by abolishing the system ?
Every other part of the Internal Taxes fell
largely on the New-England States, and yet
the Tory faaion are attempting to renew
the system, under the deceptive plea, that we
are to be benefitted by the measure.
The Judiciary is another source of com
plaint against the President. But is there a
man in the United States who wishes to ex
tend this department of our government ?
Where is the man who candidly thinks that
the Bench and the Bar, (though refpedable
as men) have not already their full prepon
derancy of weight in the community ? Ye
who attend our Courts, and ye who have
causes depending, examine the records and
your own bills of cost, and then answer whe
ther the liberties and happiness of America
depend on an extension of Judiciary prero
gative ? The man who has a disposition to
abuse the present Administration for this
timely check of profeffional influence, muff
have been peculiarly fortunate in not being
obliged to pass the ordeal of a law-suit, o
therwise the evidence would have been too
forcible on his mind and purse to admit a
doubt as to the propriety of the repeal. To
illustrate this remark, let the Will of Wash
ington speak, as he therein declares, that all
controversies as they related to his Estate,
should "be decided by three impartial and
disinterested men." This is the deliberate
voice of him in whom "all hearts united."
Who then can controvert the principle ?
Have ye, fellow-citizens, gone to your
homes, after attending a Circuit or Diftrid
Court, and bewailed the weakness and Im
becility of the Judiciary, as it relates to any
one officer within the whole department ? If
it is true that the happiness of our country
wholly depends on giving further energy to
the Judiciary, in the name of Liberty and
Independence, let us rally round this negle&-
ed and enfeebled part of our government —
let us anathematize the President and Con
gress—let us commence a crusade to Wash
ington-City, and under the banners of the
Judiciary, to the tune of "Rule New-En
gland," let us entrench ourselves within pis
tol-shot of the Legislative and Executive—
thus embodied and embattled, let us fend in
the articles of capitulation, and peremptori
ly demand an unequivocal compliance with
our wishes !
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TRIBUNATE.
21/7 Floreal, (iith May.)
The, Mefiage of the Consuls to the Conferva^d
Senate, and the different official papers relating
thereto, being presented to the Tribunate : Simon,
after a long speech, praising the moderation of
Bonaparte, and the propriety of the Government
in putting the question constitutionally, to the peo
ple Whether Bonaparte fhdll be First Consul for
Life ? moved, that “ a ineffage mould be sent to
the Government, returning thanks for the couOi
tutional manner in which they had performed the
wish ct the Tribunate." —Adopted.
Chabod moved, that the registers (hould he im
mediately opened for the Members of that body
to inferibe their votes."—Adopted.
Paris, May 13. —The Pretext of the Depart
ment of the Seine gave public notice, that on the
12th May the regißers should be open to receive
the votes of the citizens of that department.
On the 14th May similar Refointions are to be
opened at Paris, with the Clerks of the Tribunals
of Appeal, of Criminal Matters, and of Com
merce, at the offices of 12 Mayors, 12 Justices of
Peace, and 113 Public Notaries of Paris.
These Remitters are to be open for 7 days, from
10 ir rthe morning till 4in the afternoon—The
question is as before (fated — Shall Bonaparte be
First Conjulfor Life ?
London, May 17—An appeal upon the impor
tant question, “ Whether NaPoleon Bonaprate:
(hall be Consul for life," is to be fnbmitted to the
people ; but their decition is required with the ut
molt speed—-No time is left for deliberation. In
three weeks an answer is to be returned by the
people of France, upon one of the most important:
questions that can come before a nation.—Why
has France endured the agonizing throes and throbs
of a ten years Revolution ? The increase of her
military tame and Continental possessions, was the
effeft, but not the motive, of the Revolution-
Nor had the Revolution for its object the mere
removal of the reigning Dynasty. The great ob
ject was the definition of that despotic power,
which prefled with such weight upon the people#
and the ellablifhment of a Government founded:
upon popular principles Where are we to look:
for them ? The Chief Magittrate is originally ap
pointed for ten years ; a man of gigantic genius
and talents is elected to it ; he dazzles France by
the fplendour of his atchievements, and acquires
immeufe popularity—he seizes the favorable mo
ment, and gets himfelf eflablifhed in his own office •
, for life !! !
The transition from creating an office for life,
and making it hereditary is by no megps difficult.
We (hall not at all be surprised at a proposition
for preserving the Chief Coufulfhip in the family,
of Bonaparte. —Os the second and Third Conful#
we have forborne to speak ; the Julooet Cesare
Confulibus may be applied to them with as much
jullice a$ it was to Caesar's colleague. Upon the
whole we confider this meafore as impolitic on
the part of Bonaparte, and dangerous to the re
al interests of liberty, and of the people.
According to the census taken lately In Englerid,
the city of London, including'thc fiiborbs, contain#
864,845 fouls, of which 393,369, are males and
471,476 females. The whole number of people
in England and Wales is 9,343,578. Os inhabited
houses there are 578 923—Uninhabited do. 57,476.
The United States frigate Conllitution, which
has been for some time repairing at Boston, is or
dered into ordinary, and the officers put on btf
pay.
over the difturbnrs of our national quietude
we Ihall finally triumphantly sing.,
" Columbians never, never shall be saves !''
OLD-SOUTH.
Tribute of Gratitude to the Memory cf
n ASHINGTON ;
or " Much ado about nothing."
r f arce h^s been lately rea&ed in the
Legislature of Maffachujetts ; to the great
aftenifoment of the audience. Many Weeks
were spent in the great council of the Union,
in debating whether a Monument or a Mau'-
foleum, should be erected to enclose the re
mains of the Savior of his Country. His
ashes yet rest undisturbed, in the humble
tomb at Mount Vernon, and the tribute of
National gratitude has ended ir. No
thing!
Some visionary proje&or has attempted
to set on foot a fubfeription for a similar
purpose ; —but the etiquette of signing fir(t
is not yet adjusted ; the bow, the when, and
the where remain to be fettled ! It is consi
dered, by some, as a fwirdling scheme ; and
many are unwilling to entrust their money,
with the proposed depositary. It is more
than probable, therefore, that this parade of
individual liberty will end, like the congres
sional project, in- Nothing !
The Legislature of Maffachujetts, have ad
vanced a step further in the display of their
gratitude. A vote had palled to appropriate
20,000 Dollars to the patriotic purpose of
ereding a statue, to the memory of our po
litical father. But a mighty qneflion has a
risen whether it thouM be of Bronze or of
Marble ! ! After repeated conferences, the
two auguf houses have agreed to—disagree,
and the business is postponed to the next ses
sion. If it should then be decided that it
should be of Marble, another tueftion may,
perhaps, arise ; whether it shall be black or
white, whether it shall beflanding or fating,
on foot or on borfeback. The connoisseurs in
our Legislature will require time to fettle
this dispute. A further postponement may
be necessary ; the ardor of their patriotiftn
may, peihaps, subside ; the money will then
be saved in the tieafury ; and the tribute of
Maffaebufetts, like the motion in Cohgrefs,
the plan of a fubfeription, and address to-
President Jefferson, will probably wind
up in Nothing ! & fb #
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