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4?as passed by the Legislature of Vir
ginia at the late session.
“This act declares in force so much of
the act of the 10th of December, 1793^
as directs, that when property taken in
execution will not sell for three fourths
of its value, it may he sold on twelve
months credit, or the debtor may reple
vy for twelve months ; and whatever
velates to executions in that act, either
in the appointment of commissioners,
•E for the direction of sheriffs,clerks,See.
No property shall be sold by a com
missioner appointed by any court of
chancery, or by a trustee under any
deed hereafter executed, unless it shall
sell tor three-fourths of the value estima
ted by commissioners, who are to make
the^\ aluation, and deliver it in writing
to the commissioners appointed by the
•**riUrt °f chancery, or to the trustees.
' i* ;C comrni5Si°ncrs who may act, shall
be entitled to a dollar per day, to be paid
•' by tUc creditor and taxed in the bill of
costh. This act is not to extend to exe
cu ions against sheriffs or other officers,
fo. delinquencies, or failing to pay mo
»ey received on executions, or to attor
tu.s lor money received for their clients;
M j to executions in behalf of any bank.
Jb it it shall extend to executions issued
bY * magistrate for all sums above ten
dollars: and the constable, or other offi
cers, shall return the bond within thirty
days, to the clerk’s office, to be proceed
ed on as other replevy bonds. All. ex
ecutions which shall be awarded on
forthcoming bond,, executed before
the commencement of this act, shall be
proceeded in as other executions ; but
the proceedings on all forthcoming
bonds executed thereafter, shall be as
heretofore. So much of this act, as re
lates to the appointment of commission
ers, shall commence from the passing ;
atul the courts shall appoint them lit
tlv ir February term, or as soon thereaf
ter, as possible ; the residue of the act
shall commence on the first of March
next, and continue in force till the ex
piration ot thirty days after the discon
tinuance of the embargo. 13ut so much
of. tne act as authorises and directs the
manner ot proceeding on replevy bonds,
is made perpetual.”
Lommumcattons Jrom Washington, to
Hu Editor of the United States Gazette.
Saturday, February 6.
I'ive days havi- now been spent in
Considering the question of removing
the government, & no decision has been
m&de. At the close of the debate on
the second day, the house refused by a
majority of two members to give the
subject the usual direction by commit
ing it to the whole house. The friends
of the removal perceiving that there
was no likelihood of success, very pro
perly withdrew the resolution. It was
immediately renewed by Mr. Blount, a
decided opponent of the removal, and
three days have since been employed
in an attempt to obtain some decision,
but hitherto without success. It is pro
bable the debate will be continued on
Monday. There is no prospect that
the resolution to remove will be adopt
ed, though the majority against a remo
val will be small.
Mr. Crowninshield is considered by
his physicians to be beyond the hope of
recovery. It was to day stated in de
bate by Mr. Milnor, that 12 or 14 mem
bers were absent in consequence of ill
health.
There is some ground for believing
that an.amicable adjustment of our dif
ferences writh England may take place.
From the Scioto Gazette.
Extract from a message of the President
of the United States, to the House of
Representatives, delivered on the 30th
January.
“ By a treaty concluded at Detroit on
the 17th of November last, with the Ot
toways, Chippeways,Wyandots and Pot
tewatamies, so much of this country has
been obtained as extends from about
Saguina bay southwardly to the Miami
of the lakes, supposed to contain upr
wards ol five millions of acres, with a
prospect of obtaining, for the present, a
breadth of two miles for a communica
tion from the Miami to the Connecticut
reserve.
[ The above land was purchased of
the Indians for the sum of ten thousand
dollars.]
On the same day the President also
sent the following message to the House
of K presentatives.
1 he Choctaws being indebted to their
merchants beyond what could be dis
charged by the ordinary proceeds of
their hunting, and pressed for payment,
proposed to the United States to cede
lands to the amount of their debts, and
designated them in two different por
tions of their country. These designa
tions, not at all suiting us, were declin
ed. Still urged by their creditors, as
We^ by. their oVn dfesire to be liber- *
ated from debt, they at length proposed
to make a cession which should be to
our convenience. By a treaty signed at
Pooshapukanuk, on the 16th of Novem
ber, 1805, they accordingly ceded all
their lands south of a line to be run from
their and our boundary at the Omochi
ta, eastwardly to their boundarv with
the Creeks on the ridge between tha
Tombigbee -and Alibama, as is more
particularly described in the treaty, con
taining about five millions of acres, as
is supposed, and uniting our possessions*
thejre from Adams to Washington coun- -
ty—The location contemplated in the
instructions to the commissioners, was
on the Mississippi. That in the treaty
being entirely different, I was at that
time disinclined to its ratification, and
have suffered it to lie unacted on. But
progressive difficulties in our foreign re
lations, have bi ought into view consi
derations other than those which then
prevailed. It is now perhaps as inter
esting to obtain footing for a strong set
tlement of militia along our southern
frontier, eastward of the Mississippi, as
on the west of that river, and more so,
than higher up the river itself. The con
solidation of the Mississippi territory,
and the establishment of a barrier of se
paration between the Indians and our
southern neighbours, are also important
I objects ; and the Choctaws and their
j creditors being still anxious that the
sale should be made, I submitted the
treaty to the Senate, who have advised
and consented to its ratification. I
therefore now lay it before both houses
of Congress, for the exercise of their
constitutional powers as to the means of
fulfilling it. Th: Jefferson.
January 30, 1808.
[For the lands alluded to in the a
bovc message, the United States are to
pay the sum of fifty thousand five hun
dred dollars.]
Ntrw mode of making Hats,
A patent has been obtained for mak- -
ing hats of birch bark, by a gentleman
at Newbury port, in Massachusetts.—
I he lollowing remarks are extracted
from an article on this subject, publish
ed at that place.
“ Birch Bark is the natural produce of
the New-England states, and is found
in quantities, sufficient to supply, for a
ges, the whole world.