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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. II. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. No. CLXXX.
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LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, Accompanying a report, and sundry statements prepared in pursuance of the act supplementary to the act, intituled "an act to establish the Treasury Department."
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, December 18th, 1801.
SIR, I have the honor to enclose a report, prepared in obedience to the directions of the act, supplementary to the act in- tituled "an act to establish the Treas- ury Department."
I have the honor to be Very respectfully, Sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN. The honorable the Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives.
REPORT.
In obedience to the directions of the act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to establish the Treasury De- partment," the Secretary of the Treas- ury respectfully submits the follow- ing Report and Estimates:
The permanent revenues of the U- States, according to the laws now in force, consist of—1st. Duties on mer- chandise and tonnage. 2d. Internal duties on stills and domestic distilled spirits, re- fined sugar, licences to retailers, sales at auction, and pleasurable carriages.— 3d. Proceeds of the sales of public lands —4th. Duties on Postage.—5th. Divi- dends on shares in the Bank of the U- nited States.—6th. Incidental arising from fees, fines and penalties, repayments in the Treasury, and sales of public property, other than lands.
Duties on Merchandise and Tonnage
The receipts in the Treasury, arising from that source, have amounted, for the year ending on the 30th September, 1801, to dollars 10,126,213 92. If to this sum be added the drawbacks paid by collectors, on the exportation of domes- tic distilled spirits and refined sugar, which are a charge on the internal re- venues, and that part of the additional duties laid in the year 1800, which did not operate during the year to which those receipts refer; the sum which would have been received, at the pre- sent rate of duties, cannot be estimated at less than 10,500,000 dollars. The amount of duties secured on the 30th September last, and falling due in the course of the year 1802, com- pared with that of preceding years, jus- tifies an opinion, that, had the import- ations and exportations continued in the same proportion, those duties would have brought in the Treasury, during the year 1802, near eleven millions of dollars.
How far this branch of revenue may be affected by the restoration of Peace in Europe, is rather a subject of Specula- tive conjecture than of calculation: That it will be liable to sudden and considerable fluctuations, cannot be doubted; and for that reason a greater degree of correctness may be obtain- ed, by forming an estimate for a num- ber of years than for any one year.
The period, for which such an esti- mate should be made, being arbitrary so far as relates to the revenue; that of the eight years 1802—1809 is selected, principally in reference to the payments to be made on account of the public debt: the whole of the foreign debt being actually due within that term of years, and the eight per cent stock becoming redeemable the last year of the period.
The best data on which the estimate may be predicated, seem to be the actu- al consumption of imported articles, dur- ing former years, and the ratio of en- crease of population, as ascertained by the census.
With a view to the first object, the statements A to II, have been abstract- ed from the records in the Treasury. They exhibit the value or quantities of imported articles, on which duties have been actually paid for each cal- endar year from 1790 to 1800, deduct- ing from the gross amount imported each year, the value or quantities of ar- ticles re-exported during the same year, which were entitled to drawback.
Those statements do not, however, show correctly, principally for the last years, the actual annual amount of con-
sumption, because, 1st. Exportations to a considerable, but not precisely ascer- tained amount, have taken place under such circumstances as did not entitle the articles exported to a drawback: and 2d, the amount of foreign articles remaining on hand at the close of the year 1800, was much greater in propor- tion to the respective population, than that on hand at the commencement of the year 1790. Those causes which affect to an inconsiderable degree the years, 1790 to 1792, and but partially those immediately succeeding, would, however, render any deduction drawn from those documents, in relation to the years 1799 and 1800, altogether fallacious.
The preceding nine years may be di- vided into two distinct periods; the first, from the 1st day of January 1790, to the 31st day of December 1792, includes the three years which immediately pre- ceded the European maritime war; the second includes the six first years of that war, viz. from the commencement of 1793, to the close of 1798.
In order to obtain a distinct view, for each of these two periods, of the annual average consumption of foreign articles, and of the annual average re- venue which at the rate of the present duties, would have accrued thereon, the table [L.] has been prepared, which shows that the net annual revenue, which, wold at the present rate of duties, have accrued during each of those two periods, amounts on an average, for the years 1790 to 1792, to 6,163,000 dol- lars: and for the years 1793 to 1798, to 8,350,000 dollars. These sums con- stitute, not the receipts in the Treasury, but the revenue which would have accrued during the respective years to which they refer. The first may be consider- ed as the revenue accruing during the year 1791; the last as that accruing dur- ing the year, ending 30th June 1796; and as on account of the credit given for the payment of duties, the revenue accruing during one year, constitutes nearly the receipts of the year ending nine months later, those two sums, and the receipts of the year ending on the 30th September 1801, as above stat- ed, may, without material error, be con- sidered as the receipts of three distinct years, four years and a half distant each from the other, viz.
   Dolls.     For the year ending 30th Sept. 1792, 6,163,000   For the year ending 30th March 1797, 8,350,000   For the year ending 30th September 1801, 10,500,000  
The ratio of increase during the whole period of nine years, exceeds seventy per cent. whilst that of population, during the same time was hardly more than thirty per cent.
The ratio of increase during the first period of four years and a half, is near 35 1-2 per cent, and during the last more than 25 1-2 per cent; whilst that of population, for each period, was only at the rate of 14 per cent. The greater ratio of increase during the first, than during the last period of four years and a half, is owing to the comparison, in the first, being between a period of European peace, and a period of Euro- pean war, and in the last, between two periods of European war.
The ratio of increase of population, being ascertained by the census to be at the rate of 3 3/4 per cent. for ten years; if the increase of consumption shall be supposed to be hereafter precisely the same as that of population, the annual receipts of the eight years, 1802 —1809, may be estimated as nearly fifty per cent greater than those of the years 1790—1792, or at a sum of near 9,250,000 dollars, if that period be as- sumed as the basis on which to predi- cate the estimate. But if the calcula- tion shall be grounded on the revenue of the years 1793—1798, the annual receipts of the years 1802—1809 should be estimated as about 30 1-2 per cent greater than those of that pe- riod, or at about 10,900,000 dollars.
It seems that those two respective sums may reasonably be considered as the two extremes, which the average annual receipts of the eight ensuing years will not exceed. The first calcu- lation of 9,250,000 dollars appears to be below the probable result, since, being predicated on the consumption of the three years preceding the European maritime war, without any other addi- tion than that resulting from the as- certained increase of population, it rests on the supposition, that the permanent wealth of the United States has not,
during that war, increased in any great- er proportion than their population; and that the whole of the external com- merce acquired during the same period, must necessarily be lost by the return of peace amongst foreign nations.
Although, therefore, it be presumable that the receipts of some of these years will, from temporary causes, fall below that sum, it is believed that, taking the whole period of eight years, the duties on merchandise and tonnage may safely be averaged at a sum not less than 9,500,000 dollars.
As a minute investigation of the sev- eral rates of duty now paid by the sev- eral species of foreign merchandise may, perhaps, suggest some advantageous mod- ifications, a table of those rates is an- nexed to this report.
Without any view to an increase of revenue, but in order to guard as far as possible against the value of goods being underrated in the invoices, it would be eligible to lay specific duties on all such articles, now paying duties ad valorem, as may be susceptible of that alteration. Amongst such, the following have been suggested: Fruits and spices, pickled and dried fish, oil, glue, several species of drugs, watches, gun-powder and se- gars.
Legislative provisions seem necessary in order better to define the restrictions, under which the intercourse with the ad- jacent British and Spanish possessions shall be carried on, in conformity with treaties; under which the articles of the growth or manufacture of the United States may be imported free of duty, by the way of New Orleans, from the west- ern parts of the union to the ports of the Atlantic states, and from thence to the in- terior districts of collection on the West- ern Waters; and under which drawbacks shall be allowed on the exportation of for- eign articles.
Permanent Internal Duties.
The annual statement prepared by the commissioner of the revenue, and which will be completed in a few days, precludes the necessity of exhibiting here all the details pertaining to this branch of reve- nue.
The statement [M.] is an abstract of its amount for the year 1800, during which the duties on spirits and stills; re- fined sugars, licences to retailers, sales at auction, and pleasurable carriages, produced a nett sum of 576,888 dollars and 80 cents. The duties on stamps, which, as under the existing laws they will cease after the 4th day of March, 1803, are not included amongst the per- manent revenues, amounted for the same year to 209,853 dollars and 32 cents; both together constitute an item of dol- lars 786,742 12-100ths.
The receipts in the Treasury from all the internal revenues, have amounted for the year ending on the 30th September, 1801, to 919,719 dollars and 16 cents; deducting from this sum, 65,000 dollars, being the estimated amount of drawbacks, paid during that year, out of the proceeds of the external revenues, on the export- ation of domestic distilled spirits and re- fined sugar, leaves a nett sum of about 854,000 dollars, and an increase of near 70,000 dollars beyond the revenue of 1800.
The accounts of the last nine months being yet but partially rendered, it is not practicable to ascertain to what class of duties the increase belongs, nor particu- larly to discriminate between the increase of the revenue arising from stamps, and that of the permanent internal revenues. Yet it is believed that these, exclusively of the stamp duties, may lately be esti- mated, for the average of the years 1802—1809, at an annual sum not less than 650,000 dollars.
In order, however, to secure that amount, a revision of the system, so far as it relates to country stills, is essential- ly necessary. Whilst the owners of small distilleries, in some parts of the union, complain of the operation of a tax, raised on the capacity of their stills; that same regulation has enabled all those whose capitals are larger, and local situa- tion more advantageous, especially in the middle states, to reduce the actual duty on the quantity of spirits, distilled from grain, to about three cents per gallon.— But improvements have lately been in- troduced, which, by accelerating the process of distillation, will, according to the estimate of the commissioner of the revenue, reduce the duty on stills to about three-fifths of a cent per gallon of distilled spirits. The effect of these on the revenue has already been sensibly felt in one of the most productive districts of the United States; and, unless it shall be counteracted, either by restricting laws, or by an increase of the duty on the capacity of the stills, or by a change
of the subject of taxation, a considerable defalcation must be expected.
Whatever mode may be adopted, it is respectfully submitted, whether the reve- nue may not be benefited, and just grounds of complaint removed by a re- peal, or modification, of the clause which compels a yearly entry of stills in the month of June, under a penalty of 250 dollars; by a permission to persons who take short licences to continue distilling beyond the time limited in their licences, on paying a proportionate duty; and, by reducing into one act, all the laws in re- lation to duties on stills and domestic dis- tilled spirits.
It will appear by the same statement, [M.] that whilst the expences of collec- tion on merchandise and tonnage, which are defrayed out of the revenue, do not exceed 4 per cent; those on the perma- nent internal duties, amount to almost 20 per cent. This, however, is an in- convenience which, on account of the great number of individuals, on whom the duties are raised, and of their disper- sed situation throughout the whole extent of the United States, must, more or less attach to the system of internal taxation, so long as the wants of government shall not require any considerable extension, and the total amount of revenue shall remain inconsiderable.
Sales of Public Lands.
The only data on which to calculate the annual revenue, which may proba- bly be derived for the ensuing 8 years, from those sales, are the quantity of land at the disposal of government, compared with the probable annual demand; and the actual sales, which have taken place since the several land offices have been opened.
The precise quantity cannot be ascer- tained, all the surveys not being yet com- pleted, and the western boundary line of the Virginia reservation, from the head spring of the Little Miami, northward, being neither surveyed, nor even the prin- ciple, on which its course must depend, determined by the terms of cession, ac- cepted by Congress.
The estimate [N.] may, however, be considered so far correct as to render it certain, that the quantity of public lands north west of the Ohio, within the In- dian boundary line, and not yet disposed of, amounts to very near nine millions of acres.—A general map of those lands, including the Virginia reservation, and the grants to the Ohio company, and to John C. Symmes, which has been compiled from the survey of the Indian boundary line, and from the draughts re- turned to the Treasury Department, will be transmitted to Congress, and will more clearly explain their relative situa- tion than could be done by any written description.
The statement [O.] shows the actual sales which have taken place in the sev- eral land offices, to the 31st day of Octo- ber last. By this it appears that 398,646 acres have been sold, for 834,887 dol- lars; of which sum 248,461 dollars have been paid, and 586,426 remain due; being payable under the law in instal- ments, bearing interest from the date of sales, and which will become due in the years 1802—1803, in the proportions exhibited in the statement.
The quantity of land sold either at the public sales of the three land offices, of Marietta, Chillicothe and Cincinnati, or at private sale at Steubenville, when the land office was first opened, cannot af- ford any just data, on which to predicate an estimate of the probable annual sales, as these may be supposed to have been greater when the lands were first offered for sale than at subsequent periods.
Rejecting therefore the result of the whole of the public sales, and that of the first two months private sales at Steubenville; it appears that there have been sold at private sale 122,673 acres at Steubenville during a period of 14 months, ending the 31st day of October last; 64,205 acres at Chillicothe during a period of five months, ending on the same day; 42,656 acres at Cincinnati during a period of six months, ending on the same day; and 1,544 acres at Marietta during a period of sixteen months, ending on the same day; which gives in the whole a result of 345,000 acres, annual sales, in all the land offices. The reservations in the grants to the Ohio Company, and to J. C. Symmes, and in the townships formerly sold at New York; the surplus of the tract ap- propriated for military bounties, after the same shall have been satisfied; and a tract of near one million of acres, ly- ing north of Symmes's patent, and con- tained between the Great Miami and the Virginia Reservation, are not em- braced in this general result. The re- servations and the military tract are not
yet disposable by any existing law; and the tract lying between the Great Miami and the Virginia lands, has been only partially offered for sale, under the act of Congress giving a right of preemption to certain purchasers under John C. Symmes. The result of the operation of this act has not yet been ascertained; it is however known, that under it a number of tracts have been sold, and some payments already made. The re- mainder of the tract will afterwards, ac- cording to law, be surveyed and offered for sale on the same terms as other lands.
Taking in consideration, the probable sales in those several tracts, the total amount of annual sales might fairly be estimated at 400,000 acres, in the periods during which the land offices have been opened had been sufficiently long to form a safe basis for calculation. To estimate them at 250,000 acres a year, for the ensuing eight years, is equally justifiable, by the actual sales, by the known usual demand, and by the quality and superior safety of title of the public lands.
The nominal price of those lands is two dollars per acre; but on account of the provisions which relate to interest and discount, they may be obtained, within a small fraction, at the rate of one dol- lar and eighty-four cents, if the whole purchase money is paid at the time of sale, and may bring in the treasury two dollars and twenty-seven cents per acre, if the purchaser shall avail himself of the terms of credit given by law.
If the proceeds of the whole sales shall be estimated only at the rate of 1 dollar and 84 cents per acre, it will allow 24 per cent for losses, on account of non- payments on the three first instalments; and after the year 1805, give on an an- nual sale of 250,000 acres, an annual in- come of 460,000 dollars; but, as on ac- count of the credit given by law, the whole of this sum will not, till after the year 1805, be annually receivable in payment of lands sold after the 1st Janu- ary next; whilst on the other hand the sums due for lands, sold before the end of this year will become payable during the four next ensuing years, it will be found, that, making the same deduction of 24 per cent for losses on the sums al- ready due, the whole sum receivable for lands already sold or to be sold, during the eight years 1802—1809, will, for those eight years, on an average, amount annually to 400,000 dollars.
Some legislative provisions seem neces- sary to ascertain the western boundary of the Virginia lands, to define in what man- ner the seven first ranges of townships shall be subdivided into sections, without interfering with the claims of former purchasers; and perhaps, in relation to the lands claimed by purchasers under J. C. Symmes. But the most important ob- ject, in order to secure and improve this valuable branch of revenue, is to provide against the progress of intrusions on the public lands; and especially to devise some efficient and prompt mode of giving quiet possession to every person purchasing under the law.
Postage, Dividends on Bank Shares, In- cidental.
The annual proceeds of the duties on postage may not be estimated at less than 50,000 dollars. The dividends on bank shares, at the rate of 8 per cent dividend, amount to 70,040 dollars; but as the shares themselves may eventually be wanted, as a resource to meet certain contingent demands against the United States, those dividends, although consti- tuting a part of the revenue, unless it shall be found necessary to sell the stock, and the incidental or temporary revenue, shall be omitted in this estimate of the permanent revenues.
These, therefore, are estimated in the whole, at 16,600,000 dollars, viz.
   Duties on merchandise and tonnage, 9,500,000   Internal duties, stamps ex- cepted, 650,000   Proceeds of the sales of public lands, 400,000   Duties on postage, 50,000   The other temporary resources of the United States, are:  
1st. The proceeds of stamp duties for the 14 months from the 1st January, 1802, to the 4th March, 1803, which, under the existing law limit their conti- nuance,
2d. The balance due on the direct tax—The amount paid in the Treasury to the first instant, so far as the same can be ascertained, was 1,245,000 dol- lars, leaving an outstanding sum of 755,000 dollars; but as this last sum is chargeable with all the expences of col- lection, estimated, at the rate of 7 per cent, at 140,000 dollars, the real bal-

lance is only about 618,000 dollars, and as delays and perhaps an eventual loss may be expected on the last part of the collection, it would not be safe to estimate the amount, which will probably be paid in the Treasury, at more than 450,000 dollars.
3d. The proceeds of sales of public vessels—Fifteen vessels have been sold under the act of last session of Congress, for 275,767 dollars and 73 cents; of which sum, 86,412 dollars and eighty-three cents, had been paid on the 30th of September last, leaving an outstanding balance of 189,354 dollars and ninety cents.
4th. The excess of specie in the treasury beyond the sum which it is prudent to keep there, may be estimated at about one million of dollars.
5th. The shares of the bank of the United States, owned by the United States, are at 33 1-3 per cent. advance, worth 1,184,000 dollars.
Those several items, exclusively of several balances due by individuals, and a part of which will eventually be received in the treasury, constitute a sum exceeding three millions of dollars, and may for the present, be considered as resources sufficient to meet the demands against the United States, which may be eventually payable on account of the sixth article of the treaty with Great Britain, and of the article of the convention with France.
The permanent expenditures of the United States relate, either to the current expenses of government, domestic or foreign, civil and military, or to the payment of the interest and principal of the public debt.
The estimates of appropriations for the ensuing year, amounting to 3,448,147 18 cents, include all the expenses of government, other than those in relation to the public debt, with the exception of those incident to the intercourse with the Barbary powers, estimated after the ensuing year, by the Secretary of State, at 70,000 dollars; of those which may be incurred for the purchase of arms, estimated by the Secretary of War, at 55,000 dollars; and of a part of the Indian annuities, amounting to 11,000 dollars; these items having been omitted in the estimates of the ensuing year, because the balances of unexpended appropriations have been considered as sufficient for those objects by the Secretaries of State and War, respectively. On the other hand, a sum of about seventy thousand dollars, in relation to the census and quarantine laws, which is included in those estimates, is a temporary expense.
The particular sums which, under existing laws, seem necessary to defray each particular authorized expense, being detailed in the annual estimates, will not be repeated here; and it appears sufficient to recapitulate the gross amount of the general heads of Expenditure, viz.
  For all domestic expenses of a civil nature, including the civil department, and all the miscellaneous items of the night-houses and mint establishments, of the surveying department, of pensions, claims, and contingencies, 780,000   For all the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, including those of the diplomatic department, those incident to the prosecution of claims, and to the protection of seamen in foreign countries, and those in relation to the Barbary powers, 200,000   For the military establishment, including all the expenses in relation to the army, to arsenals and magazines, to the fabrication and purchase of arms and military stores, to fortifications, and to the Indian department, 1,420,000   For the navy department, including all the expenses in relation to the ships kept in commission, or laid up in ordinary, to the building of new ships, and to dock-yards, 1,100,000   3,500,000 
Making altogether three millions and five hundred thousand dollars, which sum, deducted from the estimated revenue of ten millions and six hundred thousand dollars, leaves a sum of seven millions and one hundred thousand dollars, annually applicable to the payment of interest and redemption of the principal of the public debt.
It must be further observed, that the sums assigned to each head of expenditure, being deducted from the estimates of appropriations necessary for the ensuing year; and these have been calculated before the re-establishment of peace in Europe was known, they are predicated, for every item which relates to supplies, on the then existing prices. A considerable reduction will take place in every item, which depends on the price of provisions, freight, transportation and even wages. Although the saving thence arising, cannot yet be correctly ascertained, it may not be estimated at less
than 200,000 dollars annually. It is therefore believed that, after defraying every expense necessary to support every civil, military, or naval establishment, to the extent now authorized by law; the annual surplus, applicable to the debt, may be confidently estimated at seven millions & three hundred thousand dollars.
The statement [P] exhibits the amount of the unredeemed principal of the public debt as it will be on the 1st of January next, and of the annual interest and charges payable thereon, including the annual reimbursement on the six per cent and deferred stocks. By the printed statements of receipts and expenditures for the year 1800, transmitted to Congress the first week of the present session; it appears that the unredeemed principal of the public debt (exclusive of the sums passed to the credit of the commissioners of the sinking fund, which are only a nominal debt due by the United States to themselves; and after deducting the reimbursement of the principal of the six per cent stock, operated by the annual payment of 8 per cent, on the nominal amount of that stock) amounted, on the 1st of January, 1801, to 80,161,207 dollars and 60 cents.
By the statement [P] it appears that the unredeemed principal will, on the 1st of January, 1802, amount to 77,881,890 dollars and 29 cents; the difference of 2,279,317 dollars and 31 cents being the amount of principal paid during the year 1801.
During the same year 1801, more than eight hundred thousand dollars shall have been remitted to Holland, in part of the interest and instalments on the Dutch debt, falling due next year; which sum is not included in the amount of principal, thus stated to have been paid during the present year. The sums which, on the 1st January, 1801, had been remitted to Holland, in part of the interest and instalments due in the course of this year, and which were not deducted from the amount of public debt on the 1st of Jan. 1801, did not exceed five hundred thousand dollars. The amount of debt actually paid, or for the payment of which provision shall have been made during the present year, will not therefore be less than two millions five hundred thousand dollars. And it is believed, though it cannot at present be precisely ascertained, that the balance of specie in the Treasury, which, on the 1st of January 1801, was 2,557,395 dollars and 38 cents, will not be diminished on the 1st of January, 1802.
The Treasury accounts being settled to the 30th day of September last, the amount of public debt paid during the half year, commencing on the 1st of April, and ending on the 30th September 1801, as well as the comparative view of the Treasury at the commencement, and end of that period, may be precisely stated.
The payments in part of the principal of the debt, made during those six months, exclusively of certain parts of the unfunded debt, which have been reimbursed, have been,
1st. To the commissioners of the sinking fund, and to be by them applied, on the 1st of January next, to the reimbursement of the six per cent stock, Dols. 129,948 83
2d. To the bank of the United States, on account of the principal of sundry temporary loans, formerly obtained from that institution, 500,000
3d. For remittances to Holland, on account of the Dutch debt, 732,665 dollars and 79 cents; from which deducting 245,980 dollars and 50 cents; being the interest and commissions for one half of the year 1801, on that debt; leaves paid on account of the principal, 536,685 29
4th. Evidences of public paid debt for lands, 21,282 66
Amounting altogether to one million, one hundred and eighty seven thousand and sixteen dollars and seventy-eight cents
The balance of specie in the Treasury amounted, on the 1st of April, 1801, to 1,794,044 dollars and 85 cents, and on the 1st of October, 1801, to 2,946,038 dollars and 73 cents, making a difference in favor of the Treasury of 1,151,993 dollars and 88 cents; which last sum, added to the above stated payments on account of the principal of the debt, makes an actual difference in favor of the United States of 2,339,010 dollars and 66 cents, during those six months.
The principal of the public debt unredeemed on the 1st of January, 1802, is, in the statement [P] arranged under four heads, viz.
1st. Six per cent and deferred stocks. The nominal amount of this debt is 41,879,525 dollars 23 cents, and the eight per cent annuity, applicable to its interest and reimbursement of principal, amounts to 3,350,362 dollars and one cent. As by the effect of this annuity 5,027,740 dollars and 57 cents of the principal shall have been reimbursed on the 1st of January, 1802, the unredeemed principal of that debt will on that day be only, dollars, 36,851,784 66
The interest, on the rate of six per cent, on which
The part of the 8 per cent annuity at present applicable to the redemption of the principal is, therefore, 1,139,254 dollars and three cents, and encreasing each year, at compound interest, shall, without any further provision, have discharged the whole of the six per cent in the year 1818, and the whole of the deferred debt in the year 1824.
2d. Three per cent stock amounts to dollars, 19,079,705 63
And the interest on the same to 572,391 16
No provision has been made for its redemption, occasional payments for lands excepted. 3d. All the other domestic debts created under the present government of the union, in order either to discharge other debts, or to meet certain extraordinary expenses. Those include the five and a half, four and a half, navy six, 796 six, and eight per cent stocks, and the temporary loans obtained from the bank and amount together to dollars, 12,035, 400
The interest on all these constitutes an item of 828,350 50
4th. The foreign debt due in Holland, and at Antwerp, amounts, including premiums and gratuities, to dollars, 9,915,000
This last debt being payable in instalments, at certain fixed dates, and it being necessary to purchase remittances in America, near six months before the payments are made in Holland; the statement [R] has been added, to shew the payments, both on account of principal and interest, which become annually due in Holland, until the final redemption of the debt in 1809; and the sums which it will be necessary every year to provide in America, in order to meet those payments. The greater part of this debt becomes due in the course of the five next ensuing years; and the annual payments, on account of principal and interest for that period, exceed, on an average, two millions of dollars. The inconvenience and difficulty of procuring remittances to that amount, and the real injury arising from such heavy burdens abroad, render an extension of the terms of payment, by partial re-loans, a desirable object; and measures have been taken to ascertain its practicability.—All that seems wanted is, that the gross amount of payments which are to take place during the eight next years, should be more equally apportioned amongst those years; and any greater surplus of revenue which might be freed by that operation, would be applicable to the redemption of those species of the domestic debt which it may be thought most eligible to reimburse.
Whether this operation shall be effected or not, no difficulty is apprehended from want of resource, to discharge every instalment as it shall become due; the sum payable in 1803, in which year the largest payments must be made in Holland, amounting, including both those, and all other actually due, on the account of the interest and reimbursement of the domestic debt, to only 7,300,000 dollars, or to 200,000 dollars less than the annuity of 7,300,000 dollars, which has been estimated as the surplus of revenue applicable to that object.
If that surplus does exist, and if it will be sufficient to meet all the engagements of the U. States as they become due, the only remaining objects of enquiry seem to be; what impression will, during the next eight years to which these estimates refer, be made on the public debt, by the annual application of that surplus? In what time would the same annuity discharge the whole of the public debt?
The statement [S] exhibits the effect produced at the end of the year 1809, on the debt, by the annual application of that sum (7,300,000 dollars) to the payment of both principal and interest, and shews that at the end of those eight years it shall have paid the whole of the Dutch debt; of the temporary loans due to the bank; of the navy six per cent, and of the five and a half per cent stocks; 5,525,300 dollars, and 38 cents of the eight per cent stock; 150,387 dollars and twenty-six cents of the four & a half per cent stock; and 11,359,263 dollars and six cents of the principal of the six per cent and deferred stocks, amounting altogether to thirty-two millions two hundred and eighty-nine thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars and seventy cents.
The public debt would, therefore, on the 1st January 1810, be reduced to 45,592,739 dollars and 59 cents, viz. 954,899 dollars and 62 cents of the eight per cent stock; 25,612 dollars and 74 cents of the four and a half per cent stock (both of which would be discharged during the four first months of the year 1810;) 80,000 dollars of the 1796 six per cent stock; 25,452,521 dollars and 60 cents of the six per cent and deferred stocks, and the 19,079,705 dollars and 63 cents, three per cent stock. It is true that this statement is predi-
cated on the supposition that the whole of the remittances to Holland may be purchased at par, which is not probable; but, on the other hand it is calculated on the principle of a yearly, instead of a quarter-yearly payable annuity; or, as if all the payments made in one year, on account of the principal of the debt, took place only at the end of the year, instead of being made, as will be the case, in the course of the year, and stopping the interest from the end of the quarter in which they may be made.—The supposed extra cost of bills on Holland is at least partly covered by that difference, and cannot materially affect the general result.
It may in the same manner be shewn that the same annual sum of 7,300,000 dollars, applied to the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt, would, on the supposition that the whole of the six per cent and deferred stocks may be redeemed at par, and that the whole of the three per cent stock should be reimbursed at its nominal value, discharge the whole of the public debt in seven years and a half after the year 1809, or within the year 1817.
The only part of the preceding estimates which is liable to any material error, is what relates to the probable annual revenue derived from the import and from the sales of land. Should these prove to have been correct, it will result that the present revenues of the union are sufficient to defray all the expenses, civil and military, of government, to the extent authorized by existing laws; to meet all the engagements of the United States, and to discharge, within eight years, thirty-two millions of dollars of the principal, and, within fifteen years and a half, the whole of the public debt: that any increase of expense will, probably, either render an increase of taxes necessary, or retard the ultimate payment of the debt: and that any reduction in the present rate of expenditure, may permit a reduction of the present taxes, or be the means of accelerating the redemption of the public debt.
All which is most respectfully submitted. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury Department, 18th Dec. 1801.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TUESDAY, Dec. 8.
The committee appointed yesterday to take into consideration the Governor's address, and report to the house an arrangement of the sundry matters therein contained, made report, which was read as follows, viz.
Resolved, That committees be appointed on the several subjects respectively contained in said address, viz.
 1. On that part thereof relative to the Judiciary system.  2. On the revision of the election law of this state.  3. On the introduction of a permanent election law for the purpose of the federal government.  4. On the improvement of the militia law.  5. On the institution of public schools.  6. On establishing a form of action for prosecuting suits against this state.  7. On the regulation of juries.  8. On the situation of the jail in Philadelphia, and the removal of convicts from the different counties of the state to the city.  9. On the health law.  10. On the propriety of enabling aliens to purchase and hold lands in the same manner as citizens.  11. On the propriety of extending the time for patenting lands.  12. On the improvement of the navigation of the river Susquehanna.  13. On appropriations for the current year, and 
On motion, and by special order, the said report was read the second time, and the resolution adopted.
REGIMENTAL ORDERS.
Proceedings of a regimental Court martial of the 121st. Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by Lieutenant colonel George Thomas, held at the house of Major John Light, the 26th, day of September, 1801, by order of George Thomas, Lieutenant colonel.
Major William P. Atlee, President. Capt. Adam Mellencope, } Capt. George Matter, } Members Capt. Joseph Nagle, } Lieut. William Cornman, }
The members being met, and duly sworn, the following charge was exhibited. Whereas captain John Leonard has undertaken to command in the militia of the state of Pennsylvania, since the establishment of the blue and red cockade by the commander in chief, without wearing said cockade, declaring that he never would wear it, and that it was out of the Governor's power, or any other person, to force him to it. Which is conceived to be contrary to the orders of Brigadier general Hambleton, and the commander in chief. The evidences being examined, and
the Prisoner's defence read, the court, upon due consideration of the whole matter before them, are of opinion, that captain John Leonard is guilty of having disobeyed, and of refusing to obey, the orders of the commander in chief: And it is the further opinion of this court that the said captain John Leonard is, and he is hereby adjudged, unfit to hold a commission in the militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. W. P. ATLEE, Maj. & President.
Sentence of the commander in chief of the Army, Navy, and militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania respecting the sentence of the Regimental court-martial upon captain John Leonard.
The Commander in Chief having received, and maturely considered, the proceedings and sentence of the court-martial in the case of capt. John Leonard, of the 121st. Regiment of the militia of the Pennsylvania, commanded by Lieut. Colonel George Thomas, finds occasion to mention, that any officer should mistake or pervert the expression of his will, to introduce Uniformity and discipline in the appearance and organization of the militia. Whether captain Leonard's conduct proceeded from a general turbulence of disposition, from personal disrespect to his superior officers, or from the intigation of evil counsellors, his feelings as an officer and a gentleman, must be callous indeed, if they are insensible to the opinion that has been expressed by a respectable portion of his fellow-citizens, in the sentence of the court, "That he is unfit to hold a Commission in the militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
The Commander in Chief is not, however, desirous to inflict punishment, but to promote reformation. When he recommended that a cockade should be worn, which would serve to distinguish the militia of this state from the militia of other states, and from the military of every other nation, he hoped that the arrangement would be satisfactory, useful, and convenient; while he was confident, that he violated no existing law, nor assumed any power, which was not incident to his office.
The prompt attention that has been generally paid to his recommendations by the real friends of order and harmony, affords a gratification which cannot be impaired by the opposition of a few captains; vain, or inconsiderate individuals. If any captain can refuse to wear the cockade recommended, or institute and wear any other he may choose, every other officer may have the same right; and the consequences are so obvious, as to require no explanation. Notwithstanding, therefore, he acknowledges the honourable motives, which have actuated the court, on the present occasion, the Commander in Chief deems it proper to decline any measures, on his part, to enforce the sentence: leaving the conduct of capt. Leonard to the ordeal of the next election for militia officers; when, he has no doubt the public sentiment will be honourably expressed.
It remains with that officer to resign, or employ the intermediate time in reflection and atonement, under this additional recommendation from the Commander in Chief (which is directed to be published in regimental orders.)
That capt. Leonard be advised to learn, that it is the duty of every soldier to acquiesce in the regulations which are established by superior officers, for the good of the service and that it is the interest of every citizen to observe a decent respect for the constituted authorities of his country."
THOMAS M'KEAN. Lancaster, Oct. 30, 1801.
Every officer under my command, is advised to comply with the recommendation of his Excellency the Commander in Chief; or he is at liberty to resign his commission. GEORGE THOMAS, Lieut. Col.
TREATY OF PEACE
Between the French Republic and the Emperor of all the Russias.
The First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, and his majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, animated with the desire of re-establishing the relations of good understanding which subsisted between the two governments before the present war, and to put an end to the evils with which Europe is afflicted, have appointed for that purpose for their Plenipotentiaries, viz.
The First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the people, citizen Charles Maurice Talleyrand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Signor Arcadi, Count de Markoff, his Privy Councillor, and knight of the order of St. Alexander Nevski, and Grand Crol's of that of St. Wladimir of the first class, who, after the verification and exchange of their full powers, have agreed upon the following articles:
 Art. I. There shall be in future peace, friendship and good understanding between the French republic and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias.  II. In consequence, there shall not be committed any hostility between the 

two states, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty; neither of the contracting parties shall furnish to the enemies of other, internal as well as external, any succour, or contingent, in men or money, under any denomination whatever.
III. The two contracting parties wishing, as much as in their power, to contribute to the tranquility of their respective governments, promise mutually not to suffer any of their subjects to keep up any correspondence, direct or indirect, with the internal enemies of the present government of the two states, to propagate in them principles contrary to their respective constitutions, or to foment troubles in them; and as a consequence of this concert, every subject of one of the two powers, who, during his residence in the states of the other, shall make any attack upon security, shall immediately be removed out of the said country, and carried beyond the Frontiers, without being able, in any case, to claim the protection of his government.
IV. It is agreed to adhere, with respect to the re-establishment of the respective Legations, and the ceremonies to be followed by the two governments, to that which was in use before the present war.
V. The two contracting parties agree, till a new treaty of commerce be made, to re-establish the commercial relations between the two countries on the footing in which they were before the war, as far as possible, and with the exception of the modifications which time and circumstances may have produced, and which have given rise to new regulations.
VI. The present Treaty is declared to be common to the Batavian republic.
VII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratification exchanged in the space of fifty days, or sooner if possible.
In faith of which, we, the undersigned, in virtue of our full powers have signed and sealed the said treaty.
Done at Paris, the 17th Vendemiaire, year 10 of the French Republic, (8th Oct. 1801.)
CH. M. TALLEYRAND. The Count DE MARBOIS.
TO LET, During the Session of Congress, or longer,
A HANDSOME two story brick house with the liberty of a large garden, an excellent kitchen, with a pump of good water in the same, a good eight fall stable and coach house, with every other convenience; situate in the New-Jersey Avenue. Enquire on the premises, or
JOHN FOWNES,
Who has lately laid in a general assortment of dry goods, such as superfine broad cloths, cassimeres, coatings, woollens of all kinds, linens, muslins, stockings, hats, &c. Likewise all kinds of groceries. He returns his sincere thanks to his friends and the public, for the encouragement he has already met with since his residence here and hopes for a continuance of their favor which will be gratefully acknowledged. Dec. 30, 1801. ept
Lands for sale or Lease.
FROM one thousand five hundred to two thousand acres of Land, of the first quality, well timbered with oak, poplar, and locusts. There is on the premises, a variety of meadow ground, none of which is improved; about 450 acres of the arable land is opened and under good enclosure, sits compactly and convenient to the improvements, which consist of an overseer's house, several negro apartments, a barn, several tobacco houses, and some fruit-trees. This property lies in the county of Amherst, on the waters of James River, one hundred and ten miles above, and nine miles from the river, where it is navigable to the city of Richmond.
If these lands are not disposed of by the first of January next, the tract will be leased on a term of years. Those persons who have been accustomed to a farmer's life, will be preferred as tenants to those who have followed a system of planting.
Also for sale, 471 acres, lying in the same county and neighbourhood, 150 acres of which is opened, and under good enclosures, with tolerably comfortable buildings, orchards, and an excellent mill seat, &c. For further information apply to col. John Rose, near the premises, to Doctor A. J. Smith, or the subscriber,
HENRY ROSE,
who has likewise for sale a tract of land, lying within seven miles of the town of Alexandria, and City of Washington, containing 800 acres, one half of which is opened and under good enclosures, a considerable portion of timothy meadow is made, and much more may be made.
Any of the above-mentioned lands are well calculated for the production of any kind of small grain, Indian corn, tobacco, or grass. Should the last described tract (lying in the county of Fairfax, Virginia) not be sold by private bargain, it will be exposed to sale on the first day of January next, to the highest bidder, in lots of 200 acres each, or as it may suit purchasers; and if not then sold, will be rented to one or more persons as it may suit their wishes. For terms apply to Dr. A. J. Smith, near the premises, or to the subscriber.
HENRY ROSE.
Nov. 16. lawn.Ut.1
The Rev. Mr. M'Corrick,
RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of Washington, that he purposed opening SCHOOL in his house, South B Street near the Capitol, on the first Monday in January next, if due encouragement be given. His terms may be known by application to him at his present residence, New-Jersey Avenue. Dec. 18. ept
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1801.
FRIDAY next being NEW-YEARS DAY, we are obliged to decline the publication of the National Intelligencer on that day, notwithstanding our indisposition to interrupt, at this period, the publication of several important documents.
We this day present our readers with a Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with sundry statements prepared in pursuance of the act supplementary to the act, entitled "an act to establish the Treasury Department."
As this document exhibits a comprehensive summary of the Finances of the United States, we have considered it of superior importance to other documents of no inconsiderable merit, and have, therefore, without loss of time, given it entire.
It will be found to contain a mass of facts, embracing views of the past, present, and future resources of the government, that will enable the public, with less difficulty than has hitherto been experienced, to understand distinctly the objects to which the revenue has been applied, and those which at present, or prospectively require its application.
Every friend to his Country will rejoice in the assurance that the resources of the United States, as at present drawn forth, are fully equal to a faithful discharge, and a prompt extinguishment of all its engagements. Debts, which have been fairly contracted should be faithfully paid; and a republican administration will shew, notwithstanding the late real or feigned alarm, that it is no less solicitous for the preservation of national honor than those who contracted the obligations. But while the obligation to discharge the public debt is acknowledged, it is hoped and believed that it will be accompanied by a disposition to discharge it with the greatest celerity that prudence will allow. A public debt is, perhaps, among the most fatal instruments of tyranny. By creating a body of men dependent upon government, who are rendered subservient to all its views, an interest is often formed subversive of the general good. Even where this is not the case, a jealousy hostile to general harmony is invariably produced.
In addition to this evil, the energies of the government are diminished as to defence against external danger, which is the only serious danger to be apprehended by a republican government administered on republican principles. We are persuaded that that government is the strongest which is free from debt, and free too from taxes beyond its necessary wants. Such a government, possessing resources just sufficient to answer its legitimate purposes, will confine itself to the promotion of the true national interest, uninduced by deceitful schemes of national glory.
By a report made to Congress it appears, that £489 7 0 sterling has been expended in the purchase of Books for the Library of that body, and that the number of volumes received therefor amounts to 740, a catalogue of which has been published for the use of the members.
Arrived in this City, OLIVER WOLCOTT, late Secretary of the Treasury.
Also SAMUEL DEXTER, late Secretary of the Treasury.
In consequence of the general observance of the holy days, the House of Representatives is at present unusually thin; nor is there any probability of much important business being either discussed or decided upon.
Yesterday the CUESS, made in Massachusetts, to be presented to the President, was brought to the city in a waggon drawn by six horses.
Among those of our countrymen who have the most indefatigably prosecuted their researches in the several provinces of natural history, is CHARLES WILSON PEALE, of Philadelphia. Animated by a love of science, and deeming its extension and improvement eminently promotive of the happiness of his fellow-men, his efforts have been unremitting. It is with great pleasure that in making the following publication, we add an additional proof of his industry.
MAMMOTH.
Ninety years have elapsed since the first remains of this animal were found in this country—they were then thought to be the remains of giants. Numerous have been the attempts by scientific characters of all nations, to procure a satisfactory collection of bones; at length the subscriber has accomplished this great object, and now announces to the public, that he is in possession of a COMPLETE SKELETON of this antique wonder of North-America; after a long, laborious and uncertain enterprise. They were dug up in Orange and Ulster counties (state of New-York) where they must have lain certainly many hundred years—no other
vestige remains of these animals; nothing but a confused tradition among the natives of our country, which states their existence ten thousand moons ago; but, whatever might have been the appearance of this enormous quadruped when clothed with flesh, his massy bones can alone lead us to imagine; already convinced that he was the LARGEST of terrestrial beings!
The expence of this undertaking has been so great, that in order to indemnify the subscriber, it must be a separate charge from the Museum. It is erected in a separate room, to which the price of admittance is 50 cents—to the Museum, as usual, 25 cents.
C. W. PEALE.
A few counterparts only having been carved in wood, and the summit of the head wanting.
The Mississippi territory contains according to the census of 1801 a population of 8850 persons, including 3509 slaves, viz. Adams county 4460, Pickering 2940, Washington 1350.
The town of Natchez contains 653 inhabitants.
The exports of the Natchez district in cotton amounted in 1800 to 600,000 dols. This district is about 112 miles in length following the river and about 30 in width.
Extract of a letter from a mercantile house in London, to a correspondent in Norfolk, dated Oct. 18.
"Many heretofore respectable commercial houses have failed, since the peace, and many others are tottering. Numbers of articles have fallen, and a great many have received a considerable rise—among the latter some articles of hardware, and particularly all kinds of paper, which before was very high, is now risen at least 25 per cent, so that there is no possibility of exporting a sheet for a length of time. In France, likewise, it has met with a sudden advance."
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
SIR,
There is a tide in the affairs of men "when their political rights may be embarked with safety." The present session of Congress to the people of the district of Columbia, is all important. The political fabric erected last session over the district, is not calculated to protect the people from the form of Aristocratic ambition; and if the present moment is suffered to pass unimproved, it is possible, we may be forever deprived of an opportunity of acting under such a happy combination of circumstances. Governments established upon republican principles, require a strict adherence in their respective departments thereto, to effect the objects for which they were originally instituted; without which the principles, being at variance with the practice, will be rendered disreputable. The present political condition of the people of the district, is not of that species to attach respect to republican principles, and to ensure the progress of human felicity; but will eventually operate all the evils incident to an Aristocratic concentration of power.
The present Congress will bear with pleasure an expression of the will of the people. They will then give to us a government conformable to our wishes; our happiness will be the object of their legislation.
A COLUMBIAN.
Dec. 18th, 1801.
The following report of a committee of the House of Delegates of Maryland, was presented to the house on Friday the 18th instant, and ordered to be printed.
The committee to whom leave was given to bring in a bill to alter such parts of the constitution and form of government as relate to the Senate of Maryland, submit the following opinions:
That in their consideration the legislative part of the constitution is defective and requires amendment, so far as relates to the Senate filling up their own vacancies, being elected for so long a space of time as five years, without any responsibility to the people; and that in their consideration the executive department is also deficient, inasmuch as the duties to be performed by the first officer of the state are unimportant, and scarcely attach respectability or responsibility to the discharge of them, and that the responsibility of the council to the Governor is very inconsiderable.
That the judicial establishment is also very defective, and requires amendment, as in its present form it is inconvenient, productive of delay, and very expensive.
Your committee therefore are of opinion that as the constitution and form of government requires amendment in its most material, substantial and important parts, and the amending them in the form and manner therein prescribed, would make it a constitution comprised and only to be found in the acts of the General Assembly, that leave ought to be given to bring in a bill recommending a convention to be assembled in the year 1803, to revise and amend the said constitution; and in case the said act of assembly shall be confirmed by the succeeding legislature, that then the said
act shall have full force and the same validity as other acts of the legislature.
By order,
C. GIBSON, Clerk.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, Dec. 28, 1801.
A report was received from the Secretary of State, on the petition of Philip Sloan, which concludes with the opinion that it is expedient to allow the petitioner 2,800 dollars in full compensation for his services. Referred to a committee of the whole house on Wednesday.
Tuesday, Dec. 29.
A report was made of rules proper to be adopted by the house for the government of its proceedings, by the committee appointed for that purpose.
Referred to a committee of the whole house to-morrow.
The committee, to whom had been referred, the resolutions of the Senate on the disposition and arrangement of the Library of Congress, as amended by the house, made report, that the house do disagree to the same—and also reported a bill containing provisions to be substituted in their room—which report was read a second time, and referred to a committee of the whole this day.
The committee of Revival and Unfinished business, reported a list of acts that will expire by their own limitations, during, or at the expiration of the present session.
A memorial was presented from a number of citizens of the territory of Columbia, praying that Congress would take such measures as they may deem expedient, to empower and aid them to establish a company to make a Bridge over the Potomac from the Maryland Avenue to the nearest point of Alexander's Island. Referred to the committee on the territory of Columbia.
The house then went into a committee of the whole on the Library Bill—Mr. Rutledge in the chair.
The bill underwent several amendments, and the last section making a further appropriation for the purchase of books was rejected, under the impression that the unexpended balance was sufficient for the present.
So reported, it was considered by the house, and further amended; when on motion of Mr. Griswold, the further consideration of it was postponed till to-morrow.
The following are the principal features of the bill:
1. That the library, consisting of all the books of the two houses, be kept in the room last session occupied by the House of Representatives.
2 and 3. That the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives appoint a librarian; and that the President and Speaker have the superintendence of the library, subject to the provisions of the act.—The librarian to be allowed two dollars a day.
4. No map to be taken out of the library; and the books to be taken out by the President and Vice-President of the United States, and the members of the two houses; by the heads of departments and Attorney-General during the sitting of the legislature, and by the Judges of the Supreme Court during its sittings.
5. The unexpended balance of sums heretofore appropriated, viz. 2,800 dollars to be applied to the purchase of books, under the direction of a joint committee of three members of each house.
Mr. RANDOLPH moved the following resolution: "Resolved, that it is expedient to reduce the military establishment of the United States."
It was not the wish of Mr. Randolph to precipitate a decision on this important subject. He, therefore, was willing that his resolution should lie for consideration at some future day.
Ordered to lie on the table.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, December 1801.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT in pursuance of the act passed the 18th Feb. 1801, regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia, the priority of location bath been determined by lot agreeably to the following schedule; and that the office of the Register of the Treasury will be opened on the second Tuesday in January next, (being the 12th) precisely at 9 o'clock, for the purpose of making locations.
Priority of location of half sections of 320 acres
NAMES. 1 Thomas Faulkner, 2 Benjamin Thompson, 3 Jonathan Eddy, 4 John Halstead, 5 John Allen, 6 Ambrose Cole, 7 John M'Gown, 8 Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, 9 Joseph Bindon,
10 Daniel Earle, junior, 11 John Edgar, 12 Seth Harding, 13 Jonathan Eddy, 14 Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, 15 Seth Harding, 16 Lieut. Col. Bradford, 17 Sean Harding, 18 John Starr, 19 Parker Clark, 20 Col. James Livingston, 21 Noah Miller, 22 Lieut. Col. Bradford, 23 Col. James Livingston, 24 Thomas Faulkner, 25 John Starr, 26 John Edgar, 27 Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, 28 P. Francis Cazeau, 29 Isaac Danks, 30 James Price, 31 John M'Gown, 32 Edward Faulkner, 33 Lieut. William Maxwell, 34 P. Francis Cazeau, 35 John Allan, 36 John Edgar, 37 James Price, 38 John Edgar, 39 Atwood Fales, 40 John Allan, 41 Atwood Fales, 42 Seth Harding, 43 The heirs of John Dodge, 44 John Allan, 45 Joseph Levitre, 46 Seth Noble, 47 Martha Bogart, relict of A. Bogart, and formerly relict of D. Tucker, 48 Lewis F. Delesdernier, 49 Martin Brooks, 50 The heirs of John Dodge, 51 Joseph Bindon, 52 Ebenezer Gardner, 53 John D. Mercier, 54 P. Francis Cazeau, 55 The heirs of John Dodge, 56 Edward Chinn, 57 John Edgar, 58 Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, 59 Jacob Vander Heyden, 60 Seth Harding, 61 William How, 62 David Guy, 63 John Edgar, 64 William How, 65 Noah Miller, 66 Adam Johnson, 67 The heirs of John Dodge, 68 Seth Harding, 69 John Allan, 70 John D. Mercier, 71 Lewis F. Delesdernier, 72 P. Francis Cazeau, 73 James Crawford, 74 Joshua Lamb, 75 David Jenks, 76 David Guy, 77 John Livingston, 78 Major B. Von Heer, 79 Ditto, 80 Seth Noble, 81 John Allan, 82 Martin Brooks, 83 Jonathan Eddy, 84 The heirs of Simon Chester, 85 Jonas C. Minot, 86 Joshua Lamb, 87 Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, 88 John M'Gown, 89 Jonas C. Minot, 90 John Edgar, 91 Lewis F. Delesdernier, 92 Edward Faulkner, 93 Jonathan Eddy, 94 Atwood Fales, 95 Thomas Faulkner, 96 Ebenezer Gardner, 97 John Halstead, 98 Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, 99 David Guy, 100 James Price, 101 Ebenezer Gardner, 102 Jacob Vander Heyden, 103 Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, 104 Joshua Lamb, 105 Martha Bogart, relict of A. Bogart, and formerly relict of D. Tucker, 106 Joseph Levitre, 107 James Crawford, 108 John Paskell, 109 Col. James Livingston, 110 P. Francis Cazeau, 111 Isaac Danks, 112 Lieut. William Maxwell, 113 John Livingston, 114 Seth Harding, 115 Lieut. Col. Bradford, 116 Noah Miller, 117 The widow and heirs of col. Jeremiah Duggan, 118 Col. James Livingston, 119 Edward Faulkner, 120 William How, 121 Jonas C. Minot, 122 Parker Clark, 123 The heirs of Simon Chester, 124 Ditto, 125 P. Francis Cazeau, 126 John Starr, 127 P. Francis Cazeau, 128 Martin Brooks, 129 Josiah Cone, 130 Parker Clarke, 131 Ditto, 132 John Forretyre, 133 Samuel Fales, 134 John Allan, 135 Benjamin Thompson,
* Note—This is only one fourth of a section or 160 acres.
Dec. 30, 1801. ept.
WASHINGTON DANCING ASSEMBLY.
THE Managers give notice, that the next assembly is postponed from Tuesday the 29th instant, to Thursday the 31st, being New Year's eve. December 24, 1801. ept
Boarding House.
E. Gardner, at No. 6. of the Seven Buildings, will accommodate gentlemen with boarding and lodging on moderate terms. Dec. 28, 1801. ept