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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. III.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCLXXIV.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, MARCH 14th, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
DOCTOR FENDALL, OPERATOR UPON TEETH.
Is just arrived in George Town; (on his way to Alexandria) and may be seen and consulted at the Union Tavern, kept by Mr. McLaughlin, at any time. The lower applications are made to the Doctor the better, as his continuance in Town will be uncertain, having been long absent from his residence, to which place he is anxious to return.
Dr. FENDALL cures the Jauncy in the gums, built eru to invicera, in a short time; falcens look teeth, by making the gums grow firm up to them; renders teeth white, and beautiful; prevents their decay; keeps such as are from becoming worse, even to old age; fills up those that are hollow with gold or lead, which will not only render them useful, but prevent their rotting and further decay; extracts teeth and falcens with ease; makes and fits artificial teeth. His Columbian anti-arthritic Dentifrice for preserving the teeth, gums, sockets, &c. and superior he thinks best in elegance and efficacy to any other, is still sold by the Doctor.
George Town, Union Tavern, February 22, 1803. M2—tf.
Superintendent's Office, Washington 8th March 1802.
THERE will be wanting for public use in this city large quantities of firestone, foundation stone, lime, sand, and some bricks—Proposals to supply the same will be received on the fourth day of next month, by
THOMAS MUNROE, Superintendent.
N. B. A number of labourers and some timber for joists, &c. will also be wanted. March 9. ept14A.
TAKE NOTICE.
I WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and within twenty of the City of Washington, Alexandria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Occoquan mills, it is a healthy situation, the land fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, popular and hickory timber—There is nearly one hundred acres of prime land for meadow, I will give six months credit for one fourth of the purchase money—twelve months for the other quarter, eighteen for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find n—on the premises.
THOS FOLLARD. Feb. 21st. tf.
A Valuable Farm for Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the Chancellor of Maryland, in the case of Wm. H. DORSEY, Complainant, against JONATHAN and PETER CASSAVE, interest heirs and ANN CASSAVE and NICHOLAS YOUNG, administrators of PETER CASSAVE, Defendants—The Subscriber will on Friday the 18th day of March next, offer for Sale at public auction, the plantation or Farm called "Fair Hill," and the adjoining Tract of Land called "George the Third" containing in the whole about 450 acres. The said Lands will be sold together. This Land is advantageously situated, being about 12 miles N. from George Town, and about 8 miles from Montgomery Court house. The Land is of good quality, and has more than a plentiful supply of Wood and Timber. The improvements upon it are, a large, and convenient dwelling house, brick stable and other necessary out-houses. The Sale will take place at 12 o'clock at the dwelling house at Fair Hill, at which W. H. Dorsey formerly resided.
Terms of Sale—The purchaser to pay to the subscriber the sum of 1350 £ current money, immediately on the ratification of the sale. And give bond with security to be approved by the Chancellor to pay the residue of the purchase money within six months from the day of sale, with interest from the date. After ratification of the sale, and receipt of the whole purchase money, a conveyance will be made by the subscriber to the purchaser of said estate and his or her heirs of all the right, title and estate of the petitioner and of the dependants or either of them hereto.
SAMUEL BROOKE, Trustee.
N. B. One quarter of an acre including the family burial ground at Fair Hill is excepted from the sale.
Feb. 22, 1803. ept18M.
Loft by, or Stolen from, a Lodger at STELLE'S HOTEL, on Thursday last, a POST NOTE, issued by the Bank of Baltimore, for two hundred and fifty Dollars, to John Thomas, and indorsed with his name, in blank. The number of the Note and the day of issuing it, are not remembered; but believed to be dated on the 10th of September, 1800.
If the above note is offered in Payment, or to be changed, an enquiry is requested to be made from whom it has been received. If any person will discover the thief, so that he may be convicted, he shall receive fifty Dollars. If any person will deliver the Note to my bar keeper, he will pay him 20 Dollars, and no questions asked.
PONTIUS D. STELLE. March 2. 27r.
WANTED, One or two Boys to learn the BOOT and SHOE-MAKING Business—Apply to JOHN CROOKSHANK. George Town, Jan. 19, 1803. tf.
National Intelligencer.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, March 2, 1803.
Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund.
Mr. Griswold said he wished to submit to the house, a resolution respecting the report of the commissioners of the Sinking Fund. It would be remembered that that report came into the house on the 7th of February, and that as soon as it was printed and laid on their tables, in consequence of his motion, it was referred to the committee of ways and means. On the same day, he had stated to the chairman of that committee, that he had some objections to the statements in the report, which he mentioned, and desired might be investigated. This investigation, to the present day, they had not received. If there does not now remain time to make this investigation, he thought it proper to make his objections on the floor of the house, that the members may understand them, and judge for themselves.
In the first place, it will be remarked that the law of the last session, making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States, provides that the commissioners of the Sinking Fund shall draw, in each year, from the treasury or the sinking fund the amount of seven million three hundred thousand dollars, to be applied to the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt. He had supposed this would have been done in each year; it had been so confidently asserted; and it was by law made the duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund to do it. It appears by the report that the commissioners did, in the course of the last year, receive seven million three hundred thousand dollars for this purpose: but we do not find that they, in the course of the year, applied to the payment of the debt seven million three hundred thousand dollars. He supposed, it would be agreed that what was to be understood by the law directing that in each year this sum should be paid, was that it should be paid in the year for which the accounts were made up, that is, from the 1st of January to the 31st of December. In the report, you will find that the whole of the sum of seven million three hundred thousand dollars has not been applied within that period.
In the 6th page of the report the commissioners state that they have paid, for the interest which, during the year 1802, accrued on the whole of the public debt, including domestic loans,
4,065,738 47
They likewise state that they have reimbursed temporary loans obtained of the bank of the United States, to the amount of 1,287,600, from the proceeds of 2220 shares of bank stock.
But this sum, not having been taken from the sinking fund, but being derived from the proceeds of bank stock, the commissioners are obliged to apply it under the act of 1796, and it, therefore, cannot form a part of the 7,300,000 dollars.
They further state a payment, from the proceeds of duties on merchandise and tonnage of
2,400
On the next page, they state the payment of sundry instalments of Dutch debt, which became due in 1802, amounting to
1,344,000
And they state the provision necessary for the reimbursement of the 8th instalment of the 6th per cent. stock, and the 2nd instalment of the deferred 6 per cent. stock becoming payable the 1st Jan. 1803, estimated at the sum of
1,117,869 37
Making altogether 6,530,007 84 These are the only sums, which, I believe, can be pretended to have been taken out of the sinking fund, and they make the aggregate of 6,530,007 84 dollars, which leaves a balance of the 7,300,000 dollars, of dollars 769 92 16
Now, it is the duty of the commi-
ssioners to pay in each year the sum of seven million three hundred thousand dollars, and they have not done it, the fact ought to appear by a report of a committee of this house. From the statement I have made the fact does appear, from any view which may be taken of the subject it will appear, and I will to instruct the committee of ways and means particularly to investigate this part of the report.
There are other parts of the report that require investigation.
In the 6th page the commissioners have charged the United States with the payment of dollars 4,065,738 47 cents, for the interest which during the year 1802, accrued on the whole of the public debt, including domestic loans. I have an apprehension (which however may not be just) that this charge for interest is not correct. For I find in the annual report of the secretary of the treasury, made on the 16th of last December, he states that on the 30th of September last—
"The payments on account of the principal and interest of the domestic debt, have been
4,628,103 39
"From which deducting one year's interest on the same,
3,470,259 75
"Leaves a sum applied to the reimbursement of the principal of the 6 per cent. and deferred stocks of
1,157,845 64
By this account it would seem that the secretary stated the interest on the domestic debt to be 3,470,259 75
If the statement be correct, he ought to have credit to that amount.
The interest due on the foreign debt is stated by the secretary in a report made the last year, in table P. at
476,931
These two sums, one would suppose, constituted the whole sum due for interest on the domestic and foreign debt added together, and they amount only to
3,947,190 75
The commissioners charge
4,065,738 47
Making a difference of
118,547 72
which, it would seem, has been charged by them beyond the actual interest paid.
It is possible, and for ought I know, probable that the accounts are not correct, and that there are other sums which do not appear. It does appear that something is wanting satisfactorily to explain the accounts. Even the accounts respecting the Dutch debt do not agree. For in the report of the last year in the table [P.] interest on Dutch debt is stated at 476,931 dollars, whereas in the same, according to the table [R.] it is made 1,145,259 guilders, which are equal to 458,100 dollars—making a difference of 18,831 dollars. I was, at first, apprehensive that the former sum included the premium; but that is stated in table [R.] to be 59,577 guilders, which is equal to 23,830 dollars, and which added to the amount of interest, as stated in [R.] would make the total exceed that stated in [P.]
Here then is an inaccuracy which I cannot account for. In both instances the accounts are calculated as arising in the year 1802.
I also endeavoured to account for the first inaccuracy by supposing it did not embrace the interest on the debt due to the Bank, as in page 6 of the report, it is stated that the above-mentioned disbursements were made during the year 1802. But, even on this supposition I could not find a satisfactory explanation.
All these circumstances may be right, and the money may have been all properly applied; but as the accounts are incorrect they ought to be investigated.
In the general statement of the accounts there is something wanting explanation. In the 6th page we find that the commissioners of the Sinking Fund received from the treasury, 9,572,752 28
In addition to this it will appear that there was in 1802 remitted to Holland, beyond the sum required for payments in that year, 2,313,846 guilders, which is in the hands of the commissioners, and with which they are chargeable, amounting to
925,538 60
For these two sums they are accountable, making together
10,298,290 88
Now let us see how they have accounted for this sum in their hands.
In the first place, the commissioners say they have paid the interest for 1802, on the whole of the public debt, amounting to
4,065,738 47
To the Bank,
1,287,600
From the proceeds of duties, &c.
2,400
Instalments of Dutch debt,
1,344,000
Reimbursement of the 8th instalment of the 6 per cent. stock, and the 2nd instalment of the deferred 6 per cent. stock becoming payable the 1st of January 1803, estimated at,
1,117,869 37
Thus the whole amount of the sums which the commissioners claim to have paid, is
7,817,607 84
Leaving a balance unaccounted for of,
2,480,683 04
Further; when I compare the statement made in the report of the commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the amount of the instalments of the Dutch debt due in 1802, with the statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, made the last year, I find they do not agree.
According to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury [Table R.] the instalments amount to, guilds. 3,550,000
By the report of the commissioners they are stated at,
3,360,000
Making a difference of
190,000
The commissioners say "besides the above-mentioned reimbursements and payments, there remained at the close of the year 1802, exclusively of the amount of sundry protected bills still outstanding and of unexpended balances in the hands of agents, an unapplied balance, estimated at guilders 5,914,606 applicable to the payment of the principal and interest of the Dutch debt for the year 1803, and consisting of remittances purchased and paid for before the 1st day of January 1803, beyond the sums wanted to meet the demands in Holland during the year 1802."
I will ask the House, whether this is a satisfactory account rendered for the disbursement of nearly two and a half million of dollars—They state "an unapplied balance estimated, &c." Where was the necessity of an estimate? Did not the commissioners know to a florin the amount remitted? Did they not know the amount of bills purchased, and the extent of their contract with Mr. Baing? They know all this. Whence then the necessity of sending us an estimate? For my part I do not understand this mode of stating the accounts that relate to the disbursement of so large a sum of money. The sum is very large, and was it not proper to state the particular disbursements? The commissioners were acquainted with every bill bought, and with every contract made. Was it not then proper to have stated every item? To enable us to ascertain in what manner they had made their remittances; whether in the most prudent manner; whether they had not advanced money on contracts which extended for months or years. It is very early in the management of so large a sum to place monies in the hands of individuals, and replace those monies in Holland in ten, twelve, or fifteen months. In this course of arrangement, the individual may be greatly benefited, and the country much injured. For their own honor and character, the commissioners ought to have shown by clear, specific vouchers, that they had shown no favor, and been guilty of no partiality. This was incumbent upon them. I certainly do not know that any improper transaction has taken place; nor do I flatter these things as a charge against the commissioners. But such transactions may take place; and the accounts ought to be so stated as to enable us to ascertain the correctness and propriety of their proceedings.
But allowing the commissioners credit, according to their own statement, still on the general account there remains a balance of dollars 114,839 44 cents entirely unaccounted for. I am sensible, from the general expression of the report, that this balance may be in the hands of agents, or that it may arise from protected bills. But if this is the case, why is it not stated? I am inclined to think there cannot be much of it in protected bills, as the Secretary, in his annual report, has deducted a considerable
sum for the return of protected bills; though it is possible their amount may be sufficient to cover the balance. But the question again recurs, if so, why did not the commissioners state it, that we might see from what it arose? This would have been satisfactory.
For the purpose of giving these facts investigated I move this resolution. It is impossible for me, or any other member, to determine whether all the money may not be fairly brought into account. The accounts are so stated that it is impossible to tell whether this will, or will not, be the result. We have estimates, where there ought to be documents; and general statements where there ought to be details. It is, for these reasons, impossible to say what the result will be—This I want to know; and for this purpose I wish to institute an investigation through a committee of this House, who shall report to us whether the monies lodged with the commissioners of the Sinking Fund have been faithfully applied. I, therefore, offer the following resolution:
"Resolved, that the committee of Ways & Means be directed to enquire whether the commissioners of the Sinking Fund have, agreeably to the directions of the act, entitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States" applied the sum of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars, provided by the same, to the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt; and to enquire, generally, into the accounts and proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,—and to report to the House."
Mr. Randolph said he rose to second the motion—The house would recollect that not longer since than yesterday gentlemen, even those who generally acted together, persisted in differing (in the case of the brig Henrick, condemned in a West-India court) whether the captor was plaintiff, or defendant, in the action—and this after mutual explanation, and notwithstanding the copy of the record was before them. He mentioned this circumstance only to show how easy it was, in an assembly so large, to confound and perplex any matter of fact which had not been previously enquired into and settled by a select committee. How much more easy then to take exceptions to an account, and to puzzle the house with long and intricate calculations prepared for the occasion. It was not to be expected that he should accompany the gentleman from Connecticut, thro' such a series of figures, nor could it be done with any benefit to the house. The professed object of the gentleman is inquiry. He has declared that he had no design to cast any imputation of misconduct on the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund—that he hoped and believed they would be able to give a satisfactory explanation of those points on which he felt dissatisfied, and yet, said Mr. R. the observations of the gentleman would seem to be the effect of an unsatisfactory inquiry. If investigation alone were the object, wherefore delay it until now? would not the regular and natural course of a substantial inquiry have been to move a resolution to that effect—to have instructed the committee of Ways and Means as to certain specific objects of investigation—and to have reserved observations which (whatever be their motive) do tend to impeach the conduct of administration, until the report of the committee should be made, in case it should prove unsatisfactory? The course which has been pursued, so far from leading to enquiry seemed eminently calculated to preclude, or to stifle it. A motion is brought forward on the eve of our dissolution, prefaced with observations calculated to excite much discussion, and to exhaust the little time that was left, and this inquiry instead of being confined to one or two facts embraced a great variety of intricate details.
Mr. R. said, that he would examine into some of the statements made respecting the application of the sum appropriated by the act of last session to the reduction of the debt. And here he could not but remark the coincidence of the unaccounted balance of 114,000 some hundred dollars, stated by the gentleman, with the representations contained in a printed circular letter (of which he obtained a casual light yesterday) addressed by a gentleman from N. Carolina to his constituents; altho' the writer of the letter did, and the gentleman from Connecticut did not give credit for the proceeds of the sale of the bank shares. [Here Mr. Griswold said that he was misunderstood—that in making out the balance of 114,000 dollars, he had given credit for the bank stock] Mr. R. proceeded—He said that the

gentlemen then agreed, as indeed he supposed at first they would, not only in the result but in all the intermediate steps which led to it. Whether the gentleman from Connecticut had availed himself of the labors of his friend, or had lent his assistance to them, he could not undertake to determine, but from the tenor of that letter, and of the objections which had just been offered, it was evident that the same master-hand had prompted both. It was nevertheless contended that the proceeds of the bank shares could not be estimated as a part of the appropriation of 7,300,000 to the public debt. Mr. R. said that the report of the sinking fund did not indeed include these proceeds in that sum, because the commissioners construed the law so as to give the utmost efficiency to the appropriation, and to pay, of course, a larger sum towards the reduction of the debt. But it was perfectly clear that these shares were included in that appropriation. [Here Mr. R. read the first section of the law.] This appropriation is made out of "so much of the duties on imports and tonnage as together with the monies which now constitute the sinking fund, (surpluses of revenue excepted) will amount to 7,300,000 dollars"—and by the act of the 31st May, 1796, the power to sell these shares is expressly given to the commissioners of the sinking fund—and they have been accordingly sold and applied to the purposes directed by that act. Those shares then did, when the appropriation was made, constitute a part of the sinking fund, and were what remained of 5000 shares, 2780 having been previously sold under the act of May, 1796, by the commissioners of the sinking fund. It is evident then that the sinking fund might take credit for the sum produced by the sale of that stock, as part of the sum of dollars 7,300,000. But exclusively of it, Mr. R. said it could easily be proved that more than the amount appropriated had been disbursed on account of the debt. The items consisted if gentlemen would turn to the report, of 1. disbursements on account of the interest of the whole debt. 2d. On account of the principal, viz. the Bank and Dutch debts & the 8th & 2d, instalments of the old, and deferred six per cent. respectively, payable 1st January, 1803. 3d. The excess of guilders on hand, applicable to the payment of the Dutch debt falling due in the year 1803, after deducting the guilders on hand at the close of the year 1801, which were applicable to the payment of that debt falling due in the year 1802. This excess amounting to more than 3,600,000 guilders, for which the commissioners of the Sinking Fund must have credit, having debited themselves for the amount on hand at the commencement of the year, will, after deducting the 1,287,600 dollars produced by the sale of the Bank shares, amount to somewhat more than 8,000,000 dollars, or seven hundred thousand dollars (exclusive of the proceeds of the Bank Stock) more than the commissioners were bound by law to pay."
But the gentleman from Connecticut has said that no credit should be given in the year 1802, for any payments made in 1803.—He would strike out, therefore, the 3,600,000 guilders from which credit is taken since, according to him, credit may be as well taken for monies to be paid six years hence as during the next year—and yet he gives credit for the reimbursement of the 6 per cent and deferred stocks payable on the 1st January 1803. Let not the House ascribe this to the generosity of the gentleman—he knew that if credit was not given for the eighth and second instalments of those stocks, payable on the 1st January, 1803, credit must be taken for the payment of the seventh and first instalments of those stocks respectively, and the last instalment of the subscription loan due the Bank, paid the 1st of January 1802, amounting to 160,000 dollars more than the sum which he has admitted. He knew that one or the other of those payments must be credited, and he has taken the smallest, although upon his own principle, being payable in 1803, it ought not to be admitted in advance. An objection is however made to allowing credit for the guilders in advance for paying the Dutch debt falling due in the course of the present year. The gentleman seems to rely upon a construction which he gives the law of the
last session and contends that it was the duty of the commissioners to pay for interest and principal of the debt the whole amount of 7,300,000 within the year 1802. Out of what fund did he suppose the necessary advances were to be made for the Dutch debt falling due this year, if they were bound to pay the whole appropriation within the year 1802, and the purchase of bills to meet the debt in Holland in 1803 was not considered as a payment under the provision of the law. The gentleman knows, as does every member of the house, that provision must be made at least six months before hand to meet that debt.—All our estimates tell us so; All the calculations of the treasury are bottomed upon it; those to which he has referred, expressly say so; at this time we are 9 months in advance, and yet he would construe the law so as to prevent the commissioners from making the provision. The law explicitly directs them to make good the engagements of the public, in the first place, out of the appropriation, and the surplus, after having done so, is applicable at their discretion. But upon his construction the public engagements would be broken, the commissioners would fail to perform a duty where no discretion is left them, and where the law allows a discretionary exercise of their power there, it seems, they would have none. Mr. R. said that it appeared to him the commissioners of the Sinking Fund had given a tolerably liberal construction to the law which was passed in April by paying 9,300,000 dollars in the course of that year, if the bank stock were included and eight millions if it were not. Previous provision being necessary for the Dutch debt the commissioners had taken credit for the last six months of 1802, & the first six months of 1803, instead of 12 months in the year 1802. But if the construction given to the law shall exclude the last period, credit must be given for the payments made in the first six months of 1802. For if it be said that this payment was made out of the bills purchased in 1801, and those bills are charged in the year 1801, although provided for 1802, certainly the bills provided in 1802 for payment due in 1803, must also be credited in the year during which they were purchased. If the credit is to be given when the bills are purchased, then this sum of 3,600,000 guilders must be allowed. But if credit is on the other hand to be given, not at the time of the purchase, but when the bills are paid in Holland, then gentlemen must give credit for the payments made in the first six months of 1802. And wherefore should not these guilders, purchased in 1802, but applicable in 1803, be credited to the year 1802, as well as the reimbursement of the 6 per cent. and deferred stocks, payable on the 1st Jan. 1803, be credited, as admitted by the gentleman from Connecticut, to the year 1802.
Mr. Randolph said he would notice the objection that the sum of 5,914,606 guilders mentioned in the 7th page of the report was upon estimate. The report was dated on the third of February, 1803, purchases had been made from Savannah to Portland, and could it be expected that all the accounts of the agents for making those purchases were even received, much less settled, between the 1st of Jan. 1803, to which period the estimate refers, and the third of the next month.
These bills moreover being applicable to the debt falling due in Holland during the present year, until an account is received of the sum actually applied, specifying the amount of protested bills, and this amount shall have been settled at the treasury, the exact sum cannot be stated—but although an estimate, it cannot properly be called a loose estimate as it has been termed.
With respect to the 114 thousand and some hundred dollars said to be unaccounted for, this must be "the sundry protested bills and of unexpended balances in the hands of agents" specified in the report. So far from finding cause of surprize and suspicion at such an unaccounted balance he was astonished that including protested bills and advances to agents, yet to be recovered or accounted for, so small a sum should appear unaccounted for, on the payment of 9,300,000 dollars, the sum disbursed, inclusive of the bank stock. The purchasers of bills for government are the cashiers of the several banks. Some of these institutions are precluded by their charters—the bank of the United States for example, from making any advance beyond a small amount to government, unless expressly authorized by a positive law. Advances must be made therefore to their cashiers, and although the money may remain in bank, which is effectively the public treasury although, substantially, not a dollar has been removed, yet lying at the order of the cashiers to enable them to make purchases from time to time, it is considered as advanced to them. Gentlemen have complained of the unfairness of considering any department as debtor to the amount of advance made to it, because the accounts have not been settled, although every shilling may have been fairly paid for the public service—yet this is what they are now doing.
Mr. R. said, that he had no doubt that the money stated to have been paid, had been actually disbursed, because he had all the evidence which the case admitted. When he read a law he could not undertake to answer that the printed copy corresponded, verbatim, with that passed by Congress. The committee of enrollment, and those who collated the printed laws, must be relied upon for that. But wishing to give every attainable satisfaction to the house and the public, he hoped the resolution would pass, and he gave notice that, in case it did meet the approbation of the house, he should immediately move for leave for the committee of ways and means to sit during the sitting of the house, and, if granted, would convoke them immediately, that the chairman might put his hand to any letter which the mover of the resolution should devise, and that the secretary of the treasury might be enabled to furnish all the information attainable at this late period. (To be Continued.)
[By Authority.]
SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES; At the Second Session, Began and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth of Decem- ber, one thousand eight hundred and two.
AN ACT For extending the external commerce of the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of extending the external commerce of the United States, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. Feb. 28, 1803.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For continuing in force a law, entitled "An Act for establishing trading houses with the Indian Tribes."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That a law passed on the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six, intitled, "An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian Tribes," and which law was revived and continued by another, passed on the thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, shall be, and the same is hereby farther continued for the term of two years, from the fourth day of March next, and from thence until the end of the next session of Congress.
NATL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. February 28, 1803.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For the relief of Moses White.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers adjust and settle the claim of Moses White, for his additional pay and emoluments as aid-de-camp to brigadier general Moses Hazen, from the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, to the third day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, upon the same principles which have heretofore prevailed in the settlement of the accounts of aids-de-camp to brigadier generals in the line of the revolutionary army; and that they liquidate the same in like manner as though a final settlement certificate, in the customary form, had been issued therefor, when due.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. March 2d, 1803.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT In addition to and in modification of the propositions contained in the act, intitled, "An Act to enable the people of the eastern division of the Territory north west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state govern- ment, and for the admission of such
state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes."
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following several tracts of land in the state of Ohio, be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the use of schools in that state, and shall, together with all the tracts of land heretofore appropriated for that purpose, be vested in the legislature of that state in trust for the use aforesaid, and for no other use, intent or purpose whatever, that is to say:
First.—The following quarter townships in that tract commonly called the "United States military tract," for the use of schools within the same, viz. the first quarter of the third township in the first range, the fifth quarter of the first township in the fourth range, the fourth quarter of the first township and the third quarter of the fifth township in the fifth range, the second quarter of the third township in the sixth range, the fourth quarter of the second township in the seventh range, the third quarter of the third township in the eighth range, the first quarter of the first township and the first quarter of the third township in the ninth range, the third of the first township in the tenth range, the first and fourth quarters of the third township in the eleventh range, the fourth quarter of the fourth township in the twelfth range, the second and third quarters of the fourth township in the fifteenth range, the third quarter of the seventh township in the sixteenth range, and the first quarter of the sixth township and third quarter of the seventh township in the eighteenth range, being the one thirty sixth part of the estimated whole amount of lands within that tract.
Secondly. The following quarter townships in the same tract for the use of schools in that tract commonly called the Connecticut reserve, viz. the third quarter of the ninth township and the fourth quarter of the tenth township in the first range, the first and second quarters of the ninth township in the second range, the second and third quarters of the ninth township in the third range, the first quarter of the ninth township and the fourth quarter of the tenth township in the fourth range, the first quarter of the ninth township in the fifth range, the first and fourth quarters of the ninth township in the sixth range, the first and third quarters of the ninth township in the seventh range, and the fourth quarter of the ninth township in the eighth range.
Thirdly. So much of that tract, commonly called the "Virginia military reservation," as will amount to one thirty-sixth part of the whole tract, for the use of schools within the same, and to be selected by the legislature of the state of Ohio, out of the unlocated lands in that tract after the warrants issued from the state of Virginia shall have been satisfied; it being however understood, that the donation is not to exceed the whole amount of the above mentioned residue of such unlocated lands, even if it shall fall short of one thirty-sixth part of the said tract.
Fourthly. One thirty-sixth part of all the lands of the United States lying in the state of Ohio, to which the Indian title has not been extinguished which may hereafter be purchased of the Indian tribes by the United States, which thirty-sixth part shall consist of the section No. 16, in each township, if the said land shall be surveyed in townships of six miles square, and shall, if the lands be surveyed in a different manner, be designated by lots.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of the receivers of public monies of the several land offices shall be settled, pay three per cent of the nett proceeds of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Ohio, which since the 30th day of June last have been, or hereafter may be sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may be authorized by the legislature of the said state to receive the same, which sums thus paid, shall be applied to the laying out, opening and making roads within the said state, and to no other purpose whatever; and an annual account of the application of the same shall be transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, by such officer of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct: and it is hereby declared, that the payments thus to be made, as well as the several appropriations for schools made by the preceding section, are in conformity with, and in consideration of the conditions agreed on by the state of Ohio, by the ordinance of the convention of the said state, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November last.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sections of land heretofore promised for the use of schools, in lieu of such of the sections, No. 16, as have been otherwise disposed of, shall be selected by the secretary of the treasury, out of the unappropriated reserved sec-
tions in the most contiguous townships. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That one complete township in the state of Ohio, and district of Columbia, or in any one complete township within the same, as may then remain unsold, together with as many adjoining sections as shall have been sold in the said township, so as to make in the whole thirty-six sections, to be located under the direction of the legislature of the said state, on or before the 1st day of October next, with the register of the land office of Cincinnati, be, and the same is hereby vested in the legislature of the state of Ohio, for the purpose of establishing an academy, in lieu of the township already granted for the same purpose, by virtue of the act, entitled, "An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to John Cleves Symmes, and his associates; Provided, however, that the same shall revert to the United States, if within five years after the passing of this act, a township shall have been secured for the said purpose, within the boundary of the patent granted by virtue of the above mentioned act, to John Cleves Symmes, and his associates.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the attorney general for the time being, be directed and authorized to locate and accept from the said John Cleves Symmes, and his associates, any one complete township within the boundaries of the said patent, so as to secure the same for the purpose of establishing an academy, in conformity to the provisions of the said patent, and in case of non-compliance, to take, or direct to be taken, such measures as will compel an execution of the trust: Provided however, that John Cleves Symmes and his associates, shall be released from the said trust, and the said township shall vest in them, or any of them, in fee simple, upon payment into the treasury of the United States, of fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, with interest from the date of the above mentioned patent, to the day of such payment.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 3d, 1803.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT In addition to an act, intitled, "An Act more effectually to provide for the National defence, by establishing an uniform Militia throughout the United States."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the adjutant general of the militia in each state, to make return of the militia of the state to which he belongs, with their arms, accoutrements, and ammunition, agreeably to the directions of the act, to which this is an addition, to the President of the United States annually, on or before the first Monday in January in each year; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, from time to time, to give such directions to the adjutant generals of the militia, as shall, in his opinion, be necessary to produce an uniformity in the said returns, and he shall lay an abstract of the same before Congress, on or before the first Monday of February, annually.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every citizen duly enrolled in the militia, shall be constantly provided with arms, accoutrements, and ammunition, agreeably to the direction of the said act from and after he shall be duly notified of his enrolment; and any notice or warning to the citizens to be enrolled, to attend a company, battalion, or regimental muster, or training, which shall be according to the laws of the state in which it is given for that purpose, shall be deemed a legal notice of his enrolment.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the officers provided for by the said act, there shall be, to the militia of each state one quarter master general, to each brigade one quarter master of brigade, and to each regiment one chaplain.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. March 2d, 1803.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
NOTICE.
The Subscriber will attend at his office in the house of Messrs HUNBLESTON & COOK, Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Centre Market house, every day, Sunday excepted, after the 9th instant till the 1st April next, from the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of settling, according to a law passed by the Council of this City, all weights and measures which may be brought to him. It is hoped that all persons in the habit of using weights and measures will be particular in getting them sealed in due time as they are no doubt acquainted with the provisions of the law.
ZENJAMIN LURCH.
March 11.
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  *1st. Disbursements on account of the interest of the whole debt, 4,065,738 47   2d. Principal, Bank 1,290,000,   1,344,000 2,634,000   8th and 2d. Instalments, old six per cent. and deferred stocks, respectively payable 1st January, 1803, 1,117,869 37   3d. Excess of Guilders on hand at the end of the year 1802, beyond those on hand at the end of 1801 equal if rated at 41 cents per guilder, 1,476,311 62   9,293,119 46   Deduct Bank shares sold, 1,287,600   Remainder, 8,005,519 46 

WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, March 14, 1803.
(OFFICIAL.)
Translation of a letter from the Marquis de Casa Yrujo to the Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1803.
Sir, When you represented to me towards the end of November last, that the port of New Orleans had been shut against the citizens of the United States, without the assignment of any equivalent place of deposit for their merchandise on the Banks of the Mississippi...
I have now the satisfaction of informing you that my first opinion has been verified, and of declaring in the most positive terms, that the proclamation of the Intendant is an act purely personal, without the sanction and even without the knowledge of his Catholic Majesty.
I have therefore the honor to communicate herewith an entire and correct copy of the aforesaid proclamation; and by the expressions which I have underlined, it will be clearly seen that the arrangement is absolutely personal, and has originated in the faculties which the Intendant supposed to be incident to his station.
This assertion is not founded merely on the obvious inference from those expressions: The intendant himself declares it to me in the most direct terms in a letter of January 15th, which I have just received from him; and the Governor of the Province confirms the same thing with the same solemnity in another letter of the same date.
From the whole it results that the suspension of the deposit not being an act of my court, and no person even disputing the right of the American Citizens in the case, I shall now take upon myself to adopt measures which must ensure to the United States, the enjoyment of all the rights stipulated in the 22d article of the Treaty, on the arrival at New Orleans of the dispatches which will be forwarded under this date.
We have great satisfaction in presenting to the public the official communication of the Spanish Minister to the Secretary of State; as it completely demonstrates the important fact on which our government proceeded, that the irre-
gular acts at New Orleans were those solely of the Intendant, unauthorized by his court. The unequivocal declaration of the Minister that the Spanish government has no participation in those acts, and his now taking upon himself in consequence of this official acknowledgement of the Intendant himself, to adopt such measures as shall insure to us the enjoyment of all the rights stipulated in the 22d Article of the Treaty...
Under these assurances, we need only add, that there is every reason to believe that the measures taken by the Minister are such as will be commensurate to the object, and such as involve the use of means, too decisive, to be ineffectual.
The proclamation of the Intendant, from the official inference of its true construction made by the Spanish Minister, becoming an important document, shall be as early translated, as its length will permit.
From the preceding facts, it will appear that the arguments, made use of in the late debates in the Senate, for involving the country in war, were entirely without foundation.
Those arguments, and the measures to which they would have led, were predicated on the idea, that the conduct of the Intendant was authorized and directed by the government of Spain. Whereas the reverse now conclusively appears; and that, so far from being authorized, it is pointedly disavowed.
We rejoice that other arguments prevailed, and that the peace and prosperity of millions have not been hazarded by rash and precipitate measures.
Gross Federal Misrepresentation.
This department of the National Intelligence has been, for some time since, but little occupied, from the superior claim to insertion of the proceedings of Congress, and from a conviction that the common tale of detraction has been so often told as to cease to be credited unless by the most credulous partizans.
The following statement, however, is at once so false, and from its connection with a subject of the first importance so likely to produce some effect if credited, that it calls for a decided exposure. We will not go into the doubtful enquiry with what individual it originated. It is sufficient for us to be enabled to pronounce the whole of it a gross falsehood; and we believe that every unprejudiced mind will contemplate in it, an evidence of a disposition, ready to pursue every mean, however base, of destroying the harmony of the nation, and hazarding its peace.
RISING IN THE WEST.
KENTUCKY IN ARMS.
We have this moment conversed with a gentleman of intelligence and integrity direct from Washington, from whom we have received the following very interesting intelligence. That on Saturday last about 11 o'clock, an express arrived at the City of Washington, charged with a memorial from Kentucky, addressed to Mr. Davis, as their favourite Representative.
The Memorialists stated that they had waited with the greatest patience and anxiety for the interference of government in their behalf; that events pressed harder and harder upon them and had almost exhausted their forbearance, but that they were yet willing and desirous of making another appeal to the general government for protection, and that expecting to receive this promptly, they had prepared to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's warning; and that for this purpose, they raised by subscription 50,000* dollars for the purchase of arms and ammunition, and had embodied, organized, and equipped, 15,000 men, who had already been three days in camp.
* Of this sum the present Governor subscribed 2000 and the last Governor 1500 dollars.
New-York Evening Post.
The Citizen of this morning contradicts our report of yesterday respecting Kentucky, we have therefore thought it our duty, to give more particularly the authority on which we made that publication. It appears from the following notes:—
E. P.
To Wm. Hunter Esq. Saturday morning. Sir, I enclose the leading article in the American Citizen of this morning for
your perusal, and beg you to favor me with such answer as I may lay before the public.
Yours, with esteem, Wm. COLEMAN.
To Wm. COLEMAN, Esq. I regret that the information I gave you yesterday, should have occasioned the remarks in the Citizen.
I certainly have not circulated the report attributed to me, that "the state of Kentucky was in rebellion." I have only cautiously related information, apparently derived from a direct and authentic source. I left Washington early on Sunday morning; at that time there was no report current there, of an express from Kentucky. But on my arrival at Baltimore, in company with the hon. J. Mason, Senator from Massachusetts, a gentleman of Mr. Mason's acquaintance called on him, and in my presence communicated the intelligence substantially as stated in your paper of yesterday, and declared he had the information from the Messenger from Kentucky himself, who was then in the house (Evans's) at Baltimore and who had left Washington that morning.
I remain, Sir, yours, WILLIAM HUNTER. March 5, 1803.
The legislature of Massachusetts have chosen TIMOTHY PICKERING, Senator of the United States, in room of Dwight. Foster resigned.
In the Senate he had 17 votes out of 27; and in the House of Assembly 59, out of 116—the majority in the former being 7, and in the latter ONE.
Such is the federalism of Massachusetts, the great pillar of Eastern politics. The majority of one reminds us of Lincoln's majority of one in the British Parliament in favor of continuing the war with this country.
House of Assembly of New York, February 28.
Mr. Woodworth, from the committee appointed to enquire into and report on the expediency of dividing this State into Districts for the choice of Electors of President and Vice-President of the U. States, reported as follows, to wit:
That by the Constitution of the United States, it is directed that each state shall appoint in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in Congress.
Your committee are of opinion, that by a fair construction of the preceding clause, the appointment of Electors ought to be made by the people; and that the manner of conducting the Election, whether by a General Ticket, or by House Districts, be prescribed by the Legislature.
Your committee are induced to believe this opinion is strongly supported by certain other parts of the Constitution, particularly by the clause directing the choice of Senators by the Legislature, which is definite and explicit, and had it been intended to confer this important power on the Legislatures of the several states, it is highly probable the intent would have been more clearly expressed.
Your committee do not consider the word state as synonymous with legislature in this clause of the Constitution, and consequently an Examination of the expediency or policy of a law, directing the choice of Electors by the People, becomes a secondary consideration, when it is believed to be the duty of the Legislature to carry it into effect without reference to its operation on the political parties which divide the Community.
Your committee submit to the consideration of the house, their opinion, that this State be divided by law into nineteen Districts for the election of Electors of President and Vice-President.
Ordered, That the said Report be committed to a committee of the whole House.
Mr. Cocke, senator from Tennessee, received letters from various parts of that state on the 3d of March, which expressed the utmost confidence in the general government, and stating the general disposition of the people of that state to be in unison with the executive, a determination to suffer a partial evil rather than create universal distress, and until the result of the measures taken should be known,
A Blacksmith, who is a prime work-man, and his Wife, an excellent Washer and Ironer. Enquire of the Printer. Feb. 21.
LOMBARDY POPLARS.
A REPORT being in circulation, that the subscriber has disposed of all his Lombardy Poplars, and which being entirely false, he begs leave to inform those who may wish to plant, that he has a number of handsome trees which will be delivered in any part of the city, or George Town, at 20 cents each. THEO. HOLT. March 11, 1803.
WILD MEDLEY.
WILL stand in the city of Washington, to be let to mares at twenty five dollars the season, which will commence on the 10th of March instant, and end on the 10th day of August next; but twenty dollars will be received in full discharge, if paid within the season, and one dollar to the groom in all cases.
PEDIGREE.
Wild Medley was gotten by the imported horse old Medley, his dam by Wild Air, his great grand dam by Shandy, his great grand dam was the famous running mare old Sportley, which was gotten by old Janu.
Meaux Thornton, Lewis Burwell.
I had the following from good authority. Wild Medley, (which was foaled the property of Mr. Nuttall of Gloucester county) ran at four years old four times, and never was pushed, but won every race under a hard pull.
William Johnston. I do certify, that I had two foals got by Wild Medley, a filly four years old this spring sold to John T. Yoe, Esquire, of Mount Airy, for 1200 dollars, and a colt now three years old this spring, for which I would not take less than 1500 dollars; and I also am acquainted with several of Wild Medley's colts, which I think as fine as any I know, and I think him as good a foal-getter as any horse that ever stood in these parts.
John Wood.
Gloucester county, March 1, 1803. Wood's filly w. the Urbanna Sweepstakes last June, bearing Mr. Hall's horse; my filly, by Cormorant; and colt, Kemp's filly, by America; and I think (but am unable to say positively) the distance the field the second heat.
John Taylor.
I do certify, that I have seen Wood's filly and colt now in training at Mount Airy, the filly of John Taylor, Esq. and I think them both elegant; the colt the finest of his age I ever saw.
50 Dollars Reward.
Broke Jail on the night of the 23d of February last, James Ellis, supposed to be thirty years old and six feet high, he was under two indictments one for larceny, the other for horse stealing.
NATHAN SMITH, Sheriff. Calvert County. March 11, 1803.
This is to give Notice,
THAT the Subscribers of Washington County in the District of Columbia, have obtained from the Orphans Court of Prince Georges county, in Maryland, letters of Administration on the personal estate of JOSEPH COOK, late of said county, deceased.
Given under our hands this tenth day of March 1803.
ROBERT BROWN, THOMAS WILSON, } Administrators. March 11.
Maps, Plans and Charts, JOHN MARCH, STATIONER.
George Town, Potomack. Has Received from England the following Maps, Plans & Charts, viz. MAPS of South America, South Carolina & Georgia, Province of New-York, St. Domingo, New-Jersey, Province of New Hampshire, Newfoundland, Rhode Island, Yucatan, and Frontiers of Georgia. Plans of Newport, City of New York, Environs of New-York, St. Lucia, St. John's, Port Royal, and Port Royal. Charts of Trinidad, Sandy-Hook, Windward Passage, Harbour of St. Johns, Tortugas and Florida Keys, and Gulf of St. Lawrence. The above are by Faden, of London; and will be sold cheap for Cash. March 7.
PUBLIC SALE.
Will be offered to morrow, to the highest bidder, at the Auction Room in this town, at ten o'clock, A. M. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, viz. 9 Bedsteads, 5 with curtains, to suit. 6 Beds with bolsters. 2 Mahogany dining tables, little used. 4 ditto. Tea do. 4 Cherry do. 5 Small do. 1 Set of Drawers. 3 and a half dozen of Windsor chairs. A soap jar, containing about 40 gallons. Carpets, And-Lions, and a variety of Kitchen furniture, &c.
Sugar, Whiskey, and Currants by the barrel. Tea, Sugar, and Chees. Soap, Candles, and Soaps by the box. James River tobacco, in hogs. Ironmongery, and a few Crates of Ear then Ware. Chints, Calico, and hams, hams by the piece, silk and cotton handkerchiefs and shawls. Cloth, calimere and kerseys. A large supply of new watches. An eight day clock. Some Spy Glass.
A handsome Chariot. JEREMIAH CONNOR, And't. N. B. It not sold to morrow, the sale of the foregoing articles will be continued every Wednesday and Saturday, until all is sold. George Town, 11th March, 1803.
NOTICE.
In the case of Frederick Conrad, Bankrupt.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy under the act of Congress, entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States," hath been awarded against Frederick Conrad, of the City and county of Washington, merchant and trader—And whereas the major part of the Commissioners in said commission named, have declared the said Frederick Conrad, Bankrupt within the meaning of said act of Congress—he is hereby required to surrender himself to the said commissioners in said commission named, or the major part of them on the ninth day of March next, on the twenty fifth day of said March, and on the tenth day of April next, at the hours of 4 o'clock, P. M. on each of said days, at the Public Goal of Washington County—then and there to make a full and fair disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects—At the said meetings, or any of them, the creditors of the said Bankrupt, are required to prove their debts—at the second, to choose an assignee or assignees of his estate—and at the third to assent or dissent from any of the property of the said bankrupt, or who are indebted to him, are hereby required to pay and deliver the same to J. C. DENT, Sec. To the Commissioners. February 28th, 1803.
NOTICE.
THE SUBSCRIBERS to the THEATRE in the City of Washington, are requested to meet at Mr. Lovell's Hotel, on Saturday morning next 10 o'clock, for the purpose of making arrangements for forwarding that object. March 11.
DEMOCRAT.
WILL cover Mares from this day until the fifth day of July next at the Subscriber's Farm near Mr. Baldwin's Tavern (Prince Georges county) at sixteen dollars each, and one dollar to the groom, the money to be paid at the time of covering, or before the Mares are taken away.
Democrat will be six years old in May next—his form and blood is greatly admired by the best of judges—his performance on the turf has been pleasing to all who have not been interested against him, winning several matches, sweepstakes, Jockey club and subscription parties.
Any person sending mares to Democrat before grails becomes plenty, can be accommodated with grain at market price. Pasturage can be had (when grails becomes plenty) at 2 ad. per week, but not liable for accidents or escapes; every attention will be paid to prevent either.
ISAAC DUCKETT.
Mr. Isaac Ducket's Bay Horse Democrat, was bred by me, got by Col. Talce's grey horse Diomed, his dam by Mr. Fails imported Horse Eclipse, grandam by Don Carlos who was got by Dr. Hamilton's imported Horse Figure out of his famous running Mare Primrose, grand grandam by Dr. Hamilton's imported Horse Ranger, who was got by Martindale's Regulus—Regulus was got by the Godolphin Arabian, his great grand grandam by Dr. Hamilton's imported Horse Dove, who was also got by the Godolphin Arabian, his great, great, great dam by Othello, out of Othello's old Salema and full sister to Mr. William Brent's Ebony and Mr. Saml. Galloway's old Selena. I certify the above to be a true Pedigree. WALTER BOWNE. March 4.
The professorship in the STEVENSBURG ACADEMY being still vacant, I am instructed by the Trustees to make it known that application by letter or otherwise, from persons desirous of engaging in the office of Instructor in the said Academy will meet with the most pointed attention. By order of the board of Trustees, CHARLES CARTER, President. Culpener, Virg. Feb. 14.
Public Sale.
WILL be sold on Tuesday the 15th instant, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon for CASH, at the House occupied by the subscriber on the New-Jersey Avenue, sundry articles of Household and Kitchen FURNITURE, consisting of Mahogany Tables, pine and walnut ditto, chairs, beadle 4 and bedstead—a side board, chest of drawers, looking glasses, pots ovens, &c. &c. LUND WASHINGTON. March 9.

ORDERED, That the act, entitled an act respecting the debts due to this state, and the debtors thereof, and for other purposes, be published once in each day, for the space of four weeks successively, in the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the Baltimore American, the Telegraph; the National Intelligencer; Mr. Smith's paper, at Balto; Mr. Bailliff's paper, at Frederick-Town, and Mr. Grievess's paper, at Hager's town.
An ACT respecting the debts due to this state, and the debtors thereof and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, by the general assembly of Maryland, That the creditors of the respective shores, with the advice and under the direction of the governor and council, be and they are hereby vested with all and singular the powers and authorities necessary for, and incident to, the demanding, requiring and obtaining, the payment of all arrearages and balances, whatever due to the state from the debtors thereof; and the said creditors of the eastern and western shores, and the auditor, are hereby severally required to furnish the governor and council, when required, with correct statements of such arrearages and balances; and the governor and council are hereby authorised and empowered to direct suits to be commenced against such debtors of the state as they may think proper and expedient, and appoint an attorney or attorneys to prosecute and conduct any particular suit or suits, so directed to be brought and commenced as aforesaid; provided, that all debts due to the state shall be paid to the treasurer of the western or eastern shore respectively, and to no other person or persons whatsoever.
And be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to make composition with any of the debtors of the state, and direct the respective creditors to take bonds to the state with sufficient security, and give time for payment, not exceeding two years.
And be it enacted, That the several sheriffs and clerks of the several courts shall make payment of all monies due to the state, and received by them, or which may be due to the state by them, for fines, penalties, forfeitures and amerciaments, and forfeited recognizances, and for ordinary, retainer and marriage licences within the time limited by law, and if necessary, the governor and council may direct suits to be brought against any defaulting sheriff or clerk for recovery of the same, and may credit any money that the party is not chargeable with by law.
And be it enacted, That in all cases of unliquidated debts, where the same shall be considered insecure, and in all cases of suits depending in chancery with any state debtors, the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to make compromises upon such terms and principles as they shall think equitable and just; and under the terms of any compromise made as aforesaid, the property heretofore purchased shall be taken back and reselled in the state, the governor and council may appoint a fit and proper person to sell the same at public sale, upon such terms, and upon such terms, as they shall direct; and the said person so appointed, before he proceeds to act, shall give bond to the state, with sufficient security, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him, and shall take bonds to the state, with good and sufficient security, to be approved of by the treasurer of the respective shores, if such sale shall be directed to be on a credit, which shall in no case exceed two years, and the bonds, when taken, shall be deposited with the treasurer of the western shore, and reported by the treasurer to the next general assembly thereafter.
And be it enacted, That in all cases in chancery where no compromise is effected, the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to direct the attorney general to prosecute and defend the same to immediate final decision, and in cases of difficulty, to direct aid to the attorney general, by employing any person to attend to surveys where necessary, or otherwise to assist in the prosecution or defence of said suits, to be paid out of the contingent fund of five hundred pounds.
And be it enacted, That if any bond debtor to the state for confiscated property, or otherwise, shall neglect to
make payment agreeably to the condition of his bond, and sundry resolves of the general assembly, the governor and council may direct process to issue for the whole principal and interest then due, or may proceed on any execution against any state debtor already issued, and served and returned, as occasion may require, or may direct any execution to be delayed as long as they may think expedient and necessary; and no process shall issue against any of the public debtors unless by the direction of the governor and council; and all sales of property taken by fieri facias on the suit of the state, may be suspended by the governor and council from time to time, as they may think most to the advantage of the state, and may direct executions against the body of any state debtor to be entered "not called by consent."
Whereas many persons have made discoveries of British property, confiscated property, or property liable to confiscation, to the governor and council, the late intendant, and late agents of the state, and have made application to purchase the same upon the terms held out by law to the discoverers; And whereas there is no person invested with authority to estimate the value, or fix a reasonable price for the said property, and to compound with the person or persons making such discovery, or with the person or persons applying to purchase the same. Be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby empowered to compound with all persons who have heretofore made discovery of British property, confiscated property, or property liable to confiscation, either to the governor and council, the late intendant, or any of the state agents, and to allow not exceeding one third of the value of such property to any person or persons having made such discovery, and who shall make application to the governor and council on or before the first day of May next, to compound for and purchase the same, and the said governor and council are hereby authorised to dispose of such property to such applicants, and take bonds with good and sufficient security, to be approved of by the treasurer of the western shore, for the purchase money, bearing interest, payable to the state at the periods that may be agreed on.
And be it enacted, That if such discoverers shall not make known to the governor and council the title of the state to the property aforesaid, on or before the first day of May next, or shall refuse or neglect, on or before that day, to agree for the purchase of the same, that then the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised to sell and dispose of the state's right to the said property to any person or persons applying to purchase the same, or may appoint a fit and proper person as aforesaid, who shall give bond as aforesaid, to sell the same at public sale in the manner as herein before directed, without making such discoveries, who refuse or neglect as aforesaid, any compensation.
And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons purchasing as aforesaid any confiscated British property under the authority of this act, to prosecute any suit or suits, either in law or equity, in the name of the state, for recovery of said property for their use; provided that the said state shall not be liable to pay any costs incurred in prosecution of said suits, but that the same shall be paid by the person or persons for whose use said suits shall be prosecuted; and provided also, that in all such sales, so to be made by the governor and council, or under their direction and appointment, it shall be made known, and it shall be a condition thereof, that they only sell the right of the state thereto, and that the state doth not warrant the title to the same, or any part thereof, but that the purchase must be in all respects at the risk of the purchaser.
And be it enacted, That on all sales to be made by the governor and council, and under their direction and appointment, of confiscated property, in pursuance of this act, deeds shall be executed by the chancellor to the purchaser or purchasers, in the same manner as for other confiscated property heretofore disposed of.
And be it enacted, That in all cases where bonds shall be taken in virtue of this act, such bonds shall be a lien on the real property of the obligors from the date thereof, or on so much of the said real property as the governor and council shall think sufficient, to be particularly mentioned in a schedule to be annexed to the said bond, in which case it shall be a lien on the property contained in such schedule, and no more, such bond and schedule to be lodged with the treasurer of the western shore, and all such bonds shall express the county in which the obligors respectively reside; and the treasurer of the respective shores shall, within one month after they receive them respectively, cause them, with the schedules annexed to them, to be recorded in the office of the clerks of the western and eastern shores respectively, at the expense of the obligors, and a copy of said record, certified under the hand and official seal of the clerk in whose office the same record shall have been made, shall be as good evidence in any court of law or equity in this state
as the original bond would be if it was produced.
And be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby requested to make communications to the next general assembly of the several proceedings under this act.
And be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised to allow to any person whom they shall think proper to appoint to sell any real property directed to be sold in virtue of this act, a sum not exceeding three per centum on the amount of any sale.
THEO. HOLT
Has for sale, at his Nursery Garden, Eastern Branch, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS,
Which he has imported from London, per ship Sheppard, to Norfolk, and others of his own laying—consisting of    Early  White Spanish do.    Early Charlton do.  Early Scarlet Radish.    Dwarf Marrowfat do.  Mixed do.    Large Marrowfat do.  Spanish do.    Dwarf Prussian do.  White Turnip do.    Dwarf Union do.  Long Prickly Cucumber.    Dwarf Prussian do.  Green Turkey do.    Large Windsor Beans.  Nasurtion.    Turkey-Longpod do.  Parley.    Dwarf French do.  Spinage.    Lima do.  Red Beet.    Saddlecrop do.  Early Horn Carrot.    Early York Cabbage.  Long Orange do.    Early Battersea do.  Large Parsnip.    Early Sugarloaf do.  Loaf Lettuce.    Large Drumhead do.  Brown Dutch do.    Green Savoy do.  Mixed do many sorts.    Red Pickling do.  Solid Celery.    Scotch Kale.  Echive.    Broccoli (lots mixed)  White Asparagus.    Early Cauliflower.  Common.    Late do.  Salsify, &c. &c. &c.    Early Dutch Turnip.     Large Triangular Onion.     A variety of different kinds of Fruit Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Flower Seeds, Garden Pies and Rakes, various sizes; imported Roots of fine Mixed Tulips, Double Hyacinths, Double Jonquils, Crown Imperials, Double Snow Drops, Acetosella, Persian Ranunculus, Persian Iris, Crocuses, &c. A quantity of Lombardy Poplars, proper size for planting.
Washington, Jan. 21, 1803. 2wtf
Valuable Lands For Sale.
Will be sold to the highest bidder by the Executors of the late GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON, the following tracts of Land, at the times and places hereafter mentioned, viz.
On the first Monday in April on the premises.
600 acres lying in Charles County in the state of Maryland near a place called the fifth Trap, about 16 miles above Port-tobacco.
On the 2d Monday in April on the premises.
519 acres in Montgomery county in the state of Maryland, in the neighbourhood of Frederick town, not far from Kitto's.
On the 15th day of April at Charles Town.
453 acres in Jefferson county Virginia, about two miles west of Charles town, also, 220 acres lying in Hampshire county on Potomac river, about 12 miles above Bath.
On the 16th of April on the premises.
1600 acres in Jefferson county on the south fork of Bullskin.
On the 16th day of April on the premises.
183 acres in Jefferson county in Wormleys line.
On the 20th of April on the premises.
571 acres in Frederick county 1 1/2 miles south of Battle town.
On the 22d of April at Paris.
2481 acres on Ashbey's, and 335 acres on Chatins run in Fauquier county.
One-fourth of the amount of the purchase money to be paid down, and the balance in three annual instalments to be secured by a mortgage on the premises, and to carry interest from the day of sale.
THE EXECUTORS. Feb. 28. March 4—ept22a.
ELISHA RIGGS,
BRIDGE STREET.
Has an extensive assortment of dry goods, viz.
SUPERFINE London Cloths and Cambric, fashionable corals and waistcoatings, fine Irish and white Russia sheeting, best double milled drab cloths, Italian crapes, lace, lace veils and shadys, best white Satin, black satin and interlinings, madras plaids for dresses and shawls 5-4, 4-4 and 7-8, fine London, Chintzes very fine, and other linen and cotton cambricks, ladies and mens pocket books, and gloves, fine nap'd calimerees and coatings, ladies and mens silk and cotton hosiery very fine, sheeting flannels and cottons, cotton counterpans, and robe blankets, mens Satins, Corantine and Toilets, Irish and German Linens, morocco, kid, and leather shoes and boots.
ALSO,
Many other articles, which being selected on the best terms, will be sold very low for cash.
George Town, Feb. 14. em&3w.
FOR SALE.
EXCELLENT Butter in Firkins, Whiskey in Barrels, and Sherry Wine in quarter Casks.
WM. BRENT, New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol. Feb. 4. tf.
JUST RECEIVED,
And for Sale by the Subscriber,
A quantity of Bacon, Hogs
Lard, firkin Butter, Whisky, bar Iron, Plain Moulds, &c. &c. He has on hand a general assortment of Carpenter's tools, of a very good quality; all kinds of which will be sold low for cash.
ALEXA. MCCORMICK. March. 2. tf.
City Hotel,
BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favors will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation.
Boarding may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging, and sitting rooms; and, if preferred, have dinner &c. in their apartments.
The Hotel being so well known, it is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the state of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island &c. &c.
A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal story; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in.
Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past 2 o'clock, by the public's obedient servant.
JOHN LOVETT. N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802. eptf.
FOR SALE OR RENT,
THAT elegant three story BRICK HOUSE, on the corner of Falls & Frederick Street in George Town, lately occupied by Mr. Picton.
Likewise,
THE two well finished three story BRICK HOUSES, adjoining that occupied by Mr. Samuel H. Smith, Printer, on the Pennsylvania Avenue, east of the centre Market House, City of Washington—Apply to GEORGE THOMPSON, George Town. tf.
Geo. Town, Oct. 20.
Members of Congress, Travellers, and those gentlemen whose business call them to the City of Washington, are respectfully informed that the subscriber has established the
UNION TAVERN & WASHINGTON HOTEL,
On Pennsylvania Avenue, first house east of the President's, and one mile from the Capitol.
THERE is a pavement all the way, and the accommodations are equal to any in the United States, having thirty rooms fitted up in an elegant manner. Also, a large Coffee Room, 30 feet by 22—and a room over the same, now finishing, convenient for the reception of any public meeting, with a pleasant view of the Potomac and the surrounding country. All the principal newspapers in the Union are taken and regularly filed.
WILLIAM LOVELL. N. B.—To Let, a coach and single horse chair. Nov. 26. tf.
170,038 Acres of Land.
THIS body of land, in one entire and inclusive survey, is offered for sale to any individual or company, who may incline to purchase for the purposes of settlement and emigration. It is situated in the state of Virginia, on the Great Kenawha River, Montgomery county, and is distinguished by the name of "The Great Bent of the Kenawha," being intersected by the Piney river, Great and Little Blackstone rivers, Coal river, and uyandot river, as also by numerous other creeks and waters, running into said rivers Numerous mill-sites, inexhaustible bodies of coal, and great appearances of ores, metals, salt springs and salt licks, are to be found on this tract, besides which, sugar may be made thereon to any amount, the sugar treacand boning in almost every part.
For fertility of soil, growth of timber, fitness for cultivation, salubrity of climate, and natural advantages, this body of land stands unrivalled by any tract of equal quantity in Western America; it will be submitted for sale to an entire purchaser, until the first day of June next, on very advantageous terms; after which, it cannot be disposed of at any price the present proprietor being compelled to a division thereof. An indefeasible title will be given, and for further particulars, as to terms of sale and payment, enquire of JOHN BECKLEY, Esq. Clerk to the House of Representatives of the United States, at the city of Washington. November 1, 1802. tf.
CHARLES VARDEN,
TAYLOR,
From PHILADELPHIA.
HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Calimerees, Silk florantine, black and fancy silk moleskin velvet, white & figured Marcellies, Swandowns, Toiletties, Velveteens, Fancy cords, Coating, &c.
With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season.
N. B. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion.
New-Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol Square. December 8, 1802. tf.
Thomas Carpenter,
TAYLOR,
HAS received a very handsome assortment of goods, consisting of superfine cloths, calimerees and coatings of all colours.
Patent water proof Cloths,
Silk and woolen Molekins, Toiletties, velveteens, &c. of superior quality.
From which, and an acquisition of the newest fashions and the best workmen, he can assure whatever commanded.
Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square, and New Jersey Avenue, about eight houses from Capitol Square. Dec. 1, 1802. tf.
TO BE LET,
And immediate possession given, Two new two story BRICK HOUSES, completely finished, with extensive back-buildings, situated at the intersection of B and thirteen streets, immediately in neighbourhood of the Bank, and within four hundred feet of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city of Washington. For terms which will be very moderate, apply to Mr. BENJAMIN PATTERSON, near the Union Tavern, George-town, or in Baltimore to D. WILLIAMSON. George-town, 26 Jan. 1803. 19t.
NOTICE.
In the matter of JOHN JACK, Bankrupt.
THE subscriber being appointed Attorney of the Estate and effects of JOHN JACK Bankrupt. All persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, are requested to make immediate payment otherwise legal steps will be indiscriminately taken to compel them.
RICHARD FORREST, Assignee. Jan. 26. tf.
TO LET,
And be entered upon immediately, three well finished BRICK HOUSES,
NEARLY opposite Morin's Tavern, on Twelfth street very near Pennsylvania Avenue, built for the WASHINGTON BUILDING COMPANY.
The Houses will be rented on very reasonable terms.
Apply to THOMAS CARPENTER near the President's Square. Dec. 18. eptf.
NOTICE.
THE inhabitants of the 8th district of the city of Washington (which includes all that part of the City south of Pennsylvania Avenue and west of 6th street west) and others holding property in said district, are hereby informed that the subscriber will attend for the purpose of receiving their taxes at Mr. Rhodes Tavern from the first day of next month (every day Sunday excepted, from 3 o'clock P. M. till 6 o'clock P. M.) to the 31st thereof. It is hoped early attention will be had to this notice, as the law requires the tax shall be paid within one month from the date of notice, otherwise their property will be subject to distress and sale which will be very disagreeable to the subscriber.
WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of the City of Washington. Feb. 28. 2aw6w.
NOTICE.
This is to give Notice, that the Subscriber, of Washington City, have obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, letters of Administration on the personal estate of JOHN MCCARTY, late of the City and County of Washington deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at or before the 26th day of August next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate.
Given under our hands this 24th day of February A. D. 1803.
REDMOND BARRY } Admrs. MICHAEL SCOTT }
N. B. Such persons who have in their possession, books or other property of the deceased will please to deliver them to the administrators without delay. R. B. M. S. 2w3w.
SALES BY AUCTION.
By order of the Orphans Court, of the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, will be sold to the highest bidder, at the Auction Room of the subscriber in George Town, on Wednesday the 16th of March next, at 11 o'clock A. M. the personal property of JOHN MCCARTY, late of the City of Washington, deceased, consisting of wearing apparel, Household Furniture, and sundry other articles.
ALSO,
Will be sold on the premises, to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 31st March next, the right and title of the said deceased to the following property on Capitol Hill, in the said city of Washington, namely a half-Lot in square 690, with the two story frame house, completely finished, thereon erected—part of Lot No. 3, in square No. 7, with the two story frame house thereon erected, at which is kept the hay scales. Terms of Sale Cash, for all sums under 20 dollars, for all sums above 20 dollars, a credit of six months will be given by giving bonds or notes with approved security, bearing interest from the day of sale.
J. CONNOR, Auctioneer. Geo. Town, March 2. 2w.
NOTICE.
Will be sold, on the premises, to the highest bidder, for cash, on Thursday the third day of March next, at 11 o'clock, A. M.—
A Lot of Ground in the City of Washington on square numbered 950, fronting 15 feet on G street, and 50 feet on 9th street, each being a little east of the Marine Barracks.
This lot is offered for sale to satisfy a debt due to me by HENRY DUNLAP of George Town. The title is indisputable. ALEXANDER MCCORMICK. Feb. 18th 1802. tf.
TO RENT.
The Subscriber will Rent on reasonable terms a two story BRICK DWELLING HOUSE and lot—
SITUATED near the Capitol of the United States, in square 759.—Possession may be had immediately by,
SAMUEL N. SMALLWOOD.
N. B. I will exchange the above property in part for land in or near the District of Columbia. Feb. 7. 2aw3w.