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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. VI.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DCCCLXI.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1806.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
REPORT.
The committee on public lands, to whom was referred a resolution on the 26th day of March, directing them to enquire into the expediency of all such parts of the several acts, providing for the sales of the lands of the United States, as authorize a credit on any part of the purchase money of said lands, respectfully submit the following
REPORT.  The public lands are now sold in sections, half sections, and quarter sections; that is, in lots of six hundred and forty, three hundred and twenty, and one hundred and sixty acres, at not less than two dollars per acre, the purchaser paying one-fourth of the purchase money before he can procure a certificate descriptive of the tract purchased, for be considered as a purchaser, another fourth part in two years, another fourth part in three years, and the remaining fourth part in four years from the time of making the purchase. No interest is charged if the instalments are punctually paid as they become due; but in case of failure in punctuality of payment, interest is calculated from the time of sale. If full and complete payment is not made for any tract in one year after the last instalment has become due, such tracts to be sold by the register of the land office, at public vendue, for a price not less than the whole amount due thereon, with the expense of sale, provided it will sell for so much; but if it will not, then the land is to revert to the United States, and the purchaser forfeits all he may have paid.
By a reference to the report of the secretary of the treasury, made on the 10th of December last, it appears that the balance due from purchasers of public lands in the state of Ohio, amounted, exclusively of interest,
on the 1st October, 1803, to 1,092,390 on the 1st October, 1804, to 1,434,212 on the 1st October, 1805, to 2,094,305
From this statement it appears, that the debt in the course of the two last years has nearly doubled, and it must continue to increase, not only in proportion to the increase of sales, but from an accumulation of arrears arising from failure in punctuality of payment.
By a letter and statement received from the secretary of the treasury, and which are herewith annexed, and to be considered as part of this report, it appears that there was due on the 1st day of January last, on account of purchases made prior to the 1st day of January, 1804, upwards of 229,000 dollars, which, according to law, be paid in the course of the present year, or the lands be exposed to sale. This sum, as appears by the secretary's letter, is due from three hundred and nine persons. Although no sales have yet taken place, there is no doubt but some must be made, or the lands revert to the United States, if the law is rigidly executed. A very large proportion of the debtors whose lands are thus to be sold, or to revert, in the course of the present year, are no doubt inhabitants of the state of Ohio. It appears doubtful whether under these circumstances an attempt to sell would be attended with success. Judging from what has happened in similar cases in other states, a strong presumption arises, that a sale of the lands cannot be effected so as to raise the money. Few men are willing to incur the resentment of their neighbors by bidding for their property at public vendue, even when other neighbours are the creditors; and when the public is concerned, scarcely a man will be found hardy enough to do it. The lands will, therefore, in many instances revert to the government, encumbered by the occupancy of a tenant, who ought to be evicted before another sale should be made. It might be added, that few strangers would run the risk of bidding for property at a vendue, when the united interest of the whole neighborhood was opposed to the sale.
Should this, on experience, prove to be the case, and the increase of the number of debtors bear any proportion to the increase of debt, as under the temptation held out by the present system of credit it no doubt will, there is reason to apprehend, that in a few years more there will be serious cause of alarm, not only on account of the debt due, but even for the lands which may remain unsold in that section of the union. Strongly impressed as the committee are with this opinion, and believing, as they do for the reasons assigned by the secretary of the treasury in his letter herewith submitted, that in abolishing the credit given by the present system, and hereafter selling the public lands for ready money only, the actual receipts into the treasury from this source would be very little, if at all reduced, and the revenue of course but little affected, they feel themselves constrained to adopt the opinion that it would be expedient to abolish the present system.
In expressing this opinion, the committee feel some diffidence. The present system was adopted on mature deliberation, and so far has succeeded very well in its operation; but by the ac-
cumulation of debts the evils which were dreaded, now begin to unfold themselves, and certainly wear an unpleasant aspect.
It is not believed that the proposed change of system will operate any serious inconvenience to persons whose circumstances furnish them any prospect of becoming purchasers. The small tracts in which the lands are now offered for sale place them in the reach of every person who emigrates to that country with a view of purchasing; and unless the price should be greatly reduced, monied capitalists will not be induced to engage in that extensive speculation in land, which some years since prevailed so generally in every part of the country, and from which so many mischiefs have resulted.
The committee, on a full consideration of the subject, are induced respectfully to submit the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is expedient to repeal all such parts of the laws respecting the sale of the public lands, as authorise a credit on any part of the purchase money.
LETTER.
Treasury Department, March 28, 1806.
SIR,  I had the honor to receive your letter of yesterday, requesting such information as may be connected with the proposition to repeal so much of the existing laws as authorises a credit on any part of the purchase money of the public lands.
It will be seen by recurrence to the report made by this department, on the 10th December, 1805, (statements G. and C.) that the balance due by purchasers of public lands, in the state of Ohio, amounted exclusively of interest, on the
1st October, 1803, to 1,092,390 1st October, 1804, to 1,434,212 And 1st October, 1805, to 2,094,305  The debt has therefore been increased one million of dollars, or nearly doubled in two years, and it will every year be augmented, not only in proportion to the increase of sales, but also on account of the accumulation of arrears which may not be punctually paid.  It also appears by the enclosed statement, that the sum due on the first of Jan. last, for purchases made prior to the year 1805, and which ought to have been completely discharged before the end of the year 1805, is exclusively of interest 207,409 dolls. 82 cents. The interest due on that sum is estimated at about 22,000 dolls. the number of persons by whom it is due is 309; and it is estimated that the sum, including interest, which is due by persons who have paid only the first instalment, is, 166,000 By persons who have paid the two first instalments, 28,000 By persons who have paid the three first instalments, 35,000 Making for principal and interest as above, Dolls. 229,000
In every case where these arrears will not be paid at the end of five years from the date of the purchase (which for the above sum will be at various dates but all in the course of this year) the land will, according to law, be sold or revert to the United States; but there is little danger of that contingency taking place in cases where the two or three first instalments have already been paid.
I feel no hesitation in repeating the opinion which was expressed two years ago, to a committee of the House, that sales for cash only would in every respect be preferable to the present mode.
Although no symptoms of that kind have yet appeared, the accumulation of a debt of 2,000,000 of dolls. due by more than two thousand heads of families, and which is every day increasing in amount, and extending to a greater number of persons, may ultimately create in that section of the union a powerful interest, hostile to the federal government, and which would endanger both the outstanding debt and the lands unsold.
The revenue will not be affected by the change; for although a less quantity of lands will be sold, the actual receipts will continue to be in proportion to the existing means of payment; for such is the demand for the public lands, that the sales are limited only by the resources of the inhabitants & emigrants.
Nor is it believed that the measure will ultimately be injurious to the persons who become purchasers. Although some may thereby be prevented from purchasing, the number of actual delinquents shews that the credit allowed often induces individuals to make purchases beyond their means, and not less prejudicial to themselves than to the public. It must also be observed, that though the nominal price on which lands are sold on credit be two dollars per acre, the cash price, supposing the whole payment to be made at the time of the purchase, is only (on account of the discount of eight per cent. a year on the three last instalments, which is allowed for prompt payment) one dollar and sixty-four cents per acre. A quarter section, containing 160 acres, will therefore cost only 262 dollars and 40 cents. Prior to the act which authoris-
ed the sales of land in quarter sections, no man could become a purchaser unless he paid, within three months thereafter, 320 dollars if he had purchased an entire section, and 160 dollars, if his purchase was for a half section. This shews that under the proposed alteration it will require only one hundred dollars more in hand to become a purchaser, than was necessary under the former system. Should, however, that be considered as a formidable objection, I would think a moderate reduction of the price of lands less injurious than a continuation of the present mode.
I will only add, that if credits shall not be allowed hereafter, some indulgence, in point of time, may be given to those former purchasers, whose lands will otherwise be sold during the course of this year, on account of their not having completed the payments within five years from the time of purchase. Should the present system be continued, a more rigid enforcement of the law will be necessary.
I have the honor to be, Respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN. The honorable ANDREW GREGG, Chairman of the committee on public lands.
Amount of instalments becoming due for lands purchased of the U. States in the year 1801. No interest is included in the instalment.
   OFFICES. NUMBER OF PURCHASERS. Amount of 2d instalments,   One hundred & twenty-nine. Seventy-four. One hundred and three. Three.     Chillicothe. 25,157 25,157 43 14,305 63 9,447 83 638 63   Cincinnati. 26,607 97 26,607 97 15,105 43 15,945 27 938 65   Steubenville. 39,399 75 39,399 75 25,739 73 25,467 10 928 65   Marietta, &c. 91,156 36 91,156 36 59,150 81 54,836 20 2,235 93   TOTAL. 120,721 51 74,901 60 105,696 40 2,741 86   Dollars 207,409 82  
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, MARCH 10.
DEBATE
On Mr. Gregg's resolution.
[Mr. Nicholson's Speech, concluded.]  Let us, however, pursue this resolution through all its effects, and still continue to consider it in as favorable a point of view as its best friends can wish for—let it be admitted, that we can procure from other countries, all those articles which we prohibit the importation of from Britain, and of course that the revenue will not be diminished at all. It may yet be worth while to enquire, whether the necessary consequences that must follow, will not operate most injuriously upon the citizens of the United States—I say nothing of the great difficulty which the importing merchants must experience in changing their course of trade, from that channel in which it has been accustomed to flow, for eighteen or twenty years—appointing new agents, and forming new correspondences upon the continent of Europe, and the absolute impossibility of obtaining the same credit there, that they enjoy in England—these are minor considerations. But, sir, let us enquire, whether the merchants & the agriculturists will experience no loss from this change—we export annually to Great Britain, of domestic produce more than thirteen and an half millions of dollars, and to her colonial possessions, more than six millions, making in the whole upwards of twenty millions of dollars—to all the rest of the world we export in domestic produce, only about nineteen and an half millions of dollars—
from Great Britain we get her manufactures in exchange for our produce, and it is said that we can procure the same articles from other countries—this is admitted for argument sake—but those other countries will not purchase our domestic produce—they do not want it—it must therefore still go to Britain, and her colonies, if, indeed, they will receive it; and it must there be sold—what then will be the state of the case? We shall annually have in England for produce sold there, and for bills of exchange, drawn by the colonies, more than twenty millions of dollars—this sum must be sent to the continent of Europe, to pay for the goods we purchase there. I now, therefore, ask gentlemen if they have calculated the effects of forcing this large sum out of its natural, or rather out of its habitual channel? Have they calculated the effect to be produced on exchange, by sending annually from England, more than twenty millions of dollars, over and above the customary remittances. Let them look to a late occurrence—a considerable sum of money was lately to be remitted from England, to pay the British troops on the continent, and it was necessarily done by bills of exchange—it was, as ours will be, a transaction out of the ordinary course; & I am well informed, that it had the immediate effect to raise the rate of exchange fifteen per cent.—The state of Maryland within the last year had three hundred thousand dollars in England, to be remitted to this country, and even for this small amount, the state was obliged to pay one per cent. above par. Am I not then, fully warranted in saying, that when the American merchants will annually have in England, more than twenty millions of dollars, to be remitted to the continent, to be forced out of its ordinary course, into new and extraordinary channels, that it will raise the price of exchange, at least, from six to ten per cent. and that, therefore, an annual loss will be incurred, from twelve hundred thousand, to two millions of dollars?—This loss will not fall upon those who consume your produce in England, nor I believe upon your own merchants who buy it here—for when they are making their purchases here, they will calculate the losses they are to sustain abroad, and these will be considered in the prices which they will pay—the necessary consequence therefore is, that the price, of American produce must sink in proportion to this great loss, and that the loss, will of course, fall upon American agriculture.
Again, sir, as to the effect upon the market for American produce—we send to England and her colonies large quantities of our native productions—I will instance cotton alone—in 1804, we exported to England 25,770,000 pounds of cotton, valued at 6,184,979 dollars—in 1805 it would be still more, because in 1804 we exported to Liverpool, 78,253 bales, and in the three first quarters of the year 1805, the export to Liverpool was 93,614 bales—thus, it appears, that England is a great and increasing market for our cotton. We import from England all the cotton goods we use, except the white and stained cottons which come from the East Indies. By diminishing the importation of these fabrics, we of course diminish the demand for our own cotton; for nothing is more clear, than that as soon as we refuse to import her cotton manufactures, she must refuse to buy of us the raw material out of which they are made. The consequence will be a reduction in the price of our cotton, to the amount, probably of fifty or one hundred per cent. With some, however, this reduction in the price may not be very objectionable; I mean with those merchants, who are trading to India with large capitals, and who tell you they can furnish us with cotton goods from thence. For these men say as soon as cotton can be bought in this country at twelve and an half or fifteen cents per pound, it will become a good export to India as a substitute for money. Now, however agreeable it may be, to these merchants to increase their fortunes, by reducing the price of cotton, I imagine it will not be very favourably considered by the planters of the southern states, who send their cotton to England, and sell it from twenty five to sixty cents. This is one of the effects to be produced on the southern states, and the gentleman from Georgia considers them more interested in this measure, than the others. This may be true, but I mean to shew that the middle states are very much interested in it likewise. I do not intend to notice the tobacco of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, although in this article we export to England, from two and an half, to four and an half millions of dollars annually. We export to the British West Indies, in flour, corn meal, other provisions and lumber, annually about six millions and fifty thousand dollars. We receive in return rum, sugar and coffee to the amount of four and an half millions of dollars; the remainder, partly in specie, but principally in bills of exchange on England—if we refuse to take these four millions and an half, in the products of these islands, can the West Indian planter purchase our arti-
cles at as high a price as he now pays for them? Certainly not, and the inevitable effect will be to reduce the value of all those products which are the growth of the middle states. In fact it may be said generally, that when you prohibit the importation into this country of all articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain, you thereby diminish their ability to purchase the products of our own country, for which Britain furnishes a greater market than all the rest of the world besides. The more extensive the prohibition, the more extensive the injury to ourselves.
I have examined the resolution of the gentlemen from Pennsylvania, under three different views. First, that the manner in which it is expressed, together with the language of those who supported it, would be calculated to produce war. Secondly, that by adopting it, we should hazard nearly one half of our revenue, a considerable part of which would be lost; and thirdly, that if neither of these effects were produced, the necessary consequence would be a vast diminution in the value of our own products, which would fall upon the agricultural part of the community alone.
I must now be permitted to recur again to the second point for the purpose of shewing that we cannot be supplied with many important articles from other nations, which we get from G. Britain, and of course, that the whole of the revenue collected from these, will be sunk to the U. S. I am aware, Mr. Chairman, of the difficulty of proving a negative—it can only be done by examining the positions held by your adversaries, and by shewing the weakness of their arguments. And here I may be permitted to express a wish, that gentlemen who say we can be supplied from other countries, had offered us, instead of their opinions, some proofs, some authorities. But we have had none. Since I offered a resolution some days ago, for a partial prohibition only, I have been assailed by anonymous letters and anonymous writers in newspapers, attempting to prove that the ground which I then took was not tenable; and I am sorry to say that I have found more argument in them than I have heard on this floor.
My position, when I submitted the resolution for a partial prohibition, was that our revenue was derived from imports—that nearly one half of it arose from the articles imported from G. Britain, and that with a great proportion (in amount) of these we could not be supplied by other nations. This position I still maintain and will endeavour to prove it by the documents now on the table.
From the documents it appears, that although we exported to G. Britain and Ireland, in the year 1804, of our domestic produce, only 11,787,000 dollars, yet that we imported from these two places in goods paying the ad valorem duty, more than double that sum, embracing with inconsiderable exceptions all the woolen, cotton, linen, silk, metal, earthen, glass and and paper manufactures, and amounting to about twenty six millions of dollars. In that year we imported from all the world (including Britain and Ireland) in the same kind of goods paying the ad valorem duty
   Dollars.     From Britain and Ireland 33,772,115   Leaving this as the amount of imports from all other parts of the world 26,000,000   In the same year we exported to all Europe including G. Britain & Ireland of domestic produce 7,772,125   Of this we sent to Britain and Ireland 23,085,000   Leaving for the export to the continent of Europe 11,787,000   Supposing the merchant to have gained for his freight, insurance, risque, &c. only 33 1-3 per cent. and I believe it is more frequently 50 per cent., you must add 11,293,000   Leaving this sum on the continent of Europe at the disposal of our merchants 3,766,110   Of these fifteen millions of dollars about one half are sent to England by means of bills of exchange, to pay for those goods which we get from thence. Now is it not fair to reason, if the goods which we get from Britain and Ireland could be purchased on the continent, that our merchants would supply themselves there, were the money is, rather than be at the trouble, expence, and risque of remitting it to England? If coarse woollen cloths for instance are to be had from Germany, why are they not brought to us? And is it not an incontestible fact that we import none of them? It is, sir, at least, such is the information which I have obtained from mercantile men of the first respectability, both on this floor, and in the large trading towns of the U. S. In fact the information which I have received from them, gives the same result as to wool- 15,054,110  

iron, cotton, metal and earthen manufactures. It appears impossible that we could be supplied from the continent of Europe with these articles, when we could sell our own products at better prices, and obtain these goods on better terms, by exchanging the one for the other in the same market. The truth is that we get none of them. And why? Not because we have not money on the continent to purchase with, but because they are not to be had there.
I offer this as a general argument to meet the assertions of those gentlemen who say that we can be supplied elsewhere than from Britain. It has more than once been alleged that we can get from Germany all the coarse woollen cloths that we require, and Saxony in particular has been mentioned as being capable of furnishing a large supply. I hold in my hand a newspaper containing an extract from a German periodical work. This extract has been published for the purpose of showing that some statements heretofore made by me relative to the German manufactures were incorrect. I do not know that it is quite prudent to notice in the newspapers, articles made upon us in the newspapers, but as there is nothing personal in this, and it is said to contain historical facts, published at this moment for information, I will venture to examine it. What I shall read will be the extracts from the German work. It states that the "electorate of Saxony has about two millions of inhabitants. It contains 89 large and small towns, the inhabitants of which principally subsist by the manufacture of wool. The number of persons employed in the woollen manufactures are calculated at 85,000."
As Saxony has been selected, the presumption is that it is one of the most considerable manufacturing states in Germany, and as a fact of very great importance it is stated that 85,000 of its inhabitants are employed in manufacturing wool. Supposing the same proportion to exist throughout all Germany, between the whole population and that part of it engaged in the manufacture of wool it follows that less than an twentieth part are concerned in this branch. How then can the woollen manufactures in Germany bear a comparison with those of England? The countries in England in which the manufacture of wool is most extensively carried on, are Lancaster, York, Wilts, Gloucester, Somerset, Essex, & Devonshire, and I learn from a work of very high authority, Poxlethway's Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, that in the Parish of Halifax only, in Yorkshire, there are upwards of one hundred thousand persons employed in the manufacture of kerseys alone. If then in a single parish this great number of persons are engaged in manufacturing one species only of coarse cloths, what number may we imagine are employed in the woollen manufacture throughout England? I find from the same authority that not less than one million are engaged in the manufacture of fine cloths only, and as those of a coarser kind are more extensively used, I think it fair to calculate that two millions at least, of the people of England are employed in the manufacture of woollen cloths. This is equal to one fourth of their whole population. What then is the consequence? It is that in England where one fourth of the people carry on the manufacture of wool, they can, not only supply their population (eight millions, but also have large quantities for exportation while in Germany, where it is carried on by a twentieth part only, it is scarcely possible that they can export any, after supplying their own population of about twenty-six millions. I do not believe, however, that they do even supply their own population, and I think this is proved by an extract from the same German work, that I have just read from. "The British manufacturers (says this German author) consider the Saxons as dangerous rivals. British agents by making large purchases in shearing, raised the price of fine wool in Saxony, in 1804, 19 per cent, and of the coarser kinds between 60 and 70 per cent. They endeavored to ruin the Saxon manufacturers, & almost succeeded. When the coarsest wool costs from four to five six dollars, a piece of coarse cloth was sold at 13 to 14 six dollars. Now the same wool costs by reason of British purchases chiefly, 8 to 9 dollars, the price of cloth ought, therefore, to be 30 six dollars, but emportations from England, keep it at 16 to 18 six dollars." What then are the facts disclosed in this extract? They are these, (and I consider them as deciding the question, as to the supply of cloths to be drawn from Germany); that the British manufacturers can go into Saxony, purchase up the Saxon wool, carry it to England, manufacture it into cloth, return with it again to Saxony, pay the duties with double insurance and double freight, and after all, can undersell the Saxon manufacturer in his own market. Again, sir, Poxlethway, in his valuable work, says, that in Leipzig, one of the principal cities of Saxony, and certainly among the most commercial in Germany, at their fairs which are held twice or three times a year, an immense trade is carried on in English cloths. In addition to this, I will state farther, that a most respectable German House to whom I applied by letter, say in their answer, "from the best information, we can collect, we learn that the coarse cloths which are made in Germany, are generally of an indifferent quality, and not faithfully manufactured." Can it then be said, after a knowledge of these facts, that we can be supplied from Germany with those coarse cloths which we now get
from England? The finer ones I believe may be had from France and Holland, but not those of a coarser kind. Gentlemen speak of this resolution as going merely to a prohibition of luxuries; these I shall be willing to surrender as soon as any man. But, sir, the luxury of a substantial cloth coat in a cold winter's day, or a warm woollen blanket, in a cold winter's night, I do not wish to see denied to the people of this country. As to woollen blankets, they manufacture none in Germany, except those which are called horse blankets. Those for household use, are all made of cotton, and how readily our habits can be accommodated to these, I am not prepared to say. I have thus endeavored to show, with what success, the committee must determine, that by adopting this resolution, we hazard a war; that the course of commerce, will be materially, suddenly, and, therefore, injuriously changed; that inasmuch as we cannot procure from other countries many important articles with which Britain supplies us, the revenue will be much diminished; and that the value of our own products will be lessened to an incalculable amount. Having been a considerable time on the floor, I feel extremely exhausted, and will, therefore, close my remarks, although it was my wish to have said much more on this subject; particularly to point out the different effects to be produced by the adoption of the measure now under discussion, and that which was submitted by myself. To my own proposition, however, I am not exclusively attached. I have thought and do still think it the best which has been proposed. This I trust will be the opinion of the House. Believing the conduct of G. Britain towards this country, not to be justified, I am willing to unite in such measures, as may induce her to do us justice. But I will not go to the extent proposed in this resolution, because I am persuaded it will operate much more injuriously upon ourselves, than upon those whom we intend to affect by it.
(Debate to be continued)
WASHINGTON CITY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.
The Senate have consented to and advised the ratification of the TRIPO-LITAN TREATY. The votes were—Yeas 21—Nays 8.
The Senate yesterday passed the bill, from the House of Representatives, prohibiting the importation of certain [British] goods, wares, and merchandise, without amendment—Yeas 19—Nays 9.
This bill only requires the signature of the President to become a law.
At an election for Governor of Massachusetts held on the 7th of April, the following votes were given:
Table with 3 columns: Strong, Sullivan, Boston. Votes: Strong 2503, Sullivan 1605. Total votes: Strong 2537, Sullivan 1238.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MONDAY, APRIL 14.
Mr. J. Randolph said he was about to call the attention of the House to a subject, which he should not have probably have brought into view, but for the change wrought in the state of the revenue, in consequence of the peace concluded with Tripoli. Among the different articles from which monies were drawn, there was none so heavily burthened as salt; and it would be recollected that it was one of the necessaries of life, and an article the free use and consumption of which was of material importance to the agriculture of the country. Two acts had been passed laying a duty on this article. It was no new thing to wish it was indeed extremely desirable—to diminish, if not to take off this duty;—and for that purpose he submitted the following resolution:
Resolved, That the committee of Ways and Means be instructed to enquire into the expediency of repealing so much of any act as lays a duty on salt, and to report such provision, as may in their opinion, be calculated to meet the deficiency occasioned by that repeal.
Mr. Thomas said, the committee of Ways and Means, (of which the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. J. Randolph) who has made the motion, was and still is chairman, were instructed, by this House, in the early part of last session, on a motion which he had the honor then to submit, to enquire into the expediency of reducing the duty on salt, and if he recollected right they were directed to report by bill or otherwise, but, from some cause or other, to him unknown, that committee had never yet made any report on that subject—courtesy might induce him to impute this neglect to the multiplicity of business put into the hands of the members of that committee.
He, Mr. T. always considered the duty on this article too high, and falling particularly heavy on the agricultural part of the community. It was now and always had been his wish to reduce it as soon as our revenue would permit, if consistent with the pro-
visions made for paying off our national debt, and meeting the other exigencies of government—for his part he was at a loss, however, to discover that the present situation of our revenue, and the calls on government for expenditure, together with the present aspect of our foreign relations, warranted this measure more now than last year. It was true that the war with the Barbary powers up the Mediterranean had ceased, but it was also true, that the two and an half per cent additional duty on goods paying ad valorem duties, has likewise ceased with the peace concluded with Tripoli—This duty was laid for the support of, and was more than adequate to the expense of that war.
He repeated, that he was in favor of reducing the duty on salt, whenever we could part with so much of our revenue. He regretted, however, that the gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. Randolph) had not brought this subject up at an earlier period of the session when it might have been in our power to have examined into it, and if found practicable to have reduced the duty; but as the gentleman is himself chairman of the committee, and has it in his power to act on it immediately if he pleases, he hoped he, (Mr. Randolph) would obey the instructions of the House when predicated on his own motion, although he did not when instructed by a resolution submitted by him, Mr. T. and, therefore, he would vote for the resolution with an expectation that we shall, now, at least, have a report on the subject.
Mr. J. Randolph said he had but two or three words to offer on the subject of the motion said to have been offered during the last year on this point. He had a distinct recollection of such a motion having been offered; and he also recollected that he had told the mover of it, that it was not then possible to take off the duty upon salt, inasmuch as they had only the session preceding been compelled to raise additional revenue for the purpose of carrying on the Tripolitan war. He did not recollect whether the resolution had been agreed to by the House. But it would be recollected that during the latter part of the session the most active members of the committee of Ways and Means were almost exclusively engaged in conducting an impeachment depending before the other branch of the legislature. If the committee of Ways and Means had failed in their duty to make a report, the House would perceive that it was on one of those trivial motions, which had been made under circumstances that did not entitle it to respect. For when it was considered that they had recently been obliged to resort to new taxes for carrying on an existing war, it could not have been expected that they were in a situation to dispense with old ones. The reason why this resolution had not been brought forward at an earlier period of the session, Mr. R. said, was most obvious. He had not heard of the conclusion of peace with Tripoli till Saturday, and this was, therefore, the earliest occasion that offered for making it.
Mr. Chandler said he hoped the motion would prevail. He had himself contemplated making a similar motion.
Mr. Smilie likewise supported the motion.
Mr. Alston said he heartily concurred in the propriety of taking off the duty on salt; but he thought the House ought previously to know what equivalent could be brought forward. This subject had been thought of before this proposition had been submitted, and the continuation of the duty of two and a half per cent. had been considered an advisable substitute. He had no doubt that the duty on salt might be dispensed with, and that that he had referred to would answer as a substitute. But he had doubts of the propriety of the direction proposed to be given to this business. He thought this resolution, together with that offered by a gentleman from Massachusetts, should go hand in hand with each other—whether they went to the committee of the whole House, or to the committee of Ways and Means, was immaterial to him—that if one of these sources of revenue were given up, the other should be at the same time substituted in room of it. He said he did not know in what situation the resolution offered by the gentlemen from Massachusetts was, which he would wish to know before he voted on this resolution.
A member observed that the House had never agreed to consider it.
Mr. Thomas said, as the gentleman from Virginia appeared to have forgot that the committee of which he was chairman, were instructed to enquire into the expediency of reducing the duty on salt, in the early part of the last session, he wished the clerk to read that part of the journal. The resolution he said passed about the first of December.
Mr. J. Randolph said he certainly did not deny the existence of such a resolution. He had only observed that he did not recollect having received it from the Clerk.
The Clerk read the resolution offered last session by Mr. Thomas on the 7th of December, 1804, which was such as he had stated, and which appeared to have received the sanction of the House.
Mr. Alston then moved that the resolution should be referred to a committee of the whole, which, after a few words in opposition to such a mode of reference by Mr. Leib, was disagreed to—Ayes 22.
When the original motion obtained without a division.
The bill for the safeguard of merchant vessels in the vicinity of the United States, was read a third time.
Mr. Dana observed that the Yeas
and Nays had been called on several occasions to show the difference that subsisted in the House. He hoped they would be taken on this occasion to manifest their concurrence in opinion.
The Yeas and Nays were accordingly taken, and were—Yeas 87—Nays 5.
The bill for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. J. C. Smith, from the committee of claims, made a report on the petition of Daniel Cotton, recommending its indefinite postponement, in which the House concurred.
The bill making appropriations for carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, was read a third time.
Mr. Lyon declared himself against this bill, on account of the provisions contained in the third section, and moved a recommittal of the bill to a committee of the whole House, which was disagreed to—Ayes 28.
The question recurring on the passage of the bill,
Mr. Quincy objected to the provisions of the third section; which are as follows:
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall make, or attempt to make, a settlement on any of the lands thus ceded by the Cherokees and Chickasaws, and lying within the Mississippi territory, or shall, unless authorised so to do by the surveyor of the public lands south of Tennessee, survey or attempt to survey such lands, or designate boundaries by marking trees or otherwise, such offender shall, on conviction thereof in any court of record of the United States, or of any of the territories of the same, forfeit a sum not less than dollars, nor exceeding dollars, and suffer imprisonment for a term not less than months, nor exceeding years; and it shall moreover be lawful for the President of the United States, and he is hereby required to employ such military force as he may judge necessary, to remove from the said lands any person who shall make, or attempt to make any settlement as aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall affect persons making settlements on lands purchased from the United States in conformity with the preceding section of this act.
Whereupon a short debate ensued, in which Messrs. Quincy and Lyon opposed, and Messrs. J. Randolph, J. Clay and Gregg supported the passage of the bill.
The former gentlemen opposed it on account of the preceding provisions, which they considered as calculated, by authorising the use of military force, to prevent the legal adjustment by judicial decision of claims under individuals pretending to have good title to a part of the country.
The latter gentlemen contended that the power given to the President was not only just in itself, but absolutely necessary to prevent an intrusion on the lands of the United States by a particular description of the Yazoo claimants, who were represented as having formed the purpose of establishing an extensive settlement on them, and thus creating a force which would keep possession of the country in defiance of the laws of the United States.
The question was then taken by yeas and nays on the passage of the bill—Yeas 69—Nays 33.
A bill respecting claims to land in the Indiana territory and state of Ohio, was read a third time, and passed without a division.
A message was received from the Senate, stating that they had agreed to the resolution authorising the adjournment of the two Houses, with an amendment, fixing Monday next as the time of adjournment.
The House immediately took up this amendment.
Mr. J. Randolph moved to postpone its consideration till Saturday.
Mr. Conrad opposed this motion, which was disagreed to—Ayes 29.
When the amendment of the Senate obtained—Ayes 73.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole—Mr. Gregg in the chair—on the bill "supplementary to the act, intitled, "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole public debt of the United States."
Mr. Varnum considered the objects contemplated by this bill too important and the subject too abstruse, to be likely at so late a period of the session to command that attention they merited; and therefore moved that the committee should rise, with a view to postponing the farther consideration of the bill to the next session.
Messrs. Tallmadge and Quincy supported, and Messrs. J. Clay and J. Randolph opposed this motion, which was disagreed to—Ayes 32—Nays 42.
When the bill was considered by sections, and some progress made in it, when the committee rose, and obtained leave to sit again.
The following message was received from the President of the U. S. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. States.
During the blockade of Tripoli by the squadron of the U. S. a small cruiser, under the flag of Tunis, with two prizes, (all of trifling value) attempted to enter Tripoli, was turned back, warned, and attempting again to enter, was taken, and detained, as prize by the squadron. Her restitution was claimed by the Bey of Tunis, with a threat of war in terms so serious, that on withdrawing from the blockade of Tripoli, the commanding officer of the squadron thought it his duty to repair to Tunis with his squadron, and to require a categorical declaration whether peace or war was intended. The Bey preferred explaining himself by a
requisition of naval stores to be sent to the Bey in order to secure a peace for the term of three years, with a threat of war, if refused. It has been refused, and the ambassador is about to depart without receding from his threat or demand.
Under these circumstances, and considering that the several provisions of the act of March 25, 1804, will cease in consequence of the ratification of the treaty of peace with Tripoli, now advised and consented to by the Senate, I have thought it my duty to communicate these facts, in order that Congress may consider the expediency of continuing the same provisions for a limited time, or making others equivalent.
TH: JEFFERSON. APRIL 14, 1805. Referred to the committee of Ways and Means.
Mr. Gregg, from the committee on public lands, made a report, recommending the indefinite postponement of the petition of Ann D. West, William Fitzhugh, Joseph Jackson, and Bushrod Washington and Laurence Lewis.
TUESDAY, APRIL 13.
The Speaker laid before the House a report from the secretary of the treasury, transmitting a statement of receipts and expenditures for the year 1804.
The House took up the amendment proposed by the Senate to the bill authorising a detachment of the militia, to substitute, in that part of the bill relative to the militia, to be called into active service, "as the President in his discretion shall deem most proper" in the room of "which from their local situation shall be deemed most convenient."
The House concurred in this amendment. The bill has consequently passed both Houses.
A bill, from the Senate, for regulating the time of holding the courts in the district of Columbia and for other purposes, was referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
This bill alters the time of holding the court in Washington county to the first Monday in June, and in Alexandria county to the 1st Monday in July—& makes some further provision for insolvent debtors.
On motion of Mr. Masters the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Varnum in the chair, on the bill "for fortifying the ports and harbors of the United States, and for building gunboats."
The first section was read as follows: Section 1. That a sum of money not exceeding 150,000 dollars, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to enable the President of the United States to cause the ports and harbors of the United States to be better fortified and protected.
M. D. R. Williams moved to strike out this section, which motion was disagreed to—Ayes 20.
Mr. Masters moved to strike out the sum of "150,000 dollars," for the purpose of inserting "500,000."
A division of the question having been called for; the question was put on striking out, and lost—Ayes 27.
Mr. Masters moved a new section—viz. that a sum, not exceeding the appropriated to enable the President of the U. S. to cause the ports and harbors of New-York to be better fortified and protected.
Mr. Smilie opposed this motion.
Mr. D. R. Williams moved to amend the motion by adding Charleston after New-York.
Mr. Elphes moved to add Norfolk.
Mr. Early moved to add New-Orleans.
Mr. R. Nelson moved to add Baltimore.
Mr. Goldsborough moved to add George town.
Mr. Quincy spoke at considerable length in favor of making a liberal appropriation for the fortification and protection of our ports and harbors.
Messrs. Dawson, Smilie, Sloan, and Lyon spoke against Mr. Masters's motion, which was disagreed to—Ayes 31.
Mr. Dawson stated that the fate of the frigate Philadelphia was well known, and added that the frigates Boston and General Green had been condemned as unfit for service. To supply the deficiency in the naval establishment, he offered a new section appropriating a sum not exceeding 500,000 dollars to enable the President to cause three additional frigates to be built.
Mr. Lyon moved to add, after frigates, or two seventy fours. This amendment was disagreed to—Ayes 23.
When the section offered by Mr. Dawson was likewise disagreed to—Ayes 40—Nays 54.
A new section, offered by Mr. R. Nelson, authorising the President to sell such of the national vessels as in his opinion shall be in such a situation, as to make it the interest of the U. S. not to repair the same, was agreed to—Ayes 63.
The committee then rose and reported the bill, which the House took into consideration.
Mr. J. Clay moved to strike out the first section.
Messrs. J. Clay, R. Nelson, and Bending supported; and Messrs. Dawson, Varnum, Gregg, Dana, and Elmer opposed this motion, which was disagreed to—Ayes 24—Nays 76.
Mr. Masters then moved to strike out "150,000," and insert "500,000" dollars. Motion disagreed to—Ayes 87—Nays 73.

When the bill was ordered to be en-
The Speaker laid before the House the following letter from the secretary of the treasury:
Treasury Department, April 15, 1806.
Sir, In answer to the request contained in the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th inst. I have the honor respectfully to state, that "no application has been made to draw money from the Treasury for the purchase of the Floridas before an appropriation made by law for that purpose."
The circumstances, which may have produced an impression that such an application had been made, being unconnected with any matter pertaining to the duties of the office of secretary of the treasury, are not presumed to come within the scope of the information required from this department by the House.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Sir, your obedient servant, Albert Gallatin.
The honorable, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. A message was received from the President, communicating the treaty between the U.S. and the Piankeshaw tribe of Indians.
A message was received from the Senate stating that they had received from some of their amendments to the civil appropriation bill.
The House, on their part, immediately receded from their disagreement to the other amendments.
The bill has consequently passed the two Houses.
Mr. J. Randolph, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to whom was referred the message from the President of the U.S. relative to the state of our affairs with Tunis, and a resolution directing an enquiry into the expediency of taking off the duty on salt, made a report by way of bill, entitled an act for repealing the act laying duties on salt, and for continuing for a further time the 1st section of the act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the U.S. against the Barbary powers.
This bill repeals, from the 1st day of January next, so much of any existing act as lays a duty on salt, and continues the Mediterranean fund of two and a half per cent. till the end of the next session of Congress.
Referred to a committee of the whole to morrow.
COMMUNICATION.
FIRE.
On Friday last, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a fire took place on the wharf occupied by Mr. Griffith Coombe as a lumber yard. The devouring element caught in a pile of upwards of 20,000 shingles and from the strong gale of wind which blew that day from the N.W. it threatened destruction to the whole of the lumber in the yard; but from the timely assistance, unremitting and extraordinary exertions of the citizens in removing the adjacent scantling and other combustible materials it did little damage more than consume the shingles in which the fire was first discovered.
On this calamitous occasion the citizens, in the true spirit of philanthropy, seemed to contend with one another who should do the most good. Some gentlemen, attached to the South fire ward , particularly distinguished themselves, whose names deserve to be recorded; but from motives of delicacy towards others whose best endeavors are not less meritorious in rescuing from destruction the property of their fellow neighbors.
The fire is supposed to have been communicated by a coal blowing from a pipe of one of the hands of a vessel laying along side of the wharf, as no fire had been allowed on board during that and the preceding day on account of the wind.
New-York, April 11.
On the 10th instant, after a long and tedious illness, departed this life in the 76th year of his age, the hon. HORATIO GATES, lieutenant general in the service of the United States during the late revolutionary war, in which service he signalled himself as a faithful, brave, gallant and distinguished officer. He was a whig in England, and a genuine republican in America. He was attached to the cause of America from a full conviction of its justice, and fought faithfully under its banners thro' every stage of the conflict. He left his native country in the early part of his life, and served several campaigns in Germany, where he acquired the rudiments of military knowledge. He came hither with gen. Braddock, and served in the British army until the conclusion of the peace. He afterwards returned to England, but finally emigrated to America, and purchased an estate in Virginia. On the rupture between this country and Great Britain he was called to take the command of the northern army, and by his skill and good conduct the troops under gen. Burgoyne surrendered prisoners of war. He was a scholar well versed in history and the Latin classics, and of correct political principles. His manners and deportment were tinged with a military bias. He was hospitable, generous, just, and inflexible in his attachment to his friends, and possessed a feeling heart. He died in the full conviction of the truth of the Gospel Philosophy, and appeared pleased when it was recommended to his serious attention in the last stages of his illness.
Yesterday the counsel for the defendant in the case of the U. States against
Samuel G. Ogden, charged with being concerned in the expedition of the Leander , moved to put off the trial till the next sitting in September, on his affidavit, that in the trial of the cause, James Madison, and four other persons (named) were material witnesses; and that he believed that at that time he should not be able to avail himself of their testimony. His hon. judge Talmaige, this morning told them, he would grant the request so far as to postpone the trial, but not to the time they moved for; but he meant to exercise the authority with which he was invested, and would order special sittings on the 14th of July; to which he would put off the cause, and no longer.
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HARTFORD, APRIL 10.
Liberty of the Press subverted.
The editor and printer of the WITNESS have been the second time, for the same offence (being what is termed a libel on Julius Deming, esq.) bro't before the court and fined 100 dolls. each, to pay costs of prosecution, and to give bonds with security of 500 dolls. each, to keep the peace and be of good behavior to all the citizens of this state. They were imprisoned on Thursday afternoon of last week.
The public are well acquainted with the unremitting exertions of federalists in Litchfield county, to elect exclusively federal jurymen, and to prostitute courts and juries, the palladiums of our liberties, to party purposes. Within the last year, gen. HART, the Republican candidate for governor, has been brought before such juries on Litchfield Hill. By such juries the editor of the MERCURY has been subjected to a penalty of 1000 dolls. for publishing what republicans believed to be true, but what a federal jury, thus selected, decided to be a libel against Dan. Huntington.
Messrs. Osborn and Ashley, for publishing in the Witness what they and other candid men believed to be an accurate statement of gen. HART's trial, have been condemned for a libel on the court, and it remains for the court, a party, to pass the final sentence, whether the editor and printer are to be fined, imprisoned or banished! A suit is now depending against Messrs. Osborn & Ashley, for a libel on Tom Collier, who has printed more abuse and gross calumny than any other printer in the state (the printers of the Connecticut Courant excepted .) To complete the list of proceedings, tending finally to subvert and annihilate the freedom of the Press, they are fined and imprisoned for publishing that Julius Deming, esq. went across the meeting house, and reminded a Republican that he owed him a note, with a view to influence his vote.
If there remains among the Republicans of Connecticut, that ardent attachment to principles, and that sacred and inviolable regard for the liberty of the Press, they have avowed, the unprecedented conduct of the federalists in prosecuting printers, and stripping them of their property and liberty, will arouse them from their lethargy, and prompt them to act like men and freemen. Moderate and candid federalists, who are not prepared to follow a party headlong to ruin, will look forward with horror to a final destruction of their rights and the liberties of their children, and no longer prostitute the privileges of freemen to support candidates for office, who are thus aiming a mortal blow at the Liberty of the Press, the grand Palladium of our Rights.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT,
For establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States.
SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, the following shall be the rules and articles by which the armies of the United States shall be governed:
Article 1. Every officer now in the army of the United States, shall, in six months from the passing of this act, and every officer who shall hereafter be appointed, shall before he enters on the duties of his office, subscribe these rules and regulations.
Article 2. It is earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers diligently to attend divine service; and all officers who shall behave indecently or irreverently at any place of divine worship shall, if commissioned officers, be brought before a general court martial, there to be publicly and severely reprimanded by the president; if non-commissioned officers or soldiers, every person so offending shall, for his first offence, forfeit one-sixth of a dollar, to be deducted out of his next pay; for the second offence, he shall not only forfeit a like sum, but be confined twenty-four hours; and for every like offence shall suffer and pay in like manner; which money, so forfeited, shall be applied by the captain or senior officer of the troop or company to the use of the sick soldiers of the company or troop to which the offender belongs.
Article 3. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall use any profane oath or execration shall incur the
penalties expressed in the foregoing article, and a commissioned officer shall forfeit and pay for each such offence one dollar, to be applied as in the preceding article.
Article 4. Every chaplain commissioned in the army or armies of the United States, who shall absent himself from the duties assigned him (except in cases of sickness or leave of absence) shall on conviction thereof before a court martial be fined not exceeding one month's pay, besides the loss of his pay during his absence; or be discharged, as the said court martial shall judge proper.
Article 5. Any officer or soldier who shall use contemptuous or disrespectful words against the President of the United States, against the Vice-President thereof, against the Congress of the United States, or against the chief magistrate or legislature of any of the United States in which he may be quartered, if a commissioned officer, shall be cashiered, or otherwise punished as a court martial shall direct; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, he shall suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted on him by the sentence of a court martial.
Article 6. Any officer or soldier who shall behave himself with contempt or disrespect towards his commanding officer, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence, by the judgment of a court martial.
Article 7. Any officer or soldier who shall begin, excite, cause or join in any mutiny or sedition in any troop or company in the service of the United States, or in any party, post, detachment or guard, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as by a court martial shall be inflicted.
Article 8. Any officer, non commissioned officer or soldier, who, being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavor to suppress the same, or coming to the knowledge of any intended mutiny, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding officer, shall be punished by the sentence of a court martial with death or otherwise, according to the nature of his offence.
Article 9. Any officer or soldier who shall strike his superior officer, or draw or lift up any weapon, or offer any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, on any pretence whatsoever, or shall disobey any lawful command of his superior officer, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall, according to the nature of his offence, be inflicted upon him by the sentence of a court martial.
Article 10. Every non-commissioned officer, or soldier, who shall insist himself in the service of the United States, shall, at the time of his so insisting, or within six days afterwards, have the articles for the government of the armies of the United States, read to him, and shall by the officer who insisted him, or by the commanding officer of the troop or company into which he was enlisted, be taken before the next justice of the peace, or chief magistrate of any city, or town corporate, not being an officer of the army, or where recourse cannot be had to the civil magistrate, before the judge advocate, and, in his presence, shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I, A. B. do solemnly swear, or affirm, (as the case may be) that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, & that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies, or opposers, whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States." Which justice, magistrate, or judge advocate is to give the officer a certificate, signifying that the man insisted, did take the said oath, or affirmation.
Article 11. After a non-commissioned officer, or soldier, shall have been duly insisted and sworn, he shall not be dismissed the service without a discharge in writing; and no discharge granted to him shall be sufficient, which is not signed by a field officer of the regiment to which he belongs, or commanding officer, where no field officer of the regiment is present; and no discharge shall be given to a non-commissioned officer, or soldier, before his term of service has expired, but by order of the President, the Secretary of War, the commanding officer of a department, or the sentence of a general court martial.
Article 12. Every colonel, or other officer commanding a regiment, troop, or company, and actually quartered with it, may give furloughs to non-commissioned officers, or soldiers, in such numbers, and for so long a time as he shall judge to be most consistent with the good of the service; and a captain or other inferior officer commanding a troop or company, or in any garrison, fort or barracks of the U. S. (his field officer being absent,) may give furloughs to non-commissioned officers or soldiers, for a time not exceeding twenty days in six months, but not to more than two persons to be absent at the same time, excepting some extraordinary occasion should require it.
Article 13. At every muster, the commanding officer of each regiment, troop,
or company there present, shall give to the commissary of musters, or other officer who musters the said regiment, troop, or company, certificates signed by himself, signifying how long such officers, as shall not appear at the said muster, have been absent, and the reason of their absence. In like manner, the commanding officer of every troop, or company, shall give certificates, signifying the reasons of the absence of the non-commissioned officers and private soldiers, which reasons, and time of absence, shall be inserted in the muster-rolls, opposite the name of the respective absent officers and soldiers. The certificates shall, together with the muster-rolls, be remitted by the commissary of musters, or other officer mustering, to the department of war as speedily as the distance of the place will admit.
Article 14. Every officer who shall be convicted, before a general court martial, of having signed a false certificate, relating to the absence of either officer or private soldier, or relative to his or their pay, shall be cashiered.
Article 15. Every officer who shall knowingly make a false muster of man or horse, and every officer or commissary of musters, who shall willingly sign, direct or allow the signing of muster-rolls, wherein such false muster is contained, shall, upon proof made thereof by two witnesses, before a general court martial, be cashiered, and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any office or employment in the service of the United States.
Article 16. Any commissary of musters or other officer, who shall be convicted of having taken money or other thing, by way of gratification, on the mustering any regiment, troop or company, or on the signing muster-rolls, shall be displaced from his office, and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any office or employment in the service of the United States.
Article 17. Any officer who shall presume to muster a person as a soldier, who is not a soldier, shall be deemed guilty of having made a false muster, and shall suffer accordingly.
Article 18. Every officer who shall knowingly make a false return to the department of war, or to any of his superior officers, authorised to call for such returns, of the state of the regiment, troop or company, or garrison, under his command; or of the arms, ammunition, clothing, or other stores thereunto belonging, shall, on conviction thereof before a court martial, be cashiered.
Article 19. The commanding officer of every regiment, troop, or independent company, or garrison of the United States, shall, in the beginning of every month, remit through the proper channels, to the department of war, an exact return of the regiment, troop, independent company, or garrison, under his command, specifying the names of the officers then absent from their posts, and the reasons for, and the time of their absence. And any officer who shall be convicted of having, through neglect or design, omitted sending such returns, shall be punished according to the nature of his crime, by the judgment of a general court martial.
Article 20. All officers and soldiers, who have received pay, or have been duly enlisted in the service of the United States, and shall be convicted of having deserted the same, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as by sentence of a court martial shall be inflicted.
Article 21. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier, who shall, without leave from his commanding officer, absent himself from his troop, company, or detachment, shall, upon being convicted thereof, be punished according to the nature of his offence at the discretion of a court martial.
Article 22. No non-commissioned officer or soldier, shall insist himself in any other regiment, troop, or company, without a regular discharge from the regiment, troop, or company in which he last served, on the penalty of being reputed a deserter, and suffering accordingly. And in case any officer shall knowingly receive and entertain such non-commissioned officer or soldier, or shall not after his being discovered to be a deserter, immediately confine him and give notice thereof to the corps in which he last served, the said officer shall by a court martial be cashiered.
Article 23. Any officer or soldier who shall be convicted of having advised or persuaded any other officer or soldier, to desert the service of the U. S. shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be inflicted upon him by the sentence of a court martial.
Article 24. No officer or soldier shall use any reproachful or provoking speeches or gestures to another, upon pain, if an officer, of being put in arrest; if a soldier, confined, and of asking pardon of the party offended, in the presence of his commanding officer.
Article 25. No officer or soldier shall send a challenge to another officer or soldier, to fight a duel, or accept a challenge, if sent, upon pain, if a commissioned officer, of being cashiered; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, of suffering corporal punishment at the discretion of a court martial.
Article 26. If any commissioned or non-commissioned officer commanding a guard, shall knowingly or willingly suffer any person whatsoever to go forth to fight a duel, he shall be punished as a challenger; and all seconds, promoters and carriers of challenges, in order to duels, shall be deemed principals, and be punished accordingly. And it shall be the duty of every officer, commanding an army, regiment, company, post or detachment, who is knowing to a challenge being given, or accepted, by any officer, non-commissioned officer, or soldier, under his command, or has reason to believe the
same to be the case, immediately to arrest and bring to trial such offenders.
Article 27. All officers, of what condition soever, have power to part and quell all quarrels, traws and disorders, though the persons concerned should belong to another regiment, troop or company; and either to order officers into arrest, or non-commissioned officers or soldiers into confinement, until their proper superior officers shall be acquainted therewith; and whosoever shall refuse to obey such officer (though of an inferior rank) or shall draw his sword upon him, shall be punished at the discretion of a general court martial.
Article 28. Any officer or soldier, who shall upbraid another for refusing a challenge, shall himself be punished as a challenger; and all officers and soldiers are hereby discharged from any disgrace or opinion of disadvantage, which might arise from their having refused to accept of challenges, as they will only have acted in obedience to the laws, and done their duty as good soldiers, who subject themselves to discipline.
Article 29. No soldier shall be permitted to sell any kind of liquors or victuals, or to keep their houses or shops open for the entertainment of soldiers, after nine at night, or before the beating of the reveille, or upon Sundays, during divine service or sermon, on the penalty of being dismissed from all future settling.
Article 30. All officers commanding in the field, forts, barracks or garrisons of the United States, are hereby required to see that the persons permitted to settle, shall supply the soldiers with good and wholesome provisions, or other articles, at a reasonable price, as they shall be answerable for their neglect.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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FOR SALE,
AT Bath (Berkeley Springs) Virginia, a HOUSE & LOT thereto belonging (late the property of Thomas Palmer, deceased.) The premises are calculated for a genteel family, or would make an excellent Boarding house, having thereon a smoke house, coach house and stables, with a garden laid out with much taste and inclosed with a good board fence.
Also near the town, are for sale, SEVEN acres of LAND, inclosed with a stone wall.
The whole will be sold very low, or exchanged for property in or near any of the large towns or cities Apply to John Davidson, Washington city, or to Wm. Alexander, esq. Bath, aforesaid.
NOTE—If not sold, it will be let for the season.
April 16—tf
Valuable Property for Sale.
ON THURSDAY 22d May next, at 12 o'clock, on the premises, will poledly be sold or rented to the highest bidder, if fair, if not the next fair day, the land I live on, containing with lands contiguous between 5 and 600 acres, very level, and improvable. On it will be found every necessary house. It abounds with good water convenient to the dwelling and in every field. Great abundance and variety of fruit trees; some rich branch meadow ground and plenty wood and rail timber. The purchaser to pay 2000 dollars on the 1st January next when possession will be given, and for the balance a credit of 5 or 7 years will be allowed on his giving bond with good personal security on interest, and a lien on the land payable in equal annual proportions till the whole be paid. If not sold, to the tenant it will be rented for a term not less than 5 or 7 years under certain restrictions. A more particular description of the above property may be seen at the office of the Baltimore Federal Gazette, and Alexandria Daily advertiser of last year. An indispitable title will be made to the purchaser.
GEO. LEE.
Charles county, April 16—w6t

CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR, NEW JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. Respectfully informs the gentlemen of the District of Columbia that in addition to his former stock he has received by late arrivals from London a choice assortment of superfine cloths, single and double milled shirtings, Bennes patent cord, worsted and waistcoating, fancy and black silk stockings, all of superior quality and newest fashion, plain and stripe black velvets, constitution cord, hussar coamings, plushing flannels, &c. &c. with a variety of other articles in his line, and he pledges himself, to those gentlemen who shall favor him with their orders to complete them in the newest style of fashion. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, navy uniforms, made in the most fashionable manner. Washington Dec 12—tf
COMMITTED to my custody on the 13th day of this month as runaway a negro woman and her two children; the woman calls her name Hamer and her children by the names of Mial and Bell—Hamer says that she and her two children are the property of Eliza Berry of Prince George's county—Hamer is about 4 feet 8 or 10 inches high, her children are small and one at the breast; their clothes are old and much worn. Their master is requested to come and prove his property, pay the fees, and take them away, or they will be sold agreeable to law. SUTTON WHEAT, Sheriff Calvert county. April 11—st
PUBLIC SALE. By virtue of a deed in trust from Daniel Hury, I will offer for sale on the 3rd day of May next, at 11 o'clock A. M. on the premises, for cash, part of lot number one in square number eight hundred and forty five in the city of Washington with a well built two story BRICK HOUSE on the same adjoining the route of Robert Alexander, esq. and now occupied by Mr. Sandford. The title is indisputable as may be seen on application to NICHOLAS VOSS. April 2—tm3
Twenty Dollars Reward, WILL be given for apprehending negro FANNY a very low and tolerable silly woman about 38 years of age, but from appearance older, very weak and much marked with the small pox which she occasioned a small defect in one of her eyes, has lost one of her foreteeth, is very artful and cunning, having procured a free pass, and passes by the name of Charity Shoater; she was formerly the property of John Chittenden of this county, and was run away for near eight years, was apprehended and sold to me in 1803 and was hired by me to a certain Thomas King of Prince George's county, from whom she absconded in Oct. 1804 and has been lurking, I do suppose near where she was hired or gone to Calvert county where I have understood her husband has gone. The above reward will be given to any person who will lodge her in jail so that I get her again, or deliver her to Mr. Samuel Speake city of Washington, or to the subscriber living in Charles county Maryland, near Fort Tobacco. P. S. I forewarn any person from harboring or employing said woman, at their peril. MASON SIMMS. Nov. 17—tf
By virtue of a deed of trust from the heirs of John Brown late of Prince George's county deceased, I will offer at PUBLIC AUCTION, on the premises at 12 o'clock on Tuesday the 27th day of May next, if fair, if not the next fair day thereafter, all that valuable tract of Land formerly the property and in the occupation of the aforesaid deceased, lying in the neighborhood of Robert Sewell, esq. about seven miles from Piscataway and 12 from the city of Washington, containing about 360 acres of rich fertile land well adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, and every kind of small grain. Upwards of 25 acres of fine meadow. Land and a very great proportion of wood and timber of the most valuable kind. Terms will be made known on the day of sale. CHARLES D. HODGES. April 11—st
STELLE'S HOTEL & CITY TAVERN. THE subscriber takes this method of thanking his friends and the public for their favors which on the Capitol Square and begs leave to acquaint them that he has taken the SPACIOUS HOTEL lately erected by Mr. Carroll, near the Capitol. The hotel being above one hundred feet in front, and containing fifty rooms enables the subscriber to offer every accommodation to members of Congress and travellers which can be expected in a public house. PONTIUS D. STELLE. Washington City, March 25—tf N. B.—P. D. S. will rent the house lately occupied by him on the 1st of May.
FOR SALE. I WILL sell or exchange for new goods Two BRICK BUILDINGS, well calculated for a retail store, being opposite the Centre Market—for further particulars enquire of the subscriber on the premises. ROBERT HARRISON. April 3—tf On a liberal credit. THE subscriber will dispose of at private sale, his estate called Chichester, lying on the eastern branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This tract of land containing 697 acres is laid off in lots from 33 to 144 acres for the convenience of purchasers. Plats of the estate and the terms of sale are in the hands of Colonel Hanlon at the navy yard, and Charles Wayman of George Town. The lots will be shown by Mr. Wedden, living on the premises, near the Eastern Branch bridge. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby, 12th June 1805—tf
In the case of RICHARD MORGAN an insolvent debtor. SIX months from and after the first day of February next is limited and appointed for the creditors of the said Richard Morgan to bring in and exhibit their claims to the trustee. It is ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer three times prior to the first day of May next. By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, esq. WM. BRENT, Clk. April 14—3t
CITY OF WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 1805. Several persons under the impression that the public lots in this city are to be disposed of in future by public sales only , having made enquiries when the next sale will probably take place, we are requested to state that those lots may at any time be purchased at private sale of the Superintendent of the City. Sept. 9—tf By virtue of a decree of the honorable the Circuit court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington, in the suit of James Berry, complainant, against Dorothy O'Brien, James O'Brien, Mary Anne O'Brien and John O'Brien, defendants in Chancery; Will be sold at Public Auction, To the highest bidder on Monday the 28th of April inst. at Stelle's hotel, all those two parcels of land situate in the city of Washington near the Eastern Branch, and contiguous to Booth's wharf, bounded as follows: The first beginning at the intersection at the west side of South Capitol Street, with Water Street, and running thence with South Capitol Street eighty-four feet, thence due west thirty feet two inches to Water Street, and thence with Water Street to the beginning. The second part beginning at the end of one hundred and fifty-six feet measured westwardly from the north east corner of square numbered six hundred and sixty-two on the fourth side of South R Street, running thence south one hundred and thirty feet, thence west sixty-four feet three inches, thence north one hundred and thirty feet to South R Street, and thence east with the line of said Street to the beginning, with the improvements and appurtenances on the same, two pieces of land or either of them being or appertaining. The only improvement on the first piece or parcel of ground aforementioned is, a two story framed Dwelling House, and on the other a single story framed building—any person desirous of purchasing said property can be shown it by applying at the Clerk's Office. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock precisely. The terms ready money, or money to be paid immediately on the Court ratifying and confirming said sale. The time of which ratification and confirmation, will be notified in the same paper in which the sale is advertised. LEWIS FORD, Trustee. April 7—3t
Bank of Columbia. THE board of directors having this day declared a dividend for the half year ending the 20th inst. at the rate of TEN per cent. per annum. The same will be paid to the stock holders or their representatives on or after Thursday the 20th inst. WILLIAM WHARN, Cashier. March 10—6w A BARGAIN. THE subscriber offers for sale the farm he now occupies, containing near 300 acres with or without the stock thereon. It is distant from the cities of Georgetown and Washington, about five miles, and well known as a healthy situation. There is much fine fruit thereon, and abounds with springs, affording as good water as in the United States, a considerable proportion of the land has been in clover, and from thirty to forty acres fit for the sowing the ensuing summer. It is now in a very improving state, being altogether clear of broom edge, and from 40 to 50 acres ploughed and prepared for a spring crop, and from 30 to 40 acres well set with wheat and rye—some part of the land is calculated for tobacco; and plaster of paris answers well with it all. The dwelling house and other improvements may with small repairs, be rendered very comfortable—From its vicinity to two growing cities, many advantages result in supplying the markets. A purchaser may calculate on a good bargain, particularly if an early application be made. Some part of the purchase money will be required in cash or approved negotiable paper; the remainder rendered easy—or negroes received in payment. The subscriber or William Searry residing on the farm will show it when required, and the terms made known by application to Mr. John Thompson, George Town, or Dr. WM. THORNTON, Washington. Isaac Pollock, Fruit Hill, Some Lands calculated for the culture of cotton, Indian corn and small grain, situated on a navigable river in the healthiest part of the State of Georgia, will also be sold on reasonable terms or exchanged for negroes I. P. Jan. 29—entf
WILLIAM H. DORSEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Has opened an office in George Town next door to the Bank of Columbia. He will attend Montgomery county court and the courts held in Washington county in the district of Columbia. April 4—tm
FOR SALE, A handsome second hand GIG On liberal terms, Enquire of the Editor or Mr. Joseph Callin near the Navy Yard. April 4—6t
TO RENT, THE COMMODOIOUS BRICK STORE near the CAPITOL, now in the occupation of Messrs. P. HEALY & Co. Possession to be given on the 1st of May. Enquire of Frederick May. March 28—tf
This is to give Notice, That the subscriber has obtained from the Orphans court of Calvert county in Maryland letters of administration on the personal estate of Samuel Whittington late of Calvert county deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the proper vouchers thereof to the subscriber at or before the first day of October next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 19th day of March, eighteen hundred and six. WILLIAM WHITTINGTON, Adm'r. N. B. All persons having claims against the partnership of Samuel Whittington and company are requested to make them known to the subscriber as speedy as possible. Those who are indebted to make immediate payment to WILLIAM WHITTINGTON, assignee of Francis Whittington, the surviving partner of S. Whittington & Co. March 26—3w
ELIAS B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Has removed his Office, to the house lately occupied by Mr. LAW, on Capitol Hill. Washington, July 26—tf
FOR SALE. UPWARDS of 2000 acres of Land lying on each side of Little River in Loudoun county being part of the Gooles Creek tract of land purchased of the late Col. Charles Carter; the river runs nearly through the middle of it and forms on each side upwards of two hundred acres of low grounds, of which about forty acres is timothy. It is in general good farm land, and remarkable for the production of grass and of timothy in particular. About three fourths of the tract in my own occupation, the remainder in the possession of tenants. The land lies well, abounds in good springs, and has a sufficiency of white and red oak timber, and some fine poplars. The purchaser may be supplied with stock of every kind, also with from 20 to about 30 negroes in families, and taking them in that manner upon very reasonable terms; the land lies about the same distance (40 miles) from Washington, Alexandria, and Dumfries, eight miles from Leesburg & six from Middlebury; there is on the part in my occupation a small dwelling house containing two rooms and an entry below, and two rooms above stairs, a kitchen, good stable and carriage house and other necessary buildings, all of them erected within the last five years, a good garden. The purchaser may be accommodated in the payments. JOSEPH JONES. Near Leesburg, Loudoun County, April 7—spzm
All persons having claims against the estate of Uriah Forrest deceased since his bankruptcy, are requested to have them proved according to law, and presented to Philip B. Key, before the 1st day of June next, that a distribution of the personal assets may be made as early as practicable. REBECCA FORREST, Executrix. April 4—4w This is to give notice that if the heirs of a certain STEPHEN REYNOLDS, who died on his way from the western country in the month of August 1803, and supposed to have been a native of the State of New Hampshire or one of the Eastern States will apply to JOHN RINE administrator living in the town of Cumberland, Alleghany county, State of Maryland, will hear of something to their advantage. By order of Alleghany county orphans court March 3—epzm
WANTED, either a school master or mistress, to reside with a gentleman in the upper part of Virginia, apply at this office. March 10—
TAKE NOTICE. The creditors of PETER VAN WAGNER (late merchant in the city of New York an insolvent debtor) are requested to exhibit their accounts properly authenticated on or before the first day of May next to the subscriber for examination—when a dividend will be made of the said insolvent's property by JOSEPH T. BALDWIN, assignee, Newark, New Jersey, April 11—wat
A HOUSE TO RENT. THE house at present occupied by EDWARD JONES, esq. fronting North Street near the Treasury Office, to be rented. Possession may be had on the 1st of July next. JAMES HOBAN. April 4—w3t
For Sale, Freight or Charter, The new patent brig ACHILLES , of 166 63/95 tons burthen, built under the inspection and direction of Mr. G. Livingston, of Poughkeepsie—ALL her plank, whalebone, knees and oak timber, have been well water seasoned and dried before they were used, (which management has heretofore, on a vessel built at the same place and by the same person, insured a duration of more than 18 years, without a single graving piece in either whale or bottom, although owned and used in the West Indies about 15 years of the time) her two lower rudder hinges are copper, as are the spikes at her hood ends; all her butt bolts and iron spikes are composition covered, so that she is ready for coppering. The Achilles has been one voyage to the West Indies, and is, by the captain and mate who failed in her, supposed to be not only the fastest sailing vessel they ever met with, but one of the best of sea boats, carrying her sails and canvas at least equal, if not superior to any other vessel they have ever seen. When going out, although very deeply laden, she made ten miles an hour close haul on the wind; and returning, although her bottom was very foul, in 23 hours from opposite Cape Charles light house, directly east, she ran so as to bring the light house at Sandy Hook directly west, a distance very considerably beyond 300 miles; including the time made in her course, the average run was between 13 and 14 knots an hour—Enquire of JOHN BRAZIER, 67 Washington Street April 14—3t
TO RENT. THE STORE & DWELLING HOUSE now occupied Dr. Patterson, next door to James Madison's, esq. Possession given the first day of April next—I will also rent the wharf formerly belonging to Mr. Lewis Delois on the Eastern Branch, one square above the Navy Yard. Its situation for a Lumber, Coal, and Wood yard, is equal to any in the city of Washington—for terms apply to John Hewitt, esq. or to the subscriber near the Navy Yard. NICHOLAS VOSS. City of Washington, March 14—2aw/f
INFORMATION TO TRAVELLERS. THE subscribers beg leave to inform the public that on the first day of April next, a new, expeditious and convenient LINE OF STAGES, will be established between the cities of Philadelphia and Washington—to run in the following order of time and place: A stage, with the mail, will leave Brenton's tavern, in Wilmington, every Monday and Wednesday, at 5 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Chester town early in the evening on the same day. A stage with the mail, will leave Chester town on every Tuesday and Thursday, at 5 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Rock Hall by early breakfast. A comfortable and fast sailing packet, with the mail, will leave Rock Hall on every Tuesday and Thursday at 8 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Annapolis, with a favorable wind, in the course of two and a half hours at any rate in the course of the same day. A stage with the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware mails, will leave Annapolis on Wednesdays and Fridays, and arrive at Washington and George-town on the same days. The stage will leave McLaughlin's hotel in George-town, and Stelle's in Washington, on every Thursday and Sunday, at 5 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Annapolis on the same days. A packet will leave Annapolis on Mondays and Fridays, at 8 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Rock Hall on the same days, in time to proceed on to Chester town on the same evenings. The stage will leave Chester town on Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 5 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Wilmington on the same days; from whence a stage runs to Philadelphia every day. One of the subscribers likewise begs leave to inform the public, that he is now established at the antique and well known ferry, Rock Hall, and has provided good, safe and commodious packets, fitted up in the newest manner for the accommodation of passengers; that a large and comfortable packet will leave Rock Hall for Baltimore on the same days that the mail crosses to Annapolis, Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 9 o'clock A. M. and will leave Baltimore, from the lower end of Bowy's wharf, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 9 o'clock A. M. for Rock Hall. Each of the above packets are well calculated for the conveyance of horses and carriages. Horses and carriages will always be in readiness for the conveyance of passengers on their arrival at Rock Hall, to whatever place they may wish to proceed, in any neighboring part of the country, or to Chester town, from whence they may be conveyed to the northward or southward, by the regular line of stages; and that the Annapolis packet will leave Annapolis on Wednesdays for Rock Hall, and will leave Rock Hall on Sundays for Annapolis, besides the regular day of carrying the mail, as above mentioned. He also flatters himself, that from his experience in maritime pursuits and the confidence placed in him by many of the most respectable merchants in Baltimore whilst following the sea faring life, that he has a competent knowledge to keep his boats in good order, for the comfort and convenience of passengers, and that he shall merit the patronage of a generous public, which he hereby respectfully solicits. It is unnecessary to make any comments on the advantages which entitles this route to a preference, to that round the waters of the Chesapeake bay. This affords a safe dry road, through a beautiful, level, and fertile country, from the Delaware state to the seat of government, whilst the other presents one continual scene of hills and valleys, generally filled with water and mire. Travellers on this route will not only derive advantage from good roads, shortening the distance, and incurring less expense, but will avoid the danger of injuring their health, by not being exposed to travelling by night. THOMAS HARRIS, ROCK HALL, DAVID WITHERSPOON, MIDDLE TOWN. March 26—2aw/f
Twenty Dollars Reward, FOR apprehending and securing in jail negro JACOB, who is a lew well made fellow, about 25 years of age, complexion rather black, tho' not deep, has a pleasant countenance, is stout made about the shoulders and breast with small legs, has a stoopage in his speech and cannot make a quick reply, when spoken to without shutting his eyes or being in motion, which is very observable, his clothing was blue negro cotton jacket and overalls, ozanburg shirt, and wool hat, though they are subject to change, he was late the property of Richard E. Beall of Fauquier county, Virginia, and eloped about the 6th of November last. The constables and others of the city of Washington George Town, Alexandria, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Norfolk are requested to look out for the said runaway slave, as he above reward will be immediately paid them on the terms specified by JOHN KEDDLE. City of Washington, Dec. 16—2aw/f
Fresh Garden Seeds, &c. THEOPHILUS HOLT respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has received from London per ship Mars to Baltimore, and for sale, a very extensive assortment of fresh Garden Seeds, garden tools grass seeds, bird seed. Split peas and flour of mustard by the pound. He also has for sale a variety of bulbous flower roots, fruit trees, flowering shrubs, Lombardy poplars, &c. &c. The customary allowance made to Gardeners and those who purchase to sell again. Washington City, Dec. 13—2aw/f P. S. An assortment of the garden seeds are for sale at Dr. OTT'S George Town
BY VIRTUE of a Deed of Trust from the Rev. George Ralph, to Samuel Tyler, deceased, and Mary Pottinger, will be sold at Public sale for cash, on Tuesday the first day of April next, at Mr. Chapalier's tavern, Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Mary's county, a tract or parcel of land, called HULSTON, situate, lying, and being in the vicinity of said Academy in St. Mary's county aforesaid, containing about 150 acres, 60 negroes, consisting of three valuable men, a woman and two likely boys. MARY POTTINGER, Survivore of Samuel Tyler, Prince George's county, March 3—w5t
BY THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. WHEREAS by the first article of the terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the 17th day of October, 1796, for regulating the materials and manner of buildings and improvements on the lots in the city of Washington, it is provided "that the outer and party walls of all houses in the said city shall be built of brick or stone" and by the third article of the same terms and conditions it is declared "that the wall of no house shall be higher than forty feet to the roof in any part of the city, nor shall any be lower than thirty five feet on any of the avenues." And whereas the above recited articles were found to impede the settlement in the city, of mechanics and others whose circumstances did not admit of erecting houses authorised by the said regulations, for which cause the operation of the said articles has been suspended by several acts of the President of the United States, from the fifth day of June in the year 1796 to the first day of January last, and beneficial effects arising from such suspensions having been experienced it is deemed proper to revive the same with the exception hereafter mentioned. WHEREFORE I THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States, Do declare that the first and third articles above recited shall be, and the same are hereby suspended until the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, and that all houses which shall be erected in the said city of Washington previous to the said first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven conformable in other respects to the regulations aforesaid shall be considered as lawfully erected, except that no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than 12 feet from the sill to the eve shall be erected, nor shall such house be placed within twenty four feet of any brick or stone house. Given under my hand the twenty-fifth day of February 1806. TH: JEFFERSON. Feb 28—2aw8w
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD will be given for apprehending and securing so that the owner may get her again, a likely negro girl named ANN, about twenty years of age—of dark complexion, large eyes of rather a down look—& of middle stature. She absconded from George-town about four or five weeks ago. She formerly belonged to John Brent, esq. near Fort Tobacco, in Charles County, State of Maryland. She took with her sundry articles of wearing apparel, among which were a black silk short gown, and a red pink ditto. She appears, when spoken to, different and unassuming. The above reward will be paid if she is taken out of this district, and ten dollars if taken in it. GEORGE GLOYD, one of the Constables of George town. March 21—2aw/f
TUNSTALL'S PATENT THRESHING MACHINE. COMPLETE sets of cast iron Wheels, made purposely for this valuable machine; also Patent Licences, according to law; may be bought of, H. Foxall, esq. George Town foundry district of Columbia; and at T. Hogan's Free Washington city, of the Patentee; with whom contracts and patent rights for districts may be agreed for, on reasonable terms. A machine capable to thresh with two horses or oxen 200 bushels in a day, will cost about 150 DOLLARS. The horse wheel cast iron, in one piece, may also work other kinds of mills. A quantity of straw, supposed to contain 200 bushels of wheat, has been rethreshed with STELL'S, and did produce after a whole day, only ONE PINT and HALF. Letters to be post paid. April 9—wdC
To be Sold, Or EXCHANGED for other property in the City, or its vicinity. TWO valuable and contiguous TRACTS of LAND in the state of Kentucky, the one containing 6880 acres, and the other 623 acres, by late survey. They are under old and indisputable titles of more than twenty years, and situate in a populous county, adjoining flourishing settlements. All taxes thereon have been duly paid. Apply to the subscriber, JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington, November 6—wtf
Twenty Dollars Reward. WILL be given for apprehending and securing in jail a young Mulatto man named ANDREW. He was hired by me last year to Mr. Joseph Thomas who keeps the mid ferry to Alexandria, and absconded from that place about the latter end of August last. He is about 23 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, lufly and well made, has short curly hair, and is frequently subject to have several large pimples on his face. He is reckoned to be a tenable fellow of an easy agreeable address for a man in his low sphere of life. As he has not been heard of by me since his elopement, I suspect he has had the address to ship himself as a freeman on board some vessel either at Alexandria or Baltimore. Whoever takes him up and secures him an jail shall receive from me the above reward, or as soon due information thereof is given to me or to Dr. N. P. Canfield at Port Tobacco, G. B. CAUSIN. Maryland Charles County, January 29—wtf
BY VIRTUE of a Deed of Trust from the Rev. George Ralph, to Samuel Tyler, deceased, and Mary Pottinger, will be sold at Public sale for cash, on Tuesday the first day of April next, at Mr. Chapalier's tavern, Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Mary's county, a tract or parcel of land, called HULSTON, situate, lying, and being in the vicinity of said Academy in St. Mary's county aforesaid, containing about 150 acres, 60 negroes, consisting of three valuable men, a woman and two likely boys. MARY POTTINGER, Survivore of Samuel Tyler, Prince George's county, March 3—w5t