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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
A N D,
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DXLV.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4th, 1804.
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National Intelligencer.
APRIL 4.
IMPEACHMENT.
It was not our intention to make any remarks on the grounds of the impeachment of Judge Chase. That measure, in its initiation, having been amply and ably investigated on the floor of congress, and the debate, on that occasion, having been given to the public, our opinion was, that a newspaper discussion, previous to the trial by the constitutional tribunal, would be unnecessary, and premature, and might in its operation, be injurious, particularly to the accused. We do not, by these remarks, wish it to be understood as our opinion, that the press is not free to examine judicial as well as legislative measures. On the contrary, we do believe that wherever a great public good may result from an examination of any case before any judicial body, it is not only the right but the duty of a free press fearlessly to enter upon it. But in cases where such benefit is not likely to arise from the examination, we consider it good policy and strict justice to waive it. In the instance under consideration, this was the deliberate dictate of our judgements. Confiding in the exalted tribunal assigned by the Constitution for the trial of great state offenders, and in the purity of public opinion, we meant that our silence should be considered as conclusive evidence of our respect for the one, and our reliance on the other. Well acquainted with the virulence of party spirit, and the disposition of guilt to cover itself under its accomodating mantle, it was our hope that the republican prints of the country would not provoke a conflict of prejudice and passion, which might tend, in some measure, to wrest the solemn measure of an impeachment from that dispassionate investigation which its importance eminently demands.
From this purpose, we have been reluctantly drawn by Judge Chase himself. He, who of the whole community, ought to have maintained the dignified attitude of composure, and should have been the last to excite the public feeling, has come forward in a manner, unprecedented, with an address to the people, connected with a request "to the Editors of all the newspapers in the United States, to insert his letter and memorial, and the articles of impeachment reported by the committee." To decline publishing these productions, would be denounced as partial or pusillanimous. They are therefore subjoined, excepting the articles of impeachment, already inserted in the National Intelligencer. Having given them, we shall add some remarks, still avoiding, as much as possible, any implication of the grounds of impeachment, & confining ourselves to the extraordinary strictures of the judge upon the conduct of the House of Representatives in their collective capacity, and of several individuals of that body in the discharge of delegated powers.
The Letter is addressed,
TO THE EDITORS OF THE FEDERAL GAZETTE.
GENTLEMEN,
AS soon as there appeared reason for believing, that the house of representatives intending to adjourn, without presenting articles before the senate, in support of the impeachment voted against me, the inclosed memorial was prepared, and transmitted (on Saturday last) to a member, with a request, that he would present it, if such an intention should be ascertained to exist. On last Monday, the morning of the day previously fixed for adjournment by a joint resolution of both Houses, articles of impeachment were reported by the committee; but it was clearly impossible for the House to act upon them; nor does the time until which they were kept back, leave the least room for supposing, that the committee, who made the report, intended that they should be acted upon before adjournment.
But whatever may have been the intention with which they were reported, at such a time, the effect undoubtedly will be, that they will pass into the public prints, under the sanction of a committee of congress, and even under the apparent sanction of the House itself; and that as they contain the most aggravated and inflamed construction, which it was possible for passion and party spirit to put on the ex-parte evidence, whereon the vote of impeachment was founded, they will become a very powerful engine in the hands of calumniators and party zealots, for heightening
to the utmost the prejudices and odium which all the former proceedings in this case are so well calculated to excite.
The report of these articles prevented the memorial from being presented; the member to whom it was sent having been of opinion, that the case, in which it was my wish to have it presented did no longer exist. But as these articles have not been adopted by the House, or even considered; as they must be taken up at next session, and may then be rejected, or wholly varied; as the charges which I am to answer, and against which I ought to have been placed in a situation to prepare for defending myself, are thus left in the same state of uncertainty as before the report; and as this report, far from accomplishing the object which the memorial seeks, can have no other effect than to encrease and aggravate the injuries whereof it complains; I deem it proper now to make it public, as an appeal to my country, to the world and to posterity, against the injustice and illegality of the proceedings in this case, and as a solemn protest against the principles on which they are founded. I therefore request that you will please to insert it, with this letter, in your useful and respectable paper.
That it may be seen that my impression of the articles reported by the committee is not erroneous, I enclose a copy of them, and request that you will insert them after the memorial. It is proper to state that four (I believe) of the five members of the committee, who reported the articles, were the same members who collected and reported the testimony; and that fourteen days elapsed between the time when this committee was ordered to report articles, and the time when the report was actually made. This fact will assist in forming a judgment, as to the views, with which it was kept back until the last day of the session. Had the report been made sooner, as it might easily have been, the articles might have been rejected by the House; or might at least have been deprived, by amendments, of part of their wanton venom and abuse.
I am, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, SAMUEL CHASE. Baltimore, March 29, 1804.
Judge Chase requests the editors of all the newspapers in the United States to insert his letter and memorial, and the articles of impeachment reported by the committee.
To the honorable the House of Representatives of the United States. The Memorial of Samuel Chase, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
With the respect due to a branch of the government of his country; but with the frankness which conscious and injured innocence has a right to assume, and which an early, zealous, and constant supporter of American liberty ought to use; your memorialist approaches your honorable body, to lay his complaints at your feet, and to call on your justice for redress.
He has delayed this step until so late a period of the session, because he still indulged the hope, that your honorable body would not adjourn, without reducing the charges against him to some specific form; so that he might be enabled to know of what he is accused, and to direct his attention immediately to the means necessary for proving his innocence, and vindicating his character. But finding, at last, that an adjournment is about to take place, without any thing of this kind being done; that a vote of impeachment, resting on no precise or specific charges or facts, and supported only by ex-parte testimony, is about to be left hanging, for a whole year, over his head; and that the publication of this testimony is permitted, in such a way as to render it most injurious to his reputation, without leaving to him the possibility of combating it by counter-proof; his duty to that character, which he has supported unimpeached during a period of forty years, through all the troubles, difficulties, and dangers of the American revolution; to his family, whose happiness, respectability, and establishment in life, are materially implicated in whatever concerns his good name; to his country, which has honored him with many high and important trusts; to his office, which requires a reputation not only unspotted but unspotted; and to himself—forbids him to remain longer in silence.
He therefore respectfully solicits and intreats, that your honorable body will not suffer an adjournment to take place, until articles of impeachment shall have
been preferred against him. Thus, although an immediate trial, which his feelings would lead him to prefer, may not be possible at this protracted period of the session, still he will be enabled, knowing the precise charges against him, to make vigorous, speedy and effectual preparations for his defence, to repel the malignant calumnies by which he is industriously and unceasingly assailed, and fully to vindicate that innocence, for which he solemnly appeals to the Almighty Searcher of hearts, to the testimony of his own conscience, to his country, and to an impartial posterity. He is far from arrogating to himself an exemption from the usual portion of human frailty. But for the purity of his intentions, for the uprightness of his conduct, and for the faithful and conscientious discharge of his official duties, on all occasions, according to the best lights of his understanding; he confidently appeals to that dread Tribunal where he and his accusers must one day appear, where the inmost recesses of all hearts shall be laid open, the most hidden motives of conduct shall be revealed, and calumny, malice, and party rage, shall for ever be put to silence.
He is the more strongly induced to urge this request, and to express his earnest hope that it will not be refused, by those reflections which it has not been in his power to avoid making, on the course hitherto pursued in this prosecution.
That charges so weighty as to render a judge of the supreme court a fit object of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors, should have been suffered to rest in oblivion for four years; although they are founded on facts perfectly notorious in their nature, and perfectly well known to the persons who, after so great a lapse of time, have at length made them the ground of a prosecution the most solemn known to our laws; that this prosecution, so long delayed, should be commenced precisely at the moment when a political change supposed by many, though he hopes unjustly, to be favorable to its success, had taken place: are circumstances but little calculated to impart confidence to the heart of innocence, or to quiet those alarms which they may feel when opposed to uncontrolled power.
Nor is the manner of commencing this prosecution, more consoling than the time. A formal enquiry into the official conduct of a judge, must always be to him a matter of very serious moment. It must always expose him to very great uneasiness, and may render him obnoxious to the most unjust and injurious suspicions. It is wholly inconsistent with the humane and just principles of our laws, to subject a citizen to evils of this kind, without some specific accusation, resting on facts precisely stated, and supported by such proof on oath, as renders their existence at least probable. No man, however mean his condition, or however infamous his character, can be bound over to undergo the enquiry of a grand jury, without such an accusation, and such proof. A grand jury cannot listen to any accusation against a man, nor enquire into his conduct, much less put him upon his trial by finding a presentment against him, unless such an accusation so supported be first adduced; and the person maliciously instigating the enquiry is liable, in case it should be rejected, to a suit for reparation by the accused party. All these just and humane provisions are established by our laws, for the protection of innocence, not merely from punishment, but also from unfounded and vexatious enquiry. Every principle of reason, of justice, and of law, and every precedent, that deserves or has received the weight of authority, concurs in requiring the full application of these provisions to the case of impeachment.
And yet in this prosecution all these provisions have been completely disregarded. An enquiry has been instituted, of the most serious import to the party accused, on the mere suggestion of a member in his place, unsupported by oath, or by any specific statement of facts, which if supported by oath would have justified an enquiry. This enquiry, thus instituted, in a manner the most unprecedented and alarming, far from being confined to any specific charge or fact, is extended to the whole official conduct of a judge who has been above eight years in office, and authorizes the most minute inquisition of his most unguarded and most inconsiderable words and actions, throughout the whole period. It cannot escape your honorable body, how formidable an engine of oppression such an enquiry must be, in the hands of persons disposed to abuse it. Your memorialist is far from insinuating
that such has been the case in the present instance. This insinuation he could not make, or even suspect to be well founded, without derogating from the respect that ought to be inspired by so elevated a body: but the soundness of principles is in no manner so well tested as by the consequences to which they lead. And although it cannot be suspected that this honorable body is under the influence of party spirit, party views, or individual malice, yet it is a melancholy truth that free governments are liable to the influence of party spirit, and that when this fatal passion takes full possession of the mind, it completely stifles every sentiment of justice and humanity, all regard for law and right. Should the time ever arrive, which God avert! when a majority of Congress, inflamed by party spirit, and seeking the destruction of its opponents, shall desire to criminate a judge, in order to heap odium on the party with which he is connected; when a President, at the head of this majority, and guiding its passions, shall desire, from motives of private resentment, the ruin of any judge; when the schemes of the dominant party, or of its leaders, may require the removal of all firm upright and independent judges, and the substitution of others more complying or more timid; when the necessities of a favorite partizan may require the removal of a judge, in order to create a vacancy in office; should such a disastrous period ever arrive, as the history of other free governments informs us it may, in what manner will the devoted victim, however innocent, be able to shield himself against the thrusts of such a weapon, as this species of enquiry, instituted in such a manner, and on such principles, cannot fail to furnish? Your memorialist trembles for the honor of his country, and for the success of republican government in this her last and fairest experiment, much more than for his own safety, when he reflects on the excesses that under such a cloak may be committed.
Does the manner in which this enquiry has been conducted, present any considerations calculated to remove or diminish the alarm excited by its commencement? Far otherwise! A great mass of testimony has been taken, which though calculated to affect your memorialist in the most material manner, he has had no opportunity of confronting, cross-examining or explaining. Thus testimony, in the taking of which some individuals were allowed to indulge themselves in the most rancorous invectives against your memorialist, and to cloath with the formalities and sanction of an oath, the malicious effusions of their unprovoked and implacable resentment; this testimony, thus tarnished with the deep stain of partiality, hatred and revenge, was printed piece-meal, in the progress of the enquiry, and though not immediately published, was placed in a condition to be extensively circulated, and thus to be employed as a mean of deeply wounding the reputation of your memorialist, of exciting universal odium against him, and of preparing the way for a certain condemnation, when a clamour shall have been excited, strong enough to drown the voice of reason, truth and justice.
Your memorialist by no means wishes to be understood as insinuating that such was the intention wherewith this step was taken, his respect for the body by which it was authorised, forbids him to harbour such a suspicion. But such may be the effect, and such it must be, in his apprehension, unless your honorable body, by preferring specific charges against him immediately, shall enable him to prepare speedily and efficaciously for justifying his conduct and defending his character, against the unjust and wanton aspersions with which this testimony abounds.
The recent publication of this testimony, in a Gazette understood to be the official organ of the government, and thence communicating an official character and sanction to whatever of this nature appears in it, is a circumstance calculated to increase, in a very great degree, the mischievous effects of the testimony itself, and renders still more important the measure which your memorialist so earnestly solicits. From this Gazette, the publication will pass into others; and thus the most virulent misrepresentations of his conduct, and slanders on his character, sanctioned too, in some degree, by the vote of impeachment, will be spread throughout the United States; and will even extend to foreign countries; while the opportunity of refuting them, must, of necessity, be delayed for a considerable time, and, if articles of impeachment
are not immediately exhibited, may be postponed to a very distant period.
He is still more strongly impressed with the necessity of demanding, as a sacred right, this immediate exhibition of articles, when he reflects on the manner in which the impeachment was voted. It is in vain that he has looked, in this vote and in the report of the committee on which it is founded, for a statement or even a hint of the offences with which he stands charged. He is impeached of "high crimes and misdemeanors;" but in what these high crimes and misdemeanors consist, when, how and where they were committed, is no where declared. The testimony collected by the committee, does indeed state a variety of facts, which may constitute the grounds of accusation. The principles of justice and law, and the uniform course of practice, united in requiring, that each of these facts, or each that it is intended to rely on, should be put by the committee into the form of a specific charge, and made the subject of a distinct resolution. The sense of the House would then have been expressed on every charge separately, and each would have been supported or rejected, according to the opinion entertained by the majority respecting its truth and its sufficiency. Your memorialist would then have known, even without articles, what it is, of which he stands accused, and to what points to direct his preparations for defence. His family, his friends, his country, and the world, would have known what it is that has been called, "high crimes and misdemeanors;" and would have been enabled to judge how far the accusation is supported by the facts, and the facts by the proof.
There is another point of view in which your memorialist deems it his sacred duty, a duty to his country more than to himself, a duty which no consideration shall prevent him from performing, to enter his most solemn protest against this part of the proceeding. His protest may not now be heard. The passions and prejudices of the moment may drown his voice. But it will one day be heard and seriously listened to. The American people will hear it, posterity will hear it—and the lovers of liberty, in every age and country, will unite in asserting the justice of his complaint.
He complains that by the method pursued in voting this impeachment, a majority has been obtained in favor of the general vote, while it is possible and even probable, that there is not a majority in favor of any one of the separate charges on which the vote is founded. The accusations against him, so far as can be collected from the testimony and from the speeches of members, are very various. Let it be supposed that four charges are chiefly relied on, viz. the trial of Fries, the trial of Callender, the proceedings at Newcastle, and the charge to the grand jury in Baltimore. It is perfectly manifest that these charges are wholly distinct, and cannot support or strengthen each other. Each is a misdemeanor in itself, or it is not. Therefore there ought to be a majority in favor of each separately, before it can be made the ground of impeachment.
Let it then be supposed, which is not only possible but highly probable, that thirty members and no more, considered the conduct of your memorialist in the trial of Fries, as a proper ground of impeachment. In that case it is manifest that your memorialist ought not to be impeached on that charge, there not being a majority in favor of it. In like manner there may have been thirty members in favor of impeaching him, on account of Callender's trial; and so of the other two charges. Thus although there might be thirty members in favor of impeaching, on any one of the four charges, in which case it is manifest that there ought to be no impeachment, yet, when all the charges are blended into one general question, every member who considers any one charge as a proper ground of impeachment, and all the others as not proper grounds, must vote in the affirmative; and thus there will appear a majority great in favor of a measure, which is actually disapproved by a great majority. This is an innovation so striking, so alarming, so repugnant to all former practice, and to all ideas of justice and law, that it may be safely pronounced to furnish, especially when combined with the principle of indefinite enquiry without previous specific allegations, and of ex-parte testimony, the most formidable, the most irresistible engine of oppression, under the forms of law, that ever was placed in the hands of power; and if the time should ever arrive, which Heaven in its mercy avert! when this engine shall be

wielded under the direction of party spirit, or of popular opinion instigated by personal malice or sinister policy, dreadful indeed will be the condition of those whom it may be the object of the moment to destroy.
Against an accusation thus prepared, and thus preferred, it behoves your memorialist to make the earliest and the most efficacious preparations for defending his character and asserting his innocence. While the accusation rests in its present vague state, he knows not to what points to direct these preparations; and in the mean time the fullest scope is given to calumny, and malevolence; suspicion, ever alive and busy, is left free to act; and the most efficacious means are afforded, for overwhelming with public odium an innocent man, who until the age of sixty-three, has maintained an unspotted reputation; who bore an early and not an unimportant part in our common struggle for liberty; and who, after discharging with honor, many most important trusts conferred on him by his fellow citizens, was raised by Washington, the witness of his services, and often the companion of his exertions, to that high office, his conduct in which, though now the subject of accusation, has always been regulated by the most conscientious regard to his duty and his oath.
These are injuries to which he cannot suppose that your honorable body will suffer him to remain exposed. He therefore presumes to solicit, most respectfully but most earnestly; and confidently hopes, that your honorable body will not adjourn without preferring articles of impeachment against him, and thus reducing to precise form, that accusation, which in its present vague and general state, is impossible for him to repel. Could an immediate trial be had, it would be far most agreeable to his feelings; but as circumstances render it impossible that he should be gratified in that extent, he forbears to ask it; and confines himself to that request, which it is, he conceives, perfectly easy for your honorable body to grant.
SAMUEL CHASE. Baltimore, 24th March 1804.
In the articles, which we consider it our duty to make, we shall altogether limit ourselves to repelling a mass of misrepresentation, seldom found in an anonymous way, and never, perhaps, equalled by a high official character in the formation of an official performance. We disclaim all appeal to Heaven, to the almighty searcher of hearts, and to the dread tribunal of another world. We address ourselves exclusively and confidently to the honest judgement of upright men. It is through them that Deity proclaims his will, and with their suffrages in our favor we dread nothing.
It would involve great prolixity to pursue the Judge through his long and inflammatory remarks, though it would be no difficult task to take them in succession, and prove them individually, either inapposite, untrue, or illogical. But this would consume too much of the patience of the reader. An attempt, therefore, shall be made to generalise them.
He objects to the mode pursued, I. Because the enquiry was instituted on the mere suggestion of a member in his place, unsupported by oath, or by any specific statement of facts, which if supported by oath would have justified an enquiry.
This point has been so clearly elucidated in the debate, lately published, that it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer the reader to it. It may, however, be observed, that the representation of the Judge is altogether erroneous. A member, of great respectability, did, in his place, and on oath taken as a representative of the people, make certain allegations, which he and the House considered as sufficient grounds for enquiry, and which many of the political friends of the accused allowed would be, if substantiated, grounds for enquiry. It is not at all surprising that he who is impeached for alleged misconduct should declare that some of the grounds on which that impeachment is sustained "would not have justified an enquiry."
The judge goes on to declare "this enquiry instituted in a manner the most unprecedented and alarming."
On this declaration we will make no remark, other than that the debate in the House of Representatives contains a number of precedents pointedly prescriptive.
II. Objection is made to the ex-parte nature of the evidence collected by the committee of Enquiry.
It is true that the evidence is in some measure ex-parte. The nature of the enquiry did not admit of its being otherwise. Neither time, nor the powers of the committee, admitted that full investigation which can only be had on a trial. To have gone into all the minutiae of proof, a great part of which could only be obtained in remote parts of the union, would have consumed more time than remained of the session, and might have been considered as an attempt prematurely to judge the case. All that the House required to justify their proceedings was colourable proof
of misconduct, sufficient to warrant an impeachment. This the committee obtained. How?—By exclusively consulting prejudiced and vindictive men? Men, who, in their own opinion, had been wronged by judge Chase? Men, who differed from him in politics? By omitting to take the testimony of those, whose prejudices, either personal or political, if they had any, were on his side? All this is more than insinuated. And yet there is not a word of truth in it. The reverse is the truth. Take the prominent features of the testimony, which constitute the whole of the impeachable matter set forth in the articles, and you will discern a systematic and scrupulous endeavour to place along side of each other the poison and the antidote, the charge and the vindication—For instance:
1. In the case of Fries, we are furnished as well with the deposition of Mr. Rawle, the Attorney of the district, as with those of Messrs. Lewis and Dallas, the counsel of the prisoner. Of these three gentlemen, two are decidedly federal.
2. In the case of Cooper, we are furnished with a detailed statement, the most circumstantial the documents exhibit, by Mr. Rawle, the district Attorney, the prosecutor of Cooper, and a decided federalist. We have also the deposition of Mr. Caldwell, likewise federal.
3. In the case of Callender, the depositions of Mr. Hay and Mr. Nicholas, the counsel for Callender, are given. These gentlemen are republicans. To compare with their statement of facts, is added the trial of Callender, at full length, comprising 76 pages, taken in shorthand by Mr. Robertson, whom we understand to be federal in his political opinions.
4. In the case of the address of the judge to a grand jury at New-Castle, Delaware, the only testimony, which, perhaps the nature of the case admitted, is given—that of Mr. Read, district Attorney, whose politics happen to be republican.
5. In the case of the Charge to a grand jury at Baltimore, we have the depositions of Samuel H. Smith, who published a statement of it, of Mr. Mason, who was present at its delivery, and of Mr. Campbell, the foreman of the jury. The two first are republican, the last federal. In addition to these depositions, is the concise statement respecting the charge given in the National Intelligencer, and the full statement of it, afterwards published by the judge himself.
It may not be improper here to state a fact. It was not the intention of the committee to publish the deposition of Mr. Snowden respecting some light expressions of the judge; but having been published, through mistake, the depositions of Messrs. Marshall and Washington were taken and likewise printed.
This concise view of the testimony published will shew to the satisfaction of every unprejudiced mind, that the committee have acted with fairness and honor; that they have in its selection (if that word can at all be appropriated to a mass of testimony the whole of which is published) exhibited the spirit of impartial justice; that they have sought for facts from all quarters; and, it is not a little extraordinary that of the fourteen deponents (omitting one whose political sentiments we do not know) seven are federal, and seven republican.
It is true, that having procured testimony sufficient, in their estimation, to establish the preferment of articles of impeachment, they did not exhaust the entire field of enquiry by descending to a tedious and useless examination of facts and opinions. This would have been to foreclose, in a great degree, that ultimate investigation which the Senate are constitutionally authorised to make.
It is not less true, that the committee might have taken the depositions of Fries and of Cooper. But they declined to do it; whether from considerations of party or justice let the dispassionate decide.
III. Objection is made to the publication of the testimony. It is represented as having been printed piece-meal in the progress of the enquiry, and placed in a situation to be extensively circulated, as a mean of wounding the reputation of the accused and exciting an universal odium against him.
How true this statement, and these insinuations are, a few facts will evince. Early in the progress of the enquiry, the chairman of the committee stated to the House that several documents were received, that more were expected, and that in the opinion of the committee it was desirable that they should be authorised under an order of the House to print them as received, that when the report should be made the House might be enabled without much delay to act upon it. The authority to print was given without a dissenting voice. Under this authority the testimony, as received, was printed; but under a pointed injunction of secrecy, which, it is believed, was sacredly observed: nor does it appear that the least use was made of the testimony during this period to wound the reputation of the accused.
No publication of it was made, until the report of the committee was presented, and then the whole testimony was laid on the tables of the members; and from the publicity naturally flowing from this step, which is that pursued in every case where there is no positive injunction of secrecy, resulted the publication in the National Intelligencer, honored by judge Chase with being designated the official organ of the government. Every printer in the union had access to the same source of information, which was in truth open to the whole world, and it is principally owing to local situation that that paper preceded the others in the publication.
Does the judge mean to insinuate that the ends of justice and truth would have been more successfully promoted by concealing than by publishing the testimony? Would he not have had reason in such a case to have accused his accusers? Would he not have said that those who preferred the charges were afraid to trust to public opinion; that they knew the charges to be unsupported, and dared not exhibit the proofs on which they rested? This would undoubtedly have been the language of the accused, and his friends, and it would have been used not altogether without success.
There is another view which ought to be taken of this point, fully to appreciate the force of the objection. The representatives of the people are responsible to their constituents. If they err, the people ought not to be left in the dark. If they act right, the people, whose interests they guard, ought not to be ignorant of their motives of action. Hence, except in cases of great and delicate emergency, it is the invariable practice of the legislative body to deliberate and act in public. The more important the object whereon they are occupied, the more necessary and salutary is this publicity. Secrecy naturally, and with us almost necessarily, begets distrust. In the case of an impeachment the representative body should, in proportion to its importance, be under a full responsibility to the public will; lest they should deviate into measures subversive of those rights they are constituted to protect.
Many other views of this point might be easily taken; but these two are conclusive. Suffice it to add that every view which can be taken leads to a conviction of the propriety of giving publicity to every step attendant on this measure.
Besides, who is there so ignorant as not to be able to appreciate the weight which ought to be attached to the testimony. All the incidents attending it are represented; if ex parte, it is so set forth on the face of it; and names, time, place, and various other circumstances are given—so that literally he that runs may read.
IV. Objection is made to the form of the report of the committee, and to the act of the House confirmatory of it. It ought, it seems, to have gone more into detail, and assigned the reasons for voting an impeachment; and the vote of impeachment ought to have embraced specific charges. The charges, apparently arising from the testimony, are represented as various, and it is contended that a majority of the House, though concurring in a general vote of impeachment, could not have been obtained to sanction any one charge.—This objection, on first blush, is plausible; but such an impression arises altogether from omitting to consider the whole truth. A general vote of impeachment is first passed. Were this the conclusive act of the House there might be injustice in it. But it does not rest here. Immediately consequent to it is the exhibition of articles, containing specific allegations, which articles have been produced, and which must receive the sanction of the House before the trial commences. If then the judge desires specific charges, he has them; and possessed of them, his logic fails.
V. But it is contended that specific articles should not only have been exhibited, but agreed to by the House previous to their adjournment; and it is said that the bare exhibition of them, without the sanction of the House, leaves the charges they contain subject to future rejection or variation, disables the accused from preparing to defend himself, and exposes his reputation to the mercy of calumny and party malice.
Let it be remarked that the judge allows that circumstances rendered an immediate trial impossible. It impossible until the next session of Congress, we appeal to the candor of any intelligent mind, whether more injury would not attach to the reputation of the accused, whether a deeper wound would not be inflicted upon his fair name by a vote of the House in support of articles hanging suspended over his head for seven months, than by the mere report of a committee of five individuals. The first would involve the solemn decision of the whole body, and would, as far as that body represents the people, involve their sentiment; the other involves only the opinion of the committee, which even the members themselves of that committee might, on more mature reflection, retract. Are not these confide-
rations, the most obvious to every understanding? They are; and while they repel, in their widest extent, the prejudiced insinuations of the accused, they place the conduct of the House in a light, which establishes their scrupulous regard for justice, and delicacy towards the object of their interposition. Had articles been agreed to, particularly with that haste, which the late period of the session rendered inevitable, we venture to say that the thunder of party vengeance would have rebounded through the land.
Further; another chance is given to judge Chase to escape an impeachment. If he is so innocent as he declares himself, time, ample time will be allowed the very body that has declared him guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, deliberately and coolly to examine the grounds of the measure, to consult the opinions of men as wise and good as themselves, and an opportunity afforded to retrace their steps, if discovered to be erroneous. Can innocence ask or desire more?
We have noticed, we believe, all the material objections urged against the mode of instituting the impeachment. Much extraneous matter, which no less for the honor of our country than for that of the highest judicial station in it we could wish had been suppressed, is mingled with them. We shall not go into a controversy respecting the boasted purity of a character that assumes an unspotted reputation of forty years, nor shall we descend to repel the envenomed insinuation that attempts insidiously to infilt into the public mind charges against the executive and legislative departments of our government, which it dares not openly avow. Over that frailty of human nature, which in its own vindication, ruthlessly assails the conduct and motives of men of the first respectability, and which accuses of injustice the nation to which for justification it appeals, it is our wish to drop the curtain. We repeat it; these remarks have been extorted from us. If it be a moral duty to punish the guilty, it is in our opinion, a much higher duty to protect the innocent from aspersion. To do this, however feebly, has been our sole purpose.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
To provide for a more extensive distribution of the Laws of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the secretary for the department of state be, and he hereby is authorised and empowered to procure four hundred copies of the laws of the United States: one hundred copies of which shall be distributed in just proportions in the territory of Orleans and district of Louisiana; the other three hundred copies to be reserved for the disposal of Congress.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one thousand copies of the laws of the United States which shall be printed at the close of each session shall be reserved for the disposal of Congress, and that the distribution of the remainder shall be extended to the territory of Orleans and district of Louisiana, and to such other territories as are or may hereafter be established, in the same manner and proportion as is already provided by law for distributing them among the several states and territories; and the secretary of state shall cause to be published in one newspaper in each of the territories of the United States, where newspapers are printed, the laws which have passed during the present session, and which may hereafter be passed by Congress.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be transmitted by the secretary of state to each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, and to each territorial delegate, as soon as may be after the expiration of each session of Congress, a copy of all the laws which shall have been passed at such session.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated, for defraying the expense authorised by this act, payable out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 27, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
Relative to the compensations of certain officers of the customs; and to provide for appointing a Surveyor in the district therein mentioned.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the last day
of June in the present year, the salaries heretofore allowed by law to the several collectors of the customs, for the districts of Bath, Portsmouth, Newport, Middletown, New-Haven, Delaware, Richmond, Wilmington in North Carolina, Newbern and Edenton, shall cease and be discontinued. And there shall be allowed and paid annually to the officers of the customs hereafter, named, the following sums respectively, viz.
To the collector for the district of Natchez, in addition to the fees and other emoluments of office, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; and to each of the surveyors at New-London, Middletown, New-Haven and Alexandria, in addition to the allowances already established by law, the sum of fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said last day of June in lieu of the commissions heretofore allowed by law, there shall be allowed to the collectors of the customs for Wilmington in North Carolina, and Newbern, two and a half per cent:
To the collectors for Petersburg and Richmond, two per cent:
To the collectors for Kibbebank and New-London, one and three quarters per cent:
To the collector for Bath, one and a half per cent:
To the collectors for New-Haven and Middletown, one and three eights per cent:
To the collectors for Providence and Alexandria, one and one quarter per cent:
To the collector for Newburyport, one and one eighth per cent:
To the collector for Portland, three quarters of one per cent:
And to the collectors for Salem and Beverly, five eights of one per cent; on all monies by them respectively received an account of the duties arising on good, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships and vessels.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed a surveyor for the district of Marblehead, who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the other emoluments allowed by law, a salary of one hundred dollars annually.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 27, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT.
For the appointment of an additional Judge for the Mississippi territory and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed an additional judge for the Mississippi territory, who shall reside at or near the Tombigbee settlement, and who shall possess and exercise, within the district of Washington, as fixed and ascertained by an act of general assembly of the Mississippi territory, entitled, an "Act for the more convenient organization of the courts of the said territory," the jurisdiction heretofore possessed and exercised by the superior court of the said territory within the said district of Washington, and to the exclusion of the original jurisdiction of the said superior court within the same: Provided always, That the said superior court shall have full power and authority to issue writs of error to the court established by this act, and to hear and determine the same when sitting, for the district of Adams, as fixed and ascertained by the act of the general assembly of the Mississippi territory herein before mentioned.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said superior court are hereby authorised, upon the reversal of a judgement of the court established by this act, to render such judgement as the said court ought to have rendered or passed, except where the reversal is in favor of the plaintiff in the original suit and his debt or damages to be assessed, are uncertain, in which case, the cause shall be remanded, in order to a final determination.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That when any person, not being an executor or administrator, applies for a writ of error, such writ of error shall be no stay of proceedings in the court to which it issues, unless the plaintiff in error shall give security, to be approved of by a judge of the said superior court, that the plaintiff in error shall prosecute his writ to effect, and pay the condemnation money, and all costs, or otherwise abide the judgement in error, if he fail to make his plea good.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all pleas, process and proceedings whatever, which may have been commenced in the said superior court within the aforesaid district of Washington, shall be, and the same are hereby transferred to the court established by this act; and the officers appointed to issue or execute the process of the said superior

court within the district of Washington, and to record the proceedings of the same, are hereby authorized and required to issue and execute the process of the court established by this act, and to record the proceedings thereof.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted , That the court established by this act, shall hold two terms in each and every year, at the place where the courts for Washington county, within the said territory, shall be held, to commence on the days following, to wit, on the first Monday in May and September annually; and shall then and there proceed to hear and determine the pleas, process and proceedings depending before them, in the same manner as the said superior court within the district of Washington aforesaid might or could have done, in case this act had not been passed.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted , That the judge to be appointed by virtue of this act, shall receive the same salary and payable in the same manner, which is established by law for judges of the said superior court of the Mississippi territory.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore, March 27, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles; and also, for levying and collecting light-money on foreign ships or vessels.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the following articles, in addition to those already exempted from duty, shall, and may be imported free from any duty, namely, rags of linnen; of cotton, of woollen, and of hempen cloth; brittles of twine, regulus of antimony, unwrought clay, unwrought burr stones, and the bark of the cork tree.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That from and after the thirtieth day of June next, the duties now in force upon the articles herein after enumerated and described, at their importation into the United States, shall cease, and that in lieu thereof, there shall be thenceforth laid, levied, and collected, upon the said articles, at their said importation, the several and respective rates or duties following, that is to say:
On foreign caught dried fish, fifty cents per quintal;
On salmon one hundred cents per barrel; on mackerel sixty cents per barrel and on all other pickled fish, forty cents per barrel;
On cables, tarred cordage, white lead, red lead, almonds, currants, prunes and plums, figs, raisins imported in jars and boxes, and muscadel raisins, two cents per pound;
On all other kinds of raisins, one cent and a half per pound;
On rallow, yellow ochre in oil, anchors, and sheet iron, one cent and a half per pound;
On Spanish brown, dry yellow ochre, flit and hoop iron, one cent per pound;
On starch, three cents per pound;
On hair powder, glue, and seines, four cents per pound;
On pewter plates and dishes four cents per pound;
On untarred cordage, two cents and a half per pound;
On quicksilver, six cents per pound;
On Chin-se cassia, and gun powder four cents per pound;
On cinnamon and cloves, twenty cents per pound;
On mace, one dollar and twenty-five cents per pound;
On nutmegs, fifty cents per pound;
On black glass quart bottles, sixty cents per gross.
On window glass as follows:—On all not above eight inches by ten, one dollar and sixty cents per hundred square feet, not above ten inches by twelve, one dollar and seventy five cents per hundred square feet and on all above ten inches by twelve two dollars and twenty five cents per hundred square feet.
On segars, two dollars per thousand;
On kid and Morocco shoes, fifteen cents a pair;
On foreign lime fifty cents per cask, containing sixty gallons, and on Sicily wine, thirty cents per gallon.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That an addition of ten per centum shall be made to the several rates of duties above specified and imposed in respect to all such goods, wares and merchandise as aforesaid, as shall after the said thirtieth day of June, be imported in ships or vessels not of the United States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That the duties laid by this act, shall be levied and collected, in the same manner, and under the same regulations and allowances as to drawbacks, mode of security, and time of payment respectively, as the several duties now in force on the respective articles herein before enumerated: Provided however , That no drawbacks shall be allowed on
the exportation of foreign fish, or fish oil, or of playing cards.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That all duties and drawbacks, which, by virtue of this act, shall be payable and allowable on any specific quantity of goods, wares and merchandise, shall be deemed to apply, in proportion, to any quantity greater or less than such specific quantity.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted , That a duty of fifty cents per ton, to be denominated "light money" shall be levied and collected on all ships or vessels, not of the United States, which after the aforesaid thirtieth day of June next, may enter the ports of the United States: Provided however , That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to contravene any provision of the treaty or conventions concluded between the United States of America and the French Republic, on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three: And Provided also , That the said light money shall be levied and collected in the same manner and under the same regulations as the tonnage duties now imposed by law.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted , That the person exercising the powers which, under the Spanish government, were vested in the intendant of the province of Louisiana, shall until a district court of the United States shall be established in the territory of Orleans, in conformity with the provisions of the act entitled "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories; and providing for the temporary government thereof," have and exercise, in all cases whatever arising within the said territory under the laws regulating and providing for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, or under any other revenue laws of the United States, the same jurisdiction and powers which by law, are given to the district and circuit courts of the United States. And the powers to remit fines, penalties or forfeitures, and to remove disabilities, which, by law, are vested in the secretary of the treasury, may, and shall, in all cases of such fines, penalties, forfeitures or disabilities incurred within the territory of Orleans, and until a governor of the said territory shall be appointed and shall enter into the functions of his office, be exercised by the person exercising the powers which, under the Spanish government, were vested in the governor of the province of Louisiana; and the said powers to remit fines, penalties or forfeitures and to remove disabilities, may and shall in like manner, be exercised by the governor of the said territory, from the time when he shall enter into the functions of his office, in conformity with the provisions of the said act, until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore, March 27, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Concerning the Public Buildings in the City of Washington.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, Fifty thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, in proceeding with the public buildings, at the city of Washington, and in making such necessary improvements and repairs thereon, as he shall deem expedient.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore, March 27, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to prescribe the mode in which the public acts, records and judicial proceedings in each state, shall be authenticated so as to take effect in every other state."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all records and exemplifications of office books, which are or may be kept in any public office of any state, not appertaining to a court, shall be proved or admitted in any other court or office in any other state, by the attestation of the keeper of the said records or books, and the seal of his office thereto annexed, if there be a seal; together with a certificate of the presiding justice of the court of the county or district, as the case may be, in which such office is or may be kept; or of the governor, the secretary of state, the chancellor or the keeper of the great seal of the state, that the said attestation is in due form and by the proper officer; and the said certificate, if given by the presiding justice of a court, shall be farther authenticated by the clerk or prothonotary of the said court, who shall certify under his hand
and the seal of his office, that the said presiding justice is duly commissioned and qualified; or if the said certificate be given by the governor, the secretary of state, the chancellor or keeper of the great seal, it shall be under the great seal of the state in which the said certificate is made. And the said records and exemplifications, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court and office within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts or offices of the state from whence the same, are, or shall be taken.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That all the provisions of this act, and the act to which this is a supplement, shall apply as well to the public acts, records, office-books, judicial proceedings, courts and offices of the respective territories of the United States, and countries subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, as to the public acts, records, office-books, judicial proceedings, courts and offices of the several states.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore, March 27, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4.
MARRIED—on Saturday last, by the Revd. Dr. Gantt, RICHARD CUTTS, Esquire, a representative from Massachusetts, to Miss PAINE of this City.
The PRESIDENT of the U. States left the city on Sunday on a visit to Monticello. We understand that it is his intention to return within two or three weeks.
Extract of a letter from Captain Bainbridge, to Commodore Preble, dated Tripoli, November 1, 1803.
Had I not sent the Schooner from us, the accident might have been prevented. It not we should have been able to have extricated ourselves from a Barbary prison: But my motive in ordering her off Cape Bon was to grant more efficient protection to our commerce than I could by keeping her with me. I hope you will consider the arrangement as judicious and done with the best intentions, although it has proved unfortunate.
The following Officers have been ordered to join the Ships put in commission and now preparing for the Mediterranean.
Samuel Barron, John Rodgers, James Barron, Hugh G. Campbell, Isaac Channcey, George Cox, Wm. C. Jenckes, Samuel Evans, Ed'd Wyer, P. C. Wedderbrandt, Charles Ludlow, Marmaduke Dove, Christopher Gadsden, Oliver H. Perry, John M. Gardner, DL Murray, George Balfour, Ed'd Gutbush, P. L. Medard, Thomas Triplett, Nathl. Tisdall, Starling Archer, Alexr. M'Williams, Joseph W. New, Larkin Griffin, Wm. Baker, Isaac Garretson, Cus. Wadsworth, Buller Cocke, Silas Butler, Thos. Johnston, George H. Geddes, Ed'd O'Brien, Jas. S. Higinbotham, Samuel Angus, DL C. Sim, George Dabney, John Shattuck, Wm. P. Smith, Jno. Godwin, Ed'd Bennett, George Parker, Johnlock Biakely, Winlock Clarke, Ep. R. Baine, M. T. Woolsey, Wm. H. Allen, Wm. M'Intosh, Ed. Trencharde, Slofs H. Grenell, John B. Nichollson, Archd. K. Kearney, Ed. Giles, Orde Craigton, Sidney Smith, Benjamin Turner, George S. Hackley, Noble W. Glen, Wm. S. Butler, Jno. R. Leaycraft,
Wm. Sim, John Downes, Henry L. Martin, Jas. P. Wilmer, Francis Mitchell, Walter G. Anderson, Lewis Hunt, John Dabole, James Marshall, Jno. R. Sherwood, DL P. Ramsey, Francis B. Whiting, Charles Jones, Andw. Stuart, Jacquelin Harvie, Rd. H. Wilson, Henry Thomas, Ed. Windlow, Thos. Shield, Andw. McDowell, Overton Carr, Geo. A. Hannah, Walter Stewart, Alexr. S. Wadsworth, Thos. Swearingen, Jacob Hite, Wm. Walker, Eli E. D. Nielson, John Stockton, junr. Thomas Shephard, Alfred Cvale, Charles W. Rivers, Joseph Sabb, Jas. A. Miller.
APPOINTMENTS.
William Johnson, of South Carolina, to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, in the place of Alfred Moore, resigned.
John Samuel Sherburne, of New Hampshire, to be district judge of the district of New Hampshire.
Jonathan Steele, of New Hampshire, to be attorney for the United States, in the district of New Hampshire.
Joseph M'Ilvaine, of New Jersey, to be attorney for the United States, in the district of New Jersey.
Jonathan Russell, of Providence, in Rhode Island, to be consul for the United States, at Tunis.
William H. Burr, of New Jersey, to be collector of the district and inspector of the revenue, for the port of Burlington, vice Motes Kempton.
Joseph Wimer, of New Jersey, to be collector of the district, and inspector of the revenue, for the port of Great Egg harbour, vice Alexander Freeland.
William Fisher, of Virginia, to be collector for the district of South Quay.
Benjamin Tupper, of Ohio, receiver of public monies at Marietta.
Willys Sillman, of Ohio, register of the land office at Zanesville.
Thomas Van Swearingen, of Ohio, receiver of public monies at Zanesville.
William Bache, to be surveyor of the port of Philadelphia.
Charles Kilgore, of the state of Ohio, to be register of the land office of Cincinnati.
John Willis, of Maryland, to be collector of the district, and inspector of the revenue, for the port of Oxford.
Merrivether Jones, of Virginia, to be commissioner of loans for the state of Virginia.
Hore Brown Trist, of the Mississippi territory, to be collector of the district of Mississippi.
Benjamin Morgan of New Orleans, to be naval officer of the port of New Orleans.
Alexander Bailey, of the Mississippi territory, to be collector of the district, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Natchez.
William G. Garland of New Orleans, to be surveyor and inspector of the revenue for the port of New Orleans.
Charles Collins junior of Rhode Island, to be collector of the district, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Bristol in Rhode Island.
CLOVER SEED.
A quantity of Fresh Clover Seed for sale, by CHARLES WAYMAN. George Town, April 4—2w
Twenty Dollars Reward.
Ran away from the subscriber residing near Bladensburg, a Negro named HARRY, about thirty years of age, five feet six inches high, dark complexion, hat thick lips, high forehead, a scar on his breast and one on his left leg, occasioned by a cut of a scythe. It is expected that he is harbored in or near the city of Washington or Baltimore; he was raised in St. Mary's county Maryland; had on a blue kersey short coat, white kersey pantaloons much worn, blue waistcoat, wool hat and some other clothes not known.
Whoever takes up said negro and secures him in jail or brings him home, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges paid by
HIRAM BELT. * * * Captains of vessels and others are fore warned from taking away or harboring said negro. April 4—3t
Wanted to hire
A Mulatto or Negro boy, from twelve to eighteen years of age, for which good wages will be given, either by the month or year. Enquire of the printer hereof.
April 4—3t
A Mill Seat and Farm.
Situated on Little river, in the county of Loudoun at the head of the turnpike road now in its progress, will be offered at public sale to the highest bidder on the premises, on the 15th of May next (if fair, or on the next fair day.)
The seat for a large manufacturing mill being immediately at the fork of the roads leading from Snicker's and Ashby's gaps, affords also a most eligible stand for a DISTILLERY, STORE and TAVERN; and the land which is of good quality, is also well adapted to the Plaster of Paris—has an abundant supply of wood and at least 100 acres of bottom fit for meadow—The tract containing upwards of 900 acres will be sold in large or small divisions to accommodate purchasers, and the terms will be one third of the money in hand upon the receipt of a clear deed free from encumbrances of every kind—and the balance in two equal annual instalments (with interest) from the day of sale; the purchasers to receive the rents on the land when due from the tenants whose terms will expire at the end of this year.
Inquiries respecting the said property may in the mean time be made of Mr. Solomon Botton residing near it.
FERDINANDO FAIRFAX. Charles Town, Jefferson county, Virginia. Feb. 29—w15M
The above property will not be offered at public sale but a part is yet for sale by private contract. Inquire as above, April 4.
Valuable Land for Sale.
The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the handfomest situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the solicitor near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD. November 11—wif
General Assembly begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the sixth day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the Commonwealth the twenty seventh.
AN ACT More effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth—Passed 29th January, 1803.
WHEREAS, numerous inconveniences and losses have occurred to this Commonwealth, from the want of an adequate mode for the subjection of lands to the payment of taxes: And whereas it is a principle in well organized governments, that property should be held subservient to the purposes thereof;
Be it enacted, That when the tax upon any tract or survey of land, shall have remained unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or survey of land shall be forfeited to the commonwealth, and subject to location according to the terms prescribed by an act entitled "an Act for reducing into one the several acts concerning the Land Office, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands, for settling the title and bounds of lands directing the mode of processioning and prescribing the duty of surveyors." so far as the said act applies to waste and unappropriated land, and not to forfeited land; and title thereto shall be acquired by the said location, and by the payment of the taxes due upon such tract or survey of land: Provided nevertheless , that the tract or survey of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former rightful and proper owners, at any time within one year after such forfeiture shall have accrued upon the payment of the taxes due thereupon, with interest upon the same from the time they became payable.
And be it further enacted, That at any time within six months after the annual return of the list of insolvent or delinquents for the non-payment of the taxes upon land into his office, the Auditor of this Commonwealth shall cause this act to be published for the three several times in the Gazette of the printer of this commonwealth, and in some newspaper of general circulation, published at the seat of the general government: Provided always that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorise the location of any lands within the purview of this act, before the expiration of the time limited for the redemption thereof; nor to effect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unfound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased.
All acts and parts of acts, within the purview of this act are hereby repealed.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next.
(A copy from the Roll) Test, J. PLEASANTS, keeper of Rolls. March 28th—3t.

WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION
The office of the Washington Association and United States Insurance company is removed to the corner of square No. 226 fronting on the President's square and Pennsylvania Avenue. THOMAS HERTY, Sec'y P. T. Jan. 18—tf.
TO RENT, And immediate Possession given, A two-story Frame House, in the City of Washington, situated on N. Street, square 224—containing 4 rooms beside two garret rooms, piazza and pantry, kitchen, store room, &c. with a good garden—lately occupied by Mrs. Lee, adjoining to Mr. Kaupie's store—Also that convenient two-story frame on same square, late in possession of Dr. Tabb, opposite to which Robert Peacock, Esq. lately resided—consisting of 6 rooms, and two garret rooms, piazza and balcony to south front, cellar with dry well, kitchen, carriage house, stable, an excellent garden, with every convenience fit for the reception of a genteel family. For particulars enquire at Mr. Rhode's tavern, Mr. Kaupie's store, or to the subscriber
REDMUND PURCEL. January 13, 1804—tf Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber about the first of November last, a negro man called BILLY BUNDY, about 26 years old, yellowish complexion, bends forward with his knees, a large fear on or near one of his heels, and has a habit of stroking his chin when spoken to, he has for some time worked at the carpenters trade. The above reward will be given on delivering him to the subscriber, or thirty dollars to secure him in gaol so that I get him again. LUCY BROOKE. Essex County, Virginia, Feb. 8.—2m.
Valuable Lands for Sale. PURSUANT to a decree of the honorable the Circuit court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, will be exposed to sale, at public auction, for ready cash, on Saturday the 7th of April next, under the direction of the undersigned commissioners appointed for that purpose, A TRACT OF LAND, late the property of Robert Alexander, situated upon the Potomac river, adjoining the lands of Mr. Philip Alexander, containing 545 acres, being one moiety of the Abbingdon tract, formerly the residence of Mr. Callis, deceased; this land is bounded by two parallel lines 120 poles wide, and running back westerly 634 poles from the river to the back line, and will be laid off into squares of 50 acres each, and will be sold in large or small parcels as may accommodate purchasers; this land is situated about an equal distance between Alexandria and George Town, and commands a full view of those towns, the city, Eastern Branch and Potomac, and in point of soil is equal to any on the river. Any person desirous of purchasing will be shown the premises and the plat and survey of the same on application to George Deneale in Alexandria. THOMAS SWANN, } Com'rs. EDMUND J. LEE, } GEO. DENEALE, } March 5—tdof
Twenty Dollars reward. ABSCONDED from the subscriber, residing near Fort Tobacco, Maryland, on the 15th inst. a Negro man named ADAM, aged 23 years, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches in height. He has a large mouth rather thick lips, and a scar near the mouth, speaks loud and hoarse, sloops, and walks awkwardly. He had on a blue kersey jacket and overalls, an old hat, and pair of yarn gloves—The above reward will be paid to any person securing him in gaol, if taken out of this county, or ten dollars if taken within it. ALEXANDER SCOTT. March 21—tf
HAT MANUFACTURY. The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chuse to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and goodness be requisites. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
Taste & Judge. PERISHABLE ARTICLES REQUIRE QUICK SALES. A LOAD of high relished OYSTERS is this day received, at the Anchor Tavern, where the friends of G. PITTS, will confer on him a singular favor by buying to the whole, without any regard to mercy, as such transient beings deserve no quarter. George Town, April 2—3t
Ten Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber on the 12th inst. an apprentice lad (a mulatto) named RALIGH LEISTER, about 19 years of age, six feet high, slender made, dark eyes and long visage, has a fierce countenance when questioned, has a small mark on the right ear supposed from a cut in his infancy, his hair is cut short, he took away two blue short jackets, a swandown waistcoat, a new fur hat and cape, a pair of broad toed shoes 6 1-2 yards blue narrow striped Virginia cloth and a fiddle in a white flannel case. Masters of vessels and others are forwarded harboring him at their peril. Whoever takes up said lad and returns him to the subscriber, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges defrayed. N. B. His mother lives near Peary's tavern, Wicwasic county Virginia. His black father lives with the Rev. Mr. Davis, Alexandria. WILLIAM FOXTON, Plasterer. Washington March 21—74
S. THOMEE. Begs leave to inform his friends that he has removed his store from George town to King street Alexandria, where orders in his line will be executed with punctuality and dispatch. Orders left at Mr. March's Book-store will be duly attended to. GILDING AND ENAMELLING ON GLASS, A few doors above the Washington tavern—Looking glass and picture frames made and regilt. NEEDLE WORK Framed in the handsomest manner, and names done on glass. S. THOMEE, as a stranger being determined to establish in the line of his profession, solicits that encouragement alone which he trusts the reasonableness of his charges and his assiduity to business may entitle him to. Window cornices handsomely gilt, and every thing in his line done to please the fancy of the owner equal to any imported. N. B. He has some glasses and prints for sale on low terms. Jan. 9—cp3m
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery. To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond. Dollars. 1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000 1 do. 10,000 1 do. 5,000 5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000 6 do. — 500 — 3,000 10 do. — 200 — 2,000 20 do. — 100 — 2,000 100 do. — 50 — 5,000 250 do. — 30 — 7,500 420 do. — 25 — 10,500 1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000 3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000 1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250 1 do. after 2,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000 5,325 prizes, 150,000 9,675 blanks, not two to a prize, 15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars, in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer, a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasury of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce a rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, March 2—tf T Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
PUBLIC SALE. By virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington, in the suit of the United States against Samuel Jackson, William Shannon, Philip Fitzhugh, Joshua B Bond and Frederick Shaffer, defendants, in chancery; will be sold at the premises to the highest bidder at public auction on Friday the 4th May next; all that piece or parcel of land situate in the second addition of George Town, made by Thomas Beal of George, being part of a tract of land called the Rock of Dunbarton and bounded as is described and set forth in the said decree and containing four acres and one eighth part of an acre of land with all and singular the buildings, improvements and appurtenances thereon or thereunto belonging or appertaining. The improvements are on a high, dry, and handsome situation, and consist of a large two story brick house with a passage through the center, four rooms on a floor and good cellars. The front rooms are about 17 by 18 feet—the back rooms are about 12 by 14 feet and about 22 by 17 feet—the passage 9 feet wide and 38 feet long—two brick offices two stories high 17 feet 6 inches square and are connected with the House by covered ways. The said premises are the same property possessed by the said Samuel Jackson and by him expensively improved. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock. The terms ready money or money to be paid immediately on the courts ratifying the same, the time of which ratification will be notified in the same papers in which the sale is advertised, within one month after the report of the said sale shall be made to the court, which report will not be made until the fourth Monday in July, when the court commence their next sitting for the county of Washington. DANIEL C. BRENT, Trustee. March 23—tdof
THOMAS CARPENTER TAYLOR, HAS just received an handsome supply of fall goods, which he is determined to sell and make upon the most reasonable terms, and in the best and most fashionable manner, and greatest expedition. Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square and Capitol Hill, seventh house from the Capitol. Oct. 14
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 9 per cent. per annum. The same will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives on or after Tuesday the 20th inst. WILLIAM I. WHANN, Cashier. March 19—ep6w.
NC TICE. ALL who are indebted to the estate of John Crookshank deceased are requested to make immediate payment to CHAS. J. GLOVER, Adm'r. George Town, Nov. 25—tf
The Boston Glass Company Having established its Manufactory on the Middlesex Canal, is now ready to deliver at short notice, a GLASS of the following sizes, viz: 18 by 12 at 43 Cents per light Prices at Manufactory 16 by 11 at 31 do. 15 by 11 at 28 do. 14 by 10 at 16 do. 12 by 10 at 14 do. 13 by 9 3/4 at 14 do. 12 by 9 at 12 do. 10 by 8 at 12 Dols. per 100 feet, 9 by 12 at 12 50 do. 8 by 6 at 11 do. Large Sheets at 3 dollars each, suitable for pictures. Also Coach Glasses from 100 to 125 cents. These Glasses though not so good as that made at their Manufactory in Boston yet are as thick and is preferred to the import of glass. For further information relative to the above, please apply to Mr. John Lutzenberger at Boston, or the subscriber in Baltimore. AMOS A. WILLIAMS. March 9—w6t.
A GREAT BARGAIN. THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS will be taken and payment made easy, to the purchaser, for the following valuable property free from any incumbrance whatever. A SET of saw mills working two saws—a grist mill with two run of stones and bolting machine, also a cotton and rice machine complete all worked by water, also one saw mill about 200 yards from the former and on the same dam, now about finishing that will work from two to fourteen saws under the same roof—this mill is insured for three years after her being completed—they now going in good repair and the whole in a progressive way of improvement, with about Ten thousand acres of land all adjoining and immediately contiguous to the mills, on which are several valuable farms. The timber for mill use are inexhaustible and unexceptionable good—they are situated on the waters of Drowning Creek ninety seven miles from George Town South Carolina, to which place the lumber is carried being rafted at the mills without the trouble of sawing, a valuable convenience. The stream is equal if not superior to any in the states of North or South Carolina—the grist mills command a custom at times of 30 or 40 miles around them. The situation at the mills is high, pleasant and very healthy, on which is a good two story house with piazza, a good kitchen, stables, carriage and harness houses and other necessary out buildings with a new store house completely finished, it being an excellent stand for a country store. Application to be made to the Subscriber at Millville near Lumberton in North Carolina, or for any information respecting the premises, to Samuel D. Purviance at the city of Washington. WM. NORMENT. Millville N. C. Dec. 12. N. B. Any part of the above property will be sold as may best suit a purchaser. Dec. 23—tf
PUBLIC SALE. BY virtue of a decree of the Circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington in the suit of Thomas Law against James Piercy, jun. James Ray, Samuel Treat, and James Piercy, sen. defendants, in Chancery, will be sold at the premises to the highest bidder at public auction on Saturday the 5th day of May next, the lot of ground mentioned in the complainant's bill, situate in the city of Washington, and known and distinguished in the general plan of the said city by lot numbered one, in square numbered seven hundred and forty-four, it being the south half part of said square and containing sixty-three thousand four hundred and forty square feet of ground, with the Sugar House, and all the other buildings and improvements thereon or thereunto belonging. The sugar house is large and extensive and is said to be extremely well calculated for sugar refining—the other buildings consist of several wooden houses sufficient with some repairs for those conducting the business to live in. The sale will commence at 11 o'clock A. M. The terms ready money or money to be paid immediately on the courts ratifying the same, the time of which ratification will be notified in the same papers in which the sale is advertised, within one month after the report of the said sale shall be made to the court, which report will not be made until the fourth Monday in July, when the court commence their next sitting for the county of Washington. DANIEL C. BRENT, Trustee. March 23—tdof
To be Sold at Auction, On Tuesday the 3d of April. A QUANTITY of household Furniture, consisting of Beds and Bedsteads, Chairs, Tables, Sideboards and Looking glasses, 2 Milch Cows, one Hack and one set of Harness, one bay Horse and sundry articles too tedious to mention. Terms of sale; all sums under 30 Dollars are cash or adjusted accounts—all above are for 6 months credit with notes and approved indorsers. The above Goods will be sold at Wm. Lovell's Hotel, who is receiving business in favor of Mr. Wm. Rhodes, Washington City. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. W. M. LOVELL. March 30—2t
THOMAS MEUEN, THOMAS HALE & WILLIAM DAVIDSON, who heretofore, have translated business under the firm of Thomas M'Euven & Co. will in future use that of M'Euven, Hale & Davidson. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1—tw&ugt
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 9 per cent. per annum. The same will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives on or after Tuesday the 20th inst. WILLIAM I. WHANN, Cashier. March 19—ep6w.
The Boston Glass Company Having established its Manufactory on the Middlesex Canal, is now ready to deliver at short notice, a GLASS of the following sizes, viz: 18 by 12 at 43 Cents per light Prices at Manufactory 16 by 11 at 31 do. 15 by 11 at 28 do. 14 by 10 at 16 do. 12 by 10 at 14 do. 13 by 9 3/4 at 14 do. 12 by 9 at 12 do. 10 by 8 at 12 Dols. per 100 feet, 9 by 12 at 12 50 do. 8 by 6 at 11 do. Large Sheets at 3 dollars each, suitable for pictures. Also Coach Glasses from 100 to 125 cents. These Glasses though not so good as that made at their Manufactory in Boston yet are as thick and is preferred to the import of glass. For further information relative to the above, please apply to Mr. John Lutzenberger at Boston, or the subscriber in Baltimore. AMOS A. WILLIAMS. March 9—w6t.
War Department Feb. 8, 1804. Notice is hereby given, THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until the eighteenth day of May next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October, 1804, until the 30th day of September, 1805, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz: First. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chicago, Fort Wayne, the post on the Miami of the Lakes, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Ohio, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude. Second. At South West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Tennessee and Kentucky. Third. At the garrison near Vincennes, on the river Wabash. Fourth. At Fort Massac, near the mouth of the Ohio, Kaskaskia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Indiana territory, south of the 41st degree of north latitude, (Vincennes excepted.) Fifth. At St. Louis, New Madrid, and any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, north of the settlements on the river Arkansas. Sixth. At Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, Fort Adams, Fort Stoddart on the Mobile, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Mississippi territory, and on the road between Natchez and the Tennessee river, (the post on said river excepted.) Seventh. At New Orleans, and any place or places on the Mississippi river, below Fort Adams, and at Opelousas, Natchitoches, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited in Louisiana, not before mentioned, or provided for. Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January, 1805, until the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states herein after mentioned, viz: Eighth. At Fort Wilkinson, Cockspur Island, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation. Ninth. At Charleston, Rocky Mountain, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of South and North Carolina. Tenth. At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Virginia. Eleventh. At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia. Twelfth. At Fort Mifflin, Pittsburgh, Carlisle, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Thirteenth. At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New-York, Niagara excepted.) Fourteenth. At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, & at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont. Fifteenth. At Fort Independence, (Boston harbour) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Massachusetts, (the district of Maine excepted.) Sixteenth. At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New-Hampshire and the district of Maine.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour one gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, and a the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and one half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration should be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price for the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Chicago for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the Commandants of fortified places or posts to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed. The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies which way be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the said
WANTED A TEACHER. In the Forrest of Patuxant, about Five miles from Bladensburg—A person who understands English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, &c. and can bring satisfactory recommendations, will meet with encouragement by the year. Application to be made to the subscribers. WILLIAM WILSON, TILGHMAN HENRY, JAMES WARING, SAMUEL MAGRUDER, & JOHN HILLARY. March 28—3t
BOLTING CLOTHS. I have just received a general assortment of the best warranted Bolting Cloths from OLIVER EVANS of Philadelphia, and shall have constantly for sale at my store in George town, likewise Evans's Millwright and Millers Gide, also, Clerk and Evans's patent machine for packing of flour WILLIAM MORGAN. March 19th, 1803m.
posts on the Sea coast or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months. H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. 22w May 1804
Twenty Dollars Reward. LOST on Friday last a plain repeating GOLD WATCH with a gold chain and a cornelian seal, having a coat of arms handsomely engraved upon it; also a small oval gold key—there is a small gold handle, of a former key, attached to the chain, any person who has found the above and will return it to Mr. Harrison Smith the printer hereof, shall receive the above reward, and no questions will be asked. * Watch Makers and others are requested to stop the above if offered for sale. Washington. March 28—3
A WAITER, A CHAIR & HORSE. A very handsome Mulatto Boy, about thirteen years old, for his age excelled by few as a waiter—also an elegant double Chair with complete plated harness, new, and an excellent chair or saddle Horse for sale separately or collectively. Enquire of the printer. Feb. 22—tw6w
ADVERTISEMENT. BEING informed that several gentlemen in the country are willing to have their children taught music, if they were provided with good instruments. I take the present opportunity to acquaint them that I wish to dispose of two very good Piano's with pedals, also some good Violins. As I intend principally to accommodate my scholars, I offer the abovenamed Piano's as low as they can be possibly bought in Philadelphia or Baltimore of the same quality. FR. A. WAGLER, Opposite the Roman Chapel, G. Town. March 28—w3t
SCHEME Of the Extra class of the EASTON DELAWARE BRIDGE LOTTERY, Authorized by the states of Pennsylvania & N. Jersey. 12 prizes of 10,000 dolls. 2 5,000 4 2,500 5 1,000 10 500 25 200 50 100 And many other good Prizes. All! All! a going for 2 3-4 Dollars, until the 10th of April when the tickets will be advanced to 3 Dollars. EDWARD MOTT, Manager. Who will, on receiving the necessary information of the payment of 20 per cent to his credit in any of the United States branch banks of discount & deposit, with an engagement to pay the residue by four equal installments in 3, 6, 9 & 12 months from the 1st March next, send the numbers and deposit any quantity of tickets (not less than 50) in the hands of the treasurer, subject to the purchaser's demand on the punctual payment of the residue of the money; which not being observed, the tickets may be resold, & the money paid in advance forfeited: or he will, on the purchase money of any number of tickets (not less than 10) being deposited in any of the branch banks above mentioned, immediately forward them to the direction of the purchaser. For any number of tickets less than ten, the cash to be enclosed to the manager; who will, on its receipt, forward them as directed, and on the conclusion of the drawing send the purchasers an account of their success; and such arrangement shall be made that the holders of fortunate tickets, after they have been properly checked, may receive their prizes at the bank they made their payments at. The numerous advantages of this arrangement must be obvious to every person. The payments are made easy, and the purchaser will not be liable to any advance of price, which from the unexamined sales of the tickets, may with confidence be expected to be considerable before the drawing commences. March 19—taw8w
A HOUSE FOR SALE. FOR SALE a neat two story Frame House situate on New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol, it is suitable for a taylor, or shoemaker being established and occupied by both; it contains six rooms (including a front shop with a large bow window) and two closets; it is a good stand for either of the above named, or any kind of business as there is in the city. For terms apply on the premises to JOHN MINCHIN. March 16—tw3w
The above house let last year for one hundred and sixty dollars, if it is not sold before the 10th of April next it will on that day be offered at public sale at Mr. Stelle's hotel at 2 o'clock A. M. J. M.