The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-11-20 00:00:00

ENQUIRER EXTRA.
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1807.
By Authority.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
An ACT to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorised by law.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons shall, after the passing of this act, take possession of, or make a settlement on any lands ceded or secured to the United States, by any treaty made with a foreign nation, or by a cession from any state to the United States, which lands shall not have been previously sold, ceded, or leased by the United States, or the claim to which lands, by such person or persons, shall not have been previously recognized and confirmed by the United States: or if any person or persons shall cause such lands to be thus occupied, taken possession of, or settled; or shall survey or attempt to survey, or cause to be surveyed, any such lands; or designate any boundaries thereon, by marking trees, or otherwise, until thereto duly authorised by law; such offender or offenders, shall forfeit all his or their right, title, or claim, if any he hath, or they have, of whatsoever nature or kind the same shall or may be, to the land aforesaid, which he or they shall have taken possession of, or settled, or cause to be occupied, taken possession of, or settled, or which he or they shall have surveyed, or attempt to survey, or cause to be surveyed, or the boundaries thereof he or they shall have designated, or cause to be designated, by marking trees or otherwise. And it shall moreover be lawful for the President of the United States, to direct the marshal, or officer acting as marshal in the manner herein after directed, and also to take such other measures, and to employ such military force as he may judge necessary and proper, to remove from lands ceded, or secured to the United States, by treaty, or cession as aforesaid, any person or persons who shall hereafter take possession of the same, or make or attempt to make a settlement thereon, until thereunto authorised by law. And every right, title, or claim, forfeited under this act, shall be taken and deemed to be vested in the United States, without any other or further proceedings: Provided , That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the right, title or claim, of any person to lands in the territories of Orleans or Louisiana, before the boards of commissioners established by the act, entitled "An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the territory of Orleans and the district of Louisiana," shall have made their reports and the decision of Congress been had thereon.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That any person or persons who, before the passing of this act, had taken possession of, occupied, or made a settlement on any lands ceded or secured to the United States, by any treaty made with a foreign nation, or by a cession from any state to the United States, which lands had not been previously sold, ceded or leased by the United States, or the claim to which lands had not been previously recognised and confirmed by the United States; and who at the time of passing this act does or do actually inhabit or reside on such lands, may at any time prior to the first day of January next, apply to the proper register or recorder, as the case may be, of the land office established for the disposal, registering or recording of such lands, or to such person or persons as may by such registers or recorders, respectively, be appointed for the purpose of receiving such applications stating the tract or tracts of land thus occupied, settled, and inhabited by such applicant or applicants, and requesting permission to continue thereon: and it shall thereupon be lawful for such register or recorder respectively to permit in conformity with such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Treasury with the approbation of the President of the United States, for that purpose, such applicant or applicants to remain on such tract or tracts of land, not ex-
ceeding three hundred and twenty acres for each applicant, as tenants at will, on such terms and conditions as shall prevent any waste or damages on such lands, and on the express condition that such applicant or applicants shall, whenever such tract or tracts of lands may be sold, or ceded by the United States, or whenever for any other cause, he or they may be required under the authority of the United States, so to do, give quiet possession of such tract or tracts of land, to the purchaser or purchasers, or remove altogether from the land, as the case may be: Provided , however, That such permission shall not be granted to any such applicant, unless he shall previously sign a declaration stating that he does not lay any claim to such tract or tracts of land, and that he does not occupy the same by virtue of any claim or pretended claim derived or pretended to be derived from any other person or persons: And provided also, That in all cases where the tract of land applied for, includes either a lead mine or salt spring, no permission to work the same shall be granted without the approbation of the President of the United States, who is hereby authorised to cause such mines and springs to be leased for a term not exceeding three years, and on such conditions as he shall think proper.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , that all the applications and provisions granted by virtue of the last preceding section, shall be duly entered on books to be kept for that purpose, by the registers and recorders aforesaid respectively; and they shall be entitled to receive from the party for each application, fifty cents, and for each permission one dollar.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That it shall be lawful after the first day of January next, for the proper marshal or officer acting as marshal, under such instructions as may for that purpose be given to the President of the United States, to remove from the lands aforesaid, any, and every person or persons, as aforesaid, who were settled on such lands prior to the passing of this act. And every such person, who shall at any time after the expiration of three months after such notice shall have been given be found on any part of the lands aforesaid, shall moreover incur a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court having jurisdiction of the same, and be moreover liable, on conviction, to imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, not exceeding six months; and the certificate of the proper register, or recorder, shall be a sufficient evidence that the tract of land which was occupied by the offender had not been previously sold, leased, or ceded by the United States, that the claim to such tract had not been recognized and confirmed by the United States, and that the person occupying the same, and removed, or to be removed, by the marshal, had not obtained permission to remain thereon in conformity with the provisions of this act: Provided always, and it is further enacted, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to apply to any person claiming lands in the territories of Orleans or Louisiana, whose claim shall have been filed with the proper commissioners before the first day of January next.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH, President of the Senate, pro-tempore. March 3, 1807.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
An ACT concerning invalid pensioners.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to place the following named persons, whose claims have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to a law passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:
Richard Fairbrother, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the 26th day of May, one thousand eight hundred and six. John De Voe, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six. Peter Demarest, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence
on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Stephen Ogden, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six.
John Berry, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
John King, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Robert Ames, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Charles Gowin, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Francis L. Slaughter, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and six.
William Re Beck, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Spafford Ames, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Josiah Jones, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Samuel Dawdney, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Eliphaleth Easton, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and six.
Joseph Ligon, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
John Bubbart, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Daniel Guard, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Elisha Forbes, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Alexander Simonton, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Noah Robinson, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Charles Mann Thruston, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.
James Farnsworth, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Benoni Hathaway, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Thomas Marshall Baker, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
James Dysart, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Henry Ten Eyck, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
John Little, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Thomas Harris, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Daniel Ball, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the pensions of the following persons, already placed on the pension list of the U. States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names, the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:
Seth Wyman, four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and six.
George Bradford, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Abel Furney, five dollars a month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Charles Scott, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Ephraim Bailey, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Asa Ware, five dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Daniel Hickey, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Daniel Nutting, two dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Abel Woods, five dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Joseph Moirill, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
William Neely, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Elisha Frizzle, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six.
William Burrit, five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Benjamin Smith, five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six.
George Pittman, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Gustavus Alrick, three dollars and thirty-three cents and one third of a cent per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Jabes Pendleton, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Wiat Hinkly, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Edward Evans, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Moses Wing, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
John Cavenough, three dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Richard Hardin, five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Jonathan Holton, ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Jonathan Willard, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Thomas Pearson, thirteen dollars, thirty-three cents and one third of a cent per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.
John Maynard, six dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Thomas Avery, sixteen dollars sixty-six cents and two thirds of a cent per month, to commence on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Ebenezer Coo, twenty dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Ebenezer Bancroft, six dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six.
William Worthington, fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six.
David Howley, ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That the pension of Benjamin Bartlett of Massachusetts, who was employed in the service of the United States

as an escort, spy and guide, at the pay of one dollar per day, during hostilities with certain Indian tribes, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and was disabled by being wounded whilst in said service, be increased to five dollars per month.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That the pensions becoming such by virtue of this act, shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the pension list of the United States, under such restrictions and regulations in all respects, as are prescribed by the laws of the United States, in such cases provided.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH,
President of the Senate pro-tempore.
March 3, 1807.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
An ACT respecting claims to land in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the first section of the act entitled "An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the territory of Orleans and the district of Louisiana," as provides that no incomplete title shall be confirmed, unless the person in whose name the warrant or order of survey had been granted, was at the time of its date either the head of a family, or above the age of twenty-one years, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That any person or persons, and the legal representatives of any person or persons, who, on the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, had for ten consecutive years, prior to that day, been in possession of a tract of land not claimed by any other person, and not exceeding two thousand acres, and who were on that day resident in the territory of Orleans and Louisiana, and had still possession of such tract of land, shall be confirmed in their titles to such a tract of land: Provided , That no claim to a lead mine, or salt spring, shall be confirmed merely by virtue of this section: And provided also , That no more land shall be granted by virtue of this section, than is actually claimed by the party, nor more than is contained within the acknowledged and ascertained boundaries of the tract claimed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That the claim of the corporation of the city of New Orleans, to the commons adjacent to the said city, and within six hundred yards from the fortifications of the same, be, and the same are hereby recognized and confirmed: Provided , That the said corporation shall within six months after passing this act, relinquish and release any claim they may have to such commons beyond the distance of six hundred yards aforesaid: Provided also , That the corporation shall reserve for the purpose, and convey gratuitously for the public benefit to the company authorised by the legislature of the territory of Orleans, as much of the said commons as shall be necessary to continue the canal of Carondelet from the present basin to the Mississippi, and shall not dispose of, for the purpose of building thereon, any lot within sixty feet of the space reserved for a canal which shall forever remain open as a public highway: And provided also , That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to affect or impair the rights of any individual or individuals to the said commons, which are derived from any grant of the French or Spanish governments.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That the commissioners appointed or to be appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons claiming land in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, shall have full powers to decide according to the laws and established usages and customs of the French and Spanish governments, upon all claims to land within their respective districts, where the claim is made by any person or persons, or the legal representative of any person or persons, who were on the twentieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, inhabitants of Louisiana, and for a tract not exceeding the quantity of acres contained in a league square and which does not include either a lead mine or salt spring, which decision of the commissioners when in favor of the claimant shall be final, against the United States, any act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That the time fixed by the act aforesaid, and by the acts supplementary to the same, for delivering to the proper register or recorder, notices in writing and the written evidences of claimants to land, be, and the same is hereby extended, for the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, till the first day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and persons delivering such notices and evidences shall be entitled to the same benefit as if the same had been delivered within the time limited by the former act; but the rights of such persons as shall neglect so doing within the time limited by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from or founded on any act of Congress, ever after be barred and become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of law or equity whatever.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted , That the commissioners appointed or to be appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, shall respectively transmit to the secretary of the treasury and to the surveyor general, or officer acting as surveyor general, transcripts of the final decisions made in favor of claimants by virtue of this act, and they shall deliver to the party a certificate, stating the circumstances of the case, and that he is entitled to a patent for the tract of land therein designated, which certificate shall be filed with the proper register or recorder, within twelve months after date. And the register or recorder shall thereupon (a plat of the tract of the land therein designated, being previously filed with him or transmitted to him by the officer acting as surveyor general in the manner herein after provided,) issue a certificate in favor of the party, which certificate being transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, shall entitle the party to a patent to be issued in like manner, as is provided by law for the issuing of patents for public lands lying in other territories of the United States.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted , That the tracts of land thus granted by the commissioners shall be surveyed at the expense of the parties, under the direction of the surveyor general, or officer acting as surveyor general, in all cases where an authenticated plat of the land as surveyed under the authority of the officer acting as surveyor general under the French, Spanish, or American government, respectively, during the time either of the said governments had the actual possession of the said territories of Orleans and Louisiana, shall not have been filed with the proper register or recorder, or shall not appear of record on the public records of the said territories of Orleans and Louisiana. The said commissioners shall also be authorised whenever they may think it necessary to direct the surveyor general, or officer acting as such, to cause any tract of land already duly surveyed to be resurveyed at the expense of the United States. And the surveyor general, or officer acting as such, shall transmit general and particular plats of the tracts of land thus surveyed to the proper register or recorder, and shall also transmit copies of the said plats to the secretary of the treasury.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted , That the commissioners aforesaid shall respectively report to the secretary of the treasury their opinion on all the claims to land within their respective districts, which they shall not have finally confirmed by the fourth section of this act. The claims shall in the said report or reports be arranged into three general classes, that is to say: first, claims which in the opinions of the commissioners ought to be confirmed in conformity with the provisions of the several acts of Congress, for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the territories of Orleans and Louisiana; secondly, claims which though not embraced by the provision of the said acts, ought nevertheless in the opinion of the commissioners to be confirmed in conformity with the laws, usages, and customs of the Spanish government; thirdly, claims which neither are embraced by the provisions of the said acts, nor ought in the opinion of the commissioners to be confirmed in conformity with the laws, usages, and customs of the Spanish government; and the said report and reports being in other respects made in conformity with the forms prescribed according to law, by the secretary of the treasury, shall by him be laid before Congress for their final determination thereon, in the manner and at the time heretofore prescribed by law for that purpose.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted , That the following allowances and compensations, shall be made to the several officers hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, to the principal deputy of the surveyor general, for the district of Louisiana, at the rate of five hundred dollars a year, from the time he entered into the duties of his office, in addition to the fees which he is entitled to receive by law. To the register of the western district of the Orleans territory, and to the clerk of the board of commissioners for that district, one thousand dollars each, for their service as commissioner and clerk respectively, during the year one thousand eight hundred and six. To each of the deputy registers of the territory of Orleans, five hundred dollars in full, for their services subsequent to the first day of January last, in addition
to the fees to which they are legally entitled. To each of the commissioners at the rate of two thousand dollars a year; to each of the clerks of the boards, and to each of the agents employed by the secretary of the treasury, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars a year, and to each of the translators, at the rate of six hundred dollars a year, to commence from the first day of July next, in the district of Louisiana, and from the first day of January next, in the territory of Orleans, and to continue to the time when each board shall be respectively dissolved: Provided , That no more than eighteen months compensation be thus allowed to the said commissioners, clerks and translators, and that the compensation of any such officer absenting himself from his district or failing to attend to the duties of his office, shall cease during such absence or failure.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH,
President of the Senate pro-tempore.
March 3, 1807.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
An ACT making appropriations for the support of government during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.
B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list, in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for the defraying the expenses of the surveying the public lands, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims; the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand, four hundred and twenty-five dollars:
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars:
For all contingent expenses of the library, and librarian's allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, eight hundred dollars:
For compensation to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, thirteen thousand dollars:
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars:
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the ninth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For special messengers charged with dispatches, two thousand dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars:
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars:
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars:
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars:
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, the clerks and persons in his office, twelve thousand two hundred dollars:
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars:
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents:
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer's office, three hundred dollars:
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars & two cents:
For expense of stationery and printing in the register's office, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars:
For purchasing books, maps, and charts for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars:
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars:
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing of the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, one thousand two hundred dollars:
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of war, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For the expense of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses of the office of the secretary of war, one thousand dollars:
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars:
For contingent expenses in the offices of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars:
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster's office, one thousand eight hundred dollars:
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars:
For compensation to the surveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent and fuel, for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars:
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the secretary of the navy, two thousand dollars:
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars:
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, five hundred dollars:
For compensation to the post-master general, to the assistant post-master general, and clerks and persons employed in the post-master general's office, fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars:
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses for prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks, and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the post-master general out of the funds of the office, two thousand five hundred dollars:
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and for an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorised expenses of the several loan officers, fifteen thousand dollars:
For compensation to the surveyor general, and for that of the clerks employed by him, three thousand two hundred dollars:
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars:
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars:
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars:
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The engraver one thousand two hundred dollars:
One clerk at seven hundred dollars:
And two clerks at five hundred dollars:
For the wages of persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter's, mill wright's, and Smith's work, including the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner, and die forger, who, also oversees the execution of the iron work, seven thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars:
For the repairs of furnaces, costs of rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, potash, & for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars:
For incidental and contingent expenses of the

executive officers of the said territory, and for express hire and compensation of an Indian interpreter, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars:
For expense of stationary, office rent, and other contingent expenses in said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars:
For expenses of stationary, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars:
For expense of stationary, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Louisiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars:
For the expense of stationary, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars:
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars:
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war, and navy, and for the general post-office, not exceeding, for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intitled "An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorise the laying out certain public roads; and for other purposes," thirteen thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars:
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia; to the attorney general, and to the judge of the district of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars:
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars:
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars:
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars:
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, eight hundred and sixty dollars:
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the 5th of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, to the 4th of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, ninety-eight thousand dollars:
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, eighty-three thousand, nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and eight cents:
For erecting a light house on St. Simon's island, in Georgia, the former appropriation of seven thousand dollars for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, nineteen thousand dollars:
For erecting light houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of cape Look-out, in North Carolina, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for those objects, the balance of a former appropriation for those objects, of twenty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-six cents, having been carried to the surplus fund, fifty-five thousand dollars:
For erecting a light house on Whitehead, at the entrance of Penobscot bay, the former appropriation for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, two thousand two hundred and five dollars and eighty cents:
For the erecting of beacons in the harbor of New-York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, one thousand two hundred dollars:
For defraying the expenses incurred in surveying the coast of North Carolina, between Cape Hatteras and cape Fear, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, one thousand three hundred dollars:
For compensating the commissioners in the aforesaid service for the loss of their effects inci-
dent to the service on board the revenue cutters wrecked at Ocracoke; the amount of which loss the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorised to liquidate and allow, on satisfactory proof being exhibited to them of such loss, one thousand six hundred dollars:
For carrying on the surveys of public lands in the state of Ohio, and in the several territories, seventy three thousand one hundred and eighty dollars:
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars:
For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars:
For expense of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars:
For contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars:
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars:
For the salaries of the agents at London, Paris and Madrid for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, six thousand dollars:
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars:
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations heretofore made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH, President of the Senate, pro tempore.
March 3, 1807.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
JOHNSON'S VIRGINIA ALMANAC.
FOR SALE, BY THE GROSS, DOZEN, OR SINGLE, NEXT DOOR TO ROYSTER AND BOHANNAN'S, JOHNSON'S VIRGINIA ALMANAC, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1808; Being Bissextile, or Leap Year.
Containing, besides the usual matter for an Almanac, The Astronomical Calculations to the Latitude and Meridian of Richmond. O. 20. oaw2m.
CAVALRY DISCIPLINE AND NEW SWORD EXERCISE.
JUST published by S. Granland, and for sale at his Printing Office, "A Treatise on the DISCIPLINE OF THE CAVALRY: teaching the necessary evolutions on a parade, on a march, and in the face of an enemy: To which is added, THE NEW SWORD EXERCISE FOR CAVALRY: Illustrated with copper-plate engravings. The whole examined and approved by a valuable and intelligent officer of the Cavalry in the Revolutionary war." This work has been pronounced by a very competent judge, to be the best on the subject heretofore published in this country. Every member of the Cavalry should possess a copy. A liberal discount to wholesale purchasers.
Printers of News-papers will oblige the publisher by inserting the above, and the favor will be returned when required. Richmond, Nov. 10. iaw4w.
In pursuance of a decree in Chancery, made by the Court of the U. States for the 5th circuit, in the district of Virginia, at the Nov. term, in the year 1803, we shall expose to Public Auction, at the time and place hereinafter mentioned:
TWO TRACTS, in the county of Goochland, one on Beaver Dam Creek, containing 9 hundred acres; and the other called Little-Island, containing 10 acres; at Goochland court house, on the court day thereof, on the 3d Monday in January, 1808. The dower of the widow of Wm. Ronald, will be first deducted, and the conditions, on which the said land are directed under the said decree, will appear therein and will be communicated on the day of sale. The terms of payment will be as follows: one fourth of the purchase money to be paid in cash, and the remaining three fourths in three equal instalments of six, twelve and eighteen months credit. In all other respects the aforesaid decree will be pursued.
WM. BERKELEY, JOSIAH ELLIS, WM. MANN, } Commissioners. Nov. 16. paw2m.
LOAN OFFICE, STATE OF VIRGINIA, JUNE 8, 1807.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT, in conformity with the provisions of the act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," books will be opened at the office of the commissioner of loans for the state of Virginia, on the 1st day of July next, to continue open until the seventeenth day of March, 1808, inclusively, the fourteen last days of each quarter excepted, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions for such parts of the old six per cent. deferred six per cent. and three per cent. stocks, as may, on the day of subscription, stand on the books of the said commissioner of loans.
Those proprietors of the old six per cent. and deferred stocks, who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof a new six per cent. stock, equal to the unredeemed amount of the stock surrendered, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, under a proviso however, that no reimbursement shall be made except for the whole amount of any such new certificate of stock, nor till after six months previous notice: and the proprietors of the three per cent. stock who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof, a six per cent. stock, equal to sixty-five per cent. of the amount of three per cent. surrendered, redeemable in the same manner as the new six per cent. above mentioned, but not reimbursable however, without the assent of the holders, until after the whole of the new six per cent. (given in exchange for old six or deferred as abovementioned,) as well as the whole of the eight per cent. stock of the United States, shall have been reimbursed. It is also provided that in every reimbursement which may take place, a preference will be given to those creditors who may notify their wish to be reimbursed; and that if the applications to that effect shall at any time either exceed or fall short of the sum then applicable to that purpose, the priority of payment shall, so far as may be necessary, be determined by lot.
The present stockholders who reside in any part of Europe, and may assent to that modification, may, at their option, receive the interest accruing on the new stock, either in the United States as heretofore, or in London, or Amsterdam, at par: in which last case, the interest will be paid there by the bankers of the United States, six months subsequent to the day, on which the same would be payable in the United States, and subject to no variation; nor to any other deduction than a commission to the bankers, of one half per cent. on the interest thus paid.
JOHN PAGE, Commissioner of Loans.
NOTE.
Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal six per cent. stock, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to receive, 649 62 of new six. If subscribed between the 1st October, 1807, and 31st December, 1807, 644 37 — between the 1st January, and 17th March, 1808, 619 03 — Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal deferred, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to receive, 855 78 — If subscribed between the 1st October, 1807, and 31st December, 1807, 853 62 — between the 1st January, and 17th March, 1808, 831 42 — Being the unredeemed amount of the old stock on the 1st July, and October, 1807, and 1st January, 1808, respectively. Proprietors of 100 dollars three per cent. stock will be entitled to receive 650 dollars of new six. J. P. Com'r L's. June 10, oaw9m.
TO BE SOLD,
At Painville, in Amelia county, on Monday the 28th of December next,
AN extraordinary valuable BLACK-SMITH, belonging to the estate of Rich'd. Eggleston, deceased, on a credit of six months; bond with approved security will be required of the purchaser BY THE EXECUTORS. Oct. 14. oaw10w.
Will be sold, to the highest bidder, at Warwick, in the county of Chesterfield, on the 21st day of Dec. next, if fair, if not, the next fair day:
THE HOUSEHOLD & KITCHEN FURNITURE, dec'd. also two HORSES. A credit of twelve months will be given on all sums over 5 dollars. The purchaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. JOHN W. HIGGENBOTHAM, Administrator. Nov. 13. oawtdf
NOTICE.
The Co-Partnership of Hobson & St. John, terminated with the thirty-first day of August last:
ALL those indebted to said concern are requested to come forward without delay and settle their accounts; those having claims against said concern will exhibit them for adjustment. JOHN HOBSON, jun. JOHN ST. JOHN. New-Canton, Oct. 14.
THE subscriber will continue business at the same place on his own account. He has now on hand, a general assortment of GOODS, suited to the present and approaching season, which he will sell on moderate terms for cash, produce, or to punctual customers on the usual credit. JOHN HOBSON, jun. oaw3m
DRUMS, Fifes, Swords, Belts, Nots, Epaulettes, Stocks and Cocksades, to be had at Enoch Sullivan's Jewelry Store. August 7. tf.
Land in the state of Ohio FOR SALE.
THE subscriber wishes to sell a Valuable Tract of LAND, in the state of Ohio, containing one thousand acres. This tract is of excellent quality, as the subscriber has understood from most respectable information. It lies on Deer creek, a branch of the Sciota, about 16 miles from Chillicothe, in a well-peopled neighborhood, and is very convenient to the trade of the Ohio. He will dispose of it for cash; or, on a short credit, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia; or will exchange it for property in the City of Richmond. An unquestionable title, with general warranty, will be made to the purchaser by WM. MUNFORD. Sept 26. tf.
FOR SALE, FORTY-SIX REAM SUPER-ROYAL PRINTING PAPER, of superior quality. Apply at the Office of the ENQUIRER. November 19.
AN INTERESTING SUBJECT.
[Our Schools, for the most part, pay not the smallest attention to the formation of the body, for it is no part of their plan. But that it is not a part of their plan, is an unpardonable fault: it is a bad sign that no person can discover the idea of bodily improvement, in the compound idea expressed by the word School.] Salzman.
THE Subscriber having detached his personal attention from every other pursuit, in order to carry into effect an interesting plan of education, in which he is individually concerned, will on the 16th instant, open his SCHOOL for the reception of male pupils from five to twelve years of age. The establishment of habitual, robust health, and the development of the perfect growth, strength and activity of the body, by proper exercise, will obtain the same attention as the cultivation of the head and heart; and parents, who, in proposing to give their children a liberal education, desire to render them virtuous and healthy, as well as enlightened, are invited to enquire into the nature and merit of the subscriber's arrangements. The pupils will be boarded at £6 per quarter, with a credit of twelve months, or a discount of 25 per cent for cash. The tuition will be as usual, £3 per quarter payable in advance. More detailed information may be had on application by letter, or otherwise, to L. ANDERSON, P. M. Williamsburg. Nov. 17. oaw cloth Dec.
HOUSES FOR SALE OR RENT.
THE Subscriber is authorised to Rent or Lease several commodious TENEMENTS on Shockoe-Hill, belonging to Maj. Wm. Du-Val, and to the estate of the late Geo: Wythe, some of those Tenements are well calculated for stores, others for private dwellings.—He wishes to sell or lease several valuable TENEMENTS in the neighbourhood of his late residence, the prices of which will be moderate and time given for the payment.—For particulars enquire of Mr. Wm. Dawson, or to WM. PRICE. Richmond, October 30. iaw2m.
WILL BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 2d day of December next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the dwelling-house of the late David Paterson, in the county of Buckingham, about four miles below the town of Warminster,
TWENTY-FIVE NEGROES, on a credit of one year and three years. The above Negroes are uncommonly valuable, and known to be so, by most of the neighbors. Bonds with approved security will be required. It is deemed necessary here to insert, that the Legatees, are not expected to purchase much, if any, of the above property. REUBEN B. PATTESON, Only acting Ex'r. of David Paterson, dec'd. Oct 23. oaw6w