Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-16

foon as they ih:i. &c in rate tor comma.
nica,ion.
In order to remove every ground OF
difference ~ is,is With our Indian neigh.
bours, have proceeded in the work OF
le,,iiug wi'h ;hca, and marking TIE
boundaries se.wecU rs. That with tie
Cho;taw nation. /, iixcd in one part, ard
will he through the whs!e within ll,ort
time. The cauniry 10 which their ti:l,.
hid been eA'irgnt!hrd before the revo'u-
ticn is icii.clenl 10 receive very reli eta.
bic ropaIa'ion, which Congreis will pro-
baby fee the expst'ency OF encouraging
FOO ioon as the limits ihall he declare.
We are 70 view this petition as an Output
OF the United States. farrouadej by lrong
neighbours, ana diitsnt from its iuppori.
AID how tar thar monopoly, which, pre-.
yen.s population, ihould here b: guarded
againit, and actual habitaticn made cen.
,ii,ion of the continuance o: title, win
be for your confederation. A prompt fe,-
cement roo Of all exiting rights ard
claims within this territory, Prcten:s it,
felt as a preliminary operation.
In that part Of the lnliana territory
viii includes Viacenn S tse line. fer.
led with the ejshhcun,g Tribes fix tie
cxtinttion Of their title ar breadth OF
lwer ty fur leagues from Eaa to Wet,
,nd abour the fame length parallel with
aod IN lsdlng The Wahah. They have
alfo cedsd tract Of four miles quare, iu-
l.ding the Salt S, rings near the mouth
O. that river.
In the department Of finance it is with
feature inform you that the receipts Of
external hotes, tor the lalt twelve months,
have exceeded thole Of any former year,
and that the ratio of increaic has been al.
70 greater than uiual. This has enabled
us to anfwer all the regular exigencies of
government, TO pay from the Ireafury,
within one year, upwards Of eight MILL
ons Of dollars, principal and intereR, Of
he pcb':c debt, executive Of upwards Of
one million paid by the iale of bank tock,
| nj making in the whole reduction of
nearly Eve millions and an half of princi.
pal, AMI to have now in the trealury four
millions and an half of dollars, which are
N a courie Of application to the furthee
lifcharge of debs, and current demands.
Experience too, 70 far, authorizes US to
believe, if no extraordinary event fnper.
venes, and the cxpences which will be &C
tualy incurred fhall not be greater than
we're contemplated by Congress at their
lat ltGion, TIA, we lhal not be dilappoint-
81 in the expectations then formed. But
neyc,thcIek, rs the eAed of peace on the
amount OF duties is not yet fully alce 'tAin-
ed, il is the more necehary TO prattile eve
ry ufetul economy, and to incur no ex-
pence, which may b: avoided without
trcjoiicc.
The colIca;ca OF the internal taxes h "
ing bccu corp'rased in fomc of the fatcs,
The cl!i RS employed in it are of COURT.
out of commil!ion. In others they will
be 70 hor,ly. b., in few, where the
arrangements for the direct tax had been
retarded, it will Gill be fome time before
the fyfem is clof'l. 1t has not yet been .
thought neceGary TO employ the agcnf au-
thor;fed by an ACT of the laR f;itio', for
traniat.ing buf,efs in Europe relat v: to
debt. ard loans. Nor have we uie1 the
power, ccnd.ied by the fame act, OF pro.
longing The f'rign 'lebt by reloans, and
OF rcdeeming ioltead thereof, an eq"aI fun
of the Dameitie D%ht- Should however
the d. III. uilies of remittance on 70 large a
icale, render il neceHary at any time, the
power ihsIl he executed, and, the money
: thus unemployed abroad ha!!, in consor-
nifty win that law, be faithfully applied
here il al eqaivaleu, extintiion OF Domef-
nc Debt. When effects 70 islu:arv rcfult
from The plans you have already taattion--
ed, when merely by avoiding ta!!s objects
Of expeoce, we are ab!e, without direct
tax, with3u, internal taxes, and wiihont
borrowing, to make large and efcatu.l
payments towards the diftharge of or;
public debt, and the emancipation o. our
D .eerity from that mortal banker, ills an