Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-01-21

~OA'A~.'3 "AA'Ai 'HS tSAhf vi ilo IHtpIHO
ment ihall expire, on until he ihall be 9TH
erwife entitled to bis liberty.
The robberies that have been lately
Committed i'll this neighbourhood; have
cauied great anxiety and alarm ID the
good people; and sssm to require that
fome further nieafures, lhould be taken by
the Government q prevent the repe-
titioh Of iuch high crimes, OF TO bring
the perpetrators of them to puniiliment.
Permit me to fugge1 to yonr confidera,
ton whether it will not be expedient, by
an act of the legilarure, to otter reward
to any perlcn who fhall apprehsnd any
tobber, and profecutc him nu,il he be con-
picted ofthe robbery. And ALTO to de-
clare that il any pcrton has committed
or ihall hereafter corhmit robbery, and
being out of Jail fhsll afterwards difcov-
cr one or more who has been or haIl Be
hereafter guilty Of any robbefy, 70 that he
Or they may be convicted thereof ]; fucll
dilcoverer fhall be entitled to pardon for
all rebberics which he illall have commit.
ted before fuch difcovery was made.
In conformity with the tafolye Of tie
9Th of lait March, Iwfotc to the fecretary
of war, propoing that the demand of this
Commonwealth againa tte United States
tor the ordinance and military flores de-
li,ered for their ufe, Mould be referred in
the manner Recommended by that rclolye.
In his aniwet the fccretary declined the
Propofed reference, and adhered to- the
Propoiition he had before made that there
ihould be new appraiieInent Of the ord.
nance and itores, excepting the cannon
that were delivered for the flip Conaitu-
ton, and thoie delivered with the Cattle,
from which the trunnions had been bro
ken off, which he refufed to conlidcr a;
the property of the United States. BY
advice of the council accedsd to this, on
condition that the Ultimate lhould have re-
lation to the time when the articles were
delivered, and thar intereft fhould be al.
lowed on the appraifcd value. He foon
after informed ME, thar he had directed
the .appraifer appointed by him to attend
to the buinels, and obferved, that he
could not undertake to give po6tive O.
pinion on the fubjeet of interei1, but that
whatever had been the ufual practice at the
treaiury in fimilar cafes would undoubted-
ly be done. The articles not objected to
were appraifed at al,336 dollars and 81
cents, the appraileis certifying that they
were of that value when delivered !; and
irequefed the fectetary of war, if he con.
Tented TO the payment Of interef, to pay
the whole amount to the treafuref of his
fate. He has lately enclofed to me re-
port from the accountant of the war de-
Partment, Eating that our claim of inter-
eft is inadmiilible; unlels fpecially granted
BY congreis: He alto Informed me, that
the trealuref Of the United States had been
directed to pay the principal FUN to the
treafurer of this fate. The papers rela.
tive to this fubjcd will be delivered to you
by the fecretary.
A copy of an article amendment pro-
Pofed by congreis to be added the coniti-
tuition Of the United States, refpeeting the
election of preGdeFt and vice-preGdenr,
has been tranimitted to me by the pref
dent of the United States, and will be laid
before you,
Ihave ALTO received from the depart
inent of fate, three boxes, fuppofed to
contain eleven hundred and five copies of
the laws of the United States. They
are depofited in the Office of the fecretary
Of the Commonwealth to be dilpofed of as
the Legislature lhall direct.
That l may detain you, gentlemen, no
longer at this time, will communicate
by mefage any other circumstances of
which | may be informed, that fl,all have a