The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-12-19

lnually, BY joint ballot Of both houses of tn,
Genera! Assembly, and shall receive suct
SALARY OF compensation for his services, Il:
may be allowed him by law.
5,h!y. Tha, the board OF public. works, Z
Imajori,y vi the members OF which, wi,hihy
President, shalfbe competent To transact all
business tlevolving on the corporation, shall
consist OF the treasurer of Virginia, and
tie Attorney General ior the time being,
and OF three members of the privy Council,
40 be annually chosen from, that body. in
like manner with the President of the board.
6thiy. That the President and board OF
public works shall be empowered 70 appcins
secretary and Surveyor of pubic works !:
each ut whom shalt receive for his services,
such annual compensation, or salary, as shall
be ordained by law.
7thiy. ReSotped, That the Fresidentand
board of public works. shall be authori.
sed to subscribe 10 such public works
as the General Assembly may, from
time TO time, Conseat to patronze, such
portions OF the revenue of the fund for
internal Improvement as may be appro-
pria;ed by law but that no part OF the
said Fund shall he subscribed towards
the stock of any Canal or Turnpike Com
pany. until three fitths at least, or the 4rhoie
stock nece ssary tn complete such Canal or
Turnpike shall have been otherwise su6-
ScT1acd. nor until. nj the s;ack ~, subscribed,
at least zenith part shall have been hxid
~ by the res pectivc Subscribers.
Sthly. That the dividend, upnn the stock
which may hereafter be created Ia PURSE
ance OF these resolutions. in order to render
any river navigabie, or to form any Turn
pike road, shall go, exclusively, to Other
subscribers, than the President and Board
OF Public Works, until such portion of the
stock OF those subscribers, as shall have been
actually paid in. shall have netted To them
SIX per cent per annum, from the time Of
payment; that any Increase Of profit af err
that metz income has been assured to these
subscribers shall belong, exclusively, to the
fund aforesaid, until the nett revenue of the
whole stock. actually expended by any such
company, shall reach six per cent per an
mum; after which, the President s Board
OF Public Works, and the other subscribers
70 The stock of such company shall divide
the nett profits upon such stock in proporti-
on to their respective interests ;-provided
that, whenever the nett income Of any such
company shall be found, for two succeeding
Iyears. to erceeG t7veiUe per cent per an
mum, the General Assembly may reduce
the tolls from which such income is derived,
so as to reduce the nett revenue of the com
pany to that amount.
9t'ly. That it shall be the duty of the
President and Board of Public Works, to
report to the General Assembly, once in e.
very year, the state ofthe fund committed
to their change the progress and condit-
on of all public works within the com mon
wealth the plans, surveys and estimated
expence OF such as they may recommend
to the General Assembly, together with all
such information as it may be in their pow
er to collect in relation to the objects of their
| important trust.
" Look before you icah"-Let US pledge
| all our disposable funds to any one specific
object, and how can we redeem the pledge
which we have so solcmnly given to the
United States 90 of our lives, our fortunes,
and our sacred honor?"
0J The Gentleman, who penned the first COM
'nnication in the last Virginia Patriot, had need
OF mask lie has made assertions, which no man
IN Richmond (that has any for his reputation
wond have the from to make under his own nam e.
10 say that the " subject of fnl6yessD1eHt'' is
mere ' 1yetence" for the war-te assert that it is
astonishing that any in the u S. should be SUI oh
BOBBY as to suppose the present is continued
Tor such cause have the audacity to insnuate,
in the very teeth of the Documents laid before the
world, that this is mere pretence'' for the war
that the whole dispute this head resolves itself in.
to claim on our part to protect British subjects
AND to cry out how easily might this subject be
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| a hardihood in assertion, none but Coleman or
a Wagner possess. What Would any man, who
has seen the last letter of Mr. RUSSELL who has seen
in il the proposition made to Id Castlereaeh of ex-
eluding all British seamen from our navy, (even
those who might be naturssed hereafter,) who has
seen the imperious spirit in which this proposition
was received; would any considerable man. after this
disclosure. pretend to charge the administration with
the want OF disposition adjust this subject But
It is thus that every trick is employed to abuse the
ear OF the people, them from the assertion of
their rights. The man has mistaken his meridian.
Such tricks may answer in Connecticut or Massa-
chu'etts-ln Virginia they are laughed to scorn.
| GENERAL HOPKINS.
| We understand, letter has been receiv-
ed at Washington by member of Congress
| from Kentucky, stating. that General Hop
kins, after destroying the =, ofihef's town
at Tippecanoe, had dispatched about 90
men in pursuit of the fugitives from it. who
fell in with an Indian on horseback, by
| whom they were drawn into an ambuscade
and II OF them lost.-fhe reader will re
collect that Hopkins had left Fort Harrison
about the 9TH ult. OH 1hds Expedition.
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