Indiana Centinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Vincennes, Knox County, 1 April 1820 — Page 1

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UY.Y. BLACKMJLV, PUBLISHER OF THE LiWS OF THE U.VITEI) STATES. VOT.. III. VINCENNES, ( Ind. ) SATURDAY, APRIL I, 1820. NO. 51

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AN ACT to authorise the people of Missouri Territory to form a . Constitution

Leila

IS HANDSOMELY EXECUTED AT THE Ccntincl Ojficc, on the most liberal terms.

LAXI) OFFICE MOVEV. The Receiver of I'ublic Monies has bee

instructed to receive in payment for Lands;

sold in the District or v iiu,ennes, the following Hanks, viz :

Bank of the United States tnd Branches,

Bank cf Virginia and its Bianch Fanner Bank cf Virginia an t 0; a'.ehes Bank of Pen:i. (Philadelphia) of North America do. Farmers and Mechanics Rank do. Mechanics Rank of City cc County, do. Commercial Iran!: of reua." do

Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That i fie foregoing proportions herein ofTercd,aro the members of the Convention thus duly e-on the condition that the convention of the lected shall be, and they are hereby author- said ftate shall provide, by nu ordinance, irised to meet at the seat of government of revocable without the consent of the United said territory on the second Monday States, that every and each tract of land sold of the month of June next ; and the by the United Stetes from and after the first said Convention, when so assembled, shall j day of January next, ?hall remain exempt have power and authority to adjourn to any, from any tar laid by order or under the auother place in the said territory, which to Uhority of the state, whether far state, counthem shall seem best for the convenient tran-,' ty or township, or any other purpose whatsaction of their business; and which Con- ever, for the term of five years from and af vwntion, when so met, shall first detarmine, terthe day of sale, and further, that the by a majority of the whole number elected, bounty lands grant or hereafter t be whether it be or he not expedient at that granted, for military services during the late time fo form a constitution and state gov- war, shall, while they continue to be held br eminent tor the people within the said teni- the patentees or their heirs, remain extrnpi tory. as included within the boundaries a- as afaresaid fr.m taxation for the term of Dove designated, and, if it be deemed ejrpc- three years from and alter the date of the ilient, the Convention shall he, anil hereby pa er.ts respectively. is authorised to form a Constitution and state Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That

the said State shall consist cf all the ; government : or if it be deemed more expe- in case a constitution and fetate irovernmpnfc

territory included within the following; boun- jdic.nt, the said Convention shall provide by shall he form d for the people of the said dat ies, to wii: Beginning in the mulo'ie ol ordinance for electing representatives to territory of Missouri, the said convention or the Mississippi river, mi i le parallel of . farm a Constitution or frame of Govern- representatives, as soon thereafter as may thirtysi:; degrees of north latitude; thence ment; which said Representatives shall be be, shall cause a true and attested copy of west, alovy; that parallel of latitude, to the . ceoen' in such manner and in such rropor- such constitution or frame of state "overn.

St. Francois liver; thence, up and fallowing , tioa as they shall designate; and s-iall mtet ment. as shall be formed or provided, to be the course of that river, in the middle of tiie at such time and place as hall he nresciibed transmitted to Canut es.

hid be it further enacted. Thafi

at territory ceded ti France to tha

States, under the namr of Louisiana-

or l'atlI?j point where th said parallel is intersected state government. Provided, t: it. t!;e fame, which lies nnvtk of thirty-six degrees an$ notes on5v a meridian line passing througii the mid-j whenever formed, ghali be republican, and thirty minutes north latitude, not included d!e (if the ni-.uth of the? Ka;i!ai river, where! not repugwant to lUe Constitution of the U- within the limits of the tate contniDlated

mted states; and that the Legislature of by this act, slavery and involuntary serui said state shall never interfere uth the pri-' tude, otherwise than in t!ie puniihment of

mary uispotai or tne sou ny the unitefi.'Mi'le, crimes, weeol tiie parties shall have beei ...:! . . i ' r .J..1 r i i t ii i i -

Printing,

jyiid etatc vvovernmenT, ana tor i;ie aumis sion of such tate into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prnhihit slavery in certain territories. ;; rV EAM'CTED, by the Senate find House of Jlepresentaiives of t'te United States of Jitnericn, in Congress assembled. That the inhabitants of that portion of the Missouri Territory included within the boundaries hereinafter designated, be, and they are hereby authorised to farm for themselves a Constitution and State Government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said state, when formed, shall he admitted into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original states in all rcp:cts whatsoever. . fcect. 2. And be it further enacted. That

i t'te course ol that river, in tiie middle ot tlie at sucn time and place as hall be presciibeu transmitt ""main channel thereof, to the parallel ot la-) by the said ordinance; and shall then lor:: ec 8. titude of thirtysiA degrees and thirty min- for the people uf said territory, witr.'.n th in all tha r' utes; thence west, aions: the same, to a boundaries aforesaid, a constitution and United hi

the

Schuylkill I5a.fi U d j Dank of Noil hern Lit

loeiues do

Maryland

ai' Baltimore of Columbia (District cf Columbia Onion Hank of Geretovu do Pat.-ut:c L'aiil: cf V asljaton dii Bank oC Washingfcu do cf Metropolis do cf Alexandria do Kew York Ea.:ik, Now York , -Manhattan Co. do . . 'S'iechanks Rank do Merchants Bank, do do; Union Rank, dc? Tank of America do. Bank of Chilicothe. Ohio. State Bank of Indiana, at Vincannes, Bank uf Illinois, at Shawnee-Town, Bank of Missouri, at St. Louis, fank c Mississippi and brandies.

do. of New-ur'eans. do. uf Louisiana. Planters bank do. No note of lesi than five dollars is able. f Corrected Weekly.

same emoties into the Missouri river

tiicuco, from the point aforesaid noith, along 'the s-r.l meiidian line to t!ia intersection ot

t!;e pa -allel of latitude which passes throjgh t!e ra ii;h of the river Ds Moines, making the said Sine to crresp.id with the IiiJiuo boundary ! i i: e ; thence east, from tlie point of i-it'ersccti'm la-t aforesaid, aiotio; the stid p ii nil'v ! oi I -ti'ude t t!;e middie ot the ciiannel of the mam fork of. toe said river I)es Moines; thence down, and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des

Moines, to the mouth of the same, where it

V ....... .x... ....v, w..x . ...v., duo cast, to the middle of the main ch-nnel ot the Mississippi river; thence down, and following the-course of the Mississippi river in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of banning: Provided, the said stat' shall ratify the boundaries aforesaid ; And provided, also, that the said state

shall have cuiicui rent jurisdiction on the!

im.i wiiu auy irguwuous v-oMgrei may unu uuiv convicieu, snail ne, ami is T.erebv form necessary for securing the title in such soil ever prohibited : Provided always. 1 hat any to tlie bona fide purchasers;, and that no ta.r person escaping into the same, from whom mall be imposed on lands the property of the labor or service is lawfullv claimed in smw

Unird States ; and in no case shall non re- state or territory of the United State, sucfr sident proprietors be taxed higher than re- fugitive in.y be lawfully reclaimed and con dents. veved to the nerson claiming ki i,r hr

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5. And be it further enacted, That bor or services a aforesaid.

H.CLAY.

Speaker of the House of Representatives

until the nej't general census shall betaken,

the said state shall be entitled to one Hep-

resentahve in the IIou3e of Representatives JOHN GAILL.Uil).

of the United iSfates. President of the Senate nro teomortr

Sec. 6. And be it farther enacted, That Washington, March 6j 1820. Approved, the fallowing propositions be, and the same JAMES MONROEw

are hereby otlerod to the convention ot the said territory of Missouri, when formed, for AN ACT to remit the Duties on a Staute of their free acceptance or rejection, which, if Georee Washington.

accepted by the convention, shall be obliga- Pe it enacted by the Senate and House of tnrv liitnn tilt ITtiitoit Sifotoa Tlanroeentntlfoc nf tha TT.i4J L'i . p it

river Mississippi, and every ether river bur-' First, That section numbered sixteen in

representatives of the United States of Amer

ica in Congress assembled. That the Antm

iienng on me t,a;o stare, so lai as ine sain every township, and when such section has wnicn nave accrued, or may accrue, to tha riyers shall form a common boundary to the been sold or otherwise disposed of, other United States, upon the importation of a said state; and any other state or states, lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous Statue of George Washington, by order no w or hereafter to be formed and bounded as may be, shall bo granted to the State for and for the use of, the State of North Carol

by the same, such rivers to be common to the use of the inhabitants of such township lina, be, and they are hereby, remitted.

uotu ; ana tr.a: me river .vnssisiippi, aiut t;ia . lor tne ue ot schools. H. CLAY

navigahle rivers and uaters leading into the; Second, That all salt springs, not exceed- Speaker of the House of Representatives, sams, shall be common highways, a.id forev-iing twelve in number, with six sections of JOHN GAILLARD, er frea, as well to the inhabitants - of the land adjoining to each, shall be g anted to President of the Senate, pro-tempore. rexeiv- said state as to other citizens of the United J the said t)tatefor the use of the said state, February 24, 1820. Amu-oved.

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BY AUTHORITY.

all free white male citizens of

Sta es, who shall have arrived at the age of twenty cne year?, and hae resided in said territory three months previous to the day of election, anil all other persons qualified to vote for Ueio esen'atives to the Gcnaial Assembly of the s-aid Territory, shall be qualified to be elected, and they are heubyqualficd and authorised to vote, and choose representatives to form a convention, who shall

I be apportioned amongst the several counties 1 as follows :

From i'ie county of Howard, five representatives. From the county i f Cooper, three representatives. From tiie county of Mont-

AN ACT tor the admitsion of the Ute of ?mner.v' prescmauveH. k .om toe t:iiii infiA fir j county oi l ike, one representative, brum

Whereas, by ai act cf the state of Mas-! 1 ,e c,HKlt.v u( menn 1 representative. I rcm Mchusett-, pa'ssed -m the nineteenth day 4lfj Ji county ofSt. ChaHe?, 3 representative.

Xane.in the vear one thousand eH.t hundred J 4 ,um " r , au.no, one m picsennnd niuetnl entitled An act lelatin- to utive iMom the county of bt. i,ou.s. oi-ht

tie senaratioii of the District of Maine from I representatives, brem the county of Je.ler-

V-sVhr.Pft P,,,.m frm;n,fUMm. son- representative, irt.m tae county

iutoasciurate and ii::!rmt,ilCi.t srate th of WashinStou, three representatives. From

the douu'. ofth.it .,,t' f M.inrh;1,.ffs he countv of at. Oeuvvieve four represcnta

States, without any ta.v, duty, impost or toll' the ame to be selected by tie legislature

therefor, imposed by the said 5tate. , of tiie said state, on or before the first day Sec. S. And he it firther enacted. That i rf Januarv in tie v?ar nm tl.i.ntand r.iht

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uvi vj n ueu , uuourru ana rwentv live, anil the Haiue.w hen

J MES MONROE.

Laws of tiie Union. ICth CONGRESS 1st SESSION.

so selected, to be

umler such terms,

AN ACT confirming Anthcny Cavalier and Peter Petit m their claim to a tract oflatd.

;i?la- He it enacted by the Senate and House cf ovid- Representatives of the United States j 1 Jmerereot icu in Congress assembltd. That Anthnnv

now is, or hereafter shall be, conliimedor Cavalier ami Peter Petit, if the ktm. :c

adjudged to any individual or individuals, Loui-iani. shall be, & they are her'r by, con shall 'by this section be granted to the said firmed in their claim to a tract f land rnn J J f ' . A . Villi-

tate; .ma provided also, 1 hat the legisla- tainmg two thousand and sixtv-five

conditions, and regulations, as the Legisla

ture of the said State hall direct : Provi

cu, that no salt sp in, the ilvht whereof icu in CoAgress

ture shall never sell or lease the same at being an Island ia th V

si(nr! nn r

any ens time, for a longer period than ten known by the name of Apple Island far vears. without the consent of Congress. vhic:J tiact of land he aid' Anthony CaviThlrd. That five per cent of the net lier and Peter fetit shall be entit'etTto a proceeds of the sale of lands Iviu vwthiri pitent : Provided, Thar nothing in

l-.ereiof'orc known as the District cf Maine

tiie, v:t.i t!e consent of tlie Legislature ol ca:d state .f Ma.vsachu.eetts, form themselves info an independent state, and did establish r constitution for the government of tiie s.imc, agreeably to the provisions of the said e t Therefore, lie it enacted by Hu; Senate and Houre of Representatives of t?u United States of ,1nerica in Curress assembled, That, from ami after the fifteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the state of Maine is hereby declared to be one of the United Stntes of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the oiigiual taUs, in all respects whatever. II. CLAY, Speaker cf the IIou9 of Representatives. JOHN G ULLARO, President cf t.c Senate, pro tempore. TYoshuito;). March 3d, 1SC0. Approved ; JAMES MONROE.

tatives. I vam tiie county ol irohsou one representative. From the county of Cape Girardeau, five representatives. From the county of New Madrid two representatives. From the county of Wayne, and that poition of the county of Lawrence which falls within tiie boundaries herein designated, one represffutative. And the election for tlie representatives aforesaid shall be holden on the first Monday and two succeeding days of May nextthroughc.ut the several counties aforesaid in the said territory, and shall be in every respect held and conducted in the same manner, and under the same regulations as i prescribed by the laws of the said territory regulating elections therein for members of tlie General Assembly, except that the returns of the election ia that portion of Lawrence county included in the boundaries aforesaid, shall fee made to the county of Wayne, as is provided in other cacs under the laws of the said tanitory.

! -r Cft nrniflflr ctotn nml i. liiK titil Ci!lll nfT. of- I I l - r-

liiii- .-.n. . inu-.t.ij in c i u n ,. aim iin.il auan " "h-vli ii c.aiiU Ol Claim f)l aPV Dtirhiri

be sold by Congress from and after the first or pees jus to tiie fca.ue land, or any pirt diy of Janusry n'e.vt, after deducting all e.r- thereof, derived fiom t.' United tate. iP penses inriileut to the same, shall be reser- any such there he, or ti e claim or claim of ved for making public road and canals, ol any other person or p-ifcons whatsoever. which three filths shall be applied to those II. CL.Y, objects within the state under the direction Speaker of the House of Representatives. of the legislature thereof: the other twofilths JOHN GAILLARD. in defraying, under the direction of congress, President of the S'natt,pro tempore, the expenses to be incurred in making of a February 28, 1820. App.oved, .oad or roads, canal or canals, leading to the JAMK MONROE. said state. q :::: . Fourth. That four entire sections ofland AN ACT fui ther to extend t'o- Phartet.

he, ami the same are herebv granted to the th Citv of Was! inton

aid state for the purpose of fixing their seat Re ii enacted by the Sehate end fioune of of government thereon, which suid sections Representatives of thrUt Led States tfArner shall, under the direction of the legislature ica in longrtss assembled. 'I hat the act en. of ?aid state, be located, as near as imy be, titled " An act to incorporate the inhabitant in one bod y, at any time, in such township cf the city of Washington, in the District cf and ranges as the legislature aforesaid maj Columbia," and the act supplementary to tha select, on any of the public lands of the U- same, passed on the twentv-fourth of'fVbruuited States. Provided, that such locations ary, in the year one thousand eKSt hundred shall be made prior to the public sale of the and four, and tha act entitled An Aci furlands of tlie United Mates surrounding such ther to amend the charter of tiie Citv of location. Washington," be, and the same are i t: cor, Fifth. That thirty-six sections, or one extended to the third day of March, ona entire township, which shall be designated thousand eight hundred and twentvjDe, un by the President of the United States, togeth- les sooner repealed, cr with the other lands heretofore reserved H. CLAY, for that purpose, shall be reserved for the Speaker of the House of Represenfativer. use of a Seminary of Learning, and Tested, JOHN GAILLARD, in the Legislature of said state, to be appro- President of the senate pro tempore priated ndely for the use of such Seminary February ii8, 180. Approved: by tha said legislature frfkd that tl JAMES .MONROE.