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VOL. IV PUiJl.TSIIKO EVTKY S V TURD AT. BYX. BLACXMdX, Oypisite the Hank- rf Vincennes. TERMS OF PUBLICAT10 Tw D 'Li.ars in advance, Tirfinn in 6 month, or Four Dollars at'tha end of the year. No subscription will be discontinued until all arrearages ore pdd. AnvEivnsLMKNT3 inserted on the v.swA term The Cash must accompany advertisements. LJ.YH OFFICE .UOXL Y. The Receiver of Public Monies has been instructed to receive in payment for Lauds sold in the District of Vincennes, nates on the following Banks, viz : f i ink of (he TJiiit.nl States : Branches, P.ank of Virgin:: and it.? jlranhccs, Farmer's Hank of Virginia and branches, Hank of Pemi. (Philadelphia) of North America do. Farmer and Mechanics Dank do. Mechanics Hank of City & County, do. Commercial Bank of Venn, do Schuylkill Bank do Bank of Northern Liberties do of Maryland of Baltimore cf Cdumbia (Di-tnct of Columbia Union Hank ot Georgetown do Patriotic Bank of Washington do Hank of Washington do of Metiu- l'.s of ;L aiitl 1 ia do New York I! ;nk, Now York Manhattan . Mechanic Bank do Merchants Bank, do Union Bank, do, Hulk of Anu'ii.Ti do. IS-? k d" ChiUcothe, Ohio. d; J' ; Hank of hniiaua, at v itiCcniiC?.. lLtik of Idimds, at av-mec-Town, 25'i!. of Missouri, at St. .Louis, Bank of Mississippi and branches. d of New -Oi leans. do. .-f Louisiana. Planters hank do. No note of less than five dollars is re ceivable. ( s.orrpct ted TYsXhi.) .i - I I ; I I . . . s BY AUTIIOIIIT Y. jntii CONUiiE:?S. AN AC'T to autlioiise tiie President ' the United State? to appoint a Keccivorof the )Uidic. maneys and Register Td the land oilice for the district of Lawrence county, in the Arkansas Terriiory. .. fie.it er.acfzdb'j the Senate awl House irffflepres 'ill Uttivrs o f the Uni'eJ S tail's of iiieric:i in CoHrex asseuikl'-rf. That the President of the - United States be, and he i hereby, authorised to appoint a )"ceirer of tiie public moneys and Re-i-4er of the land office, for the district f Lawrence county, in the Arkansas Territory. Soc. .'hid be it further en.ieted.'VUnt a'iv person having a chiim to a n:;ht of jv -oiption within t: e slid district, s . -!l make known I. is cl um and location according to the provisions of tiie laws now in force, to the Rei-ter, at least six weeks before tin time to be designated by t ie President of the IT. States for i-Miing patents to the soldier of the late army, entitled to bounty land in said district. II. CLAY. Speaker of .he H .Me of Up: csentatives. JOHN (;aillari, President of the Semite pro tempore. March IT, IS .- ' no:veil: - JAME.s 'MONROE. ACT to ide for taking th1 fourth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United Staves, and f .C: p.rps.s. J!c it f .''(, ; I 'j thcScnite and Ihuse. nf ::ep:'it-iii'..t's of the United Si a Us '. i ncricn in r(;r;-vs astnh'cd. That, r e mars!i:i!s of t'ue sever;.' districts of tiie Ttiited States, and of the Ditrict of Columbia, and of the Territories of Mi.'urij Michigan, and Arkansas, respective! v , shall he, and thev are herehv. authorized and required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, and a-eoi 1 1 1 1 2: to such inst; uction as he shall g;vt pursuant to tins act, to cause the nu-nher of inhabitants within their rer 'tive districts and territories to be ti ' ii, onutti!', m -ucli enurnecation. Iniians not ta.ivd, and distinmishirig fiee j.rrson, including tinte bound to Service lor a term t e.i. from n for OT'.ers; i.isl:nMii-!nini-. n'so. t in se.res .: an i colors .d" i;ee persons, and tiie fiee - - ----7 - ' ---- - Indies under ten ve u s of a ;j,e ; t!nse of tea years arid nn.ler si.vteen those of si.rtetn a;id under tucntv-ur; those cf twentv--iv and under fo;tv-five: and those of fotty-five and upvvard; and, 3i' , oisiinguishing li ee females undei trn year ot age ;jhose of ten and Uf'.ler sixteen ; to se uf .o teen end uni twenty-si t : those of t.wiity.s'u and UJKicr forty-five : and those f lorty-ihe

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and upwards ; and also distinguishing the number of persons engaged in agriculture, commerce, and manufacture:, respectively. For effecting which the marshals aforesaid shall have power, and they are hereby, respectively, authorized and required to appoint one or more assistants in each county anil city, in their respective districts and territories, residents of the county and city for which they shrill be appointed, and shall assign a certain division to each of the said assistant, which division shall not consist of more than one county or city, but may include one or more town?, townships, wards, hundreds, or parishes, plainly and distinctly bounded bv water courses, mountains, public roads or oth

er monuments. And the said enumera tion shall be made hy an actual inquiry at every dwelling house, or of the head d every familv,and not otherwise. 'The marshal ami their assistants shall, respectively, lake an oath or affirmation before some judge or justice of the pe icv, resident within their respective districts or territories, before they enter on the duties required by this act. The oath or affirmation of the niaishal shall be as fuiiows: , A. 15. marshal of the district of do solemnly swear, (or affirm.) that I will well and truly cause to bo made a just and perfect enumeration a v.! description of all persons resident within my district, (or territory,) ..nd ;ds an account of the manufactu-ici-, e..i.rpt household manufactures, and icturn the rjame to the secretary of6'tate, ri ei aid v to the directions of an act of I Cengi :;, entitled An act to provide far taking the fourth census or cnuraerlatiou of the inhabitants of the United 1 . tiitC? 1 7 - - 1 . 1 1 1 11111 1 j-.ui ivhj. . 1... . . 1 . .. 1 f ?3 accor din.; Vi ti;e best of my ability. 'I he r.'.t'a afiirmation of an assistant blntll j ao ; I, A. i. do solemnly swear, (or at- ;!:.) tl tat I will make a just and perJ feet enumeration and description of all p'rsop.i resident within the division assigned (o me for that purpose, by .the marshal f and also an account ot the. manufactures, except household manufacture:;, and make due return thereof to the said marshal, agreeably to the directions of an act of Conrcc?, entitled An act to provide for taking the fourth census or enumeration ot the inhabitants of the United Stafes. and for other purncs'V,' according to the best ot my a-nilitn-s. 'i'he enumerations s'udl commence on the first Monday of August, in th.e year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and shall close within si.v calendar months thereafter. The several assistants shall, within the said six manths, transmit to the marshals, by whom they shall respectively be appointed, accurate returns of all person?, except Indians not taxod, within their respective divisions; which returns shall be made in a schedule, distinguishing in eacn countv, citv, town, township, ward, or parish, the several families, by tiie names ot their master, mistress, steward, overseer, m- other principal person tnereir, in the manner following : The number of persons within my division, consisting ot , appears in a schedule hereto annexed, subscribed hy me this dav of , in the vear one thousand eih.t hundred and twenty. A. B. assistant to the marshal of . Schedule of the whole number of perons within the division allotted to A. 15. Naaie oi the county, parish. tow nship town, or city, where the family resides. J Mii'iit'M.! neads ot taeaiiies. I Free white males under ten years. Free white males ot ten and under shrtce n. Free unite males between sia'teen an; eighteen. Free white males of sixteen and undertwenty-six, including heads of families. Free white males of twenty-six, and under forty-five, including heads of families. Free vihite males ot toity-tive, and upwaids, including heads of families. Free white females under tenyuars of asp. Fiee wjtite females of ten, and under sixteen. Fiee white females of sixteen, and under twenty-six, including heads of families. Free white females of twenty -six, and under forty-five, including heads of families. Free white females of forty -live, and upwards, including heads, of families. j Foreigners net naturalized. SLAVES. I Males under fourteen. Males of lourteen, and under twenty -six. Males of twenty-six, and under for-tv-five. j Males of forty -five, and upwards. j Females of fourteen. Females of fourteen, and under twentv-six. Females of twenty-six, and under forty-five; I - J -ife" e ujlZr-. le 1$-

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FKEK COLOUF.D PERSONS. I Males under fourteen vears. Males of fourteen, and under tven tv-Lr. Males of twenty-six, and fortv-live. undei I -Males of ttrty-livc, and upwards. emales under fourteen ears. Females of lourteen, twentv-six. and under Females ot twenty -sia, and under fort v -five. I Females of forty-five, and upwards J All other pei sons, except Indians, I not ta.ved. Ser. o hid he it furthsr enacted, That every assistant failing or neylectiu to make a proper return, or making a falsH return, of the euumeration to the marsh.al, within the time limited by tins act, shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars, receivable in the manner pointed out in the next section of this act. Sec. 3. Jlnd be it further enacted, That the marshals shall file the sever returns, aforesaid, and also, an attested copy 'cf the. aggregate amount herein after directed, to be transmitted by them, respectiJy to the Secretary of State, with t clerk of their respective dis tricts, ' YlPenbr courts, (as the case mav lie . hu rrc hereby directed t receite, fah"l,hr" efullr to preserve th ..... - - . . same. Anu marsnals respectively, shall, on or before the firxt day of April, in the yeir one thousand eiht hundred and twenty-one,' transmit to the Secre tary of S'tate the aggregate amount oi each description persons within then respective district or territories. And every marshal failing ta file the return of his assistants, or the returns of any of them, w ith the clerks of the respective courts as aforesaid, or failiug to return the are":ite amount ofcachdescription o. persons in their respective districts or territoriei, as requued bv this act, and as the same shall appear from saitl returns, to the Secretary of State, within the time limited by this act, shall for every such office, forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars 5 which forfeitures shall be recoverable in the court9 of the districts or territories w here the said offiences tdiall be committed ; or within the circuit courts held within the same, by action of debt, information, or indictment ; the one half thereof to the use of the United States, and the other half to the informer; but where the prosecution shall be first instituted on behalf of the United States, the whole shall accrue, to their use. And, for the more effectual discovery of such offences, the judges of the several district courts in the several districts, and of the supreme courts in the territories of the- United States, as aforesaid, at their ne.rt sesion, to he held after the expiration of the time allowed for making tiie returns of the enumeration hereby directed, to the Secretary of State, shall -live this act in cranio to the irraud juries in then respective courts, and shall cause the returns of the several assistants, and the said attested copy of the areate amount, to be laid before them for their inspection. Sec. 4. dad be it further enacted. That every assistant shall receive at the rate of one dollar for every bundled personi by him returned, where such persons reside in the country ; and where such persons reside in a city or town, containing more than three thou -and persons, such assistant shall receive at the rate ot on dollar for every three hundred persons: but where, from the dispersed situation of the inhabitant in some divisions, one dollar will be insufficient for one hundred persons, the marshals, with the approbation of the judges of their respective districts or territories, may make such further allowance to the assistants in such divisions as shail be deemed an adequate compensation ; Provided, The same does not e.vceed one dollar and twenty-five cents for every fifty persons bv them returned.; Provided further, That before any assistant, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive said compensation, he shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, before some jude o:. justice ot the peace, authoi tz.ed to administer the same, to wit : I, A. B. do aolemnly swear or affirm, that the number of personsset forth in the return made by me, areeably to the provisions id" the act. entitled " An act to provide for taking the fourth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the U. "Mates , and foi ther purposes," have been ascertained by an actual inquiry at every dwelling hojse, or of the head of every family, in e.vact confvrmity with the provisions of said act ; and that 1 have, in every respect, fulfilled the duties required of me bysaid act, to the best of my abilities, ami that the return aforesaid is correct and true, according to the best of my knowl edge aud belief. The several marshal shall receive as follows: The marshal of the District of Maine, two hundred and fit"tv dollars; the marshal of the District of New-Hampshire, two hundred aud fifty dollars ; the marshal of the District of Massachusetts, three hundred dollars ; the marshal of the District of RhodeIsland, one hundred and fifty dollars; the marshal of the District of Connecticut, two- hundred dollars j the marshal of the District of Vermont, two hundred

aud fifty dollar ; the wait ha! cf the

southern District ot New-York, two hundred and fifty dollars ; the marshal of the northern District of Neu-York, two hundred and fifty dollars ; the marshal of the District of New-Jersey, two hundred dollars ; the marshal of the e istern district of Pennsylvania, three hundred dollars ; the marshal of the western District of Pennsylvania, two hundred d d-

lars : tiie marshal of the District of Delaware, one hundred dollars ; !hmarshal of the District of Maryland, three hundred dollars ; the marsl al oi the eastern District ot Virginia, three hundred dollars ; the marshal ot the western District of Virginia, two hundred dollars ; the. marshal of the DUtricl of Kentucky, three hundred dollars : the marshal of the District ot North Carolina, three hundred and fifty dollars: the marshal of tiie District of South Car olina, three hundred dollars ; the marshal of the District of tieri.i, three hundred dollars : the marshal of the District of east Tennessee, one handled and fifty dollars ; the marsh.al id" the dUtiict of vvet fer.nr.ssee, one hundred add fifty dollars ; the marshal of the District of Ohio, three hundred dollar; the marshal of the District of ludiana, two hundred dollar; the marshi! if th Distrietof Illinois, one hundred and fifty dollars : tiie ma'sh.il of the District of Mi-sissippi, one hundred and fitly dollars; the marshal of the Distiict tX Louisiana, me hundred and fifty dollar1-:: the marshal of the Distiict of Alabama, one hundred and f.ffy dollars ; the marshal of-the District of Columbia, fifty dollars ; the marshal of the Missouri Tenitorv, one hundred dollar; the marshal of tin Michigan territory, one hundred dollars ; the mais'aal of the Arkansas Territory, one bundled dollars. Sec. 5. Jlnd be it further enacted. That every person whose usual place of abode shall be in any family, on the said firt Monday in August one thousand eight hundred aud twenty, shall be returned as of such family : and the name of every person who shall be an inhabitant of any district or territory, without a settled place of residence, shall he inserted in the column wf the schedule which is allotted for the heads of families in the division where he or si e shall be on the said first Monday iu August ; ami ev ery person occasionally absent at the time cf enumeration., as belonging to the place in which he or she usually resides in the United States. Sec. t5. Jind be it fin ther enacted, That each and every tree person, more ti.au sixteen years of age, whether heads oi families or not, belonging to any family within any division, district or territory, made or established within the U. States, shall be, and hereby is. obliged to render to the assistant of the division, if requited, a true account, to the best o! his or her knowledge, of every person belo ;giug to such family, respectively, accoiding to the several descriptions aforesaid, on pain id forfeiting twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered, in an action of debt, bv such assistant : the one half to his own use, and the other half to the use of (he United Mates. Sec. 7. -hid be it farther enacted, That each and every assistant, previous to making his return to the marshal, shall cau-ica correct copy, signed by nimseit, of the schedule containing the number of inhabitants within his division, to be set up at two of the most public places within the same, there to temain for the in spection of all concerned ; for each of which copies, the said assistant shall be entitled to receive two dollars; Provided, proof of the schedule having been set up and suffered to remain, shall be transmitted to the marshal, vith the return of the number oi persons ;and in case any assistant idiall fail to mak such proof to the marshal, as aforesaid, he shall forfeit the compensation allowed him by this act. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State shall be, and hereby is, authorised and required, to transmit to the marshals of the several districts aud territories, regulations and instructions pursuant to this act, for carrying the same into effect, and also the forms contained therein, of the schedule to be returned, and such other forms as may be necessary in carrying this act into execution, and proper interrogatories ta be administered by the several persons to be employed in taking the enumeration. Sec. 9. Jndbe.it further enacted, That in those states composing two districts, and where part of a county may lie in each district, such county shall be considered as belonging to that district in which the court housa of said county may be situated. Sec. 10. mind be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty ot the several marshals and their assistants, at the time for taking the said census, to take, under the direUion of tiie Secretary of State, and according to such instructions a he shall give, and such forms as he shall preset ibe, an ccon: . 0f the several manufacturing establ; .ments, and their manufactuies, within their several districts, territories, and divisions : the said assistants shall make return of the same to the marshals of their respective districts or territories; and the Said marshals shall transmit the said returns,' and abstracts thereof, to the Secretary of State, at the same time at

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,-po. I. -epectivt !y, to make their "fitbrns to ' the Secretary ofStato : for the pcifornu aricc cf which additional service, they -hall, respectively, receive, a compen- . sition therefor, net crccedin twenty per centu n in addition tp the sums aU, biucd by this act, to be apportioned ia proportion to the services rendered, uad?r the direction ef the Secretary of Sec. 11., ndheitfnrt! rsruided, That in all cases where the superficial content f any county or parish khall exceed forty miles square, and the" number, of inhabitants in said countv or parish shall not e.vceed two thousand five hundred. the marshal or assistants shall be allowed, with the approbation of the judge ef tin respective districts or territories, uch further compensation as shall bo deemed reasonable : Provided, the samcj does not exceed three dollars for every fifty persons by them returned. Sec. 12. dud be it further enacted, That when the aforesaid enumeration shall be completed, and ieturned to thui office of the Secretary of State by t.ia marshals ot the states and territories, ho shall direct the printers to Congress, to print, for the use of the Congress, fif teen hundred copies thereof. II. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN GAILLAIO), President of the Senate pro tempore March 14, 1820. Approved, JAMES MONROE. AN ACT in addition to an act entitled An act regulatingthe Post Office establishment. Be it ennciedhij the Senate, mid flouse of lirpresentatives of the United Stated of America in Congress assembled That, during the present and every subsequent session of Congress, all letter and packets to and from the President of the senate pro tempore,..arid tho Speaker f the House of Representatives, for the time being, shall be rccei- " ved and comeved by mail free of postage, under the same restrictions as arej provided by lav with respect to letters and packets to and from the Vice Free ident of the United States. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives, JOHN GAILLARO, President of the Senate, pro tempore. Washington, MarchI3, 1820,-Approved: JAMKS MONROE. G. M'DONALO, drtoRSErand Counsellor at LAtt HAS opened an office in the house of G W.Johnston, Water-Street, Vincenrieslie w ill practice in the Supreme Court: of the State, the United States District Court, and in the Circuit courts of Kno.v, Davis, SullivdU, and Vigo Counties. All business committed to his cartt will he punctually attended to. Vincennes. December 8, lSi9. 35-tf Amory Kinney, HAVING returned toV incennes, res nectf'illy gives notice, that he has re sumed the practice of the Law, and that he will-do Conveyancing, oa th hnrtet notice, at his room ir JVJTER STREET. Vincennes, Jan. 2G, 1820. 42 tf G. II. C. Sullivan Attorney at Law. WILL practice in the first Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana, and in the Counties of Crawford and Edward s9 in the Illinois State. He may alwavt he found at his office in Vincennes. unless w hen absent on professional business; he has made arrangements for business forwarded to him in lfi3 absence, to be attended to. Vincennes, Dec. 15, 1819. SG tf Washington HalL No. 11, FRONT STREET. Cincinnati. WILLIAM HARLOW begs leave to in for. a his friends and the public at hir;e. that he has opened a HOUSE OF KPERTJIMVFJ'Tm in a lame ana commodmn hiiiM;on Front Street, a few. doors ?est of Main Street ; which, being fitted up in c very elegant style, oflcrs to the visitant and traveller, accommodations not inferior to any in the western country. The proprietor pledges himself to those who may favor him with their cus torn, to use every e.rei tion tp 'make his ' establishment pl-asant and agreeable. Cincinnati, Sept. 1SJ9. Hides aml 'Skins. CASH, and the highest price will constantly given for anv quantity oi HIDES, Calf, Sheep, arid Deer :s!ans; - v k-a delivered at th3.Tncennes Steam Mil!

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