Indiana Centinel, Volume 4, Number 6, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 May 1820 — Page 1

INDIANA CENT1NEL - , J

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VOL.JAYJ """""" PUBLISHED EVERY . SATURDAY MORNING, BY N. BLACKMAN, Publisher cf the Laics of the U. Slates, Opposite the Bank of Vincsnnes. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. Two Dollars in advance, Three in G months, or Four Dollars at the end of the year. No subscription will lie discontinued Until nil arrearages are paid. Advf.rtisemf.nts inserted on the usmi terms. The Cash must accompany advertisements.

JJJPMjJ.lyi)0 JATUJ1 DAY MAYJg, 1820

NO. C.

ling carriages, fifty-three thousand dol- her son, Georjrc Braden, a soldier who oyer, be entitled to the sum of two hun-

area ana niiv dollars annually, as a compensation for all crtra services. H. CLAY,

JOHN

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

April 24, 18 20i Aj proved, JAMES MONROE.

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ureti anu nineteen ,iuousaim uun;.rt. 1

For the current expenses of the

Ordnance Department one hundred thou-.

sand dollars. v I

For the completion of arsenals, to wit: ' -

or completing the arsenal at Augusta, in "AX ACT fa authorize the Secretary of

Georgia, twenty-seven thojsanUloVi.srs. ! State to cause toe Law 'of the Mich

igan Territory, to be printed and dis-

tuhufed, and lr other purpose.

LAJVD OFFICE MO.VEV. The Receiver of Public Monies hag been instructed to receive in payment tar Lands sold in (he District of Vincennes, notes on the following Banks, viz: ) Bank of the United States & Branches, Bank of Virginia and its Branhces,

Fanner's Bank of Virginia and branches,

Bank of Penn. (Philadelphia) cf North America do. Farmers and Mechanics Hank do.

Mechanics Bank of City & County, do.

Commercial Bank of Penn. do Schuylkill Bank do Bank of Northern Liberties do of Maryland ' of Baltimore

of Columbia (District of Columbia

fTnloti Bank of Georgetown 0.0

Patriotic Bank of Washington do

Ban

of Metropolis do

.X v

of Alexandria do ITcw York Bank, New York Manhattan Co. do Mechanics Bank do Merchants Bank, do do. Union Bank, do. Bank of America do. Bank of Chilicothe, Ohio. State Bank of Indiana, at Vincennes. Rank of Illinois, at Shawnee-Town, Bank of Missouri, at St. Louis, Bank of Mississippi and branches. do. of New-Orleans. do. of Louisiana. Planters bank do.

No note of less than five dollars is rc

ceivable. ( Corrected TFeekhj.)

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ars. uieu or wounds received in the late war.

For the national armories, in addi- would have been entitled bad he lived.

ion to the sum of fifty-six thousand dol- II. CLAY,

ars, already approp.iated, three hun- Speaker of thz House of Representatives 'Speaker of the House of Representatives

JGAILLARIJ, c'Ulirs uAlLEARU,

or completing the arsenal at Baton

Rouge, twenty -five thousand dollars ;

md at A atei town, near Boston, eight

housand six hundred and fifty dollars. For balance due to certain states, in

addition to an unexpended balance of

0:1c hundred and fifty tiiree thousand one hundred and seventv-two dollars,

hree hundred and fifty thousand dol-ars.

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

April 21, 1330. Approved: JAMES MONROE. JJVJCT relative to the Arkansas Territory. lie it ennctrtl 01 th? S?nat? and Hons9

ff lleprssmtaiives of lh Unit M Mates

Be it enacted hf the Senate and Bouse if America, in cuv res assembled, 'lhat

of Representatives of the. United Mates the act of Congress passed on the fourth of America in Congress asvinbL'd, day of June, cue thousand ciirht bundled That the Laws of the Michigan Terri- ami twelve, providing for the j-overn-tory in force, shall-he printed, under nient of the territory of Missouri, as the direction of the Secretary of State; .modified by the act of Congress passed and that a competent number of copies on the twentv-niuth da v of April, one

toeieoi shall be distributed amon the thousand eiht r.r.ndrcu ar.t! sixteen,

For arrearages, in addition to fifty (people of 6aid Territory, as the Guver- titled an act to alter certain parts of the

thousand doltars already appropriated,

one hundred thousand dollars.

For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, in

addition to an unexpended balance of

ciKhtv-four thousand nine hundred and

eighty-two dollars twenty nine cents,

tnree hundred and forty one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventv-onc cents.

For the annual allowances to the revol

utionary pensioners, under tne act 01 the ehrliteenth of March, one thousand

tiht hundred and eighteen, two million seven hundred and sixtv-suc thousand

four hundred and forty dollars.

For half-pay of widows and orphans,

one hundred thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the Indi

an Department during the present year, two hundred thousand dollars.

For surveying and marking boundary

lines of Indian cessions, hi teen thousand dollars.

For making a survev of the water courses, tributary to and west of the Mississippi, also those tributary to the same river and north-west of the Ohio, four thousand five hundred dollars. For making a Survey, maps and charts, of the Ohio and Mississippi, from the rapids of the Ohio at Louisville, to the

Balize, for the purpose of facilitating

nor and judges tnereoi snail mi ect: aci aiorcsaui, s:ta:J it co:!;i-utcI as apVrovidcd, 'l hat the expeoce of such plicable to the government ftiie terri-

pnnting shall not e.rceed twelve hundred tory or Arkaiiiav, ;jnj shall have ufer

and hi t y dollar

ence to the proceedings of tlie said ter-

r, . I I f Ml - A .

j?ec. a. 'ixx'J. ce 11 juruier enr.aca, ritory, m organizatiun or t;.c rccoan That fifteen sets of the Laws of the I J- grade of the territorial government as nited States, which were compiled by sinned by said territory, under ari act order of Congress, and published by of Congress of the second March, one Bioren and Duane, in one thousand eiit ' thousand eight hundred ziA ninetei'ii, hundred and fifteen, shall be transmit- establishing ti;e territory of Arkansas :

ted, by the Secretary of .State, to said and nil and every step taken under the Territory, t. be distributed therein, as last mentioned act shall bf con?n!erel tho local government thereof may di- valid, if not inconsistent ith the tiiree rect. II. CLAY. Lefore recited act taken together. Speaker of the Houso of Ucf rcsentatives. H. Ci.AY. JOHN "GAILLAli:),' Speaker of th Hons? of Kepreeiitn1ivcs. President of the Senate pro tempore. , JOHN G.lLLAllt,

April 24, 1820. Approved : j President of the Senate, pio-tempjre.

April 21, I'dX)

JAMKS .MONilOK.

AX ACT to establili a District Court

in the State of Ahiham

At n: oved.

jAMiia MONilOE.

fore he bhail enter the same at the I md office ; and if any person, being the highest bidder, tt public sale, for a tract of land, shall fail to make payment therefor, on the day on which the barae was purchased, the tiact thall be again oft-red at public -a!c. on the next day f ale, and such person shall not be caoah!e of becoming the purchaser cl tliat or any other tract offered at such public ales: Sec. 3. Jr.d he it farther macte?9 That, from and after the first dav r-r July next, the price at which thepublio lat;d3 slsail be ottered for sale, shall be one dollar and twenty -five cents an acre; and at everv oublic sale, the hijreit Hidtier, who shall make payment as afore;iul, shall be the purciiaser; but no land hall he ju!d, either at public or private ale, for a less price than one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre; and all the, public.lands which shall have been offered at public sale before the first day cf July next, and which thall then remain unsold, as well as the lands that shall thereafter be offered at public sale, according to law, and remain unsold at the cloae of such public sale shall be subject to be sold at private sale, by entry at the land office, at one dollar and twenty-five cents. an acic, to be paid at t! e time of making 9uch ei.try as aforesaid, with the exception, however, of the lands which may have reverted o the United States, for failure in pay rnent, and of the heretofore reserved section for the future disposal of Con

gress, in the state of Ohio and Indiai:?, which shall beoit'eied at public sale, as hereafter directed. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted. That no lands which have reverted, or vhich fdiall hereafter revert and become for

feited to the United States for failure

Ti.if Decried hu the f'vtU tin.l tf rup UhMlLu I tON to atit.;omc the publi-i

of llenresentntives of the United Skites cation of part of the Secret Journal of;in any manner to male payment, fchai!, of America in Confess cssemti,!. That Congress, under the articles of Con- jailer the first day cf July next, be suball the laws of 'the United Slates, federation. 3fCt to entry at private sale, nor until which are not local! v inapplicable, thall Solved, fry thebaic and House of same shall have been first offered to Ka wnrlwl ih Jinfp Af A l.itn m.. Ilenre.ferJalhrs of the Uuii'd states tthe highest bidder at public sale ; end

shall have the same force and eff.ict with- America, in Cnrvss cisx'xll'J, TUnt all sacn land w.nch 8 .all have reverted in the same, as elsewhere within the U. the Secret Journal, te-etS.er, wiih ail before the sa:d hrst day of July neit, States. t!i2 l :ipcrs anJ documents connected ; ai'd whuh shall then belong to the

'C. 2. And be It lirtlgr f.iTCfCO, VSUl UUl UtlUUl lI, UOO UU UlUCi JJ.M.CO j - 1. -1 w -, "nil -

That tlie s.iid state phafl he one dii'.rict, ,rid documents

heretofore cousidrrd tions, hi d pai i of se '"'ns, lierf r,.re

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and bo called the Alabama district ; and conlidenlial, 01 tne old i.ongress. irom w iumre disposal or uonrefS. wmca

e date ol the ratjucauon 01 tne ileum-' i ikc inoe aioresaiu, remain un-

and ascertaining the most practicable L Strict cuu,t shall beheld therein, to ... .1 . r ; ; j. i. . .. i ; i " - . . . . . . . : .

inviuu 01 improving uie

those rivers, hve thous

For completing the p

he navigation of Consist of one Judge, who shall reride the treaty of peace between the United sold, s! all be oftered at public file to and dollars. Jjfl the said district, and be called the States and Great B::t-i-?;n the year tne highest Didder, ubo shall make pay. ublic road through (district iude He shall hold, alternate- CUii thousand seven hundred and eighty r.ient t-cicfor, in haif quarter sections,

'W.iSiiii

i.KHfh. iHrifin. up lvnp i l rip .TTMfi i j a .... ii.i. ...i s i iiiim'. in hut ii 'M 11: i ill h rrni ut inv iauu uiult iui ii:r nriifi iivi iiii.

5&r ---v.,..., "v- ' iv, at Uie towns o .mujiic ui:i: vu.;iuuii, " . . - 1 " " c "Georgia and Alabama, three thousand ;be-innin"- at the first fnirr stated tcs- Government, now rem inii;g in the ol- tricts, on such day or days as ilial!, Ly

tiiicu uuiiuicu viuiiu;. vions annoallv s "he lii st, to commence ,,v- v vwium i ...n. , .- j . . . . vn. aium ;g n.-u Sec. 2. And be it further .ev.acted.on the first Monday in April ne:;t, and I'shetl, under the direction of the Presi- United States, te d&ignated for that purThat the several appropriations herein ; tlc three ottier sessions, pro-i e:sivilv, dent ol the U.-.ited States, and that a -pose; and all lands which ghall revert before made, shall be paid out of any ;OM" the fir? t Monday of everv'third c'i- thousand copies thereof be printed and and become forfeited for failuro of pay-

BY AUTHORITY.

Laws of the Union.

I6th CONGRESS 1st SESSION.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Military Service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hun

dred and twenty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, viz. : lFcr the pay of the army of the United States, in addition to an un expended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, one million thirty -six thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars. For subsistence, in addition to the

sum of two hundred and twenty thous-j

and dollars already appropriated, si.r hundred and tuo thousand and fortyeight did I ars. For bounties and premiums for fifteen

hundred recruits, twenty-one thousand dollars. Forqtrcrters fuel,straw,ca!I otherepences tor recruits, until organized to join regiments and corps, thirty-four thousand oe hundred and twenty-five dollars. For clothing, three hundred thousand dollars. For the Medical and Hospital Department forty-two thousand one hundred and fort v -five dollars. For the Quarter Master's Department, four hundred and fifty thousand dol

lars. For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars. For forage for officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars, si.v thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollar s. For fortifications, eight hundred thousand dollars. For the Military Academy at West Boiat, for fuel, maps, plans, books, and apparatus, and contingent expenses, eighteen thousand three hundred and twenty -two daliars. For completing the building, two thousand five hundred dollars. For arrearages, prior to the year one thousand tight hundred and eighteen, twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-ei-dit dollars and fif

ty seven cents. For cannon and shot,

to fulfil existing contrarts, and for the

purchase ol thais, a:.d t;gibc.- far travel

moneys in tlie Treasury, not otherwise ; un,hM- month

appropriated. lall thimrs have

II. CLAY, liurisdiction am

Speafcerot the House ot Representative. ; jaw oiven to the judge of the Kentucky

JUHiX OA ILL A HI), Idistrict. underan act. entitled An act President of the Senate, pro tempore, to establish the judicial courts of the U. April 14, 1820. Approved : j States' and an act, entitled. "An net JAMES MONROE. jn addition to the act, entitled "An art ' to establish the judicial courts of the U. AN ACT to continue in force the act States," approved second March, ona passed on the twentieth day of Apiil, thousand seven hundred and ninetv-

one thousand eight hundred and eigh- tiiree He shall appoint clerks for the

teen, entitled "An act supplementary gatd district, who shall reside, and keep

act to regu-

thereafter He siijs.it in vh'posito I in the Liurarv, subject to tlie ' ment niter tne said first day cf July

mid exercise the same uispusiuou 01 congress. ixcxi, snau ce enereo, in ukc tnan..:r,

1 oo'voir which wfie hv li. CLAi, at pubuc sale, at such time or tunes as

ncaKierot t ie uo.5.eoi iCepreentative3 , me i icaiueiu soan, oy his crurlamition.

JOHN GAILLARO, (designate for the purpose : Provided.

P. es'uhut of the Senate, pro tempore, j that no such land shall be sold at any April 21 , lt. Approved : public sales hereby authorized for a leas JAMES MONROE price than one dollar and twenty-five; jeer. 13 an acre, nor on any other term AN ACT mking further provisions fori than that tf cash payment: and all the the sale of the Public Lands. j lands oflVrtd at such public sale, and Beit cn:tcie by the Senate a:id house which shall re:aain unsold at the riosa of Ilepresentati.vs of the. United Mats thereof, shall b- subject to rntry a

to an act entitled An act to reau- iho records of the Court, .it the idaces VJ "'.ertca in Congress assemlltd, ii,at,:a.e sate, in the same manner, a

late the collection of duties on imports 0f holding the same and shall receive, " and alter the first day of July next,; tne same puce, with the other lanl and tonnage," passed the second day for the service performed by them, the al1 l'ie public lands of the United Stales, at private sale at the respective la: of March., one thousand spvpii Inn. r.m'faS in aifi, t!in,.i!- ftui:,lf. the sale of which is, or may be, autl.ori- ficcs.

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ilred ami ninety-nine," and for other tucky district is entitled for similar scr- 7Ctl b'f shall, when id": e red at pub-; Sec 5. And he it further cmUdt purposes. ; vices. lie sale, to the highest bidder, be offered the several public sales authorisi

Beit enacted by the Senate and House Sec. 3. And be it further enacted in hal Mua,ter sections ; and when of- t.ds act, shall, respectively, be kep of Bepvesentatives of the United States That all causes, actions, indictments! crctl at Prvte sale, may be purchased, for two weeks,and no longer j ai of America, in congress assembled, That, libels, pleas, processes, and proceedings at t!lc "P1"'" f the purchaser, either in ; Registers of the Land Ofiice,and the Rethe act passed on the twentieth day of whatsoever, returnable, commenced, de- entire sections, half sectio!is,qoartcr sec-: reivers of public moneys, shall each reeApri!, in the year one thousand efcht nendinc, or in anv manner eaistin-. in tibus or halfcpiarter section ;& ia every -pectivt-iy, be entitled to five dollars for

in lorce lor two years Irom the twen- by transferred to the said district court, lcu auu i'"-1 "y l!,e '-coou

tieth nay ot Ann . .one thousand em it nr.d mav he nrorordp! in. h-it -;f. ol an act, cnutiea An act

hundred" and twenty, and. from that time nn.l hnvr lik-p. inribnf ,n,l ;f t'oe mode of rtarveyins the pi

I ' - - ---.-...Vw VlaS-k.wTJ T - until t!ie end of the next session of Con- -fhpv hml h of the Lnited States,' t:ussed

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ss, amino longer. ceeded in. n the . ctriri mmr. cicveiu.niay i leoruary, ei2;!

ere

a i

lime onwenty nays shall be allowed, sing out ot, and appertaining to, its fed- n'y piasucau.y, u from the date of the clearance of the era! Jurisdiction, shill t-a t,fpi tn. to half quarter sectiots,

ship or vessel in which the same shall and become tlie dockets, books, records, a,u regulations as n ay

ii l i in i' ii. i ir r-iiiTinirinir tiio pn rt' ami .!

ihlic lands

on tlie

iteen hun-'

Sec. "2. And be it further enacted. Sec. 4. And be it farther enacted. Thit drrd and live ; aid fractional sections,

That in all cases of entry of merchan- the dockets, books, records, and papers, containing one hit.dred and sixty acres, disc for the benefit of drawback, the helondnir to the said rpnr:i! moi t. m i- r upwards, shall.ui like manner, is

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e suooiviuen :nunder such rules

be prescribed n . t a

lilnai-a Ait ,n .l.i... - IIT l 1 1 1; U01l.l.li V 111 I. TV IT 1 fl'MrV - It'll

v...r.vV... 4" mii. auu jiiijjtia, i nir soul ll 1311 I lUlll 1. r ' J taking tlie oath required by law: Provi- . Sec. 5. And be it further e nacted. That "actional sections, containing less than

tied, lhattlie exporter shall, in every there shall be allowed to the judre ol one uunorca anil sixty acres, snail not other particular, comply with the regu- the said district court the annual cow- be divided, but hall hv sold entire: lations and formalities heretofore estab- pensation of fifteen hundred dollars, to Prodded That this section shall not he

lished tor entries of exnortatiou for the commence from the dote of hi aonoint- construcu to a!tr anv special i rovu-

benefit of drawback. ir.ent, to be paid quarter veaily, at the ion inatIe bJ Iaw r the sale of land in

IT -T t i r.i ' - . i f. . ti.n-n lufj

it.vvij.-Yi, x reasurv 01 tr.e unitei aiatea. w,,H ,u"'

Speaker of the House of Representatives. Sec. 6. And be it farther enacted. cc- nd he it further enacted. That

JOHN GAfLLARl),- That there shall be aiWuited. in the crei5it sha11 not be allowed for the pur-

President of the Senate pro tempore, said district, a person learned in the cha-p ,,50l,ey n the lecfany of the April IS, 1820. Approved, law, to act as attorney for the United Puo5,c l-nl which shall be sold after

JAMES MONROE. ; States : who shall, in addition to his liie I1,st ua.v ol Jujy but every

6tated fees

ally

In Chancery.

Henry Ahlridge, In the Povij Crvs. ! cuit Court, of the

John Pritchett. Tenn of .March

) A, IK mo. AND now at this Cay, the complainant appeared by bis counsel, and on mi tion, it is ordered, that thi cause be continent till the next fenii of this Court, and that complainant have leave to oiopfid his bill. And it appearing to the fcatisfactlon of the Court, that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this State, it is ordered that notice of the pendency of said suit,

Iba eiven hr publication in the Iniizra

, be naid bv the United States purchaser of laud sold at public sale ! Centin-l, far the inace of four weeks sue

AN ACT for the relief of Elizabeth Bra- two huudred dollars annually, as a full thereafter, slull on the day of purchase, cessive!y ; that if said defendant do net

President of tlie Senate, pro tern poreApril '24, 1-Zi). Approved,

JAMES MONROK.

hundred and eighteen, entitled " An act the eeneral court established hv an act. caseofthe division of aquarlersection,the .each way s attendance thereon.

supplementary to an act.entitled "an act entitled " an act to establish a separate be forthe division t' ereof shall run north ; Sec. ii.Andbe itfuriner f;?cr.Vf,Thtff

to regulate the collection of dui'es on territorial government for the eastern so" the corners ami contents ol in every case herealier, vnere two or imports and tonnage, passed the Sicond part of the Mississippi territory,'' by vir- balf quarter sections, which may there-.more persons shall apply for the purday of March, one thousand seven hun- tue of the Federal jurisdiction by that after be solt' sliaii bp ascertained in the ,cha3c,at private sale, of the same tract, died and ninetvnine.'.,. shall continue' nr.t wimitpiL tw .mil fl-. cim ri !,r. manner and on the principles, direcjat the "me time, the Register shall ite

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seciioii , in imuc tv ij cic ciice, uy loriuwilh 01If. . l A . .1 . .....

concerning tering use xraci to tne Mg-ficst bidder.

H. CLAY,

cpeakerof the Houe of Represcntatiyca.

JGILN GAILLARI),

den.

compensation for all extra services.

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,mc ii eiiuciiKi uy tit nenaie ana iiouse oec. . jjna ce it jurtner enacted, x (m.v.m3W .tti.p4il-.t B.. .un .i.-.miu u,"vnw incu'.MjHi of Representatives of the United States That a marshal shall h? mWmtpd for duce to the register of the larl office, a 'the same will be taken &io cj

of America in Congress assembled. That the said district, who shall oei form the receipt from the Treasury of the United A true copy frcai ths ord:r

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make complete payment therefor ; and ! appear at the next term of this Ccurt,

1 . ' o r- r- i i r 4. 4 ? . a. m. vl,-..fa I . I I

?:cf5?o

bvck.

the Secretary of the Departmen of War same dutieebe subject to the same reu- States,

ne, ana ne i in the name

is hereby, directed to issue, lations and penalties, and be entitled to moneys of the district, for the amount of Elizabeth Hradeo, a land the same fees, as are prescribed to mar- tli2 pwchisc nwaey on any tract, be.

warrant for the bounty Jand to which thals in other districts ; aad siui!, mor&. .

J. P. DltAKfycp. (. e.