Indiana Centinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 8 July 1820 — Page 1

INDIANA 'CEKTINEL & PUBLIC . ADVERTISES.

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PUBLISHED EVERY SATUKUAY MORNING, - BY N. B LACK MAN, Puhlvhcr of the Imws of the U. Stales, Opposite the Bank of Vincennes. TERMS OF PUBLICATIOX. Two Dollaus in advance, Three in 6 months", or Four Dollars at the end of the year. No subscription will be discontinued iitil all arre traces are pvid. Advertisements inserted on the usual terms The Cash niut accompany adTerthements. LA YD OFFICE MOW I. The Receiver of Public Monies has fcrcn instructed to receive in payment for Lands sold in the District of Vin cennes, notes on the following Banks, viz : Bank of the United States & Branches, Bank of Virginia and its Branhces, ' Farmer's Bank of Virginia and branches, Bank of Penn. (Philadelphia) - of North America do. Farmers'and Mechanics Hank do Mechanics Bank of City &. County, do. Commercial Bank of Penn. do BchnvlkiU Bank do Bank" of Northern Liberties do of Maryland of Baltimore of Columbia (District of Columbia Union Bank of Oeorgitowu do Patriotic Rank of Washington do J3ank of Washington do ' of Metropolis do of Alexandria do Kew York Bank, New York Manhattan Co. do Mechanics Hank do Merchants dank, do do. Union Hank, do. Bank of America do. Bank of Chilicothe, Ohio. State Bank of Indiana, at Vincennes. Bink of Illinois, at Shawnee-Town, Bank of Missouri, at St. Louis, 'Bank of Mississippi and brauches. do. of New-Orleans, tlo. of Louisiana. No note of less than five dollars is re Ceivthle. . ' . . (Correct frvHy) BY AUTHORITY. ;v ..- x&i r jot 6mz Laws of the Union. 16th CONGRESS 1st SESSION AN AC T for the relief of Jemes Leandor Cathcart. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of llenresentatives of the United States of ilmcrira in Congress assembled That the proper accounting officers in the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby authored to settle the account of James Le; ider Cathcart, and to allow his c'aim ti r one h;i!f of a bill of exchange drawn by John Robertson, master of the brig Independent, on the Secretary of State of the United States, paid bv him. and charged tt .aivl James Leantler i-atheai t : also, for one thousand dollars paid bv said Cathcart, for the support of American captives at Algiers and tuotVmsaml dollars paid by him for his ransom from Alerine captivity : and live iho iand six hundred dollar foe t'ventv - ight months' service, be tween October, seventeen hundred and ninety -fo 'iu and July, seventeen hundred ari l nioetv-seven, in originating aiol promoting the negotiation with Al-gier-,, tor the libe:u ion of American cap res, Tie coocliisi n of a treatv of p '.4v, and toe piocning in the United ht i.vs t:,e presents afterwards forwarded to ig'o-s. And that the saul fia'ji'H and services be paid to said Ca: cart, out of any monev in tbe Treas-U-v not otherwi.se appropriated by law; the s;id Ca icait receiving the same in full at:.iftct;on of all his claims against the United Slates. H. CLAY, Speaker of the lloue of 'representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. Mar 1J, I SCO. Vpproved: JAMI- MONROE. VN ACT auth . ir.ii tbe settlement of the acco mts htween t!ie Cuited Sfit'a'id Richard O'Brien, late Anie' lc in Consul at Airier.. He it cn tctedby the Seihite nnd Hvise of li'-pyfisentatiues of the United States cf America, in cunress nsse-nbled. That, lue proper acc-mruing onicer oi me mm . . . 1.1 lreasurv IJ iKirt nent tie, ana tnev are hereby, auf borized anil directed to. liquidate ami settle the accounts subsis-

tiu- between 'he United States audjpiries, executing in due form of law,

luc'md O'Brien, late American Consul at A.iers. under the instruction and direction of the Secretary of State, ami that the amount due upon such settlement to said Richard O'Brien be paid out of any money' in tbe Ti easury , "not Otherwise appropriated : Provided'. That hi- act shall not be construed to author-

44$ tbe Allowance of aujr claim,, c&cvtqueut officer or buret v, as the cue may

such as might have been settled at the

department, but for the loss of vo ichers, and that no allowance shall be made of any interest of the said Richard ' PUrine, in the cargo of the Polacre Vkelage, captured on her passage from Algiers to the United states. H. CLAY, JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate pro tempore. May 15, 18-20. Approved. JAMES MONROE. AN ACT providing for the better organisation of tlie Treasury Depatment. Be it enacted by the Sennte and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That it shall be the dutv of such offtc.er of the Treasury Department as the President of the United States shall, from time to time, designate tor that purpo.se, as the aent of the Treasurv.to direct and superintend all orders, suits, or proceedingSjin law or equity, for the recovery of money, chatties, lauds, tenement, or hereditaments, in the :iam, and for the use. of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacfrtf, That from and after the thirtieth day of September next, if any collector of the revenue, receiver of public money, or other officer, who shall have received the public money befm it is paid into the Treasury of the United States, shall fail to render his account, or pay over the satne in the manner, or within the time, required by law, it shall be the duty of the First Comptroller of the Trasuryto cause to he stated theaccount of such collector, receiver of public money, or other officer, exhibiting truly the amount due to the United States, and certify the same to the a2;ent of the Trpasutv, who is hereby authorized and required to issue a warrant of distress aaint such delinquent officer and bis sureties, directed to the marshal of the district in which such delinquent officer and his surety or sureties shall reside: ami where the said officer and his surety or sureties shall reside in different districts, or w here they, or either of them, shall reside in a district other than that in which the estate of cither may be situate, which may be intended to be taken and sold, then such warrant shall be directed to the marshals of such districts, and to their deputies, respectively; therein specifying the amount with which such delinquent is chargeable, and the sums, if any, which have been paid. And the marshal. authorized to execute such warrant, shall, by himself or his deputy, proceed to lew and collect the sum renvunina: due. by distress and sale of the goods ami chattels of such delinquent officer; having ffiven ten days' previous notice of such intended sale, by affirinw an advertisement of the ar ticles to be sold at two or more public places in the town or county where the said goods or chattels were taken, o-in the town or county where the owner of such goods or chattels may reside ; and if the goods and chattels be not sufficient to satisfy the said warrant, the same -mav be levied upon the person of such officer, who may he committed to prison, there to remain until discharged by due course of law. Notwithstanding the commitment of such officer, or if he abscond, or if goods and cb ittels cannot be found sufficient to satisfy the said warrant, the marshal or his deputy may and shall proceed to levy and collect the sum which remains due by such delinquent officer, by tbe distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the surety or sureties of such officer ; having given ten days' previous notice of such inten ded sale, by affixing an advertisement of the articles to be sold, at two or more public places in the town or county where the said goods or chattels were taken, or in the town or county where the ow ner of such goods or chattels resides. And the amount due by any such officer as aforesaid shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be a lien upon the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, of such officer and his sureties, from the date of a levy in pursuance of the warrant of distress issued against him or tbe-n, and a record thereof made in th office of the clerk of the district court of the properditrict,until the same shailbe discharged accordingto law. And for want of goods and chattels of such officer, or his surety or sureties, suffi cient 1 1 satisfy any warrant of distress issue': pursuant to the provisions of this act, the lands, tenements, and heredita ments of such officer, and his suretv oi sureties, or so much thereof as mav be necessary tor tuat purpose, after being advertised for at lea-t three weeks in not less than three public places in the coun tv or district where such real estate is situate, prior to the time of sale, may and shall b sold1 bv the marshal of such I district or his deputy ; and for all lands. a a I t tenements, or Hereditaments, sold in i pursuance of the authority aforesaid, tin conveyance of the marshals or their deshall give a valid title against all ner sons claiming under such delinquent of ficer, or bis surety or sureties. And all moneys which may remain of the proceeds of such sales, after satisfying the said "warrant of distress, and paying the reasonable costs and charges of t'o sale, shall be returned to" such delin

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e : Provided Tint the summary pr. ch herein din fed shall not aaect an surety of any officer of the United States, whr became bound to the United States before the passing of this act ; hut each and every so-h officer s'lall, on or before the thirtieth dv of September next, give new and sufficient sureties for the performance of the duties requi red of such officer. ec. 3 And he it further enacted That from and after the thirtieth day of September next, if any officer employed, or who has heretofore been employed, in the civil, military, or nival, depirtm jiits of tbe govern neut, to disburse the pub. lie money appropriated for the service of those departments, respectively, shaii fail to render his account, or to pay ov et . in the manner, and in the tim.s, requ -red by law, or the regulations of toe department to which he is accountable, any sum of money remaining in the hands ol such officer, it shall ho the djtv ol the First or Second Comptroller of the Treasury, as the case mav Ue, who shall be charged with the revision of the accounts of uch officer, to caue to be stated, and c"rtify, the account of such delinquent officei to lite agent of toe Treasury, who is hereby authorized ami required immediately to procee.l against such delinquent officer, in the manner directed in the preceding sertiou, all the provisions of wldch are hereby declared to be applicable to every officer of the government charged with the disburseeientof the public monev, and to thensureties, in the same manner, and to the same extent, as if they had been deeribed and enumerated in the said section : Provided nevertheless That the .said agent of the Treasury, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, in cases arising under this or tbe preceding section, may postpone, for a reasonable time, the institution of the proceedings required by this actt where, in his opinion, the public interest will sustain no injury by such postponement. Sec. 4 And be it further enacted, That if any peron should consider himself aggrieved by any warrant issued under this act, he may prefer a bill of complaint to any district judge of the United States, setting forth theteiu tbe nature and extent of the injury of vhich he complains; and thereupon th? jude aforesaid mav, if in his ooimou the cv.se requires it, grant an anjuuett n to stay proceedings on such warrant altogether, or for so much thereof as the case requires ; but no injunction shall issue till the pirtv applying for the same shall give bond, and sufficient sectiiity, conditioned for the o .M-forma ice of such judgement as shall b'e awarded against thf complainant, in such amount a- the judge granting the injunction suvll prescribe: nor shall the issuing otiuch in junction in any manner impair tlie lieu produced by the issuing ol .uc'i variant. And the same proceedings shall be had on such injunction as in other tte , except that no answer shall he necessary on the part id' the Lnited oratts : and if, upon dissolving thciojunctien, it shall appear to the satisfaction of to judge who shall decide upon the same, that the application for the injunction vv.is merely for delay, in addition to the lawful interest which shall be assessed on all sums which may be found due against the complainant, the said judge is hereby authorized to add such damages as that. with the lawful interest, it shall not exceed the rate of ten per centum per annum on tfce principal sum

. such injunction mav be er anted or

Sec. 5. AudbeitJnidherenacted Yitvne year, ana no iosigei, trom the pa

solved by such iudire. either iu or outhlct S',:" ,,ot be cootnied to repeal u

of court. Sec. ()- And be, it further cnocfrf That if anv person shail consider himself aggrieved by the decision ofach judge, either in relusm-to ie-sue the ihiuiu . " . tio:i, or, if irrauteil. on its dissolution, it shall be competent for such person to

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av a cony of the proceed inj:s had heto-e the district judge, before a judge of the unreme Court, to whom authority is ncreov given, either to grant me injunction, or permit an anpeal, as the ' . . . . . . case, may be, it. in the opinion ol sucn judge of' the Supreme Court, the equity )l the case requires it; and thereupon the same proceedings shall be hail upon such injunction, in the Circuit Court, as are inscribed in the District Court, and subject to the same conditions in alt respects whatsoever. ec. T.lndbe it fm dher enacted That the attorneys of the United States, for the kevrral judicial districts of the United States, in the prosecution of all suits in the same, in the name and for tile benefit of the United States, shall conform to such directions and instructions, touching tbe same, as shall, from time to time, he given to them respec ry. And it shall, moreover, be the d itv iieiv,uv iiie saui azeiii. oi ine ireasi-i of each ot the sa d attorneys, immediate. after the end of every term of the district and circuit courts, or of anv mi state court, in which any suit cr action may be pending, on behalfof tht Jnited Mates, under the direction of mv disti ict attorney, to forward to the said agent of the Treasury a statement of the cases which have been deciled d ring the said term, together with ,uch in formation touching such cases as may not have been decided, as maj be re quired bv the said officer. bes.QdndbcitJurthir emzit J, Than

it shall be the duty of the clerks of trie district and circuit courts, within thirty fays alter the adjournment of each successive term of the said courts respectively to forward to the said agent of the Treasury a list of all judgments and decrees which have ben entered in the aid courts respectively, during sue!, term, to which the United States are pirties, shewing the amount which has been so adjudged or decreed for or a gainst the United States, and stating the term to which execution thereon will oe returnable. nd it shall, in like manner, be the dutv of the marshals of the several judicial districts uf the United States, within thirty days before the commencement of the several terms oi t.-'C -aid cOurts,tornake returns to the said aent, of the proceedings which have taken place upon ad writs of execution or other procerus which have ben ptacei!

in his hands tor the colieciiou id the money which has been so adjudged and decreed to the United tates, in the said courts re-pectivei y. Sec .0. And be it further enacted That nothing in tin- act co uaioed hall be construed to take awav or impair anv rig! it or remedy which the United States now have, bv law, for the lecovery of taxes, debts or demands. II. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOJL GAILLUD), President of the Senatu pro tempore. May 1J, 1820. Approved: JAMtta MONROE. AN ACT authorising the building of a certain uumoer ol' small vessels of war. Be it enacted b y the Semite and louse of Representatives of the. Unite I States .if America in Congress .'is.svi.W, That tbe Piesident of the United rates i hereby authorised to caue to be uuilt & equipped any number of small ves-els of war .not exceeding liye) which, in his judgtnentjthe public service may require: toe anl vessels to be of a loice i.ot more than twelve ;:ur,s each, .cording to t.'ie discretion of the President. And. for carrying this act i.ito effi-ct, the sum id sixty thousand dollars is hereby appro priated, to he panl out ol any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropria ted. II CLAY speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN G YiLLAiil). President of the Senate, m tempore. May 15tn, 13:20 Approved: J A .i:s MONROE, an Act to revive and continue in foice an act, entitled An act to provide for persons who were disabled b known wounds, received in the Revolutionary war,' and for other purposes. lie it enacted by the Senate and House 'f iieprese.iAativss of the United Stutes of America in Congress assembled Th u, ihe act, entitled An act to provide IV persons w ho were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary war," passed on toe tenth of April, oue thousand eight hundred ami siv ; and 'imiled, as in "aid act declared, to Uv te-uii of six yearr., and afterwards revived and continued in loice by an act, entitled An ac?J to revive ami continue in force Vn act to provide for persons who vvei e disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary war, and for other purposes, tor and during t;:e term of six years,'' as in the. said act is declared, shailbe, and the same is here by ieied and continued in foce for i i i

dib-Umg ot this act: Fruvid'd, lhat thi

make void the fourth section nf an act. entitled n act concerning invalid pt ri s'ons," passed the t it I ot Match, one thousamt eight hundred and i;n.-re-:. : 1 I a A I 1 k . , f . r,,,r llie ftUl11 """ section --t tie sir! M9 mentioned act soull he. a'iLle:eb is aeciaieato ne, in lull to; ce a id ei'ect-1 any tiling in li.e said act lietebv revived and made perpetual, to the umtrarv not v, ithstandin Sec. -2. And be it further enacted That me iiiiu any pcisuu now ua, or mav ... . .... I hereafter require, -to receive, a pen-nm h' virtue of any law of the Unit -d Mates, considered to commence at the time m completing his testnuony. pui suan m the act hereby revived and continued M force. kec. o. And be it further enacted .That tne agents lor tlie payment ol invalid .... re'icrs of the United States shall. Un future, be required to give bouJ, w Kit vvo or more sureties, to be approved by 'be Secretary for the Departmcntof W ar, I a su,n "t exceeding hve thousand ,l0,lurk ,'"r t,ie faithful discharge of the duties confided to them, re-pectividy. II. CLAY, - PPcaer of the House ol Representative I President of the Senate pio tempore Appruveci, Alay lo, 181:0. J VMhS MONROL. A At. 1 design iting the ports within which only foreign armed vessels shall be permitted to euter. li enacted by the Senate ar.d Home nf Hepresentatim of the United State - 1 of America in Congress asemhled Th.u - 1 alter thetirst da of Julv,on thousand eight hundred and twenty, it hall not - loe lawful for any foreign armed vess ho enter anv harbor belonging to th tiuitcd itat excepting onl tluss o

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v,H,aiji'-. B, ,ti:D' I "'on, Xe. Yu.-lv, I hsladelpma. Norfolk, SjnithwUc, hi North Car boa, Charleston, and Mob le; unless when such vessels "hall be forced" bv dist.essj by the danger of tbe sea. or by being pursued bv an enemy, and he unab!e to make any of the po.ts above mentioned; in which raset, the commanding officer imr:,P,li. itely report his vessel to the collator of the district stating the ohj.-rt or causes f his entering uch harb-r; vhall'thko -och position therein as shall he ..i ni-cl him by such collector: ami shall conform oimselfto such lerjiation as hall bo signified to him hy tilf j,! collector, under tbe authority and directions of tha Pre-id' ut of the U-filed States. Sec. 0. And he it farther enacted That it shall be lawful for tbe President f :he United States to employ such part A' the land and nival forces of the Udted States or tue militia thereof, a he mav deem nece-sarv to enforce th provisions of the fi;st st( tin of this act; anil the President shall aN . b- authorized to employ such forces to preient my foreign arm d essp! from entering or remaining within anv wafer within the jui wih iion of the Unit d St :tes, erept soci as hat lie in her di-ect couise in entering from sea. or le.vi? g to pruc -rd to sea. either of the liaibora abov mentioned. Sec. .. And be it further enacted. Ihafi this act sh;ili c nfiuu in fo ve u-.td tha fit t day ol Jol v, one th u-and ight huua. - W died and twenty-two, and no longer. II. CLAY. Speaker of the If .ue of r.r.wnt.itive JOHN GAi LLARD. President of the ei p o t-im porta Mav J 5 1 820. A op oved : JAMES MONROE. AN AC T for alterii the times for holrf iog the Court of Uniteif tatev flip western disr :et of 'Vnusvlvania. Be it enacted b the Senate and ff"nsa of ile'res'utatives of the United Si tti'l of America in Congress nsm'dfd T at the terms of the District Court for the western district of Pennsylvania, whicli are n- v- ilirected bv (aw to be hoideo orj the first NTondavs f the months of Jun and December, in each year, shall hero after be hohlen, for tne said district, on the first Mondav in Mav, and second Monday in October, in each year. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That all actions suits, process, pfeadiugs, and other proceedings, commenced or peu ding in the aid District Court, shall b as good and alid to the said first Moir day .11 May, and second Monday in October, in each year, as if thi change had not been made, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. f. And be it further enacted That appeals and w rits of error shall lie from decisions in the said District Cout t for the western district of Pennsylvania, when exercising the powers nf a Circuit Court, to the Supn mc Court of the US nited State-, in the tame manner as from Circuit Courts: and that so much of the fourth section of the act entitled t 1 1 nrt to divide tin :m1h .if Pr,nvl vania into two judicial districts. passed on the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and Oghtcen. a9 provides that writs of en or shall lis trom decisions in thesr.id District Cou.-t, to tne Circuit Court in tlie raster n district of Pennsylvania, he, and the ame is io'tehv. repealed Sec. 4. Aui be it further enacted That ti er fh.tll he .dh.wed to the Disir t Airorney, and to the Marshal ol t: e. fijin we.itMii (n-rrict oi reniisMv, . I a. d the noithern district of Nev V i t--e yeirly sui ot two hundred d d ara e.ub: to cmmctice from t'i" tw-f!tetli ' tv cf Ap'tl, one thousand eight h dnd at. (I !i;i ''eeu: to he p;dd j'M tt-r Iv, atlhe lieasUiV of the Unit -d "'tatatf U CL V. injj L of .if t'.i lii. .. .. , .. ........ ..r. t ... . John o i President of the r te, mo tempore Mav" 1J, lt'. p: .vu: .1 v "'r monko: vN ACT suppi. . v at. art. en tit ltd A o act co 'i -"r oi ug M.i vg !:oii.?' B'i it enacted b; L"Z -'i!e fA it ..tv f lirnresenlatici' S ' I 'r.it ,! . of imenca iu C'o.gr, neu"(. J .,,t, iu.'i) and alter the thiitierh tl., .A t ptember next, tbe norrs of t.ue A States shall be and remain closed agar.st very vessel ownd wholly or in p ,t n a su'oector subjects of his Hrit in ic Majesty, coming, or arriving by sea,fi on any port or plare in the province of L wer Lanada, or coming or arnvisig iicm any port or place in the province f .New iJrunswtrk, the province of .x.-vi cofia, the islands of Newfoundland, t. John's, or Cape lire ton. or the de pendencies of any o them, ti c island of Bermuda, the liahama islands, the isl ands called Caicos, or the drpemieucics t any ol them, or from anv other port a-. -.. or place m any island, colony territory or possession, under the dominion, of Oreut I'ritain in the West Indies, it oa rmiltlif.nl ..r A .....r!r.' t.r.11 sontliern boui.d.trv of the United States and ti t incbi Jed within the act to which this act is supplementary. And every -uch vessel, so excluded froni the ports -f the United S-ate-, that sliall enfror attempt to enter, the same, in i dai .: . t.ll t,W ... I.. .tnnare . and turini ire. rnieu.tr w.i v lr ' r argo on bo-id such veiscl, be ierfcit to the Lulled