Indiana Gazette, Volume 6, Number 15, Corydon, Harrison County, 28 March 1822 — Page 1

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B RANDOM, it Co. Conditions. TheGtiffre is delivered to subscribers r.t la .ittce, at Tt?j Dollars pcranrum. paid f n a I m:'e. vritli ihc addition of Tu'cnfv-Ftr 2 Cnfs 'or ercry 3 months delay in the pay-, ncnt. A'abseripti.-ms nt a distance, or out of the county of Harrison tvillbe requiredin advance, fvadl no continuance Without, unless at the option of 'he Fditsrs. No subscription for less than cneyear. , 4 A fiitare of paying arrearages, and givis ha ice of discontinuance punctually atthe close f .he veir, will be considered as a subscription far e year succeeding, end the paters will b? a Oirdinjlr forwarded lis before. Advf rtiementsaccdmpanied with the cash, fill b4 icserted three times at $1 per square, r.nd -'.S cents fcr each continuance. Advertisements vrill not be continued for nore than one ycar,unlcsspayenti3 made f.r the first jrar. T.etiors ant communications addressed to the Mitor must be post-prid, cr they cannot Vi attended to. "laws Top tTtr sr" (BY AuTHOUlrY.) PtlBLlC Acre. '"ttif'ACt making partial appropriation-? fr.r Ac support of the Navy of the tTiiited States, during the yeat t thousand eight hundred ar t twenty -one. , Be it enacted by ihc Senate and House of Representative of the- Uiiited Stat3 of America in . Congress assembled, That the following sums be, ftiulthoy are hereby apprcpriatoa. tii the subjects herein opacified, to vvi: for the pay and subsistence of the officers, aud pay of the seamen, one bun dred thousand doMnr; for provision, tvrenty thousand dol. larsj for repairs; twenty thousand dollars, for contingent expenp.ea, twenty thousand dol$vc. B. And be it further enacted That the ecveral ippropriutious hereinbefore made, fthall be paid out of tiny money in the. Treasury, not other vise appropriated. Approved Fob. (9, 1822. James moxrue, .N ACT Ruthcrt'tRg the trar.slfcf ef csrir.ir; ce! tifica'.es cf the funded dest of the Ur.ited States. . fie it exacted bu tk? Senate end RcKe of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled) That the certificates of the funded debt of the United States, which, upon the assump tlon of tlie debt of the several creditor states, were issued in their favor, respectively, be nod hereby are made transferable according to tho rule3 and forms instituted for the purpose of transfers of the public debt. Approved Feb. 10. 1822. JAMES MONROE.

ftESOLUTlOTT providing for the dictrihutior.cf the Mr.r-bdl's re'urns of the fourth Ceases. Jlrsolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the Secretary of State bo instructed to furnish to each member of the present Conftresj, and the delegates from itons, tho President and resident of the United

States, the Executive of each state and Territory, the Attor. ney General, and Judgss of the Courts of the United btates, and the Colleges and Universities in the United States, each, one copy; for the use of the Department, viz: State, Treasury, War and Navy, five copies each; for the use of the Senate, five copies; and for the House of Representatives, tea copies, of the marshal's returns of the fourth census; and that the residue of the copies of the said returns be deposited in the library of Congress. PHILIP P.BARBOUtt, Sp2aLerof th2 House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLAKD, f resident - of the Senate pro tempore. Washington, Feb. 4, 1821. Approved: JAMES MONROE, An A.CT for the preservation of the timber cf the United Stales in Fio. ida. Be it enacted by tk SenatB ami House of Representatives of the United States of Ameru ca in Congress Assembled, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorised to employ so much of the laud and naval forces of the United Mtatoaas may b necessary effectually to prevent the falling, cutting down, cr other destruction of, tho timber of the United States in Florida; and, also, to prevent the transportation or carrying away any such timber as may be. already felled or cut down; and to take such other aud further measures as may be deemed advisable for the preserva. tlon of the timber of the U.S. in Florida. PHILIP P. BAUBOUR, Speaker cf ihc House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, Presidentcf (lie Senate protem pore. Washington, Feb. 3, 1822. Approved, JAMES MONROE. Xv30LUTlON providing for the distribution of the Secret Jcurua! and Foreign Ccrrcspon dr.cc of the old Congress, and of the. Journal . cf ihc Convention which formed the Constitution cf the United Str.tes. -Resolved by the Senate and Flo use of Repreapntatives of the- United State of America in Congress Assembled, That the President of the Uuited States be requested to cause to be furnished to each member of the present Congress, and the delagates from Territories, who may not be entitled to the same under the resolution of Congress of the twenty seventh of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; the President and Vice President of the United States, the Executive of each State and Territory, the Attorney general; and Jddges cf tho Courts of the United States, and the Colleges end Universities in the Unitcd States, each one copy; for the use of each of the Department?, viz; State, Treasu

ry, War, and Navy, two copiea each; for the use of the Senate, five copies; for the use of tho Houte of Representatives, ten copies; and for the Library of Congress, ten copies, of the Secret Journals, and of the Foreign Correspondence, ordered to be printed by the several resolutions of Congress, passed on the twenty seventh of March; one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of April v twenty.first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty: Also, to each Member of of the present Congress, who has not received the same, one copy of the Journal of the Convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. And that (he remaining copie9 be preserved in the Library, subject to the future disposition of Congress. P. P. BARBOU R, Speaker of the House of Representatives. DANIEL D.TOMPKINS, Vke President of the Senate, and President of . the Senate. Washington, Jan. 11, 1822. ApproTcd. JAMES MONROE. Longitude of (he CafiitoL On the 3d day of March, 1821, a joint resolution was passed by the two Houses of Congress, au'.horiiing the President of the United States to cause astronomical observations to be made, with & vit w to determining the Longitude of the Capitol in the city of Washington, from Greenwich, or some other known meridian in Europe, and to cause the data, calculations, &.c to be laid before Congress. Mr. William Lambert having been selected to perform this service, nis report thereon was transmuted to Congress on the 8th day of January, 8c has just issued from the press, in a tract of eighty pa pes octavo. The result of all the observations, for the lonsitude cf the capitol, is given thus; J, From Paris Obs'y. . ... dcg.xus.dec. Prior to the 3d of March, 1821 19 is 41 64 Transit observations 79 15 42 00 Solar eclipse of August 2T, 1821. Mean cf two methods - . 19 15 41 60

Mean re ssK 79 15 41 69 . Fran Grctnicich. deg. n. s. dec. Prior to the 3d March, 1621 76 55 30 31 Transit observation 76 55 30 85 Solars eclipse of August 27, 1821. Mean of two methods 76 55 30 45 Mean result 76 55 30 54 Assuming '-the Presidents House to be N. 70 degrees W. one mile and a half and 50 feet, or 7970 feet from the centre of the capitol" the Longitude of the President's House is thus stated: From Peris OVsy. . , , - . deg. m. s dec. .0Bgitude cf the Cftpitol W. 79 15 41 69 Difference of Longitude l 34 79 Lougituds of the President Houte 19 171C4SW From Orecmctth. deg. m. 5. dec. Lbn gitude of the Capitol W. 76 5 30 54 Difference cflongituds ,1 34 89 Locgitade of tho President's Houso 73 7 ft 3317 "The greatest variation," says Mr. Lambtrr, tho eoTeral rwr.ltsan a-

bove stated, allowing 94 06 yards to a degree ot longitude in our latitude, is 14 yards, 0 feet, 8 inches, from which if we deduct 19 fc.t the distance at which the transit instrument was fixed west of the centre of tho capitol, we shall have ceven yards, two feet, eight inches. If we compare the mean result of all the observations with that which has been re-' corded in the abstracts of calculations) heretofore furnished the two Houses of Congress, and allow the same deduction, the variance nearly vanishes, and does not amount to 11 inches of our admeasurement. If we admit the difference of the meridians of Pa rift and Greenwich, to be 2d. 20m. 15s. as stated in the Connaisance dc Terns, for the present year, instead of 2 d. SO m. Us. 15 dec. applied to tho results of the transit observation, which have been made, the variance would still be less than the length ot the capitol in the city of Washington, viz. 120 yards. Under all the circumstances in which the foregoing result can be viewed, allowing a small error to have beeo committed in ascertaining the reduction of longitude? from a sphere to a tfileroiS according to '.he ratio of 520 to 319, cr.d to the distance of the meridians of Paris and Washington, it is not believed that it differs one quarter of a minute cf Icqgitude from the truth." T:ie report of Mr. Lambert, cca eludes thus; "It has been considered the duty of the author of the calculations originally made, in justice to the American community, as well as to his own feelings and character, to exhibit to the members of the seventeenth Coogres a detailed statement of such proceed ings as are explanatory of, or connected with, the plan proposed for the establishment for a first meridian for tho United S tates at the city of Washington. The Legislative and Executive authorities of the national government will decide on the utility or inexpediency of erecting an observatory, and furnishing it with suitable instruments and apparatus. Without such an institution, the right ascension, declination, longitude, and latitude ot the moon, planets, tec. cannot be ascertained with sufficient accuracy; and any attempt to compute a Niutical Almanac, or Astronomical Epheoeris, for ourselves, would be futih , iff not preposterous. Until an observatory be erected and furnished, tfo shall be compelled to rely on the labors of scientific men in Europe, fo? the elements necessary to be used in our astronomical calculations; and it never can be in the power of a few individuals in this country, however laudable and persevering their exertions may be, to remove or lessen that dependence en foreign nations, if they

do hot meet with adequate eacourageLAND OFFICE MONEY. The Receiver cf Public Monies has been instructed to receive in payment for Lards sold in the District of Vineennes , notes on the followis Banks, yizi Bank of the United States and Branches, Alltaeincorporated banks in the town of Ecston. In the cities of Philadelphia, New-York an4 Richmond, (Va.) In the city of Bdtimoro (etcet the Citv bank of Baltimore,) la the District of Columbia (except tec Merchants and FrackLn Banks of Alexandria,) und the following specie paying banks in the state cf Indiana, Til: Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Indiana, at Madison. Except nates of a less deaasi&atiaa thaa firs dollars. Justices Blanks for salo. Printing o a descriptions done in the neatest or dfcr end In dispatoh at thi& office,

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