Indiana Palladium, Volume 7, Number 10, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 12 March 1831 — Page 1

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U. S. LAW

(BY AUTEOHIT7. ) LAW3 OF THE UNITED STATES, PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTYFIRST CONGRESS. Psblic No. 19 AN ACT tr amend the act entitled An act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Itoberts, in the S;ate of Ohio," approved the twenty8ixtU of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled. Thai in addition to the sum appropriated by the act entitled, "An act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of Iand3 betweeu the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio," approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Philip Doddridge, the claimant of the Virginia military survey, numbered six thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, for seven hundred acre?, being one of the Virginia military surveys, in the said act mentioned, lying between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the State of Ohio, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixtyeight cents, with interest at the rate 6f .sixper centumper annum, from the tifth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, until paid; the 6aid Philip having already conveyed to the United States, the title to the said seven hundred acres of land, in the manner directed by the President of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress before recited. This act shall commence and bo in force from the passing thereof. Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of ths Home of Representatives. John C. Calhoun, President of the Senate Approved, February 12, 1831. ANDREW JACKSON. Public No. 20. AN ACT to repeal the charges imposed on passports and clearances. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act of the first of June, one tho3and seven hundred and ninetysix, entitled "An act providing passports for the 6bips and vessels of the Uaited States," as imposes a charge of ten dollars for a clearance, to any ship or vessel bound on a voyage to any foreign country, be and the same is herreby, repealed, to take effect from and after the thirty-first day of March of the present year. Approved, February 12, 1831. PuBLrc No. 21. AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to John Powell . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of representatives oj ine united states oj America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he i3 hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to John Powell, for his invention of a machine "for the purpose of separating the metal from gold ore, and the auriferous earth of alluvial deposite?," upon his cbmpliaflce with all the -provisions of the existing laws, except so far as they require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States. Apfroved, February 12, 1831. Public No. 22.J AN ACT authorizing the sale of a tract of land therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House oj Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to offer at public sale, as soon as may be, the southwest, northwest, and northeast quarters of section number twenty-five, of township number six, in range number one west, in the Cincinnati District, under the same rules and regulations that govern the sale of other public lands of the United States. Approved, February 12, 1831. Public No. 23. AN ACT to amend the act granting "certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black warrior rivers," approved the twenty. third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate emd House of jiepmemuirses oj me United States of

America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the State of Alabama, by the Board of Canal Commissioners appointed by her for that

purpose, to contract lor huu cuusuun that part of the canal round the Muscle shoals, beginning at Campbell's ferry, and running up the river to Lamb's ferry, before they contract for, or complete that part of the said contemplated canal between Campbell's ferry and Florence; any thing in the act to which tbii is an amendment to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Engineers cf the United States who have this matter in charge, to furnish to said Board of Commissioners, as soon as practicable, a plan of that section of the canal above contemplated first to be executed, connecting it with the river at gt near to Campbell's ferry, and at the most eligible point at, or immediately belov, Lamb's ferry, on the cheapest practicable plan, in conformity with said original act, to be approved by the President of the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the section of said canal above Lamb's ferry, shall, by said Engineers, be so planned as to connect it with the deep water in the river at or above Lamb's ferry, and the section below Campbell's ferry, shall, in like manner, be connected, with the deep water at or below said last mentioned ferry. Approved, February 12, 1831. Public No. 21. AN ACT to authorize the transportation of merchandise by land or by water with the benefit of debenture. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Siate3 of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all goods, ware?, or merchandise imported into the United States, the duties on which have been paid, cr secured to be paid, may bo transported by land, or partly by land, and partly by water, from the district into which they were imported to other districts, and exported from either oi them with the benefit of drawback: Provided, That all regulations and formalities now in force, relating to the transportation of goods, wares, or merchandise, by land or by water, from the district into which they were imported to another district, for the benefit of drawback, and such other regulations as are prescribed under and by virtue of the act to which this is an addition, for the further tninsportation of such goods, wares, or merchandise, to other districts, ehall be complied with: And provided also, That all the regulations and formalities now in force, respecting the exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, for the benefit of drawback, shall be complied with, so far as may be consistent with the other provisions of the act to which this is an addition; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe the form of the certificate totbe used, Cc the oaths to be taken, on the transportation of such goods, wares, or merchandise, from the second district into which they may be so brought, to the third district. Approved, February 12, 1831. Public No. 25. AN ACT to provide hereafter lor the payment of six thousand dollars annually to the Scnc ca Indians, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House cf Representatives cf the United Slates cf America in Congress assembled, That the proceeds of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, being the amount placed in the hands of the President of the United States, in trust, for the Seneca tribe of Indians, situated in the State of New York, be hereafter passed to the credit of the Indian appropriation fund: and that the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of six thousand dollars annually, in the way and manner as heretofore practised, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to receive and pay over to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the sum of two thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, on account of the deficiency, by that amount, in the sum paid over to said Indians the last year. Approved, February 19, 1831. The Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon, is named among the candidates for the crown of Belgium.

To the feelers of the First Congressional District of Indiana. Fellow-Citizens : The time ha3 arrived when it becomes my duty to render you some account of my stewardship, as your representative in Congress, and to defend myself against the foul imputations that have been heaped upon me, by low designing political demagogue?, who are ever on the alert to destroy the reputation of honest men. Acting upon the principle, that the people have the undoubted right to instruct their representatives, as to matters of cxpcdic?icy, I have never violated these principles, during fifteen years public service: yet I should be wanting, both in candor and independence, were I to withhold from the public an unvarnished expression cf my individual views, in reference to the leading measures of the Government, and the policy thus far pursued by the preient wise and truly republican administration. The modification of the Tariff, which goes to reduce the duty on Cojjtc, Tea, Salt,t'c. will bo more generally felt by all classes of our citizens, than any act of Congress passed under any former Administration, for many years. A proposition was made during the present session of Congress, to reduce the duty on Sugar. 1 voted in favor of this measure also, because mgar, like coffee, tea and salt, is an article of indispensable necessity, for the common comfort of all classes of our citizens, whether they be rich or poor, male or female. I held it to be a correct principle in legislation, that much the greater proportion of taxation, for the support of the Government, should be laid on those articles which enter mostly into the families of the rich, and used as a matter cf luxury or cf pride, rather than cn those articles that are used as a matter of necessity, thereby equalizing the burdens cf taxation among all classes cf our citizens, in proportion to their ability to pay. The doctrine that one class of our citizen are to be taxed for the almost exclusive benefit of another class, I Hatter myself,

cannot meet the deliberate ranelioa ofa majority of these Unit eu oiates. for whose canal rightt the federal compact was entered into. Whilst I am free to admit the constitutional power of Ccngross to lay a duty on ai tides, not the growth or manufacture of the United Stales, for the purpose of raising revenue, and the protection of domestic manufacture?, I am nevertheless, a3 free to declare ray disposition to guard ugainst any possible imposition upon the farmers and mechanics of the country, who constitute a large majority cf those whom I have the honor to represent, and who are necessarily the ccnsumci's cf those articles, which by many of our politicians, are made the special objects of Government protection. As it relates. to the subject of Internal Improvements, I have ever been, and still am, the decided friend of the measure, ns will be seen by my recorded votes, whenever the subject has been under my consideration. But this, like other subjects of legislation, may be brought into disrepute, by any attempt to carry the measure beyond the mean3 to sustain it, and to render its operations as equal as may be, among the several states of the union. Upon due consideration of the subject, my mind has been brought to the irresistable conclusion, that the plan suggested by our venerable chief magistrate of the United States, for the distribution of the surplus revenue (after the payment of the public debt) among the several states in the union, in proportion to the number of representatives in Congress from each state, would be the most just and equitable, that could be devised; as such a distribution of the public revenue, which is annually drawn from the pockets of the citizens of each state in the union, would again return to them, in the proportion that they may have contributed to the support cf the government. Since the organization of the general gov ernment, up to the close of the year 1829, only 5,310,930 1 1 have been expended on Internal Improvements, including appropriations for the construction of the Cumberland road whilst in the same period, there has been expended iu the Atlantic Slates, for the erection of Light Houses and Fortifications, the sum of 1G,7G9,3G5 59. "Ve thus see that the money which has been drawn from the pockets of the people of every state in the uuion, has

been expended almost exclusively on the sea board, to say nothing of the millions, that have been expended on Navy Yards in ship building, &c. Yet strange to tell, we find men in Indiana, and the other Western Slates, who are opposed to the plan suggested by President Jackson, ofa moi equal distribution of the public treasure amoug the several states of the union! The Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report to Congress on tbe 15th December last, estimates The Public Debt on the firet day of January. 1831, at 39,123,191 68. Should the sum amount be annually applied to the pay ment of the debt, that waa applied to that object during the two last years, the total public debt will be paid elfin a little more than three years. The speedy payment of the public debt, should be the first object of the real friends of Internal Improvements, ad of those who do not believe that a il?ialiGnal debt, is a national blessing." The President in his late annual message to Congress, has piegeuted our Foreign Relations in so satisfactory a light, as to render any particular notice by me, of the subject, entirely superfluous. The President's late message to Congress, is a rare production; and itehould be carefully treasured up by every true friend of State Rights, and sound republican principles. It is the production cf the head and the heart of an honest man, ever true to hi. country and the constitution.

1 he bill to graduate the price of The ITALIC Lands, will be unavoidably postponed until next winter, in consequence of the shortness cf the session a&d the time taken up in the trial of Judge Peck of Missouri, before the Senate cf the United States as a hiph court of impeachment. Independent of the great waste of the public money in the prosecution of this impeachment, much important business for the immediate action cf Congress, has to be postponed another year; and the just claims c many a hoarv headed veteran soldier cf the revol .ith for services rendered in the struggle for our national independence, is again postponed until another Congress. It will be gratifying to many, to know that a bill is now before Congress, and has passed the house of representatives, granting Pensions to a cla?s of Oilicers and Soldiers of the Revelation, not heretofore provided for by any act cf Congress. Should this bill pas3 the Senate, it will be doincr an act of iustice to many, and make nlad the glad the souls of tins meritorious ciass ot our fellow citizens. Many of those rellques of the revolution, who aided in establishing our national independence, have been sulfercd to sink down to the grave in penury and want, whilst millions of dollars of the public money have bee expended on objects far less deserving the aid and protection of the government. This remnant cf the true sons of '7G are now, comparatively rpeakine;, jho in number, and from their advanced age, will soon go hence to bo cn earth no more forever. At the last session cf Congress, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, was appropriated for the construction cf the Cumberland Road, within the state of Indiana, and I entertain a favorable hope, that a similar sum will bo appropriated for the same object, at the present session of Congress: but as this communication will be put to press before the adjournment of Congress, I cannot speak positive as to the measures that have not been finally acted upon at the time of writing this letter. Should the bill to authorise a treaty for a further extinguishment of the Indian title to lands, within the state of Indiana, fail to become a law at the present session of Congress, its failure, will be attributable to those who are opposed to the removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi, and not to the real friends of the present Administration. A bill has passed the Senate, and ordered to a third reading in the House of Representatives, extending the Right of Pre-emption, to the Occupants of Lands heretofore relinquished, to the government, until the fourth day of July 1831, and to authorise the occupant or equitable holder of such relinquished lands, to purchase the same in cortiguous tracts, not more than two quarter sections, at one dollar and twentyfive cents pur acie, in all cases where the same did not exceed five dollars per acre, on he original purchase. In conclusion, fellow citizens, I will only add, that doling the penod thai

I have had the honor to represent you in Congress, the whole of my lime has been devoted to your service, and a faithful discharge of my official duty. If my public acta shall bo approved by a majority of my constituents, then indeed shall 1 be amply rewarded for all my services. Concealment ot opinion ba3 never heretofore marked any portion of my political life; ncr am I now less dispofed to avow my political sentiment than on any former occasion. It is known to most, or perhaps all of you, thai I supported the election of General Jackson for the Presidency on two former occasions, and I have no hesitation in avowing my determination to advocate his re election in 1832, should he again be brought before the people ag a candidate, and should I live until the period arrives. Strong and flattering indications p.' public fe!ing iu favor of my again becoming a candidate for Congress, forbids the idea of my declining to comply with the wishes of my feltow citizens. I am in the hands of my political friend, to ba disposed cf as" they may think proper. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, the public's obedient servant. R. BOON. Washington City, FeVy 23d 183L

From the United States Telegraph . The Senate have instituted a ecrutiny into the affairs of the post Office Department, the debate upon which shows the effect which the statements of the opposition prws has. had on some intelligent members of that body. The reply of Messrs. Grundy and Woodbury, is a triumphant refutation of the charga of misapplication of the funds of the Department; and perhaps we could nol otfer a more appropriale commentary on the clamor about the insolvency of the Department, than the fact that Col. JohiiSon, the Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Road3, has introduced a bill into the House of Representatives, with the approbation of the Department, reducing the postage on newspapers. -The object of this bill being to reduce the tax on intelligence, and U principles having the sanction of the Department, there can be no fear of its receiving the sanction of both Houses, if it can be reached in the order of business; and the Chairman ha3 a fair opportunity to test the liberality of the opposition, by a proposition to take it up out of its order. It contains but o single f hort section, and could be passed in a moment. Its advantages to the ccmrouuity are incalculable. On Saturday last the ice broke on e Moncngahela aud Ohio rivers aa far up as the bridge. It moved in une solid mass, with fuch force as to sink the ateam-boat Allegheny, and strand two other boats on the wharf. They have however been repaired. The river is now clear of ice, and will be in good navigable order until the rivers break up above the bridge. This will afford hteam boats an opportunity of escaping the injury which i3 apprehended from the thickness of the ice, and the manner in which tha Moncngahela is obstructed a few miles up. We understand two beats departed on yesterday anerncon. Fitts. Gaz.Feb.23. Cincinnati, March 1. About 12 o'clock on Sunday night last , a fire broke out of a frame smoke house, in the rear of a lot a few doors west of the Cincinnati Hotel. The smoke house and ils contents, about three or four thcuiand dollars worth of bacon, the property of Messrs. Walker and Hitchcock, ucre destroyed. By the active exertions of the Fire Companies and citizens, the fire was soon subdued and pi evented frcm spreading further amorg the numerous wooden buildings in the neighboihccd. The fire is supposed to have been communicated from the fuel used in smoking the baccn. Rtpubliccn. The zred of Laziness. Never check industry in the )oui g, even when it is unprt fifahle, if it is without bad rrotivep ; tor industty is habit, and if uu get youth to calculatirg the value ot exertion, you not only destroy the natural disposition in us to k,be adoir g," but the giowing habit will quickly exclude the performance of ever-cccurnng and oft' important duties, as not worth the doing, w hich amounts to laziness, "the root of all evil." Flozsard,