Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 24, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 30 June 1832 — Page 1

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(BY AUT3IOKIT1T.) LAWS OP THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTYSECOND CONGRESS. Public No. 30. AN ACT vesting in the Corporation of the City of Washington, all the rights of the Washington Canal Company; and for other purpose?. Whereas, it is represented tint the Mayor, Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the city of Washington, have purchased, and are now exclusive owners of all the stock of the Washington Canal Company, and are desirous that the entire property, rights, previleges and imtnu&Hica of the said Company be vested in them for the use and benefit of the said cily: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate tind House of Representatives of the United Stales of America, in Congress assembled, That rail the right, title, interest, property, and estate, either hi 1-1 w or equity, of the Washington Canal Company, he, and the same are hereby, vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council lor the use aforesaid; and that the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen, shall have full power and authority to take possession of the Canal and works of the said Company, and to hold, use, occupy, and repair the same, from time to time, as occasion may require, and as to them shall seem expedient: Provided, That said canal shall bo finished and completed, of the breadth and depth, and in the manner and within the time hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise. J Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Tint the said canal shall be finished in such man-! ncr that the width thereof, from Seventeenth strrcct west to Sixth street west, at the water i line, shall he one hundred and fifty feet; from Sixth street west to B street south, eighty feet, at the water line; from B street south to the basin at the Virginia Avenue, sixty feet, at the water line; from said basin to L street south, fifty-five feet, at the water line; from L street south to N street south, forty-five feet, at the water line; and from L street south to the channel oftho Eastern branch, one hundred and twenty feet at the water line: and tho said canal, throughout its whole length and breadth aforesaid, shall have a depth of at least four feet water at all times. There shall also be made by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councilmen, three basins attached to the said canal, which shall be by them kept in repair, of the following dimensions that is to say: one at the western termination of the said canal, at least one hundred and fifty feet wide and five thousand five hundred and forty-five feet Ion": one at the Eastern branch, at the eastern termination of the said canal, of at least one hundred and twenty feet in width and six hundred and ninety feet in length; and one at the Virginia avenue, of at least eighty feet in width, and one hundred feet C7 - J in length; each of which basins shall, at all times, have, throughout its length and width , a depth of water equal to that hereby re quired in the said canal: And the sides of the said canal and basins shall be secured by walls of stone or other materials, where necessary, of sufficient strength and heighthto allow the use of steam vessels therein; all which work hereby required to be done to complete the said canal and basins, shall be done and finished in the manner aforesaid by the first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirl y-thrce, or in default thereof, this act, and all the rights and privileges thereby granted, shall cease and determine. kC. 3. And be it further enacted, That alt such provisions, in any former law, as required the Washington Canal Company to raise, drain, or improve the low or wet grounds along or near the said canal, shall remain in full force, and be obligatory on .i i . . . the said Mavor, Aldermen, and Common Council; Provided, That no funds for that purpose shall be raised by lottery Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for and in consideration of the expenses wiiica nave nccn, and w.li be, incurred in finishing the said canal and basms, and of securing the sides thereof, and of the ex penscs ot erecting and maintaining locks, and of completing the whole work according to the provisions' of this act, and of keeping the s uuo in repair, including-the expense of draining or otherwise improving or drying the low and wet grounds along and near the siid canal, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, are hereby authorized to collect, on all articles and materials landed on each side of the can;il and basins, from on board any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, or placed on cither side of the said canal or basins for the purpose of bein taken thcrefiom by any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, wharfage, according to such rates as they, by any by-laws or regulations, may from time to time ordain and establish: Prodded, That the said rates shall at no time hereafter, and in noparliculir exceed those charged on the same articles by fho owners of private wharves in the said city. And it shall and mav he lawful fov said Mpyor, Aldermen, nnd Common

Council, to demand and receive, at the most convenient place or places for all articles carried along the said canal, tolls not exceeding the following rates' that is to say : for each unloaded boat, scow or other vessel or water craft, twenty-five cents; for each barrel of flour, beef, or pork, two cents; for each barrel of whiskey, brandy, or spiritous liquors, of any description, three cents; for each hogshead or pipe, six cents; and upon all other articles, packages or commodities, not exceeding six cents for each ton; and after that rate for any article or quantity weighing less than one ton. And said Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council, shall also have the exclusive right to establish a packet boat or boats on the said canal for the conveyance of passengers; and no other boat or boats for that purpose, except such as are established or permitted hy them, shall be allowed to convey passengers on the said canal for hire. The tolls hereby granted shall be dcmandable on any boat, scow, vessel, or other water craft, on any of the articles aforesaid fora passage through either of the locks, or along any part of the said canal, but the public property of the United States shall be landed and pass free of wharfage and tolls. Sec. 5. And be it farther enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, from time to time, erect and

keep in repair, all such bridge or bridges over the said canal, in each and every street crossing the same, as the convenience of the inhabitants of the city may require; which bridges shall be erected at least eight feet above high water, and of not less width than twenty-four feet, and be safe for the passage of footmen, horses, cattle, carriages, and loaded wagons. Sec. 0. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, annually, in the month of January, lay before Congress a true statement of the capital invested by them in the purchase, completion, and improvement, of tho said canal and works, with the amount of their annual expenditures and receipts, so as to show the clear nett profit by them so received on such investment ; and if at any time the nett profit shall happen to fall short of six per centum on the said capital so invested, it shall be lawful for them to increase the said rates of toll and wharfage in such manner as they may judge sufficient to produce six per centum per annum on the said investment; and should it so happen at any time the nett proceeds aforesaid shall exceed a rate of ten per centum per annum, they shall so reduce the said rates as not to produce a greater nett profit than of the said rates of ten per centum. In estimating the amount of capital invested, the proceeds of sale of the real estate hereby granted to the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to aid them in the execution of the works hereby required, shall not be included, but the amount of sales of the said property, showing what part thereof shall have been sold, and at what price each part of the said property shall have been sold, shall form part of the said annual report. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun cil; shall not begin to collect wharfage or tolls, until the said canal and works shall have been wholly completed according to the pro visions ol this act, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, for the time being, who is hereby authorized and required to give his certificate thereof, whenever, in his opinion, the same shall have been so completed; and upon obtaining such certificate,' and depositing the same with the clerk of the circuit court for the District of Columbia, in the county of Washington, to be by him recorded, it shall and may be lawful, to and for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to commence the collection of the said wharfage and tolls. And such right to collect the said rates of toll and wharfgc shall cease, whenever the said canal shall be so out of repair as to impede the free and convenient use thereof by vessels or craft drawing four feet water, so long as the same shall so remain out of repair or obstructed. Sec. 8. And in order to aid the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in fulfilling the objects and requirements of this act, Be it further enacted, That all the right, title, property, interest, and estate, in law or equity, of the United States, of, in, and to, that part of the public reservation in the city of Washington, known and designated as the Mall, which is bounded as follows: lying between Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, and extending from Canal street two hundred fifteen feet south to the continuation of A street north, and all that part of the said reservation on the south side of the said Mall extending from B street south, three hundred and sixty-six feet, to A street south, and lying between Sixth and and Fifteenth steets west, and all the right, title, interest, and estate, which is now, or ought to be, vested in any trustees, commis sioners. or otlier person, lor, and on behalf, and in trust, for the benefit of the United States.be, and the same are herein-, vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in fee, for the purpose, and to be by them sold and applied for the purposes aforesaid, or so much thereof as they shall deem it ad visible to sell for the said purposes, anil the said residue to hold and use for the benefit and convenience of the said city. Sec. 0. And be it. further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common

Council, shall not be authorized to occupy, nor permit others to occupy, more than forty feet for the purpose of landing on either side of the said canal, extending from the said eastern branch to Seventeenth street west, upon the plan of the city. Sec. 10. And bo it further enacted, That a street be laid out along the entire length of said canal, on the south side thereof,3of the width of eighty feet, between said Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, which shall be kept open forever as a public street, and subjected to the same rules, regulations, and or

dinances, as shall and may affect the other streets and avenues in said city; and that all the streets of said city running north and south, and all avenues which, by continuing the same, shall extend through said Mall, and such as running westwardly and castwardly would in like manner intersect the same, shall, in like manner, be opened and kept open, and subject as aforesaid. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That a map or plat of the said land, squares, streets, and avenues, made and prepared by F. C. De KralTt, United States' Surveyor of the city of Washington, dated December twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, marked A, be, and the same is h reby, ordered and directed to be recorded in .he office of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, and also in the office of said Surveyor of the said city of Washington, and shall be held and deemed as indicating correctly the said lands and squares, streets and avenues, and be of full authority as designating and exhibiting the same. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any proprietor or proprietors of any lots now fronting north on B street south, between said Sixth and Fftecnth streets, shall signify his, her, or their, desire and intention to exchange said lots for an equal quantity of the lands herein and hereby conveyed to the said Mayor, Board of Alderman and Board of Common Council, situated on the south side of A street south, and immediately north of his, her, or their said lots, it shall be the duty of the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, on such intention and desire being made known to them, to and upon a conveyance in due form of law, clear of all incumbrances, being made to them for the said lands so held by such proprietor or proprietors, to convey and assign to the said proprietor, or proprietors a corresponding quantity on the square immediately north and fronting on A street south. And in case such proprietor or proprietors shall have made any substantial improvements on the said land so held by him or them as aforesaid, to make a fair and equitable allowance on said surrender or conveyance, either in land or money, as may bo agreed on between the parties -'Provided, Said proprietor or proprietors shall make known such intention to the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, on or before the first day of August next. Sec 13. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to lay out and divide tire said lands, so conveyed and vested by virtue of this act, into lots, with alleys, as to them shall seem meet and proper, and to dispose of and sell the same, or so much thereof as shall remain unexchanged as aforesaid, and also all such lots as they shall receive in exchange as aforesaid, at such times and upon such terms as to the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, shall seem meet; and to execute, or cause to be executed, good and sufficient deeds of conveyance to the purchasers thereof. Sec. 14. And be it furtJicr enacted, That, the proceeds arising from said sales shall be, and constitute a fund, which shall be applied by the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, to pay and extinguish any debt which has been, or may be, contracted, either in the purchase of the Washington City Canal, or the shares of stockholders m said canal, or in the completion of the same, and in the expenses attending said purchase and completion, and shall not be applicable to any other object or purpose until said debts be extinguished. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be held or deemed, in any manner or way, to impair or injure any private rights or Interests, or in any manner to affect the same beyond the mere transfer of the rights of the United States to said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the several acts passed on the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and two; the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nine; the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve; and the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in relation to the Washington Canal Company, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed, except as lierein before provided. A. STEVENSON, Spealcr of the House of Representatives. JC. CALHOUN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Arrnovcn, May 31, 183:2. ANDREW JACKSON. PrriLic No. 40. AN ACT changing the times of holdi the courts in the District of Columbia.

Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Circuit . Court oftiio District of Columbia, for the county of Washingtonshall hereafter be held on the fourth Monday in March, and on the fourth Monday in November, in every year, instead of the times now designated by law; and the court for the county of Alexandria shall be held on the first Monday in May, and on the first Monday in October, in every year, instead of tho times now designated by law; and that all process shall be made returnable to the said terms as herein directed. This act shall take effect from and 3ltcr the first day of June next. Aitkoved, May 31, 1S32.

Public No. 41. AN ACT defining the qualifications of voters in the Territory of Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That every free white male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the "Territory of Arkansas for the term of six months next proceeding any general or special election, shall have the privilege of voting in the election district where lie shall reside, and not elsewhere, for all elective officers of said Territory. ArriiovED, May 31, 1S32. Public No. 43. AN ACT making appropriations in conformity with the stipulations of certain treaties with the Creeks, Shawnecs, Ottoways, Senecas, Wyandots, Cherokees, and Choctaw?. 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, severally, appropriated to tho several objects hereinafter specifically enumerated, according to the stipulations of certain Indian Treaties, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: For the payment of debts due by the Creeks, and their relief, according to the ninth article of the treaty concluded with the Creek Indians, twenty-fourth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, one hundred thousand dollars. For compensation to tho Delegation to the city of Washington, the payment of the expensos,and of claims against them, according to the tenth article of the same treaty, sixteen thousand dollars. For the payment of certain claims for ferries, bridges and causeways, for judgments against chiefs, for losses, for improvements, for annuities, for the expenses of Creeks who have emigrated without expense to the United States, at fifteen dollars for each, and for compensation to those who suffered inconsequence ofbeing prevented from emigrating, as severally provided for and stipulated in the eleventh article of the same treaty, twenty-five thousand and eighty dollars. For the cost of rifles, ammunition, and blankets, according to the thirteenth article of tho same treaty, thirteen hundred and and twenty dollars. For the expenses of taking the census, an'l making the selection of reservations according to the second article of the same treaty, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the service of a person to be selected to certify the contracts for the sale of lands according to the third article of the same treaty, one thousand dollars. x or tne expense ot removing and :ocp ing off intruders from the Creek lands, according to the fifth article of the same treaty, two thousand dollars. For one year's allowance for the purposes of education according to tho thirteenth article of the same treaty, three thousand dollars. For carrying into effect tho treaty with the Shawnee Indians, of Ohio, according to the treaty concluded with them eighth August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the following sums namely: For enabling them to erect houses end open farm3 at their intended residence, accoming 10 me nun aiucio 01 me saiu ueaiy, thirteen nousana uonars. lor me payment o sundry articles as presents, enumerated in tho ninth, twoliih, and fourteenth articles of 'the same troaty, two thousand four hundred and four dodars.j For expenses of selling the property ot j Indians, according to the sixth article ot aid treaty, three hundred dollars. For the payment of certain articles as stipulated for in the tenth article of the said treaty, twelve hundred and fifty-four dollars. For expenses attending the sale of Indian property, according to the sixth article, three hundred dollars. For carrying into effect the treaty with tho mixed bands of the Scnecas and Shawnecs, of Lewiston, Ohio, concluded the twentieth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the following nuns, namely: For an advance to said Indians, in lieu of compensation for improv to the fifth article of tl thousand dollars. t or the payment ot snndry articles sitpulated for as presents in the tenth article of

For earring into effect the treaty w.tn ! c-AnA wrrn at Monnt Vernon at the same

the Oitoways, of Ohio, concluded the tmr- j tjmc anc k js tionfrlt that it was through tieth August, one thousand eight hundred j theh. intlucncc ir. Washington was induced and tlnrty-one, the following sums namely : I Q act SQ imcourteoudy and inhospitably7

said treaty, thirteen Hundred and fifteen doh lars. For the expense of selling the property of said Indians, according to the sixth article of tho said treaty, three hundred dollar?. For carrying into effect the treaty with the Wvandots, of Ohio, concluded nineteentli January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty -two, the following sums namely: For payment for the reservation of sixteen thousand acres, as stipulated for in the second .article of the treaty, twenty thousand dollars. For payment for improvements ort the ceded reservations, and expense of appraising the same, according to the thrid articlo of said treaty, four thousand doHars. For transportation and contingencies un der the provisions of the several treaties above mentioned, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the payment of improvements within the limitsjof Georgia and Arkansas, abandoned by Cherokee Emigrants under the treaty of sixth May, ono thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, as valued by appraisers, seventy thousand dollars. For gratuities of fifty dollars for every five emigrants from Within the chartered limits of Georgia, ten thousand dollars. For carrying into effect the treaty with

Lthe Choctaws, of fifteenth September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the following turns, namely: For the blankets, rifles, axes, ploughs, hoes, wheels, cards, looms, iron and steel, stipulated for in tho twentieth article of the said lrcatv,"thirtv-five thousand six Iiundrcd and twenty dollars. For fulfilling tho stipulation of the sixteenth article in relation to cattle, in addition to former appropriations, ten thousand dollar?. For the payment of Choctaw Indians wha have relinquished lands, according to tho provisions of the nineteenth article of said treaty, tho sum of thirty thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. For expenses of transportation, and oth' or incidental expenses, in relation to the treaties above named; three thousand five hundred dollars. Arl'KovED, June 4, 1S32. THE WESTERN LAKES. In an essay in the N. Y. Statesman of. 1825, we find the following brief account of the great western Lakes. 1. The Ontario is 1(H) miles long, 40 miles wide, 500 feet deep; and its surface is computed 213 feet elevation above the tide water at Three Rivers. 270 miles below Cape Vincent. 2. Erie is 270 miles long,-60 miles wide, 200 feet deep; and its surface is ascertained to be 565 feet above the tide water at Al-' bam. 3. Huron is 250 miles long, 10O miles average breadth, f00 feet deep, and it3 surface is near 595 feet above the tide water. 4. Michigan is about 260 miles long, 50 miles wide, depth unknown; elevation the same as Huron. 5. Green' Bay is about 105 miles long, 20 miles wide, depth unknown; elevation the same as Huron and Michigan: G. Lake Superior is ISO miles long, 100 miles average width, 090 feet deep; and itj surface is IS feet above the tide water. Hence it is easy to calculate that the bottom of lake Erie is net as lovv as the foot of. Niagara Falls,-but the bottom of each of I the ether lakes, it will be observed, is lower j than the surface of the ocean. Lake Superior is the head fountain, the grand reservoir, of the mighty volume that fills the rivers, expands into the lakes, and roars, over the cataracts of the Niagara, St Lawrence, &c; After making a semi-cir cle of five degrees to the south accommo dating and enriching ono of the most fertile and interesting scstiona of the globe, it meets the tide, a distance of 2,000 mile? from its source, and 5v70 from the extreme point of it 3 estuary on the Atlantic coast. exdacity. A letter civ.nc an account if a m visit of. tI0 Yo'unf Men's Cor. vcntioi tothctombofWashinirtonJiasbecnr cxtcnsIvel.. published in theClay iapers, Thc ,vriter of this letter, after stating that the proprioor of :Iount Vernon treated tho , , -u ftf M, Clnv somewhat j ,tpi nfT.i,. Isaac Hill, Senator from New Thc editor of the Globe of Saturday pronounces the letter a tissue of falsehoods. He says: The fact is, Mr. Kendall has not been to Mount Vernon for years Mr. Hili never daw Mr. Washington at any time, or communicated with him any way. As to their families at the time spoken of, Mr Hill wash New Hampshire; Mrs. Kendall was corrihied to a sick bed T Posion Gaz . Rccrdiiizr-T'iade-cat y. Ibn.Iionn Ttoy lias been very attentive to the progress ol the

with Amos Kendall, and their

rements according j Reform Bill in th-? Upper louse : he has cxio said treaty, six pressed JuV astonishment, that men so v I

educated :s our lYevs are supposed 10 te. should, after reading a thing nce find re - much diffculty in reading it a seconu Ur:-