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"WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY." VOL. I. MADISON, (INDIANA) - THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1817. No 3.

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SAMUEL PELHAM,

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Law of Indiana An act, entitled, "an act for the election of county and township officers. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, That there shall be an election held in each and every county in this state, on the first Monday of February next, for the purpose of electing two associate judges, one clerk of the circuit court, one recorder, and three county commissioners, for each county' which elections shall be held and conducted in all respects according to the laws of this state regulating general elecSect. 2 It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the proper county, to forward the return of the election within ten days after the result of the election is officially made known in the county, for associate judges, clerk of the circuit court, and recorder of the county, to the office of the secretary of the state, whereupon it shall be the duty of the governor to commission such officers, in the same manner that sheriffs and coroners are directed to be commissioned by an act providing for the commissioning of sheriffs and coroners. Sect 3. The county commissioners of each county, at their first mee-

ting after being elected, shall lay off their counties respectively, into a suitable number of townships, describing the bounds thereof, which they shall cause to be fairly recorded, and shall, fr om time to time thereafter, make such alternations and additonal townships as they may think proper; provided however, no new township shall be laid off without an application from at least thirty citizens, residing within the bounds of such 'intended new township, by petition, said petitioners or some one of them, having published such intention of applying for a new township, by setting up a written notice thereof in' three of the most public places within such bounds, thirty days before such application be made. Provided, that the board of county-commissioners of the several counties in this state shall not lay off more than eight townships in their respective counties: and pro that not more than twenty justices of the peace shall be elected or commissioned for any one county. Stc. 4. Aftc the board of commissioners shall have laid off their counties respectively into a suitable numher of townships as above directed, they shall order an election in each, on such day as they may direct, for such number of justices of the peace, not exceeding three, as shall be assigned by them to each township; which election shall be held and conducted in all respects according to the laws of the state, regulating elections; and the persons having the highest number of votes (to the number to be elected in such township) shall be elected: the returns of which election shall be made to the clerk's office of the circuit court, in the same manner that returns of the general election are made; whereupon the clerk of such court shall forward to the office of the secretary of state, a certain copy of the list of person elected as justices of the peace, in each township of such county: which justices of the peace shall be commissioned by the governor, and qualified into office, in the same manner that associate judges are directed to be commissioned and qualified. Sect. 5. When in the opinion of t-he board of county commissoncrs it shall be necessary, they may order two additional justices of the peace to be elected ar each county scat, who shall reside therein; provided however, all the electors of the township shall be entitled to vote for such justice Sect. 6. In order to carry this act completely into effect, the sheriff of each and every county in this state, is hereby authorized and

required to appoint an inspector in each township or election district in their respctive counties, and notify them ot such appointment - divide townships if necssary, and-fix on the place of holding elections therein; which inspectors so appointed, shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, & be subject to the same penalties as is provided in case of inspectors appointed by the board of commissioncrs. Sect. 7. All justices of the peace that were commissioned by the governor of the late Indiana territory, and at e now in oflice, who reside within the bounds of any new county laid off, or to be laid off during the present session of the general assembly, shall continue ro exercise the duties of their respective offices, in such county or counties, until they are superseded by justices of the paece elected according to the provisions of this act. Sect. 8. When any new county shall hereafter be laid off, it shall be the duty of the qualified electors therein, to meet at such places in their respective counties as may be appointed by the sheriff thereof, on the Monday after the time such new county shall have taken effect, & elect two associate judges, one cleark of the circuit court, one recorder, and three county commissloners, as provided in the first section of this act. Sect 9. Whenever any justice of the peace shall remove from and out of the township wherein he shall have been elected, his office shall be vacated; and the commission of such justice of tire peace shall be of no force or authority for him to act in any other township in such county. In case of death, resignation of any justice of the peace, or the removal of any justice of the peace from and out of his township, it. shall be the duty of the county commissioners, or any two of them upon written application, signed by twelve householders residing in the township for which such justice of the peace was commissioned, to-order an election to supply such vacancy, to be conducted in such manner as herein provided for the election of justices of the peace. Sect. 10. The county commissioners after the first election, shall be elected, in each and every county, on the first Monday of August, annually, at the same time and place, and in the same manner that representatives to the general assembly or this state are elected - Provided however, that there shall be no commissioners elected at the annual elecion, to be held on the first Monday of August,, 1817, unless it be to supply some vacancy that may hap-

pen by death or resignation. ISAAC BLACKFORD, Speaker of the house of Representatives, CHRISTOPHER HARRISON, President of the Senate. Approved, Dec. 23, 1816 - JONATHAN JENNINGS. Translated for the Columbian, Extract of a lettsr from a French officer of the first distinction and intelligence, in St Petersburg, to friend in this city, dated in Au gust last. " I arrived St. Petersburg in the month of October last with all my family. The emperor saved my life in taking me out of prison in August, 1815. The infinite clemency of our great and good king [Louis] destined me to follow Ney and Labedoyere, but the generous and magnamious Alexander saved me; and, the grandson of Louis the 15th was forced to show mercy, and have one victim the less. " Presuming it will give you pleasure to know all I can gather on the actual state of Europe,' I judge proper to state to you, that the French government has fallen into , the utmost contempt and derision, which is openly and publicly rnanitested here on all occasions - The ambasador, count de Noailles, receives continually such intamations as sufficiently prove to him these facts if the allies could agree on the new sovereign to be given to France, our affairs would soon be terminated; but the difference of opinion on this head arrests every thing. - Russia, Prussia, and the Low Countries appear in favour of putting the Prince of Orange on the throne; but Austria and England persist in holding up to view Napoleon the 2d. what is certain, is, that on the death of the king, this question will be decided, unless before that desired event a difference should arise between the allies, and bring to light their projects, rendered necessary and indispensable by the sanguinary anarchy which 'he Bourbons hive established in our unhappy country. " Germany and England have reduced their military establishments, but Russia has a million of men under arms - All the regiments are complete and perfectly organized at this moment; sixteen new regiments of lancers and the imperial guard, which I see exercising every day are magnificent - The latter ' counts fifty thousand men in ranks, all old soldiers, perfectly well discilines. You see, my dear friend, that the moderation of the emperor Alexander is the only bound of his power, and I dare to hope from him a relief from the miseries which hand over and weigh upon our afflicted country. His soul is too great and too generous not to fix, a ter

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