The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 3, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 January 1827 — Page 2

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.£$ A jtint resolution was introduced by 1 Mr Montgomery, approbating the ..^neasurej ol the present administration &which was twice read, and committed |to a committe of the whole Senate and

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Imade the order of the day for to-mor-58" 'TOW.

Mr. Simonson introduced a resolution

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fy "f7inSthe proceedings of courts of jus7-. & \,%^tice, so as to Iprovide that the p!.tintifF

l^in any action in court may file a state^ment with the Clerk, setting forth his cause of action and the amouat his claim without the agency of an attor,1 ney. f" Mr. Ewing offered for consideration IfiV 'fand adoption of the following resuiu'vtion.

Resolved. That a gelecl -committe ^be appointed to report a bill to rt&train Jk the power exercised by court3, without the intervention of a jury, in cases o? up os on to he on a fine not exceeding S3, which is th^ limits of discretionary power authorise sed by the 5th section ol the first artijcleofthe Constitution: And also to be instructed to report a bill to rogu late a law, so that attorneys and counsellors before admission to practice in this state hereafter, shall Ole a bond /v/'77,'Hwitli appro*rd security, within their practising cirruit in the penal sum ot to be recoverable by summary process, in case of malfeasance or misfeasance or wilful negligence in tbc performance of their professional uuty, which bond shall also be liable for all ^monies received for the use of clients, and not duly paid over, and for all unnecessary costs which error

may occasion to accrue and also be -instructed to report a bill, to require "'«f Judges, when called upon to g»\e oopinions or instructions to a jury relative to poims o' law affecting any caxe ja^ issue, to read the law applicable

*1he point or matter for which the opin4ion or iIs^rHCtion of the court may be ^*ked. and to restrain the bench, when •Addres«ini a Jury, that in no case shall it be permitted in delivering of opinions to -id beyond or travel out of 4he sti ic letter of th( law as recognised and .-sanctioned by the existing statutes— id aixl adopted and Messrs Ewing and MaxwelJ appointed that committee

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Not hating room at present to publish *t"S the Report of tlie ecrtjt«u-j of the Treasury of the United States, at i^tll length I avail myself of tin. following, from the '-Indiana Jour-

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The report is an able and interes--q ling document, and hereafter I shall take occasion, at least to rhake some

Aitracts from it The ieport of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances, would occupy too much space in our paper to the exclusion of other matter, if it were pub'n-hfd entire, and we therefore submit an abridgement- The preliminary remarks represent our financial concerns as in a satisfactory condition While other countries have beIjfld important -branches of their indus try prostrated,Mhe United States have* suffered nothing but a slight recoil of the*-pecuniary, evils that have pressed h^avjly in other nr^ions. ..., The net revenue of 18:25 ,s from duties, #c. was ^24,358 202 57 .H#% The actual receipts trorn all sources, was £26,840,838 02 From cus- •-i toms $20,098,713 45 Public lands 1,116,090 56 Dividends on bank t.t»ck.ar.rears of duties Sf direct tax-

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^vhom the subject was referred now re* manner in which notices upon petitions to be presented to the Leiislature of *this state, shall be given,—read the first time.

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Loan, 5,0!JO,000 00 Balance in the treasury, Jan. 1826, $1,946,59T 13

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Expenditures of 1825, £3,585,804 T2 Civil, diplo-'" matic,mis- jf cellaneous

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Balance in Treasury Jan. 1, 182G :^-v ^5.201.C50 43 Receipts for 1826 for -the three first qutir-' r^ei's» $19,585^2 50

Cutoms 118,031,426 86 Public lands^ 1,063,961 21

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Total expenditure l«26 ^24,662,0-13 96 Which deducted from receipts and former balance, will leave in the Treasury 1st Jan. '8:7, J., ^6^42*5,538 89 The public debt consists of amount subscribed to bank of U. S. for which stock is owned Remnant of debt oi the revolution, Loans payable at sundry periods from this time to the year 1835, 55 626,903 77 ,5

10,085 211,129 4,437 '21.591

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Apart only of the latter district is situated within this state, the whole sales which may be estimated at 240,000 acres The amount of land sold at CrawibrdsvilJe during the above term exceeds that sold at |any other land ofces in the States, except at Tuscaloosa.—The quantity sold at the same offices in 824, was 182,413 acrffi, of which perhaps 172,000 acres ^re in the state of Indiana/^'

A tax on land for the year 1826, has been payable in all the counties in the state except Marion, Henry, Hamilton, Madison, Hendricks, Montgomery, A1len Tippecanoe and Fountain. It is benevad that none but the three last will be exempt iu the year 1827.

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Receipts for 4th quarter estimated at 6 300,000 00

Total revenue of 1826^ 25 885,932 50

Expenditures of 1826, quarters $18,714,226 66 cirii,iip- -. lomatic miscellaneous, $2,029,331 55 '1 Military service 5,266,980 79 Naval ser- *.*.. $tl

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Total, $75,923,151 47. ff' _____

.To be reduced on the 1st January, 1827, to $73,920,844 76, which is a reduction of the principal of the public debt, a littlejnore than $6,000,000, during the year 1S26 During the year 1825, and the first half 1826, the following quantities of land were sold at tfie dilierent land offices for this state F*

Indianapolis, 75,284 acres, f, Crawfordsville, 123",357 1 Jeffersonville, Vincennes,^ Fort Wayne, Cincinnati,

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Mr EWING'S REPORT. Your Committee on Canals and Internal improvements, to whom was referred the memorial and communication of Thomas S. Hind, inclosing an act adopted by the State of Illinois, in 1825, entitled An Act to incorporate the Wabash navigation company," have given the subject, as thorough an examination as other duties would permit, and .with no remaining doubt or difference of opinion unite 'in respectfully submitting the following

REPORT:

That the principal matter referred, has heretofore been under.advisement and it appears by the Journal of our Session in January, 1825, your committee with as full lights as were then comatable, refused to approbate or concur The report of that committee may be viewed as distinctly expressing a belief, that to concur in the act of incorporation adopted by Illinois, which is so earnestly advocated and prayed for by Mr. Hind, would be a sacrifice on our part, of many certain advantages ,• that it would in its obvious consequences, most injuriously underrate the growing population and industry of Indiana, in her agricultural as well as iu her financial interests and preferring a judicious plan under the joint auspicies of the two states, that committee refused the assent of Indiana to this relinquishing act of power, profit and immunities

The Journal shows that the Senate concurred in that report-of their committee and with the exception of a favourable notice of the matter, in the late message of His excellency, the Governor, it is difficult to discover any new grounds to sustain or jusfify a change of opinion.

In determining, however, upon a subject justly represented to be of vital importance. a number of considerations naturally.arise those most prem nent are, the necessity of the work—the practicability of accomplishing it- and the proper means and auspices io secure the advantage of all

That the object iu view is one df im mediate necessity and of primafy importance, to a large portion of Indiana as well as Illinois, cannot be questione ar.d the prospective extent.on of Wat'ash navigation to the Miami of Lake rie, renders itasubjcct matter of in terest to many other states of the Union 'A conviction of its necessity, induced both Indiana and Illinois, with a commendable foresight to appoint commissioners some

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upon the practicability ot removing all obstructions placed by nature in that pait of the river, under their joint jurisdiction which embraces the part contemplated in this act of incorporation. The report of the joint commissioners is accompanied by rough estimates of the expense of the contemplated work, and of the ijnmense water power and other advantages, which inust jmmedi: ately result from it

Assuming these estimates as far as they are correct, the improvement of this part of the Wabash river, will cost $

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committee, from as correct data, as can be obtained, that the revenue derivable from the owing trade of that river, so soon as this partial improvement be completed, from the water power certainly to be acquired, and from bouts, freight and passengers, at the rate of tolls provided by this act of incorpora tion asked for, would unquestionably give a nett income after paying the in terest All reasonable calculation? render it-certain, that theie are but few spots at which an equal expenditure would yield an equal profit And if such be the fact, estimating only on the wants and products of the population ad jacent to that river, as they will be with this improvement what must the income and profit of the work in question btcome when connected to the lakes and the nearest possible route to an eastern market it will command a large portion of the trade now ascending and descending the Ohio and Mississippi rivers .v*

By the 6th section of this act of incorporation submitted to your commit tee, it is provided, that the legislature after thirty years have expired, shall have power to dissolve the company, and regain the privileges the act Tvould relinquish, on paying the full amount the corporation may have expended, with ten .per cent interest thereon. After what has been already said, this can require but a passing reflection That the States of^Indiana and Illinois should heedlessly give to a company, a right to expend money for thirty ear9, as this company u.ay please, upon works probably of no longer duration that

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this company shall enjpy the water power acquired, and collect tolls during that period, which will pay more than principal and interest according 'to every reasonable estimate and that the gift thus made, shall never be recalled until after thirty years, when the said states must pay about five times the sum expended'by said company or corporation for at the rate of ten per cent at compound interest, the sum required after the thirty years expired,toregain the privileges this act would relinquish, must amount to about five dollars for every one expended and this too, when money can be had at five or sis per cent and the profit of the works do I ii ore than redeem the expenditure before that lapse of time Your committee, with the most anxious desire to I provide for, and promote the improvement of the Wabash, cannot give their assent to the views of Thomas S Hind. How then.

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important work be undertaken and controlled Jfour committee will answer by the sovereign power, and for the mutual advantage of the two states. F^ven if the proof were not irresistable, that the certain profn to arise at this moment, from the objects before glanceu at, would pay the interest on the sum expended when the accession of Jtrade and consequent revenue to be leoked for so soon as the extended works to connect that inavigation with the lakes be accomplished, is taken into consideration,«very doubt vanishes. And although our own state, and probably the ,''. State of Illinois, have not within them- "c, "7 sel\es the contiol of fund? required for z*? .•-i the wtjrk, each of them can, beyond ail donbt..obtain the necessary tunds at a moderate ra?e of interest by pledging the profits of the work: .he most a cautious it believed, must prefer sucli r: a plan, when it be reduced to a certainty that it will secure a future source of revenue to each state, too grea to be relinquished to individuals, or disregarded by state authority 2

With these impressions, your com- ?r mittee most respectfully ask leave to 5 be discharged from any further consid- s' eration of the memorial and act of incorporation remarked upon [This re« port was concurred in, and a copy sent te the goverr»or*of Illinois

v.ALlST OF ACTS fc.c. Pas: ed during the present session, viz* An act to authorize the board of justices of Ripley county to appoint a nstep for Brewn Township in said county.

An act legalizing the marriage of Benjamin Patterson and Abagail Hults, An act to amend 4an act organizing circuit court?, and defining their powersand duties, approved Jauuary 30th# 18*J4and also to amend an acten itled '•an act concerning prosecuting at#, «. tomeys, approved, January £0, 1826.'*

A mem* rial of the General Assembly ot Indiana, on the subject of reduciug the minimum price of public lands.

An act making an appropriation to 1 pay the debt due trom, this state to the* United States.

A joint resolution relative to the lands appropriated iorthe use of salt springs. A joint resolution on the subject of certain public lards in the vicinity of In* diauapolis.

An act authorising Samuel S. Graham to convey certain lots -in the town'" of Paris, Jennings county.

An act for the relief of persons own-"" ing lots in Springfield, the late seat of: Justice of Posey county.

An act for the relief of the securities of Nathaniel W. Murks, late Sheritt'of. Rush county.

An act to amend the act regulating 7: the mode of summoning and empannel- d. ing grand aitd petit jurors, approved, Januar) 31st, 1824.

An act authorising Alexander Divin, Robert Milburn, and Samuel Hall to convey a lot therein named.

An act to legalize certain official acts '''if of Wm. W. Kennedy, late recorder of Vermillion county.

An act for the relief of Ansel Ric&> mond, recorder of Madisod county, and clerk of the Madison circuit court.

An act supplemental to the several acts declaring Blue river a public frigh way.

An act appointing commissioners to re-locate the seat of justice of Crawford county.-

An act for the benefit of the widow and heirs of Peter B. Wright deceased.

An act to repeal an act entitled, "Ail act to authorize called sessions of the circuit court."

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An act for the benefit of the persons who have or are likely to suffer by the destruction of the records of Dearborn $

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