Western Sun, Volume 1, Number 29, Vincennes, Knox County, 1 June 1808 — Page 1

THE

WESTERN SUN

EACH CENTURY HAS ITS PECULIAR MODE OF DOING BUSINESS, AND MEN GUIDED MORE BY CUSTOM THAN BY REASON, FOLLOW WITHOUT ENQUIRY, THE MANNERS WHICH ARE PREVALENT IN THEIR OWN TIME.—HUME.

VOL. I.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1808.

NO. 29.

(BY AUTHORITY.)

AN ACT To provide for the payment of

certain expences incurred in the enquiry into the conduit of John .Smith, a Senator from the State of Ohio.

BE it enacted by the Senate end House

tf Representatives of the United States of

America, in congress assemoiea, inai

the accounting officers of the treaiury be,

and thev are hereby directed to audit and

fettle the accounts of all perfons who may have claims againft the United States, for

expences incurred in the inquiry into the conduct of John Smith, a Senator of the United States, for the State of Ohio, as an

alleded afibciate of Aaron Burr ; which ex

pences may have been authorifed by the committee of Enquiry, or by order of the Senate : Provided, That the faid accounts

(hall have been firft certified, by the Chair

tnan of the committee or by the ftcratary of the Senate.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,

That tojevery witnefs before the faid com mittee of Enquiry or before the Senate up

on the faid enquiry, there fliall be allowed and paid, for every day's attendance thereon, the Turn f three dollars. And to defray the faid expences, there is hereby ap. propriated the fum of five hundred dollars, to be paid from any monies in the treafury not othcTwife appropriated. 1. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives GEO : CLNTON; Vice-President of the United States,

and President tf the Senate. February 19, 1808. Aproved, TH : JEFFERSON. AN ACT Making appropriation for carry intr into effect certain Indian treaties.

B E if enacted by the Senate and House

ef Representatives of the United Stales of America, in congress assembled, That for the purpofe of carrying into efTecl. a treaty between the United States and the Cliaclaw nation ot Indians, concluded at Pofhapukanuk, in the Choctaw country, on the lixtecnth day of November, one than find eight hundred and five, the following fums be, and the fame hereby are appropri. ated in conformity with the ftipulations contained in the faid treaty, that is to fay : To the faid Choctaw nation fifty tlion.

fand five hundred dollars, and the further

annual fum of three thoufand doll its : To each of the three cteat medal Min-

goes, Pukflninnubbee, Mingo Hoomaflub

bee and Ponlhamattaha, five hundred dol

lars, and a further annual fum of one hundred and fifty dollars to each of the faid

Mingoes during his continuance in office.

See. 2. And be it further enacted '1 hat

for the purpofe of carrying into etfc

treatv between the United States and the

Ottoway, Chippeway, Wyandotte and Pottawataniiue nations of Indians, concluded at Detroit on the seventeenth day of November, in the year one thoufand eight hundred and feven, the following fnms be, and thr. fame hereby are appropriated, in tunforinity with the ftipulations contained in the faid treaty, that is to fay : Ten thoufand dollars to be paid to the fid nations in the following proportions : To the Ottoway nation three thoufand

three hundred, thii ty 'three cents and four

mill :

To the Cbipeway nation three thoufand

three hundred, thirty-three dollars, thirty.1 three cents and four mills :

To the Wyandotte nation one tridufand

fix hundred and fixty. fix dollars, fixty fix cents and fix mills J

To the Pottawatamine nation one thou

fand fix hundred and fixty-fix dollars, fixty-

fix tents and fix mills . and the further an-

Ual fum ef two thoufand four hundred dol-

ars, to be paid to the faid nations in tlio

following proportions t

To the Ottaways eight hundred dollars :

To the Chippew ays eight hundred dol

lars :

r ' To the Wyandottees four hundred dol

lars : and to fuch of the Pottawatammes

as now refide on the river Huron of Lake

Erie, the river Raifin, and in the vicinity

of the faid rivers, four hundred dollars.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted That

the feveral fums appropriated by this aft,

(hall be paid out Of any monies in the trea. fury not otherwise appropriated. J. B. VARNUM, Spedkerof the House ef Representatives GEO : CLINTON,

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate. Febrnary 19, 1808. Aprqved, Ttt t JEFFERSON

Ihips, refer ved by law for original holders

of military land warrants.

J. B. VARNUM, Speaker if the jffouse of Representatives GEO : CLINTON, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. March 21, 1808 A?proyedt, TH : JEFFERSON. Aft ACT Granting William Wells the right of precniotion.

lib if enActed hy the Senate and House

of Da fieri. Sec. 3. Aud hs it further . enacted, , That the Secretary of the treafury be, and he is

hereby autherifed to caufc to be erected and placed beacons and Lucys at the follow ing places, to wit i two beacons and tlree buoys near the entrance of Ipfwlch harbor ;

three buoys, one on Gutnet rock, one on

Bofs rock, and one on Deck's fiats, and

two beacons on the ftony mufcle bed, near

Plymouth h?rbor ; three additional buoys before the harbor of Nantucket, and a buoy or leading mark on the iflnnd of Tuckan uck, in the State of Mafiachufetts three

of Representatives of the United States of buoys at or near the entrance of Connect-

America, in Congress assembled, That

William Wells (hall have the right ot pre

emption to three hundred and twenty atres

icut river, and three buoys to be placed at

or near the entrance of Great Egg Harbor

river, in the ftate of Newjcifey

of land, to include his improvements fitu- Sec 4. And bt it further enacted, That

a tea at rort wayne, in tne inuiana jcrri- wicrc - man uc apprupriMicu anu - piu ous tory, at the confluence ot the rivers Saint of any moneis in the treafury, not otherwife Jofrph's and Saint Marys, which from the appropriated, a fum not exceeding eleven Miami f the Lake ; the boundaries of thoufand five hundred dollars, for .the pur which (hall be defignated under the direc- pofel aforcfaid. tion of the Secretary of the Treafury ; J. B VARNUM, which tract of land fliall pe granted to him, Speaker of the House of Representatives. at the fame price, and on the fame terms GEO : CLINTON,

for which other public lands are fold at pru Vice President of the United States and

Alt ACT Extending the right of fuffragc in the Indiana Territory.

D E it enacted by the Senate and House

13 of Representatives of the United

States cf America, tn Congress assembled That every free white male perfon in the Indiana Territory, above the nge of twen-ty-one years, having been a citizen of the United -States, and refident in the faid Territory, one year next preceeding an election of reprefentatives, and who has a legal or equitable title to a tract of land of the quantity of fifty acres, or who may

become the purchaser, from the United States, of a tract of land of the quantity of fifty acres, or who holds in his own right a

town lot of the value of one hundred dol-

lars, fliall be entitled to vote for representa

tives to the general alTembly of the laid Territory.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives

GEO: CLINTON.

Vtce President of the United States and

President of the Senate. February 26, 1808. ArruovED, TH : JEFFERSON.

AN ACT Extending the time for itTuing

and locating military land warrants.

BE it enacted bv the Senate and Ifoutr

ef RtprescntaXivc of lite United States tf

America tn (.ontess astcinbud 1 iiat

the Secretary of War he authorized to ll

lue military lard warrants to fuch perfuiu

as have, or null, before the fuft dy ol

March, one thoufand eight hundred and

ten, produce to him fatisfactory evidence

rf the validity of their claiun ; which war-

rants, with thole heretofore liTucd and not

yet fatiifted, (hall and may be located

the names ol tne liouiers or propnrtors

thereof, prior to the htlt day ol October,

one tlmufjnd rurht hundred and ten. on

vJ any unbelted parts of the fifty quartet

townlhips, and the fractional quarter town

vate fale. and the refpettive inltalment

of the purchafe money fliall become due at

the lame time with thofe of the firlt public

lands which may be fold in the tract of fix

miles fquare teeded by the treaty of Green, ville to the United States, at the con flu ence of faid rivers.

J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO : CLINTON,

Vice Pteftdent of the United States. tnd

President of the Senate. March 18, 1808. Approved, TH : J EFFERSON.

President of the Senate.

March 17, 1808. Approved, TH t JEFFERSON.

Extraft of a letter from - the

Hon. Benj. Howard, dated April 15. 11 A Resolution has pafled

both houses of Congrefs for

their adjournment on the 25th inft. but I doubt very

much whether it will not be

XiV ACT For erectinir a 1'urht houfe on the

fouth point of the iflaud Sapelo, and for found nCCcffhry tO refcind it.

?Att.ttXh-rf?hereare feveral fuble?a

en, and near the entrance of Ipfwich har. Or imporiance nor. yet Ibljy bor, near Plymouth harbor, before the nAefJ on. Rnrlofffd is a re-

harbor of Nantucket, and on the illand ofr . , . , . u T.l-a..nrt. L tl,- ntranr folUtlOn WlllCll lUS DCCn UU-

Connecticut river, and near the entrancclder debate for Several day 3

n-r!a Wr , Vver; i rr Jaiid I prcfume will occupy lt' il martrJ h th Sennit nncl Jitmiei I YJ

of Representatives 'of the United States of the houfe for t WO Or three

America in Congress assembled, That Mo vs more. The bill for ral.

r i. ? . . rJ : . '. r.. ..u C I.. I J

8 loon s ihc uiruuiwuuii ui iw wiutu ui g JJ!.!..1 i - .J . r rt . Ilinrr an nnnitinnnl mthfnrtf

head lana ot tie lout l noinc or me wana r"fc " "J

of Sapeio, in the ftate of Georgia, as the force, has pa(Tcd9 and I CX-

I'relident ol tne uniteu oiaici man ueemi n a nnnnntmAnfe ...till

fnflVt fnr th. t,umnfe of erecW alight Pwwt MW

houfe and its appurtenances, (hall have made before the; fifing of

benceeded to tne uniteu states, proviueu rnnnrp '

price, it fliall be th? duty of the Secram Kciolution referred to above-

of the Irealury to provide by contract,! KclOl Ved . 1 hat in tllC C-

which fliall be .ipproved by the Prebdentl rr 1 rrn i :! .ftVt. for building . licht. vcnt fuch peace or fulpen-

Imufe thereon, and furnilliing the finirlflOl) of iloHiliticS between tllO

!ni belli2rent powers of Europe,

or perfons who may be appointed by the Or ot fuch CliailgCS in tlieir

Prelident, for the fuperintendance and care meaAll CS cfledlil) neutral

o buildinr tne laiu ngni.nouic : vnu the m m. Ar t PrrflcJent i, hereby authorized to make the COIXHllCrCC as XXZy render that

fid appmntment. uf the U. Jt3teS lUlllCCnil Sec. 2. And be U furthtr crwUj That f f j ,,c judgement of tflC

uithorized and directed to caufe to be pla. prcfldcnt of the U. StatCS he

ced four buoys on the tholes tailed the QUIlt 10 be anUthorifed

ruin anu rtorin uiiiks oi wic naroor ori, r.r 1 n i entrance of the inlet ieadiu to the town by law to fufpeud the aft lay-

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