Western Sun, Volume 1, Number 41, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 September 1808 — Page 1

THE WESTERN SUN

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acu Centura has its peculiar Mode of doing Business, and . Men guided more bt .Custom than by -Rkasok, follow without Enquiry, the Manners which are prevalent in their own Time. Hume.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, ibc3.

No. 41.

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, ( B T AUTHORITY) AIT ACT Allowing' an additional compenfation to the fecretaries pf the Mifliffippi, Indiana, Louifiana, and Michigan Territories. BE it enacted by the Senate end House

of representatives cf th United States of America, in Congress assembled, That

each of the fecretaries of the Miffiffippi, Indiana, Louiiiana and Michigan territories, Appointed under the authority of tiu" United States, be entiiled to the annual fum oi one thoufand dollars, lieu of hi? prefent compenfation, to commence on the arft day $f ?annary next J. B. VARNUM, Speaker f the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice President of the United States and President of tu Senate December 15, 180T. Approved, TH : JEFFERSON.

POETICAL ASYLUM, An Address to the Ladies z Young Ladies in town, and thofe that live round,

Let a friend at this feafon, advife you,

Since money's fo fcarce, and times growing

worfe, Strange things may foon hap and sur prife ycu.

Firft then throw afide your high topnots

of pride, Wear none but your own

linen, Of economy boa ft let your pride be .the moll, , To Ihcw cloths of your own make and Ipinning.

"What if homefpun they fay, is not quite fo gay As brocades ; yet do not be in a paf. Hon : For when its once knonn, that its much worn in town, One and all will cry out u 'Tii the fufhion I ! !" No more rijeons wear, nor in rich drefs appear, Love your ccuntiy much better than hue th'uu:s.

AN ACTTo change the mm? of tht diQricl of Bicultford and lVpperelborough, in Maflachufetts, lo-tha: of Sa co.. BE 'ir enaetid by the Senate and House of representatives of the United Stctes of America in Corgrcs cemSied, Ths the diftrii at preunt called i':? difliic of Biddefcid anu IVpijeielbo-ougb, in Maffacl.ufettrs, (hail in fvi'uie be c Ui-d t diOricl of S;itc, sit.d ihat the coileclor oi the f;id cliRndt be pennicttd tc nfide it. Sacr, rr BU'Jcfid ; nr.d th.: all tht pro. vifion ct tin: fever.d ;.T!a of congrefs, that .-elite to the diftria oi Biddefcni and Frpperrlb' .;roiih, (hall be, :;nd the fanu

air herfhy ro!::irud in full force vith rtf-

Country Viccl c uuiricx riat:o.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the Ilcuse of Representatives

GEO: CLINTON,

Vice President of the United States and

rresif.nt cf tjj Senate. Dvcembrr 15, ilO?. ArPliOVED, TH : JEFFERSON

Aff ACT Laying an embargo on all fhips and vrlTcls in the ports and harbor3 of the United Urates.

BE enacted by the Senate and House

f Representatives of the Unittd States of

timer ica, in Congress assembled, That

AN ACT For thr relief of the legal reprefentatives of Thomas Barclay, deceased.

BE it 'enacted by the Senate end Hquii of Representees of the United States.' fif ' America, in Congress assembhd. That

an embargo bt, and hereby is laid on aliithe proper accounting officers oflhe Trea ! !

(nips anti veilels in the ports and plcesilury be, and they are hereby amharif.

within the limits or icnldidtion of the U

nited States, cleared or not cleared, bound

to any foreign port or place; and that no

liquidate and fettle the account of ThcmW

Barclay, deceafed, ancl that they allow for his frrvtces, while h aclcd as vice tonful

AN ACT To appropriate monev for the

providing of an additional number of

gun l)n its.

BE i ena-tcd h ; the Sennte und House

f Repres er. tat.ic cf t h c L , i it .d States oj

AinetLa, in Congress asset::' led, T!ut

the ptcfident of iht United Stcu s be mil l.ertbv is authorized and env wered to cntiif to be built, or purthaftd, aimed and equipped, a nuiber not exceeding our

hundred and rihty-riIit gun-lnats, for th'

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5et:in WItlinilt U nnn. 'twill fnn Fir thr . 1 I

Bf4!. ' w of the United Statrc, Hiid f:.r fuch n--et

nrj nfe: Hi ii I. is opinio!! the public fci vict

To grace cur fmcoth twine linnr.

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Thtf? do without fear, and to a!! you'!! U;d fif:y.t. j , , r..d li,r t urd td dollar . &PFcar be. I ui'.V is a. f . iar.i 1. ! this pjt P.iir, charmirr, true, lov-V an ! clfverl! lm -;-v t-.--.-v, .a ilie tie..iUrv not

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And loievcu much lircnrer than evrr.

SCR A P, from a late London Paper. Bonaparte exuifrs himfelf for his conduit to the Pope, by faying that he prottcdi ac lording to (car.iiun law.)

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December 13, lfcOT. A i rucv i), TH: JEFFERSON.

bound to any foreign port or place, except

veflVls uncter thf immediate direction of the

prefident of the United States : and that

the prtlident be autoriftd to give fuch iu(rufiont to the officers of the revenue and of the nvy nnd revenue cutters of the United States, as fhall appear hlt adapted for ranying the fame in full tffict. Pi&

vided, that nothing herein contained fhall be conftrued to prevent the de parture of n ny foreign fhip or vellY I, cither in balifr, or with the goods, wares and merchandize on board of fuch foreign fnip or vcfiVl, when notified of this acl. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of this acl, no regifleird, or fea-letUvcffcl, having on board gooiis, wares and merchandize, (hall be allowed to depart from one port of the United S:ttcs to another within the fame, nnlefs toe nnfier, owner, cor.fignee

or f.j&wr of fuch vefft 1 fliiill firft give bord with ojier nvri: furetis to the colledtoi of the (lilhicl. fiom'which Ihe is bound tu rlenrt, in . iiim of double the value of the vrfiel and cargo, tiiat the fnd goods, wares m mercha.:di?.e. fhall be re-landtd in fome port of the United States, dangers of the f :s fxcrcted : which bond and alfo a cer-

tificatc from the collector where the fame mv hi re-landed, fliall by xhc collectors refprcVively be tranfmitted to the frcretary oi the Treafury all aimed vrfTels noil IT ing public commifTions from auy foreign power, are not to be coi.fideied as liable to the embaigo laid by thi.-, acl. J. B VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO : CLINTON.

Vtce President of the United States, and

President of thi Senate Drcembcr 22, 1307. ArPKOVED, TH: JEFFERSON. AN ACT For the relief cf Philip turner. BE it enacted by the Senate and House

of Representatives cf ihe United States of

America in Cuntness ass.'tnCtd, 1 ..at

the accounting officers of the Treaiuiy be, u.d tl.rv are he it-by authorised and dtieCt"d to licniJ.ite ard 1 V 1 1 ? c the account oi 4 Philip 1 inner 1 ite hofpftal phyHcian and lurrri'n, and that thev aliow l.im the comp'tif ttiou eq jal to the h-ilf pay cf a an iu. 3:,reeabiy to a rtfclution of Concref , piTc d on tie fe venteenth day of J aii nary, one tlKiiifand f-ven hundred and -ipr.ty-onr : Pnvided the faid Phdip Turi.t, ui: tnc ret c-i : of the numry directed to nr pi.d hi n b) tins ifi, iA execute ir ci I'.d-ralio.) Uerc : a ttiuharge to ;he U ted Str.t--, ci dll Jc:na::t;? u halfoever. ',d (Spoilt tiie fimr ... t'.i ollice of the '.e'iicr cf Tre-fuv. J. 15. VARNUM, Sp'jhcrcfthe Hens: cf reps, ist.tjttveu S )M i 1 ii, Pns. dent of the Senate, pr tempore Apd22, ij&. Apit.ovki. ' Til: JEFFER50X.

clearance Le furnifticd to any fliip or vefTrl in Fiance, a falary at the rate of ore? thou.

lard dollars per annum ; and that while he acled as conful, commercial agent, cornmiffioner of public accounts in Europe, ' and was engaged in negociating the treaty concluded with the emperor of Morocco in one thoufand feven hundred and eighty feven, they allow a fahry at tlif rate of three thoufand three hundred and thrrty.threr: 5c one third dollars per annum, exclufivr of

Ins exprnces ; and that in the adjuftmenc of his accounts with the public, which orin itiated in confequenre of his fecond mif. lion, they credit him with the amount of goods purchafed to take with him to Morocco nccordiiuv to the fetter of David Humphreys, esq. (formerly minifter from ti e United States to the court of Spain,) to the Secretary of State, and the invoices and memorandums tranfmitted by that minifter to the government ; and that they pay the ballanee, with intereft to the legal representatives of the laid Thomas Barclay, out of any monies in the treafury not otherwife appropriated. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker cf the House of Representatives, S. SMITH, President $f the Senate, pmtcmpore.

April latn, 1805. Al'FItGVKD, i TH : JEFFERSON.

AN ACTTo continue in force an ?cr entitled ''An act to extt-nd jurifdiclion in certain cfes to Hate jucv nd (tate, courts and for other. purpofes BE enacttd by the. Senate and House of Representatives of the United S'ctrs cf America, in Congress assembled, rJ hat the act entitled an act to extend jurifdiction in certain cafes to n.tc courts," puffed the eigth day of March one thoufand eight hundred nd fix, be, and thr fame n hereby continued in force without limitation of time. sec- 2. And be it further enacted, That the fcveral proviHons of the above mentioned act, intitul-d An act to extend jurifdiction in certain cafes to ftate Judges and ilate courts," be and the lme -re hereby extended to the refpciivc county courts within, or rex: tdjoiring the revenue diftria in the (btr of Ohio on L; lce Erie, t.d to the diftria attoti 'V of the Uuiled States for the ciiflritft ofOh-o. J- B. VARNUM, Speaf.er cf the Home c;' Representatives S. AWMTH, PretidrJ rf the Senate, protempzr: April 2 !, ftfOd'

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Berkeley, the murdrring sdmira! lately o;i W.r Anient itation, l s hrrn puni;lid for i;.s attack .r tl.r ( (!nefaptrtk-) Jjy o"i:- pTinotr J to tl.r ccnmiiid cii a , high. y in; jrtant fc:rt t eyp-'i.rion v. 1 Ih lilc 1 !r.va England hoti: the f4th of sNiay Jeftii'ru, perhaps, to aid Purr in Ci.i'vu-

t nr In Vkifcia lands. (B. s Ptt. J