Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 24, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 May 1809 — Page 1
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Each Century has its peculiar Mode of doing Business, and Men guided more by Custom than by Reason, icllov without Enquiry, the Manners which are prevalent in their own Time. Hume.
VOL.11.
SATURDAY, MAY so, 180
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All letters addressed to the Editor, must be poft paid or they will not be taken out of the office.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, THE
LAWS OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY, ' Comprising those Ah formerly in force, and as Revised
Br Messrs. JOHN RICE JONES, and JOHN JOHNSON, And passed (after amendments) by the Legislature ; and the Original Ac"s passed at the First Session of the Second General Assembly of the faid Territory. Price Three Dollars 1st Fifty Cents. ALSO A FKW COPIES OF THE L A W S PASSED At the Second Session of the Second General Assembly of the Indiana TciritoIV.
Price Fifty Cents.
WANTED, A BOY between 14 Sc 16 years of age r.s an apprentice to tlu printing bufine is at this olUte.
NEW MANUFACTORY. THE fubf, ribt-is hue with very confidcrablr exertion, in experimental re. fetch, executed a rlutering eiuy towards the eitablilhmen: of a Siiccnswarc Manufactoni.
Having- to deprnd entiirly on t!,e dint of
rxpeiiinent, tor their prngreis in this art, they are anxious to hcilitttr the buiineij, by the alfiltance of experienced hands, believiug that theieaie hands in this country who luvr fcrvrd rrgulir appreuticrfhip? to the btifinris of m tkioe Oueenfware in Ku ope, they r "t vt- this public notice that they wilh to employ a few fuch ! i i ii -. They have a reefs to a bed of t lay, w hirh tru y arc convinced is proper for the above purpofc. Thomas 1'lckcrs fc? Son.
Near Dowr.imjtuwn, ChcHcr county.
PROPOSALS TOR CRRYING MAILS OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE FOLLOWING POST ROADS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE GENERAL PQ5T OFFICE
WASHINGTON CITY, UNTIL THE TENTH DAY OF JUNE INCLUSIVE
IN INDIANA TERRITORY, 194. From Louifville Ky. by Jeflerfonville and Clarkiville, to Vincennes, once a week, Leave Louifville every Sunday at G a. m. and arrive at Vincennes the next Wednefday by 10 a. m. Leave Vincennes every Wednef. day at 2 ?n. and arrive at Louisville the next Saturday by G p. m.
195. rrom Vincennes to Kaikalkia, once a wee k. Leave Vincennes every Wednefday at 2 p. in. and arrive at Kafkaskia on Saturday by 6 p. nu Leave Kafkafkia every Sunday at G a. tn. and arrive at Vincennes the next Wednesday by io. 196. From Kidkaikia, by St. Philip, Prairie du Rocher. and St
Lewis, .o St. Charles, once a week. Leave St. Charles every thurfday at 2 and arrive at Kalkalkia on Saturday by 6 ;. ;. Leave Kaikafkia eveiy Sunday at 6 a m. and arrive at St. Charles on Tuelday by to ;;. l jr. From Cape Girardot to New Madrid once in two weeks.
I Leave Cape Girardot every other Tuelday at G a. m. and arrive at New Madrid on Friday by 10
d. Leave New Madrid Humday at 2;. ;. and arrive at Cap;. Girardot on Mondav by 6 p. m. 1 98. From Kaikaikia, by Geneva, Cape Girardot, Tywapju-ty and Wiikinfonvilie, to Fort Maf. lac, once a week. Leave Kafkafkia every Sunday at G a. in. and arrive at Fort Maflac on Wedndday by io a. jr.. Leave Fort Mallac every Wednef. day at 1 ;;. and arrive at Kalk. askia on Saturday by G p. NOTES.
ftipulating an adequate compenfation fpr any extra expence .that may be ocafioned thereby. 2. Fifteen minutes fhall be allowed for opening and clofing the mail, at all offices where no particular time is fpecified. 3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times
prefcribed in any contract, the contractor (hall forfeit one dollar ; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails deflined for
fuch depending mail lofe a trip, a forfeiture of double the amount allowed for carrying the mail one
trip fhall be incurred, unlefs it
fhall be made to appear that the
delay was occafioned bv unavoida-
hie accident ; in which cafe the
amount of pay for the trip, will, in all cafes, be forfeited and retain
ed.
4. Perfons making propofals
are defired to Mate their prices by
the year. Thofe who cantracl
will receive their pay quarterly
in the months of February, May,
Auguftand November, one rponth
alter the expiration of each quar
ter. AJ
5. No otherTmft-a free white
perfon fhall be employed to con
vey the mail.
G. Where the propofer in
tends to convey the mail in the
body of a llage carriage, he is dc-
lired to Hate it in his propofals.
7. The Pofl-mailcr General rc-
ferves to himfclf the right ofde
daring any contract at an end,
uheneer one failure happens,
u hich amounts to th lofs of a
to, out of any monry in the Treafury not otherwifc appropriated, as the Prcfident of thrUnittd States m-y judge nccefiary, bet and hrreby are appropiiated for the accom modation of the houfchold of the Prcfideut, to be laid out and expended for fuch articles of furniture as he (hll direct. J. B. VAUNUM, Speaker of the House of Rebresentatives JN : MILLEDGE, President of the Senate, pro-temporea March 2, 1809. Approved, TH: JEFFERSON. AN ACT to extend the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States.
trip.
8. The contracts are to he in
operation on the ill day of Ocro.
her next, an! continue until the
JOth of September 1311. G1DKON GRANGER, Post -master General. General Poll Office.
Washington City, Ahrilx, 1809.
(BY "AUTHORITY J
l. The Polt-nK'.flcr General may expedite the mads, and alter the times of arrival and departure, at anytime during the continuance of the contracl ; he prcviouily
AN ACT m'kintf provilion for th fiirtr
accommodation of the houfchold of tlie Prefidcn: of thr Uf.itcd SiUz. BE it enacted h the Senate and Hsuse of Representatives tf the Unittd States cf
iv:tr:ca. in Longest assembled, J hat af. j
ter t.e tliira day et March next, the Prcli. dent of the Ui:i:ed .V;atcj L?, and he is hrreby authorifed i-.d empiwerfd, to c-ufe t be fold, fuch articles fnrnihed hy the LT:.ite,! States, fur the Prrfidrm's houlVh.,ld, as miy be decayed, out of rep-ir, or Mi.f.t f rr ufe ; and thai ihr proce fi of fuch l i;, J hi much of 2 fjtn not exceeding tiiJtccii thouUnd dollars in addition there-
BE it enacted Lv thf Smni ir1 T7.t
w w iuug v of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, hat cv cry perfon who h th heretofore purchafed any of the public lands of the United Statn, at any of the laud offices eftablifli-' ed for the difpofil of the faid lands, whe
ther fuch purchafe was made at public or private fale (fales by virtue of a nre-ernDt-
ion right only excepted) and whofe lands have not already been acltiallv fold or re
verted to the United States, for non.nar-
meut of part of the purchafe money, and
tne time tor nuking the lalt payment on account of fuch purchafe according to for
mer laws, may have expired, or (hall exuire.
on or before the firfl day of January next, mall be allowed a further term of two ye-rs for the payment of the rcfidue of the piincipal due on account of fuch purcbufc; which further term f two years fhall be calculated to commence from the exniration'
of one year from and after the dav on
which the l ift payment cn account of fuch
purchafe fliould, according to former a7s h;ivc become du-, and fhall be allowed on
ly on the following principles that is to fay ; Firft, th it all the arrears of intereft.
on the land puch.fcd, to the end of one
year from and fter the day on which the laft payment on account of fuch purchafe Ihould, according to former laws, have hf-
come due, fhall have been pnid at or before the end of fuch ve-r. Second. That th.
icii-ue of the fum, due on account of the
principal of fuch puichafe, fhIl he psid with intertft thcr-on, in two equal annual
paymmts, viz one hlfof the fiJ reliciue,
with the intereft which may then hr cue
thereon, within onr var : and thr o:lr
half of thr faid refidue, with thr into -ft
which may then Le due thereon, within
two years after the expiratior. r.f one year
from and after the day on which thr Uft
0 pn"n,enton aci'cunt ni'fuc h purchafe fhc.uld
acc ordi:jg to frr.nrr laws, have become due.
And in case of failure in paying either the arrears of intereQ on each of the two iu-
Halmems cf principI, whh the arcrnint
iuterefr, at the time urd timrs above mentioned, the traft rf hind fla)l be forthwith abvertilrd and ofTcrcd for fair, in the manner and rn the ttrms and conditions now prefcribed for tlie ll cf Iatids purrhafrd trom the Uf.hrd Stcs, and not paid for witliin the limited time ; and fhall revrrt in Jihr manner, to thr Unitrd States, if the fum cue, witlj intercfl, be r.ot at luch1 faie bidden arid paid. J. H. VARNUM, Speaker cf the House of Rircstr.tativei. JN. MILLKDGi;, resident cf tie Sx:ate pro-trn'pore. March 2, !8o9. Ai'PuovtD, Til : jkffeuson: