Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 11, Number 26, Vincennes, Knox County, 26 June 1819 — Page 1

Western Sim & General Advertiser.

BY elihu stout. V1NCENNE8, (ID.) SATURDAY JUNE 86, 1819. Vol i I. No. 86.

THE rEsTl:lX SILY a r Q EX!: R A . JDrERTISERi Is published every SaTvmd r, TWO COLLARS per annum, if p ti in advance or TWO DOLt US !

FIFTY CES rS at the end of tl year, forwhich a note will be renin v N subscription w be withdraw IKtltil all arreara- s are paid. ,1nrrR Tisf. wn vr conspicuous inserted on the usual tc mi Advertising customers illnote rr their advertisements the number f ti iis they wish them inserted tboses ml without such directions will be continued until forbid, and must be paid for accordingly. fjiX UTHOHlTY.) Lmv ; of Hip Union. Ijth Congress, 8d Session AN ACT to authorise the presid at if tie United St.: s t t ike possession i f v ist and WW. Ft or 1 t, md e rt tbhsh .. temporary g ivem nent therein. He ft mart "d Ay ' ' Senati and fju--of it ftresentaHv -,f ') (. -1 .V .-' a f An r, iy in Congn c ;i , That, t i.- pr stdent or the Quitei m a js jj, an h ! is h v , a itn i to take p is-es-ion an i iccupy, the territories of east a 1 west Fi v. i id t le appe i lage i and apparteaances th reof; and to remove and transport the officers and soldiers of the k?ng of Spain, being tier;', to tike lavauna, .vo.ni- t tie stipulati his of a treaty between the Unite I Si ites .( id So 1 a, ex uted a. Washington, on the twenty-second day of Februan ,i.. 11. year one thousand eight hundred ukI nineteen, providing for the a -non of s.iid territories to t ie United St ites, an I he m 13 , for these p irposes, imd ia order to m tint uti in s lid t rrit rie lite authority of the United States, cm pu any p irt of the army and navy of the United Si ites, and them litia fanystat orjtzrritoxy, which he may deem oecesJSKT . Sec 2 And be if further enacted, That, nnui the end of the first session of the hox, V'.r; gov rnment of said territories to sooner oaadc toy congress, all the military, 'V.ivil. and judicial, powers, exerc sed to the oSi .-.v rs of the existing go ernment t (he s-.if territories, shall toe vested h auch person and persons, and shall to. exercised in such manner, as the pre; dent the Unite d States shall direct, to the maintaining the inhabitants of sai territories in the free enjoymentof tin liberty, property, and religion; and th laws vi'tiie L'luti tt States, relative to th Collection of the revenue, and the imp tatioti fpersons of color, stoall too extt ded 1 9 the s:t:ti territoi es ; and the pres deal of the United States shall toe, and 1 is hereby authorised, within the term a f esaid, t establish such districts, f the t llection of the w enoe, and, during t'u i as of congress, to appoint suCi o'Yw . rs, wh n v commission shall expire i. the end ot the next session of eoneres , ta eaf r.v' t:ie said laws, as to him shal seem expedient. Sec 3. . 1 1 ! he U farther enact d Thai . jthsona f twenty thousand dollars it h!v h ai tropri it I Cor the purpose c.-iV.; ta;ts act into effect, to tor paid 0 . oi my moneys in Che treasury, not other wi 1 appropriated, and to toe applied uadertlie direction of the president of th. United States. Sv .4. Andki i further cnac'sn, Tha this ict sh dltake effect, and toe in foro . Whenever the aforesaid treaty, providhi br the cession of said territories to th United S, lies, shall have been ratme b the kingof Spain and the ratifications exch uiged, ami tii : k..at of Spain shall b ready to surrender said territory to th United States, according to the provision of said treat) . H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J AS. HARBOUR, Pr. i lent of tar Sc aatr. prv tempore. March 3, 1319. 1 v vt, JAAiiiS M NKv);;. AX ACT granting t donation of landtx the st ar of Illinois, for the seat of gr. ernment of the said st ite. i ' tl enacted hu th Si furte and T vf R i.rrsenta r.v.v ft' ' tnii d v tt s ct .i toerica in Vongreti tni9emb(ea rhat rr - in ted to th : st '.s v 1 W . ! -M o rartbr i!ons and fr ictio VP dinthe quantity contained - secti mis, ror the purp se of fixing thereon the seat of government for the said state ; which lands shall be selected in the m , ner provided toy the thirtieth section of th- schedule ta the constitution t thi said state : Pro;,,! ef, that such selection shall be m ade before the p 1 1 c sale of the idjoining public lands shall have t.ikru place. March 3, is 19 Aprove !. J VMi:s MONROE. AN' CT authorusnsj the purchase oi Fire Emgines, and tar building houses for the safe keeping of the same. Jir it rnactrd by thr .V Hate and tfyu cf R 'futetentattve ot' :h? Unu-. Sttt - y AmaritMt ui CongrtM aisetnbled, That

he president of the United States be, and: ie ts hereby, anthorised and requested t lusetobe purchased two fre engines, f the fir t ctass,with proper copper sueon pipes, and six hundred feet of wvet 2 ithern hose, for the purpos? of protectig the public and other buildings in the Washington from tire. -Sec. 2. .-Li i be it further e maetedtThBX ie pre si lent of the V:vi d Scates cause ) i? built two good and sufficient hoasf r the safe kcepine; of the said en- ; aes ; one to toe located on the Capitol I 1, near the Capitol, and one near the president's house and putolic offue. ec. 3. And b" it further eaartrrf, That, far d fraying the expenses of the same, a 1 sum of four thousand five hundred i liars ae, and is hereby, appropriated, vat of any uaappropriated money in the tr : isury. ..larch 3, 1S19. Approved, JA.M.iS MvONROE.

V.N ACT to continue in force an act regu atmg the currency, within the Unite 1 States, of thr ohl coins of Great Britain, Farnce, Portugal and Spain, cc be rowns of Fr mce , franc nieces. U enacted bu the .j. ;a,' and ffous f R ftretentative of the Unfed States f America in Congress assembled That the old coins of G ee at Brit tin and Fortugal, of their present standard, shall b-. 1 legal tender in the payment of ai. lebts, at the rate of one auadred cent . r every twenty-seven gr tins, or eight sight cents and eight-ninths per penm weight : The gold coins of France, bi leir present standard, at the rate of one lundred cents for every twenty-seven md an n df grains, or eighty-seven an 1 quarter cents per pennyw.iglit : The ,-oid coins of Spain at the rate of on mndred cents for every twenty-eight and 1 half grains, or eighty-four cents per pennyweight: until the first day of November next: And that, from and after that day foreign gold coins shall cease to e a tender within t'ae United States for the p iym at of letots or demands. Sec. J. And be it further e7iaetedy That o much of the act l otitled "An act regutting the currency, within the Unite i tates, of th e gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Sp iin," p .ssed on he twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and s.xteen, as relates to forjn silver, coins, shall toe, and the same s hereby, continued in force two years .Vom and after the t wenty -ninth day of pril next, and no longer. March 3, 1819. Approved, JAi'.lKS MONROE. YX ACT providing for the correction of errors in making entries of land at the Laud Offices, Be it enacted by the Senatt and House f Refiresentatives cf the United States of hn rue in Congress assembled. That in very case of a purchaser of putolic lands t private sale, having entered, at the I ltd office, a tract different from that he, i tended to purchase, and toiing desirous 1 having the error m res entrj corrected e shall make his application, f r that turpose, to the register of tiie land 01ce ; and if it shall appear, from testimony satisfactory to the register and reviver of public moneys, that an error in ie entry has been made, and that the cime was occasioned by original incoract marks made toy the surveyor, or toy he obliteration, or change, of the original aarks and numbers at the coroners of he tract of land ; or that it has in any otherwise arisen from mistake or error f the surveyor, or officers of the land ofce ; the said register and receiver off ublic moneys shall report the case, with be testimony, and their opinion thereon, 0 the secretary of the treasure, who hall have power to direct, if in his ounion it ;imoe proper, tnar tne pur- I hater shall toe at liberty to withdraw the entry so erronously made, and that the I moneys which had been paid, shall be ipplied in the purchase of Other lands in ' he same district, or credited in the paynent for other lands which shall have ieen purchased at the same office. March 3, 1819. Approved. JAMCS MONROE. VN ACT concerning Invalid Pensioners. J Be it enacted by the Senate and House j f Representative cf the United States cf' tmetica 11 Congress assembled That, J he secretary of war be. and he is heretoy, lirected to place the following named 1 place tne toiiowmg persons en the pension 'list of invalid jht.skmcrsofthe United Satts, who shall tie entitled to, and reeie pensions, according to the rates, and commencing at the times, hereinafter mentioned, that is to say : Benj imin A'oro, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the t leventhof October, oik thoe.Sciiul eight hundred and e enteen. Robert Craighead, at the rate of fo-ir (1 liars per month, to commence on t-c thirty-first of January, one thu5an i ei jht hundred aud eighteen. Solomon Van-Rens daer, at the rate of )0 dollars per to mth, to commence on

the 13th d iv of October, in 1812, and the I mine; to authors and inventors the exclusum of C5S0 dollars, the amout of pen-1 sive right to their respective wril 1 v: uon to him at the rate of 20 dollars per j inventions and discovert and u; . month, cooamencing on the 30th of Jan-j any bill in equity, tiled bj anj parti ag iarv, 1m:, and ending on the 13t'n of O - j grieved in any such cases, v ku toer, 1819, in COQseQW ace of v 0 mds re- j thority to grant injunctions according 0 rived while serving is 1 captain oi dra- the ccurse and principles ol OUItS Ol I poons under general Wayne, tn a battle vtuity, to prevent the vioiati a ol th vnth the Indians, 00 the 0tli of August, j rights of the authors or mi I ti rv, secu1794, i red to them by any laws f the lTnite Thomas Baily, at the rate of S doll irs States, On such terms and coi as as ner month, to comaicncc on the 9th of ! th said courts may d em Ql u ' 1

Diccmtoer, 117.

Benjamin Pinoin, at the rate of 8 dol- I II rs per month, to commence on the lih f March, 1818, Caleb J. Whitley, at the rate of six lollars and fifty cents per m nth, to co nnence on the 30th of December, Is' 13. William Earnest, whose father died of vounds received in toattle during the 1 ite svar, to be applied, under the direction of the secretary for the department of war, in the education of the said William, at the Connectic rt asylum for the educati and instruction of deaf and dumb persons, for a period not exceeding live years, at the rate of 250 dollar-; per annnum. John Low, at th? rat of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 20th day of January, 1817. Jeremiah Burnhani, at the rate of 8 do!1 ars per month, to commence on the 20th d..v of January, 117. John Sargent, of Vermont, at the rate f 4 dollars per month, to commence on die 6th day of March, 118. Peter Francisco, of Virginia, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one iou- md eight hundred and nineteen. Sec. '2. .4. id be it furiier enacted, That che pensions of the following named persons, already placed on the pension list of t; r United States, toe increased to the sum herein respecth ely annexed to their tames ; the said increase to commence it the time hereinafter mentioned, and )e ea lieu of p.nisions they at present receive ; that is to say : Be ij Merrill, at the rate of 3 dollars per nonth, to commence on the 28th of November, i ir. Timothy Mix, ai the rate of eight d hilars per month, to commence on tne 18th )f April, 1N1T. William Lackin, at the rate of 6 dollars per month, to commence on the lbth of February, 131". John Right, at the rate of 6 dollars pr nonth, to commence on the 4th of February, 1818. Samuel KeyKendall, at the rate of 20 dollars per month, to commence on the 10th day of Marcii, 113. James Campbell at the rate of 6 d 1lars per month, to commence on the 30th of September, lbir: George Fierson.nt the rate of 8 dollars per m onth, to commence on the 10th ol be 1817. Jo:m Long, at the rate of eight doll per month, to commence on the 2cia da of Febru iry, 1M7. Thomas MBarney, at the rate of dollars per month, to commence on the 12th of September, 1817. William simpson, at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 5th of September, 1817. Ja nes C. Wingardtat the rate of 8 dollars! per month, to commence on the 30th of No v i .ot r, 13lf5. William Arnold, at the r.ite of seven dollars and I fty cents per month, to commence on the 1st day of April, 1818. Joseph S. Van Driesen, ac the rate at ot 20 dollars nier.ee On the per month, to comJanuary 10th day of 1818. lohn Tiltcn, at the rate of thirteen dollars per m nth. to commence on the 30th day of Januar) , 1818. Joseph Westcoot, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence 00 the 0th day of October, If Mfc Aaron Stafford, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commeuce on the 20th day f February, 1818. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person granted toy this act, or aViy other act hereafter to toe passed, to am officer, soldier or marine, who served in the revolutionary war, shall cease and tot discontinued, in case the individual, t whom the same may toe granted, hath availed himself, or shall h reafter aval himself of the in o isions of an act, passed the 18th day of March, 1818 entitled M An act to provide for certain person! engaged in the land and naval service ot the United States, in the revolutionary w ar" Sec 4. And be it further enacted That all persons entitled to pensions, in con-' formity with the provision of the act.entitled An act to provide foi persons dis aided by known Wounds during the revolutionary war," passed VprU the 18th, loo, and also, the fourth section ot ai act, entitled An act, concerning inv d.v pensions,' passed the 25th of April, 180 may b' placed on the pension list toy th secretary of war, without reporting thi same to congn s. March 3, 119. Approved, JAMES MONROE. AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction'1 the Circuit Courts of the U. States t. Cases arising under the law relating V patents. Re it enacted the Senate nvd Hats 3 f R epresentatrve f : A i ' n 1 ft d Si at s j America in Congren ttsembledThi the circuit COUItS of the I". States shal. have original cognisance, as well in equity ss at law, of all actions, suitv. contu vers ics, and cases arising under anv la v of the United Slates, erantine or confii able : Jrvvtucd. however, That fs to

judgments an I decre?s of anv eircuit

courts rendered in the premises, a writ of error or appeal, as the case may reqn re, shall lie the supreme court of tne United States, hi the.asmr manner, ami under the 3 une circumstances, as is nOW T)Tii 'illl"t 1 1V I iw ir n1 .... Iwtar.ti: and decrees of such circuit courts. ... t.4tt , iS,,t February 15, 1810. Approved : JAMES MONROE. iv xr r r.. .1 , r o ,

.1... .11 n uic renei oi aamuei r. suiermg tne circumstances they were Hooker, under at the time, as sh ill toe s.atisf ictoBe it enacted bu th- Senate and House rv to the officers aforesaid : Frmrid d cf Represents ives cf the United States of Th ,t the amount shall not exceed ' UiAmerica in Congress assembled. That sum of 19,803 dollars and 60 cents the proper officers oj the Treasury De- See. 2. And be it further enact, d That payment toe, and they are heretoy author- the amount there. t when so ascertained

isr-a wMraiuucuw pay 10 ramuc;i r. Hooker the sum of sev en hundred and eighty-five dollars, to toe paid out cf any monies in the treasury not otherwise ap propri ilea. Fenruarv 15, 1819. Approved: JAMES MONROE. AN N ACT to authorise the President & M .aagers ot the Rock die and ..sh-

. s. ... A .....iiv uiuvMiiMin,miiK un- seeiau.ir- 4.1 tne treasun cause to !e state of Man land, to extend and make paid onto M utrom Ball, of Northumbcrthnr 1 nrnpike Road to or from the land county, Virginia, the sum of 140a boundary of the cky of Washington, in dollars, out of an money in the tree . the District ot Columbia, through the nOt Otherwise appropriate i, the mm s ud District, to the hue thereof. mg in foil for the destiuctot of sis bailU enacted bit the Smart and House dings on Oli t'-:rt Ho :sr Point V presentatives cf thr United Stati of January 19, 18 19. App roved, America in Congress aesembled That! JAMES MONROE. so much of the law of the state of Mary-1 " land, entitled "an act to incorporate corn- AN ACT for the relief of Frederick

(liuuniu uiatvc certain lumpute r-.. is force within the I). trict of Ccdumhia irnma c, 1 hat Sec. 2. And be it further enac

through the counties ot Monto aerj , ' P u enacted by thr Seratr avd Homo Frederick, and ashington, and tor oth- of Representative of the Uniid Statesof er purposes,' passed at December ses- America, m Congress asito6l i Tnat sion, 117, as relates to the RockviUe and the accounting omcers of the Treat rv Washington Turnpike Roa 1 Company Department Ik-, and they are herthv u-

oe, ana it nereoy is aeciarea to ?e, m tu!i thored to

the president and managers ot the sid principles: Provided. That it shall aiturnpike road company toe, and they are p., .,- that the s.iid Fi-edera k Brown b us hereby authorised to mike said road not been gmlty of air isttscondnct ordefr the boundary of the District of Co- fault in failing to render his t fa

1 i ou'a ra uus uounuary 01 luc ci.y ei asmngton. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That tn relation to the process f construct

ig s lid roa '. and to toU gates and . RESOLUTION directing a umemm of rates of tolls thereon, the said compan) certain parts of the coast of Nunksh .11 toe, and hereby it, invested with ill Carolina.

the r g its, privileges and mimumties, c. . . . i'.' : a 0 1 . r 1 .1 1 1 11 111 1 ti ' rut 11 L- i 1 1 v

snau ue suojeci to an tne oougauons qj k fn s- n'ativee of the United States of which, by the act of Congress "to ina - America, in Congress assembled Tiiit poratea company lor making certam ti, President of the United States be. a d turnpike roads in the District of Colum- h- hereby is, requested to cause surreva toia," passed April 25th, 1510, are given, to be made of the points of C 11 e H ategranted, imposed on, and vested m the ras, Cam Lo.k-(et. ..a c, ' ?....

vw.......... ... m i-u- an tis or moM , respectivebad that company proceeded tomake the ly ; and to cause such anesai unation to ro id, according to the terms ot the act ot be m.de of thie C pes and shoah reCojigresa iniresaid: J rovided 1 iiat th pectivelr, hs win iscemia the orscticn.

ronnai wriuen release, nv tne comp.i j Last mentioned, of their r.ht tr make : road, according to their act d incor-)oi-ation, be tiled, within ten days iotr the passing of this act, in the office of the l- r.v of the circuit court ot the U. v for Washington c unty, in the District oi Columbi u SeC, 4. .lad be if further t rat 1, d, la it the corporation of Washington are I re ay authorised and empowered, at time, to purchase out the said road hen in authorised to be made, with all the rights and profits thereto belong ig, on p tying to the said company a sum a hii h shail be equal to the t(tal amount expi uled On Sara road, with s-y p r terest thereon from the date of his e.penditure. February 13, 119. approved, JAMES MONROE. N ACT authorising the election of . Delegate from the Michigan terntor to the Congress of the United Si c. s, and extenduig the right f suffiragi t the citizens of said territory. lie it enacted by thr Seriutr and Hout f Representatives cf the United States 1 Imerica in Congr assembit I, Tha the citizens of the Michagan territory b , md they inx hereby authorised to eke. ne Delegate to tiie Congress of the Uni ted Mates, who shall p I e the quahl . ations ..nd exercise tJie privilegi s hi retofore required of and granted to the Degates frora die several tei ntorv a . th tooted States. Sec. 2. And be U further enacted, That very free white male citizen ol s.ud ter ".ton , above tin turn oftw aty-ooe years ho shall have resided therein or,, va ext preceding an election, and who shal iave pmd a county or teiTitorial tax, 1, t . . 1 1 . . . ... .... U ml mil fc s niii oe uu.ueti n ie ti ?u.,ii mi,1 s or a Delegate to the Congress of the I - ited States, in such manner, and at su- h tmes and places as shall be ptescibed bj he governor and judges of said territor Sec 3. .2nd K 1 J 'r ; rai '. d, l :...- he person, duly qualified according t . , a o shall receive the ki .ti st nun -er of votes at such election, shall to irnishnrl by tlu g vemot of s.tid territi -y with a certificate undr his oancia eal, se tting forth that he ia dull el etc iy the uialined electors, the Dehg-atv m sahi territory to the Congr 1 1 th United States, foff the term ot two year : ro tl i- date cf said certificate, whir a ill 1 1 title the persen to whom the sann hall be given, to take has aent in tl tieuac i.t Representatives in that capaci y. February 16, 1.19. Approved : JAMES MONROE. N ACT for the relief of Daniel Renner and N ithajuel H. Heath. Be ti Ct t 4 th 4JJi,i.d:

cf R,hrrentatrvr cf th- Unit..!-., f

America, in Congress mssnmbi d That the accounting officers cf IheTreaaury Department be, an 1 they ;ire heretoy authmised and directed' to st ttle the d um of Daniel Rennet sad N.ihtaniel H. I I. .-.!. . e . .n,!,, rti(uint ci rera.ar . snnnarns, and hemp, to irned in tneir ropcw dk on the 24th day of August, lhl4. Bpon their exhibiting suh proof of the ouantitv And valnAf A 1 1. .0 , - tuu" snail Oe para onto! any money in treasury not otla rwise appropriated . February 16, l819.Approved in the JAMES MONRO! AN ACT for the relief of Doctor M ttrom ii.!!. 1 T . ... nr. 1 nactrd bu the Ssnntr nnJ a...... cf Representatives f the Untrd S ar-s of Ami rtca in C armbl T t orown. sc tt le th. accounts 01 Fr, .U--rick Brown, late a captain in the armj of the I'nited S; ites. .scttieincnt. January 19, 1819. Approved : JAMES MONROE, R ., ,-,,, fa rr. t d . . . 1. . . r . 1 . . j.i c.ferctimr l -)it-h . st - or buoys on or near thees n ine pou of them, or either of them and lv Icause the latitude and longitude oft! v w v 'wvviiai ts loi.citu.e (it thft said I apes, 1 Ktreme points, and shoali respectively, to be sscertained with as much exac tness as nay fx- practicable ; and that t : n 1 alls cf snch I urveys .md rxaminations to reported to Congress. January u, 1 19 ppro ed: JAMES M tXROE. Tin and Copper Manufactory, d subscribers have com . menced the COPPI R-XMITiTM IiUJ.Y.S in t:.is p.tce, OI4 Wa'cr treet, neai ti e Vincei.s.ts Hotn and ope t meet with en ouraement I'oni the Luutic ni ireneial They . jvc now, usd will constantly s.cep on hand, a supply of ALL !OS Or COrPKU TIS W A RE, OF 1 11 FIRM hCSUTVi vhk h the wili dispose ol on reasona.t term,. TODD, VOUCE, k Co. aj 'W . e or tvo BUYS as Apprentices to tlx utooe biiamtss hey must come reconunefaied. ! Y. Sc t o. May 13. 1819 c -ti iUH PRINTING of nil kinds, Neatlv Executed THIS OFFICE.

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