Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 21, Number 25, Vincennes, Knox County, 31 July 1830 — Page 1

v Jrn S AAA BY BL2HU STOUTJ VINCSSXTNES, L&.) SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1830. I VOL. XXI. 3NT0. 25.

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Persons sending Advertisements, must specify the number of times they wish them inserted, or they will be continued until ordered out, and must be for paid accordingly. LAWS OF THE UNITED ST A I ES. PASSED AT THE TWKNTY FIRST SESSION OF FIP ST CONGRESS. THE AN ACT toi Uie relief of certain officers axid soldiers of the Virgiuia Line and Navy, and of the Continental Array, during the Revolutionary war. 1U-, it enacted bj the Senate and House f Representatives of the United States cf America in Congress ussemb'cd, That the officers and soldiers, sailors and marines, wlio were in the service of Virginia on her own state establishment during the Revolutionary war, and who were entitled to military land bounties, by the laws and resolutions of that state, their heirs and assigns, shall bet and they are hereby, authorized to surrender, to the Secretary of the Treasury cf the United States, such of their warrants fr the v-id laud bounties as shall remain unsatisfied, in whole oi in part, and to recen o frtificates or scrip for the same, at any time before the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred 'and thirty-five, which certificates of scrip shall be issued by the said Secretary, and signed by him. and countersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in tlie following manner, that is to say : There 3hall be a separate certificate or scrip for such sum as shall, at the time of issuing the same, be equal to the then minimum price of each quantity cf eighty acres of land due by such warrant, and remaining unsatisfied at the time of such surrender, and a like certificate or scrip for such sum as, at the time, shall be equal to the minimum price of the quantity that shall so remain unsatisfied, of any such warrant after such subdivisions ct the amount into quantities of cignty acres. And where any such warrant shall have been lost or mislaid, by time and accident, it shall and may be lawful for the party desiring to surrender the same, to surrender an official copv tfcrcof, certified un der the seal of the Land Office cf Virginia, wiiii inc amuavit or tne partv endorsed up on, or accompanying the same, stating that such warrant has been lost or mislaid, and that the original hath not been sold or transferred, to the knowledge or belief of the parly so surrendering, or his or her guardian. oc. 2. And be tt f urther enacted. That it shall be the dutv of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to request the ExvLumt v. i!tuiui, ui iunnsn mm witn a statement of all Mich warrants, within the puniew of this act, as have already issued, showing the number and date of each war rant, and the quantity of acres granted by cacn, ana aiso a monthly statement of the same description, showiug the number, .1 .... -..,.1 & i i.uv, uuu 411.111111 v, 01 sucii warrants as shall hereafter be granted. And no war rant snau oe iaiv.cn to tie witiun the provisions of this act, which shall hereafter be grained, unless the Executive of Virginia shr.ll cause a certificate to bs endorsed thereon, signed by some proper officer, sta ting that the party to w hom such warrant shall be so granted, his. her or their ances tor or devisor, was entitled thereto by some law or resolution of the smt State, in force at the time of the deed of cession, by the State ot irguua, to the United Slates Sec. 3. And be if further enacted. That before the Secretary ot the Treasury shal issue the scrip required bv the provisions 0 this bill the applicants shall produce to him the certificate ot tfie Kegister of the Lam' Othcc m Kentucky, and the certificate of the Surveyor of the military lauds of the Villoma hue, that the warrants (when the ordinal i presented, or the copy, when the original has been lost or destroyed) has not been located, surveyed, or patented, in Kentucky, attoted by the sal of his office. Sec. 4 .;.. br it further cnact d. That the certificates or .scrip to be issurd by virtue of tin act, shall be receivable in p cyme t toi inv lands, hereafter to be purehaseu a; p l a c 0 '.1 ne s de, after the same shall have d at public sle, and shi.l! remain any 1 f the Laud Otliccs of the t tes, t stabhshed, 01 to lie estab- , the States of Oiiio, Ir. hana, and And ad such certificates or scrip lie issy.ed. by iitiu of thi act, shall li 1!U 1 111 :is he ill uable, l.v eudo: enu nt - the ecu, at uvadiv two witneiiCfc: iVv.JrJ.TUat all

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certificatcs or scrip to be issued, in virtue of any w arrant hereafter to be granted, shall be issued to the party originally entitled thereto, or his heir or heirs, devisee or devisees, as the case may be. Sec. 5. And be it f'urlhir rnactrd, That the provisions of the act shall be deemed and taken to extend to all such officers, soldiers, sailors, marines, chaplains, musicians, surgeons and surgeons' mates, in the land

or sea serice ot the btate ot irginia during the Revolutionary war, and generally, to every person to whom the State had engaged to pay a land bounty for services in that war, of any description, by any law or resolution passed before, and in force at the date of the said deed of cession; except only such persons as are mentioned in, and provided for, by the reservation contained in the said deed ot cession in favor of the officers and soldiers nf the said State on continental establishment: Provided, That no scrip issued under the provisions of this act, shall entitle the holder to cntet or purchase any settled or occupied lands, without the written consent of such settlers er occupants, as may be actually residing on said lands at the time the same shall be entered or applied for: And provided, also, That the amount of land thus located, shall not exceed two hundred and sixty thousand acres. Sec. fi. And fie it further enacted, That the provisions of the first and fourth sections of this act, shall extend to and embrace owners of military land warrants, issued, by the United States, in satisfaction of claims for bounty land for services during the Revolutionary war; and that the laws, heroic tore enacted, providing for the issuing vaul u; u rants, are hereby revived and continue.. v force for two years. Sec 7. And be it further enacted, That the prov i nms ct this act shall also be deemed and t ikeu to extend to all the unsatisfied w arrants of the Virginia army, on contincntd establishment: Proxidc'd, That the quantity thereof shall not exceed fifty thousand acres, in nddit:on to the t o hundred and sixty thousand acres heretofore authorized to be located by their State line A. STEVENSON, Sieakercf the Isuse of Representatives. J. C CALHOUN, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, Mav T.0, 1330. ANDREW JACKSON. AN ACT making appropriations for ex aminations and surveys, and also, tor certain works of Internal Improvement. RE it enacted bi the Senate and House of Riftresentativcs of tlin United States of Imerica in Congress assembled, I hat the "ollow ing sums be, nal as may be considered iracticable. I Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars je, and the same is, hereby appropriated for the purpose of opening, cradimr and. mak ing Cumberland road, westwardly of Zanesvule, in the State ol Ohio; and that the sum i of sixty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of opening, grading, and bridging the Cumber- i and road, m the btate ot Indiana, com- ; mencing at Indianapolis, and progressing with the work to the eastern and western boundaries of said State; and that the sum of forty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of opening, grading, and bridging the Cumber land road, m tiie btate ot Illinois; which said sums shall be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and makiug roads, under the direction of Con gress, by the several acts passed for the ad mission of States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, I hat for the immediate accomplishment of these obiects, the superintendents heretofore ap pointed or hereafter to be appointed in the states ot Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, shall, under the direction of the President of the United States, faithfully execute the work, and disburse the money, giving bond and sc curity as he shall direct, and receiving such compensation as in his opinion shall be equiuble and just, not exceeding to each that heretofore allowed by law to the Superintendent of the Cumberland road in the State of Ohio. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby granted, for claims due and remaining unpaid at the Treasury, on account of the. Cumberland road, east of Wheeling, to be paid out cf any money in the 1 rcasurv not otherwise appropriated. ANDREW STEVENSON, S'icaker cf the House cf Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore I approved this bill, and ask a reference to my communication to Congress of this date, m relation thereto. ANDREW JACKSON. approved, May 31, 1S30. AN ACT to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any cf the States or Territories, and for their removal West cf the river Mississippi. BE it enacted by the Senate and House cf Representatives cf the United States of A?ner:ca in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President cf the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, West of the river Mississippi, not included in any States, or organised territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitaole number of districts, for the reception cf such tribes or nations of in 1 iuian. as may choose to exchange the Wnds j w here they now reside, and remove Uiere; and t u ause each of said distiicts to be so i describe ! bv natural er artificial niai ks. as to be easily distinguished from every otl:er. Sec. 2. .t-:d beit .further enacted. That it shall and m v be 1 iw fid for the President to exch .rge any or all of such districts, so - 1 as to ' laid 1 tf and described, with anv tribe or natioa ot Indians uow rending yith -

in the limits of any of the States or Territories, and w ith which the United States have existing treaties, for the whole or any part or portion of the territory claimed and occupied bv such tribe or nation, within the bounds of any one or more of the States cr Territories, w here the land claimed and occupied by the Indians, is owned by the United States, or the United States arc bound to the State within which it lies to extinguish the Indian claim thereto. Sec, 3. And be it further enacted, That in the making cf any such exchange or exchanges, it shall and may be lawful for the President solemnly to assure the tribe or nation with which the exchange is made, that the United States will forever secure and guaranty to them, and their heirs' or successors, the country so exchanged with them; and if they prefer it, that the United States will cause a patent of grant to be made and executed to them for the same: Provided always, That such lands shall revert to the United States, if tlve Indians become extinct, or abandon the same. Sec 4. And be it further enaeted, That if upon any of the lands now occupied by the Indians, and t() be exchanged for, there should be such improvements as add valueto the land claimed by an indiv idual or indivi'l'ials of such tribes or nations, it shall and may be lawful for the President to cause such value to be ascertained by appraise ment or otherwise, and to cause such ascertained value to be paid to the person or persons rightfully claiming such improvements. And upon the payment of such valuation, the improvements be valued and paid for,

shall pass to the United Sutcs, and posses sion shall not afterwards be permitted toa any of the same tribe. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That upon the making of any such exchange as is contemplated by this act, it shall and may be law ful for the President to cause such aid and assistance to be furnished to the emigrants as may be nccessarv and proper to enable them o remove to, and settle in, the country for which they may have exchanged ; and, also, to give them such aid and assistance as may be necessary for their support and subsistence for the first year after their removal. j Sec. 6. And be it further enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for the President to csuse such tribe or nation to be protected, at their new residence, against all interruption or disturbance from any other tribe or nation of Indians, or from any other person or persons whatever. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful tor the President to have the same superintendence and care oerany tribe or nation in the country to " Inch they may remove, as contemplated by this act, that he is now authorized to have over them at their present places of residence : Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed as authorizing or directing the violation of any existing treaty between the United States and any of the Indian tribes. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That for the puqiose cf giving effect to the provisions 01 mis act, the sum ot five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 28, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of sundry owners ot vessels sunk tor the defence of Baltimore. BE it enacted by the Senate and House cf Representatives cf the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Tl,:-.l A ...Ui r '! . luuu auunui ui 1 reasury ascertain the value ot the following vessels, at the time they were taken to be sunk for the de fence of the City of Baltimore, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to wit: 1 he ships 1 homas v llson, Chesapeake, Adriana, Scioto, Temperance, Fabius, India Packet, Mars, and Nancy; brigs, Aid, George, hwallow, Blanche, Sally, Eliza, Betsey, Father and Son, and Ann; schooners Scudder, Ann, Columbia, Enter prise, and Packet; and the sloop Rosanna, and to allow to the owners, rcspccuvcly. the amount of tweniy-five per centum on said valuation: Provided, That in each and every case, the said valuation shall be duly established by full and competent disinterested testimony, and that the damages sus tained in the vessels in question, by being sunk and raised exclusively, was to the full extent of the said per centum over and above all the amount or amounts heretofore received for said damaccs by said owners, or their legal representatives, respectively: And provided, also, l hat the said vessels, at the time they w ere taken, were sound and sea-worthy, and would have remained seaworthy at the return of peace in one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: And providcd,also, That, in no instance wheie anv vessels is net proved to have been se.v worthy at the time she was taken to be sunk, shall a greater allow ance be made than will, with the money heretofore received for damage and detention of such cssel, and the value thereof at the time she was raised, with such rigging or other articles as have been sold or reserved by the proper owner, amount to the value of the vessel at the time she was taken to be sunk. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the amount so found by the Third Auditor shall be paid to the owners respectively, or to their legal representatives, by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money, not otherwise appropriated, or be applied on debts due by them to the United States, as the case mav be. Approved, May Z9 1830. AN ACT to authorize the payment of the claim of the State of Massachusetts, for certain services of her Militia during the late war. BF it enacted b-j the Senafe and Hyuse cf Representatives cf the United States of America vi Congress assembled. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, under the superintendence of the Secretary of War be. and thrv are -r, hv nnthor. d and directed to audit and .settlc'the claim 1 of the State of Massachusetts urains? the ; Unjtcd fc:atjs,for the services of her Mil-

itia during the late war, hi the following cases: First, where the Miiilin of the said State were called out to repel actual invasion, or under a well founded apprehension of in vasion: Provided, Tl.cir numbers wen: not in undue proportion to the cxircnev:

j Second, w here they w ere called cut by the authority ot the htate, and atterwards recognized by the Federal Government; and thirdly, where they weie called by, and served under, the requisition of the President of the United States, or of any cflker thereof. Sec. 2. And be it further enactrd,Thzi the sum of four hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and tw enty-six cents, if so much be necessary, be applied to the foregoing purposes, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not fclhcru'isc appropriated. approved, May 31, 1630. AN ACT making additional appropriations for pay of the Marine Corps. BE it enacted by the Senate end House of Representatives cf the United States cj America in Congress assembled. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any mncy in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay the extra emoluments directed to be paid to the officersof the Marine Corps by a joint resolution, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Approvku, May 31, 1830 Prom the Banner of the Constitution The bill entitled "An act authoiizing ub;,c"Pll.on of f'ock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company " was on Thursday the 27th of May, returned to the House ol Representatives in which it originated, by the President, with his objections to its becoming a law. This bill, appropriating g 150,000 for the purpose mentioned was passed by the House ot Representatives 011 the 29th ot Aptil, by a vote of 102 to 86, and by the Senate, on the 5th of May, by a vote of 24 to 18. It being the first act appropriating money for internal improvements, which had been presented for the appro val of the President since his installation into office, great interest was excited as ta the course he would pursue in relation to it. Amongst his political supporters, sn both Houses of Congress, there was some who were favorable to this species of appropriation as well upon considerations of policy as of constitutional power, whilst there were others who dc ied altogether both the expediency and the right of Congress to expend the public money on works of so local a character as the road in question, which, being no link in any great chain of internal communication, could only be regarded as a mere insulated route, in tended to connect Lexington with the river Ohio, and not as any more entitled to the rank of a National work, than anyother road of sixty miles, connecting any other inland town with a navigable vtatcr Each of these two parties looked with great solicitude for his decision, inasmuch as each supposed that thereby an indication would be afforded of his opinion as to the constitutional power of Congress over internal improvements, and each one had a strong belief that the decision would be favorable to its own particular wishes. We have been thus minute in order that the public may be able to form a judgment of the delicate position in which the Pesident was placed on this occasion, as regards those considerations which arc sometimes brought to bear upon men in high stations, and which by appealing to selfish calculations, laave disgraced so many public men in our country, and that they may the better be able to appreciate the independence of his course, which, in our humble estimation, is worthy of the gratitude of the Nation. We say gratitude, because he has, by this single act, arrested the progress of a system, which could not have been much longer persevered in, without involving the country in a state bor dcring on civil war, and has thus averted, for a time, at least, the catastrophe that has to long excited the patriotic apprehensions of those who have watched the state of public feeling at the South. He has, in fine, done as much as lay in his power, consistently with his own views of constitutional authurity and expediency, to save the Union lrom dissolution, and has thus given his own interpretation to his maxim, "Our Federal Union, it must be preserved." Although his doctrine as to the constitu'ional power of Congress does not go to the entire length of what is contended for by those who advocate a rigid construction of the Constitution, yet it extends sufficiently far to stop a wasteful and improvident expenditure of the pub lie money, until time can be affoidcd for the friends of the Union upon its legitimate basis, to enlighten the people upon this vital principle of our social organization That this can be accomplished, we have not a shadow of doubt, and wc shall hold ourselves in readiness, as one of the champions of the cause, to show, by repeated and reiterated illustrations, that nothing but mischief could flow from the exercise of the power to make roads and canals by the general govern1 mem' and bv reference to the proceedinSs of the Convention which Jormed the Constitution, that no such power was ever intended to be ccnferreJ. Reads

and canals in such an extended territory as ours, must needs be partial in their benefits. Those therefore who profit most by them, should bear the expense ol th'.r construction, and this is so clearly in accordance with the principles of justice and common sense, that it is every where acted upen in relation to the ordinary highways. Who pave the streets of a Cit)? Those who reside in the City. Who keep in repair the ordinary roads? The townships. Even in the case of a country road, it must be determined to be for the benefit ol the county, in order to entitle it to the benefit cf the county funds. And shall the preposterous doctrine be set up, that the whole people of the United States arc to be taxed, in order to enable the farmers of a little district in a single State, to transport their produce to market at a cheaper rate? If so, surely the farmers of every little district in the Union have an equal right; and, if this princu pic be carried out to its full extent, a hundred millions of dollars would not suffice to meet all the demands upon the Treasury. It is high time that the system should be checked, and, if wc are not greatly deceived, the people will thank the President for interposing his executive Prerogative, between the tax collector and their pockefs. Afier the reading of the message referred to, which was listened to with an appropriate and dignified solemnity) there was a very visible sensation bordering upon excitement, manifested throughout the House, and, if there had been any person present, who believed that a disposition favorable to disunion was entertained by any Representative or any of the Southern or South Wes tern States, he would instantly have been convinced of his error, by the effect produced upon the entire delegation of that section of countiy. A general manifestation of joy was apparent, founded upon a beiicf that the Constitution, which had once already been saved when at its last gasp, had now been a second time rescued from annihilation, by this' timely interposition of one, who was willing to risk his private popularity for the sake of promoting ''the general welfare." On the part of those who considered the message of the President as settling the executive policy agsinst their views upon this momentous question, a good deal of disappointment as was natural to be expected, was visible. Of this the first cbulition was a motion for the House immediately to proceed to the consideration of the bill, in order

to try whether the constitutional number of two thirds could be obtained, to pass the bill through that House in opposition to the view of the President. After a short and confused debate, however, it was decided to postpone the subject until the following day. in order that gen tlemen might have an opportunity of see-, ing the message in print Yesterday the House piocetded to the consideration of the rejected bill, and after an animated dehate, (of which an account will be given heieafter) the question was taken, when 96 were found in favor of it, and 99 against it, to tho bill was lost it requiring two thiids for its passage. From the JV. II Patriot f State Gaz. VOICE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. At a Convention of the Dcrnot. ac Republican Membeis of the Senate and House ol Representatives, holden at the Eagle Coffee House in Concord, June 15, 18S0 Samuel Tiltox, esq :was chosen Chairman, and James Tarrinovon. r-sq appointed Secretary Tho Convention being org: piled and called to order, the following preamble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted, and signed by nine members of the Senate, including tho President, and by one hundred anil twenty Members of the House Representatives includirg the Speaker. PREAMBLE1. On the Declaration of Independence? in 1776, ech State, then represented in Congress, hecane a separate an J ir.depenpent Republic. Conscious incompetency to carry cn the war with Grea: Btitain separably, led to a Confederation of the States. After the closu ot that war, the confederation was found to be inadequate to the purposes for which it was designed. The States then formed the present Constitution. This instrument was designed to pre serve the States, not to destroy them. It was designed to protect each Stats iri the exercise of all the essential rights of self government. Separately, they were unable to guard against foreign danger, or prevent intestine commotion. To accomplish these ends, was the chief object of the Union. Other powers were granted, beneficial to all, which each, could not efficiently exercise. Tha principal of these, are th powers to establish post offices, and post roads, to regulate commerce, to create an uniform currency, and to settle controersiesbetween citizens of different States But that the States were able to prcscrije rules of property, to punish crimes, 'o regulate the intercourse of their own citizens, to establish schools, to make ! reads and A car.ali, was never doubted