Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 23, Number 22, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 July 1832 — Page 1

A BY 33LIHU STOUTJ VIETCBKNES, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1832. VOL. XXIIX. ITO. 22

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BF.it enacted by the Senate and House of pany, and to hold, use, occupy, and reRcpre&tntatives cf the United States pair the same, from time to time, as oc

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives cf the United States cf America w Congress assembled. That the sum of thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of completing the Penitentiary and buildings connected with it. forthe erection of raiiiugon the exterior walls, and fir the support of the convicts, apd pay of officers for the present year, to he expended umler the superintendence and direction of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary. Appkovkd Ma 31, 1S32. No. 38. AN ACT for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances and securing the estate of purchasers within the District of Columbia. ")E it enacted by the Senate and House JS.J of Representatives of the United States of Representatives of the United States cf America i'i Congress assembled, That if any person or persons, seized o posses:cd of, or holding any estate or interest in any hinds, tenements, or hereditaments, lying and bHng within the District of Columbia, shall execute and acknowledge a deed for the conveyance of such estate or interest, or for declaring or limiting any use or trust in and of the same, before any judge of a court of record and of law of the State and county in which such person or persons may he, or before any chancellor cf any ruch State, or before any Judge of the Supreme, Circuit, Dstrict or Territorial courts of the United States, or before anv two Justices of the Peace of the State, District or Territory and county in which such perSou or persons may be; and such Judge, Chancellor, or Justices shall annex to such a deed a certificate, under his or their bands of the execution and acknovlcdrmcnt : thrrrof. and that th. pranmr or -nntm - was or were known to him or them, or that

lis 3. her or their identity had been satisfacto-! ad one at the lrginia Aveoux ot.4at l ily proved, ai d the UegUter, Clerk or j least eighty feet in width, and one hunProthonatary ot such Court or ccuntv, shall dred feet in Icncth, each of vhichbasms

abo certify under his hand and the seal of; I. is office, that the Judge, Chancellor, or Justices, is, or are, was or were such at the time of the execution and acknowledement .I,.,. ( .,.k .. seized or possessed as aforesaid, shall be iu

so'i.e foreign country, and sh:ill t xecute ami or other materials, where necessary, of Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, acknowledge any such deed before any sufficient strength and height to allow I That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Judc,e or Chaneeifir of any Court, master j the use of steam vessels therein; all Common Council, shall net begin to color master extraordinary, in chancery or no-1 which WOrk hereby required to be donejlect wharfage or tolls, until the said ca ta.v pu.il.c u such tomgii country; ad ; to completc thc 1 , apJ basins, ' na and wolks fiha have been wholly s execution ana acknowledgement, and . , . ' , , -.,-. " , i- . .t. also the u'.cntuv ot the v;t antoor grunto, s ' s' " ' ' be ;!one finished in thc manner . completed according to the provisions or shall be et i tihed upon. ( r annexed to, such ; a,oresa,d l)V tl,e day of March, in this act, in the opinion of the Secretary de-d, under the h u.d ai d e:d of any' Mich j 'ear nc thousand eight hundred and of the Treasury of the United Stales, J idcr. Chancellor, u.stci or meters tx-j thirty three, or in default thereof, this for the time being, who is hereby autho tracrd.t.jry, cr n-tasy public, and s.ucl 'act, and all the rights and privileges : rizrd and required to give his certificate

deed, so executed, acknowledged and certified in the several and resi,ectie modes

afoicsaid. hall be recorded amongst the land record ot toe county of Washington, or the comity cf Alexandria in the District cf Columbia, within six calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged within the United States or the Territories thereof, or within twelve calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged in some foreign country; such deed shall be good and effectual for the purpose or purposes therein mentioned. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That if any feme covert in whom such estate or interest may be, shall be a party with her husband, executing such deed, or shall only be relinquishing her right or dower, in or to such estate or interest, and the judge, chancellor, justices, master or master extraordinary in chancery or notary public, aforesaid, before whom the same may be executed and acknowledged, shall make the contents thereof known to her. and shall examine her out of the presence and hearing of her husband, whether she doth make her acknowledgment of the same voluntarily, and without being induced to do so by fear or threats of, or ill usage by her husband, or fear of his displeasure; and such examination and acknowledgment and also the identity cf the party shall be certified in the mode prescribed in the first section of tlr.s set, according to the place or country where such feme covert shall be at the time of such examination and acknowledgement, and such deed shall be recorded within the several and respective periods herein before mentioned; the same shall be good and available for the purposes therein mentioned, and thereby intended. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That the clerks of the circuit conrt of the District of Columbia for the counties of Washington and Alexandria, respectively, are hereby authorized to record any deed or conveyance, executed aod authenticated agreeably to the provw ns of this act. approved-May 31, 1832. No. 39. AN ACT vesting in the Ccr potation of the City of Washing ton, all the rights of the Washington Canal Company, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, it is represented that the Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board 0 Common Council of the city of w;ihinnn. r,haA now exclusive owners of all the stock of the Washington Canal Company, and are desirous that the entire property, rights, privileges and immunities of the said Company be vested in them for the use and benefit of the said city: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Se nate and House cf Representatives of the United Slates cf America, in Con gress assembled. That all the right, title, interest, property, and estate, either in law or equity, of the Washington Canal Company, be, and the same are hereby, vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council for the use aforesaid; and that the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen, shall have full power and authority to take possession of the Canal and works of the said Comcasion may require, and as to them shall seem expedient: Provided, That said canal shall be finished and completed, of the breadth and depth, and in the manner and within the time hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise. c. 2. And be it further enacted. That the said canal shall be finished in such manner that the width thereof, from Seventeenth street west to Sixth street west, at the w ater line, shall be one hundred and fifty feet; from Sixth street west to B street south, eighty feet, at the water line from B street south to the basin at the Virginia Avenue, sixty feet, at the water line; from said basin to L street south, fifty-five feet, at the water line: from E utreet smith In N stieri south, forty five feet, at the water line; and from L street south to the channel of tbe Eastern branch, one hundred and twenty feet, at the water line; and the said canal, throughout its whole length and breadth aforesaid, shall have a depth of at least four feet water at all times. There shall also b? made by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Common Cauncilmcn, three basins attached to tXsaid canal, which shall be by them kejain repair, of the following dimensions, thai is to say: one at the western termination of the said canal, at least one hundred and fifty feet wide and five thousand five hundred and forty-live feet long; one at the Eastern branch, at the eastern termi- ! nation of the said canal, of at least one ; I 1 1 I . r - l.i , i ,,UI,UI tu u,m iwen.v icei in wjum, ana ! 81x nunared ana ninety teet in length, shall, at all times, havr. throuo-hont itr)f,h and width, n drnth of water c-nual to that hereby required in the said canal. i rs.uu uic siucs oi me saia canai anu ua.1 . 1 r.t i i v s,ns shaI1 be secured by walls of stone,'

thereby granted, shall cease and determine. S.c. 3. And be it further enacted. That all such provisions, in any former law, us required the Washington Canal Company to raise, drain, or improve the low or wet grounds along or near the said canali shall remain in full force, and be obligatory on the said Mayor, Aldermen and Common Ccunci': Provided, That no funds for that purpose shall be raised by lottery. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for and in consideration ot the expenses which have been and will be incurred in finishing the said canal and basins, aod of securing the sides thereof, and of the expenses of erecting and maintaining locks, and of completing the whole work

according to the provisions of this act, and of keeping the same in repair, eluding the expense of draining or other wise improving or drying the low and wet grounds along and near the said ca nal, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and . Common Council, are hereby authonzed to collect, on all articles and materi als landed on each side of the canal and basins, from on board any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, or placed on either side of the said canal or basins for the purpose of being taken therefrom by any boat, scow, or other vessel, or water craft, wharfage, according to such rates as they, by any by laws or regulations my from time to time ordain and establish: Provided, That the said rates shall, at no lime hereafter, and in no par ticular exceed those charged on the same articles by the owners of private wharves in the said city. And it shall and msy be lawful for the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to demand and receive, at the most convenient place or piaccs lor all articles carried j aong the said canal, tolls not exceeding the following rates, that is to say: for each unloaded boat, scow, or ether ves sel or water craft, twenty five cer.s; for each barrel of flour, beef, or pork, two! cents; for each barrel of whiskey, bran dy, or spirituous liquors of any description, three cents; for each hogshead or pipe, six cenre; ar,d upon all other articles, packages or commodities, not exceeding six cents for e3ch ton; and after that rate for any article or quantity weighing less than one ton. And said Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council, 6hall also have the exclusive right to establish a packet boat or boats on the said canal for the conveyance of passengers; and no other boat or boats for that purpose, except such at are established cr permitted by them, shall be allowed to convey passengers on the said canal for hire. The tolls hereby granted shall be demandable on any boat, scow, vessel, or other water craft, on tny of the articles aforesaid lor a passage through either of the locks, or along any part of the said canal, but the public property of the United Ststes shall be landed and pass hee ot wharfage and tolls. Sec 5. And be it further enacted. That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, from time to time, erect and keep in repair, all such bridge or bridges ever said canal, in each and every street crossing the same, as the con venience of the inhabitants of the city may requiie; which bridges shall be erected at least eight feet above high water, and of not les width than twenty four teet, and be safe for the passage of footmen, horses, cattle, carriages and loaded wagons. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted That the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, shall, annually, in the month of January, lay before Congress a true statement of the capital invested by them in the purchase, completion, and improvement, of the said canal and wcik9, with the amount of their annual expenditures and receipts, so s toshow the clear nett profit by them so received on such investment; and if at any time the nttt profit shall happen to fall ho -t of six per centum on the said capital so invested, u snan oe lawiui ior ir.em ioj inciease the said rates of toll and wharf age in such manner es they may judge sufficient to produce six per cent, per annum on the said investment; and should it so happen at any time that the nett proceeds aforesaid shall exceed a rate of ten per centum per annum, they shall so re duce the said rates as not to produce a greater nett profit than of the said rates! cf tenper centum. In estimating the i amount of capital invested, the proceeds of sale of the real estate hereby granted to the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to aid them in the execution of the works hereby required, shall not be included, but the amount of sales

irof the said pioperty, showing what part

I thereof shall have been sold, and at what price each part of the said properly shall have been sold, shall iorm part of the said annual report.

thereof, whenever, in his opinion, the j

same shall have been so completed; and i . . . t . . r. .at upon obtaining such certificate, and de positing the same with the clerk of the circuit court lor the District of Columbia, in the county of Washington, to be by him recorded, it shall and may be lawful, to and for the said Mayor, Al-! dermen, and Common Council, to com mence the collection of the said wharfage and tolls. And suck right to collect the said rates of toll and wharfage shall cease, whenever the said canal shall be so out of repair as to impede the free and convenient use thereof by vessels or craft drawing four feet water, so long as he same shall remain out of repair or obstructed. Sec. 8. And in order to aid the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun-in-jcii, jn fulfilling the objects and require ments ol this act, Be it further enacted. That all the right, title, property, inte rest, and estate, in law or equity, of tbe United States, of, in, and to, that part of lne public reservation in the city of Washington, known and designated as the Mall, which is bounded as follows lying between Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, and extending from Canal street two hundred and fifteen feet fouth to the continuation of A street north, and all that part of the said reservation on the south side of the said Mall extending from B street south, 360 feet, to A street south, and lying between Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, and all the right, title, interest and estate, which is now, or uiight to be, vested in any trustees, commissioners, or other person, for, and on behalf, and in trust, for the benefit of the United S?!cs, be, and the same are here by vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, land Common Council, in fee, for the DUrnose, and to be bv them sold ar.d aD plied tor the purposes alorcsaid, or so much thereof as they shall deem it advisable to sell tor the said purposes, and the said residue to hold and use for the benefit and convenience of the said city Sec. 9. And be tt further enacted, That the said Mayor, Aidermen, and Common Council, shall not be authorized to occupy, nor permit others to occupy, more than forty feet fcr the purpose of landing on either side of the said canal, extending from the said Eastern branch to Seventh street west, upon the plan of the city Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That a street be laid out along the entire length of said canal, on the south side thereof, of the width of eighty feet, between said Sixth and Fifteenth streets west, which shall be kept open for ever as a public street, and subjected to the same rules, regulations, and ordinances, as shall and may effect the other streets and avenues in said city; and that all the streets of &aid city running north and south, and all avenues which, by continuing the same, shall extend through said Mall, and such as running westwardly and easiwardly would in lik manner in tcrsect the same, shall, in like manner, bo opened and kept open, and subject as aforesaid. Sec. U. And be it further enacted, j That a map or plat of the said land, squares, stieets, and avenues, made anil prepared by F. -C. De Kraffi, United States Surveyor of the city of Washington, dated December twenty seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyone, marked A, be, and the same is here by, ordered and directed to be recorded in the office of the Commissioner of Public Building9, and also in the office of said Surveyor of the Laid city of Washington, and shall be held and deemed as indicating correctly the said lands and squares, streets and avenues, and be of full luthority as designating and exhibiting the same. Sec. 12 And be it further enacted. That if any proprietor, or proprietors of any lots now fronting north on B street south, between said Sixth and Fifteenth streets, shall signify his, her, or their desire anci imeniion to exchange said lots for an equal quantity of the lands herein and hereby conveyed to the Baid Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, situated on the south side of A street south, and immediately north of his, her or their baid lots, it shall be the duty of the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Com mon Council, nn such intention and desjre being made known to them, to and upon a conveyance in due form of law, i upon a conveyance clear of all incumbrances, being made to them for the said lands so held by such proprietor or proprietors, to convey and assign to the said proprietor or j.roprietors, a corresponding quantity on thc quare immediately north and fronting on A street south. And in case such proprietor or proprietors shall have made any substantial improvements on the said land so held by him or them as aforesaid, to make a fair and equitable allowance on said surrender or conveyance, cither in land or monev, as may be agreed on by the parties: Provided, baid proprietor or proprietors shall make knowo such intention to the said Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, on or bclore the first day of August next. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, j That hc laid Mayer, Board of Alder-

men, nd Boaid cf Cororrrn Council,

be, and thty ?re herery, au'r.o'izsci ir.d - , . required to lay out nd di. icV the aid lands, so conveyed and es:cd by wrtuo of this ect, into lets with alleys, as to hem shall seem meet end proper, and to dispose cf and sell if e same, cr so much thereof as shall remain unexchan ged as aforesaid, and also all such lots as they shnll receive in exchare as aforesaid, at such times and upon eu- h terms as to the said Mayer, Board of Aldermen, and Board ol Common Council shall seem meet; and to execu'e, or cause to be executed, good and sLfhV.ent deeds of conveyance to the purchasers thereof. Sec. 14. And be it further enccted, That the proceeds arising from said sales shall be, and constitute a fund, wh-ch shall be applied by the said Mtyor, Board of Aldermen, and Board of Common Council, to pay and extinguish any debt which has been, or may be, contraced, either in the purchase of the Washington City Canal, ox the shares of stockholders in said canal, or in the completion of the same, and in the exprnse attending said puichase and completirn, and shall not be applicab'e to iy other object or purpose until sjiicl debts be extinguished. Sec. 15. And be it funher enacted, That ro'hing ir, this act c r.iaired si nil be held or deemed, in any marncr or way, to impair or injure any private ritrhts or J.v.erests, or in any manner to affect tho samtr beyond the mere transfer of the lights of th United States to ;aid Mayor, Board of Aldermen, and Bourd of Common Courcil. Sec. 16- And be it further enacted, That the several acts pascd cn ti c first day of May, cne thousand eig; : hundred and two; the sixteenth day ot Februaiy, one thousand eight hur dte.? and i ine; the sixth dy of Mav. one thousand eight hundred and tvelve; and the twentth day of May, cne thousand vight hur.crtd and twenty six, in relation to the Washington Canal Company, shall be. ano the same are hereby, repealed, except as herein before provided approved May 31, 1852. No. 40 1 AN ACT changing the time of holding the Courts in the D:s;iict of Columbia. !Jt E it enacted by the Senate and House. 3 or Repretentath'e8 cj the Ur.it ed Sicies of America, in Conqrts asumbltd. That the Circuit Court of the District ot Columbia, for the county ol Washington, hal! hereafter be held on the fourth Monday in March, and on the fcur.h Monday in November, in every vtar, instead of the times now desigr Mfd by law; and the court for the c .unty of Alexandria shJl be held on the first Monday in May, and on ihe first Monday in October, in every yeai, instead of the times row designated by law; and that all process shall be made returnable to the said rtrms as herein directed. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of June r ext. Approved, M 31. 1832. No. 41. j AN ACTdr filing the quali-firaiio-" of voters in the Territory Arkansas. it .-' Cted by the &nat' and ffjU&c JJ of Jlefirehentativee of the L't.itid States o4' America, in congrti asstn blcd, 'I hit rvery free white male tinz of the (United States cf tie ag? oi iwtn'y ono years, who shall have resided in ihe territory of Arkansas for he ttrm of six months next preceding any general or special election, shall have the privilege of voting in the election district whrrc he shall reside, and not els-where, fcr all elective officers of said Territory. Approved June 31, 1832. Jttfuau affairs prom the Pioneer Ejctra. Thursday morning, juke 23. The Editor having been absent for several weeks, in the counties bordering on and north of the Illinois river, and having reached home alter the present number of the Pioneer was struck eff he issues an Extr3, containing tbe following authentic sketches of tbe progress of the Indian war: This war is fast assuming a roost bloody and desolating character, and threatens to be of longer continuance than was expected. The chief aggressors arc the Sauks and Foxes, well armed, mounted, and under good discipline. They fight with desperaiion. They harbor among the swamps, sand ridges and thickets, towards the heads of Kock River and its branches, east and northeast from Galena, and send out marauding parties through thc northern portion of the state. These particsj from thickets and ravines, watch the motion of our men in the day time, who are necessarily exposed to view in thc open prairiei, and at night pass from place to place, and keep up a constant intercourse with the main body of Indians. Thi body 15 supposed to be encamped and foirificd about the Four Lakes, which are between Rock river and the Wisconsin, and towards the heads of Rock river. The country throughout that region it pecuj culiarly favourable for Indian warfare,