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*OtXftrtrA hi a manufactured <tt£U, .. ~ )V>. r u"ined for home con pifen, 11 958,87i1h. Oi itity of British plaititatton 1 for thfi a years, « n sth of J. :d in . h year, 2,947,630 2 e;r„. 21b. .;«'.•.• g t n* the snme, ; ,126,952 cwt. . regained, 1,688,946 Cwt, 1 qr. 191b.j That 'lie sums remaining in t 1 ■ ex icr, on the Ist Jai a, on ant of the ?;rarit lor services ]>er -1 ined by the once of ordnance -.<,r the 1805, and not provided for by Par e said year, amounted to >001. and the balance in the hands -rA the treasurer of the ordnance, and una;) >r -priated on the Ist January, to 49,0621. 19s. Pd. • number of vcss'ds, with the dfllouot oi their toon age. 4ni -\ered in toe several ports of j the British empire, amounted to in the ; Vrs:i Is, Tonnage. 1794 714 66,021 1795 719 72, '1 jT"'G 9f,972 7-7 IW # 94 * 127, her of vessels, with tered | \ di'tii'mic-ns on the 30th j 03, includ hilt, f-.r izes made I inted •! 3, do. do. on tin POth (■ • ships 21,774, ti nn ,-VO. That the rjnuutity o r British uiiuanu tao, exported, for the [ 1 : bO6, 91,797 cwt. 2 qrs. 161b. value 11. each year. Do. pig ' ~ICo cwt. 2qrs. 12». CONSTITUTION, ox ARTICLES or ASfCCIATION, or rim ME CM A,VIC'S BANK or BALTIMORE. horn these fireiento ihall 1, , or in any wise concern. \crxtz azz made >ia:: --1 rIAT We, the subscribers, have j , da company cr limited Pal'tner iC'ute im I agree 1 conduct business in i fie> liereinaftei I ami 10■ d, by and under the name and fc-yle ' i M The President and i firs of the Mechanics' 1 Bank of Bali- j ■'.c do hereby mutually rtant and agree, that th hal! 1 the fund iinental ■f this our ass : ition and agree . with each other, by v/hich we, II • said ►any, shall be . d condud rd. ' Artii ' Toe Capital Stock Of the said Cot /I.AKS, money oi -.. . thousand twenty-h '~ four ifl be re .cd until th ire may incur _p . and Mir scribed forhy the stati red by tne | a thereof ; this re-'rva tion, however, shall n< mm' ■ toan two years from the ffrst e h, cr two dollars and fifty cuts on each share, shall be paid to the i iat the i iing ; two tenths, orfive ire to the directors, jfphoten, resent commissioners , Baltimore, in sixU i .eafer ; •and two tenth:-', or five dollars more, to ,re to the directors in -, in one hundred *n«J twenty < u .y . all itttJ tl . an I the bank ' tion whei I thousand doll •.; half ibed shall •fore mentioned , and tes the directors appt tat ; kui no farther pai j,. dl be i eqHired without fir ,t , four months notice in tiie pu .. a I tue said stock ana the *> v ! m the city oi i on Monday, the twenty-third d next ensuing, undei ,er named, t/n J- 1 rice, \ Ca hong, J ■', Robert WiiUum i.v inn, ' tven Dor r, or a m .. arity ana the \ ■ ■ I. add they shsi id 4 o'clock, y. M. tod shall re ourc for one i three | ■ sooner I id if it j »H • ie f ■ a;, then the com* J iMltattofiers a lit* j > a proper number ; ; a thcte ! ; arcil.uiv:, t:.cu u*c c.3iaau3sici.er« *re J i to ea lecUTe to whom they shall belong ; ami the co rs will, on iding to whom the shares m iv.'.te receipts to the different .holders for th< I ceived (jy them at the time of subscribing ; these receipts, with tiie origin iptioo, i shall be<;. ,r\ t-viler.ee of tiie tityof stock to ivhich eachsubscri* ( ber shall be entitled in this i ■ but t.o person or per rate or otherwise, shall be permitted to oribo on the first day on which tie - are opened fof more than fifty • shares : an.i if the stock be hot subscri i bed on the first day, the tore ■ to,mi open on the second day, on the ■ '•■■ terms as on the Grst ; but if i are no) fdb-d on the second day, thai the com mis-, i oner-, may permit any p or persons, bodies corporate or other wist;, to subscribe for any number of I' shai : | ])!• te ; and Should it so happen, that a part of the shares in this bank shall be subscribed for during the three j first cays allotted for the books to be open, the commissioners Shall ep j point a place or pi re , . for the books to ■ ■•v. for receiving subscriptions, ire elected"; who shad, ,n as'convcnFrit then fter, make' i the necessary a therefor. i Article 11. The affair* oi the company thai! be managed by fifteen directors and a pre* ■ lace, if Chosen from a , moog their number, shall be supplied by that body ; nim-ot which -directors shall be practical mechanics '< facturt*rs ; and eight of thfl director* . ' and the President shall form a board OV rum tor trt all die busl iot the camp. • ■ counts may be done by the presid<sit and any.. ■ live of th*e director*. In e*4e of iry absence o| the presi dent . runy be suppl ed bj ; j direct re, whom he by writing uftder , his hand may nominate for thet pur pose ; an l the directors who niay be tinted at the brst election , theirsccts mtii t&« first Monday In June, one thousand eight handred The director's, trom ri >d, shall*beelected for o.ie year bj the stockholders for the time b am' each director shaN be a stx kh I der at the timefofhis election, erase to be a director If be should cc.a. c tv In : and no director of any vtiier I anfc shall at the same ti no be a director of <b any person be a director in this I wtWl* a paruier in trade with a i tcr in any other bank ; Hn i th ot votes to which each r-tockh , shall hi entitled, sh? ii be in propa :k he may H viz. For one share, and not c'.;c t .. two shares, one vote, each; for every two shares above two, and not e> < jng ten, one vote ; for every four shares above tin and not exceeding thirty, < n< vote ; for every *ix Glares above thir ty and not exceeding sixty, pne vote ; for every eight sh res above sixty and not exceeding one hun Ired, one vote, and for every ten sh ires above that number, on- vote; buthopet soft or per sons, body politic or otherwise, shall be re Ate r number than thir ty votes. No share or sh iresufcvuM con- i for a right of suffrage, which shall not have been ludd four calendar ta mths previous to the daj of election, ( xcept ■) ; all stockholders within the Ui State o iv vte at ciec ti. i,s b) bftilo , , roxy, ' which in all elections, after the first, is to be mad. in such form as tho board of int. None but. I a-, bein 5 of the United 3ing widling the city of Baltimore or preciiM ts thereof, shell be eligible a. a oiia ctor or president. Article 111. A general me ting oi the stockhol. ders of the company shall be holdcn on the first Monday in Jane in every 1 ptvhe president) at such pfe< ■ -ard of directors shall appoint, by giving four weeks notice, to <• ~ in three of the new printed in ity ol Haiti .vi • . - , he :g direct ■ ensuing wtiof,uali cake tneir seats at -'.■iy, H immedi Aely ',ro- But t r the present year for -.idi ot* organization of the buim company, the election sh ill be h - ilei 1 I ensui >g, u.aier tic a of the ' commissioners appointed to receive \ riptiom* in the city of Baltimore Article IV. The board of directors hei fully impowered to make, revise, alter: orders, by« I and regulations for the govern-tent of : the c their effi iers, icy, or a snajo- i ■ r'.tyo . time to tent m tth ; i- ; Jk. ' ise of the joint * 1 'took rty ot the said 1 ject only to tne restrictions 1 1 ted, as to t.'iem, or 1 1 a majority of them may seem ci.pe- i die id.. ! 1 A . . • J If Article V. ,If any t.iocl.hA'ur shall IVII to pay ' her, or thedr nents, to the j hmount of twelve dollars and filty crnts j upon each share, at ths time pr ti and in m inner here n b ified, [ . stockholder shall forfeit to the use - con .y, all money paid arue- > cedent to such failure or default. But no : I hall take place u,u r fi.el. and fifty i id, on each share sh ill have been paid ; he i.i ■ r< ii linire tint means should he I .:• p iy:r,c , re, if any stockholder ilia!! fall to make n *t»t of i dollars and fiic/csafc* have bj&D . S'ich stockholder shaft not beentitiecito dividend, until such instalment or call Khali be made good ; and the dividend fter to be psr! 1 to such stockhol der, (as I the mom larly paid, as upon the money paid after default) shaH he calculated from the time when said last instalment mane good, j Article VI. AH' bills, bonds, not<-s, and every contract and engagement on behalf of i the said company, shall be signed by j the president, and countersigned or at- ! i by the cashier of the company ; of the company shall in no»casebe held responsible for any < on tract Or engagement whatsoever, unless 11 be so sigucd and conn-J tersigned, or attested as afon The board of directors shall have pew* (r to purchase a lot and buihl, or to purchase, rent or 1 a*e a proper build ing for the bank, and to have such a j house fitted up and secured with vaults, at the expence of the company. i Article VII. | The books, papers, correspondence j and funds of the company, shall it .1 t to t lie inspection of the tors. The said board of directors j i base power to appoint a cashier, { «nd their snv.nts for ' ■ t intss of the company ; and to establish the compensation to be j to the presided* and all oth«r <-ffi- i and servants of the company re- j spectively, nil which, together with all other nee , , shaft be de-1 i 1 out m 'he funds of the cj.ii- j | Many, Article ViU. \ If a vacancy i i iTaCancieb shall at any i ■ time hap-; ; rhe direct! ;s, by ■. ■!• i n. n 'i m I i j wise, the , for the time being, sled, elect a director I lor directors, to hi! tiie vacancy or vn- j I caneies, until the next election of diretr-! I tors. Article IX. j I The drvidehds of th profits of the I pan), or of so much ot the skid . prob lit and - proper, :,ii ill id \\ ilf-ye my during the months ol May and Noveni ; June . hi every year, an ' 1 from time to ti 1 by a 5 j rnajoii*.} • [directors, at a meet- j Fjing to be held for that purpose, and j »a sa.il, in no < a.iit of j 1 thenettprofits ad i ijly acqunet! b. th - , company ; so that tiie Capital stock uf - t. i company ill ib never be impaired by > ihe expii.,i', o■ i • cvdry three years, a dividend of sur i plai profits shall be made. But ib-di , rectors shall oc at liberty to retain at i ent upon the capital, for r the lime being, as a fond for future con the duty oi the ident t3 cause a correct statement, Ll surplus prefix remaining in th. o 'ok, not divided among tiie stockhoi d election, [ to be made cut an kept into , free* for the inspection of stockholders, t between the tiroes of such dividends . b. o-.g declared; and each annual elec . tion. Article X . ' The company shad in no case be con corned ia any article out not s, lulls oi hinge, inor gages, stoCk of the Uni ted States, or ttdlion ; except in toe i case of debts cite to the bank, then they shall i>e fuily justil laing any kind of security, which they Can obtain Nor shall the company in any , case be owners of any Kliips or vt «>r directly or indirectly tie COlio , in trade, or tne importation or expor tation, purchase or sale of any : inent , goods, wares or merchan dize whatever, except such ships, yes ■its, goods, warts or men us shall be pledged to n by way of security, < r lor debts to the said company, or p by them to sc , debt-, » > i oin pai XI. No " ," *n:; of Btltrhiore, thai! b- consider :ag open t made in a book or books, kept ior ttiat pur pose by the company, out may he trans ferred by the holder in person, or i>y rc-f attorney id ik; out all rs actually due to the company, by a a l'er <■'~ ,f e r, must I be discharged before such trai , ide ; and it is fu th [, that v any stock, h Ider who shall trans! rr in manner afores id, ill his stock or shares in this company, to any other person or persons whatever, shad cease to be a j member of tins company, and that any i pel -on or | \tr, who shall accept a trans&r oi any stock or »! | M this company, shall oecoine, aim be i a member ot this. Company, according i to these articles of association. Article XII. If the president, or any director or J other officer belonging to this hank shall | privateij be da airectly or iiuii- I recti) ,;i ■ *ng br purchasing of | I any note or note c , at more than lawful interest, and ami iuforniation be given J and supported, to the satisfaction of a '' rn.j rity oi die board or quorum of the tors, his or tneir seat or seats or j office, shad be vacated, and the dir. c- j J tors shall fill up such vacancy or v»cmh- I . cies, to serve until the next annual eiec- ; , tion. Article XTII. The P'.esi lem and "each director, be fore he enters upon the duties of his of slrill tike tiie following oath or nation, as xhv case may be ; * 1 : { ) do solemnly swear or ahirm, that, i will impartially, faitiiiudy, di.i- (C n'ly and honestly execute the duties of the Mechanic's Bank of o tne coustitu ti a >r ar<)ciea of association of tne an 4 the Uufci* repesett in me, to] l\>t best of my skill Pnd judgment :" i And the cashier, the t Heys, bopk- Kers and other officers, ■ > -A al > i similar OHth or affirmation., and lecurity to , . tiie satisfaction of the president and di ' rectors for the faithful dischai their duties in their, respective stations. Article A The president and directors mavdis- , ' count notes or bills, at any length of j [ j time, not exceeding one hundred and j twenty days, and may loan money on ■ ' property security, to practical mecha- | , ntcs and manufacturers only : but not i exceeding one eighth part of the I illy paid into the bank, at the time > of malting such loan or loans. Article A V. . I Neither the president nor any uirec ' be entitled to receive, on BC« ». eornrhodatmn paper, discounts or I ■ ( exceeding in the whole . c the >• sum el nine thousand dollar.-, rcnewa* i ble, however, from time to time, at the retion of the president and direc j tors; nor shall any person or firm re* - ; coivecn property security, any greater , th in 3000 dollars, nor for a k ■ term than iv. o j ears. \\ XVI. i i It is hole by expressly imd explicitly '. declare I to-be the object and intention of the persons whonssociate under and firm of 7Vic t and ■ I directors of flic -"> mi of imore, that th'- join pro perty of the s iid company (exclusive of ■ dividends,) shall adorn; be responsible | h i the debts and engagements of tiie | sai : company, and thai who ; shall or may deal with this company, Or | to whom they shall fee may b i j ny v. i any px • , ! whatever, hdve're'eourse'against thi j parate'property of any present or future member ol th'h cdmpany, or again it j their ll may ' c i. j sary to secure die faithful application of I the funds thereof, '■" the "purposes to which by these pre«< ■~> the y are '.',.. --j ble : hot all pi • fpting'aa> bund, ; bill ov or other i of this i lent, and •md or attested By the cashier of the company, for the time beta dealing with it in any othet m I Whatsoever, thereby respectively give he sai i joint atpek or property of the *j id company, and thereby re» ■iw having rccou'rsi, < a I anypreten ■>- whatever, to the person oi rate propevtyof -'in present or m- i ::.(i;0) r < t this Company, t x> i •ed ; and all suits to he gtit against this company (ll I be) shall be brought against the j identfor the time being, and in casi j of his death or removal from i sores shall he taken at the expence of , the company, for substitu i ces sor in office as a d< f< ndant, no th ij pCi - having demands on ' »c company may rtdt teejirtjodi' ed by thsceveot: or ii tneperson ning shall g > on against the pel in fii»' named as t:i- defendant •■nh his deutn or removal from rifli'C* Jthls'coiribany shall take n » advantage by writof error or othcrwi-e, Ot sach,proceeding on thatacCouih ; a >a ad r.oot rfes h id ia •uar.uer afon sai !, •hall by concluhiv: upon the company, gofar as torendtr the company's joi it ,-,. t or property lial I ■ th< re'br, and no further: and tne company sh:VH imme ly pay the iw i h i ■■> v - ry out of their joint stock, but notcthtr wis'*. And in case rt any suit m la resident shall sign vis, appearance upon the wit, or filo common b, I thereto, it being expressly tmdcv and dech'red, tnat ail persons Healing with the said cq cp. to these terms and are I Article } If the directors of this bark shall at j any time wiltoltv h\.A i, lOwingty in ke ; or declare any < hi( h shall im- 1 pair the capital stoak, ill the directors i preserr at the m lividend and consenting thereto, sh,. ■ in their individual caput it. the c .mpuny for the amount en pi ,iu,i of said capital stock so divi i d by t,e directeirs; and each director shall be presi i.t at the mafchig or cle claring such dividend, shad ned to have consented there- j to, unless he shall itely en- j tcr his dissent in writing on the mm ol the pro< rredings of tn • board., ami J give public notice to the stockholders, j thattuch dividend h is -een declared. Article X) U These articles of agreement shall be I publish*. (1 twice a week during three j weeks in t voor laore. of the newsp ~ printed in the city of Baltimore : And ' for'the further information of an per sons who may transact b vvitli, Or in any manner give credit to this com pany, every bond, bill, note or other in strmnem or Contract, :jv the effect or which the company may be i held liable wkh the pay ment of money, shall spi < lire j in s'ich form as a board of the directors , that payment thai! be , made out of th of » The . j c irdihg to the present a; rb.le oi assocla- I tion, and not otherwise ; a copy oi the ii article" of this associauon, »hail !be in erred m the bank book of every | pers n deposi .mg money or other v;.lua -1 ble property wiih the. company for sale ' custody, or a primed copy shall b' Uvered to evtry such person before any it »liall be rt CfLved from him or tier : An lit is hereby expressly de clared, that no engagement can be legal ly made in the name of the »aid corn pan . uni<- ■ I at ion oi ' restriction to t;ie effect abose recited : And toe coui;)anv hereby expri avow all responsibility for any debt or j engagement '' m.- in , their naive, not containing a limit) or reatricuou M> :hu titc-t afoyesatd. i I t _ Article Xts, The pin i , or a rmi to call a genrr d m ito< k,, 1 , ders, for the pur « r-s relative to the ms of th.- giving atleast , three •■ in two or more ot the public pap , printed m the city of j Baltimore, • p- ~.>■, notice the objector objectsiof such meeting Article XX. A number of stockholders not less than fifty, who together shall be pro -1 prh tors of one thousand shares, may for any purpOie relative to the institution, !at any time apply to the president and : ;is, to call a general meeting of the stockholders, and if by them re fused, the said numbers of stool holders, proprietor* of not lea., than Oftf thou rtian ■, sh ill have powi r to call a ling of the stockholders, giving at least sixty dttVS hoii c. in two or ny it newspapers printed m the city of Baltimore; specifying, in snch no uie object or objxtoof i,uch meet ing. Article XXI. Th*president ami re here- 1 |by required and fully empowered to draught md present ion in the i an'! on ' -his company, •islatsre of the State of ivl >ry land, • 'i-it ah sdt n to in • ate 11, a protect this c.f.m,;any, con> for no ably to these artioles oi ;*SBocia* lion, • - '! This assi>ei ition shall continue ttntill am! Wood iy in March, one thou sand eight Imr, Fred and tv. nrv-seven, - a i.h.u ti-r is sooner obtained. But the propnetijis of two-thirds of the ca pital stock of 'he compam.', may, by tig votes, at a grmcral I for that e,\press -<: the s ime at any prior fed that notice of such lid its objeei, h ll • cpiibli h eal in two or more v , printed ii the citydi *> iHimore, tor at hast six months previous to the tfvn.e appointed ■ ucli mectt'ig. Article XXtfl. Immediately on t, ( ( ;i.:, Jutton of thri issod ition, effectual m tasun • shall be takehby the directors then existing for closing all th. conci m oi "toy, Fof mvidiig the capital and profits which mat/ pi 1 1 iin a«n »v 'i>l in proportion to meir.re in ten ; In v»'ir?'Kss wheiikof we h•v! ■. i mtO Set if names or ■ ns,the27th day or May, ia th- r ofour L rd >ac thou fc.m■: eight hundred and six. li„l,'i,xo,'c, June 1 - — w3t. CHASE'S TRIAL. This dty is Published By •Sauvh.l If. Smith. 7RI A h SAMOBt'cjIASE, An Associa ik Justice of the Fvf» fir cine Court of the United Slates, ' IMPEACHES By the House of Representatives, for j fl'lCH Gal MRS ANI) Vl| so KM F. AN before the Senate of the United &to ■ ?dkf* in mhort hand, | By Samvel a. SjtlTH a' Ihomas I i.'jti). [In Two large Octavo Volumes-—in Boards, price——»o fab cribers four dollars and a half a.id to non lnbferi bei» five doiiors. A much £rt.t:r del-y h**heen incurred m dietioVkatloa of thin triti than the Editor rontemplated. He has, hi * ever, the fstia* i •! f»yin< tii-t bo effort ha* been omit* ted by Mm t:> give it tn the pnbiic at art i period, the delay h>» ariltn iiom ths J revhiin «f the fpeechci of the Managers and" J Coui/fel The publication might fioce I h.ve been made in . It;* perfect dre i; bu: it ' viu ceeriKd highly «ealrsbl« fh« in a cafe t I MVMt-h, independently of i:» own importance, ] might be a precedent in future times, to facri | ike time rather tl an precifion. 'the wt>rk ; mow appears bofure the public with the ex.. j of the Editor thai it will he cor.fl i tuerM g flic cliara&er of an impartial, conrcr I l?iihfu! ft ttment of fact*. v li thf fpceehet ha»e '*< t-n reviled, and infert i.a it o-ti;-'i, in connexion with whate»er • etlc formed a part of u,c trial. ha\im% oiry Jier print* will confer a benefit by initrtirijj tsii td«crtd«mcnt a lew times in their pepc'i- Mated 24 — NOTICE. w V V II.J. be «r*vffld to public ftle for readj hi the aoih djy o Juna next at fonti** I) '■-■-.At.'- caws, »li th* right, ritlc, claim and ir.tcreft of R. Ban i ha w.n in and to Lot No 4 in i noire Ho. |«6 wi:h e« • BriTk Dwelifot, h--vfei tfc ireon, oneVi ftorkanlgb sad the other twj, late the ;. perty of tfcefaid Rrow.'i, f?,h.<sn by virtus ff a writ of fiera facia*, iffacd from the Circuit court of the diiirid of Columbia for the ccuo ty of Wsftittffeon, ti t?;ie fiat of Samuel Da »ifon. At the (inn: doM and pi cc will be <! to r> ,b;ic (ale, for read* c»fbi »): the »l !mi rc.tt'.( Ji.hn Moore of «tju, d in few-.re Wo. jj w:h ■ 1 -tU brick building i \*toilitu i . the faii Moore, t'kcfl " i • ilTaed .. ut rfre uit of Samuel ..;:on. sU*T, Ma.111.4r,