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62
AT a Meeting of the PretiJent and Hi rtc
tort of the Potomac Company, held at
George~Tovm, on the 20th day of yan. 18!
Prcsent^Charlcs Simms, Presiden^Mno.
Mason, Elie Yfc^iams, and George Pctj^, Di
rectors.
It appearing to tl^Roard from th^Kcrms o
tVe Resolution of^^fffesi^ature qfltne State
of Maryl anti at tlrcir^«^W^h>:i, t]«rt the man*
ner of the lo.-u^Bt tlWrt^hnlniul^Rollars pro
posed to be^made toUw.'otW|jp at the peti
tion of tliePresidentany DirjK&rs is such as
requires the conjuderu^n of ffinContpany as
sembled inkgeii^n n
Ur in i wii.WIn'iI^i rutting ol^Utc Stock
Holders of \c Tototviiu^f Compam^ be ap
pointed to be Union T.r
George Town on Moiuloythe 27th of FcInjury
next, at 11 o’clock,
By order of the ^HRnI of Directors,
JOSBiK.WKU, Treasurer.
January 25. wSt
Washingtonlie nry Academy.
ffar.over Town Rond, 10 miles from Richmond.
THE Trustees of the Academy, are enabled
to announce to the public that Mr. Doyle, of
Richmond, late coadjutor with .Messrs Girar
din 8c Wood, has ucceptod its superintcndancc
—and, in consequence of their liberal applica
tion of the funds, has agreed to employ an as
sistant, and reduce the fees for tuition, to four,
six, and eight dollars, per quarter, according as
the classes arc advanced, as shall appear on
cards to be distributed for the purpose.
Board can lie had in tlie most respectable fa
milies convenient, for from sixty to eighty dol
lars per annum. Young ladies and young gen
tlemen will be instructed in separate rooms,
and the same advantage s can be enjoyed here
as in Richmond—yet none of the disadvantages
—for instance, us good board, washing, lodging
and tuition can be rcceixci^iere, as in town
for littte moreeja^*fC<^uuoMuN^n alone there ,■
yet free froijjrtrfl the vicious ham^and vicious
society,
The or
Acudem
tees are
to til i«.
nt trus
ce that
it into
accom
y offer
iave lodg
ladics and
at Captain
e neighbouring gen
their fur
execution
modatc
Young gcnl
ing rooms r
little Ijovs caT
Richardson’s,
tlcmen’s.
All the advantages arising to youth from the
present plan cannot be set forth in an adver
tisement ; hut may he fully ascertained by ap
plying at \fr. Dickinson's Tavern, or to any of
the undernamed trustees, viz :
Col. William Trueheart, Capt. John A. Rich
ardson, Major Thomas Starke,Capt. I’cttr Fos
ter, Ylexaiuler Anderson, Esq. or the subscri
ber, all of whom live convenient to the institu
tion.
THOMAS TINSLEY, Chairman
of the Hoard of Trustees.
The course of Education, though somewhat
different in form, will be tha l|me in fact, ns
that pursued in the .Richmond,Academy, when
Mr. D. left it, viz : The Greek, Latin anil En
glish languages classically; History, Geogra
phy and tiie llellcs l.-ttres ; Arilhn^tic, Book
Keeping, and all ’he practical and useful bran
ches of the Mathematics with the use of Globes
and other instruments—fhc^cliool will com
mence the second Monday in January next, and
continue the whole year, as no holidays will be
all owed hut those requested by parents.
Nov. 19. wtf
10< II! M i I.li’.
3iOO lbs. London sc \c twine
Hi-20 l>est twill’d o-icks (read/ made)
Ri» bales 1st quality Cotton .
1 2 do. second «*<>.
12 hints. Miiuc-iTmIo sugars
t‘l do. best ft een coffee
30 tons iron, .'‘■.sorted sizes
2 do. blister. 0 steel
2 do. best German do.
9 do. ea issnrted
50 hoxe ), 10 by 12, 9 by
It, 12 2 by 19
I50stra uinUcrs
.25 doZ. rt of which were
impoi
TA'ack j>i
AVr'tpi»i iy the ream ; to
gethar with i if
•ash, orgoot. ....... , , _ . .own at BoorOO
thrrte indebted to ?h ■ Oe fli io It'issell h Wallace,
to mnko |nyim -.tr > ' orn w:diont delay—other*
wise bn will be n tf • «H» "jreeiddfl rieressity ol
instituting nits. ■ Hvl against all those
sabo may be found *' .n’; cor' after this n»y scconil
allot which
reasonable term*, for
^ days’.
JAMBS WALLACE.
V. H. The ml -vibe r onet* p i ore solicits all
.Two. 11
AXES WALLACE,
£ ..id:, r oft if late firm of
f. •• ■ l (inj Wallace.
.Two. 11 w6w.
J'Vom the Baltimore Patriot.
COI*UMBf\ lon'i too long, hath home,
The haughty Bnlnn’s envious spite ;
Resolv'd no more to bear their scorn.
She rise* in her youthful might,
And calls her sons to hrave the fight;
Enrag’d they hear her mournful strains,
And swear t’arengc her trampled right.
Look ! where they sprcHd her frontier plains,
And freely yield oblations irons their geu’rons
reins!
Britain may urge the scalping knife.
Eta King o’er the barh’rons deeds
W e scorn to stain our uohle strife.
Or make the helpless victim bleed.
By virtue once oursclvas we freed,
And virtue stall shall he our guide,
Thn* British gold—the traitor’s ineed,
Should striv^ our country to divide t
For lleaveu-boKJustice is our safely and oar pride.
Is there a wretch—so vile and base!
So lost to honor's glorious charm!
Wlm sees lib country spurn disgrace,
And will not lend his vig’rous ai m,
To crush the foe that wills her harm ?
O! may he sever find a tricud,
\V hose convci’se might his bosom warm ■,
Nor, when distress his steps attend,
Thu feeling heart, that would its kind assistance
lend. N. W. G. 1.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
HO UK AS.
It appears by the Boston Patriot, that certain
flagitious ami infamous numbers which ap
peared in the Boston Centinel, under the title
of “ 77<e Nezo States filled with incentives
to a separation of the union, under the impos
ing aspect of mathematical calculation; are
extracts from a privately circulated, anti-federal
’pamphlet, entitled “ Ho anas.” In this villai
nous publication the president is called the
“ Scourge of God.” The northern states are in
vited to “come forth, asa strong man, armed”
—andalludirg to some part of the constitution
it says, not “that it should be altered, attend
ed, or modified—but amputated?!” The
vener ble John Adams testified, it appears, his
indignation and disgust, not merely by stopping
Inr, pap r, but by sending back the obnoxious
Centinel, with an expression of his strong feel
ings on the occasion
How mean are the artifices, by which the
vile conspirators are endeavoring to effect their
execrable project ! A pamphlet sent round to
the adepts in their horrid schemes; and a pub
lication pretended to be original, in their news
papers for promiscuous circulation, of the same
general mass of insidious incentives to disuni
on ; omitting some of the most gross ami glar
ing expressions, which might alarm those e. ho
have not been initiated in the whole art and
mystery of treason ! The means amUthc'fend
ire perfectly adapted to each other. The skulk
ing incendiary ever prowls by night with his
dark ianthoru and cloak—anil the cowardly as
sassin always strives to strike, hut conceal the
hand. Who is the Guy Fox in this deadly plot,
we neither know, nor is it important that we
should. Pussell is the willing instrument of
the gang; but we do trust and believe, that the
good sense and fidelity ofthe yeomanry of Mas
sachusetts, will yet bring to their senses the Bos
ton madmen; and to private stations, the pre
sent mis-rulers of that state. No fair minded
and honorable man can fail to detest the pre
sent conduct and language of the Huston junto
—let his own political sentiments be what they
may. They have found an arcanum in politi
cal guilt—the art of compounding the most
mean and crooked management, with the most
hold and bareiheed audacity of aim. They have
not the merit of even consistent vileness. An
ndvocate for the dissolution of the union,
should have the nerves of pirate or a highway
man—not the cunning of a counterfeiter. Like
Moloch, lie should make open war against the
constitution ; and not like Belial, deal in wiles
and tricks.
Hut, let us wait the operation pf this fer
menting and agitating spirit a* Boston. It will
work iUelf clear, fit the schemers plot and
circumvent and scatter incendiarv puhlientons ;
let them whisper treason in the dark recesses
of their blasphemously mis named Washington
club—let them sound public sentiment, by al
ternate audacious invectives agains' the consti
tution, and expressions of pretended attach
ment to it—the/ cannot bring the peop'e of
Massachusetts up to the tone of phrenzy, which
would aid their schemes of unprincipled ambi
tion They have too many dupes for the ho
nor ofthe state, but tile}' have not enough to dare
muster their forces. YV'e speak confidently—
for we know something of them ; when we sav,
that Massachusetts federalists are not all “ Bos
ton Rebels.” Accustomed to march under one
banner,they have kept in »he ranks, until their
file leaders have l»*d them too far—but they will
not pass the Rubicon. The habits of distrust
ami party bickerings, which have separated the
honest federalists from the republicans, will
lose their efTcet; before the attachment, with
which the former have adhered to the consti
tution shall he overcome. i
<-et ftutteli t prompters try the experiment,
ns cunningly «ml as meanly as tliey please ; let
them garble their own productions, and deny
their own signets as long as they can i the Jede
raliiti will be startled, when the Junto men
come to their disclosures. The union tevered,
n new union with Canada, civil war, and coloni
zation under Britain, are projects, which will
startle many; who have not perceived the end
of the course inn which they have been led.
Vhe dormant spark of attachment to their coun
try, to union, to Washington, will be kind
led to a blaze of patriot ism. The blasts of Ho
ur, as will he blown in vain. I*ct them fair
ly avow their “ amputation” scheme—let
them honestly (if the woril can apply) give to
their followers the detail of their plans—ami as
surely -as they make this public avowal, so
suiely Massachusetts, at the next election,
spurns them from her councils; and returns to
the faith, once delivered to the patriots of the
revolution. We are not sanguine in our ex
pectations of Botton. Heuryinn there seems to
bavc contaminated too many, to expect speedy
convalescence. We know the merit, the ta
lents, the faithfulness and the zeal, of tlu: re
publicans in that devoted town. They have
breasted the tide of Junto influence, with ho
norable perseverance; and 41 stemmed it with
hearts of controversy.” They deserve well of
their country; and their country honors their
fidelity and their exertions.
From the Weekly Remitter.
“ D18TUE98tSr« CAPTURE.”
The public rnmmisscration is highly excited
by an article hcade 1 as above, now passing thro
tiic newspapers. It »ppears that th<* brig Ed
win of Salem, has been captured by the Alger
inet, and sent to Algiers, where the crew are
put at hard labor as slaves. We arc truly plea
sed to observe the sensibility of certain men
on this unf donate event5 and will cheerfully
join them in any exertion of ‘orce or negocia*
tion to bring back nut- tars to their fire-sides
and little ones. They must he released—the
American will not sit down contented, while
eight or ten of his fellow-citizens are slaves to
the Dey oi' Algiers, though that prince has le
gally declared war against us.
But how is it that wc have been so easy tin
der a knowledge of the fact that Eioitr or
ten thousand (at lcustVofour s-auien have
been matle slaves by the Dey of Eng ’and, tiic
British navy ? In what respect is their state
more enviable than that of their brethren in
Algiers ? The impressed sailor works as hard,
anil for the tame pay, which is nothing. If he
wilLuot work he is V.iippcd, just th& same as
ct Algiers—or denied food, or chained, or
kicked about by every puppy that pleases to
shew his “ magnanimitf* and “ religion” and
“ l)tse of liberty," by abusing him. this is not
the case at Algiers „• for fAe/.c^the master of the
slaves is only permitted to make the “ refrac
tory** do “duty" in "hit highness* service.**
Besides, the Dey of Algiers will not employ
these men to fight their fellow citi/.c ns—he has
too much honor for that. lie will merely detain
them till peace is restored, and return them
sate and sound (the usual hazards of life ex
cepted) to their country; not mangled &. torn
to pieces by the aims of his encmie?. threat
heaven ! what a savage would we think hint if
he were to march these mm through the dc
sarts of Africa, to expose them to the burning
sun and unwholesome climate of the interior of
that country, tnd make them light his battles
with “ his in jesty” the king o{'Congo to die
and rot in a foreign land, unpitied; f.u* from
all the heart holds dear, leaving their relatives
in fearful uncertainty of their horrid fate!
Let Decatur's toast, givfn at the seamen’•
feast at New York, bo forever reiterated, till
the practice ceases—it v-ns
FREE TRADE, AND NO IMPRESSMENT.
The person of the free citizen of America
must bo sacred.
DIYERTISEMEXT.
Among’ the means m#le use of ad eaptandum
vulgus—to cheat the unthinking—tji - follow.
I ing article is running its round in a certain de
scription of papers.
“ A loan of f<vr>itv five millions, savs Mr.
Stow, will he wanted for t1 e ensuing year.
Seventeen silver dollars weigh shout one pound
Averdupoit. Twenty-five millions \veigh about
1,479,588 pounds ; and to convey to tlie public
treasury, in silver cmn, the sum to be loaned
for the war expenditures of the ensuing year,
would require seven hundred and thirty five
tao^on#, each hearing more than a ton weight!”
Now it would have been nothing but fair to
have said that Jive millions of the* sum to be
borrowed, was designed to pay that part of the
existing public debt, reimbursable in the course
of the year, with the ‘•.iterest accruing. There
fore the calculator ought to have impressed but
588 -waggons to carry the money !
In page 299, we have the Secretarv of the
Treasury's estimate for the service of the vear
1813. The British chancellor of the exche
quer's budget for 1812, consisted of theffollow
ing items, which the American war will swell
at least 20 per cent, the present year; but let
us take it as it was—^ ^
Navy, exclusive of ordnance
Army, including barracks
Ext raord in aries
Unprovided last year
Ordnance
Miscellaneous
Vote of $re lit
Sicily (loan)
Portugal (do.)
19,702,399
17,753,'60
5,40-0,000
2, iOO.OOO
5,279,897
2.350.000
3.200.000
400.000
2.000 000
Sterling £58,188,456
To this must he added the interest of the na
tional debt, which wastabout 38 millions—
grand total ofexpenditiires for 1812,90,000,000
pounds sterling, equal to 425,240,090 dollars,
which, according to the profound calculation
made above, would require twelve thousand five
hundred and ten waggons to carry it to the trea
sury. And further, if each waggon, with four
horses, occupied only 50 feet, the line would
reach one hundred and fourteen miles.
Again, for the sake of round numbers, sny
the public debt of the United States is 50 mil
lions of dollars. The public debt of Great
Britain is 850 millions of pounds sterling—
equ »1 to 3774 millions of dollars. Now to car
ry the first, would require fourteen hundred and
seventy “ waggons”—but to convey the latter,
one hundred and eight thousaud two hundred atul
fifty “ waggons” would be wanting—at .50
feet each, they would extend one thousand and
thirty miles and a half
Resides, one f mrtli, at least, of the laborers
of f». Urituin are paupers—In the United States,
no person able to labor is necessarily dependent
on the public bounty. We have really no pau
pers, but the halt, the lame and the blind, the
aged, diseased or infirm.
APFAIR9 IN' rilE PENINSULA.
Lord Wellington has retreated to his Strong
holds near Lisbon. The chief part of the pen
insula is in the actual possession of the French,
anti nearly the whole of it is abandoned to their
mercy. The Spanish force, however, has been
estimated at 2.10,000 men, including the re
serve, and the British at .'50,000 strong—to wit,
19 regiments of cavalry, 73 battalions of infan.
try, 3 brigades of horse artillery, 2,000 foot
artillery, &c. The Portuguese force is not sta
ted ; nor is it much relied on. The whole
French troops may be about 220,000 men, of
which Masscna commands in one body, nearly
100,000, before whom lord Wellington made a
rctrogrutU movement. Considerable reinforce,
meats are arriving at Lisbon from England ;
but a general apprehension is entertained, un
less the war in the north should prove ex
tremcly disastrous to the French, that they
cannot much avail. The garrison of Burgos,
only 3,000 strong, that so long resisted the
army of lord Wellington, and materially con
tributed to this stale of things, have been hon
orably distinguished.
The appointment af lord Wellington, bv the
Spanish regency, to the command in chief of
all the Spanish for cs, has greatly excited the
iealousy of the high minded Dons. Tfie cele
brated chiifs Castanos and Ballesteros refusal
obedience, and have been dismissed in dis
grace. Such defection is rapidly spreading a
mong the nobles t the common people are hear
tily tired of the war, and the spirit of resis.
tancc decays as the prospect of success is blun
Ft appears. from in my article* permitted
to appear in th.* British papers, that the gov
ernment ot the regency is very unpopular, and
that tlie Spanish people arc more injured by
their own armies than tliose of the French.
T he Guerillas arc particularly vexatious to the
peasantry, and the English pay for what they
take in paper, which tin* people cannot believe
to be money. I: is expected that Cadis will
•VT’iin be itnested ; and indeed the speedy issue
«>t the contest in Spain nnd Portugal depends
on the real state of things between—
FliWCB AND RUSSIA.
The emperor Alexander nppears determined
to prosecute the war to the very last extremi
ty. Me is a man of great spirit, and perhaps
tho most amiable sovereign in Europe, if not
the most wise. All his public acts iiear th'* most
inflexible determination to rep. I, toharrassand
destroy his enemy. >\ know r.ot how to believe
the London papers. S<> much depends upon the
public feeling of the moment, & on the “ money
changers,” ami dealers in stocks, that it is no
easy matter to winnow the wheat from the chaff
that fills the British journals. F»r instanc-*,
they (:. c. the London newspaper* l took ,500
prisoners at Queenstown, or about double the
number of Americans that passed over ! 0 it,
it appears from these papers, that Bonaparte
bad lost in killed, wounded •••ml prisoners, I v
famine and disease, more than 200,000 men since
ne entpreil Russia—that about 300 pieces of ,
cannon had been taken from him ; that, in short, j
his army w .s cut up, and the- mere shreds of j
it surrounded at Smolensk, his retreat being cut :
off by powerful armies. The details are very i
long and interesting; and it seems unnucs^i !
onahb* dtat the French emperor 1. »s been great- j
ly embarrassed in his movements, though not
to the extent quoted. 'I he 29th bulletin is
dated at Smolensk, the llth Nov. which is as I
late -i* any other iccounts we have of him. The
language of this bulletin is b\ no means des
ponding—-on the contrary, it is as much ptifled
up with victory as the Anglo- Russian accounts,
and is of »later date than any event noticed in
the details bv wav of England It is wi-thy
ol note 'hit the French bulletins have been re
markable correct in their essential particu
lars.
1 >»o London papers further say, that Lord
Walpole had left St. Petersburg on a secret mis
sion to the frontier of Austria, to open a Mcgo
rj ft n with the leaders ofthe Austrian armies.
1 hey also slate that Alexander has issued a
manifesto in which he solemnly retracts all his
•.'rmer acknowledgements of Bonaparte as em
peror of France, &c—saying that he will ne
ver make peace wM that country while such
a villain rules it. ™
Such ar-the reports of the facts—and the
-'■eadetyfronT seeing the details in the new»pa
Pers oi the day, will form his own conclusion.^
FORBIGN RRIiATIOVS.
The following is the bi.l reported on Friday
by the committee of Foreign Relations, and pro
mised in our paper of Saturday :
A im.r.
For the relation of seamen on board the public
vessels and in the merchant service of the U.
States.
Be it enacted Cre. That from and after the ter
mination, by a treaty of peace, ofthe war in
which the United Stales are now engaged with
Great Britain, it shall not he lawful to employ
as seamen or otherwise, on board of any public
vessel oi the United States, or of any vessel
owned by citizens ofthe United States, or sail
ing under their Hag, any pers >n or persons, ex
cept natural born citizens of the United States,
or citizens of the United States at the time of
such treaty being made and concluded, or per
sons who, being resilient within the U. States
at the time ofsuch treaty, and having previous
ly declared agreeably to existing laws, their in
tention to become citizens of the United S; tes,
shall he admitted as such within five years
thereafter, in the manner prescribed bv law.
See. 2. And be it further enacted, Tnat from
and after the tinie as .foresaid, when this act
shall take effect, it shall not be lawful to em
ploy as seamen or otherwise as aforesaid ex
cept as is by this act excepted, any person or
persons not natural born citizens of the United
Sta*es, unl 'ss such person or persons shall pro
dttce to the commander of the public vessel, or
to the collector of the customs of the district
to which the private vessel belongs, the certi
ficate of iiis r.r their having been naturalized.
The President of the United Slates is hereby
authorised, from time to time to make such o
tlier regulations, and to give such other direc
tions to the several commanders of public ves
sels, and to the several collectors, as m.iv he
proper and necess iry respecting the requisite
proofs of nativity or citizenship to be exhibit
ed to the commanders or collectors aforesaid.
And no person shall be admitted or employed
as seaman or otherwise, as aforesaid, on board
of any vessel owned by citizens of the United
States, or sailing under their Hag, unless bis
name sbnll have been entered in a list ofthe
crew approved and certified by the collector
for the district to which the vessel belongs.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from
and after the time as aforesaid, when this act
shall take effect, no seaman or other seafaring
man not being a citizen of the United States,
shall be admitted or received as a passenger on
board of any public vessel ofthe United Sates,
or of any private vessel owned by ri'izcns of
the United States, or sailing tinder their fl»g
without a passporMfrom the prop* r officers of
the country of which such seamen or seafaring
man may he subject or citizen.
.-K-c. nnu vc it juriner enacrc'i, inatt-om
ami afte r tlic time as aforesaid, when tin* act
shall take effect, the consuls or commercial a*
gents of any nation at. peace with the Unite !
j States shall be admitted t«mler such regulati
ons as may b» prescribed by the President of
the United States,) to state their objections t d
the proper commander or collector as aforesaid,
against the employment of any seam <r sea
faring man on board of any public or private
vessel of the United States, on account of his
being a native subject or citizen of a- *> nation,
and not embraced within the description of
persons who net) thus be lawfully employs' I,
according to the provisions of this act; and* th •
said consuls or commercial agon s shall o
be admitted tinder the said rcgul.ci nu, to ur
present nt tin- tim when t! pro-,.., >t the na
tivity or citizettshi > ot the persons against whom
such objections may have been made, shall he
investigated hv such commander or collector
•Sec 5. Ant! he it-furt Her maerrt!, Tlist ■ f any
commander ot a public vessel m ‘he V. States,
shall emploj or permit to be er. (>'o; :ned, or
shall admit or receive, or permit to be admit
ted orrcceiv .1 on board hi-, vessel, any per-on
whose employment or admission is prohibited
by the provisions of this act, he shall on com.
viction thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of one
thousand dollars lor each person thus unlawful*
•y employed, or committed on hoard such ves
sel.
See. R. And {>,• it further enacted. That if any
person ahull, contrary to the provisions of this
act. be employed as a seaman or otherwise,
or be received os a passeng r on board of any
vessel owned by citizens of the United. Stales,
or sailing’ under thei'* flag, Ihc master or com
mander, and the owner yr owners of sucli ves
sel, shall each respectively forfeit and pay five
hundred d illars for each person thus unlawful*
Iv employed in any one voyage; which sum or
sums shall be recovered, even although Mir.h
seaman or person might have been admitted
ami entered in the certified list of the rr \V
aforesaid by the collector for the district to
which the vess> l may In-long, and all pcn.dlies
aiul io’-f-itiires a-ismg under or incurred by
virtue oftl.M :*ct, may be sued for, prosecuted
and recovered, with ?o:>ts of suits by action of
debt in the name of the United Stau--*-, or by
indictment or information in any court having
c< mpetent jurisdiction to try the same, and
s!;:ul accrue and be one moiety thereof to the
use ol the informer, and the other moictv there*
,M the 'tse o( the United States, except where
the prosecution shall lie first instituted on be
half ol ta” United States, in which case the
whole shall be to their use, anti may he exam
ined, uiitigj tcd or remitted in like manner and
under th like conditions, regulations and re
s.r eti .ns ys an- prescribed, authorised and di
rt ctrd by the entitled “ \n act t » provide
I »r mitiga* i.. * or remitting' the forfeitures, pe
nalties, an '. ' .hilitics, accruing in certain
c -se- tilers n uv.-ir.ioned,” passed the third day
ot Marchs^ e lltotis-.nd seven hundred and nine
ty-seven, anil made peip Inal by an act, passed
the eleventh day of February, one thousand
eight hundt" d.
J'cc (. And be it fuvther enacted, That nothing
in ties act contained sinnt i.e cnnstrui <\ to for
bid any «:or>'ni*nder or n* i' e*- of a public or
private vessel rutin Unr«*d States, whilst in a
foreign port or pl..c.* fr .in supplying any dtfi*
ciency of seamen on board such vessel bv cm
ploying subjects of such forcij’ii country, witli
t ie perm.ss’on of tin* government tie reof.
.S- c. S. And be it further enacted, Tliat the
provisions of tliis act shall have no effect oi op
eration with respect to the employment as sea
men, of he subjects or citizens «.if any foreign
nation, which shall not have forh'-dilen on ho ird
her public and priva*e vesseis th. rupl ivnicnt
as seamen or otherwn*. of n.tivt citizens of
the United S at- s; oi \ri:o shall permit the
command rs of her public vessels to iinpi ess or
take away from on hoard a y e . el, sailing un
der the flag of the United States, any seaman or
any other person, not bsirig a sur lier or o hor
wisc in the employment of an enemy of such
nation.
Sec. 9 And hr it farther er.acte /, That no
thing in this act contained shall lie so "'iistru
edas to preventsny arraiv mvi th. tv ern the U.
S. and any foreign nation, which may take
place under any treaty or convention, made iX
ra'ified in the manner prescribed by the consti
tuti' n of the U. S. and by which the reciprocal
employment, as seamen or citizens or subjects
of the two countries, m iy, in th? instances and
manner provided by such treaty or convention,
b • permitted. ,
Sec. 10. And he it further enacted, That no
person, who shall arrive in the Uni ed States
from and after the tim • when this act sii il take
effect, shall be ad mitt, d to become a citizen of
the United States, who shall not for ti.c conti*
lined term of five years next preceding his ad
mission aforesaid, have resided within the U.
States, without being at any time during the
said 5 years out of the territory of th : said
states.
The following ACTS have pasted both Houses
of the Legislature of this Commonweal t Is.
1 Concerning Armistcacl bong.
2. To repeal so much of the act, entitled an
ac» c >nc -ming tit babies ; directing the mode
of laving and cot ecting the county levy, as ex
empts constable.', from being chargeable with
county levies and poor rates.
3. Releasing to Maria and Anne Dispham
the commonwealth'll right to certain lands.
4. Concerning the I’amunky tribe of Indians.
5 Concerning William .Martin.
6. Alte ring the time of holding a quarterly
court for the county of Math.
7. Concerning Archibald Stuart, jun. and
Nancy Stuart
8. Vesting in .Fames Stafford, sen. and others,
the commonwealth’s right to certain lands.
9. Releasing to Christopher !/• therington,
David Eaton and William Henderson, the Com
monwea'.th’s ri^'lit to certain lands.
10. Vesting in Thomas, Cordon and David
Cloyd, the commonwealth’s right to a tract of
land.
It. Concerning Nicholas Vandervoort.
12. To suspend for a certain time tin* opera
tion of the several aws concerning the proces
sioning land within certain counties.
13. Making a further appropriation for con
ting. nt expenses of government, and for other
pill puses.
14. Divorcing John Cook from his wife Eli
zabeth.
15. Incorporating the Ilunaloe Creek Far
mers’ I/hri;ry Company in the county of Monoi>*
g-.ilin.
16. Giving further time to the owners of snr*
v.ys in Cray son countv to return their plats fc
certificates into the land nIKce.
17. Releasing to Richard McClure anti others
the commonwealth’* right to a tract of land.
18. Changing he name of tlie Washington
Academy and the Hector thereof.
19 Kstabli suing the town of Manchester ia
the county of IJrookc.
20. Concerning John Muorehoatl.
21. Releasing to Lucy Shelvy the common*
wealth’s right to certain lands therein mention*
Ctl
22. Giving further time to the owners
t«ots in certain Towns of tills commonwealth to
improve the same.
2j. Appropriating n sum of money for th«
purpose therein mentioned.
24 Concerning .Moses MrOue.
25 Porrd’ ring the time ofh deling the stipe*
r r fnii 'i« «f law for the counties of I’rincr9t
\nu , Norfolk anti Chesterfield, anti for other
purposes.
26. establishing the town of Union in the
county of Loudon.
27. Incorporating a library company in th«
town of leresb irg in the county of Lomloun.
28. Concerning Richard Jackson.
29. Authorising the removal of all obstruct#
ons in Dale street in the borough of IVuifsUis