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4?as passed by the Legislature of Vir ginia at the late session. “This act declares in force so much of the act of the 10th of December, 1793^ as directs, that when property taken in execution will not sell for three fourths of its value, it may he sold on twelve months credit, or the debtor may reple vy for twelve months ; and whatever velates to executions in that act, either in the appointment of commissioners, •E for the direction of sheriffs,clerks,See. No property shall be sold by a com missioner appointed by any court of chancery, or by a trustee under any deed hereafter executed, unless it shall sell tor three-fourths of the value estima ted by commissioners, who are to make the^\ aluation, and deliver it in writing to the commissioners appointed by the •**riUrt °f chancery, or to the trustees. ' i* ;C comrni5Si°ncrs who may act, shall be entitled to a dollar per day, to be paid •' by tUc creditor and taxed in the bill of costh. This act is not to extend to exe cu ions against sheriffs or other officers, fo. delinquencies, or failing to pay mo »ey received on executions, or to attor tu.s lor money received for their clients; M j to executions in behalf of any bank. Jb it it shall extend to executions issued bY * magistrate for all sums above ten dollars: and the constable, or other offi cers, shall return the bond within thirty days, to the clerk’s office, to be proceed ed on as other replevy bonds. All. ex ecutions which shall be awarded on forthcoming bond,, executed before the commencement of this act, shall be proceeded in as other executions ; but the proceedings on all forthcoming bonds executed thereafter, shall be as heretofore. So much of this act, as re lates to the appointment of commission ers, shall commence from the passing ; atul the courts shall appoint them lit tlv ir February term, or as soon thereaf ter, as possible ; the residue of the act shall commence on the first of March next, and continue in force till the ex piration ot thirty days after the discon tinuance of the embargo. 13ut so much of. tne act as authorises and directs the manner ot proceeding on replevy bonds, is made perpetual.” Lommumcattons Jrom Washington, to Hu Editor of the United States Gazette. Saturday, February 6. I'ive days havi- now been spent in Considering the question of removing the government, & no decision has been m&de. At the close of the debate on the second day, the house refused by a majority of two members to give the subject the usual direction by commit ing it to the whole house. The friends of the removal perceiving that there was no likelihood of success, very pro perly withdrew the resolution. It was immediately renewed by Mr. Blount, a decided opponent of the removal, and three days have since been employed in an attempt to obtain some decision, but hitherto without success. It is pro bable the debate will be continued on Monday. There is no prospect that the resolution to remove will be adopt ed, though the majority against a remo val will be small. Mr. Crowninshield is considered by his physicians to be beyond the hope of recovery. It was to day stated in de bate by Mr. Milnor, that 12 or 14 mem bers were absent in consequence of ill health. There is some ground for believing that an.amicable adjustment of our dif ferences writh England may take place. From the Scioto Gazette. Extract from a message of the President of the United States, to the House of Representatives, delivered on the 30th January. “ By a treaty concluded at Detroit on the 17th of November last, with the Ot toways, Chippeways,Wyandots and Pot tewatamies, so much of this country has been obtained as extends from about Saguina bay southwardly to the Miami of the lakes, supposed to contain upr wards ol five millions of acres, with a prospect of obtaining, for the present, a breadth of two miles for a communica tion from the Miami to the Connecticut reserve. [ The above land was purchased of the Indians for the sum of ten thousand dollars.] On the same day the President also sent the following message to the House of K presentatives. 1 he Choctaws being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be dis charged by the ordinary proceeds of their hunting, and pressed for payment, proposed to the United States to cede lands to the amount of their debts, and designated them in two different por tions of their country. These designa tions, not at all suiting us, were declin ed. Still urged by their creditors, as We^ by. their oVn dfesire to be liber- * ated from debt, they at length proposed to make a cession which should be to our convenience. By a treaty signed at Pooshapukanuk, on the 16th of Novem ber, 1805, they accordingly ceded all their lands south of a line to be run from their and our boundary at the Omochi ta, eastwardly to their boundarv with the Creeks on the ridge between tha Tombigbee -and Alibama, as is more particularly described in the treaty, con taining about five millions of acres, as is supposed, and uniting our possessions* thejre from Adams to Washington coun- - ty—The location contemplated in the instructions to the commissioners, was on the Mississippi. That in the treaty being entirely different, I was at that time disinclined to its ratification, and have suffered it to lie unacted on. But progressive difficulties in our foreign re lations, have bi ought into view consi derations other than those which then prevailed. It is now perhaps as inter esting to obtain footing for a strong set tlement of militia along our southern frontier, eastward of the Mississippi, as on the west of that river, and more so, than higher up the river itself. The con solidation of the Mississippi territory, and the establishment of a barrier of se paration between the Indians and our southern neighbours, are also important I objects ; and the Choctaws and their j creditors being still anxious that the sale should be made, I submitted the treaty to the Senate, who have advised and consented to its ratification. I therefore now lay it before both houses of Congress, for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling it. Th: Jefferson. January 30, 1808. [For the lands alluded to in the a bovc message, the United States are to pay the sum of fifty thousand five hun dred dollars.] Ntrw mode of making Hats, A patent has been obtained for mak- - ing hats of birch bark, by a gentleman at Newbury port, in Massachusetts.— I he lollowing remarks are extracted from an article on this subject, publish ed at that place. “ Birch Bark is the natural produce of the New-England states, and is found in quantities, sufficient to supply, for a ges, the whole world.