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SATURDAY, June 19, 1802. ' G E 0 R G I A, [Voi. XVI. No. 819. J
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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GAZETTE OF THE STATE.
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FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL by JURY shall remain inviolate. Conjiitution of Georgia.
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AUGU S T A: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, near the market. [3 Dolls, per Annum."]
[ [Published by Authority.]
Seventh Congress of the United
[ States.
[ At the First Session, begun and held at
i , the City of Washington, in the Tcr
f ritory of Columbia, on Monday the
I fcventh of December, one thousand
| eight hundred and one,
| AN ACT for the relief of Thomas K.
I fonts,
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of lieprefentatives of the United
|[ States of America, tn Congress affemhlcd,
I That the collector for tJre port of Bolton
i and Charleston be, and he hereby is aa
| thorifed to ifllie to Thomas K.- Jones,
I the debentures for the drawback of the
I duties on ten pipes of wine imported by
I said Jones, in the (hip Juno, captain
I Thomas Dingley, and exported on the
I fifteenth day of June last, in the Ship
I Enterprize, captain Hearfy, for Havan-
B na, on full and Satisfactory proof being
I made to the Said collector, of the aCtuai
I quantity of.wine in the said pipes, at the
I time of their being shipped, as aforefaid :
H Provided, that every other requisite Shall
I have been purlued, agreeably to law,
I tor the obtaining the Said drawback.
I NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
I of the House of Representatives,
I _ AARON BURR, Vice-Prefdent of
I the United States , and Prefidentof
B the Senate,
I Approved, April 14, 1802.
I Th. JEFFERSON, Prefidcnt of the
I United States,
H AN ACT for the relief of Paolo Panly,
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
I States of America in Congress Ajjembled ',
U That there be allowed and paid to Paolo
H Pauly, a Subject of his Danilh majelty,
|J or to his lawful attorney, out ol any mo
-1 nies in the Treasury, not otherwise appro-
I priated, the Sum of Seven thousand and
I forty dollars, and fifty.live cents, being
I the amount of damages and colts of fait,
I awarded by the circuit court of Pennfyl-
I vania, in favor of the laid Paoly, as own.
H cr ot the schooner Amphithiatre, againit
M William Maley, commander of tiie pub
-11 ar ‘ ae d vcdel, the Experiment,' belong
tag to the United States, for the capture
and detention of the laid schooner; on
I condition that the said Paoly, or his law
|| M attorney, (hall cause to be entered on
|| the records of the laid circuit court, an
|i acknowledgment of his receipt of the sum
|| aforefaid, in full Satisfaction ofthejudg
■ Went rendered agiinll the laid Maley in
I the premises.
i NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
|H of the Houje of Representatives, '
B AARON BURR, Vice-Prcjident of
H the United States, and Prejident
B of the Senate.
B Approved, April 14, 1802.
B Th : JEFFERSON, Prefdent of
B the United States.
B AN ACT to revive, and continue in force ,
on aSi, intituled , “An ad to augment
H the Jalaries of the officers therein men
i-l tinned,” pajftd the fecund day of March
B one thousand /even hundred and ninety
B nine,
8 Eit enacted by the Senate and House
B■“ °f Rep rfentalives of the United
B States of dmenca, in Congress affemklcd,
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That an Aft intituled “ An aft to ang
meat the fabrics of the officers therein
mentioned,” be, and the fame is hereby
revived, and continued in force, for and
during the term of two years, from the
commencement of the present year.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
of the House of Rep re Jen t a fives,
AARON BURR, Vice-Prejident of
the United States , and President
of the Senate.
Approved, April 14, 1802.
Th : JEFFERSON, Preftdent of
the United States,
AN ACT for the Relief of LEWIS
TOUSARD.
BE it enabled by the Senate and House
of Re prefen ta lives of the United
States of America , in Congref njfemoled ,
That the fecrecary of the treasury be, arid
he is hereby authorifed to pay to Lewis
Toufard, late lieutenant colonel command
ant of the second regiment of artillcritls
and engineers, out of any money in the
treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the
sum of fix hundred and feventy-five dol
lars and fifty-five cents, being in full pay
ment and adjuftraenr, and to be consider
ed as a final fettlevnent of all accounts be
tween the United States and the said
Lewis Toufard, except only the pay and
emolumen ts due to him by the pay mailer
of the regiment lately under his command :
Provided, Thar nothing herein contain
ed shall be conllrued to fanftion the con
duft of any person who has made advances
of monej not authorifed by law.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
of the Hnife of Repnfentatives,
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Presi
dent of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, April*:, 1802.
Th. JEFFERSON, President of
the United States.
AN ACT for the relief of the widows
and Orphans of certain persons who have
died in the naval service of the Unit
ed States.
BE it enafted by the Senate and Honfe
of Reprifentatives of the United
States of America, in Congref nffembled.
That the widows, if any such there be,
and in case there be no widow, the child
or children of the officers, seamen and
mariners, who were in the service of the
United States, and 101 l in the (hip Insur
gent and brigantine Pickering, (hall be
entitled to, and receive out of any money
in the treasury, not otherwise appropriat
ed, a sum equal to four months pay of
their refpeftive huihands or fathers, as a
forefaid.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
of the House of Re profentatives,
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Pru
dent of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, April 29, 1802.
Th. JEFFERSON, President
of the United States,
AN ACT in addition to an aft, intitu
led “ An Aft in addition to an aft re
gulating the grants of land appropriat.
cd for military services, and for the
Jociety of the United Brethren and for
propagating the go/pel among the Hea
then.”
BE it enafted by the Senate and House
of Reprefenlatives of the United
States of America, in Congref ajfembled,
That from and after the palling of this
aft, and until the firft day of January
next, it (hall be lawful for the holders or
proprietors of warrants heretofore granted
in conlidcration of military services, or
regi(let’s certificates of fifty acres, or
more, granted or hereafter to be granted
agreeable to the third feftion ot an aft
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intituled “ An aft in addition to an aft,
intituled an aft regulating the grants of
land appropriated for military services;
and for the society of the United Brethren
for propagating the gospel among the
Heathen,” approved the fir!l day of
Mirch, one theuTend eight hundred, to
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register and locate the fame, in the fame
manner, and under the fame rellriftions,
as might have been done before the firft
day of January last: Provided, That
persons holding regilter’s certificates for a
less quantity than one hundred acres, may
locate the fame on such parts of fractional
townships, as shall, for that purpose, be
divided by the secretary of the treasury
into lots of fifty acres each.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled,
That it (hall be the duty of the secretary
of war to receive claims to lands for mili
tary services, and claims for duplicates ot
warrants ifl'ued from his office, or from
the land office of Virginia, or of plats
and certificates of surveys founded on such
warrants, fuggelted to have been loft or
destroyed, until the firft day of January
next, and no longei ; and immediately
thereafter, to report the fame toCongrcfs,
designating the number of claims of each
deferiprion, with his opinion thereon.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
of the House of iieprefentatives,
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Preft.
dent of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, April 26, 1802.
Th: JEFFERSON, Puftdent of
the United States.
AN ACT making provijions for the re
demption of the whole of the Public
Debt of the United States,
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Reprefentativts of the United States
of America, in Congress ajfembled, That
so much of the duties on merchandize and
tonnage as, together with the monies,
other than furpiuftes of revenue, which
now constitute the finking fund, or (hall
accrue to it by virtue of any provisions
heretofore made, and together with the
Turns annually required to difeharge the
annual interest and charges accruing on
the present debt of the United States, in
cluding temporary loans heretofore obtain
ed, and alio future loans which may be
made for reimbursing, or redeeming, any
inftalments, or parts of the principal o£the
said debt, will amount to an annual sum
of seven millions three hundred thousand
dollars, be, and the Tune hereby is yearly
appropriated to the said fund ; and the
said (urns are hereby declared to be veiled
in the cornmiffioncrs of the finking fund,
in the fame manner as the monies hereto
fore appropriated to the said fund, to be
applied by the said commissioners to the
payment of interest and charges, and to
the reimburfment or redemption of the
principal of the public debt, and (hall be
and continue appropriatg||Litil the whole
of the present debt of Jr|, Ignited States,
and the loans which may be made for re
imbursing or redeeming, any parts or
inftalments of the principal of the said
debt (hall be reimbursed and redeemed :
Provided , that after the whole of the said
debt, the old fix per cent, flock, the
deferred (lock, the seventeen hundred and
ninety-fix fix per cent, flock and three
percent, (lock excepted, (hall have been
reipiburfed or redeemed, any balance of
the Turns annually appropriated by this
aft, which may remain unexpended at the
end of (lx months next fuccceding the end
of the calendar year to which such annu
al appropriation refers, (hall be carried
to the surplus fund, and cease to be vert
ed by virtue of this aft in the commissi
oners of the finking fund, and the appro,
priation, so far as iclates to (uch unex
pended balance, (hall cease and determine.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled.
That it (hall be the duty of the'Secretary
of the Treasury annually, and in each
year, to cause to be paid to the commis
sioners of the finking fund the said sum
of seven millions three hundred thousand
dollars, in such payments, and at such
times, in each year, as the situation of
the treasury will permit: Provided, that
all such payments as may be ncceflary to
enable the said commissioners to difeharge,
or reimburse, any demands against tie
United States, on account of the piinci
pal or interest of the debt, which (hall
be aftually due, in conformity to the
engagements of the said dates, (hall be
made at- such lime and tirr.es, in each
year, as will enable the said commiflion
ers faithfully and punctually to comply
with such engagement.
Sec. 3. And be it further enaßed v
That all reimburfernents of the capital,
or principal, ot the prefentdebt of the U
nited States, including future loans which
may be made tor rtimburfing or redeem
ing any inftalmcnts, or parts of the fame,
and all payments on account of the filte
red and charges accruing upon the said
debt (hall be made under the fuperinten
dance of the cominiflioners of the finking
fund. And it (hall be the duty of the
said commiflioncrs to cause to be applied
and paid out of the said fund, yearly and
every year, at the treasury of the Unit
ed States, the fcvcral and refpeftive fuma '
following, to wit; firft, such sum and
sums as by virtue of any aft, or acts,
they hive heretofore been direfted to ap
ply and to pay : secondly, such sum and
lums as may be annually wanted to dis
charge the annual intcrcft and charges
accruing on any other part of the present
debt ol the United States, including the
filtered and cha-ges which accrue on .
future loans which may be m ide for re
imburJlng or redeeming at>y indalments
or parts of the principal of the said debt:
thirdly, such sum and sums as may an
nually be required 10 difeharge any in
ftalment or part of the principal of the
present debt of the United Slates, and of
any future loans which may be made lor
rcimburfing, or difeharging the fame,
which (hail be aftuidly due and demand
able, and not by virtue of**
this, or any oilier be renewed or
prolonged, or reimbursed, out of the
proceeds ol a new loan : \and also it (hall
be the dury of the said yommiflioners to
cause to be applied the of such
fund as may at any time cxift, after fa
tisfying the purposes aforefikl, towards
the further and 111131 redemption, by pay
ment, or purchase, of the present debt
of the United States, including loans,
for the reim'mrfcmcnt thereof, temporary
loans heretofore obtained from the bank
of the United States, and those demand*
against the United States, under any
treaty, or convention, with a
power, for the payment of which the
faith of the United States has been, or
may hereafter, be, pledged by congress:
Provided, however, that the whole, or
any part, of such demands, arising under
a treaty, or convention, with a foreiga
power, and of such temporary loans, may*
at any time, be reimbursed, either oat
of the finking fund, or, it the fuuatioa
of the treasury will permit, cut of any
other monies which have been, or may
hereafter be, appropriated to that pur
pose.
Sec. 4. And be it further enabled.
That the commiflioncrs of the (inking J
fund be, and they hereby are empowered,
with the approbation of the" Prescient of
the United States, to borrow on the cre
dit ot the United States, either in Ame
rica, or abroad, hy obtaining a prolon
gation of former loans, or otherwise, the
(urns requisite for the payment of the in
st al meats or parts of principal of the
Dutch debt, which become due in tbsj
years one thousand eight hundred and three,
one thousand eight hundred and four, one
thousand eight hundred and five, and one
thousand eight hundred and fix ; and that
a sum equivalent to that to be thus bor
rowed, or reloaned, (hall be laid out by
the commiflioncrs of the finking fund, in
the purchase or redemption of such parts
of the present debt of the United States,
and other demands against them,'as the
commiflioncrs of the finking fund may *
lawfully pay, agreeably to the provisions
herein before made, and as the said com
miflinners (hull in their judgment deem
molt expedient, so as to effeft the pay
ment, annually, of seven millions, three
hundred thousand dollars, towards the
final difeharge of the whole debt, agree-