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/ ■' ' ■ • SATURDAY, June 19, 1802. ' G E 0 R G I A, [Voi. XVI. No. 819. J THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE / I ijfe' AND GAZETTE OF THE STATE. ~ " ■ “*' ' ' - J 1— FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL by JURY shall remain inviolate. Conjiitution of Georgia. -— —-— ■■■■ J 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, |-s % / 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 Q ... 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 • 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-