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In Drtawig*t. |
from Georgetown by Broadkiln land- I
g, to Lewiftown;
From Newport, by Chatham, Coch
ran's, to Lancafier inFenn
fylvania;
From Whitelyfturg to Frederica}
From Georgetown by Bridge Branch
and North welt Fork Bridge, to Hunting
Greek or New-,Marker, Maryland, as the
post-master may dired.
Jn 'Virginia.
From Ledburg to,
From New-Dablin, by,Tazewell court
house, Russel court.houfc, and Lee court
house, to .Robinson’s mills at the foot ff
Cumberland mountain;
From Cumberland court-house. to Ca
I jfra;
.From Culpepper court-house, by Wood
.♦ille and Mundeli’s .(lore, to Mar
ket in Shanandoah county;
From .Fauquicn ccHipt-houfe, by Aqilia
ter King George cLurt-houfe; a 1
.From Winchcftfer .by Front-Royal, to
Culpepper court-house; .JR
.From Brpoke fcouit-houfe to Steuben
ville, in ihe.Nort|i Wcftern Territory;
From Brooke court-bqufe to Weft Li
berty;
From Brookington by Newman’s and
Randolph’s tavenfs, and Dennis’s ftorc,
to Henderson’s and Fitzgerald’s (lore;
From Amelia court-house by Perkin's
store, to Paynefville;
From Wyllifville, in Charlotte county,
by Speed and Willfon's (tore, Sterling,
Yancey's and Norman's store, to Pcrfon
court-house, in Norch-Carolina;
•From Harrifville by Field's mill,
Quarlcfville, M'Farland's store, Lunen
burg court-house, ChriftianfVille, Mar-
Ihallfville, Mecklenburg court-house and
St. Tammany's; and to return by Geef
bridge, Edmund’s ftorc, -Field's mill, to
Harrifville;
From Richmond court-house, to Tap
pahannock.
In North Carolina.
From Plymouth* to Robert Winn's, .
on Scuppernong river;
From Joneflburg to Pafquotank river
bridge ;
From Rutherfordftown, by John Gow
en’s store, to Greenville court-house, in
South-Carolina;
From Wilkes toAfh court-house;
Tlie road from Mount Airy to Gray
son court-house, in Virginia, Avail pass
by Scull Camp.
In Tenitejfee,
From Jondborough to Carter coart
houfe.
From Nalhvilleto Franklin ;
From Knoxville to Barvillc.
In South Carolina.
The road from Edgefield to Cambridge,
lhall pass by Amos Richardfoa’s, and re
turn by Northampton ;
Frcm Monk’s corner over Biggen
bridge, by Pincville, Murray’s ferry,
Santee, to Kingftree.
• In Georgia.
From Oglethorpe court-house, by A
ttiens, through Clarklburg, to Jackson
tear:-houfc.
In Kentucky,
I 1 rum Shelby ville to Louisville ;
From Danville, by Pulaiki court-house,
to Wayne court-house.
In the North iVtJlern Territory.
From Marietta, by Chilicothe and
Williamlburg, to Cincinnati;
Sec. 3. A»d be it further enaßcd,
That for the better and more secure car
rying of the mail of the United States,
on the main post-road between Pcterf.
burg, in Virginia, and Louisville, in
Georgia, the Poftmafter-Genefal (hall be,
and hereby is authorized and direded to
engage and contrad with private compa
nies, or adventurers, for carrying the
mail of the United States, for a term of
time not exceeding five years, in mail
coachees or stages, calculated to convey
passengers therein: Provided, that the
expence thereof (hall not exceed a sum
equal to one third more than the whole
of the present expcncc incurred for carry
ing the mail on such road, on horseback.
And the (aid Postmaster General may,
hereafter at his diferetion, require as a
stipulation in the contrad for carrying
the mail from Suffield, in Connedicut,
by Windsor, in Vermont, to Dartmouth
College, in Ncw-Hamplhire; that the
fame lhall be coveyed in a carriage or line
of llages : Provided , the efcpeucc thereof
ftiall not exceed more than one third the
sum heretofore given for carrying the
mail on the last mentioned route by a poll,
rider.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,
That from and after the firft day of No.
vnnber next, no other than a free w hite
person (hall be employed in carrying tlie
mail of the United States, on any ot the
post-roads; either sea poll-rider or driver
Icf a carriage carrying the mail And, ,
every contractor or person who lhall fyave
ftipujued or may hereafter stipulate to
carry the mail t or whose duty it lhall be
to calife, the (kmc to be conveyed, on any
pf the ppft-toads, as aforefaid, and who
lhall, contrary to this aft employ any
other than a ifree white person as a poll
rider or driver, or in any other way to
carry’the mail on the fame, lhall, for
every such offence, forfeit and pay the
sum of fifty dollars, one moiety {hereof
to the use of the United States, and the
other moiety thereof to the person who
lhall sue for, and prosecute the fame, be
fore any court having competent juiifdic
{ion thereof.
Sec. 5. And be it further enaded ,
That all letters and newspapers to and
from the attorney.general of the United
States lhall he conveyed by port free of
portage: Provided, that all letters by
him lent,be franked in the manner reqair
-1 ed by the seventeenth .feftiop of the aft
to eftablilh the ppft-office.
Sec, 6. And be it further enaded.
That the Postmaster-General be authoris
ed to allow the poll mailers at the feyeral
distributing poft.offices, such compena
tion as fliall be adequate to their fevqral
services iinhat refpeft: Provided, That
the fame fliall not exceed in the whole 5
per cent, on the whole amount of porta
ges on letters and newspapers received for
jiiftribution, and that the (aid allowance
be made to commence on the fir ft day of
June, in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and two: Provided also , T,hat if
the number of mails received at and dif
patchcd from any such office is not aftual-
I> increased by the diftributiqg system,
then no additional allowance lhall be made
to the pqlhpafter.
Sec. 7. And be it further enaded.
That there fliall be allowed to the deputy
poflmalter at the city of Wafliington, for
his extraordinary expences incurred in
the difeharge of the duties of his office,
an additional c'ompcnfation, at the rate
fit' one thousand dollars per annum, to be
computed from the firft day of January
iart.
Sec. 8. And be it further enaded,
That this aft lhall not be so construed as
toaffeft any existing contrasts for carry
ing the mail.
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Prefix
dent of the Senate pro tempore .
Approved, May 3, 1802.
Th. JEFFERSON, P ref dent of
: the United Stales.
AN ACT to amend an aft, tnt/luled
f( An aid for the relief of feck and Jfa
bled fcamen ” andfor otherpurpofes.
BE it enaded by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Umtfd
States of America , in Cong refs affernbled,
That the monies heretofore coUeftcd in
pursuance of the fcveral afts t( for the re
lief of sick and disabled fcamen,” and at
present unexpended, together with the
monies hereafter to be collefted by autho
rity of the beforementioned afts, fliall
constitute a general fund, which the Pre
sident of the United States lhall use and
employ as circumftanccs lhall require for
the benefit and convenience of sick and
disabled American seamen : Provided ,
that the sum of fifteen thousand dollars
be, and the fame is hereby appropriated
for the ereftion of an hospital in the di
ftrift of Massachusetts.
Sec. 2. And be it further enaded ,
That it lhall be lawful for the President
of the United States to cauf? such mea
sures to be taken as, in his opinion, may
be expedient for providing convenient
accommodations, medical alliftance, ne
celfary attendance, and supplies for the
relief of sick or disabled seamen of the
United States who may be at or near the
port of New Orleans, in case the fimie
can he done with the alfent of the govern
ment having jurifdiftion over the port;
and for this purpose, to eftablilh such re
gulations, and to authprife the employ
ment of such persons as he may judge pro
per ; and that for dcfiaying the cxpecce
thereof, a sum not exceeding three thou
sand dollars be paid out of any monies a
rifmg from the said fund npt othenvife
appropriated.
Sec. 3. And be it further enaded.
That from and after the thirtieth day of
j June next, the mailer of every boat, raft
or flat, belonging to any citizen of the
United States which Avail go down the
Milfiffippi with intention to proceed to
New Orleans lhall, on his arrival at fort
Adams, render to the Colleftor or naval
officer thereof, a true account of the num
ber of persons employed on board such
boat, ralt or flat, and the time that each
person has been so employed, and lhall
pay to the said colleftor or naval oljjcer at
the rate oT twenty,cents .pernor rh, so?
every person so employ cd , w: ich k c
is hereby authorhkd to, retain ouc^ ft the
wages of fiich person ; and tnc laid Col
leftor or naval ofiker ihall no: give a %
clearance for such boat, rat: or Hat, to
proceed on her voyage to. New Orleans,
until an account be rendered to him of the
number of persons employed on board such
boat, raft or flat, and the money paid to
him by the mailer or owner thereof; and
if any such matter (hall render a .falfe ac
count of the number of persons, and the
length of time they have severally been
employed as is herein required, he Ihall
'forfeit and pay fifty dollars, which Ihall
be applied to and Ihall make A part of the
fa Id general fund for the purposes of this
aft : Provided, that all persons employ,
ed in navigating any such ..boat, raft or
flat, (hall be considered as Teamen of the
United States, .and-entitled to the relief
■ extended by law to Tick, and diiabled Tea
men.
Sec. 4. 4»d bn it fiutlvr er.aft'<d y
That the President of the United. Status |
be, and,he is hereby authcrilbU to rumi
nate and appoint for the port of New-Or
leans, a fit person to be direst or oi the
marine hospital of the United States, whole
duties (hall be in all instances the fame .as
the direftorsof the marine hospital of the
United States, as direfted and required by
the aft, entiruled “ an aft for the relief
of fic:k and disabled Teamen.
Sec. £. And be it further enabled.
That each a n d every director of the ma
rine hospitals within the United States
(hall, if it can with convenience be done,
admit into the hospital of which he is di
reftor, sick foreign seamen, on the appli
cation of the matter or commander of any
foreign veflffl to which such .sick Teamen
may belong ; and each seaman so admit
ted Ihall be fubjeft to a charge of seven.
ty-five cents per day, Tor each day he
piay remain in the hospital, the payment
of which, the matter or commander of
such foreign yefljbJ, (hall make to the col
leftor of the didrift in which such hospi
tal is situated ; aijd the colleftor Ihall nor
grant a clearance to any foreign veflel, un
til the money due from such matter or
commander, .in manner and form afore
fair), Ihall be paid j and the direftor of
each hospital is hereby directed, nnder the
penalty of fifty dollars, to majee out the
accounts againtt each foreign feanun that
may be placed in the hospital under his
direftion, and render the lame to the col
leftor.
Sec. 6. And be it further enabled.
That the colleftors (hall pay the money
collefted, by virtue of this, and the aft
to which this is an amendment, into the
treasury of the United States, and be ac
countable therefor, and receive the fame
commission thereon, as for oihpr money
by them cojlcfted.
Sec. 7. And be it further enabled.
That each and every direftor of the ma
rine hofpitafs, (hall be accountable at the
treasury of the United States, for the mo
ney by them received in the fame manner
as other receivers of public money, and
for the sums by them expended Ihall be al
lowed a commiflion at the rate of one per
cent,
NATHANIEL MACON Speaker
of the House of Reprefeuiqtives,
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Prefix
dent of the Senate jxro tempore.
Approved, May 3, 1802.
Th. JEFFERSON, P ref dent
of the United States,
From the National Intelligencer,
We that a communication
has been made to our government by Mr,
Pichon, general cormpercial agent of the
French Republic, in relation to the recent
events of' St. Domingo, from which it
appears, that in consequence of the repre
sentations from our government he had
exe.rted bis interpolation, in the ftrengeii
manner, refpefting the treatment expe
rienced by Melfrs. Rogers and Davidlbn,
and has rectified certain erroneous accounts
which had excited unfavorable ientiments
towards them.
Accompanying the communication Is,
we learn, the copy of a letter received by
Mr. Pichon from the quarter-mailer ge
neral of the army of Sr, Domingo, writ
ten in obedience to the ioliruftions of ge
neral Leclerc.
The letter states, that owing to the
cpnvulfioi)s attendant on the arrival of
the French forces in the iiland, thcrighrs
of commerce have unavoidably frittered.
The appnjhpnfion refpefting a future (up
ply of provisions, occasioned by the con
flagration of the Cape, induced the necef
frty of d,hefting their attention to the
American dripping ; and the dread of choir
failing into the hands of the enemy pro
duced a,general embargo throughout the
colony. Though this ujeafum may b^vc
operated lariMy on the genera! Iwcre»,„r
trade, the ind.».d u al s cottld-not c MfW „
Ot tueir per lona 1 treatment. The rf a •
iitions fooarticles tofupply the army i
not made till the rates were fixed . accoi j
ing to the.prices of the place.
The prices were fixed at 1 2 dollars W
the barrel ot flour, 2,4 f or the barrel of
lard, 1 5 for the barrel of beef—one q uar .
ter payable in cash, and three quarters m
bills on France. These prices are
to have been higher than those antecedent
to the arrival of the -French forces, and
higher than could have been cxpefled to
have been received from the inhabitants
under the dreadful circumllances attend,
ing the conflagration. As soon as the a/
my bad feoured itfelf in the possession 0 f
the mod important positions, and had
rettored tranquility to the inhabitants
the general in chief had nothing more at
heart than to replace commerce in all its
privileges, and to afford it special pro.
j The embargo was raised at the
lame time throughout the whole extent of
] the island,; the ports of St. Domingo,
Anx Cayes, Port .Republican and 'the
Cape were open to all foreign veffds"
and the. ad mi nil! rat ion employed itfelf ia
fettling the accounts of the Americans
and more than a month since it had liqui!
dated. all its expepces.
The quarter mailer general dates, that
owing to the arrangements of the adni.
nidraaon, the facilities ot intereourfc with
the merchants of the United States ate
greatly extended ; whatever is parchalwi
tor the acmy is .paid for half in cadi, and
halt in colonial produce oi bills on France.
The greatest liberty is given to the con.
fignees in thedifpofmion of their cargoes;
and the highcil confidence is repofed.in the
adminidrarion; which confidence, th>
quarter mailer general truds will be felt
in the United States, whereby the re.
fpurces ufuaily received by St. Domingo
trom the United States may be relied on,
Ic is dated that the payments of one
fourth in cafli and three fourths in hills
of exchange, were confined to the Cape;
in all the other ports the whole payments
have been in calh.; and in Port Republi.
can they have been made to the amount
of one million.
ages- Jsg«a=i=g=3r=gi-t!L jst
SHERI/F’s SALES.
On the firjt Tuesday in September next,
at the court-hau/i in WaynfJbjrough,
WILL B E SOLD,
100 acres of land on the wa
ters of Buckhead, in the county ot burke,
adjoining Wm, Murphy and John M*A.
naily j levied on by James fkclley,
eonftable, as the property of Abraham
Wells, to fatiafy John Dickson, and te«
turned to me.
40 acres of land, bounded northward
ly by lands of Thomas, wed»atd«
ly by lands of Win, Murphy, and fcads
wardly and eadwardiy by lands of John
M‘Anally, on the waters of Backhesd;
levied on by James Becfley, conftabk*
as the property of Abraham Wci'i, to
fatisfy Wright Douglas, and returned to
me.
ALJo'ioil ht Sold f on the jtrjt Tuefday in
December next ,
200 acres of land on Rocky creek, h
the county of Burke (advertised to i>«
fold on the Aid Tuefday in June lad, but
pollpancd to the fird Tuefday in Decem
ber, as above) levied on as the property
of John Ford, to Dtisl'y William Fartrt
foa, by James Bcefley, constable, and re
turned to me.
M. SCRUGGS, Sherif
July 8.
N. B, No Writs or Processes will be
served by me ia future, belorc the
are paid.
jfuji Received and for bale ,
A few quarter calks, prime old
Madeira Wine,
Jamaica and Northward Rum>
Loaf and Brown Sugars,
and Coffee.
ON CONSIGNMENT .
A few Calks BROAD HOES
ISAAC fiFKßiiK T v
SHERIFFS SALE. .
On the frfi, Tuefday in September ncxU c f
the court-house in Greene county) K
tween the vfual hours f
WILL BE SOLD,
200 acres of land »teico ll
Samuel Reid now lives, in «»<»*
iy, on Richland creek,, adj.cicutg
pointed osut by faidfßeid, at the t®- *
of Peegks, Wed,. «n4 *****
J. U. TANNI& Ste#
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