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PUBIISIIBD BT ATJ.VW CHARLTON. Thursday Evening tr 1 *' i BV AI/tUOKITY. AN ACT f M«dtinpßpprox»rii*t'oo» for the Military | C! vict* of the United States for the year one thousand eightUundrcd w*d twenty- Ol *lie it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representative* of the United States of America in Con gress assembled, That the following sums be. and the. same arc hereby respectively appropriated for the mil* Itai v service of the United States foi the year one thousand eight hundred ond twenty-one, to wit: For the nay of the army and sub distance oMhe ;fficcrs, nine hundred ami fifty four thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars eighty-six cents, m addition to an unexpended balance of the year one thousand eight hun dred and eighty dollars and seventy right cents. For three months gratuitous pay for disbanded officers and soldicis, including travelling allowances for the same, sixty thousa d dollars. For subsistance, one hundred and four tnousaml six hundred and fifty four dolt- rs anu sixty seven cents, in addition to the sum of one humlrei and fifty thousand dollars already a,t iiropriated. For forage lor officers, forty-one thousand five hundred ami forty one dollars- For clothing, two hundred and se ♦entv-six thousand five hundred and feixt v-ftve dollars and twenty-five cents, in addition to an unexpended balance "f thirteen thousand nine fiundi ed nd tlirce dollars and seven tv-two cents. For the Medical ard Hospital I)c --panmerit, twenty four thousand five hundred and five dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of nine thousand l ight hundred and eightv one dodars and sixty-five cents. For tire Quartermaster General’s iDc, a .meat, two hundred and two th usaint eight hundred and sixty eight dollars, in addition to the sum Os one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, to irit: For regular supplies, transporta tion, rents and repairs, postage and courts martial, and contingencies of tfie Department, anil pay of soldiers employed in the erection and repairs ofi/iu ’icks, surveys, roads, and other )al> ir, three hundred and seventeen thousand eigul hundred and sixty eighf dollars* To complete the barracks at Raton Jlouge, twenty thousand dollars; and for the transportation of ordnance, fifteen thousand dollars. For arrearages in the Quartermas ter Gcnmal’s Depart neat, twenty thousand dollars. For the Military Academy, seven teen thousand and thirty-six dollars nr-i twenty-two cents For foi i ifications, two hundred and two thousand dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hun dred thousand dollars, to be applied to the Jo.lowing fortifications, to Fort Delaware, fifty five thousand dollars, i > complete the same. Fort d ashington,twenty two thou sand dollars. Fort Monroe, sixty-five thousand dollars. Fort Calhoun, fifty thousand dol lars. Kigolets, sixty thousand dollars. Mobile Point, thirty thousand dol lars Repairs and contingencies, twenty thousand dollars. For the contingencies of the army, forty .I'Ous in ’dollars. For the national armories, three bunded and forty thousand dollars, In addition to an unexpended balance .of twenty housand dollars. For tiie current expenses of the Ordnance, service, an unexpended balance of twenty-three tiiousand six hundred arid sixty-three dollars and seveo cents. ho die fulfilment of existing con tracts for cannon shot, ami shells, And for tnc purchase of one thousand sword belts, and of timber for gun cartages, fifty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the annual allowance to the invalid pensions of the United Slates tw< hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty four dol lars, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and one thou tand six hundred -.nd seventy six dol - lars and seventy five cents. For the half pay pensions of wi dows and orphans, thirty thousand dollars. Foe arrearages, prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and se venteen, fifty thousand dollars, in addition to a former appropriation twenty thousand dollars. for arrearages in the Indian Oe-s • housand twojiundred and .five dol m s and forty sous cents. Kor the current expenses ofthfc In di.,n Department, one hundred thou sand dollars. For the annual allowance to the Revolutionary pensioners of the Uni ted Slates, one million two hundred thousand dollars, being part of the unexpended balance ot a former ap propriation. For carrying into effect the Treaty concluded with the Creek nation on the eighth day of January, one thou sand eight hundred an twenty-[onc"j and ratified by and with the advice and cousent of the Senate, on the twenty-fourth of February, one thou sand eight hundred and twenty one, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For carrying ioto effect the treaty I concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians on , eleventh of Octo ber, one thoiisu .d eight hundred and twenty, sixty five thousand dollars; and for payment of one year’s annu ity to Mushulatubbu, a Choctaw chief, one hundred and fifty dollars. For completing the road in the state of Georgia, through the Creek nation, under the acts of the t enty seventh April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, twenty-seventh March, one thousand eight hundred and eigh teen, and fourteenth April, one thou sand eight, hundred and twenty, one thousand dollars. For discharging arrearages incur red in building the arsenal at Augus ta, in Georgia, forty thousand dol lam. S*»c. 2 And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, here inbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not o thorwisc appropriated. JOHN VV. TAYLOR, Speaker of ths House of fteprcNenl.-itives. JOHN GAILLARI), President of the Senate, pro tempore Washington, March 3, 1521 — Approved, JAMES MONROE. AN ACT making appropriations for the cuppoal of the Navy of the United .Sta'es for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. He it enacted by the Senate and H »use of Representatives of the U. States of America in Congress as ■emblod, That, sot decaying the ex penses of the Nav , for the year one thousand eight hundred ami twenty’ one, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appro priated: For the pay and subsistance of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine 1 hundred and eig.ity three thousand three hundred andtwenty five dollars and twenty five cents. For provisions, three hundred and thirty seven thousand eight hundred and thirty one dollars; For medicines, hospital stores, ant! ill expenses on account of the sick, thirty two thousand do;lam. Kor repairs of vessels, three hun i.ed and seventy five thousand dol lars For improvements of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superin tendents, storekeepers, clerks, and laborers, twenty five thousand dol lars. For ordnance, and ordnance stores, twenty five thousand dollars. For contingent cxpcnces,two hun dred thousand dollars. For pay and subsistance of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty nine thousand three hundred anil ninety three dollars For clothing the same, thirty thou sand six hundred au eighty six dol lars and thirty one cents. For fuel for the same, six thousand eight hundred and silty sevendollaas and fifty cents. For contingent expenses of the same, fourteen thousand dollars. For completing the equipment of the vessels constructed in pursuance of the act authorizing the building of a certain number of small vessels of ■"ar, ten thousand dollars. For the purpose of enabling the Se cretary of the Navy to remove ob structions placed in the river Tha mes, in Connecticut, by the com mander of the American ships during the late war, one hundred and fifty dollars Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations here in before made shall be paid out of of sny money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3d, 1821. AN ACT to authorize die President of tbe United Suick to borrow a sum not ex ceeding five millions of dollars. Be it,enacted by the Senate and ll‘>use of Representatives of the U. States of America in Congress as s' tabled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, empowered to boirow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not ex ceeding five millions of dollars, at a rate ol interest, payable quarter-year ly, not exceeding five per centum per annum, and reimbursable at the will of the government, at any time after the first day ol January, one thou and eight hundred and thirty-five; to be applied, in addition to the moneys I nowip the Treasury, or which mayl be received therein,from other sour* ces, during the present year, to de fray any ot the public expenses which are, or may be, authorized by law. — The stock thereby created shall b ■ transferable in the same manner as is provided by law fur the transfer of the public debt. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful lor the Hank of the United States to lend the said sum, or any pait thereof; and it is hereby further declared, that it shall be deemed a good execution of the said power to borrow, for the Secre tary of the Treasury, with the appro bation of the President of the United States, to 'ause to be constituted certificates of stock, signed by the Register of the Treasury, or by a Commissioner of Loans, for the sum to be borrowed, for any part thereof, boaring an interest of five per cen tnoi per annum, transferable arid re imbursable ns aforesaid, and to cause the said certificates of stock to be sold, that no stock be sold under par. Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasmy be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to employ an agent or agents for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the loan authorized by this act, or of selling any part of the to he crea'ed by virtue thereof. A commission of not exceeding one eighth of one per centum on the amount thus sold, or for which subscriptions shall be ob tained, may, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be allowed to such agent or agents; and a sum, not exceeding four thousand dollars, to be paid out ol any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for that object, and sub scription certificates, and certificates of stork, and other expenses incident to the due execution of this act. •Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the funds c institu ting the annual appropriation of ten millions of dollars for the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt of the United States, as may be sufficient for that purpose, af ter satisfying the sums necessary for the payment of the interest, and of such part of the principal, of the said debt as the United States are now pledged annually to pay and reim burse, is hereby pledged for (he pay ment of the. interest, artd for the re imbursement of the principal, of the stock which may be created by vir tue of the art. It shall, accordingly, be the duty «f the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to cause to be ap plied and paid out of the said fund, yearly, such sum and sums as may annually be necessary to discharge the interest accruing on the said stock, and to reimburse the princi pal, as (he same may become due, and may be discharged in conformi ty with the terms of the loan. And they are further authorized to apply, from time to time, such sunt or sums towards discharging, by purchase, ami at a price not above par, the principal of the said stock, or any part thereof; and the faith of the U. States is hereby pledged to establish sufficient i evenues for making op any deficency that may hereafter take place in the funds hereby appropriat ed for paying the said interest, and principal sums, or any of them, in manner aforesaid. Approved, March Sd, 1821. AN ACT for carrying into execution the Treaty between the United States and Spain, concluded at Washington, on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. States of America in congress assem bled, That the President of the Unit ed States be, and he is hereby, autho rized to take possession of, and oc cupy the territories of Cast ami West Florida, and the appendages and ap purtenances thereof, and to remove and transport the officers and sol diers of the King of Spain, being lliene, to the Ifavanna, agreeably to the stipulations of the Treaty between the United States and Spain, con cluded at Washington on the twenty second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine teen, providing for the cession of said territories to the United States; and he may, for these purposes, and in order to maintain in said territo ries the authority of the United States and the militia of any state or terito ry. which he may deem necessary. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, until the end of the first ses sion of the next Congress,{unless pro vision for the temporary government of said territories be sooner made by Congress, all the military, civil and judicial powers exercised by the offi cers of the existing government of Ihe same territories, shall be vested in such person acd persons and. shall be exercised in such manner, as the President of the United [Statesjshall di.iect, for the maintaining the inha bitants of said territories in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion; and the laws of the U. tales relating to the revenue and its collection, subject to the modifi cation stipulated by the fifteenth ar ticle of the said Treaty, in favour of Spanish vessels and their cargoes, and the laws relating to the importa tion of persons ot color, shall be ex tended to the said territories. And the President of the United States shrll be,and he is hereby, authorized, when the term aforesaid, to establish such districts forth*? ejection of the revenue, and, during the recess of Congress, to appoint such oftitrs, whose commissions shad expire at the end of the next session of Con gress, to enforce the said law', as to him shall seem expedient. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United tales be, and he is hereby, authoriz ed to appoint, during the ol the Senate, a Commissioner and Sur veyor, whose commissions shall ex pire at the end of the next session of Congress to meet the Commissioner and Surveyor, who may be appointed on the part of >pain, for the purpos es stipulated in the fourth article of said Treaty: and ti.at the President he, and he is hereby, further autho rized to take all other means which he shall judge proper, for carrying into effect the stipulations of the said fourth article. Sec. 4. Ami be it further enacted, That a Hoard of three Commission ers shall be appointed, conformably to the stipulations of the eleventh article of the said Treaty; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to take any mea sures w hich he may deem expedient, for organizing the said Board of Com missioners; and, (or this purpose, may appoint a S erelary, well vers ed in the French and Spanish lan guages, and a Clerk; which ments, if made during the recess of the Senate,Shall, at (he next meeting of that body, be subject to nomina tion for their advice and consent. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That ihe compensation of the respec tive officers, for whose appointment provision is made by this act, shall not exceed the following sums; The Commissioner tube appointed conformably to the fourth article, at the rate, by the year, of three thou sand dollars. To the Surveyor, two thousand dollars. To each of the three Commission ers to be appointed conformably to the eleventh article of the Treaty, three thousand dollars. To the Secretary of the Board, two thousand dollars. To one Clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 6* And be it further enacted, That, for carrying this {act into exe cution, the sum of one hundred thou sand dollars be, and hereby is appro priated, tube taken from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro priated. Approved, March 3, 1821. AN ACT to establish the District of Pearl Itiver. He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of th Unit ed States of America in Congress as sembled, That, fr m and after the first day January next, all the bays, waters, and shores, on Lake Borgne and the Gull of Mexico, and all (he rivers emptying into the same, with in the limits of the state of VHsßiss;p --pi, shall be a collection district, to be called the district of Pearl river; of which a port near the mouth of Pearl river,at such places as the President of the United States shall designate, shall be the port of entry; and a col lection for the district shall be ap pointed, to reside at such place as the President shall direct, at or near (he said port, who shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the fees and other emoluments established by law, the annual salary of two hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, March 2, 1821. AN ACT conforming die location of the seal of government efthe state of Illinois, and for. other purposes. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of representatives of the Unit ed States of America in Congress as- . sctnbled, That the four sections of land, including the section number sixteen, in township number six north, range number one east, of the third principal meridian, heretofore select ed by commissioners appointed for that purpose, for the seat of govern ment of the state ©f Illinois, be, and the same are hereby declared to be, confirmed to, and vested in, the said state, for the purpose aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the governor of said state be, and he is hereby, authorized to se lect any unappropriated section in said township, for the use of the in habitants thereof, which shall be in lieu of the said sixteenth section. .„ . , Approved, March 2, 1821. AN ACT further to regulate the entry of merchandise imported into the United Stales from any adjacent territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. States of America in Congress assem bled, That it shall be the duty ofthe master of any vessel, except register ed vessels, and of every person hav ing charge of any boat canoe, or raft, and of the conducts or driver of a ■ .. ' ny cartage or sleigh, and of tv erf other person coming from any for eign territory adjacent to the United States, into the United States, wit’ merchandise subject to duty, to deli ver, immediately on his or her arrive within the United States, amanitest of the cargo or loading of such vessel, boat, canoe, raft, carnage, or sleigh, or of the merchandise so bought from such foreign territory, at the office of any collector or deputy collector which shall be nearest to the bounda ry line, or nearest the road or wa ters by which such merchandise is brought; and every such manifest shall be verified by the oath of such person delivering the same; which oath shall be taken before such cof lector or deputy collector; and such oath shall state that such manifest contains a full, just, and true account of the kinds, quantities, and values, of all the merchandise, so brought from such foreign territory; and, if the master, or other person having charge of such vessel, boat, canoe, or raft, or the conductcr or driver of such carriage or sleigh, or other per son bringing merchandise as afore said, shall neglect or refuse to deliver the manifest herein required, or pas by, or avoid, such officer, the mer chandise subject to duty, and so im ported, shall be forfeited to the Unit, ec States, -.ogether with the vessel, boat, canoe, or raft, the tackle, ap parel, and furniture of the same, or the carriage- or sleigh, and harness and cattle, drawing the same, or the horses with their saddles and bridles, as the case may be; and such masters, conductcr, or other importer, shall be subjected to pay a penalty of four hundred dollars. Sec. 2 And be it farther enacted, That any deputy collector, stationed in any district of the conti guous to a foreign territory, to whom a manifest of merchandise, subject to duty, shall be delivered as aforesaid, is hereby authorized to require of the importer of such merchandise to require of the importer us such mer chandise the payment of the duties thereon, or good and ample security, either by bond, with one or more suf ficient sureties, for the payment thereof, or by the deposit of a por tion of such merchandise, equal, at least, to double the amount of the duties on the whole importation; which bond shall be cancelled, or the merchandise, so deposited, shall be delivered to the owner, on (he pro ducing to the deputy collector a cer tificate, of the collector f the dis trict, that the duties have been duly paid. ■me, 3. And he it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures in curred by force of this act, shall be sued for, recovered, distributed, and accounted for, in the manner pie scribed by (he act, entitled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonage,” passed on the second day of March, one thou sand seven hundred and ninety nine, and may be mitigated or remitted in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled “Am act to.provide for the mitigating or remittingthe forfeitures penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned,” passed on the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. Approved, March 2, 1821 AN ACT establishing the salaries of the Commissioners and Agents appointed under the tieaiy of Client. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. dates of America in Congress assem bled, That, from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, each Com missioner now appointed, or who mav be appointed agreeably to the pre visions of the treaty of Ghent, shall be entitled to receive at the rate of twenty-live hundred dollars per an num; and each ageant appointed, or who may he appointed, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; which said sums so allowed to said officers, respectively, shall be a full compensation fer services ami all personal expenses incurred while in the performance of the duties of their respective offices: Provided, 1 hat the compensation by this sec tion allowed shall not be continued onger than two years from the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one. Sdc. 2. And be it further enacted, That each commiss<oner and agent shall not be entitled to receive for services performed in their respective offices, before the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, any greater sum than the rate of four thousand four hundred and forty four dollars per annum, which shall be considered a full com pensation for services and all person al expenses incurred while' in the discharge of their respective duties. See. 3. And bfe it further enacted, That the sum of twenty five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the payment of the salaries of the said commissioners and agents, and for the expenses under the several commissions under the treaty of Ghent, for the present fear. Approved, March 2, 1821 . Fsomtu* N«ionu lsTji^ Lousiaua and Hoiul a The final settlement of ,| le and limits o( these ceded term tlie ,no »t harmonious and?' al manner, vith the n.yal a„.i ct dl authorities of Spain' and jfj most friendly understanding tue Bourbon sovereigns aid 1 powers in amity wnh Frl/ th !spa»n, is a consummation dr, 31 to be acknowledged bv the f eut of peace. The part which tIS sidcnt of the Un.ted StaiL l Pr sen in these affairs, j tl his "J \ rial characters of 1793 and is? Kurope, and in Ins u >o e 1 stations of President, SenatS Secretary ot (stale and \\ a this country, have indentifi J . name and character with the • sive combined acquisition i ‘ C The ripest fruit, which’i s nt „ plucked of those fair arquiMii, U lh<; uspeiuled cpit„l oU„ r citizens, to the amount i f f u . lions of dollars which will r !l Iu the hands of its owners i nt |, e JL uvted money of the present E Ihis great resolution of active Z tal, under the judicious and c J ble arrangements ot (h e J ‘ meut, wJI sensibly contribute t„ i re-animation of the business oU country, bearing, as it does. a se ous proportion to the whole < DCI medicum. T he addition to our coasts of mt than 1200 miles according ta its n vatures from Samt Mary's to ( Sabine, in a temperature "capable producing (be China orrang., w responding with those of the bays St Übes and Cadiz, must give u with the Keys and little islands, complete and extensive new facuit for the manufacture of salt nr oi whole consumption, and CorejDn tati>n. v The numerous ports from Ameli Island to New-Orlenns and *bc S bine, as well from their connexioi with our own interior and .uljacei country, as from their ministerin to the foreign and the coasting trad* and by their salt, to the fisheries m wet provision business, and partii ularly with that of the West Indie the Gulf of cxico, and fureig America, will give a spring, an e pedition, ai d in the exte .son, t our foreign and domestic cowmerci of the deepest interest at the pn gent time It will cnabU us also t cure or to prevent the evils to usi that buccaneering and maraudin spirit, which, created during tli wars that grew out of the French n volutions, has been particularly ntu; islied by many obvious circunutai ces, on all the American coasts soul of Georgia, since the changes m th government of Saint Domingo, i 1791, the embarrasments of Spam PortigUiil, and the civil am) revoli tionary struggles of the various con muities a. d powers in Southern t merica, on the Gulf of Melico, tl Atlantic, and the Pacific. The momentary depres'ion of tl prices of American production bread stuffs, including nee, tobacc sug r, and cotton, and of disfnh and fermented liquors gives u giei importance to every opportune faculty, and discovery, which sha by adding to the employments of on people, limit the excess, and pn vent the depression, of the vanou present fruits of cultivation It is manifest that the climate W soil of the peninsula ot Florida-a* be capable of yielding all the pro ductions of the Bahama 10 eluding the pine apple; and all thM of !?pain and Portugal, south o orange temperature of Lisbon o Cin ra, the orange of which h " vailed bv that of our St* AugjUMj at less than SO degrees north a tade. This demarcation the olive of Spain and Portugal, S'. lk of Spain, the suspended of Mediterranean Spam, the U" and the scare or Seville orange, lions minor fruits, the grape via* of Xeres, St. Lucar, Malaga, « ccarlo, Lisbon, Oporto, J 1 with their fabrications of wine,W dy, and the dried raisin, aini fresh grape, by short voyages 0 northern ports. The climate Turkey, or Smyrna, or drum ? 38 deg-equal, (at theusu J 1 of 10deg) to our 28 degrewij be found in the peninsula 0 and the great olive ecsuntries 0 er Italy, Asiatic Turkey after the same allowance 0 grecs of difference, must be ed to exist in our new acqu "« f Being singularly peninsular j ce at fected by the constant ,h( course of the warm gulf * •climate must be growths of more southern (0()|l and annually more so, as v ' j el } try .hill be clewed The seaweeds fer hardl. merit a careful research. not yet noticed any thing . ffl climate, as a distinct an {S no portant point. We have n , ten of the soil. W«ft the important prodoctio -n Jll( and coctia, or cocoa, vitiuo*