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I|;?rltaric9 4 is jhe fame ftiall appear from :
fci4»«Stttriv ti the fcCtctifry otfti(e, ; v*thin
the titrfe limited by this : art, -(hill* for
every fuSkoffence, forfeit the- (uni of
eight hundred all
in the idqyrts of
the diftrirts ot territories where the (Offenc
es (hall be compritfred/ or <n the ci tetri <!
courts to be held within rhc<fi&J&'by
artion of debt, ihn&t
ment; the one half thhfeof to the
United States, and the other half to the
infertpert but
bp fir ft iivftittrted on befialf of the United
States, the whole (haft accrue to their
use. And fbf the more ‘effertual difeovery
of the jadges of the several di
ftrirt courts in the several diftrirts, and
of the supreme courts, in the temtories
of the United States, a# aforefaid, at
their next sessions, to be held after'the ex.
piration of the time allowed for making
the returns of the enumeration hereby di
verted, to the secretary of stare, (hall give
this att in charge to the grand juries, in
their refpertive courts, and (hall catiPi the
returns of the several afiiftants to be laid
before them for their infpert ion.
Sec. 4. And be it further enafied,
That evrty afliftant (hall receive at the
fate of one dollar, for every hundred per
sons by him returned, where such persons
reSde in the country, and where such per
sons reside in a city or town, containing
more -than three thousand perfons* such
adi ftant lhall receive at the rata of One 1
dollar for every three hundred persons,
but where, from rhe dispersed lituation of
the inhabitants in fome?divifions, one dol
lar for every one* hundred persons (hall be
ir.fufiicient, the marlhals or secretaries,
v/ith the approbation of the judges of their
refpertive diftrirts or territories, may
make such further allowance to the assist
ants in such diviltons, as (hall be deemed
an adequate compensation: Provided,
the fame does not exceed one dollar for
every fifty persons by them returned.
The several marlhals and secretaries (hall
receive as follows: The marihal of the
diftrirt of Main, two hundred dollars;
the marihal of the diftrirt of New-Hamp
fixire, two huodred dollars; the marihal
of the diftrirt of Massachusetts, three
hundred dollars; the marihal or the di
ftrirt of Rhode.-! (land, one hundred and
&sty dollars; the .marihal of the diftrirt
of Connerticat, two hundred dollars; the
marihal of the diftrirt of Vermont, two
■huadrtd dollars; the marihal of the di
-)««■; aS Jji&J
jerfey, two hundred dollars; the marihal
thfe diftrirt ®f Pennfyhrania, three
dollars; the marihal of the di
ftrirt of Delaware, one hundred dollars;
the marihal of the diftrirt of Maryland,
three hundred dollars; the marihal of the
I diftrirt of Virginia, five hundred dollars ; 1
the marihal of the diftrirt of Kentucky,
two hundred and fifty dollarsthe mai
(hal of the diftrirt of North-Carolina,
"'tiuc.ee hundred and fifty dollars; the mar-
Ihal of the diftrirt of South-Carolina,
three hundred dollars; the marihal of the
diftrirt of Geolgia, two hundred and fifty
dollars; the marihal of the diftrirt of Ten
nessee, two hundred dollars; the secreta
ry of the territory of the United States
north-weft of the Ohio, two hundred
doltars; the secretary of the Mifliffippi
territory, one hundred dollars.
Sec. J. A*A be it further enatted,
That every perfon'whofe usual place of a
bode lh«U"be in any family on the afore
faid firft Monday in August next, lhall be
returned as of such family, and the name
of every person, who (hall be an inhabi.
tant of any diftrirt or territory, but with
out a fettled place of residence, lhall be
inferred in the column of the aforefaid
ichedule, which h allotted for the heads
of families in that division where he or
(he lhall be, on the said firft Monday in
August next, and every person occafional
fy absent at the time of- the enumeration,
as belonging to that plate ita which he or
(he dually resides in the United States.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted,
That each and every free person, more
than fix teen years of age, whether heads of
families or not, belonging to any family
within any division, diftrirt or territory
made or eftablilhed within the United
lhaii V>nd hereby is obliged to
render to foch affiftanr of the
true account, if required, to the best ;©f
his or her knowledge of all and every -pfcr
fon belonging to such family refperti vely,
according to the several deferiptions afore
faid, on pain of forfeiting twenty dollars,
to be food for and recovered by such assist
ant, the oce half for his own use and the
other half to the de of the United States.
Sec. 7. And he it fkrther enacted,
k > That each aftfiant lhall, previous to
R* -Jpaking hit returns to the marihal or fccre-
tsfy qiufe %
copy, signed by hiitifclf, of the foft&fMe 1
containing the number of inhabitants . 4
within be set up at two of*
| the most public places within the fame,
there to remain for the' insertion of all *
concerned, for each of which copies the ‘
fiyd aftiftant lhall .be entitled -to receive,
two dollars,; provided, proof'of the febe-,
dule having been so set up and fuffered to
remain-, (hall bfe transmitted to rhe.marlhal
or secretary (as the case may be) with the
return of the nutrihef of the persons, and in
case any alliftant shall fail to make such
proof to the marital or secretary, as
aforefaid, he (hall forfeit the compensation
by this aft allowed him. - " r
Sep. 8. And be it further enaHed ,
That the Secretary of State (hall be and
hereby is authorized and required to trans
mit to the marlhals of the several states
and to the secretaries aforefaid, regulations
and inftrurtions pursuant 'to this art, for
carrying the fame into effert, and also the
forms contained therein of schedule to be
returned, and proper interrogatories to be
administered by the several persons who
(hall be employed therein.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker
of the Hoi/fe of Representatives.
THOM AS, JEFFERSON, Vitr.Pre-
Jident of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
Approved February 28, 1800. -
JOHN ADAMS, President
. - : Os the United States.
PARIS, January I};'. ~
Acrete of the Z'jth Nivofe, %thjfctTr.
The consuls of the republic, con fife ring
that many journals in circulation in the
department of the Seine are only instru
ments in the hands of the enemies of the
Republic ; and considering also, that the
government is especially charged by the
People to watch over their fafety and hap
piness, dfccrte as follow :
Art. 1. The minister of the police (hall
prohibit the printing or publiftring during
the war, any other journals than those
that follow:—Le Moniteur Univerfel—
Le Journal des Debats et
Journal dc Paris—Le Bien Informe—Le 1
Publiciste —L’Ami des Lois—La Clef du j
Cabinet—Le Citoyen Fra nca is—La Ga
zette de France—Le Journal des Homines
Libres—Le Journal du Sojr, paries Fre
res Chatgtieau —Le Journal des Defenfeurs
de la Patrie—Le Decade Philofophique—
vyl all journals devoted to
lciences, to mc«t uie and to commerce.
2. The minister of general police lhall
make an immediate report on the journals
printed in the otherdepartments.
3. The minister of police (hall takefpe
cial care that no new journal whatever
(hall be printed in the department of the
■ Seine, or in any other department of the
republic.
4. The proprietors and editors of the
journals preserved by th'is decree, are to
present themselves before the minister of
police, to prove their quality of French
citizen, and promise fidelity to the consti
tution.
5. All journals whatever are to be in
stantly suppressed that tend to insult the
refpert due to the social compart, to the
sovereignty of the people, and the glory
of the armies: or that (hall contain any
invertires against the nations and govern
ments in alliance with the republic* not
withstanding such articles may have'been
copied from foreign publications.
The minister of the police is xharged
with vthe execution of the present decree,
which (ball be infer ted in the bulletin of
laws. ~ j
January 24.
The melancholy intelligence of the
death of Championet, is confirmed bv
citizen Hoguay, one of his aids-de-camp,
just arrived from Nice. He died qn the
19th January, at the age of 37, after 12
days illness, of-an epidemical di (order,
which has also carried off several of his
officers.
A journal announces, that 8000 Chou
ans had been killed or made prisoners, in
a battle near Mans. It lasted 8 hours.
LONDON, January 27.
Yesterday the Dublin mail of the 22d
reached town. We learn from our.corre
fpondent, that on Thursday Nipper Tan
dy was to be brought down to the court
of Kings Bench, for the purpole of'bfelng
identified. It was experted that he Wquld
soon after be ordered for execution; the
arts of the anti-unionist have been bur two.
fuccefsful in Dublin with the tfbble,
whose minds were in a state of greai irri,-
tation.
January .29 .
Malta has been virtuailed by 14 ves
sels, which contrived to pass in cnobien ed
by the enemy.
v A.ietter iwmjsioediti SgafA
foysjjf 1 There has bed much blood j
so-day, for the Auftrispsand refiflfcfiM
tought doling fevetal hours with inclmw
fceivable heat, and many liv& wort Jjjra
onbotkfidcs, if we may judge of the kiL,
led from the cumber of. the
brought in here. The advantage finally *
remained with the js jbe'
Auftritns hzdj&ftir Enforcements on the
other,of the Mein, they could hot
come to their fuccour. < The French have
neglefted, we know not Why, to take ad
vantage of their fucccfs, as they retired to
Hetterlheim. _ _ .
January -
The last French Papers give as reason
to believe, that very a&ive preparations
are making in molt of the French ports,
particularly in Brest and Toulon.; Vice-..
Admiral Bruix has been to Havre, Tlon
fleur and Brest. Rear-admiral LatOucftir,
who was ordered to proceed with al! pos
sible fpefed to Brest, received counter or
ders on the 18rh of January, and Wasfent
to Toulon, where he is to have a com
mand, and from whence a small squadron
only waited, according to the Paris pa
pers, a fair wind to fer fail upon some ex
pedition. The (hips had ammunition and
provision on board. A small number of
(hips had been gjevioufly dispatched from
Toulon, and it is said, have contrived to
throw supplies into Malta.
January 31.
A communication to the Emperor of
Germany, similar to that made to the king
of Great-Britain is believed to have been
made by the Chief Confnl. It is believed
also, that the Cabinet of Vienna rejected
to his overture; and that Great-Britain,
Austria and RuCia, have entered into an
agreement to prosecute the war till they
can procure a general peace.
. NEW-YORK, March 29.
Yesterday. arrived at this port the
barque Pallas, capr. Bowden, in 49 days
from Liverpool. She brings papers to the
6th Februaryi but as the letter bag was
not delivered at the poft-office until even
ing, we were unable tO protore our files
of papers. By a passenger we have been
favored-with Liverpool papers to the 16th
and a London paper of the 27th January.
From the firft of these we are fumiftied
with (hip news only, and the last is so
barren of intelligence as to afford us only
one solitary paragraph. In the coorfe of
this morning we (hall be put in poffellion
of our files* and (hguld they contain any
thing of importance, our readers (hajl be
presented with it in an extra (hect this
forenoon. . . >
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From the Liverpoolpepetpf Jan . r 6.
The following account wa9 received by
Mcflrs. J. and A. Lodge, from Belfaft
yesterday.—The American (hip Oliras,
capt. Triftram Redman, which failed ;
from hence for New-York, the 28th No
vember last, was captured the jth Decem
ber following, to the s. w. of cape
Clear, by the French privateer Bougin
ville, of 24 guns, and 110 men, who
plundered a number of packages belonging
to the cargo, put 9 Frenchmen on board
her, and then ordered her tor France or
Spain, leaving on board capt. Redman*
his mate and 4of hisr crew.—-On Saturday
the 4th instant, they overpowered the
Frenchmen, and brought thelhipfafe into
Belfaft the 7th; from whence (after get
ting a supply of prerifrons, &c.) captain
Redman intend’ proceeding op hY voyage
to New-York. The French lieutenant
’ was (hot in the (kaffle. The paflengers
were taken on board the privateer.
PHILADELPHIA, March 27.
Yesterday, an elegant entertainment
was given by captain Decatur on board
the Philadelphia frigate, at which the
President of the United States, the Heads
of Departments of the Federal Govern-,
ment, and several members of Congress,
were present.
Intelligence is received in this city from
the American consul at Surinam, that a
vessel was arrived from Lilbon, bring
ing certain accounts —that the frigate
United States, Commodore Barry, with
the American Commissioners on board, bad
failed from Li(bon for some port in France,
and that the two Secretaries to the Em
bafly had proceeded by. land for Paris.
¥. ur & .s-*—
The intelligence respecting the failing
of our Envoys from Lilbon for fotne port
in France, is stated upon the" authority of
a letter received by the Secretary of
stare., ..
The Prufiian Government at Warsaw
have-given orders to the keener of che
royal palace to remove all etTedls which be
longed to the ci-devant King of Poland, in
fourteen days time. Warsaw, which was so
fiourilhing in 1790, is now like a desolate
city; grafts is growing in all the streets,
* that city irfo negle&ed,-
fecm as if everyone w»* endearaoHnfS
make people forget if was once the «amS
T of a greaßt&ftg daw." The powiiaZU
ilfo greatly diminilhed. •
A second letter has beenfcnf from tul
minister of foreign affafrs atTaris, to fcSB
Grenville, his majesty’s principal frcrctaJ
ry at London. The lirft consul pfomfej
a suspension of arms, and naming pltaim*!
tentiaries on each ftde to repair t 8 tw»
mark, or any other town as advantaj
geoufly situated, who shall apply th>»■
ielves without any delay to effect th c
establishment of peace and good unde*!
Handing between die French
England, »'
Lord Grenville's answer tQ this fecotvll
letter, is merely a repetition of that'tol
the firft, to which he refers for an answer I
• BALTIMORE,. MM 1
arrived and Stated the city!
the ship Defiance, Smjt'h, 20 days
Laguira. • 7|
Eight dftfs before the Defiance failed,!
a fchohnfr striked in a.B days from Cl’diz,|
the captain of which informed, tharftesi|
had arrived, there, that the khig of Great J
Britain was dead, and that serious diftarb
ances had taken place between the duke
of York and the prince of Wales. This
news was transmitted to the intendsrofcdf
Caracas and was generally believed among
the Spaniards. I give this article just as
it was related to me by Mr. Boyd, •sis,
percargo of the above ship—a comparifeji
of dates will fliew thkt foch circumftahcri
are by no means improbable.—the abov*
news gained such ascendancy, that a Spft
nilh brig belonging to the Phillipine cotib
pany at Cadiz, that supposing that ih9
war would be carried Qn with more vs Si
lence against France and her allies,-af..
though loaded and ready for sea, had been
absolutely dismantled and difeharged bet
feam;n, many of whom offered to' flrib
with contain Smith for Baltimore. -‘*l
*<£>■ $►
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In the Superior Couti, . Burkt county
April 7, 1800. 'iity
Present hi» honor Judge Mitch*m*(-
Executors of Geo* Galphin , J PctUim^,
▼». ■ '( y
Heirs and L Jounh&
Stephen Forrtfter, J Jure,*
T JPON thc petition of ThoS;
Galphin, executor of the lajl arts
and teftaihent of George Gzlphin, dd,
praying the foreilofure of the equity
demption of a trad of land containing 300
acres, in . the parish of St. George, not
Burke county, bounded northerly ohbfi
Bean Jtoamp, &c. ,And afo two negro
jhves, named Gee far and Sabina , with
the iff uc of the female slave, mortgaged b)
Stephen Forrefiet to the jaid George GaU
phin , for the ftcurity of a sum of money
contained in a bond from the said Stephen
Forrester, bearing even date with the fail
mortgage ; and on motion of Mr. Jones ,
attorney for the petitioner,
It is ordered, That the principal, inte*
rtfl and costs upon th * said bond am
mortgage, be paid into court within ttkltt
months from this day, and unleh the fatal
Jhall be Jo paid, the equity of redemption
mill from thenceforth be,fareclof <d and *
ther proceedings take place, pursuant to
an ad of the General Ajfcmbly, in far
case made and provided.
And it i* further ordered, That this
rule be publifked in one of the public ga%etttt
of this /late, or be served on the heirs or
reprefentativts of the mortgagor or their
attorney, at lead nine months previous to
the time by which the money is dirtded to
be paid as afor said.
Extract from the minutes,
W&c. WYNN, c. s. c. b e,
April 7, 180.0.“
• GEORGIA, Hancock County.
By Miles Green, clerk of the court of
Ordinary for said county.
TX THERE AS Archibald M. D'Mt
\\ . ream, ha* made .m
Utters of adminijlratiow* the fate a**
ejfeds of mmarn Bage, &tq of this county^
THESE art therefore ta cit: a*d ****
nijh all and ftngulxr tht kindu a
ditors of said deceased, to be and app
before the Court of Ordinary, on thejf
Monday in June next, then end inert
Jhew cause, if any they ha™* why
Utters fho»td not be granted. *
GIVEN under mifkand this if*V
of April, 1800. '
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