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THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE; AND REPUBLICAN TRUMPET.- Volume IV. ] X R ED N LSD A Y, Oct 0 b n 27, 1802. [No, 178, LIBERTY IS OUR MOTTO AI\D TRL TH OUR GUIDE LOUISVILLE, (GEORGIA) —Pubiilhed every Wednefday, by AMBROSE DAY & JAMES 1 ILLY, State Printers * at 3 dollars per ann.:—vV here Elfays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertifements, See. o cc. are thankfully received, . and PRINTING in all its variety, is executed with neamels and dilputdi. *> , p ; s > In ' [BY AUTHORITY.] Seventh Congress cf the United States. At the fir ft Seflion, begun and held at the City ofWafhlng ton, in the Territory of Co lumbia, on Monday the 7th of December, 1801. AN ACT to provide for the ef tablijhment cf certain dif rifts , and therein to annnd an Aft entitled “ An aft to regulate the collection cf duties cn im ports and tonnage f and for ether purpofes. , BE it enafted hy the Senate and Hcufe cf Reprefentatives of the United States of America , in Congrefs ajfemhled , That from and after the lafi: day of June next, a diftricl fhall be formed from the diftruft of Yorktown, in Virginia, to be called the diftri£l of Eaft River, which fhall comprehend the waters-, fhores, harbours and inlets of North and Eaft Rivers and Mobjack bay, and all other na vigable waters, fhores, harbours and inlets within the county of Mathews, in faid (late ; and it (hall be lawful for the Prefident of the United States to defig nate a proper place to be the port of entry and delivery with in the faid diftrift i and to ap point a collector and furveyor of the cuftoms, to reftde and keep their offices thereat, who fhall be entitled to receive, in addition to the fees, and other emoluments eftablifhed by raw, the annual falary ot two hundred dollars each. Sec. 2. And he it further enafted, That from and after the laid laft day of* June next, Bennet’s creek, within the dil tridl of Edenton, and ftate of North-Carolina, ihall ccafc to be a port of delivery, as here tofore eftablifhed, and the of fice, authority and emoluments of the furveyor of laid port, fhall alio, from thenceforth, terminate and be difeontinued ; and a part of delivery in lieu thereof, fhail be eftablifhed on Salmon creek, withm the diftricl afore faid, at a place called the Tombftone ; and a furveyor of the cuftoms fhall be appointed, to refide and keep an office thereat, who fhall be entitled to receive for his ferviccs, in addition to the fees eftablifhed by law, the an nual falary heretofore allowed to the furveyor of Bennet’s creek. Sec. 3. And he it further enafted. That from and after the laid laft day of June next, a port of delivery fhall be eftab liflied at the mouth of Slade’s Creek, on the north fide thereof, within the diftrid of Wafhing ton, and ftate of North-Caro lina, on a certain trad of land, intended and di ft gn a ted for a town, whereon William Parm ley reTides 3 and a furveyor of the cuftoms fhall be appointed to reftde and keep an office thereat, who fhall be entiiled to receive for his fervices, in addition to the fees eftablifhed by law r , an annual 1 alary of one hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 4. And he it further enafted , That in the territory of the United States north weft of the river Ohio, there fhall, from and after the palling of this ad, be eftablifhed a diftrid, to be called the diftrid of Ma rietta, which fhall include all the waters, fhores and inlets of the river Ohio, on the northern fide, and the rivers, waters and fhores conneded therewith, above, or to the eaftward of, and including the river Sciota, from the mouth thereof, upwards as far as the lame may be navi gable—And a coiledor of the cuftoms fhall be appointed to reftde and keep an office at the town of Marietta, which fhall be the foie port of entry and delivery for the laid diftrid 3 and the faid coiledor fhall be entitled to receive for his fer vices, in addition to the fees and other emoluments eftablifh ed by law, an annual falary of one hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 5. And he it further enafted , That it fhall be lawful for the Frefident of the United States to eftablifh, when it fhall appear to him to be proper, in addition to the port of entry and delivery already eitabhfhcd on the Miffiftippi, fouth of the flare of Tenntflee, one other pott of entry anci delivery on tne faid river ; and to appoint a coiledor of the cuftoms, to re ficie and keep an office thereat, and to appoint one or more furveyors-to reude at fuch place or places as he may think pro per to cefignate as ports ot c.c livery only 3 and the furveyor or furveyors thus appointed fhall be iubjedt to the control and direflion of the collector within whole diftricl he or they fhall rcfule. Sf,c. 6. And he it further enafted, That from and after rhe pairing of this a£r, no duty fhall be demanded or colleded on merchandize of the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States, or of any foreign country tranfported' coaftwife between the Atlantic ports of the United States, and the dif ti 16bs of the United States on the river MifTiftippi, or any of its branches, although landed at the pore of New-Orleans on its paflage; provided the lame would not be fubjelt to duty, or liable to leizure, if tranfport ed from one diftricl of the Uni ted States on tire lea coaft, to another : And provided likewife, That no debenture for a draw back fhall have been ilfued upon the export of Inch merchandize from the Atlantic ports of the United States to any foreign port or place ; and to the end, as weii that frauds on the reve nue may be prevented, as that the ccaftingveflels of the United States may be permitted to par ticipate in the faid trade, the Secretary of the T reafury, with the approbation of the TrcTi dent, is hereby authorifed to preferibe and cflablifh luch forms and regulations, and the fame from time to time, with like approbation, to alter and amend, for the government of the officers of the cuftoms in this refpedl, as he may think proper and necefiary 3 on the cbfcrvance of which, merchan dize thus tranfported, fhall be exempt from duty ; and it fhall be lawful for the coafting vef fcls of the United States to be employed in the laid trade, and not othenvife. Sec. 7. And whereas It is provided by the hundred and fourth Jcftion of the colk‘6tion law, that merchandize belonging to Britilh fubje&s may be brought (without regard to the character of the vdlci importing the fame) into the ports of tne United States on the northern and north weftern frontiers, lub je£l to no higher or other duties than are or fhall be payable by the citizens of the Uaired States, cn the importation of the lame in American vefftls into the At lantic ports of the United States and it being juft and reafonable that the fame privilege fnoulJ be extended to veftcls and mer chandize belonging to perfons reftding at Ncw-Oi leans, and other ports of Louifiana. and i Florida, on the Miffiffippi, or ■ arm of i;s branches— 3c it fur m 4 tier That from and af ter the latl clay of June next, all goods and merchandize, the importation of which into the United States, fhall not be wild ly prohibited, fhall and may freely for the purpofes of coin mt rcc, be brought into die ports of the United States on the Mif fiffippi, or any.of its branches, in vcflds belonging to Ncw- Orleuns, or any other port of 1 ouifiana or Florida, on the MiHillippi ; and fuch goods or merchandize fhall be lubjcft to no higher or other duties than are or lhall he payable by the citizens of the United States on the importation of the fame in American veflels into ihe At lantic ports of the United States, Sec. 8. And be it further, enabled) That from and after the hit day of lune next, no duty on the tonnage of any boat, flat, rate or other veil'd, fhall be de manded or collected on the ar rival or entry of fuch boar, Hat or raft, or other veil'd in any chftrift which is or may be ef tablifhed on the MifTifTippj, or any of its branches, and on the n -rrhern and north vveftern boundaries of the United Sratcj Provided never thdefs , 1 hat this extniption lliall not be con flrued to extend ro any vtffi above fifty tons burthen, and which fhall not be wholly em ployed in carrying on inland trader between the ports of the United States on the MiffUTlppi and its brandies, and the porta of Louisiana and Florida, on the fame, including New-Orleans, and between the ports of the northern and north weftern boundaries of the United Stateo. and the Britifh provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, v Six. (j. And be it further enacted) That all that part of the ad, entitled “ an aft to regulate the coiicftion of duties on im ports and tonnage,” palled on the fecund day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-nine, that direfts thac the collector of the diftrift of George-Town lhall re fide ac Gecrge-Town, be, and is here-* by repealed. Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the Hcufe cf Repre* fentatives. Abraham Baldwin, Pref dent of the Senate, pro tern* Approved, May i, 1802. Thomas Jefferson, Prefdent of the United States, AN ACT additional to , and a msndatory cf an act) intit ei , “ an aci concerning the dijlrict cf Columbia p E it enabled by the Senate and Hgu/c cf Refrfentatives of