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be irr. prrnt, receive ar d do all other acts as natural pnTons, and may purchafe and jiold, real, perfonal and mixed property, ordifpofe of the lame jor the benefit of the faid city ; and may have and life a city feal, which may be broken or altered at pleafure the city of Wafhington (hall be divided into three divifions or wards, as row divided by the levy court for the county, for the purpofe of afleffment, but the number may be encreafcd net cader, as in the wifdom of the city coun- ! oil lliali feem moll conducive to the general intereft and con venience. Sec. 2. And he it further enatted, That the council of the city of Wafhington fhall con ! fid of twelve members, red rimes of the city, and upwards cffcwenty five years of age, to to be divided into two chambers, the fir fb chamber to cnnfifl of /even members, and the fecond chamber of five members; the fecund chamber to be chofen from (he whole number of councillors elected, by their | joint ballot. I'he city council : to be elc6led annually, bv bal- j lor, in a general ticket, by the free white male inhabitants of /ullage, who have redded twelve month m the city, and paid tax es therein the year preceding the eledion’s being held the jus tices of the county of Wafh ington, reddeut in the city, or anv three of them, to prefide a judges of eledion, with fuch allbciates as the council may, from time to time, appoint. Sec. 3. And he it further matted, That the drft election of members for the city coun cil fhall be held on the firft Monday in June next, and in every )ear afterwards, at fuch place, in each ward, as the judges of the tlcdion may prefer! be. Sec. 4. And he it further enatted , That the polls fhall be kept open from 8 o’clock in the morning till 7 o’clorck in the evening, and no longer, for the reception of ballots. On the clofmg of the poll, the judges fhall clofc and feal their ballot boxes, and meet on the day following in the prefence of the marflull of the diflridl, on the firfl eledion, and the council afterwards, when the feals fhall be broken, and the votes count ed, within three days after fuch tledlion, they fhall give notice to the perfons having the great ell number of legal votes, that they are duly elected, and (ball make their return to the mayor of the city. Sec. 5. yJnd he it further enatted, '1 hat the mayor of the ci v dial! be appointed annually, by the Prtfidcnt of the United Stares: he muff be a citizen of the United States, and a refident of the city, prior to his ap pointment. Sec. 6. And he it further matted, That the city council fhall hold tl eir fc/lions in the cky hall, or, until fuch budd ing is ere<sled, in fuch place as the mayor may provide for that purpofe, on the fecond Mon day in June, in every year; but the mayor aav convene them ofcenf r, if the public gooS re quire their delibrations. Three fourths of the members of each council t».|y be a quorum to do bufinefs/Dut a fmaller number may adjourn from day to day, they may compel the attendance of abfenc members, in fuch manner and under luch penal ties, as they may by ordi nance provide j they fhall ap point their refpedtive prefidents, who fiiall prefide during their fefiions, and fhall vote on all quefi ions where there is an equal divifion ; they fiiall fettle their rules of proceedings, appoint their own officers, regulate their relneftive fees, and remove them at pleafure; they fiiall judge of the elections, returns ana qualifications (ft their own members; and may, with the concurrence of three fourths of the whole, expel any member for disorderly behaviour, or mal-conduct in office, but not a fecond time for the fame of fence ; they fhall keep a jour nal of their proceeding. 1 . a enter the yeas and nays on . , queftion, refolve or Groin" ce at the requeft of any men ber, and their delibrations fhall be public. The mayor fhall ap point to ail offices under the corporation. All ordinances or adds pal Ted by the city council fhall b' fent to the mayor for his approbation, and when ap proved by him, fhall then be obligatory as fuch. But if the fald moyor fiiall not approve of fuch ordinance or aft, he fhall return the fame within five days, with his reafons, in writing, iherefor; and if three fourths of bothbranccs of the city coun cil, on reconfideration thereof approve of the fame, it fiiall be in force, in like manner as if he had approved it, unlefs the city council, by their adjournment, prevent its return. Sec. 7. And he it further enabled , That the corporation aforefaid, fiiall have full power and authority to pafs all bye laws and ordinances; to prevent and remove nuifant es; to pre vent the introduction of coma gious difeafes within the city ; to efiablifh night watches or patroles, and ereeft lamps, to regulate the flationing, anchor age and mooring of vefitls; to provide for licenfing and regu lating auctions, retailers of li quors, hackney carriages, wag gons, carts and drays and pawn brokers within the city ; to re ftrain or prohibit gambling, and to provide for licencing, regulating nr refiraining dieatri cal or other public amufements within the city ; to regulate and efiablifh markets; to ereft and repair bridges; to keep in re pair, all necefiary ftreets, ave nues, drains and hewers, and to pafs regulations necefiary for the prefervantion of the fame, agreeably to the plan of faid nty; to provide for the fafe keeping of the fiandard of weights and meafures fixed by congrefs, and for the regulation of all weights and meafures ufed in the city ; to provide for the licenfing and regulating the fweeping of chimneys, and fix ing the rates thereof; to eftab- and regulate fire wards and lire companies; ro regulate art! cftablifh the fize of bricks that are to be made in this city ; to fink wells, and eredl and repair pumps in the Erects; to impofe and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for breach of their ordinances ; to lay and colled! taxes; to enad! bye laws for the prevention and cxtinguifhment of fire ; and topafsall ordinan ces neediary to give effect and opperation to all the powers veiled in the corporation of the city of Washington ; Provided, That the bye laws orodmanccs of the faid corporation, be in no wife, obligatory upon the perfons of non- refidents of the laid city, unlefs in cafes of inten tional violation of bye laws or ordinances previously promul gated : all the fines, penalties and forfeitures impofcd by the corporation of the city of Wafh ington if not exceeding twenty dollars, f all be recovered be fore a (ingle majifirate, as fmall debts are, by law, recoverable; • 'd if fuch fines, penalties and forfeitures exceed the fum of twenty dolla s, the fame fhall be recovered by action of debt in thediflrid! court of Columbia for the county of Waldington, m the name of the corporation, and for the ufe of the city of Wafhington. ‘"•ec. 8. And be it further enabled, That the perfon or pei - funs appointed to colled! any tax impofcd in virtue of the powers granted by this ad!, fhall have authority to colled! the lame by diftrefs and fale of the goods and chatties of the per fon chargeable therewith: no fale fhall be made unlefs ten days previous notice thereof be given; no iaw r fhall be pafied by the city council, fubjedhng vacant or unimproved city lots, or parts of lots, to be fold for taxes '"ec. 9. And be it further enabled, That the city council fhall provide for the fupport of the poor, infirm and difeafed in the dry. Tec. 10. And be it further enacted. That no tax fliail be impofcd by the city council on real property in the laid city, at any higher rate than three quarters of one per centum, on the afiefiment valuation of lu h propel ty. ll. And be it further enabled, 1 hat this ad! fhail be in force for two \ears, from the puffing thereof, and from thence to the end of the next leflionof Congrefs thereafter, and no longer. Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the Uoufe cf Repre fentatives. Abraham Baldwin, P reft dent cf the Senate, pro tern. Approved, May 3, 1802. Thomas Jefferson, Prefident cf the United States. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. G. Duval Efq. one of the judges of the general court of Maryland, is appointed Comp troller of the Treasury of the United States, in the room of general Steele refigned. Mr. Duval has accepted, and arriv ed in the city, to take upon him the duties of his office. LOUIS VILL K, Deccm cr 8, 1802. LEVI LINCOLN the At torney Genral of the United States, has been mentioned in a New york paper, as a can didate for the office of Vice- Prefident, at the enfuing elec tion. A writer in the Warren ton paper of die 15th inftant, addrefling the legiflature of North Carolina on the fubjeft of elections, obferves—“ She will certainly aft wifely in tak ing all the neceffary flepts for placing a Macon in the fecond office of the federal govern ment/’ Other gentlemen will no doubt be mentioned as meriting this didinguiffied and honorable nod—-Charles Pinckney, of Souch-Carolina, will probably be thought nor undefervingpub* lie confluence From the National Intelligencer. THOMAS PAINE , TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. LETTER the FIRST. AFTER an abfence of almoffi fifteen years, I am again return ed to the country in whofe dan gers I bore my ffiare, and to whofe greatnefs I contributed my part. When I failed for Europe in the fpting of 1787 it was rnv intention to return to America the next year, and enjoy, in retirement, the edeem of my friends and the repofc I was en titled to. I had flood out the dorm of one revolution and hadnowifh toembaik in ano ther. But other feenes and cir cumftances than thofe of con templated eafe were allored me. The French revolution was be gining to germinate when 1 ar rived in France. The princi** ciplcs of it were good, they were copied from America* and the men who conduced it were honed. But tne fury of faftion form extingmffied the one, and fent the other to the fcaffold. of thofe who began that revolution I am almoft only furvivor, and that through athoufand dangers. I owe this, not to the prayers of priefts, nor the piety of hipocrites, but to the continued protection of providence. But while I beheld with plea sure the dawn of liberty rifingj in Europe, I faw, with regret, the ludre of it fading in Ameri ca. In lefs than two years from the time of my departure, fomc diilant fymptoms painfully fug geded the idea that the princi ples of the revolution were ex piring on the foil that produced them. I received, at that time, a letter from a female literary correfpondent, and in my an fwer to her exprefled my fears on that head in the following pendve foliloquy. <f You touch me on a very ff tender point when you fay* ff that my friends on your dder <f the water cannot be reconcil (( ed to the idea of my aban- Cf cloning America even for my