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• BY MARY ANNE BRoWNE..
)I,asleij the !ark. in the suoti l me: .niorn,
-Why he left so highly his pest in the corn ?
Why ho sang so'sweetly his mein song, ,
Which the cloud. sod thelhrervs bore along.
When he knew that. perhips. before 'twns night,
The hunter's shaft might !stay his flight?—
By the messenger wind was this answer given,
"!I fear not, I scar not, 1 fly towards heaven !"
ask'd the flowers,. in thelsoft spring time.
"Wherefore they smiled in their youthful prime,
'When the stormy days so Fenn should come,
Thai would blight for ever their beauty and bloom?
And the sweet fl owers answer'd " Each day renews
On our leaves the sunshine; that cities the dews.,
Why should we not smilC,l Till now we have
thriven,
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`And the sunshine and dew art both from heaven!"
I l asled the clouds, in their pomp and light,
Whereforelhev gatheredi:ound sun,
And brighleti'd, Mina:lei is race was run :
When, perhaps, the breeze•i of ihemigbt might strew
Their fragile folds into mit and dew?—
The clouds replied, Thou'gh shall be driven
Away from our rest, we sbeiuy lite in heaven 7"
"And I saw a' lovely And, tv4o . knelt
Beside the cat where her lather dwelt,
Ai . , the suu-set hour—and Ill's hands were raised
tf . ovard: the sky on which he gazed—
And.on Fiji - rosy lips a prayer
&Ted hoyering.like the sammer air :
." Pear'st thou," said I, the shades of even ?"
fin smiled, and %air!, ^ See,lhoW bright is heaven !"
BASK AND REIVENUE BILL.
:The following is the relljort of the Committee of
COnference made to bothl,ranches of the Legisla
ture, on the `29th April. he names of the Com
mittee were far the 6 . enate-L-Messrs. Reed, Strohm,
Pearson. Kingsbury, to'ition4. For the House—
?digits. Johnston, of Armst:ong, Law, Cox, Wright,
and Barr.
ANA C T to provide revenUe to meet the- demands
1 on the Treasury, and for other purposes.
!SccTioar 1. Be it ena use of Representatives . ° the Commonwealth
by the Senate and
fiCommonwealth of
PtiAnsYlvania in General sseml , ly met, and it Is
ttereby enacted by the auth Fit} of the same ; That
the Governor be and is hereiy authorized to negotiate
a loan for the repayment i which the faith of this
Commonwealths'
is pledged, bearing an inter
-.eat Of five per cent. per annum, payable half yearly
oilthe fi rst days of Jancaryland icly, to be redeem
et!; at the end of Eve.-7ears Tam the passage of this
.act, or earlier. ct the pleasiire of the legislature, to
an amount not exceed - inn) the whole three millions,
ode humlied thou-and"dollars, to be negotiated and
d4osed of cs h.ercinafter vrtieularly provided. and
to be transferred on the bbolo of the Auditor Gener
-o.office, as the other pajblic stOcts of the Common
wealth are now by law tra4fetable in certifi:ates of
not less amount than and hinndred dollars.
psc. '2. That the several [Banks of this Common
wealth, except th,.ve tvrealter excepted, whenever
called Upon by the Goverm4, stall be authorized to
suirsa.nbe to the stock herehl created, and on paying
into the State Treasury. thelamount of their respec
ttve subscriptions, in notes ti) he by them respective-
Ay :issued of the denominations of one, two and .five
dollars, one fourth of whichl only shall be of the de-
AMninlrtion of five dollars, 4 be signer by an officer
or:ofil:ers, or cferk or clerks o f the bank to be desig
maied by,the bid of direct rs. they shall receive a
cretin on the books of the Ikud.tor General to an e
spial, ambunt in conformityita the provisions of the
first secion ;of this act; anti the notes aforesaid shall
he, payable whenever prese n ted at the counters of the
respective 13;sinks which issued them, to the amount
not less than one huodred dollars, es -hereinafter
prip.ulet?
sec. 8. %Vhenever the hplder of said notes to an
amount of one htindred doll4rs, or upwards, shall pre;
'Sent the saine at the hank f=om %tic,' they were is
stithi,-be shaid be entitled to( denianOnd receive an
order on the, Auditor Gener...l entitling him to receive
a certificate of an equal amount of the stock hereby
crested, for the redemption thereof; r anfrit shall be
the duty of suds Bank, forthnith to can-:el the said
'notes, when so redeemed, arid to mark the same can
celled, and the cashier of surh Bank shall forthwith
furnish ttee Auditor General with the notes so re
de)emed cancelled and_ marked, and it shalt be the du
ty; of the Auditor General marked,
destroy the same, and
so to keep an account of tlaOlsaid stock, and the notes
thi.reon issued and destroYei-, as well as of the stocks
deposited as hereinafter pro tided, as may enable the
sa4clepirtatent, at any time, to give a detailed state
nie.rit ot the amount of such notes remaining in cir
culation, of rach,bardt respeltively ; and If any Bank
.ball retuse to redeem the same in such stock when
demanded, upon the same hieing poured to the sans
fattion of the governor, •it ihall be his duty on ten
day s notice, to 'said. bank to i iistie his proclamation, &-
daring the charter of such hank forfeited ; and every
director, president, cashier, l er clstrk. who shall know
ingly have issued, or elmtilted, or consented to such
issuing, or 'circulation or algreater amount of notes
authorized by this act than [the bank posy uses of the
atock created by this act, hall be deemed guilty of
a imisiemeanor, and on victim in any court ot
-competent jurisdiction, be sbject to a finer cifilA less
than five hundred dollars and not more , than two
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thousand dollars.' at the ilis-setion of the court, and,
be liable for the redempiio' of the notes so issued in
, their individual capacities, nd an action of debt may
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in such cases be brought against them, or any of them,,
of ; their, orany of their exlc.utors or administrators
it any court having colttent jurisdiction, by any
,tenon or perehns holding he notes so issued, and
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May be prosecuted to j4dgment and egecotion on
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any condition, correnan l acid agree.nent to the cone
teary notwithstanding. 1 .i !
Sic. 4. That after the i4suing of the said notes
and until the same shatllbe redeemed and funded in
steck as aforesaid, the esid banks shall respectively
be entitled to ,receive fnlitn the C , mmowealth inter
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eats at the rate of one per Tat. per a um. payable
half yearly. oh the am;runi of stock subscribed by
540 banks - on the book off the Auditim General.
Sac. 5. That upon the iledernptiori of any of the
said notes by the bank w4ch may have issued the
same, and the transfer of the stock as herein before
provided, such bank ihill kissume the payment of
the interest on the stock so transferred, at the rate
of fire per cent. per .einnam as the seine 441 become
due and payable. Anti zi _n such assumption 'and
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"1 willteach you to pierce the bowels of the Eartb,and bring out from the Caverns of Meeeteicr,Metab which will give strength toourllantinandsubjeetail Natereco oureeeandpleaeuni".--DR.JOHNBON
VOL. XVII.
payment of the interest by any bank, suchhatik shall
be released from the payment of the tai on dividends,
as now required by taw ;, and if the amount of Inter
est, which may at any time be -paid on such stock
by any bank, shall exceed the amount of tax on div
idends to which such hank may be liable, in such
case upon a certificate thereof, from the President of
such bank verified by his oath or affirination of the
fact, being furnished t r the State Treasiirer, it sh,all
be his duty to repay such bank, the excess so paid
out of the proceeds of the revenue hereafter speciii.
cally appropriated for that purpose. And in case the
interest which may by so paid by any bank on such
stock, shall at any time be less in amount, than the
tax on
,dividends to which such bank may be liable;
such bar& Shall pay into the Treasury, all such ex
cess of ttix on dividends, beyond the amount of inter.
est on the Stock, which such bank miry have previ
ously ; Proiided, That nothing in this act con
tained, shall be construed to exempt any bank from
the payment of the tax on dividends-previously to
such notes being redeemed 'and funded.; and 'it tahall
be the duty of the Auditor General on issuing the
certificates of stock in redemption of the notes -so
presented. to mark on each certificate so to be issued,
the name of the bank fur the redemption of whose
notes,die, same shall be issued.
SEC. 6. Thet on failure of said banks to pay such
interest on demand, at the time fixed by law, it shall
be the - Jul; of the State Treasurer,on application to
him for that purpose, to pay and discharge the same,
and on such demand, and failure being proven, it shall
be the duty of the Governor, on ten days notice to
said bank, the said interest remaining unpaid, to is
sue his proclamation, declaring the charier of such
bank forfeited.
SEC. 7. No bank shall be allowed to'subscribe fur
a larger amount of the loan authorized by the first
section of this act, nor shall any bank of this Com
monwealth (whether such bank is liable to the pay
ment of a tax on their dividend, or is exempt from
such payment] issue a larger amount of notes au=
tbatized by any 'portion of this act, than as follows:
All banks whose capital stock actually paid in does
not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, twenty
five per cent on their capital thus actually paid in.
Banks whose capital stuck paid in exceeds three
hundred thousand dollars and does not exceed seven
hundred thousand dollars, twenty-five per Cent on
their capital thus aid in. s.
Banks w hose capital exceeds seven hundred thous
and dollars, and does not exceed two millions five
hundred thousand dollars, seventeen and a half per
cent on their cat ital thus paid in.
Banks
.whOle capital exceeds two millions five
hundred thousand dollars, eight per cent on their cap
ital thus paid in.
Sic. 8. All notes which may be issued under the
provisions of this act, shall be receivable ler debts due
this Commonwealth, and may be re-issued from the
Trrasury . and from the banks which originally issued
them, and each bank Which originally issued the
sane, and each bank which originally issued any of
the said notes shall receive the same in payment of
debts due to it, and on deposiie s payable in•hke cur
rency ; and the respective banks of this Common
wealth may receive and issue any of the notes creak
ted by this act ; Provided. That nothing in this sec
tion shall affect any special contracts for the payment
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of d :posits.
SEC. 9. That in lieu of the taxes imposed by the
act of the 11th June, 1540, on persons, trades, occu
pations and professions, there shall be annually as
sessed and collected on such persons, trades, occupa
tions and professions, a tax of one per centum on ev
ery dollar of the value thereof above two hundred
dollars. And in lieu of Ihe 'Axes imposed by said
act upon salaries and emoluments of office created
or held under the latis of this commonwealth, there
shall be annually assessed and collected upon all sal
tes and emoluments of office, created or held by or
under the Constitution or laws of this Common
wealth, and by or under any incorporation, institu
tion or 'company, incorporated by this Common
wealth, where such salaries or emoluments exceed
two hundred dollars, a tax of two Per cent. on every
dollar of the value thereof, 'above • two hundred dol
lars; whiA said taxes shall be assessed, collected and
accounted•far in the manner and for the purposes
stated and provided in said act of the eleventh of
Jure, one thousand eight hundred and forty : Pro
.ded, that when the s Mary is paid to any officer of this
Co•i , mouwealth, directly by the state Treasurer, he
shall retain out of said salary themount. of the tax
imposed by this act.
Sec.: 10. That Trom :and after the passage of this
act the several provisions now in force of the act of
the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-four, entitled,. a supplement to the act enti
tled an act laying a du.v on the retailers of foreign,
merchandize" and the several provisions of the act
of the seventh of A Aril, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty, entitled "•an act graduating the duties
.tipon - whblesale dealers and retailers or merehandize,
and prescribing the mode of issuing licenses and col
lecting dunes," except so much thereof' as may be
hereby altered or supplied, shall be and the same a•e
hereby extended and applied to all persons engaged
in the selling or vending of goods, wares, merchan
dise, commodities or effects, of whatsoever kind or
nature, and all such sellers or venders shall he clasS
ed and restuired to pay annt6lly, for the use of the
Commonwealth for their respective licenses as fol
lows. viz:
Those who are esteemed imd taken to make and
effect annual sales to theamount• of $ 300,000, and,
upwards, shall constitute the first clue and pay
Those to die amount of $200,000, and less than
$ 300,000, the second class, and pay S 150:
, Those to the amount 'of $ 100;000, and less than
$ 200,000, the third class, and pay $ 100 ;
Those to the amount of $85,000, and Tess than
$ 100,000, the fourth class, and p'ay $OO ;
, Thus, to the amount of $ 76,000, and less than
$ 05,000, the fifth class, and pay $ 60 ; •
Than to the amount of $ 60,000, and less than
$ 75,000, the sisth clan, and pay $5O;
Those to the amount of S 30,000, and less than
$60,000, the seventh class, and pay $ 40;
Those to the amount of $40,000, and less than
$ 50,000, the eighth class, and pay $3O ; •
Ihose , o the amount of 630.000, and leas than
$ 40.000, the ninth class, and pay $,25;
Those to the amount of $ 20,000, and less than
$20,000, the tenth clam and pay $ 20 ;
Those to the amount of $ 15,000, and less than
$ 20.000, the eleventh class, and pay $ 15;
Thou to the aroone i t of $ 10,00), and lea than
$ 15,000, the twelfth class, and pay $ 12 50,;
Those to the amount of $ 5,000, and lees than
, !t 10,000, the thirteenth class, and pay $ 10
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Weekly by Benjamin Brannan, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
And those 10 the amount less than $ 5,000, the
fourteenth class, and pay ‘$
7;`
Provided, That where. such wholesale or retail
dealers confine their purchases and sales to buying
and vending goods, wares and merchandize, the
growth, product and manufacture of the United.
States, he or they shall pay only ono half the a
mount of the lic'ense required by the provisions of this
section..
And every seller or vender of wines, or distilled
liquors, either with or without other goods, wares,
mercbandize, commodities, or effects as aforesaid, 4.311
pay fur his license fifty per cent. in addition to the
rates above specified for the respective classes, and
every license hereafter granted, shall specify whether
the party obtaining the same, is or is not entitled to
sell or vend wines or distilled liquors ; Prorided,
That no pe son whose an, ual sales dors not exceed
one thousand dollars, and no femcsole trader or sin
gle woman, whose annual sales do not exceed two
thousand five hundred dollars, venders of wines or
di-tilled liquors eXcepted, nor any importer of foreign
goods, wares or merehandize, who may vend or dis
pose of the same the original packages as impor
ted, nor any person 'who may vend ur dispose of artt
cles of his own growth, produce or manufacture, shall
be required to take out any licnse under this act.
Ssc. 11. That it ma' be lawful for any bank of
this Commonwealth, exeept the bank of the United
States, to transfer upon the books of the Auditor
General, in the name of that officer in his official ca
pacity, portions of the funded debt of this state, and
deposits with him the certificate thereul, which stock
shall remain so trantferred ns security for the redemp
tion of the note Which may be issued as authorized
by the following election
SEC. 12, That it shall be lawful for any bank
which may bo transfer portions of the funded debt or
this state on the books of the Auditor General, as
provided in the preceeding sec ion, to issue notes of
a denomination not less than five dollars, to be sign
ed as directed by the second section of this act, and
the said notes shall to receivable for debts and on
deposit at the bank which issued them, as is hereto
fore pros ideal for the notes issued under the second
section of this act : Provided. That no bank exempt
ed from a tax upon its dividends, shall be authori
zed to issue a greater amount of the notes authori
zed by this section than is limited and directed by
the seventh section of this act, and no bank subject
to tax upon Its dividends,, shall be authorized to issue
a greater amount of notes authorized by this section
than 7 per cent. on its capital stock actually paid in,
and all the provisions and penalties in the third sec
tion in reference to the over issue of the notes author
ized by that section shall be in farce, in reference to
the over issue of the notes authorized by this sec-
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Sec. 13. That whenever such stock eiaall be trans
ferred to the Auditor General by any bank, as pro
vided for in the eleventh section of this act, the in
'crest payable on said stock shall be suspended dp.
ring the time said stock remains in the hands of the
Auditor General, any thing on face of said ccruficate
to the contrary notwithstanding.
SEC. li. That the amount of the loan of three
millions one hundred thousard dollars, authorized by
the first section of this act o hen received, shall be spe
cifically appropriated as follows:
To common school purposes, the sum of three
hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided, how
ever. that any excess over said sum arising from rev
enues hitherto applicable to said object, shall be paid
into the State Treasury for other purposes.
To colleges, academies and female seminaries,
the sum of forty-five thousand dollars.
To pensions and gratuities. &ivy tho.:sand dollars
To repairs of railroads and canals for the current
year. four hundred thousand dollars ; $ 3500 of which
shall be applied to repairing the darn across the West
Branch at Lea isburg and the cr, - .E:.-cut canal at that
place : Provided, That the height of said dam shall
not be increased.
To pay dents due for repairs made previous to Ibt
of November one thousand eight hundred and forty,
the sum of two hundred sizty-eight thipand and
three dollars.
To orphan 'asylum and house of refuge, seven
thousand dollars.
To pay guarantee of intert to'ihe holders of stock
in the Bald Eagle and spring Creek navigation com
pany, ten thousand dollars-
To pay the guarantee of interest to loan holders
of the Ddrisville , and Pottsville Rail Road company,
fifteen thousand dollars.
To the Monongahela Navigation Company, sev
enty thousand dollars, being the unpatd balance of
the last year's apprztpriation.
To State Library, five hundred and twenty-nine
dollars and forty-two cents, to pay debts due at the
commencement of the present year.
To damage fund thirty thousand dollars..
To prmiums on silks and cocoons, six thousand
dollars.
To militia expenses, twenty thousand dollars.
To expenses of government, three hundred and
fifts 'thousand dollars.
Wo pay Lick keepers, collectors, weighnristers,
and other persons necessarily employed on die pub
lic wolks,sixty thousand dollars, ' •
To pay balance of temporary loan authorized by
act of April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars.
To pay commissioners and defray, contingent ex
penses of Nicholson hoard of commissioners, fifteen
hundreryollmea, -- 16be repaid out of any moneys re
ceivairom the Nicholson estate after A pril sixteenth,
one thous id eight hundred and forty rand from and
after the passage of-this act, it shall be unlawtul for
the commissioners, or any of them, or any of the of
ficers or flecks of the .-Nicholson court of pleas," to
be directly or indirectly interested in the sale, trans
fer, cAmrrromise or settlement of any .part or portion
of the estate of John Nicholson, or the estate of Pe
te&Baynton, or in anY of the bonds, contracts or
agreements in relation to said lands ; and neither of
said commissioners shall receive any higher compen
sation than that provided in the ninth section of the
act of sixteenth of April, one thousand eight
hundred and ferty, and if any of the other officers,
clerks cotmntssioneta, or other persons connected
with the aforesaid court, abaft violate the provisions
of this section. they shall on conviction be fined in
a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and im
prisoned for a period not exceeding one year, at the
discretion of the proper crud before whom said con
viction may be had, and all contracts made contrary
to this set shall be null and Void. Provided, That
nothing herein contained shall prevent the eppdnt
men• of an heir or creditor of said estate to the office
of commissioner. -,
To pay debts dna on contracts for scat. done until
the first of May, orm thousand - eight hundred and
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forty-one, on the unfinished portion of the Shepango
line of the Erie dichton of canal, two hundred and
fifty thousand' and eleven dollars and eighty-three.
cents. And upon the Conneaut line of said division.
two hundred' and sixty-one thousand three hundred
and eighty-six dollars 'and `ii‘ - a cents.
To pky
,debts due ori contracts for work done un
til the first Of May one thousand eight hundred and
forty-one, on the unfinished portion of the North
Branch eitension, the sum of five hundred and thir
teen thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars
and ninety-two cents, of which the sum of one hun
dred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars
and sever.teen cents is the balance unpaid of last
year's al propriatton.
To pay debts due on contracts for work done until
the first of April one thousand eight hundred and
forty-one, on the Wisc.nisco canal, ninety-four thou
;a:.d eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twen
ty -eight cents.
To pay debts due contractors for grading the road
to ovuid•the inclined plane a. Columbia, the sum of
oix thousand six hm.dred. and sixty dollars.
To pay debts due until first of May. one thousand
eight hundred and forty one, on contracts for work
done 'on the resertoir at Hollidaysburg, and the re
scrvot- near J.Lnstovvn, the sum of five thousand
dollars.
For the payment of ropes used upon the Portage
Rail R.:ad, purchased in pursuance of a contract,
dated ninth of May one thousand eight hundred and
fatty, the sum•of seventeen thousand eight hundred
and fifty-foui dollars.
To pay the Superintendent and for the keeping in
repair of the Public Griunds, six hundred dollars.
To pay debts due on Sinrieinahoning extension
of the West Branch Division, Pennsylvania canal,
the sum of one thousand two hundred and bit
Tp pay for repairs of the Delaware javisian of the
Pennsylvania canal, silty thousand dollars.
To pay to the firm of Pennel, Lenher and Humes,
manufacturers of locomotive engines at the city of
Lancaster, seven thousand five hundred dollars, being
the amount dee to said firm for a locomotive engine
purchased by the canal commissioners, and now in
use on the Columbia and Philadelphia Rail Road—
and the resolution passed on the 26th day of ►larch,
Anne Dowici, one thousand eight hundred and forty
one, enuiled a nßesolution for the relief of Penne!,
Lehner and Humes, manufacturers of locomotive en
gines," shall be and is hereby repealed.
For new works on finished lines, pay of canal
commissioners, appraisers, and engineers not con
nected with eilensLns, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
That the sum of ten thousand two httndred
dcl
lara Shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated
for the completion of the geological and minerahigi
cal survey, to be applied as follows: two' thousand
dellars fur the payment of one year's salary to the
state geologist, sts thousand dollars to the payment
of one year's salary'to six assistants, including the
chemist, at the rate of one thousand each, and the
remaining sum of two thousand two hundred dollars,
to be paid ¶o r and arplicd by the said geologist, to
the payment of the incidental eipenzes of said sur
vey, including the preparation of thiee complete col
lections or cabinets of geokgica. ind mineralogical
specimens for the use of the state, arid fol. the com
piling and preraritig for publication the final report
relation to said survey, together with the maps
and drawings to accompany the same, which said
sum shall be deemed and taken as full compensation
therefor.
The three collections or cabinets of geological and
mineralogical specimens aforesaid, shall be deposited,
one at Philadelphia, one at Harrisburg, and ohe at
Pittsburg, under the direction of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, or ha such manner as the Legisla
ture shall hereafter provide, and, so much of any for
mer act as requires the state geoloOst to furnish spe•
cimens of the geology a, - .d mineralogy of each coun
ty in the state to the-commissioners of said county,
shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
To pay debts due. and for completing the re-laying
the north track of the Columbia and Philadelphia
Rail Road, horn the twenty-second milestone to
Whitehall. the sum of fitly-two thousand one hun
dred and thirty dollars.
And it is further prurided, That after the pay
ment of the above specific approprifitions,the residue
of said loan shall be applied to the fund for the pay
ment of interest oikthe public debt. Provided, That
the sum appiopnated to the iayment of damiges by
this section, sharD paid as speedily as possible in
the order as to time in which the said claims for da
mages have been awarded, assessed, and confir med,
aril the canal commissioners are hereby expressly
prohibited frorri entering into any new contract, for
any-work upon the unfinished lines of the public im
provements, whether for abandoned sections or other
' a ise, during the ensuing year, or until this prohibi
tion is repealed by act of assembly.
That hereafter the Whole amount of money to lae
paid to the coops of ergineers on the whole of the
state improvements, shall not exceed the sum of
twenty thousand dollars annually„lnd that hereafter,
there shall be employed but one Superintendent on
the Erie, tna one on the North Brunch extensions.
SEC. 15. That where moneys have been or shall
be specifically apprlpriated to the internal improve
ment fend or spy other object by an act of assembly,
the same shall not be applied by any officer of this
Commonwealth to any other purpose or object than
that to which they have been so speci.ically apprc4
priated.: and if any officer Eforesaid Shall knowingly
offend against any of the provisions of this section,
it shall be deemed a misdemeanor in office, and etch
officer so offending shall on cotv!ction in 67y.c00rl
of competent jurisdiction, be subject to a fine of hot
less thaw five hundred dollars, and not more than
two thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court.
Sse. - 16. That the notes authorised to be issued
by this net may bare an uraformity in phraseokgy,
the Goventor_is hereby authorized end requrred to
prescribe the form in which the same shall be issued.
ISEc. 17. Banks not to be subject by way of pe
nalty, or otherwise, to a greater interest thou six per
cent_ per annum. Resolutions of last year relative
to resumption of specie payments repealed—the said
resumption resolutions to be suspended until further
legislative action. Bank of the United States not to
be entitled to the benats of this section unless it
consents to bettabiect to any general lawi to be here:
after passed. SECTIONS 18. 19, 20;21, 22, 23 end
24 provides for the winding up of the Bank of the
United States. The Bank may make an assignment
of it. effects. Five =laces to be elected by the
stockholders fOr that purpose; pratir(tri a full inveri.
tray of the property assigned be made. 'Stockhold
ers may require security from a rhe trustees for the
faithful performance of their duty. Trusters to hold
- .
their appointment until the first Monday in January.
On the same day, every year, an election for trus
tees to be held, to choose the same or other trustees
for another year, so long-as the trust shall continue.
Such of the corporate powers r f the Bank as is ne
cessary for the purpose of winding it up. to be con
tinued. Notes of the Bank to be received at par in
liquidation of debts due the institullob. Courts of
the Commonwealth to have jurisdiction of the said
trust. Lawful for the Legislature, pith the consent
of the stockholders, to alter and chan g e the provi
sions of this act. After the assignment is made, u
lawful for the institution to exercise banking privi
leges. SEC. 25. Proxies of sixty days standing only
.nay vote.)
SEC. 26 Should any of the banks of this state,
which pay a tax upon their dividends, refuse to com
ply with the requisitions of this a t in taking their
Jue proportion of the stock ty the fir s t section au
thorize,' in such case, all said banks so refusing, shall
remain sulject to the provisions of the laws now in
force, and are hereby excepted from the benefits of
the provisions of the seventeenth section of this act.
And the omission or refusal of any such hank as
aforesaid, shall not affect the rights or privileges
hereby conferred on the banks complying with the
same, but the amount of sailfloan not taken may be
distributed omongst the other banks of the common
wealth, according to the proportions designated in
the seventh section of this act.
SEC. 27. Sh uld any of the banks of the common
wealth, authorized by the twelfth section of this act
to issue notes on a deposite of state stock, fail or re
fuse to deposite at least five per cent, on their capit.l
actually paid in, then and in such case the bank so
failing or refusilig shdl remain sul ject to the provi
sions of the existing la's, and are hereby, excepted
from the benefits of the provkicels of the seventeenth
section of this act.
Sec. 28. The several banks desirous to avail them
salves of the provisions of this act, shall notify the
Governor in evtiting of their willmcness to accept
and comply with the same, within forty days after
the passage of this act.
SEC. 29. That the Secretary of the Common
wealth shalt as soon as may be after the passage of
this act, notify the several banks of this state of the
ECM
Asmcnorz.—Dr. Fitzgerald, of the Dab:in College,
—ll.e same individual aho is embalmed in the first
line of " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers "
once wrote a poem, entitled the Academic Sports
man. It was descriptive of the travels of a student
during vacation : and in apostrophising the village
of Tipperary, he uses this couplet:
" And thee, dear "Maze, loveliest of the clime
_ - - -----
Fain would I name thee. but 1 can't in rhyme."
In addition to his other labors, the Doctor an
nounced his discovery of a planet to rival the Ceor
giant Sirius of Herschel. The Trinity boys chris
tened his planet Anstr-(Latin for Goose.) The
two effusions of the Doctor's genius drew :orth the
following, from a rhyming wit:
•• A Goose there way- in sad quandary ;
To end his rhyme with Tipperary;
Long labored he 'trough January—
Toiled thirty days in February,*
But toiled in vain for Tipperary !
Erploting Bailey's Diet ionary.
He found no rhyme for Tipperary;
:Searched Hebrew text and commentary,
But searched in vain for Tipperary :
The stubborn verse he ne'er could vary
To that unlucky Tipperary!
Consulting then his mother Mary,t
She knew no rhyme for Tipperary :
Searched every pan within her dairy,
No pan presented Tiprierari, !
He then invoked the aid of fairy,
But vainly prayed for Tipperary
At length he searched the Zodiac-ary,
And Anser cackled Tipperary
Tebgh cvnrk, to labor so barn as to make a month
contain an aaatonal day.
tNota &ne.—The Doctor's mother Mary,
Kept a dairy, in Ttprerary.
RCILILL TASTE.-A correspondent requests us to
publish the fullowing beautiful extiact
I regard the man e-ho surrounds his dwelling
with objects of farad taste—or who even plants a sin
gle shade tree by the road side, as a public benefac
tor; not merely because he adds something to the
general beauty of - the country and to the pleasure of
those who travel through it, but because, also, he
contributes something to the refinement of the gen
eral mind :—he improves the taste, especially of his
own family and it eighbouthood. There is a power
in scenes of rural beauty, to affect our social and
moral feeings. A fondness for these scenes is seldom
found with coarseness of sentiment and rudeness of
manners.; One may judge with confidence, of the
taste and intelligence of a family by the external air
of their dwelling. In coy eicursions through the
country, if I p3Ss . a habitation, however spacious,
standing naked to the sun, with nothing ornamintal,
nothing inviting around it, I cannot help saying to
myself, however abundant may be the slovenly pos
sessions of its owner, there is no refinement in that
house ; there is no delicate and kindly interchange of
sentiment among its inmates, and if ever they are
sociahie, their sociability consists .in rude and fitful
'loquacity. Their books are few, and these ill chosen
and unread. But if I notice a dwelling, however
humble, which is apparently as snug as its owner
has means to make it, displaying neatn es s and taste
in its fences and shades and shrubbery and flower
pots and windows—l feel assured that this is the a
bode of refinement: this is the home of quiet and re-
Aiunal enjoyment, of intellectual and kindly inter-
r ZODLTE OF Nair- ENGL.* :SA —The statistics of our
- muntry collected by the MarshaLs at the last cert.
PUS are among our proudest records. They display
the bembeess resources of the New Wot Id—its in.
!Angie wealth, which is entirely independent of cir
cumstances and of other nations,, and foreshadow
the rank we are destined to hold when the discove.
ries of science shall have been folly applied to Ag
riculture as to "other branches tf Indust:v. The
amount of prOduce raised in New England is wor
thy of special notice. Maine is pot down as rats.
ing 848,166 bushels of wheat, 2,630,966 bushels of
other grain., and I cost 2 360 bashele of potatoes.
This, with a population of 500,E00. Massachusetts,
with a population of 737.766, rams about 158,923
bushels of wheat, 3,6041+54 of ether grain and 5,-
384,662 of potatoes. Vermont. considering her
population, fat. outstrips the others, though itshould
be remarked that she is pi l eely ev i eu i tun i s uet,
while the ethers are distinguished for commerce as
well as far agrieultyre. In that enterprising State,
the flamers raise 642.963 bushels of wheat. 4.051,-
816 bushels of other grain, and 6,205,764 bushels of
potatoes. Rhode Island hises but :4,068 bushels of
wheat, 699.406 of other grain. and 904.773 'of pota
toes. Connecticut rains 86,9E8 bushels of wheal.
3.995.175 of other grain. aid 3.214.227 of potatoes.
New-Hampsh i re raises 442.754 of wheat, 3084.549
of other gram, and 6,234,001 of potatoes.
LITE AND VERY IMPORTANT FROM
EiGLAND.
i The steamship Britannia arrived at Boston on
Thursday morning fea t , May eth, from Liverpool,
whence she sailed on the 20th of April. Her newik
is highly important.
The steamship Preifdent had not arrived out, end
great excitement prevailed in Liverpool and Lor/on
in consequence, Nearly all Lopes of her safety were
given up, and insurance could scarcely be effected on
her at any rate. When the Britannia left, the Pre.
sident had been nearly tiny days out. This of itself
I s sufficient to cause alarm, but still wo are inclined
to believe. that the next news from Europe will bring
the gratifying intelligence of the safe arrival of tbii
unfortunate vessel.
The Duke and Duchea of Rig hmond and family
ore in a painful state of suspense as to the fete of
their second son, Lieutenant Lord Fitzroy Lennox,
who is on board the Pres:dent inearwhip. His lord
ship, who has just exchanged from the 43d regiment
to the 10th dragoons. arid Mr. Courtenay, eldest son
of Mr. Courtenay, M. P. for Bridgewater, are the
only officers in the British army who bad taken their
passage in that veseri.
NO. 20.
Vrom 11 manufacturing districts we have the
most gloomy accounts. In most of the manure*.
tortes they were working short hours.
The Cotton market at Liverpool on the 17th and
18th was dull, and sales small, at a decline ofl Bd.
The Queen of Naples has been delivered of
prince. Queen Victoria's health remained as Lewd
as usual.
Her Alajesty was to return to Buckingham P a t,.
ace from Windsor Castle, Apial 20th, at .'Which
time also the House of Commons wouldossembte.
The ttcamer Caledonia made the entire pafsage
from Boston to Liverpool, in 13 days and IS hours,
nut of which time she was detained 28 hours st
Halifax waiting for the Canadian mails.
Accounts from Trebisonde, at Constantinople
state that all cliff rentes i.ietween Great Britian and
Pen.ia arc arrange: ) ,.
Admiral Stopford i>r apFointed Master of Greed..
with Hospital.
Commodore Napier arrived at Liverpool from
Egypt in the *team* r Criental cn Saturday, the
Inth, and was received on the following day by
the Mayor, Alderman, and 11.3urgesres, who pre•
fiented him an addles , . On the rame day a dinner
was given in honor of him, at which he rat down
with seven hundred gentlemen.
United States Bank aiharea sold in London on the
16th ult. at about E 5 10s.
Mr. Reynolds, the distinguished Dramatist, died
at his house at Warren street, London. on the 16th
ult. in his '77th year. Mr. R. was the most popular
and successful writer of his day, and has died full
of honors, both in public and private life.
No less than 16 steam frigates are ordered to
be immediately built at the different dotk,y%ds in
England.
MeLton. We find nothing of importance in the
English papers in relation to „the case of Mc-
Lecd. The course of the British Government ap
pears to be too pacific to snit some of the rabid to
ry prints. The London Not g Iletald of the 17th
ult.. in a fiery article on the McLeod affair. says a
" England inverts at the present day the great
maxim' 'Pareere subject's et debetlare stuperbos•'
She exercises a patient endurance of insults tow.
ards such states as Russia and America, who ate
some what acquainted with the art of war, but lav
ishes her thunders upon Chinese and Egyptaine.
who are infants when opposed to the array of Eu
ropean battle, with all its vast and varied means of
scientific deztruction."
Fria:vcr. The news from France is destitute of
interest: the violent debates on the supplementary
credits for !SU have ceased, and there is no other
topic which gives the same' excitement.
FANNY ELFSLEIt. The London Standard says:—
" Made inz_ls..:Fe Panay Edgier has written to a
friend in Paris, giving a glowing account of her
success at the Havanna. She save she cleared
more thin 9 6000 by her benefit, and was invited
to a grand supper by the authorities, to which she
was eseurtie by a deputation of 24 of the wealthiest
gentlemen of the island. She appears to be ashan.
ished at the enthusiasm a hich she creates, as well
she may, for it is'very unusual for a ay Iphide of 36,
who has a son of to c3usa such raptufe as a
dancer."
The Cashier of one of the most respectable MM.
rnermal .tiousea of Paris has aosconded, leaving a
deficit in hts accounts of more than a million of
francs, and that, in consiquenee of this, the booze
has teen loreed to stop payment.
SrtTLEMENT Ci n the overland mail
which art ited at Ma:seilles on the 4th ultimo, and
reached London on the eth, iotelli E ence has been
received of the settlement of the dispute with the
Chinese authorities, at Canton. This was not e 6
fec'ed until two of tie forts at the passage of the
Bouge had been s•ormid by the British forces, the
fleet of war jonks destroyed, and the batteries high
er up the river bombarded by the fleet. Then the
Governor of Canton, seeing that the time for pro
crastination was passed, sent to beg for a suspen
sion of hostilities, and commenced the negollatiott,
speedily led to a settlement 4t the dispute, at
least, so far 53 he had the power of settling it. The
following are the terms agreed upon :-
1. The cession of the island and harbour of
Hongkong to lb, British Crown. All just charges
and duties to the empire upon the commerce ear
ned on there to be paid as if the trade were con-
ducted at Whampoa.
2. An indemi.ity to the British Government of
six millions of dollars, one million payable at oncei
and the remainder in equal annual instalments, end
ing in 1846.
3.. Direct official ihtercourse 'between the %Emilie,
upon an equal footing.
4 The trade of the port of Canton to be openedi
within ten dais after the Chinese new year: and
to be carried on at Whampoa till further arrange—
ments are practicable at the new settlement.
The details of the settlement of the China Ques—
tion are not fully given, but so far as they were VD
cerstond, it appears they are nut satisfactory to the
English merchants.
A LACNCII.-1 he steam frigate Mississippi was
launched in the most beautiful style at Philadelphia
on Wednesday, May sth, in presence of thousands
o' spectators. The " North American " says she
is not surpassed by any thing which floats, for sym•
metrical proportion and beauty. The keel of this
ship was laid in August, 1539. She is 12 feet !on.
ger than the Pennsylvania, and is built of live oak
of Florida. Every thing 'which could add to her
strength in the form of iron and oak has been put
in her frame. Her machinery is of the mosfsub
stantial and finished kind, principally from the
foundry of Merrick & Towne, Southwark. Het
Engine is a splendid piece of mechanical skill, and
cannot be surpassed by any on board of the bast'
English steamers. Her armament will be fermi.
dable, especially the Pairban guns, which are to be
placed on the upper cleat and traverse like a swivel.
Take her al; in all, both site, model, finish, arms.
ment and outfit, she probably has httt a stperior ei
ther in this cr any other Navy.
A NEW PRECEDENT IS LTNCH LAVIr.—A loafer
!stety undertook to rob a flat boat at New Orleans,
by entering her in the night season, when the boat.
men caught him, fisgrante delicto, and ordered him
promptly to take his choice—to, cat his own
throat instanter, or permit them to do it. He prefer.
red the former, and atter sharpening his pen-knife
fur the purpose, proceeded at once to operate. Haw.
tug given his throat a av tty good gash. the Judges
interfered and preventallioy further damages. He
was taken to a surgeon, and was " doing well"
when last heardfrom.
Faoir Nassac.—The Charleston Courier rays :
H- B. M. surveying barque Thunder, cothmanded
by Com. Barnet. arrived at this port yesterday from
Sway. bringing us the Nassau Royal Gaulle of
the 24th utt. The papers contain no news.
We ate informed that the Fehr Ahigng a Ekes.
arrived at Nassau freino this port, cairied out the in.
telligence of the death of Ger. Harrir.on. The w t.
or of the shipping in port Were dist:laved at half
mast, minote guns fired, &c., as eeolonstration of
espeet to the j meinery of the deceased.
Tas TRAvz cs Ntsw Oauqxs.,-Thi New On
leans Picayune id the Wri nit remarks that " more
prodoce arrivedit the 4...evee last week than was
ever known before in the same length of time. Up.
wardsof a hundred flatboats came to the wharf in
the course of five days. The limy business is Sonya
*tithing about town upon . . high-pm:are principle is
quite edifying to all whla feel tiesinatts .of means
&Mince."