Your approbation of the vote of this House at the last felfion, respeCting the provision for the public creditors is very acceptable to us : The proper mode of carrying that refolutiort into ef fect, being a fubjecft in which the future charac ter and happiness of thele States are deeply in volved, will be among the firll to deserve our at tention. The prosperity of the United States is the pri maryobjetft of all our deliberations, and we the rilh the reflection, that every ineafure which we may adopt for its advancement, will not only re ceive your cheerful concurrence, but will at :he fame time derive from your co-operation, addi tional efficacy in ensuring to our fellow citizens the blessings of a free,efficient, and equal govern ment. FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefeutatives. To this Address, The President was pleaferf to make the following reply : Gentlemen, I RECEIVE with pleasure the aflurances you give me, that you will diligently and anxiously pursue such measures as lhall appear to you con ducive to the interests of your conttiruents; and that an early and serious consideration will be given to the various and weighty matters re commended by me to your attention. I have full confidence, that your deliberations ■will continue to be directed by an enlightened and virtuous zeal for the happiness of our coun try. G. WASHINGTON. January 14. CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13. Mr. Smith of the committee appointed to wait on the Prelident of the United Stares, to know at what time and place the House lhould wait on him to pi efent their address, reported that '.he Prefi* dent had appointed to-morrow at twelve o'clock, at his own house. Mr. Huntington, from Connecticut ; Mr. Cad wallader, from New-Je.fey ; Mr. Heifter, from Pennsylvania ; and Mr. Smith, from Maryland, appeared and took their feats. On motion, Ordered, That so much of the standing rtileS and orders of this house, as directs the mode of appointing committees, be rescinded ; and that hereafter it be a standing rule of the house, that all committees (hall be appointed by the Speaker, unless otherwise specially dire<fted by the house, in which cafe they (hall be appointed by ballot, and if upon such ballot the number required (hall not be elected by a majority of the votes given, the house (hall proceed to a second ballot, in which a plurality of vores (hall prevail ; and in cafe a greater number tlian are required to coin pofe or complete the committee (hall have an equal number ofvotes, the house fliall proceed to a fur ther ballot or ballots. The House resumed the reading of the state ment of the fourh-weftern frontiers, and of the Indian department, as referred to in The Presi dent's meifage of yesterday : Whereupon, Ordered, That the said meflageand ftareraent be referred to a committee of five, and that Mr. . Wadfworth, Mr. Brown, Mr. Boudinot, Mr. , Burke, and Mr. Baldwin, be of the said commit tee. Adjourned. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. Mr. Sedgwick, from Mafiachufetts ; and Mr. Hartley, from Pennsylvania, appeared and took their feats. Mr. Livermore, Mr. Ames, Mr. Lawrance, Mr. Scott, Mr. Smith, (M.) were added to the com mittee, to whom was referred the ilatement of the southwestern frontiers and Indian department. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury was received and read, and referred to a com mittee of the whole house, this day fortnight. Adjourned. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15. Mr. Jackson, took his feat this day. The memorial of John Cockran, Cotnmiffioner of the Loan-Office in the State of New-York, praying for an addition to his salary for reasons Hated in the memorial, was read, and laid on the table.—Also, the petition of William Montgo mery and Co. refpediing certain inventions,which was laid on the table.—-Also sundry reports of the Secretary of the Department ofWar, onanum ber of petitions and memorials referred to him at the last felfion. Mr. Hartley —upon a presumption that the unfinifhed business of the lafl feflxon, was to beta ken up in the present, in the fituationit was then l e ft~propofed that the bill for the promoting of science and ufeful arts, and for fecuringto au thors and inventors the benefits of their v/ritings and discoveries should be taken into consideration, and to that purpose laid a motion on the table. Mr. Smith (S. C.Jmoved that the House should go into a committee of the whole on the Presi dent's Speech, which motion being agreed to— Mr. Balpwin took the chair. Mr. Smith then read aftatement of the feve xyl articles in the Speech which were recom- I- _t mended to the confutation of the House—and moved that the committee of the whole ihould come to a resolution to refer the fame to feletft committees— 1 his being adopted, the committee rofe,and the Chairman reported the resolution to the House Oil which the House appointed com mittees for the following purposes, viz. Relolved, that a committee be appointed tore port a plan to provide for the national defence, and Mr. Gillman, Mr. P. Muhlenberg, Mr. Hei- Iter, Mr. Matthews and Mr. Floyd, were ap pointed.— Resolved, that a committee be appointed, for bringing in a bill making provision for persons employed in the intercourse between foreign na tions, and the United States—Mr. Sedgwick, Mr. Huntington and Mr. Lee were appointed.— Resolved, that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill for the eitablilliment of a uniform rule of naturalization—Mr. Hartley, Mr. Tuck er and Mr. Moore were appointed 7 hat part of the Speech referring to unifor mity in the coin, weights and measures of the United States, was referred to the Secretary of State. Several other parts of the Speech, respec ting post offices, and post roads—the promoting of science and literature, &c. it was ordered fliould lie 011 the table—as reports were ready to lay before the House relative to those fubjc(sls. Mr. Goodhue moved that a committee fliould be appointed, to divide the State of North Caro lina into diftridts, for the purpose of collecting the impost in that State, agreeable to the laws of the Uniied States. Several other motions, referring to the fame objeJl, were introduced—but the following pro posed by Mr. Sedgwick was adopted, viz. Resolved, that a committee be appointed to report a bill or bills, for making such alterations in the laws of the United States, as may be ne cefTary to conform the fame to the present State of North Carolina—and Mr. Benfon, Mr. Cad wallader and Mr. Trumbull were appointed. Adjourned till Monday, n o'clock. LEGISLATURE OF STATE OF NEW-YORK. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1790. A MESSAGE from His Excellency the Governor, to the General AJfem bly of this State. Gentlemen of the Legislature, THE Amendments proposed to the Constitution of the United States, and the other Communications which have been made to me in your Recess by the Direction of Congress, will be fub mi:ted to your Consideration with this Meflage. The Returns required by the Resolutions accompanying these Papers, for the Tieafury and War Departments, are already dire&ed to be made and tranlinitted to those Offices refpe&ively. The usual Returns from your Treasury will disclose the present state of our Finance*, and evince the necessity of a permanent Arrangement for the support of Government and the maintenance of the public Credit. lam happy to observe, that manyintereft m r Obje&s which have si nee the close of the War occupied much of the Time of the Legislature, ire now accompli (lied, and that it will confequentiy be in your Power to devote a greater Portion of your Attention to this important Business. I conceive it proper, at this Time, to remind the Legislature, that in the Course of the present Year the Period will arrive when by our Constitution a Cenlus of the Elettors and Inhabitants is to be taken for apportioning the Reprefcntation to the Senate and Affcmbly. It is with Pleafurc I inform you, that the Survey of the waste Lands, directed to be fold, is complt ated, and that such Progress has been made in the running out of those allotted as a Bounty to the Troops of this State, that rants may be vfTued to the Indivi duals c ntitl dto them without any further actual Surveys. I flial 1 direst the Accounts of the Expences, which have accrued in those Services, to be lodged in the Audttor'sOffice for Liquidation, and I slater myfelf it will be found, that as great a regard to Oecono my has been observed a the Nature of the Business, and the Ob structions which attended the Execution of it, would permit. With refpefl to the Measure recommended more immediately to my Care by the con urrent Resolution of the Senate and At kmhly in July last, it is lufficient to mention, that it has been exe cuted without incurring any Expence to the State. G. CLINTON. New-York, 13th of January, 1790. The feverai a6ts of Congress, and other communications which accompanicd the mcllage of hisexcellencv the Governor were also read. Ordered, That the said meflage of his excellency the Gover nor, and sundry matters which accompanied the fame, be com mitted to a committee of the whole house. Mr. Jones introduced the following resolve viz. Resolved, if the hon. the senate Concur herein, That the trea surer be, and is hereby directed to deliver one copy of the laws of the state to his Excellency the Governor, one to each house of the legislature of the United States, one to the fecretaiy of state for the United States, two to the clerk of the senate of this stare, four to the clerk of the house for the use of the legislature, one to the chancellor, one to each judge of the supreme court, and one to the judge of the court of probates, one to the secre tary, one to the attorney general, one to the clerk of the su preme court, one to the auditor, one to the clerk of each county of the state for the use of their refpeftive offices, and one other copy for the use of his own office, one to the clerk of each town, for the use of each town, he giving his receipt, one for each judge of the supreme court of the United States, one to the clerk of the supervisors in each county, for the use of the supervisors Also to Richard Varick and Samuel Jones, Efquircs, by whom the said laws were revised and digested, each one copy ; and to each membei of the senate and aflembly of this state one copy—and the treasurer is hereby aire&cd, to have regard, in the distribution of the laid laws, to the order observed in this resolution, giving priority to those who are firft named, adopted 37 to 4. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. The following meflage was received from the Senate : Resolved, (if the hon. the Aflembly concur herein) that a joint committee of both Houses of the Legislature be appointed to ex amine such accounts as have been submitted by the auditor of this state to the commiflioner appointed by the United States, for fet ling the accounts between the United States and individual states ; and to advise the auditor relative to the vouchers of the claims of this state • and in cafe of such concurrence, that Mr. Philip Schuy ler, Mr. L'Hommedieu, and Mr. Livingfton, be of the said com mittee on the part of the Senate. The House concurred, and appointed Mr. King, Mr. Randall, Mr. Schoonmaker, Mr. Barker, and Mr. Giles, the committee on their part. The House tefolved that they would choose a Council of Ap pointment this day at 12 o'clock. Went into a committee on the Governor's mcfTdge ; Mr. Watts in the chair. It was rclolved that committees be appointed to bring in bills in conformity to the ast of Congress ot 23d September last, ref pedling gaols ; and that of the 7th August, refpeftinglight-houfes. A resolution was also agreed to, appointing a committee to pre pare and bring in a bill in conformity to the concurrent resolution of the Legislature of the 13th of July last, rcfpe£ling Fort George and its dependencies. The committee then rose, the House accepted of the report, and appointed committees accordingly. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. To the Hon. LEGISLATURE of this STATE. A WRITER, in a late Poughkeepfie paper, on the important subject of PUBLIC SCHOOLS, introduces this very lingular observation, " It " is even conjectured, fays he, that our legilla " ture will never confentto a law, making it the " duty of each town to support a refpedtable lC school, for fear it would be unpopular."—Can it be pollible that there should bu any foundation forfuch a conjecture ! If there is—Can language u gg e ft a more powerful motive, to induce the Legislature to pass such a law ? Does it not in dicate such a state of ignorance, and degradation, as calls on all the principles of humanity, bene volence, and patriotism, to make the moll Ipir itedexertions, that the people maybe brought from under the tyranny offuch ignominious sen timents, so hostile to their best interests, in every point of view > for that society must be in a de plorable condition, in which it is unpopular to propose a public regulation, that has for its ob jeift, thedifl'ulion of knowledge, science, and vir tue, among the people. The Deity hath not de vised a fyHem so competent to this delign, as pub lic schools.— ihe present enlightened Legislature of this State, hath on many occasions adopted a most public spirited line of conduct—and there can be no djubt, that this important fubje<st will be taken into confederation by them—and fuclx effectual provision made, that the State of New- York may in this, as Ihe does in other refpecfts, support her pretensions to an enlightened, liber al policy. C I V I S. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES, Mr. Editor, I was agreeably surprized to read in one of the Papers 16 clay* that in the report df the Secretary of the Treasury, the Reve nue which may He expelled from the Poll-Office is eft'mated at 100000 Dollars —this is so contrary to pall experience, that I can not but suppose, that in addition to enhancing the rate of poftagc, fume new arrangements are contemplated—there is one which appears to me very effeniial, aud that is to give the Merchants and others a greater opportunity to answer their Letters by the return of the poll by which they are received—The practice of clofin * the mail, the fame evening that it arrives, which in a great meal sure deprives them of this convenience, operates againfl there venue to Government. MERCATOR. January 154 NEW-TURK, JANUARY 16, 1790. FROM CORRESPONDENTS. The public anticipations are more than realized by the commu nications made to Congress at the commencement of the present feflion. During the recess it appears that the Executive Depart ments have been inceflantly employed in forming the necessary arrangements, colle6ling information, and preparing public busi ness, in such manner that the National Legislature has the most im portant obje&s brought immediately before them—and there is no doubt, but that they will proceed in the difcuflion of every fubjefi* with all that unanimity and dispatch, which is compatible with doingjuftice to the general interests of their constituents. How mull the bosom of every friend to the United States ex pand with pleasure, in contemplating the situation of our country, as delineated in the fpcech of The President to both Houses of Congress: What a generous confidence in the patrio(ifm of the citizens ! And what a glow of hope, that as they have begun, so they will continue to appreciate the bleflings of good govern ment, under the best Conilitution ever conferred upon any of the sons of men. Of the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury much may be said ; but as it will shortly belaid before the public, an anticipation of iheir opinion, will doubtless fall below the sentiments that will be excitcd on its appcarance. Another correspondent informs, that a number of the fe& call ed Shakers, having, thro the benevolence of a certain Societv„ not an hundred miles from John-Street, been indulged with the use of their Tabernacle for a few evenings part, to hold their par ticular meetings in, hasoccafioned those extraordinary appearances, noises, See. which have excited so much speculation.—There is nothing new in all this—there was a fe£fc in Persia a thousand years ago, that beat this hollow, in writhings, contortions, groanings and fcreechings. BOSTON STAGE. THE subscriber informs the public, that having contra&ed to carry the public mail in the ftagefrom New-York to Boston„ for the year 1790 —commencing January the firft to go twice a week till the firft of May, and three times a week from firft May to firft November, and to employ a person to go thro* with the mail to take Care of it. He engages that this conductor ftiall tran fa£t all private bufmefs committed to him with fidelity at a rea sonable Commiflion—he will carry bundles, money, newspapers, ! See. And may be seen every Wednesday and Saturday Evening in New-York, at Fraunces Tavern, in Boston at the fubferibers House, in Hartford at Frederick Bull's, Coffee House. Four a&ive men are now engaged as Conductors, who have given bonds for the faithful discharge of their trust. LEVI PEASE,
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