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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
AT THS SECOND SESSION.
feegumnd held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fouith
'rff January, one thousand (even hundred and ninety.
AN ACT providing for holding a Treaty or
Treaties to establish Peace with certain Indian
Tribes.
BE it enaQid by the Senate and Iloufe of Rsprefentatives rf the Uni
ted States of America in Congrefi ajjemtfled, That in addition to
the balance unexpended, of the i'um of twenty-thousand dollars,
appropriated by the a&, intituled, •• An ast providing for the ex
pcnces which may attend negotiations or treaties with the Indian
Tribes, and the appointment of commiflioners for managing the
fame," a farther Turn, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars,
a riling from the duties on imports and tonnage, shall be, and the
ijme is hereby appropriated for defraying the expences of nego
ci»tin*,and holding a treaty or treaties, and for promoting a friend
ly mtcrcourfe, and preserving peace with the Indian Tribes.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHI.ENBFRG,
Speaker of the Hwfe of Reprefcvlatives.
JOHN" ADAMS, Vice-Prrfidcnt oj the United State}.
and Prc/ident of the Senate
Approved, July the twenty.second, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, P reft dent of the United States.
(TrCe Corv)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State
AN ACT to regulate Tradeand Intercourse with
the Indian Tribes.
BE it enabled by the Senate and Houje of Representatives of the Um
ted States of America in Congress ajjembled, That no person
shall be permuted to carry on any trade or intercourse with the
Indian tribes, without a licence for that purpose, under the hand
and fcal of the Superintendant of the department, or of such other
person as the Prelident of the United States fh ill appoint for that
purpose; which Superintendant, or other p rfon lo appointed,
(nail on application, iflue such licence to any proper person, who
frail enter into bond with one or more sureties, approved of by
the fuperintendant, or person ifTuing such lieence, or by the Pre
sident of the United States, in the penal sum of one thousand dol
lars, payable to the Prefidept of the United States for the time be
ing, for the use of the United States, conditioned lor the true and
faithful observance of luck rules, regulations and reftriftions, as
now are, or hereafter (hall be made for the government of trade
and intercourse with the Indian tribes. The said Superintend
ents and pcrfons by them licensed as aforefaid, shall be governed
in all things touching the said trade and intercourse by such rules
and regulations as the Prcfident shall prescribe. And no other
pci fen (hall be permitted to carry onany trade or intercourse with
the Indians without such licence as aforefaid. No licence shall
be granted for a longer tirm than two years. Provided nevertheless,
That the President may make such order refpefting the tribes lur
rounded in their fettlcments by the citizens of the United States,
as to secure an intercourse without licence, if he may deem it
proper.
And be it further enabled) That the Superintendant, or person is
suing such licence, shall have full power and authority to recall all
such licences as he may have ifTued, if the person so licenf, d shall
transgress any of the regulations or.rdlriftions provided tor the go
vernment of tradeand intercourse with the Indian tribes, and shall
put in suit such bonds as he may have taken immediately on the
breach ot any condition in said bond. Provided always, That if it
ilia II appear on trial, that the person from whom such licence shall
have been recalled, has not otiended againdany of the provisions
of tlvs ast, or the regulations prescribed for the trade and inter
course with the Indian tribes, he shall be entitled to receive a
new licence
And-be it further enabled. That every person who shall attempt
to trade with the Indian tribes, or be found in the Indian country
with such merchandize in his poffeflion as aie usually vended to
the Indians, without a licence tirft had and obtained, as in this ast
prescribed, and being thereof convicted in any court proper to
try the fame, shall- forfeit all the merchandize so offered for sale
to the Indian tribes, or so tound in the Indian country, which
forfe;ture shall be, one halt lo the benefit of the person prolecut
ing, and the other half to the benefit of the United States.
And be it enabled and That no sale of lands made by
any Indians, or any nation or tribe of Indians within the Unitea
States, shall be valid to any person or persona or to any State,
whether having the right of pre-emption to such lands or not, un
less the fame shall be made and duly executed at some public trea
ty, held under the authority ot the United Slates.
And be it further cndfled y That it any citizen or inhabitant of the
V riited States, or ot either of the territorial dillrifts of the United
States, Dial' go in o any town, settlement or territory belonging to
any nation or tribe of Indians, and shall there commit any crime
upon, or trespass againlt, the pcrfon or propeity of any pcaceable
and triendly Indian or Indians, which, if committed within the
jiirifdiftion of any State, or within the juriidiftion ot cither of the
laid diftr fts against a citizen or white inhabitant thereof, would
be punifhjble by the laws of such State ordifl.ift, such offende
or cftcnd<?rs shall be fubjeft to the fame punifliment, and shall be
proceeded againfl in the fame manner, as if the offence had been
commuted within the junfdiftion of the State or diftrift to which
he or they may belong,againft a citizen or white inhabitant thereof.
And be it further enabled, That for any of the crimcs or offen
ces aforefaid, the like proceedings shall be had for apprehending,
imprisoning or bailing the offender, as the cafe may be, and for
recognizing the witnesses for their appearance to tcftify in the cafe,
and where the offender shall be committed, or the witnesses shall
be in a diftrift other than that in which the offence is to be tried,
for the removal of the offender and the witness s, or either of them,
as the cafe may be, to the diftrift in which the trial is to be had, as
by the ast to establish the judicial courts of the United States are
d.rested, for any crimes or offences against the United States.
And be it further eiafleJ, That this ast shall be in force for the
t r;n of two years, and from thence lo the end of the next fellion
ul Congress, and no longer.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG.
Speaker of the House oj Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prtjideni ej the United States,
and Prrjtdeut ojthe Senate.
Approved, July the twenty-sscond, 1700
G LOR Gt WASHf NGTON, P,efident if the United States.
(I'nUi COPY.) i
THOMAS JFFFERSON, Secretary of State.
ATES.
PUBIfSHED
LONDON, May 10—1£.
LORD George Gordon, in confcquence ofan
altercation with the gaoler of Newgate, has
been removed from his apartment into the ground
cell, and there confined without bed or furni
ture ! Without deciding 011 the propriety or im
propriety of the gaoler's conduit, every man of
feeling mult lament that his lordfliip is reduced to
so deplorable a lituation.
The immense train of Austrian artillery which
was at Peterwardin palled Vienna on its way to
Moravia the 20th ult. The firft piece palled ai
half pall fix in the mornijig, and it was half palt
two in the afternoon before the whole had gone
by, though not one moment'sltoppage took place
the whole time.
The alfair as Marseilles, according to the best
accounts was hot fa bloody as at firit it was re
prefeuted. The commander of Fort Sr. John
was the only person who loft liis life, and this on
account of some improper expressions two days
after the fort was surrendered. The populace
then renewed the dreadful fcence of Paris during
the firftdaysof the revolution.
A Deputation was lately sent to the Queen of
France from the committee ofrefearches in Paris
to request information with refpejft to the vio
lences committed at Versailles, on the night of
the 6th ofO&ober. Her firft answer was, " 1
will never become an informer against any of
the fubjeifis of the King !" The deputation wait
ed on her Majesty a second time, when heran
lwer was still more emphatic, " I have fein every
thing," laid she—" I unierjlood every thing—and
have forgotten every thing.
On Monday two journeymen flioemakers in
Livei pjol of the name of Griffiths and Wright
ten, agreed for a wager, to try which was the
neatelt and moll expeditious workman, for which
purpose they set to at five o'clock in the morning
and continued with little intennifliou until eight
hi the evening, during which time, the former
made, in a neat and workmanlike manner thir
teen pair and an odd one of children's pumps out
of the rough, with the heel-rans and infoals pro
per ; the latter made twelve pair complete. 'Tis
l'uppofed the grcateft performance ever known
to be done by any ot the craft.
A Mr. D brought his wife before the Ma
gistrates, at the Public Office, Bow-street, for af
faultingand beating him. D gave an account
of the last afiault she had committed on him (for
to enumerate every one would have taken up the
Magistrates time, perhaps, till now.) It was with
a hearth-broom, which the lady thought proper
to break over her hulband's head. He gave an
other proof of tlie happiness he had experienced
in the matrimonial state ; for he declared, out of
fifteen years that he had been married toiler, he
had not three days quiet, owing to her turbu
lent disposition, which had reduced hiin from a
state of independence to poverty. She was com
mitted to Tothill-fields, Bridewell, until Ihe
finds bail for her appearance at the next feflions.
A LINCOLN'S INN FROLIC
TWO young gentlemen who arc studying th'e
law, and who have chambers in Lincoln's Inn,
took a particular fancy the other day to a young
woman who frequented the garden with a child
in her arms. They laid various stratagems to
entice the mother to come into their chambers ;
but she saw the intent, and studiously avoided a
viiitof that kind—At last they thought they hit
upon a scheme that must effeclually bring her in.
One of the gentlemen took the baby in his arms,
and, after killing it, brought it home to his apart
ment. The other itudent followed, and both
now imagined that the woman lnuft naturally
come for her child ; but, as the faying is, " fae
bit the biter" for (he lent the child to their pro
tection, and made the bed of her way home ;
and has taken care to conceal that home from
them. i hey are persons of good fortune, and
have sent the child to nurse. The public may re
ly on our alfertion, that this is afatf.
ANECDOTE.
A Tar, after returning from a voyage for low
wood, having made rather too free with a plank
belonging to the owners of the vellel to which he
belonged, was taken before a justice, and accu
sed of the theft. One being aflced what he had
to fay in his defence, replied " that, aftet ha v.
ing a (lifted to ileal a whole ipioad from the
Spani ards,it was a hard cafe that he could not have
a flank for liis own ufe,witho\itfo much parlavtrV
JNEIV-YORK, July 30.
The latest accounts from Europe inform that
according to the present appearances, the belli
gerent powers of Europe (among which we rec
kon thole preparing for war) may be drawn out
in battle array in the following manner
Great Britain f Germany
1 ruflia j ; Spain
Sweden . against J Ruflia
Ho,lan( ] | 1 Denmark
~ i Italian States
T *1 t! j I The Pope
To wh.ch may be added, France incapable, Por
tugal and Sardinia neutral or doubtful. To con
fer the situation as to men and money of the
544
Ifirit lift a:ut of the last, one would bsapt to ihifsk
there is an amazing inequality, and th.it in favor
of the former. We hive ranked Holland from
its intimate connexion with PruUia and Great-
Britain. Further accounts state,
That the orders which the Spaniards had gi*.
en to be executed for them in London, were coun
termanded ; and the belt informed inercantils
men infer from thence the certainty of a war with
Spain.
That Monf. de Barfet was (he gentleman whs
was facrificed at Marseilles and not Monf. da
Calvet : that accounts from France teem wUH
details of /hocking excelled. Several eminent
chara<fters having recently loft their lives.
That the National Allembly have voted an A<j.
dress to the King, exprefling their refutation that
the nation fliould not be involved in any foreign
war.
The House of Commons of Great Britain have
resolved to permit the importation of Rape Seed,
and Rape Cakes from the United Stares of Ame
rica.
The King of Naples has made a Princely pro
vision for the maintenance of the Count d'/irtois.
He has provided him with a palace, and allowed
him the eftablilhinent of 120 servants.
FOR SALE
The IRON WORKS,
Belonging to the Estate of james hunter, occcared,
pleafanily ficuated on the falls ot Rappahannock. River, with
in two miles of the town of Frederickfburg, and on-of Falmouth
and Tide-Water—ConGfting of a Forge, 130 feet by 54, eigiu
fires, and four hammers—a Coal House, 80 feet by 40—a Slitting
and Rolling Mill, 68 feet by 30, tor Sheet, Rolled and Shi Iron.
A Merchant Mill, 70 feet by 36, with two pair of stones ; one
whereof trench Burr, and every other nece/Tary apparatus for
manufacturing Flour in the best method.—A Saw Mill adjoining
rhe lame, 60 feet by 10. The walls of all these arc ot
stone, extremely and near, of the best workmanship. The
running geers, machinery and fixtures of the whole, commodiouf
iy and judiciously contrived, and performed in the mofl masterly
and advantageous manner, on large and improved plans. The
different departments are conveniently disposed and arranged ct
prop r diftaucts, ou a deep and capacious canal, calculated to
iupply more large and extensive works, and future improvements ;
cautiously seCured and guarded against ciifualtics from frefhets, or
floods ; has its source in the main body of the nvir ; a co
pious proportion whereof, to any reasonable degree of quen' ty,
is at phafure collected and turned in by a compleat set of •/tiJ
conflru6led strong dams, which have not broke, or given way,
since their formation, near nineteen vears past.—The head and
fall of the water operating on the wheels, is about twenty sett:
the greatest part of the works arc in good repair, and the whcJ
may be rendered foat a final I expence. In the appendages there
to, are a convenient Tanyard, variety of shops and utensils for
mechanical bulmefs of different kinds, houses for the Managers,
Workmen, See.— And about 4 to 8000 acres of land contiguous,
mostly wooded, including fomc Farms and meadow laud. MJt }
will be offered for sale, a number of valuable Slaves, lucfra*-ttam
mermen, Refiners, Collier*, Forge Carpenters, Wheelwrights,
Smiths, Millers, Waggoners, See. These works have advantages
over any in America, particularly in refpeft to the sale of their
produce, js there is none of the kind to the southward thereof, to
mofl of which extensive, rich and fertile country, there is easy
conveyance by water ; nor is there any Forge within 90 mite',
nor a Slitting mill at all in this State, which'might share the caf
tom, or vie with its manufactory—fome other peculiar advantag
es that can best be pointed out on the prcmifes, which on applies
tion will be shewn. and the terms of Sale made known, and vety
easy for the purchaser, by
/ irginia, May 28, 1790,
New-York City Lottery.
SCHEME or a LOTTERY, for the purpofc of raising Seven Thou
fund Five Hundred rounds, agreable to an ACT of the Lec
ture of the State of New-York, pafled Bth February, 1790.
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THEobjca of this LOTTERY being to ra.fe a part of the fan
15"®°"° by the corporation for repairing and enlarging theCI
IY HALL, tor the accommodation of CONGRESS, whichdoM
so much honor to the Architect, as well as credit to the city. Tie
managers presume that their fellow Citizens will cheerfully con
cur in promoting the Cale of Tickets, especially as the fucctfsof
tnii Lottery will relieve them from a tax', which must othcrwife
be laid to rcimburfe the corporation.
The above SCHEME is calculated in a manner very beneficial
t0 adventurers,there not being two blanks to a prize.
1 he Lottery is intended to commence drawing on the Fins*
Monday in August next, or (boner jf filled, of which timely
nonce will be given. A lift of the fortunate numbers will be pub
lilhcd at the expiration of the drawing.
I ickcts are to be fold by the fubferibers, who arc appointed
Managers by the Corporation.
Isaac Stoutenbu r gh, Abraham Herrikc,
Peter T. Curtenius, John Pintard.
New-}ork } St/iMa*c/i^jqo.
fry THE Managers g ivc notice tkat agreeable to an order tftkCm
Potior,, the drawing nj the City-Lottery, u;Utofitively commend*#.
pft Monday in August. (Next Monday.) July i f _
'T'HE Creditors of Col. ELISHA SHELDON, of S>lilbur»>
-k hereby notified, That the Subscribers feeing appointed Tr»&
tee« «f said Sheldon's eftase, will attend to thebufinefs of dwf
appointment on the fjrft Monday of August next, at the house of
Tacobus Davis, in said Salisbury, agreeable toth'e Ast of AffW-
Dly. The intereit of tht creditors requires thcit- general att' 8 "
dancc - HEZEKIAH FITCH, ) Trufl i.. :
• JOHN BIRD. JTrunco.
SjitJbury,(Cotaeßimt/, Jme-2 8, 1789. '
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