PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, MARKET-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHI; A DELPHI A. [No. 71, of Vol. ll.] CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE THIRD SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the sixth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. An ACT, supplementary to the A<sl, intitled, i( An A(fl making further Provision for the Payment of the Debts of the United States." WHEREAS no express provision has been made for extend ing the ast, intitled, " An ast to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or veflels," to the collection of the duties im posed by the said " Ast making further provision for the pay ment of the debts of the United States," and doubts concerning the fame may arifeTherefore, Be it watted by the Senate and Hsufe of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress ajjembledy That the ast, intitled, " An ast to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties im posed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of fliips or vefTels," doth and Ihall extend to, and be in force for the collection of the duties fpecified and laid in and by the ast, intitled, " An ast making further provision for the payment of the debts of the United States, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, reftriftion, penalty, provision, cl.aufe, matter and thing therein contained, had fceen inserted in and re-enacted by the ast last aforefaid. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and PreJidentofthe Senate• Approved, December twenty-seventh, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (True Copy) THOMAS JEFFERSON, Seer State. 7'hi following remarks are (fubftatitialb ) copied from the New-York Daily Advertiser. IT is a very honorable proof of the patriotism of the public creditors, that they discover so vo luntary and general an acquiescence in the fund ing system palled the la!t feiiion of Congress. After the national legislature had so fully dif cufled the fubjecft, and viewed all the circum stances attending the public debt; it Ihould be presumed, that their final determinations are, upon the whole, best calculated to establish pub lic credit, and protect the interests of public cre oitors. Under this persuasion, and with an ar dent desire to give effect to the operations of the new government, the enlighted citizens of the United States have generally demonstrated a most lively approbation of the funding system, as it now stands ; and it cannot be expected, that Congress will depart from the principles upon which the funding system has been modified : For, whatever conclusions may be drawn from rigid definitions of public faith, they now cease to be llridtly applicable to our lituati'on. !t can not fail to occur to every observing man, that immense transfers of the public debt have taken place since the funding system was established. Those transfers have been regulated by the idea, that the system was liable to no alteration—tha jt was the result of a comprehensive \iew of th( cafe, and would be as immutable by the legifla ture, as the constitution itfelf. The question, therefore, has assumed a different afpetft. Wha would have been right the lall feflion, would be wrong now. The bare difcuflion of the point ii. Congress, whether the system should undergo an alteration, would excite a suspicion with refpetft to the final eftablifliment of public credit. The great bulk of the creditors are contented, and manifeft tjiie highest confidence that what is pro mifed will be performed. It is a favorable presage of the {lability and vifdom of Congress, that the Senate of the United States have pafled their laterefoluiion, with onl) one diflenting voice. Public creditors ! if ye be wife, be quiet where ye are. ' CONSISTENCY. BENNINGTON, Dec. 6 Lately a ball at Windham, in Connecticut, was graced with the presence of about thirty younp ladies, each of whom was drefled in a handfoine muslin gown, wrought by their own hands. A patriotic example worthy the imitation of every lady among ui, who wiflies well to her country, as, on the advancement of the manufactures of America, depends her trued interest. Saturday, January i, 1791. ALBANY, Dec. 20. By a gentleman lad evening from Quebec, we are informed of the arrival at that place, of the Hon. Gen. Alured Clarke (late Lt. Governor of the island of Jamaica) who is appointed to fnc ceed Lord Dorchester in the government : His lordihip, however continues in it till spring—The above gentleman farther informs that news of the expedition against the Indians (mentioned in the President's speech) under Gen. Harinar, had reached Canada, and caused various conjec tures, and various opinions were in circulation respecting its real destination, some supposed it was againlt Detroit, some one place and some another. NEWBURYPORT, Dec. Ij, In this town, according to the late enumerati on, the inhabitants amount to 4837 The dwel ling-houses are 616. According to an enumera tion taken in 1784, the number of inhabitants was 4113 and the dwelling-houses 430. The whole town nieafures but 620 acres, about 400 of which are taken up for pastures, streets, &c. Its greatest length is one mile and a half, and about half a mile in breadth. Lately died, on the coast: of Guinea, Captain Wingate Newm an, of Philadelphia. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES, " is gone," Columbia said, Jl "My sage is now no more !" Then drooping, hung her beauteous head, His exit to deplore. Bright genius flew on wings of wind, Some comfort to address; And thus she (pake in accents kind, Whom she resolves to bless. " Why wrepe Columbia ? Franklin's gone, But ; s there then no more; — Is Franklin then thy only son Enrich'd with learning's lore ? Or have I sent my che«ring light T' illumine him alone P My brightest ray now shines in Dwighf, Thy long negle&ed son. See Trumbull and fee Barlow raifc Aloft their founding lyres ; Columbia ! give thy sons that praise, Which future aAs inspires. Another Trumbull (hares my love; His works of matchless art, Will ev'ry patriot thought improve— Nay,—form a patriot heart. Ada ms, in council ever sage, And blefs'd with eagle fight: Adorns Columbia's faireft page, And teaches man his right. Nay look around on ev'ry fide And wipe away those. tears (Columbia feels an honest pride, So bright the ftiow appears.) " Call on yon youth, by me he's blefl, And study makes him wife ; Not Franklin's felf knew less of reft— All nature meets his eves. Arise and call my Mitchell forth : For Franklin weep no more: When you (hall know the living worth, The dead you'll not deplore." HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Stitch of the Debates cn the MILITIA BILL FRIDAY, Dec. 24. r "T , HE amendments of thecomr.iitreeof thewhole A to the miliria bill, were further difcufl'ed this day by the house. The debate was conti nued on Mr. Madison's proposition in favor of :ierfons conscientiously scrupulous of bearing a' nis. A majority of the speakers appeared to be :n favor of their exemption's being left to the leveral Hates : In support of this idea, Mr. Bourn observed, that if the general go vernment should take up the matter, and fubje<fl he Quakers to a penalty as an equivalent for -erforial feryice, their situation would be ren dered less eligible than it is at prefent—for, in ( -veral of the Stares, he observed they are not only exempted from militia duty, but from all -659- [Whole No. 175.] fines and penalties in lieu thereof; he inft need o h u e J Sta ' eS , of New-Hampfcire, Maflachulett., Knode-illand and Connecticut. Another memorial from the society of Quakers on the Eastern fhnre of Maryland, againlt the 16th section of the bill, was presented by Mr. Smith member from that State, and read. A motion of Mr. Clymer, to amend the motion of Mr. Madilbn, after some difculfion, was nega tived—and the original motion being also put was disagreed to ; so that, as the bill now stands, the exemption of persons religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, is to be provided for by the re fpetftive states. Mr. Smith, (S.C.) then renewed his proposi tion refpedting independent companies—which he informed the lioufe he had so modified, as to avoid the objections before offered to it. It is to the following effect : — Whereas certain independent corps of artil lery, infantry and dragoons, now exilt in thefe y.eral Urates—lt is hereby enacted, rhat nothing in this aift shall be confirmed to the dilbanding or incorporating said companies in the militia ; t hey at the fame time being liable to the performance of the military duties herein required. It being underllood that the biil ffiould be re committed to a' felecft committee, it was voted that this proportion be referred, with the bill. On morion of Mr. Livermore, the 9th fecition of the bill was expunged ; a motion by the fame gentleman to strike out the 10th and uthfec tions was negatived. It was then moved that the bill be recom mitted ; which being put, palled in the affirma tive—and Meflis. Wadfworth, Giles and Tucker were appointed the committee. MONDAY, Dec. 27. In committee of the whole, on the (late of the Union. Mr. Livermore in the chair. The report of ihe Secretary of the Treasury on the eftablifliment of land-offices, for the sale of the lands belonging to the United States, under conlideration. Mr. Boudinot offered the following resolve : " That it is the sense of the committee, that a land-office be established at the feat of the gener al government, under the direclion of 'com millioners. Mr. Scot wished the house to take a general view of the business, before they went into the particulars of the secretary's report, Upon the whole lie was pleafecl with the plan drawn up by that officer ; one part however he objected to. That part of the report which provided for the didribution of the land He did not approve offetling apart trac r ts for particular descriptions of purchafcrs. As an amendment he offered se ven propositions, which hewilhed for the prtefenc to lie on the table,, and which he proposed to of fer as f'ubliitutes to different parts of the Secre tary's report, a* they came before the house. His principal object was to let the tracts which Con grels proposed to fell, be indifcriininately located. Mr. Boudinot thought the committee could not then enter into the minutiae of the business. It: was enough to fix the general piinciples, viz. Whether there shall be a general land-office, and two subordinate—Whether they rhaJl be under the direction of commilfioners—and whether cer tain tra<fls of land should bereferved by Congrels for certain purposes—and then to appoint a com mittee to bring in a bill on those principles, arid ro take into consideration the minutiae of the bu siness. Great changes, he observed, had taken place since the report was drawn up. The com mittee, he said, might consider what should be the greatest quantity fixed as a limit to the sales made by the general office, and what for the su bordinate. Mr. Sherman offered a resolution, that there be a general land-office eftabliflied.—Agreed. Mr. Boudinot. That there be two subordinate offices, one in the government to the North-Weft —the other South of the Ohio.—Agreed. Mr. Boudinot moved, that all sales made at the general land-office fliall be above acres: Then all below that quantity would be made at the su bordinate offices. It should also be determined whether Congress would fix the quantity, or leave it to the commissioners. It appeared to him a matter of importance. Mr. Scott moved that the blank be filled with one thousand. Mr. White moved five thiufani.
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