he concluded with observing, that we had felt the disadvantages of the confederation—we adopted the coitftitution expe&ing to place the national affairs under a federal head : This is a powe. which Congress only canexercife : We mayrea foil away the whole constitution : All nations have their times of adverlity and danger : The negledl of providing tvgainft them !n i'eafon, may be the cause of ruining the country. IN SENATE, Feb. 22. 1791. , RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress aflerhbled, That the President of ttje United States be requested to cause to be commu nicated to the National AfTembly of France, the peculiar fcnfibili ty of Congress to the tribute paid to the memory of Benjamin franklin, by the enlightened and free representatives of a great na-> ti.on, in their decree of the 11th of June 1790. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 25. HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES. THE cngrofled bill, fuppleinentary to the a&, incorporating the subscribers to the bank of the United States, was read a third time, and (the blanks being filled up) was pafled. The house concurred in a resolution sent yester day from the Senate, vequefting that the Frefi dent will communicate to the National Afleinbly of France, the sense which Congress entertain of the honor paid by that body to the memory of Benjamin Franklin. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the grant of fuither compensation to the commissioners of the loan office, for extraor dinary expences, ■ incurred in the execution of the at!t, making provision for the public debt, was read, and referred to a feledt committee, confiding of Mefirs Williamfon, Partridge, and White. A meflage was delivered by Mr. Secretary Otis, informing the house, that the Senate had paft'ed, with an amendment, the bill giving effecft to the laws of the United States, within the state of Vermont ; and tcquefted the concurrence of the house in the said amendment. Mr. Otis far ther informed the house, that the Senace had re solved, that the bill, authorizing the President to cause the debt, due to fot«jgn officers, to be discharged, should not pass to aitjird reading. Another meflage was delivered bx Mr, Secre tary Otis, informing the house, that Senate insisted on their amendment to the revert*ebill, and had appointed a committee to confer wYilj a committee of this house. Meflrs and Livermore were appointed on the part of the house. On motion, it was resolved, that the report of the fele<ft committee, on the President's ineff'age of the 14th i 11ft. be referred to the Secretary of State, and that he be to report to Con gress, the nature and extent of the privileges and reflrictions ofthe commercial intercourse of the United States with foreign nations, and such mea sures, as he shall think proper to be adopted for the improvement ofthe commerce and navigation of the United States. Mr. Smith, (S.C.) reported a bill, to determine the day of the next meeting of Congress ; which after a firft and second reading, was ordered to be engrofled. Adjourned. THURSDAY, Feb. 24. /"Sundry memorials and petitions being prefemed, read, and fe derally referred to the heads of departments—Saturday next was assigned for taking into confederation the reports of committees, and of the Secretaries of the Treasury, and of War, on petitions re ferred to them. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in favor of the pe tition of William Simmon*, was read, and the house having agreed to the fame, appointed Messrs. Trumbull, Bourne, and Foster, a committee, to prepare and bring in a bill in conformity thereto. Mr. Sherman reported a bill, providing compcnfatioris for the •fficers »f the several courts of law, and for jurors, and witnefles ; ■which, after a firft and second reading, was referred to*a commit tee of the whole house to-morrow, and ordered to be printed. The amendment *proposed by the Senate to the bill giving effect to the laws of the United Stales within.the state of Vermont, was agieed to. Mr. Bourne, reported a bill, to repeal so much of the impost law, as rates the Danish rin-dollar at 100 cents. Read a firft time. The report of the committee, to whom was referred the report ef the Secretary of the Treasury on the fubjeft of the exports of the United States, was twice read, the house, having agreed to the fame, ordered that 300 cooies of the committee's report,|toinclud; that of the Secretary of the Treasury be primed. Mr. Floyd from the joint committee on enrolled bills, reported lhat the committee had this day presented to the President, for his approbation, the enrolltd billj regulating the number ot Repre fentarives to be chosen bv the Hates of Kentucky and Vermont ; also that they bad examined, and found to be duly enrolled, the Tefolution of both houses requiftingthe President to communi cate to the National Aflembly of France, the sense which Congress entertain of the honor paid by that body to the memory ot Dr. Franklin. Mr. Williamfou reported a bill making compensations to the ©omm-frionei s of loans, for their extra expcnces and fervices,which after a firft and second leading, was referred to a committee of the "whole house to-morrow. On motion of Mr. l.awrance, resolved, that the Secretary of (•he Treasury be dire&ed to report, whether any, and what, addi tions are to be made to his return ot the export* of the United I States. I The bill, fixing the time for the next annual meeting J«f Congress, was read a third time and pasTed ; the blank, being I felled up with " theJourth Monday in Oftobcr next." In committee of the whole, on the bill supplementary to the I eft, cltablifhing the Trcafurv Department ; the committee made some amendments.which being agreed to by the houfe,the bill wz« ordered to be enfeoffed, for a third reading. I On motion of Mr. Sedgwick, the memorial of Thomas M'Kean I and others, public creditors, was taken up for a second reading ; I and after fomc debate, the following resolution, moved by Mr. j Sedgwick, was agreed to—s3 to 2. That it would be inexpedient to ;..ter the system For) funding the public debt, cftabiiihed the la(l feUioa of Congreis ; nd that the prayer of the petition ot Thomas M'Kean, and others, ftyling-themfelvcs a rommittee of the public creditors of the com monwealth of Pennsylvania, and also of other petitions on that ft, cannot be granted. , tlHf The Yeas and Nays beiKg called/or, were as follow : \ vtf/s. MefTrs Ames, Afhe, Boudmot.Bourne,Brown, Burke, Cadwalladcr, ClymcVContee, Fitzfimons, Floyd, Foster. Gale, Oilman, Goodhue, Grout, Giles.Jackson, Hunting ton, Lawrance, Lee, Livermore, Madison, Mathews. Moore, Muhlenberg, Parice/, Partridge, Van Schure man, Srdgwick, Sylvester, Sinnickfon, Smith (M Smith (S. C.) Vs.'Sutnolcr, Thatcher, Trumbull. Tucker, Vining, wKite, Wynkdop. Willi am foil* / [ NAYS. Messrs Scotr. The house again resolved itfelfinto a committee of the oiuhe bill toel\ablith the pott-office and post-roads within the United States : The committee debated the fubjeft, and rose without any decision. A meflagefrom the Senate was delivered by Mr. Secretary Otis, informing that the Senate had passed the b 11, Tent to them, by the House of Reprefentat ves, entitled, " An ast to explain and amend an ast, entitled, an ast, making *ur her provision for the public debt." IN SENATE, Feb. 24, 179 1 - The bill, entitled, " an ast, supplementary to the ast, entitled an ast, to incorporate the fubJcribers totheßmk of the United States,'* was read the -second time—and on the question, (Kail this bill pass to the third rcadivg, the Yeas and Nays were as follow : MefTrs BafTet, Butler, Dalton, Dickinfon, -EUlworth. Elmer, Few, Hawkins, Henry, Johnson, Johnfton. Izard, King, Langdon. Lee, Maclay, Morns, Read, Schuvler, Stanton, Strong, Wingate. NAYS. Messrs Carrol, Gunn, Monroe. F R I'D A Y, Feb. 25. HOUSE of RE.PRESENT AT IVES. The engroflcd bill, supplemental to the ast lor cflablifhing th< Trcafury Department, was read the third time; the blank fillcc up, and the bill paffi-d. The petition of Jacob Ilaacs, dating that he had discovered a sure, cheap, and simple method of procuring frefh from fait wa ter, and praying the patronage of Congress : Read, and referred to the Secretary of Slate. ■< An abftraft of sundry petitions laying on the table, was read J and the petitions referred to the heads of departments. 1 A memoriat-of the agent to the owner of two French Packets! prayinf an exemption trom the duty of tonnage on those Packets! incurr d in the month of January lall, for reasons therein ftatcd,| was read, and referred to the Secretary of the Trealury. Sundry reports were read ; one from the Secretary of State on the petition ot Ferdinand We Ufa' . Laid on the table.. J A report (rom the Secretary of the Treafui y, concerning certaitj certificates, iffiied in some of the States, lubfequent to the firft ol January 1790, which was in favor of funding those certificates,] under certain regulations, was read and laid on'he table. Another report from the fame officer was read, refpefting the loan obthree millions of florins, made in Holland, stating the terms on winch that loan has been effected ; Ihe repoit propo ■aofed an explanation of a clause in the ast, making provision for ty leduftion of the public debt : And was referred to a feleft committee, to report a bill or bills pursuant thereto. A report was alio received from the Secretary of the Trealury. on the petition of MelTrs C. and J. Sands and Co. R.ad ar.cl re ferred t.. df. wa tonliilSxg Motn Sedgwick, WU liamfon and Benfon. A message from the Senale by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed the house that the President of the United States has given his al fent to the ast for incorporating the fubfcribcrs to the Bank of the United States, also to the ast regulating the number of Represent atives for the States ot Kentucky and Vermont. Mr. Boudinot, of the committee of conference on the fubjeft o( difagretment between the houlc and senate, refpefting the 61ft feftion of the Revenue-Bill, brought in a special report, which had been agreed to by one of the committee of the house, and by all the members of the committee on the part of the senate. This report w s fupcrceded by a vote to consider the original fubjeft of difagreemerr. I Mr. Jackson moved that the house ffiould adhere to their difa grecment: This being seconded, a question of order rose. The Speaker gave it as his opinion, that ihe question to be in order! should be, whether the house would recede from thei; disagree ment ? An appeal was made from the chair to the house—and the! question being taken, the house dccided in favor of the Speakcr'sl opinion. The motion was then made to recede, in order to agree to the amendment proposed by the special report—-which was, to limit the whole sum to be received by the officers to 45.000 dollars. \ A debate ensued—The question was finally determined by and noesfi%|srfr2*wv. : \AYES. Meftrs. Ames, Benfon, Boudinot, Bourne, Cadwallader, Clv mer, Fitzfimons, Foftcr, Gale, Gerry, Goodhtie, Hait ley, Huntington, Lawrance, Leonard, Partridge, Schureman, Scot, Sedgwick, Sevier, Sherman, S nuickfon, Smith, (S. C.) Sturges, Thatcher, Trumbull, Vining, Wadfworth, Wynkoop.-te. Cnoes. Messrs. Affie, Baldwin, B.oodworth, Brown, Burke, Carrol, Contee, Floyd, Griffin, Grout, Giles, JatJt.fon'Lee, Livermorc, Madison, Matthews, Moore, Muhlenberg, Parker, Ranfellaer, Seney, Sylvester, .Smith, (M.J Steele,' Stone, Sumpter, Tucker, White, Williamfon.—(29. ' The bill repealing so much ofthecolleflion law as rates tbe Rix Dollar of Denmark at ioo' cents y/»s read the second time, and ordered to be cngrofTed. - The committee on the report of the Secretary of the Trealury— brought in a bill supplemental to the ast providing lor the re duction of the public debt—which was read the firft and second :ime, and relerred to the committee of the whole on Monday nexf. On motion of Mr. Smith (5. Q.) tbf committee of the wholel house was discharged from any iurther consideration of the poft olfice bill. Adjourned. Philadelphia,, Feb. 26. Some persons have supposed that the Bank Bill has been so long m dubio, on account of difficulties refpc&'.ng iis constitutionality. Whether this was the cafe or not, u is immaterial to enquire. One idea is however obtruded on the mind by tbe c ircumftance, which is truly drfw-native of that judgment and prudence which mark the conduit <-f our Chief Magistrate on all occasion that is, that so much attention at leali was due to the fentiment# of a re- fpc liable minority who supposed the bill to be unconstitutional, as to give the fubjeft as full a confederation as the time limitted by the constitution would allow. / All the votes taken at the cle&ion for repTefentatives to Con gress in the state ot New-Jersey have been received, by which it appears that Abraham Jonathan Dayton % Eiias Boudinot aod Aaron KitchcH, Efqts. arc duly ele&ed. The number of white inhabitants within the ftatc ofSouth-Caroli na, as reported to the Jcgiflaturc, is 126,131. 763 Adjourned. YEAS. Philadelphia, February 44th, 1791' PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A COLLECTION of STATE PAPERS INTENDED /> S MATERIALS FOR AN HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M. Pr this e.olleftion will be contained the Charters of the feveialftatcs -which now compose the Union ; —the Records of the United Colonies of New-England ;—Royal Inflec tions to Colonial Governors ; —Extracts from Public Records ; —and other aut'.cntic Documents tending to elucidate our History. The design of this compilation was intimated to' Congress, and. honored with their approbation.— On the 20th July, 1778, their Committee, to whom his memorial was referred, reported it as their " Opinion, that Mr. Hazard's undertaking is laudable and deserves the public patronage and encouragement, as being pro ductive of public utility;" Whereupon they " Resolved, That it be recommended to the Governors, Presidents, and Executive Powers of the several ftatcs in the union, to ailift Mr. Hazard,and give facility to his labors ; and that for this purpose he be admit ted to an infpeftion of public records, and be furniftied without expence with copies of such papers as he may judge will conduce to the valuable end he hath in view. He was, of consequence, admitted to the infpe&ion and ufc both of public records, and the colle&ions made by individuals, from whence this compilation (much the largest he has ever met with on the fubjeft, and,.he flatters himfelf, the largest ever made in America) was formed. It has since met the approbation of many eminent chara6ters,and even in its manuscript state, has facilitated the fettleroent of some important controversies. The compiler cannot suppress the following letter from the honor able the Secretary of State, to whose infpeftion part of the com pilation was submitted, as it contains foflattering refpetta- I ble a tcftimony in favor of the importance of the work. " Philadelphia, February 18, 1791. 1 SIR, [ I return you the two volumes of Records, with thanks for the opportu-] rtity of looking into them :—they are curions Monuments of the Infancy \ of our country. I learn with great [alisfa&ion that you are about com mitting to the Press the valuable Hifterical and State Papers you have been so long collecting. Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices : the late war has done the work oj centuries in this business : the loft cannot be recovered; but let ui save what remains ; not by vaults and locks, which fence them from, the public eye and use in consigning them to the wajle of time, but by fuck • « multiplication of copies as [hall place them beyond the reach of accident; this being the tendency of your undertaking, beajfured there is no one who wifhcs itmore complete success than S I R., Your mofl obedient and mofl humble Servant, •' THOMAS JEFFERSON," Mr. Hazard, CONDITIONS I. The Work to be pi:bli(hed in numbers, each containing 160 pages, large quarto :—A number to be delivered every three months. 11. 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Martin ; Wil_ mington, John Bradley ; Charleston, (S. C.) William P.Young. A Negro Man eloped. RAN away from his owner about the 25th Jan. last, CAESAR, a negro man, country born, noted as a preacher among the blacks, 30 years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high—thick, well set ; had on a brown cloth coat, light cloth jacket, leather breeches, and coarse wilton (lockings.—He also had a tow linen frock with him ; and wore a small round hat* He is supposed to be gone to Vuginia, as his father lives on Dr. Vandcveer's plantation, in that State. Whoever will fake up said negro, and secure him in the gaol of Philadelphia, or of Trenton, and give notice thereof to the fubferiber living in Ncw-Jerfey, (hall reccive Twelve Dollars reward, and all neceflary charges. HUGH ROWAN. PUBLIC NOTICE. Somerjet Countv, (T. BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias tome dire&ed, again ft the goods and chattels, lands and tenements ot Christopher HeikmXn, I have levied on, and seized that valuable house and lot of land, situate on the north fide of the Main Street, in Prince ton, now in polTeflion of Adam Shaw, and known by sign of the College ; it is an excellent Hand for a public house, and has been occupicd in that way for many years. All the above mentioned premises will be exposed to sale, on Thursday the tenth day of March next, between the hours of twelve and five in the afternoon of said day, ot which all persons concerned will please take no tice. WILLIAM WALLACE, ShcriJ. W'ejlcrn Prccintt, \%th February, 1791 PRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Centi 17/3 pr- i 3 pr. Cents 9/ " 9/2 Defered 6 pr. Ccnti g/i. 86J pr. cent. 46 do. 46 da. Final Sett!, and otlier Certificates 15/9 16/ 80 do. Indents qj 9ft do. X. and S. Carolina debts, nji »'i *•■ r 62 J 4.
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