&az((Uofi6M A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA [No. 104, of Vol. lII.] Wednesday, April 25, 1792. SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE FIRST SESSION, and held at the city of Philadelphia; in the State of Penn ° fylvama, Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thouCand seven bundled and ninety-one. AN ACT supplementary to the Ael for tlie Efta blifhmenc and support of Light-Houses, Bea cons, Buovs, and Public Piers. Section j.TJE it ena&ed by the Senate and Honfe of Re -13 prefentatives of the United States of America in Congress a fembled, That all expences which ftiall accrue from the £rft day of July next, incluftvely, for the necelFarv fupoort, maintenance, and repairs of all light-houses, beacon's, buoys, the llakcage of channel, on the sea coast, r.nd public piers, (hall continue to be defrayed by the United State*, un til the firi day of July, in the year one thousand feveo hun dred and ninety-three, notwithstanding such light-houses, bea con"., or public piers, with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging, and the jurisdiction of the fame, ihall not in the mem time be ceded to, or veiled in the United State;, by the St ite or States respectively, in which the feme may be, and tut the said time be farther allowed, to the States refpedive jy to make such ceilion. Sec. 2. And be it further ena&ed, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to cause to be provided, erected, and placed, a floating beacon, and as many buoys, as may be necc Idtv for the fecuritv of navigation, at, and near the en trance of the harbor of Charleston, in the State of South-Ca rolini. And alio to have affixed three floating beacon; in the bav of Chefapeak ; one at the north end of Willoughby's Spit, another at the tail of the Horse-Shoe ; and the third on the ftoale:* place of the middle ground. •JONATHAN TF.UMBULL, Speaker ejthe Ilonfe oj Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Pref.devt of the United States, end Picjident of the Senate. AFP*OV£O APR I L THE TWELFTH, 3792- GEORGE WASHI NfGTON, Prejxicvt of the Ihitcd States. AN ACT to erc& a Light-House on Montock Point in the State of New-York. SK iteaatted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress alfembled, That as soon as the juril*di<stion of such land on Montock point in t ie State of New- York as the Prefidentof the United States fakfU deem fufficient and moil proper for the convenience and accommodation of a light-house shall have been ceded to the United State >, it lhall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to provide by contrail w'.ijch ftiiili be approved by tie President of the United State?, for builu'ng a light house thereon, and for furnifhing the fame with ail necelfary sup plies, and to agree far the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the President for the fh perkKendance aad care of the fame ; a id the President is here by authorized to make the said appointments. That the num ber and disposition of the lights in the (aid light houle lhall be facH as may tend to dlfringuifli it from others, and as far as is practicable, prevent miifcakes. JONATHAN TRUMBT'U,, Speahr of the Houje of Reprcjentativei. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-FrefJmt ofthe United States, and Prcfi-dektvJ the Senate. APPROVED, MAR C? H THF. TWEIfIH, 1"Q AN ACT for afcertainihg the Bounds of a Traift of Land purchased by John Cleves Symmes. T> E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives -L) of the United States of America in Congress ailembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized at the request of John Cleves Symmes or his agent or agents, to alter the contract made between the late board «f treasury and the foid John Cleves Symmes for tfre sale of a traffc of land of one million of acres, in such manner that the said tract may extend from the mouth of the Great Miami, to the mouth of the little Miami, and be bounded by tlie river Ohio, on the south, by the Great Miami on the weft, by the Little Miami on the east, and by a parallel of latitude on th north extending from the Great Miami to the Little Miami, lb as to comprehend the proposed quantity of one million cf acres, provided that the northern limits of the said tract lhall not interfere with the boundary line eftablilheu by the treaty of Fort Harmar, between the United States, and the lad-.an nations, and provided also that the President reserve to the United State-?, such lands at and near Fort Waffling ton as he may think necelfary for the accommodation cf a garrison a* that Fort. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Sbraket ojthe Hou/eoJ Representatives. JOHN ADAMS. Vice-President of tke United States, and I refiient oj the Senate. APFRCVED A?R I L THF TWELFTH. 179' <,F.ORGi WASUIN'GTON, Prtjidcnt cj the'Jntted States. GEORGE WASHINGTON, prcjtdcnt of thr tfr.itcd Stales. AN ACT for fixing the compensation of the Doorkeepers of the Senate and House of Re presentatives in Congress. BS it enacted by the Senate and House 6f Reorefentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the termination of the present session of Congress, the door-keepers of the Senate and House of Repre sentatives, shall each be allowed a salary of five hundred dol lars per annum, in full compenlation for their services in the laid offices; and that the afliftant door-keeper to each House fhaß be allowed in fuil conipeufation for all his fervrce?, the sum of f)ur hundred and fifty dollars per annum. And it shall be the di*ty of the raid door-keepers to do the usual services pertaining to their refpeftive offices during the fefljon of Con gress, and in the recess, under tlie direction of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, to take care of the apartments occupied by the refpe&ive Hau te", and provide fuel and other accommodations f>r their sub sequent session. And the said compensations shall tie certified and paid in like manner as is provided by law, far the other officers of the Senate and House $f Representatives. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Spethr oj the House oj ReprefirJativts, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-PreJiderJ of the United States, and PrtMent rf the Senate. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefilent of the United States. FROM Till QUEBEC HERALD. AGRICULTURE TO THE EDITOR. S I R, IF the tiling] that occur in the praSice of husbandry calruHtrd to ttitow light upon any particular branch of that bulinels, y/cre in general made public, it would doubtlrfs be ol great uti lity ; in that way farmers may mutually aid and alBIl each other; and miy, not only find their lahor in many refpeds maj- easier but learn bow to apply it 10 much better purpolc ; if the foilow- Hige*j»e»im«W«»ndobfervatioiis (hould be thought to be calcu lated to promote that valuable purpose, or, any part of them, they 'are at your service. Considering the great qoantittesof potatoes that are raised in the province, * appeared 10 me of considerable cOßteqoeuce to have it determined, whether for feed or culture Large potatoes, or small—whole potatoes, or cuttings—the whole potatoes cut up, or the eyes only cut out—large cuttings, or small—early planting, or late—few hoeings, or many—were best? —To try to cast {owe ligtot ispon these queries, the follow rag ex perimenls have been made in the course of the two tail fcafons. Ii may here be observed with refpeft to all the following experi ments, that land was chosen as near alike as could conveuieutly be ; and dunged alike by measure : For the (juery, the potatoes taken for teed, weighed, Th« firfl fee, si «z. each. The second J oz The third 3 to an 07. The fiift and second fizc were cut into near as m:ny pieces as there were eyes; the third were planted whole and the fame experi ment was repeated the lad year m two different places, and again this year, extept that the second fire was tried [Ms year only. The «verage of aJI the fcveral trials together, is as follows : Firfl size, H7lbs. S cond do. 110 *0 oz. Third do. 106 8 ditto The third fiw, being three potatoes to an ounce were, doubtless as small or smaller than people in genera! take pains to gather, and though not equal to either of the forgoing, yet ii appears by the above experiments, rhat they will do to plant when larger cannot be had. . For the second query, trials were made in two places, and wub two kinds of potatoes in each, viz. potatoes weighing ounces, ar.d others 3to an ounce. The largcft size had generally four teen or fifteen eyes in each poratoc, which when cut up is enough for two hills, and in (hat way I planted them ; wher« the large whole potatoes were planted I put one in each bill; where the cutting were planted, I made one of these large potatoes serve for two hills, saving halt the feed ; and hills where the cuttings were, had about the fame number of (talks as the other : Thrs mav 'seem strange but I have lound it to be true in other inttances; when potatoes are cut into as many picces as there arc eyes, every eye will commonly vegetate, and I have known fume of them put out more than one stalk. On the other hand, when a potatoeis planted whole, frequently not more than one half of the eyes ve- grtatc. " The average weight of an equal number of hills each, was as foilous : Whole potatoes, 82lbs. 13 oz. Hatt rhe fame number cut up, 85 do. g do. Those that were three to an ounce, were put three whole ones in a hill and half the fame quantity of those that were cut; they yielded The whole potatoes, 75 lt>s - 17 oz - The cut. ditto, 63 do. 12 do. The last part of this experiment (hews, that potatoes so small as 3 to an ounce, are hurt much by cutting ; but the produce of the (mall ones, that were planted whole, in this experiment, was in nearly the fame proportion with the produce of the latge ones in it; is that of the small ones to the large ones in the foregoing exoeriment, and serves, together with that, to (hew thit tHe rela. live value o? such small potatoes, a. three to an ounce -when com oated with those that weigh 3A ounces each, is nearly as 10 to 11 ; and thia difference will be considerably diminilhed, wtien it is confidercd, that it does not take moie than halt so many bufheis of the small ones to feed an acre as it does of latge ones ;a! that they are but of little value, compared vinth the others, (or any other purpose than thai of feed. (This is to be continued as it come 1 to hand J FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. FENKO, READING the newspapers, I perceive that our public offi cers are called knaves arid enemies of liberty. The mea sures of government are represented not only in the papers by paragraph writers, but by the (beech-makers in as the worll that any country ever fuffered to be execute J.— 413 cPMt&o Whole No. 51 2.] Now, I agreed to this rcvr con ft i tut ion. T have often felt pleasure ii> feeing; a new face on things since it was adopted— and my neighbours, who were rather a* iirft thought inclined to be antis, acknowledge that the success of the government has been greater than they expected, and infteail of heavy di re<st taxes, they fay that the farmers are peculiarly intereiied in Aipoorting the government, as it has not ailVlled them to pay the intereit money to the creditors—on the contrary, the taxos encourage the sale of our produce; But they tell us that the beads of the ./departments are very bad men. If so, they were bad men before they were aopoint ed—arid how came the President to trufl such bad iiieu with power. But the man who has in every a&ion of hi" life mani fefted his love of his country, is not to be supposed to have made choice of very bad men in this internee. Judging of them bv their appointer, and by their works, I fay, as an in dividual, I place my confidence in the government and the heads of its departments.—By their fruits ye shall know them. If they go on as they have begun, every true-hearted Ameri can will fay, and in his prayers too, " go on and prosper." FOR THE GAZFTTt Of THE UfiiTF.l) STATES. ON THE NATIONAL MONUMENT, Dt frgnrd to perpetuate American Liberty—which it has been proposed to employ Mr. CERACCHI, the celebrated Roman Sculptor, to execute. AS works of this kind depend for their appro bation on sentiment, there is no use in rea soning about thent. An attempt to vindicate this public work, will be unfuccefsful, unlels more is felt than can be said. The gratitude of a nati on, the fame of its hero, the sympathy that is indulged by the free when they join to comme morate the event that has made them so, and when they give to posterity an admonition in marble, to prelerve inviolate in every future age, the precious inheritance which the prefe:u lias obtained for tliem—thefe are emotions which cannot, by reasoning, be either fubdutd or awak ened. The precedent of such expence is feared. But what does it commemorate —the birth of our nation, which cannot happen again. What other event can have equal pretenllons ? — or, if one equally impoitant fliould occur, who could deny that its nature would make a precedent ? The proper reward of virtue is gratitude. The afFetflionare admiration of a whole people, is the only adequate return for the signal merit: of the man in whom it is concentered. Tafle and genius will chiflel this sentiment in the rock, and make it indelible. Will not these means of Augmenting the recompence of virtue contribute, iu the molt powerful manner, and in all future times, to excite it ? And if this work should flimulate the emulation of future heroes and patriots, what could more fuccelsfully promote the cause of liberty—of our country—-of man kind ! Even to the fordid foul that cnu prefer gold to virtue, it will seem to be good economy to bear the expence of a work which will tend to raise up another WASHINGTON. And let him who doubts this tendency read the hidory of aniient Greece—What a fuccellion of patriots and heroes served, and for centuries laved that illustrious people ! The mind, weary and de jected with the recital of human vice and misery, is cheered by this contemplation. If modern Greece that rears no monuments, and yet is not left iinpoveriflied than debased— which is the burial ground rather of the living than the dead, for the living sleep in lilence and darkness and oblivion, unconscious of their an celtry ; while those whose graves they tread on, by their glory still live and fill and govern the earth—if Greece could rekindle a single spark of the genius of her progenitors, is there one of the nation so degenerate, whose foul has been so much the victim of Turkilh brotality, that he would not prize his country's honors beyond any other inheritance ? These are reasons to shew the tendency to in cite and to reward pre-eminent virtue. Butfome care ftiould be taken to secure what it has ob tained. Such a monument ofliberty will make it sacred. The law of the Ten Tables was ou brass, and rufl has corroded them—Let the De calogue ofliberty be engraved on the unperifh abie marble. ESTO PERPETUA. Certificate Loft. TT7 AS Loft, on the 17th iuft. a CERTIFICATE, Numbered VV 59>49Qi granted to Lev/is Nichola, lor the fuui of 307 24 90th Dollars, dated the ill of May, 1784, and signed by John Pi erce, Esq. matked with the i.tier /.—Whoever has found the fame, and will teturn it to Clement BiDDLE,Efq. Notary Public, at No. 62, in Front-street, south ol Market-ftreet y or to the Primer of this paper, frail be grneroufly rewarded. April 18, 1792 A FAKMSR.
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