A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA [No. 106, of Vol. 111-j SECOND CONGRESS OF the UNITED STATES, AT THE FIRST SESSION, Begun and held at the city ol Philadtlphia, in the State of Penn ° fylvanta, Monday ihe tweniy-fouuh of Oitober, one thoofand seven hundred and ninety-one. AN ACT to compensate the Corporation of Trus tees of the Public Grammar-School and Aca demy of Wilmington in the State of Delaware, for the occupation of, and damages done to the said School, during the late war. T)E it eaadted by the Senate and House of Representatives Jj of the United States of America in Congi ess aflembled,_ Tnat as an indemnification to the corporation of Trullees ot the public grammar-school and academy of Wilmington in the State of Delaware, for the use and occupation of the said school, and the damages done to the fame by the troops of the United States, during the late war, there be granted to the said cor poration of Trustees, a reasonable compensation, payableout of any unappropriated money in the Treafurv of the United States, which compensation fliall be ascertained by the account ing officers of the Treafurv. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House as Representatives. ?OHN ADAMS, Vice-Prejident of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED APRIL THE THIRTEENTH, 1792. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. AN ACT for apportioning Representatives a inong the several States, according to the fir It enumeration. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress afTembled, That from and after the third day of March one thousand (even hundred and ninety-three, the House of Representatives jfiall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio ot one member for every thirty-three thoufaml persons 111 each State, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Con stitution ; that is to fay : Within the State of New-Hamplhire, four : within the State of MafTachufetts, fourteen ; within the State of Vermont, two ; within the State of Rliode-Ifland, two ; within the State of Connecticut, seven; within tne State of New-York, ten ; within the State of New-Jerley, five; within the State of Pennsylvania, thirteen ; within the State of Delaware, one ; within the State of Maryland, eight; with in tie State of Virginia, nineteen ; within the State ot Ken tucky, two ; within the State of North-Carolina, ten ; with in the State of South-Carolina, fix; anil within the State ol Georgia, two members. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the Houf' oj Rcp r efcntativiS. ]OHN ADAMS. Vice-President oj the United Staffs, and President oj the Senate. API-ROVED APRIL THE FOURTEENTH, GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the L rated States. AN ACT authorizing the grant and conveyance ot certain Lands to the Ohio Company ot Alio- ciates. BE it enacted by tie Senate and Hr-ufe of Representatives of the United States of America in Congrefsi afiembled. That a certain contract expreiled in an incfentuie execute >n tlie twenty-seventh day of October, in the year one tiou fand (even hundred and eighty-seven, between the then oaic oftrea'iir for the United States of America, of the one part, and Manaflfeh Cutler, and Winthrop Sargent, as agents tor the directors of the Ohio Company of AlTociate's, of the other part, so far as the fame respeCts the following described tia o land ; that is to fay : Beginning at a station where the we tern boundary line of the seventh range of townihips, lai ou by the authority of the United States in Congress allembled, interle&s the river Ohio; thence extending along that river south-westerly to a where the western boundary line the fifteenth range of townihips, when laid out agreeably to tie land ordinance, palfed the twentieth day of May, one t cu fand seven hundred and eighty-five, would touch the fai 11- f ver ; thence running northerly on the said western bound.> o the i'aid fifteenth range of townihips, 'till a line drawn ue cast to the western boundary line of the said seventh range o townihips, will comprehend, with the other lines of this tra t, seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, beiides the ie veral lots and parcels of land in the said contract reserved or appropriated to particular purposes ; thence running ealt to the western boundary line of the said seventh range of town ihips, and thence along the said line to the place of beginning, be and the fame is hereby confirmed : And that the President ef the United States be and he hereby'is authorized and em powered to ilfue letter? patent in the name and un,der the leal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to Ru fm Putuam, Manaifeh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griflin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee limplc, the faidt e scribed tract of land, with the reservations in the said inden ture exprelled, in trust for the persons composing the said Oluo company of alfociatei, according to their several rights and in ttereflh, and for their heirs and as tenants in common. And be it further enacted, That the President be and he hereby is farther authorized and by letters patent Wednesday, May 2, 1792. ;<f irefaiil, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam, Manafleh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and afligns, in trust, for the uses above expressed, one other tract of two hundred and fourteen thousand, two .hundred and eighty-five acres of land. Provided, That the (aid Rufus Putnam, Manalfeh Cutler, Robert Oliver and Grif fin Green, or either of them, (hall deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury within fix months, warrant's which issued for ar my bounty-rights lufficient for that purpose, according to the provision of a resolve of Congress of the twenty-third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he hereby is further authorized and empowered by letters-patent as aferefaid, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam, ManaiTeh Cutler, Robert Oliver and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and afligns, in fee simple, in trust for the uses a bove expressed, a farther quantity of one hundred thousand acres of land. Provided always nevertheless, That the said grant ofone hundred thousand acres fhallbe made on the expre's condition of becoming void, for such part thereof, as the said company shall not have, within five years from the pafling of this ast, conveyed in fee simple, as a bounty and tree ot ex pense, in r.raots of one hundred acres, to each male person, not less than eighteen years of age, being an actual settler at the time of such conveyance. And be it further drafted, Tliat the said quantities o, two hundred and fourteen thouland, two hundred and eighty-five acres, and of one hundred thousand acres, (hall be located with in the limits of the tract ofone million, five hundred thousand acres of land, described in the indenture aforefaid, andl. ad joining to the tract of land described in the firft feftion of this ast, and in such form as the President in the letters-patent, ihall prescribe for that purpose. JONATHAN TRUMBULI., Speaker of the House of Ripr/fcJitat'ves. IOHN ADAMS, Vizc-r reft dent of the United States, and President oj the Senate. APPROVED, APRIL THE TWE N T Y-F IKS I , 1792. CLORGK WASHINGTON, President oj the United States. PARIS, January 15. Of the plot for the assassination of the King, all the authentic intelligence we art yet in pos session of, amounts to this "At a secret fitting of the Jacobine club in the Rue Saint Honore, Monf. Carva, a great leader of that ami the conductor of a republican or rather regicide oaper, formally proposed* to the meeting to de throne and set aside the whole family of the Bourbons, and to fettle the crown upon the Duke of York—this, said Monf. Carva, is abfolntely ne cefl'ary for us if we are determined to be free ; with a new dynaily we may stipulate for the principles which unite us, and the firft public functionary mult defend them with force and with sincerity if he will defend the throne which is reared upon their base. These are the only means to regenerate the face of the empire, eve ry other measure is contrary to theTyftetn of li berty ; which governs all our politics." L O N DON, February 24. It is hoped that the failure of one of our firfi houses in the city for near Boo,oocl. will flop the career of speculation iti articles necefl'ary tor the lupport of foine of our principal manufactures, whereby the community at large have been great ly injured : as the bulk ofthefe monopolies will now be thrown in the market, the prices will na turally decline, and it is to be wilhed by every friend to the commercial and manufacturing m terells of this country, that the dangerous spirit of enormous speculations and monopolies may lubfide. A Minister who will come forward, as Mr. Pitt did, and Hate, that in conl'equence of the revenue exceediug the expenditure he was ena bled to repeal certain taxes which affected the r,oor, speaks a piain unfophilticated language, which is easily understood, and easily felt. Sunday died Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Rear Admiral of the White, Commander in Chief of Plymouth, and member for Rochester. Trial bv Jury is now eftablilhed in Pans, and will be so in the reft of the kingdom, as fact as the necelfcry arrangements can be made. The Emperor has iifued a most nngular order with refpedi to the press. All papers which, like the Court Gazettes, give a mere hiftoncal narra tive of the events iq, France, are allowed. Poli tical and legal disquisitions on the fubjeca of the French Revolution are also permitted, provided they consist oj three volumes, and ke not written m the ■vulpar tongue. Ponder ye manufacturers of folios and quartos, on the important truth that the number of your volumes is held to be the belt se curity against their beingread. In the Statistical account of a parifli in Shet land, there lives one John Williamfon, who from his variety of talents goes by the name of 7ohnny Notions, he being ft tailor, a joiner, a clock and watch mender, a blacksmith ana physician. 421 [Whole No. 314.] His success in inoculation is most remarkable — formerly the fmal)-pox carried off a fifth part ot the inhabitants ; now hardly any fuffer by the disorder. Unafiifted by education, mid unfet tered by the rules of art, he has inoculated manv ihoufands, without losing a single patient. In place of procuring frefh matter, as is the com mon practice, he keeps it for years dried in , spoke, and put under ground, which from expe rience he finds leflens its virulence, and renders it milder to the patient. He uses 110 lancet, but gently raises the Ikin with a knife of his own making, so that no blood follows. A bit of cab bage leaf is nfed as a plaster to heal the wound. : There is no instance of it ever miTgiving, nor is there any previous preparation used. The Weft-India merchants have voted a pre sent of jool. to Captain Bligh, of his Mnjefty's navy, as a compliment for services 1 endered while 06 the Weft-India station. They have also voted a present of a handsome sword, value 2001. to Captain Samuel Hood, of the navy, for favirfg, at the hazard of his own life, while on the Weft-India liation, the lives of three seamen, who were floating at the mercy of the waves, on a raft of timber. The captain himlelf left his (hip in a very high sea attended only by his Coxswain, after an ineffectual remon strance with the whole crew (none of whom dar ed venture) and with the greatest danger and difficulty picked the poor fellows up, and brought thetn on board. SWEDISH DIET, Geste, Jan. 31. On the 27th inft. the Diet of the kingdom was opened by his Majelty in per foil. The lour or ders were united in the grand Hall.—By the speech which his Majesty pronounced, he traced, in the rapid and flowery style so peculiarly his own, the weak and diftraiTted (late in which he found the kingdom on his comingtothe throne; the prompt and complete success with which'he regenerated it ; the happinefswhich the Swedes enj >yed under his reign for many years ; the in quietude, thedivifions, the spirit of party, which at length troubled its welfare ; the meafiifes that he took to repair the evil ; the glorious end of the foreign war, connected with tliefe domestic troubles ; the diftrefling lituatioti of the financ es, which was the refulc of all this ; and, in fine, for here came forth the objedt, the neceflity that: there was for rettoring them, and for maintain ing the credit of the (tate. This was, in truth, the motive and end of the convocation ; whether it will precisely conclude as he wilhed, time mult determine. Already foine indications of hoflility to the King have appeared. In spite of the injun<ftion to all the civil and military officers, the firTt or der did not fail to be very numerous. There were 118 members of the firfl order, no of the I'econd, 187 of the third, or of plain gentlemen. There were warm debates on the choice of a Secretary of* the Diet ; the plurality was in fa vor of the Sieur de Sogerftrom. The Sieur Wal lin, a Burgo-mafler of Stockholm, was elecled orator or president of the order of bourgeois. But the point on which they have manifelted a spirit of opposition, is in eflablifhing a revision of accounts, which was not done according to the recommendation of the monarch. His ma jelly wrote in a rone very energetic on the fub jetft, but they were equally firm, and would not accept of the plan offered for this important ob- I jets. PHILADELPHIA. Many individuals in every part of the Unitect States, are interested in the following—being a fe<Ttion of an adt of the Legislature of Virginia, palled the 27th of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, intitled, " An ast to amend the a<ft, intitled, An a<ft to remedy abuses in the manner of felling lands for the payment of pub- lie taxes." And be it further evaded. That in cafe the tax on any trart of land within this Commonwealth dial) not be paid for the space of three years, the right to such lands ftiall be loit, forfeited and veiled in the Commonwealth, and it Ihall be law ful for any person to acquire a title to any land so forfeited, in the manner prescribed for ac quiring titles to wade a«d unappropriated land* within this Commonwealth, on the Eallern wa ters. by an art, intitled " An adl to dispose of the waste and unappropriated lands in the Com monwealth of Virginia, on the Eallern waters."
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