CSwJf 0 0p A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA [No. 68 of Vol. IV.] FOR SALE, By the Suijcriter, at Wainut-&trect Wharf, BILL of EXCHANGE Madeira Wine, Tit for immediate uie, in pipes & quarter calks, TENF.RIFFE WINE, in pipes, SHERRY WINE, in quarter caflts, WEST-INDIA RUM, 2, 3 and 4 proof, OLD BRANDY, OLD SPIRIT, COPPERAS, BRIMSTONE, ALLUM, Two Bales 10-4 BLANKETS, and A Bale of MUSLINS. A new 13*4 Inch CABLE, 120 fathoms long. GEORGE MEADE. Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 1793. <P 2m TO be SOLD, or LE/4SED LOft SEVEN OR TEN YEARS, THE FOLLOWING HOUSES. ONE. dt Wjlnvi-iUefi'. near fpurth-ilreet, 23 feet from, has iwo parlours below, the liont one 21$ by 17J feel, the back parlour is 18 by 14 feet. The front room up flairs is 26J by 17J feet. There are five good chambers in this house, besides the garret is divided into •hiee rooms, in two oi thcin there arc fire places. The other House is 27 feet upon Walnut ftreet, and 52 feet upon fth street; there are two good parlours below, one of them 25 by 20 1-2 feet, the other 25 by >8 1-2 feet, and seven com plete bed-chambers; besides the garret is di vided into 4 »ooms, 3 of which rooms have fire places. The kitchens are good ones, and are under the hoofes ; the largcft house has also a house-keeper's room. It is intended there shall be a communication from both of these houses to a neighbouring ice-house, fufficiently large to fupp>y 3 hciufes, Within 50 yards of thele houses, there will be compleat stables and coach houses, for berth houles; they will he finifhed in the mod compleat manner, and the keys ready to be delivered early in the summer. On paying half the money down (if fold) the Qth r half may be paid bv inftalmenis. or the •whole may remain for 5 years, paying iritereft anil divine f<-r■""v m; t:ic pramifrt. - For terms of sale or lease, apply to the Sub scriber, GEORGE MEADE. Who has Jor SALE, Sundrv Ground Rents, In this city, amounting to twenty-si e pounds iixteen fhilliugsand fix-pence, per annum. Also, a quantir.v of BAGS, that will contain t wo and a half and three and a half bushels. Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 1792. ep*w City of Washington. January 7th, 1793. A NUMBER of Lots in this City will be of fered tor sale at au&ion, by the Commis sioners, on the 17th day of September next. — One fourth part of the purchase money is to be paid down, the rcfidueat three equal annual pay ments with yearly interest on the whole princi* pal unpaid. JOHN M. GANTT, Clerk to the Cem'rs'. Extract of an Ast of the General Aflemhly of Maryland, concerning the Territory of Co lumbia, and the City ot Washington. 14 Be it enabled, That any foreigner may by j deed or will, hereafter to be made. take and hold lands within that part 0} the )aid Territory which lies with in this State, in tht fame Manner as if Tie was a citi zen of this State ; and the fame lands may be con veyed by him % and transmitted to and be inherited by his heirs or relations, as if he and they were citizens of tht i State : Provided, That no foreigner flail, in virtue hereof be entitled to any further or other privilege of a citizen Jhii. 19. tf Soon mil be publijhed, the SYSTEM of i^Aovt-fflanch tlfed by Mr.Li.OY d, in taking down the Debates of Congress. A system' so easy, that any man, of ordinary capacity, may clearly comprehend it in half an hour, and soon praftife if, in ks iullcft extent, without any further inftru&ion, lhan what will be conveyed in a few pages,— the whole ART being comprised in eighteen Jimpte chai alters, without any of thole perplexing, arbitrary marks, with which the learners of other fyftema are obliged to burden their me mory, and embarrass their practice. Pncc, to Subscribers, One Dollar—to Non- Sub fcribers, a Dollar and half. Subfcnptionsreceived by Mcdis. Rice, Book sellers, Market-It reet, and by JOHN CAREY, No. 26, Pear-Street. Half a Dollar to be paid at the time ofJubjcribing. A large Cellar to Let, Sufficiently capacious to flore/everal hundred barrels. Eoquirc ot the faiKTti Wednesday, January 25, 1793- BY the Cotnmi(Boners appointed to prepwe the Public Buildings, &c; within the City of Washington, for the reception of Conflrefs' and for their permanent residence after the/year 1809— A LOTTERY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE Federal City. £0,000 Tickets at dollars, is 350,000 dollars. LIST OF PRIZES, viz l Supeib Hotel, wit h baths, £ out houses, &C.&C. to cost > l Cash Prize i ditto x ditto i ditto 5,d00 is 2 ditto 10 ditto so ditto 1,000 is 500 is joo ditto EOO ditto 400 ditto 1,000 ditto 15,000 ditto j 00 is 5° I s 25 is 20 is 10 is 16,737 Prize* 33,263 Blanks , 50,000 The sole design of this Lottery being to facili tate other improvements together with tbePublic Buildings—it is the particular desire of the Com miflioners that these may be effe&ed with as few deductions from the Prizes as jJoflible—how far their endeavors may be answered, the Scheme of the Lottery will demonstrate. The keys of the Hotel* when compleat, will be delivered to the fortunate poffeflor of the ticket drawn a againft its number. All the other prizes will be paid, -without deduflion, i n one month after the drawing, by the City Treafurcr at Waifhington, or at such Bank or Banks as may be hereafter announced. The drawing will commence on Mondav the 9th of Septcmbei next, at the .City of Wafhing t°n. . Tickets mav be had of Col. Wjn. Dickens, City Treasurer of Washington ; of MeflVs. James Wejl & Co. Baltimore ; of Mr. Peter Gilman, Boston ; and at such other places as will be hereafter published. X. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given for thebeft Plan of an elegant and con venient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out houses, if trefented On or before the 10th oj April next; and a pre ference will be given 10 the Artist for a Con trast, provided he be duly qualified to compleat his plan. The ground on which the Hotel and out houses are to be ere&ed, will be a corner lot of about 90 by 200 feet, with a back avenue to the stables, See. Settions and estimates of the expense will be expetted with the elevations, &c. compleat ; and 50,000 dollars must be regarded by the Architect as the utmost limit in the expense intended for this purpose. S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City. January 19. SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE SECOND SESSION, and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of* Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifth »f November, oijethoufand seven hundred and ninety-two. An ACT concerning the registering and recording of Ships or Veflels. Sec. i.T)E it enacted by the Senate and Honfe -D of Representatives of the United Stater, of America, in Congress afTembled, That (hips or veiTels, which (hall have been reentered by virtue of the ast, intituled, " An ast for registering and clearing veflels, regu lating the coasting trade, and for other pur pots," and tliofe which after the last day ofi March next, fliall be registered, pursuant to this ast, and no other (except such as (hall be duly qualified, according to law, for carrying or the coasting trade and filhery, or one of them) ftia'il be denominated or deemed (hips or veifels of the United States, entitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such (hips or vilT:lj : Provided, That they (hall not coniinue to enjoy the fame, longer tkan they (hall continue to be wholly owned, and to be commanded by a citizen or citizens of the said States. Soc. 2. And be it further enacted, That (hips or veiTels built within the United Stated, wliitber before or after the fourth of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and belonging wholly to a citizen or citizens 269 thereof, or ant built within the said dates, but <?n the 16th day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine be longing and thenceforth continuing to belong to a citizen or citizens thereof, and (hips or veflels, which may hereafter be captured in war, by such citizen or citizens, and lawfully condemned as prizes, or which have been or may be adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laiws of the United States, being whol ly owneij by a citizen or citizens thereof, and 110 othet, maybe registered as herein after di rected : Provided, That no such fliip or veflel (hall be entitled to be so registered, or if re gistered, to the benefits thereof, if owned in whole or in part, by any citizen of the United States, who usually refidcs in a foreign coun try, during the continuance of such residence, unless fucli citizen be in the capacity of a confut of the United States, or an agent for, and a partner in, some house of trade or co partnership, consisting of citizens of the said States actually carrying on trade within the said States : And provided further, That no (hip or Veflel, built within the United States, f 'V tp tba laid fifteenth d»y of May, which waj not then owned wholly, or in part, by a cititen or citizens of the United States, fliall be capable of being registered, by virtue of any transfer to a citizen or citizsns, which ma' hereafter be made, unless by way of priie or forfeiture : Provided nevertbelefs, Thit this (hall not be construed to prevent the registering anew, of any (hip or vessel, wheh was before registered, pur/uant to the I act before mentioned. 50,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 io,odo 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 20,000 J 50, CO© Dollars 350,000 Sec. 3. And be it further ena&ed, That every ship or vefTel, hereafter to be registered (except as is herein after provided) shall be regftered by the collector of the diltrift in whch (hall be comprehended the port to which such ship or veflel (hall belong, at the time of her registry, which port lhall be deem ed to be that, at or nearest to which, the owner, if there be but one, or If more than onf, the husband or a&iug managing owner offuch ship or veflel, usually resides. And the nJme of the said Ihip or veflel, and of the pit to which she lhall so belong, flia.ll be pintcd on her stern, on a black ground, in Mpitcletters, of not less than three inches in length. And if any ship or vefTel of the Uni ted States, shall be found, without haying her name, and the name of the port, to which she belongs, painted in manner aforefaid, the owner or owners shall forfeit fifty dollars ; one half to the person giving the information theredf; the other half to the use of the Uni ted States. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, Tiiat in order to the regiltry of any ship or veflel, an oath or affirmation lhall be taken and sub scribed by the owner, or by one of the owners thereof, before the officer authorized to make such registry, who is hereby empowered to adin'mifter the fame, declaring, according to the belt of the knowledge and belief of the person fd swearing or affirming, the name of such Ihip or veirel, her burthen, the place were (he was built, if Uuilt within the Uni ted, and the N year in which (he was built; and if built within the United States, before the said iixteenth day of May, one thousand seven huiidred ahd eighty nine, that she was then owned wholly, or in part, by a citizen or Citizens of ths United States; and if not built within the laid States, that she was, 011 the 16th day of May, and ever since, hath confin ed to be, the entire property of a citizen or citizens of the United States; or that ftie was, at some time posterior to the time when this ast shall t?ke effect (fpetifying the said time) captured fn wax by a citizen orcitizens of the laid States, and lawfully condemned as prize (producing a copy of the sentence of con demnation, authenticated in the usual forms) or that (he has been adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States (producing a like copy of the sentence where by she shall have been so adjudged) and de claring his or her name and place of abode, and if he or she be the idle owner of the said ship or veflel, that such is the cafe : or if there be another owner or other owners, that there is or are such other owner or owners, fpecifving his, her, ou their name or names, ind place or places of abode, and that he, she, or they, as the cafe may be, so swearing or affirming, is or are citizens of the United States ; and where an owner resides in a fo reign country, in the capacity of a consul of the United States, or as an agent for, and a partner in, a house or co-partnership, confid ing W citizens of the United States, and ac tually carrying on trade within the United States, that such is the cafe, and that there is no fubjeft or citizen oj" any foreign prince or state, directly, or indirectly, by way of trust, confidence, or otherwise, interested in fucb ship or veflel, or in the profits, or iflues there of ; and that the matter or commander there of is a citizen, naming the said master, or commanders and slating the means whereby, or manner in which he is so a citizen. And in cafe, any of the matters of fact, in the said oath or affirmation alledged, which shall bs withiu the knowledge of the party, so swear ing, or affirming, shall not be true, there [Whole No. 390. shall be a forfeiture of f lie (hip or vessel, gether with her tackle,furniture and apparel in refpeft to whkl 1 , the fame shall have been made, or of the value thereof, to be recover- Ed with costs of suit, of the person, by whom such oath or affirmation shall have been made' Provided always, That if the master, or per- son having the charge or command cf liich ship or veflel, (hall be within the diftrift afore faid, when application fball l>e made for re gistering the fame, he fnall, himleif, make oath, or affirmation, instead of the said own er, touching his being a citizen ; and the means whereby, or manner in which, he is lb a citizen ; in which cafe, if what the said master, or person having the said charge or command shall so swear or affirm, fjiall not be true, the forfeiture aforefaid lhall not be in curred but he shall, himfelf, forfeit and pay, by reason thereof, the sum of one thouiand dollars: And provided further, That in the cafe of a ship or veifel, built within the Uni ted States, prior to the sixteenth day of May aforefaid, was not then owned by a citizen, or citizens of the Uniteti States, but which., by virtue of a transfer to such citizen, or citi zens, (hall have been purfuanc to the ast before mentioned, the oath or affirma tion, hereby required, lhall and may be va ried according to the truth of the cafe, as of ten as it (hall be requisite to grant a new re gilter, for such Ihip or veflel. Se&. 5. And be it further enabled, That it (hall be the duty of every owner, resident within the United States, of any fliip or ves sel, to which a certificate of registry may be granted (in cale there be more than one fnch owner) to transmit to the colle£\or» who may have granted the fame, a like oath or affirma tion with that herein before directed to be taken and subscribed by the owner, on whole application, fticli certificate shall have been granted, and within ninety days after the fame may have been so granted ; which oath or affirmation may, at the option of the party be taken and subscribed, either before the said . collector, or before the colle&or of some other diftrift, or a judge of the supreme, or diftrift court of the United States, or ot a fuperio. - court of original jurifdi£tion of some one of the States. And if such oath or affirmation lhall not be taken-, fiibfcribed and tranfmittcd, as is herein required, the certificate of regis try granted to such ship or vessel, shall b? for feit and void. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That before any (hip or veflel shall be registered, (lie fliall be measured by a surveyor, if tl ere be one, or by the person he (hall appoint, at the port or place where the laid fliip or veflel may be, and if there be none, by such person as the collector of the diftrift, within which (he may be, shall appoint, according to the rule prescribed by the forty-third lection of the ast, entitled " an ast to provide moie ef. feftually for_the collection of the duties im« posed by law on goods, wares and merchan dizes, imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of Ihips or veflels." At d the officer, or person, by whom such aduit afute ment fliall be made, (halt, for the information of, and as a voucher to the officer by wlioni the registry Is to be made, grant a certificate, fpecifying the built of such (hip or veflel, her number of decks and muds,her length,bi't adth, depth, the number of tons (lie measures, and such Other particulars as are usually descrip tive of the identity of a fliip or veflel ; ar.cl that her name, and the place to which (he belongs, are painted on her (tern, in manner required by the third feftiofi of this ast ; which certificate (hall be countersigned by an owner, or by tbe matter of I'uch (hip or veflel, or by some other person who fliall attend her admeasurement, on behalf of her owner ar owners, in teftimany of the truth of the par? ticulars therein contained } without which, the said certificate fliall not be valid. But in all ca es, where a (hip or veflel has befor* been registered, ai a (hip or velfel of the Uni* ted States,jit /hall not be neceflary to her anew, for the purpolj of obtaining ano ther register ; except such Ihip or veflel Iball have undergone some alteration, as to her burthen, subsequent to tlie time of her for mer registry. Sec- 7. And be it further enacted, That previous to the registry of any (hip or veflVl, the hufoand or a&ing and managing owner, together with the matter thereof, and one or more sureties to the fatisfa&ion of the cul- Jeftoi of the diftrift, whose duty it is to make fucb registry, lhall become bound lo the Uni ted States, if such IHip 01 veflel fliail be of burthen not exceedingfiftv tons, in the sum of four hundred dollars ; if of burthen above fifty tons, and not exceeding one hundred, in the Aim of eight hundred dollars, if of bur then above hundred tons, and not exceeding two hundred, in the sum of twelve hundred dollars ; if of burthen above two hundred tons, and not exceeding three hundred, in the fuin offixteen hundred dollars ; and cf bur then exceeding three hundred tons, in the fuin of two thousand dollars ; with condition, in each cafe, that the certificate of such re. gifti y, shall be (olely used for the fl.ip, or ves sel, for which it is granted, and lhall not be fold, lent or otherwise disposed of, to anypperr r t,
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