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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
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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,