mir-n ii ■iiiiib' . .... . - _ ..1. . A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNQ, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH S / KF.F. i, PHILADELPHIA. [No. 94 of Vol. IV.] LAW OF THE UNION. SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fift;h of November, onethoufond seven hundred and ninety*two. AN ACT making Appropriations for the Support of Government for the Year one thousand (even hun dred and ninety-three. by the Serrate owi Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Alfembled, That for the fervicc of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, the e be appropri ated a sum of money, not exceeding one mil lion five hundred and eighty-nine thoofatidj and forty-four dollars, and ieventy-two cents; that is to fay : For the compensations granted by law to the President and Vice-Prelident of the Uni ted States, thirty thousand dollars : For the like com pen fatfons to the members of the Se nate and Houie of Representatives, the r offi cers and attendants, estimated for a felfion of fix months continuance, one hundred and for ty-three thousand, five hundred and ninety-one dollars : For the salaries of the door-keepers and afllftant door keepers, of the Senate and Iloufe of Representatives under the ast fbr their compenfation,*pafled the 12th of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars, and lixry,eight cents: For the expen ses of firewood, Stationary, printing work, and all other contingent expences of the two Houses of Congress, nine thousand five hun dred and fifty-two dollars : For making good a deficiency in the appropriation, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for contingent expenses in the office of the Clerk of the House of ?».eprefentatives, five hundred and seventy-eight dollars t For the Compensations granted by law, to the chief justice, associate judges, diftrift judges, and the attorney-general, forty three thousand two hundred dollars : For the additional sa lary of the attorney-general, by the ast of the eighth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two,two hundred and sixty dollars, and eighty-two cenfs : For defraying the ex pense of clerks of courts, jurors and witnefles, in aid of the fund arising from fines, forfei tures and penalties, twelve thousand dollars : For defraying the expences of profecufcions for oJ nccs against the United States, and for the fate keeping of prisoners, four thousand dollars : For compensation to the Secretary <>f the Treafory, clerks and persons employed ip his office, eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars : For salary of the two prin cipal clerks to the Secretary of the Treasury, from the eighth of May to the thirty-firfl of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand and forty three dollars and twenty-eight cents : For expenle of ftationarv, printing, and all other contin gent experces in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, five hund:ed dollars : For com pensation to the comptroller of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand four hundred &nd fifty dollars : For the encreafed salary of the Comptroller from the eighth of May to the thirty-fiift of De cember, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and sixty dollars and eighty-two cents : For expense of fta tionarv, printing, and all other contingent ex penses in the comptroller's office, fix hundred dollars: For compensation to the auditor of the Treasury, clerks and persons empioyed in his officc, ten thou fat d four hundred and fif ty dollars: For the encreafed salary of the auditor,from the eighth of May to the thirty firft of December, one thoufond seven hun dred and ninety-two, two hundred and sixty dollars, and eighty-two cent*: For expenle of ftatittaa; y, printing, and other contingent expenses, in the auditor's office, fix hundred dollars : For compensation to the register of the Treafuvy, clerks and persons employed in his office, eightern thousand fix hundred dol lars : For the encreafed salary of the register of the Treasury, from the eighth of May, to the thirty firfl of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and tweuty-tix dollars and three cents, and for miikiug good the deficiency in the appro priation of one thousand (even hundred and ninety-two, one hundred dollars j making, in the whole, four hundred and twenty-fix do!- Wednesday* April 24, 1755. lars aacl three cents : For expenses of ila* tionary, printing, and other contingent ex pen in the remitter's office, two thousand dollars : For compensation to the Tre a fur er, clerks and perfdns employed in his office,, four thpufand one hundred dollars : For the en creafed salary of the Treasurer, from the eighth of May, to the thirty-nrft of December, one thousand fe veil hundred and ninety-two, and for maki6g good a deficieiicy in the ap propriation of the year one tnoufand seven hundred and ninety-two, for clerks in that office, five hundred and thirty dollars and six ty-eight cents : For expense of firewood, sta tionary, printing ahd other contingencies in the trea urer's office, four hundred and fifty dollars : For compensation to the commiiiion er of the revenue, clerks and persons employ ed in his office, four thousand. ope hundred dollars : For the salary of the commissioner of the revenue, cleiks and perftuis employed in that office, from the eftabJifhment thereof, to the of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, including al so contingent expenses to the fame time, tvto thonfand eigne liuudred and fevemy-three dollars and forty-fix cents : fj»r the exppnfe of llationnryV printing and other ronv.ng« nt experices in the office of the commilfioner, three hundred dollars : To make good the deficiency in the appropriation of t!>e year one thonfand seven hundred and ninety-two for the contingent expenses of the treafury departinent, two thousand four hundred dol lars : For the payment of rent for the several houses employed in the treasury department, one thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents : For wood and candles in the several offices in the treasury department (except the treasurer's office) one thousand two hundred dollars : For compen fatiors to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand, two hundred and fifty dollai s : For defraying the expences of flatioiiary, and for hire of decks in the offices of the several com missioners of loans, to the firll of March, one th< ufand seven hundred and ninety-three, au thorized by the ast of the eighth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, thir ty-two thousand seven hundied, and twenty nine dollars. *nd uimjty-five * t"o make good deficiencies in former appropriations, for similar cxpenfes-, one thousand fix hundred and fifty dollars : For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and other persons employed in his office, fix thousand three hun dred dollars : For defraying the expense of the laws of the several States, pub lishing and distributing the laws of Congress, and all other expenses in the office of the fe ' cretary of State, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents : To make good a deficiency in the appropria tion of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for the contingent expenses in this office, ninety-three dollars and thirty four cents : For compensation to the com missioners for settlement of the accounts be tween the United States and the individual States, clerks and persons employed in their office, fix thousand fix hundred and fifty dol lars : For defraying the contingent expenses of the board of commiflioners, four hundred and seven dollars : For compenfntions to the Governors, Secretaries and Judges of the ter ritory north-weft, and the territory south of the river Ohio, ten thousand three hundred dollars : For expenses of flationary, office - rent, printing patents for lands, and other contingent expenses in both the said territo ries, seven hundred dollars : For the payment of thepenfions granted to invalids,eighty-two thousand, two hundred and forty-five dollars, and thirty-two cents : For payment of the annual allowance granted by (->ngrefs to Ba ron Steuben, two thousand five hundred dol lars : For payment of sundry penfiotis grant ed by the late government, two thousand se ven hundred and fixty-leven dollars, and fc veuty-three cents : For the maintenance and repair of light-honfes, beacons, piers, flakes and buoys, twenty thonfand dollars : For the farther expenJe of building and equipping ten cutters, three thousand dollars : For the pur chase oi hydrometers, for the ule of the offi cers of the cufloms and infpettors of the re venue, one thousand five hundred dollars : To make good the deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thoufaud seven hundred and ninety-two, for the purchaie of hydrometers fix hundred aud ten doliars, and ten cents: For the payment of such demands, not other wise provided for, as shall have been duly allowed by the officers of the treasury, five thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars : For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and perfonsempioyed in his office, seven thousand an<f fifty tloiiars : For the cncreaied salary of the chief clerk in the war depart ment, from the eighth of May, to the thirty firlt of December, one thousand seven hun ered aud ninety-two, one hundred and thirty dollars and forty-one cents : For expenses of firewood, ftationarv, printing and other con tingent expense* in the office oi'the Secretary of War, fix hundred dollars : For compensa tion to the accountant to the war-department and clerks in his office, four thousand two Y C/t»'4 373 j s " 'hundred dollars : For salary to the account ant,' clerks and for contingent expenses in that office, fom the establishment thereof, to the thirty-firft of December, one thousand (seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand one hundred and fixty-five dollars and eighty-nine cents : For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant to the war department, three hundred dollars f For payment of four years rent for the building occupied for offi ces of the Secretary of War and accountant, one thoufmd lix hundred and sixty-six dollars, and sixty-six cents : F° r salaries of the store keepers at the several arsenals, rent for the buildings occupied as magazines, for payment of the laborers, coopers, armorers and other persons employed in taking care of the ord nance, arms and military stores, seven thou sand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-two cents : For. five hundred rifles, purchased in the year one thoufapd seven hun dred and ninety-two, fix thousand dollars s For expense of repairing arms, equipments of cannon cartridge-boxes, swords and eyery other article iu the ordnance department, ten thoufanxl dollars : For defraying the expenses of the Indian department, fifty thoufmid dol s i For tbefiay of ttft troops authorized by law, three hundred ami four thousand, t'hree hundred and eight dollars : For subsistence, three hundred and twelve thousand, fiveluin died and sixty-seven dollars, and seventy five cents : For forage, tilirty-fonr thousand eight hundred and fifty-fix dollars : For clothing, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars : For equipments for cavalry, five thousand dollars : For hor/es for cavalry, five thousand dollars : For hospital department, twenty mo thousand dollars : For qtiaiter-mafter's department one hundred thousand dollars : For maps, hiring exprelfes, allowance to of ficers for extra expenses, printing, lo'fs of ttores, advertising, apprehending deserters, and every other contingent expense in the war-department, thirty thousand dollars : for the defenfive protection of the frontiers, Sfty thousand. dollars : For the payment of bounties, fifteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars. And be it further enacted, That the feve appropriations herein before made /liill be paid and discharged out of the funds fol lowing, to wit : First—The sura of fix hundred thousand dollars reserved by the ast making provision for the debt of the United States.—Secondly. —The fur-plus which, may remain unexpend ed, of the monies appropriated for the use of the war department, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two—And, thirdly —The surplus of the existing revenues of the United States, to the end of the year, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, ex cept what may. be othevwife appropriated, ijuring the present feflion of Congress. And bp it further enacted, That the Presi dent of the United States be authorized to borrow, on account of the said States, any lum or sums, not exceeding, In the whole eight hundred thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding five per centum, per annum, and reimbursable at the pleasure of the United Slates, to lie applied for the pur poles aforefaid, and to be repaid out of the said l'urplus of theduries on imports and ton nage, to the end of the present year, one thou sand (even hundred and ninety-three : And that it lhall.be lawful for the bank of the Uni ted States, to lend the said sum. And the Prelident of the United States lhall cause so much of tjie loan, made of the bank of the United States, pursuant to the eleventh fec tiou of the act, by which it is incorporated, to be paid off, in funis not less than fifty thousand dollars, as, in hit opinion, the state of the treufury may, from time to time, ad mit, out of any monies, which may be in the treasury, having due regard to the exigen cies of government, and the appropriations made and to be inade by law. JONATHAN TRUMBUU., Speaker oj the Houje si/ JOHN yke-Prefidcnt oj the United Siatei, and Prcfident of the Senate. APPROVED FEBRUARY 28, 1793. ChO. WASHINGTON, l'refidenl aj the United States. Fm the GAZETTE oj the UNITKD STATES. [CONCLUDSD FROM OUR LAST.J WHILE we exult in the success of reason and juilice—wh'le we rejoice in the re cent vi&ory ol energetic principles ovej chime rical and republican fjmpiicity, it ii duty so to conlider the past, aa lo pioiit 111 what is 10 come. In this view, I lhal) make foine obfc» vauons, as what dirtttly flow irom idte CongrefTiouai occurrences. 1 hope the members ot Cougrefs will now he taught to be moie cauunus how they alarm their country, and blame the faith! ul and molt ufetul fi'ivantt ol the public. We thould all have an eye on the conduct of pubi c men; and mem bcis of more than any others, aire called to this duty : they are ccmintls on she walls ot the republic, and should immediauly give notice of approaching danger. But let it be rcmcmUcicd, thai if (ihu' ik«' mere roiftake). <2 [Whole No. 416.] w-li ?irr *. . -P 7 •> ' > i they call fri< nns fOcs, arra muk the very pillais of she tj-»tc as lecirr cori'pi' >rs agamll it, they may »oon iuvolvc us in anarchy and ruin. Again, the pro pie ought ro I alee up no rcpoit* or iccufanohs as eilablifhed truths. They ought to immediately examine every iuggeftion «ul de linquency in iheir fcrvants ; hut till (key airive at the issue of iliat exaininai ion, they ought rjot to condemn—not even to fufpeift. One suppose ihc flaming patriots of Congress knew from whence have drawn their knowledge of governmental corruptions —one would sup pose that before they mfe to atcufe public func tionaries, they knew of a certainty that their ac cusations were true. Yet we have icen the con trary. While therefore we arc carcful to give full credit and applavife to thofc who, through youthful ardor, are bold in attacking every ap pearance of a plot against our liberties —let us not pi ecipitately join in every hue and ci y against government, its measures and iis officers ; but let us examine for ourselves, and when we arc convinced, then lei us condcmn. Too many think there is no need of cauuon here; »hcy think the only danger is, that the people will be too lupine, will be too indiffeicm to .the dan gerous rticafuies of their ft rvants. Honce talk of jealouly, as a tnoft efTencial republican virtue—Hence loiflc tell me, ihev take a certain Ga?.ette ; not because they reiifh the abuf" it teems with, but because it serves as a good pur gative to the coirupt humours necejjarily giiihr/- ing, from time to time, in the oody politic. For my part, I explode tljrfe notions, not only as infamoufly (illy, but as aflually pernicious to the public good. Why flbould we make it a virtue to do that to a public ch.ira&er, y/hich if done to a private, would make us worthy to be cropped ? This jealousy, with too many, is but another name for inj*iflice and abufc. I think I would help to hunt our of the land every aris tocrat, every convi&cd enemv to the l>appinrfs of others. But, for all this, I would not call 4 man one, and pei fecute him as such, be cause he is in office apd I am out, because he is tich and J am poor, because his political principles and mode of promoting the general welfare arc dif ferent from mine—because I am nobody*) and he is Secretary of the Treasury. This conduct, this extravagant jealousy, I pro nounce pernicious; and, nfmga lalhionable de mocratic phrase, I denounce it to a difccin iitf piioltc. Men of grmus. cultivated tatents and integrity* are men of generous and exquifi'e feel ings. By that abuse, which too many deem a virtuous republican jealousy, these chara&ers will be thrust out ol office, that men may take ih. ir places, who at gaming tables and brothels have loft the fear of their Cieator, the Jove of o;hcrs, and that delicious fenfibilitv yhjch ever arcont pamcs an upright and a poliflied mind. Hard ened bv vice, the laiter can bear without emo tion, that abuse they once so ficcly bellowed on better men. Who can eflimate the loss of men, such as Mr. Hamilton appeaisto be? It is immonfe. Great capacity, much cultivation, not a mere Chaotic map of ciimbeffome erudition, but wholesome fyttrmatic knowledge, almost un equalled diligence and labour, iound integrity and diftingnifhed patriotism, are united in him. Drive, by rash accusations and abuse, such as he is, Irom the helm, and we fh.ill soon founacr or be wrecked, amidst those storms, to which every government is more or less cx« posed. The lots of nvn uncommonly qualified in head and heart, 10 promote the public wcaj, is not the only ill effect of an uncorretted jealousy in the pcoplr. It will difpoCe them e er to give their con6dencc to those that oppose govern ment, whatever be their principles or their mo rals. 1 hus the vi 1 ell men will at times be exalt ed. The people will fofter vipers in their bo som, who, in return, will fling them to death. A -variety of contradi&ory measures will be pur (tied. The government will wan? fyft. m and liability—it will lose the public confidence, it will timet*—it may fall. Nay more, such ex. treme jealousy, pulfiing us, on the one haiui* to unjutt treatment of men in office—and on the other, lo the heaping ol applause upon men out of office, is the frequent forerunner, and with ourftlves may one day oe the caufc of thi,t mo narchic or auftocratic tyranny we now so hear tily execrate. Tho' 1 accustom rayfHf to hope for the best, tho* I admire Dr. Fia ixim, and daijy find lite fwecter by looking at the liandtome leg, yet reason and compel me to dread, left treacherous and tyrannic Croni-v wells be fecretiy hidden under our and Not that 1 there is any l ...... —:rt. profpeft of thcii having then heart's wish, u ail nj> e*tcnf. 1 fear not, that we (hall fee them or atjciUriy pV nobles; but I fear, I I their principles <ind mcafurts wili one day iiri pair that harmony which now pervades the Union, and that energy in the united govern? nrtnt, v\hicr>, under a gracious providence, ha* rescued us fiom ruin, fills us wuh felicity, and coveis us with honou r . My pall obfeivauons arc general. I now close with one more particular. It is, that the late proceedings m Congress Jhould endear the Secrciaty ol tlie Treafuiy to every virtuous Ame rican. He t» one of the brightest j ; weli In Co lumbia's crown. As a pilla, in the federal building, he ieems to unite the lolidity ot th; Done order, ilje delicacy and of ;ti= lon'c, aud the touching beauty oJ.tr,i? Corin hian. Here yon fee I inoulgrjnylelf. Not t h,i we are known to each other—l never was of his ac. and uever expertt®. be— nor de I
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