TH No notes shall be issued for ¢ a less
smount thai five dollars. ;
Sec. 12. 4nd be it further enacted, That
if the said corporation, or any person of
persons, for or to the use of the same
si:ali deal or trade In buyileg or selling,
wares merchandise or commodities what-
socyer, contrary to the provisions of this
act, all and every personand persons by
whom any order or direction for so deal-
Ig or trading shall have been given ; and
#l and every person or persons who
shall have been concerned as parties or
agen:s therein, shall forfeit and lose tre-
ble the value ef the goods wares and mer-
chandise and commodities in which such
dealin, and trade shall have been;
one half thereof to the use of the
informer, and the other ha: to the use of
the United States to be received in any
action of law with costs of suit
Sect, V3. And be it further enacted, That
if the said corporation shall advance or
lend any sum of money for the use or on
account of the government of the Unied
States, an amount exceeding five hundred
thousand dollais ; or of any foreign prince
or state, (unless previously authorised
thereto by a law of the United States) all
and every person and persons, by and with
whose order, dgrecmeut consent appro-
bation and cennivence, such unlawful ad
vance or loan shall have been made upon
conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay
Jor every such offence treble the value
or amount of the sum or sums which
have been so unlawfully advanced or lent
one fifth thereof wo the use of the intor-
mer, and the residue thereof to the use
of the United States
Sect. 14 And bet further enacted That
the bills or notes os said ‘corporation
erigionally made payable or which shall
bavg become payable on demand shall be
reciveable in all payments of the United
States unless otherwise directed by act
of Congress. Fl :
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted That
during the contituance of this act, and
whenever required by thesecretary of the
treasury the said corpo ation shall give
the necessary faculties for transferring the
public funds from place to place, within
the United States, and for distribating
the same in payment of the public credit.
ors, without charging commissioners oi
claiming allowance on account of di ffur-
ence of exchange, and shall (also do
and perform the several and respective
duties ot the commissioners of loans for
the several states, or any one or more of
them whenever required by law.
Sect. 16. And be it furtha> enaeted That
the deposits of tne meaey of the United
States in places In which the said bank
and branches thereof, ‘may be established,
shall be made in said bank or branches
thereof, unless the secretary of the treasu.
ry shall at any time otherwise order and
direct ; in which case the secretary of the
treasury shall immediatly lay before con-
‘gress ition session, if not, immediately af-
ter the commencement of the next scs-
sion, the reasons of such order or ditection
‘Sect 7 And be it further enacted That
the said corporation shall not, at any
time suspend or refuse payment in gold
and silver, of any of its notes, hills or ob
ligations, nor of any monies received upon:
deposite in said bank, or in any of its of-
fice s of discount and deposite. And if the
the spud corporation shall atany refuse or
neglect to pay on demand any bill; note
or. obligatin, 15suéd by the corporation,
according to the contract, promise or un-
detiakmyg therein expressed: or shall ne-
glect or refuse to pay on demand any
monies received in said bank or in any o
its offices aferesaid on deposit, to the per-
son or persons entitled to recetve the same
then, and in every such case, the holder
of such note, bill or obligation, or the per-
son. or persons entitled to demand and
receive such monies as aforcgaid, shal |
respectively be entitled to veceive and re-
cover interest on the said bills; notes, ob-
lirations or monies, until the same shall
be fully paid and satisfied, at the rate o!
twelve per centum per anum from th
time of such demand a8 aforesaid : Pro-
vided, That congress may at any time
hereafter enact laws enlorcing and regu
Jating the recovery of the amount of the
notes, bi'ls, obligations or other debts, of
svhich payment snail
‘as aforesaid with the rate of interes:
above mentioned, vesting jurisdiction for
that purpose in any courts, either of Jaw]
or equal; of the United States, or terrn
tories thereof, or of the several states a
they may deem expedient.
Sec. 18. And bé it further enacted, That
if any person shall falsely make, forge or
counterfeit, or cause or procure to be false.
ly made, forged or counterfeited, or willing.
Jy aid or assist in falsely making, forging
or counterfeiting any bill or note in mmitati-
on of or purporting tobe a bill or note issu
' ed by order of the president. directors anc
company of the said bark, or any order o
check on the said bank or corporation, o
any cashier thereof ; or shall falsely alter.
;ayse or procure it to be falsely altered, or
have been refused}
willingly aid or assist in falsely altering #e
ny bill or note issued by order of the
sident, directorsand company of tae said
bank, or any order or check on the said
bank er corporation, or any cashier thereof;
or shall pass, atter or publish, or attempt
to pass utter or publish as true, any false
forged or couterfeited biil or note purport-
ing to be a bill or note issued by order of
the president, directors and company of the
said bank ; or any false forged or counter-
feited order or check upon the said bank
or corporation, or any cashier thereot, know
ing the same to be falsely forged or coun |
terfeited ; or shall pass, utter. or publish; or
attempt to pass, utter or publish as true
any falsely altered bill or note issued by
order of the president, directors nd ¢ampa
ny of the said bank; or any faiscly altered
order or check on the said bank or corpo
ration, or any tashier thereof, knowiag th
same to be falsely altered with intention te
defraud the said corporation or any. othe
body politic or person; or shall sell, utes
or deliver, or cause to be sod, uttered oi
delivered, any forged or counterfeit pote or
bill in imitation or purporting to be a bill o
note issued by order of the president an
directors of the said bank, knowing the
same to be false, forged or connterfeited:
every such person shall be deemed and ad
judged guilty of felony, aid belong thereo
convicted by due course of law, shall be sens
tenced to be imprisoned and kept to had
labor for not less than three years nor mort
than ten years, or shall be imprisoned not
exceeding ten years, and fined not exceed-
ing five thousand dollars. Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construct.
ed to deprive the courts of the indiyidyal
states of a jurisdiction under the Jaws, of the
several sates, over any offence declared
punishable by this act po ba 4
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, Tha
if any person shall make or engrave,
cause or procure to be made or engraved,
or shall have 1 his custody or possession,
or bills issu dby the said corporation shal
have been printed, with intent to use such
sion any blank note or notes, bill or’ bil
engraved and printed after the similitude ¢
any metallic plate, engraved afier the sim.
ihtude of any plate from which any notes) we
plate, or cause or suffer the same tobe u §
sed in forging or counterfeiting any of the}
1otes or bills issued by the said corporat |
on ; or shall have in his custody or posse 4
{r
?
Sec. 23. And Beit Yurther enacted, That
it stall at all times be lawl for a commit-
tee of either house of congress, appointed
for that purpose, to inspect the books, and
10 examine auto the proceedings of the cor-
poration hereby created, and to report
whether the provisions of this charter have
been, by the same, violated or not, and
whenever any committee as aforesaid shall
find and report, or the president ofthe U.
states shail have reasonto Delieve that the
charier has been violated, it may be lawiul
tor congress to direct, of the president to
order a scire tacias to be issued out of the)
circuit court of the district of Pennsylvania,
i the name of the United States, (which
shall be exccuted upon the president of the
rerporauon for the time being, at least ff
wen days belforethe commencement at the
erm of said court.) calling on the said cor
poration to show cause wherefore the char-
ter hereby granted shall not be declared
forteited ; and it shall be lawiul for the said!
wetrt, upon the return of the said scive faci-
asy to examine into the truth of the alleged
violation, and 1 such violation be made ap-
peary then to pronounce and adjudge that
ve said charter is forfeited and annulled :
Provd:d however, every issue of fact which
may be joined between the United States
and the corporation aforesaid, shall be tried
by jury. Andit shall be lawful for the
coyrt alovesaid to require the production
of such of the books of the corporation as
it may deem necessary for the ascertain-
ment of the controverted facts; and the fi-
seven or eight days,
spots, the time of the
guous to each other, wit
ones, surrounded
ded by an umbra
able extent. :
The motion of the
: Spots are from ex
no west, and will not b 5
; aly {
the motion of these
3. :
Sf Sun's revolution og
04S axis, has been ascertained. From ree:
peated ebservaiions, these Spots have peen
seen to appear on the eastern margin of
the sun, to cross his surlace, to disappear +
and to reappear again in twenty seven days. -
and seven hours, from whence astronomers «
have calculated, allowing for the motion ob
the earth, that the sun revolves on his axig .
in 25 days 9 hours. es
These spots have been, by attentive obe
servers to change their Shapt—to se :
into different parts=—the nuclegs to ene
croich onthe umbra, and cven to disap-
pear entirely. It has frequently been obe.
served, that that part of the sun where the
spots have appeared, has been much the
brightest. , :
The Rev. Me. Wolaston states, that he
$aw a'spoi burst to. pieces, while luokin
at the sun through a twelve inch reflector ;
the appearance was to him as if a picceot
ice, when dashed on a frozen pond, breaks
0 pieces
No astronomer has ventured to account
with any certainty, for these appearances
in the sun. The great Herschell has give
en us his conjectures on this subject.
it is by observing
nal judgment of the court aforesaid, shall
be d
United Sates, by writ of error, and may
be there reversed or affirmed according to
‘he usages of law,
H. CLAY,
use qf Representatives,
JOHN GAILLARD,
President of the Senate firo temfiore.
April 10, 1816—APPROVED, f
James Madison.
L. Speaker of the Ho
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T.
fi
AmeEricaN PaTrio
“ Po speak his thought se
dvevery Freeman’sright.””
| BrureroxTy, May 18, 1818.
#7 We have anticipated our usual day
f publication in consequenceofthe «Re-
any notes or bills issued by said corporation.
suffer the same to be used in forgirg ou
counterfeiting any of the notes or bills is:
ed by the said cerporation ; or shall have in
bis custody or pnssession any paper -
ed to the making of bank notes or bills,
similar to the paper upon which any ne
or bills,of the said corporation halt
heen isstied, with intent to use such pape
or cause or suffer the same to be use
forging or counterfeiting any of the notes
or bills issued by the said corporation, eve-
ry such person, being thercof convicted by
due course of law, shall be sentenced tobe
imprisoned, and kept to hard labor, for a
term not exceeding five years, and fined in
a sum not excecding one thousand dollars
Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That
in consideration of the exclusive privileges
and benefits conferred by this act, upon the
said bauk, the president, directors and come
pany thereof shall pay tothe United States
out of the corporate funds thereof the sum
of one million and five hundred thousand
dollars, in three equal payments ; that is to
say: five huudred thousand dollars at
the expiration of two years, five
nundred thousand dollars “at the expi-
vation of three years, and five hundred thoua
sand dollirs at the expiration of four years,
commence its operations in the manner be»
fore provided :
Sec. 21 And be it further enaeted, That
"0 other bank shall be established by any
ture law of the United States during the
continuance of the corporation hereby e-
rected, for which the faith of the United
States is hereby pledged : Provided, con-
gress may renew existing charters for banks
in the District of Columbia, not increasing
he capital thereof, and may also establish
ny other bank or banks in said District
with capital not exceeding in the whole six
millions of dollars, if they shall deem it ex-
sedient And, notwithstanding the expi-
“ation of the term for which the said corpo-
ration is erected, it shall be lawful to use
he corporation name, style and capacity,
for the purpose of suits for the final settle-
iment and liquidation of the affairs and dc.
~ounts of the corporation, and for the sale
and disposition of their estate, real, persons
and mixed ; but not for any. purpose; other
or in any other manner whatsoever, nor for
a period exceeding two years after the ex-
piration of the said term of incorporation.
Scc. 22. dnd be it further enaeped, That
if the subscriptions and paymen
bank shall not be made and co
1s to enable the same to commence §
tions, or ifthe said bank shall nr
nence its operations on or before
Monday in April next, then and
ongress may at any time with
nonths thereafter declare by a
with intent to use such blanks, or cause orf
after the said bank shall be organized, andy
lew” being on that day.
' & Pay me what thou owest.”
persons indebted to the editor, either for
tes{his paper, or otherwise, should now com-
{ply ‘with this ' scriptural ‘injunction. A
term of three weeks will be given, that'e-
very one concerned may be prepared; at
the expiration of which, they may expeet
¥lto be personally called upon for a full dis-
charge of all the arrearages due him.
Could the editor grant a still longer indul.
gence to his subscribers, most cheerfully
would he doit; But circumstances are im-
perious, and absolutely demand immediate
payment from all those indebted to him
Are. any of his subscribers so poor, and
« full of poverty,” as that it would really
distress themto payfour dollars ; these he
will pass by; put by others in better cir-
cumstances, he hopes, he confidently trusts,
he will not be * sent away moneyless.”
Three or four dellars from four or five hun-
ed subscribers, would, now-a-days, make
a fellows’ dreams dreams of pleasantness,
and his nights of restlessness those of vom,
fort and ease. = ;
72
renee 5p . $3 | WEP
DAVID LEWIS.
This daring & enterprising individual, like
an artful and able General, under whatever
circumstances, in the most embarrassing
dilemma, always manages to make geoor
his retreat. He was seen in Cambridge,
Ohig, on the 11th ult, was recognized
by @'coloured man who had been present
at Bis trial in Bedford; was arrested and
partially examined. His examination was
pgstponed until the next morning but
tbeing confined decamped ih ‘the night
wo men have gone in pursuit of him.
/ — + + 3 TI —
GOMMUNICATION.
ASTRONOMICAL NOTICE.
Several spots have been observed for
some days past in the sun’s disk, They
may be distinctly scen in a clear day on the
Sun's N. W. limb, through any telescope ;
they “may be even ‘perceived through a
common spectacle glass, coloured, on his
rising or setting.
Through a small glass it has the appear-
{ince of but one spot : but through thethree
feet reflector, of Dicki®on College, three
xaminable in the supreme court of the!
sophical Transactions of 1795, that the sun
1s surrounded by a. luminous atmosphere,
which when interrupted, gives a transient
iplimse of the body ef the sun—~That it is a,
world inhabited like our own, and that the
beat ofthe sun is accdunted for on the prine
ciple that heat is produced by the sun’s.
rays, only when they act on a calorific me-
dium.” a . ; ‘
Others have supposed, that they are
burning mountains of immense size, apd
that when the eruption is nearly ended and
the smoke (which partly occasions the .
black spots) dispersed the flames appear as |
luminous spots. Bf hs ria
Others have imagined (but which ape
pears so improbable as to me. it prompt res
jection) that they are bedies revolving
round the sun as the moon about the earth,
The largest of the spots seen in 1779,
has been supposed to be gresterin breadth,
than six times the diameter of the earth.
The nucleus alone of those now visible are
probably much larger than the whole con-
oi |unent of America. Can. Herarn.,
It is indispensably necessary, that ali} EE A
: TUESDAY, APRIL 300 =
“This day, at about three’ in the afternoon,
the Sessions closed. ‘and Yon ress was ad.
journied Sine Die. Little business, but the
ceremonials attending adjournment was
done. The resolution adopted by the
house on the motion of Mr. Webster, res-
pecting specie payments, was returned
from the Senate with an amendment of no
importance : and that amendment was con-
curred with. = The Pension bill too waa
brought from the Senate with some amend. ’
ments, which going to stiike off some of the.
persons appointed by the house to pensis
ons, were discussed at some length, but
ultimately * agreed to. Compensations
were voted to the messengers and other
attendants of the hotise. The senate sent
to inform the representatives that the house
was ready to adjourn. The representa-
tives returned the compliment to the senate
-=a joint committee of both was then sent
to inform the President, of the same, and
Gn his secretary’s arriving, and delivering
a message at the bar of the house, enumer-
ating the bills he had agreed to, the speaks
er rose and wishing the com safe”
home to their respective districts and hous-
es, declared the house adjourned Sine Die,
Fed. Rep, J
CONGRESS:
From the Nat. ‘Intelligencer April 25,
en.
The bill which has been several days
before the House of Representatives, to
provide for the collection of ihe reve-
nue in specie, &e. is at length ordered to
be read a third time in its simple form,
merely directing that bank notes of banks
paying specie shall alone be received in
payment of debts to the government after.
certain day. The previcions for an is-
ste of Treasury Notes was withdrawn
md several other proposed amendments re-
jected, amongst which was that to impose
a heavy stamp tax on the Notes of Banks.
not paying specie. Nearly the whole day
was eccupied in an arduous discussion of
the various amendments.
——— g
April 26.
SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The bill to enforce the resumtion of
specie payments has. afier an arduous dis-
cussion, been rejected, by one vete—119
members voting out of 180 This impore
null apd void. :
\
large sppts may be distinctly seen conii.
rant preposition has been ably and labori-
¢ seen for mare tha
a
parate ©
He supposes, in his paper in the Philo.
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