An act granting to Mehitabel Cole the lands there in mentioned. An act for the relief of maj. gen. John Stark. Preble, and the officers aud crew of the brig Syren. The Argand lamp, in its most improved form, has always carried with it several inconveniences. The spiral screw, heretofore cut on the cylender, the discovery of which was considered a great triumph over the rack and pinion, now gives place to a per-money among the representatives of com. Edward pendicular wire screw, infinitely superior and much cheaper, not liable to be easily impaired; but when in want of repair, presenting nothing intricate or complicated, as the whole machinery of this lamp is presented at once to view, and adapted to the commonest comprehension. The thumb screw is put in motion by turning a small knob and raises or falls the wick without uncertainty or difficulty. They have also applied, in a most efficacious and beautiful manner, the principle of the roller, by thumb, to the cheap and common Agitable lamp, used in families; the surprizing facility of which operation, its neatness and certainty, is very superior to the old mode of raising by a pin, &c. An act to authorize the president and managers of the Rockville and Washington turnpike road company of the state of Maryland, to extend and make their turnpike road to and from the boundary of the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia, through to the said district of the line thereof. An act authorizing the election of a delegate from the Michigan territory, to the congress of the U. States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of the said territory. An act for the relief of Sampson S. King. The lamp now offered, is not only preferable for its simplicity, security against frequent want of mending, and perfect freedom from uncleanness; but it has another strong claim on universal patron-partment of war. age, in the fact that it can be afforded for about one haffthe price of the patent lamp now in use. List of Acts Passed at the second session of the 15th congress, end ing on the 3d of March, 1819. An act for the relief of Thomas Hall Jervey, An act for the relief of Wm. B. Lewis. An act to alter the time of holding the circuit court, in the southern district of N. York, and for other purposes. An act for the relief of Dr. Mottron Ball. An act making appropriations for the support of government, for the year 1819. An act to establish a separate territorial govern An act concerning the heirs and legatees of Tho-ment in the southern part of the territory of Mismas Turner, deceased. An act making provision for the claim of M. An act allowing further time to complete the is An act for the relief of Benjamin Pool. An act providing additional penalties for false entries for the benefit of drawback, or bounty on exportation. An act directing the payment of certain bills drawn by general Armstrong in favor of William Morgan. An act for the relief of Henry Davis. An act for the relief of Adam Kinsly, Thomas French, and Chas. S. Leonard. An act to establish a judicial district in Virginia, west of the Alleghany mountain. An act to incorporate the medical society of the District of Columbia. An act for the relief of Samuel H. Hooker. An act to incorporate the provident association of clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia. An act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for eighteen hundred and nineteen. An act for the relief of Danl. Renner, and N. H. Heath. An act to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed. An act for the relief of William Barton. An act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and to make good a deficit in the appropriation for holding treaties with the Indians. souri. An act to extend the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States, to cases arising under the law relating to patents. An act providing for the correction of errors in making entries of land at the land offices. An act to continue in force an act regulating the currency within the United States, of the gold coins of Great Britain, France, Portugal and Spain, and the crowns of France, and five franc pieces. An act making provisions for the civilization of Indian tribes adjoining the frontier settlements. An act for the relief of Nathaniel G. Birdseye and Daniel Booth. An act granting a donation of land to the state of Illinois, for the seat of government of said state. An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices for the disposal of public lands, not heretofore offered for sale, in the states of Ohio and Indiana. An act in addition to "an act concerning tonnage An act for the relief of Minis and Henry, and others. An act for the relief of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb. An act for the relief of Henry Bateman. Boston and Chesapeake bay, and on lakes Ontario| and Erie, &c. An act to enable the president to take possession of East and West Florida, &c. An act for the relief of John Rice Jones. An act to continue in force for a further term the act, entitled, an act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes, and for other purposes. An act to repeal part of an act passed on the 27th day of February, 1813, entitled "an act in addition to an act regulating the post office establishment.” An act to protect the commerce of the United An act to settle the claims of land and establish land offices east of the island of New Orleans. An act to enfore those provisions of the act enti-States, and punish the crime of piracy. tled "an act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of the United States, which relate to the right of voting for directors. An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the U. States, for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen. An act authorising the postmaster general to con tract, as in other cases, for carrying the mail in steam boats, between New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana and Louisville, in the state of Kentucky, An act to incorporate a company to build a bridge over the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, east, in the city of Washington. An act explanatory of an act, entitled, "an act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri." An act concerning invalid pensions. An act to enable the people of the Alabama terri- Laws of the United States. AN ACT to enforce those provisions of the act en- ses. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That in all elections of directors of the bank of the United States hereafter to be held, under and by virtue of the "act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of the United States," whene ver any person shall offer to the judges of such election more than thirty votes in the whole, including those offered in his own right, and those An act to regulate the pay of the army when em-offered by him as attorney, proxy, or agent, for any ployed on fatigue duty. An act confirming the claim of Alexander Macomb to a tract of land in the territory of Michigan. An act supplementary to the act concerning the coasting trade. An act to authorise William Prout to institute a bill in equity before the circuit court of the district of Columbia, against the commissioner of the public buildings, and to direct a defence therein. An act supplemental to the act, entitled, "an act further to amend the charter of the city of Washington." An act to increase the salaries of certain officers of government. An act to provide for the removal of the library of congress to the north wing of the capitol. An act for the relief of John Clark. An act authorising the president of the United States to purchase the lands reserved by the act of the third of March, 1817, to certain chiefs, warriors, or other Indians of the Creek nation. An act providing for a grant of land for the seat of government in the state of Mississippi, and for the support of a seminary of learning within the said state. An act to extend the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of the United States, to cases arising under the law relating to patents. An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave of them, are hereby authorized and required to adothers, the said judges of the elections, or any one minister to the said person, so offering to vote, the following oath or affimation, viz. I,, do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case ly, in the shares upon which I shall vote at this may be,) that I have no interest, directly or indirectelection, as attorney for others; that those shares are, to the best of iny knowledge and belief, truly and in good faith, owned by the persons in whose names they now stand; and that, in voting at this elec tion, I shall not in any manner violate the first fundamental article of the "act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of the United States." the said judges of elections, or any one of them, shall be authorized and empowered, in their disc: etion, or at the instance of any stockholder of the bank, to administer the said oath or affirmation to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person any person offering to vote at any such election. shall be entitled to vote at any such election, as attorney, proxy, or agent, for any other person, cothat purpose being duly executed, in the presence partnership, or body politic, without a power for of a witness, and filed in the bank, and on which power shall be endorsed the oath or affirmation of the person, or one of the copartnets, or of the head, ing such power, in the words following: I, or some one of the officers of the body politic grantsolemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that ap-1am (or that the copartnership consisting of my sif and , are, or that the corporation known by the --is, as the case may be) truly and in An act regulating the payment of invalid pensi-good faith, the owner (or owners, as the case Y be) of the shares in the capital stock of the bank of the United States, specified in the within power of son has any interest in the said shares, directly or attorney, and of no other shares, that no other po indirectly, except as stated in the said power; and that no other power has been given to any person which is now in force, to vote for me (or for the ec partnership aforesaid, or for the body politic afore said, as the case may be) at any election of directc: trade. An act to authorise the secretary of war, to oners. An act for the relief of B. and P. Jourdan, bro thers. An act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon. An act respecting the location of certain sections of lands to be granted for the seat of government in the state of Indiana. name of , do of the said bank," which oath or affimation may be taken before a notary public, judge, or justice of peace, and shall be certified by him. vessel or boat, or any vessel or boat the crews whereof shall be armed, and which shall have attempted or committed any piratical aggression, search,restraint, depredation, or seizure, upon any vessel of the U. States, or of the citizens thereof, or upon any other vessel; and also to retake any vessel of the United States, or its citizens, which may have been unlaw. fully captured upon the high seas. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the judges of any election of directors, to be held as aforesaid, shall permit any person to give more than thirty votes in the whole, at any such election, without the said person's having taken the aforesaid oath or affirmation, or shall suffer any person whatever to vote Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the comas attorney, agent, or proxy, for any other person, or mander and crew of any merchant vessel of the U. for any copartnership, or body politic, without a States, owned wholly, or in part, by a citizen therepower for that purpose, as prescribed in the fore- of, may oppose and defend, against any aggression, going section, with the oath or affimation and cer-restraint, search, depredation or seizure, which shall tificate aforesaid, such of the said judges as shall be attempted upon such vessel, or upon any other consent thereto shall severally be deemed guilty of vessel owned as aforesaid, by the commander or crew a misdemeanor, and, on due conviction thereof, of any armed vessel whatsoever, not being a public shall be subject to a fine not exceeling two thousand armed vessel of some nation in amity with the United dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding one year, States; and also may subdue and capture the same; at the discretion of the court before which such con- and may also retake any vessel, owned as aforesaid, viction shall be had. And if any person shall wilful-which may have been captured by the commander ly and absolutely swear or affirm falsely, in taking or crew of any such armed vessel, and send the same any oath or affirmation prescribed by this act, such into any port of the United States. person, so offending, shall, upon due conviction thereof, be subject to the pains and penalties which are by law prescribed for the punishment of wilful and corrupt perjury, court shall thereupon order a sale and distribution thereof accordingly, and at their discretion. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any person er persons whatsoever, shall, on the high seas, commit the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of nations, and such offender or offenders shall after Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever any vessel or boat, from which any piratical aggres sion, search, restraint, depredation or seizure, shall have been first attempted or made, shall be captured Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any per-and brought into any port of the United States, the son shall, directly or indirectly, give any sum or sums same shall and may be adjudged and condemned to of money, or any other bribe, present, or reward, their use, and that of the captors, after due process or any promise, contract, obligation, or security, for and trial, in any court having admiralty jurisdiction, the payment or delivery of any money, present, or and which shall be holden for the district into which reward, or any thing to obtain or procure the opini-such captured vessel shall be brought, and the same on, vote, or interest, of the president of the bank of the United States, or either of the directors thereof, or the president or a director of either of the branches of the said bank, in any election, question, matter, or thing, which shall come before the said president and directors for decision, in relation to the interest and management of the business of the said bank,wards be brought into, or found in, the UnitedStates, and shall be thereof convicted; such person or persons, so giving, promising, contracting, or securing to be given, paid, or delivered, any sum or sums of money, present, reward, or other bribe, as aforesaid; and the president or director who shall, in any wise, accept or receive the same, on conviction thereof, shall be fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, and shall forever be disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit under the said corporation, and shall, also, forever be disqualified to hold any office fof honor trust, or profit, under the United States. H. CLAY, Speaker of the house of representatives, every such offender or offenders shall, upon conviction thereof before the circuit court of the United States, for the district into which he or they may be brought, or in which he or they shall be found, be punished with death. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force until the end of the next session of congress. H. CLAY, Speaker of the house of representatives. March 3d, 1819-Approved, JAMES MONROE, AN ACT in addition to "An act concerning tonnage and discriminating duties in certain cases." Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress asAN ACT to protect the commerce of the United sembled, That the act passed on the twentieth of States and to punish the crime of piracy. April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, enBe it enacted by the senate and house of representa- titled, "An act concerning tonnage and discrimi tives of the United States of America, in congress as-nating duties in certain cases," be, and the same sembled, That the president of the United States be, hereby is, extended, in all its provisions and limitaand hereby is, authorized and requested to employ tions, to the vessels of Prussia, of the city of Hamso many of the public armed vessels as, in his judg-burg, and of the city of Bremen. ment, the service may require, with suitable instruc- Sec. 2. And be it futher enacted, That the act, pastions to the commanders thereof, in protecting thesed on the third of March, one thousand eight huninerchant vessels of she United States, and their dred and fifteen, entitled "An act to repeal so much crews, from piratical aggressions and depredations.f the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the presion [of] ships and vessels of the United States, a-1 dent of the United States be, and hereby is, autho-between goods imported into the United States in rized to instruct the commanders of public asmed vessels of the United States to subdue, seize, take and send into any port of the U. States, any armed foreign vessels and vessels of the United States," and also the act to which this is an addition, together with this act, shall cease and expire on the fist day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-|ceiver of public monies for lands of the United States at Chillicothe, in the state of Ohio. Robert Swartwout, of New-York, to be navy agent of the United States at New York. Joseph G. Swift, of New York, to be surveyor and inspector of the revenue for the port of New York. William Woodbridge, of the Michigan territory, to be secretary in and for said territory. Richard S. Briscoe, whose commission as justice of the peace for the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia, will expire on the 30th Dec. next, to be a justice of the peace of the same for five years ensuing. Frederick Bates, whose commission as secretary of the Missouri Territory, will expire on the 4th of February next, to be secretary of the same for four William Dickinson, of Maryland, to be an apprais-years ensuing. er of goods, wares, or merchandize for the port of Baltimore. Isaac Waters, of Massachusetts to be an appraiser of goods, wares, or merchandize, for the port of Boston. John B. C. Lucas, whose commission has expired, to be one of the judges in and over the Missouri Territory. William G. Parish, of North Carolina, to be collector of direct taxes and internal duties for the 6th collection district of N. Carolina. Christian Spangler, of Ohio, to be collector of direct taxes and internal duties for the 5th collection district of Ohio. George Boyd, of the District of Columbia, to be an Indian agent at Michilimakinac. Alexander Netherclift, of Georgia, to be collector and inspector of the revenue for the district of Hardwick. Ebenezer Dale of Massachusetts, to be inspector of the revenue for the port of Gloucester. Andrew Moore, whose commission as marshal of Samuel Ross, of Pennsylvania, to be an appraiser the district of Virginia, will expire on the 14th Dec. of goods, wares, or merchandize for the port of Phi-next, to be marshal of the same for four years enladelphia. Thomas Stewart, of Pennsylvania, to be an appraiser of goods, wares, or merchandize, for the port of Philadelphia. Daniel Lane, of Massachusetts, to be collector for the District of Belfast, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Belfast. Edward Mortimer, of South Carolina, to be an appraiser of goods, wares, or merchandize, for the port of Charleston. Andrew Smilie, of South Carolina, to be an appraiser of goods, wares, or merchandize, for the port of Charleston. Jahn B. Esseltyn, of New York, to be collector and inspector of the revenue, for the port of Cape Vin cent. Charles Pinkney, of Maryland, to be secretary of legation of the United States of America at the court of his imperial majesty the emperor of all the Russias. Alexander H. Everett, of Massachusetts to be charge des affairs of the United States of America at the court of his majesty the king of the Netherlands. Henry Hill, of New York, to be consul of the U. James H. Blake, of the District, to be register of wills in and for the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia. Henry Crabb, of Tennessee, to be attorney of the Enited States in and for the district of West Ten suing, David Erskine, of Stockholm, to be consul of the U. States for the port of Stockholm. Charles Carroll, of New York, to be register of the land office for the district of Howard county, in the Missouri territory. David Parish, of Pennsylvania, to be consul of the United States for the port of Antwerp. Robert B. Cranston, of Rhode Island, to be collector of direct taxes and internal duties for the first collection district of Rhode Island. Francisco Xavier de Ealo, of Bilboa, to be consul of the United States for the port of Bilboa, in the kingdom of Spain. Michael M'Clary, whose commission as marshal of the district of New Hampshire wil! expire on the 16th of January next, to be marshal of the same for four years ensuing. John Childress, whose commission as marshal of the district of West Tennessee will expire on the 9th of January next, to be marshal of the same for four years ensuing. Thomas G. Thornton, whose commission as marIshal of the district of Maine will expire on the 9th of January next, to be marshal of the same for four years ensuing. Samuel L. Winston, to be register of the land office, west of Pearl River. James Hepburn nd Robert M. Wetman, to be appraisers of the port of New Orleans. Charles S. Jones, of Virginia, to be collector of direct taxes and internal duties, for the 23d collection district of Virginia. James Claypold, to be collector for the port of Chester, in the state of Maryland and inspector of, the revenue for the same. John McNeal, of Maryland, to be collector of di rect taxes and internal duties, for the 9th collection} district of Maryland. Oliver Wayne Ogden, whose commission as marshal of the district of New Jersey has expired, to be marshal of the same for four years. William B. Barney, of the state of Maryland, to be naval officer of the port of Baltimore, in said state. Silas Marean, of Mass. to be consul of the United States for the island of Martinique. George Washington Banks, of Virginia, to be collector of the district of Tappahannock, in the state of Virginia, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Tappahannock. Andrew A. Meck, of Indiana, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Indiana. Henry Preble, of Mass. to be consul of the United States, at Palermo. John Graham, to be minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at Rio de Janeiro. James Titus, Henry Chambers, Lemuel Mead, Geo. Phillips, John Gayle, jun. and Matthew D. Wilson, to be members of the legislative council of the Alabama territory. James H. Peck, of Missouri territory, to be attorney of the United States for said territory. Christopher Hughes, jr. of Maryland, to be charge des affaires of the United States at Stockholm. William Davies, attorney of the United States for the district of Georgia, to be a judge for the said district. Robert Were Fox, to be consul at Falmouth, Eng. John Nicholson, to be marshal of the state of Louisiana. Heman Allen, of the state of Vermont, to be marshal of the district of Vermont. John Forsyth, of Georgia, to be minister plenipotentiary of the United States in Spain. Jacob Beeson, of Virginia, to be attorney for the judicial district recently established in that state. Nathaniel Pope, to be judge, Jepthah Hardin, to be attorney, and Robert Lemmon, to be marshal of the U. States for the district of Ulinois. James Young, John Chalmers, Richard Bland Lee, William Hewitt, and Andrew Way, to be justices of peace for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. John Conard, to be marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. John Connelly, John Steele, Nicholas Biddle, Walter Bowne, and John M Kim, jr. directors of the bank of the United States for 1819. William Johnson, to be collector of the port of Charleston, South Carolina. John G. Jackson, to be judge of the district court of the United States, for the district west of Alleghany mountain, in Virginia. General James Miller, to be governor of the Ar kansaw territory, Robert Crittenden, secretary of said territory. Andrew Scott, of Missouri, Robert P. Letcher, of Kentucky, and Charles Jouett, of Michigan, to be judges of said territory. William Rhodes, of Kentucky, to be collector of the internal revenue for the seventh district of said state, in the room of Robert Rhodes, deceased. APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT. Edward Coles, of Illinois, register of the land office of the United States at Edwardsville in the state of Illinois, in the room of Nathaniel Pope, appointed judge in Illinois. MARINE CORPS. The following promotions and appointments were made in the United States Marine corps, on the 3d Anthony Gale, to be lieut. colonel commandant. Francis D. Bellevue. Lyman Kellogg, to be capts. Elijah J. Weed, Charles R. Porter, Joseph C. Hall, to be first lieutenants. John Overton, Newton Cannon, and Robert Weak-instant. ly, of Tennessee, as commissioners to negociate with the Chickasa ribe of Indians, for the cession of a tract of land four miles square, including a salt spring, reserved to the said tribe by the fourth article of a treaty concluded with the said Indians, on the 19th of October, 1818. LATEST APPOINTMENTS. John James Appleton, of Mass. to be secretary of legation at Rio de Janeiro. Abraham P. Gibson, of New-York, to be consul at St. Petersburg. Francis Adams, of the District of Columbia, to be consul at Trieste. Cortland Parker, of New-Jersey, to be consul at Curracoa. Townsend Stith, of Virginia, to be consul at Tunis. Thomas W. Bond, to be collector and inspector of the revenue of the district of Havre-de-Grace, Md. John B. Jones, to be surveyor and inspector for the port of Currituck Inlet. H. Lavenworth, to be collector and inspector of the revenue for the district of Sackett's Harbor. Samuel Quinby, to be receiver of public monies at Wooster, in the state of Ohio. Thomas Hance, to be surveyor and inspector of the district of New-Brunswick, state of New-Jersey. Edward Scott Jarvis, to be collector and inspector for Frenchman's bay, Massachusetts. James Manney, to be collector and inspector of the revenue for the district of Beaufort, N. C. John W. Walker, of the Alabama territory, to be a judge of the said territory. Benjamin O'Fallon, of the Missouri territory, to be Indian agent on the Missouri. Thomas D. Anderson, of Pennsylvania, to be consul of the United States at Tripoli. Charles C. Floyd, John McClure, Charles C. Tupper, Charles Grymes, George W. Brewerton, Ward Marston, to be second lieutenants. Defence of general Jackson. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. STRICTURES ON MR. LACOCK'S REPORT ON The author of this article has had access to documents, the perusal of which convinced him that the report of the select committee of the senate, on the Seminole war, is alike unjustifiable in temper, argument, and statements. Its temper is harsh and vindictive, its arguments are childishly weak, and its statements are, in many instances, grossly and unaccountably erroneous. The report has been read with astonishment and regret-regret that such a document should go before the world unanswered in senatorial discussion and astonishment, as well at the institution of such an enquiry into the conduct of gen Jackson, as at the anomalous and unfair manner in which the investigation has been conducted. But independently of the peculiar hue of this instrument, it is also objectionable-1st, because it is designed to impute the cause of the war to our own officers and executive, laying aside all provocation and aggression on the part of the Indians; 24, because it directly implicates the president and secretary of war; for, although they were not, in the first instance, guilty of what the committee |