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ELIPHALET LADD, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are informed that all demands which are now due, will be put into the hands of an Attorney for collection, if not paid on or before the first day of December next. HENRY LADD, Executor. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1806. State of New-Hampshire— Crawford, S. This is hereby given, to the non-resident property owners and landowners in the town of PEEL, who have not paid their state, county, town, school and highway taxes, for the year 1806; that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on the third Wednesday of December next, at the dwelling house of Benjamin Barron, located in Peeling, as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. Original grantees such as John Wingate, Silas Hanson, Daniel Hays, Stephen Pinkham, John Huckings, Tobe Demarest, Samuel Alley, and Thomas Hanson, who have not paid their taxes, will have their lands sold at public auction. The sale will take place at the dwelling house of Benjamin Barron in Peeling, on the third Wednesday of December. Properties owned by John Horn, Daniel Horn, Samuel Ricker, Samuel Ham, Thomas Tuttle, Jr., Hazzard Caney, Joseph Twombly, and others with delinquent taxes will also be offered for sale. This is a legal notice issued by the town of Peeling, reminding property owners of their obligation to pay taxes and preventing the seizure of their properties for non-payment. 132:6 8 2:05 25 5200 2 /3.3028 367906 38 113 y 2 6:6 2:2 11 25 5 7.6 2211428 - 7:14 6:2 2 11 25 Lands voted for lots loss in the first Range. 18 13.6 2 211 25 3 11 6 2 211 25 6116 2:2 11 3% 319 13 6 2.2 113 Oats, 63 8 SRS, I have studied this text, X R O G-S N Machinery, PO2 2 ARR S and S R G N y g Ye R 1 g JACOB SELINGHAM, jr. Pulling, Syt w3t 1806. LAN YR SERIEL D BASIS EL LAWS OF THE UNION. [PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.] AN ACT Supplementary to an act, entitled "An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles, and claims to land, within the territory of Orleans, and the division of Louisiana." Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person or persons claiming a tract of land, by virtue of the second section of the act to which this act is a supplement, and who had commenced an actual settlement on such tract prior to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred, and had continued actually to inhabit and cultivate the same, during the term of three years, from the time when such actual settlement had commenced, and prior to the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and three, shall be considered as having made such settlement with the permission of the proper Spanish officer, although it may not be in the power of such person or persons to produce sufficient evidence of such permission. Sec. 2: And by it further enacted, That every person or persons rightfully claiming a tract of land, not exceeding five hundred and forty acres, by virtue of the act, to which this act is a supplement, shall be confirmed in his or their claims, if otherwise embraced by the provisions of the said act, although the person or persons, under whom the claim or claims originated, were not at the time when the same originated, above the age of twenty-one years: Provided, That the tract of land thus claimed, had been for the space of ten consecutive years, prior to the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, in the quiet possession of, and actually inhabited and cultivated by such person or persons, or for his or their use. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the time fixed by the act to which this act is a supplement, for delivering to the register of the proper land office, notices in writing, and the written evidences of claims to land within the territory of Orleans, be, and the same is hereby extended, till the first day of January next; and persons delivering such notices and evidences, shall be entitled to the same benefits as if the same had been delivered prior to the first day of March last; but the rights of such persons, as shall neglect so doing, within the time limited by this act, shall be barred, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence, in the same manner as had been provided by the fourth section of the act to which this act is a supplement. In relation to claims, notices, and written evidences thereof, which should not be delivered, prior to the said first day of March last. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the registers of the land offices in the territory of Orleans, respectively, be, and they are hereby authorized to appoint so many deputies, not exceeding one for each county, in their respective districts; as they may think necessary; whose duty it shall be to receive, enter, and file notices, and to receive and record written evidences of claims to lands lying in the county or counties to them respectively assigned, in the same manner as the register might do; and also to transmit to the register the said notices and evidences, or such transcripts of or abstracts of the same, as the said register, or the commissioners, may direct; and generally to do and perform all such acts, in relation to such claims as the said register may direct. Persons having claims to land, may deliver the notices and evidences of the same, at their option, either to the register of the proper land office, or to his deputy, for the county in which such land lies; and each of the said deputies, shall be entitled to receive the recording fees allowed to the register, by the act to which this act is a supplement, and in addition thereto, (for a compensation of five hundred dollars in full for all his services) at the rate of one dollar for every claim filed with him, to be paid out of the monies appropriated for carrying into effect the act to which this act is a supplement. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners, appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands in the territory of Orleans, shall, in their respective districts, have the same powers, and perform the same duties, in relation to the claims thus filed before the first day of January next, as if notice of the same had been given before the first day of March last, and as was provided by the act to which this act is a supplement in relation to the claims therein described. Transcripts of the decisions of the said commissioners, and reports of the claims filed in conformity with the provisions of this act, shall be made and transmitted, as was provided by the act to which this act is a supplement, in relation to the claims therein described. It shall likewise be the duty of the said commissioners, to inquire into the nature and extent of the claims which may arise from a right, or supposed right, to a double or additional concession heretofore made, or from grants or concessions heretofore made to minors, and not embraced by the provisions of this act; or from grants or concessions made by the Spanish government, subsequent to the first day of April, 1800, for lands which were actually settled and inhabited on the 20th day of December, 1803; and to make a special report thereon to the secretary of the treasury; which report shall be, by him, laid before Congress at their next ensuing session. And the lands which may be embraced by such report, shall not be otherwise disposed of, until a decision of Congress shall have been had thereupon. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That each of the registers afore said, shall, in addition to his other emoluments, receive a compensation of five hundred dollars for the services to be performed, under this act prior to the first day of January next; and each of the commissioners afore said, shall receive at the rate of six dollars a day, for every day's actual service. tendance on the duties of his office, from the first day of January next: Provided, That the whole amount of compensation thus allowed, shall not for any commissioner exceed two thousand dollars: And provided also, That the President of the United States may, if he shall think proper, reduce, after the first day of January next, the number of commissioners on either or both boards; to one or two persons, and in case of such reduction, the commissioner or com- missioners constituting the board, shall have the same powers, which are vested by this act, or by the act to which this is a supplement, in the board established by the act to which this act is a supplement. The clerk of each of the boards shall be entitled to receive at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars a year; the translators at the rate of six hundred dollars a year, and the agents employed by the secretary of the treasury at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars a year, from the first day of January next, to the time when each board shall respectively be dissolved. Provided, That no more than one year's compensation be thus allowed to each of the said clerks, translators, and agents: And provided also, That the secretary of the treasury may discontinue either one or both of said agents, whenever he shall think it proper. Sec. 7. And the commission shall further enact, That the commissioners, appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, be, and they are hereby authorized, if they shall think it necessary, for the purpose of obtaining oral evidence, either in support of, or in opposition to claims, which evidence could not be given at the usual place of their sittings, without oppression, to the parties or witnesses, to remove their sittings, or to send for that purpose, one or more members of the board, to such other place or places within their respective districts, as they may think necessary. And each of the commissioners going for that purpose, to such other place or places, shall in addition to his compensation, receive at the rate of six dollars for every twenty miles, going to and returning from such place or places: Provided, That no commissioner shall receive in the whole on that account, more than for the distance, from the usual place of the sittings of the board to the extreme settlements within his respective district. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That each of the boards aforesaid, shall prepare and cause to be prepared, the reports and transcripts, which by law they are directed to make to the secretary of the treasury, in conformity with such forms as he may prescribe; and they shall also, in their several proceedings and decisions, conform to such instructions as the said secretary may, with the approbation of the President of the United States, transmit to them in relation thereto. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor of the public lands, south of Tennessee, be and he is hereby directed to appoint a principal deputy for each of the two land districts of the territory of Oregon, whose duty it shall be to reside and keep an office in the said districts respectively, to execute or cause to be executed by the other deputies, such surveys as have been or may be authorized. Surveyors act, by law, or as the commissioners afore said may direct, to file and record all such surveys, to form as far as practicable, connected drafts of the lands granted in the district, so as to exhibit the lands remaining vacant, and generally to perform in such districts respectively, in conformity with the regulations and instructions of the said surveyor of the public lands, south of the state of Tennessee, the duties imposed by law on said surveyor. And each of the said principal deputies shall receive an annual compensation of five hundred dollars, and in addition thereto, the following fees, that is to say: for examining and recording the surveys executed by any of the deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of such survey; and for a certified copy of any plat of a survey in the office, twenty-five cents. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby authorized, whenever he shall think it proper, to appoint a receiver of public monies for the western district of the territory of Orleans, who shall receive the same annual compensation, give security in the same manner and in the same sums, and whose duties and authorities shall in every respect be the same in relation to the lands which shall hereafter be disposed of at their offices, as are by law provided with respect to the receivers of public monies in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States, north of the river Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky river. And the said receiver, and the register of the land office for the said district, shall whenever the public lands within the same shall be offered for sale, be entitled to the same commissions and fees, which are by law respectively allowed to the same officers north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized main open for three weeks and rno } longer ; the lands shall be fold for a ~ price pot less thdn that, which has been I " or may bé fixed by Jaw, for the pub- | ' lic lands in the Maiflillippl tersitory, | and shall in every other refpec be fold in tra&@s of the {ame size, on thé fame terms and conditions as have beeh, or Ray be by law provided for the lands ! fold in the Mississippi territory. The - fuperintendants oi the said public sales, . {hall receive fix dollars each, for cach g day’s attendance on the said sales. All lands, other than the reserved fedions;. and those excepted as above mention-- ed, remaining unfold at the closing of the public sales, inay be difpoled of at .private sale, by the register 'of theland office, in the fame manner, under the fame regulations, for the fame price; and on the fame terms and conditions | as are, or may be ptoVide‘d*-b{J law, for the sale of tlic lands of the United States in the Miffifippi territory: Aand patents shall b‘f'ﬁb@iﬁ@ for all Iﬁn;{g}: [TWO DOLLS. P 22 A4NNUM. granted or {oid in the territory of Or. leans, in the same manner and on the same terms, as is, or may be provided by law, for lands sold in the Mississippi territory. The location or locations of land, which may be made in the territory of Orleans, by Major General Lafayette, by virtue of the ninth section of the act, to which this act is a supplement, shall and may be received, though containing less than one thousand acres. Provided, That no such location or survey, shall contain less than five hundred acres. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury be authorized to cause a survey to be made of the sea coast of the territory of Orleans, from the mouth of the Mississippi to Vermilion Bay inclusively, and as much farther westwardly as the President of the United States shall direct, and also of the bays, inlets, and navigable waters connected therewith: Provided, That the expense of such survey shall not exceed five thousand dollars. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum appropriated by the act to which this is a supplement, and to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying this act into effect. NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. APRIL 21, 1806. APPROVED, TH. JEFFERSON. INTERESTING NARRATIVE. We have been favoured with the following intriguing narrative, communicated by a reputable house at St. Petersburg, to their correspondent in London: "Archangel, June 8, 1806. Information was received here some time ago, that a ship, which, from the description, we supposed to be the Argo, Capt. Kidson, had been seen by some Laplanders, on the rocks, in the White Sea, covered with ice, and that attracted by a sight so unusual at that season, they approached the vessel, and with difficulty got into the cabin, but found no one on board. The cargo consisted of wheat in bags. These natives, on their arrival at Kola, made a report of what they had seen, and proper persons were sent from thence to learn some further particulars. We have now received a letter from a person (written on the spot) giving a detailed account of this melancholy affair." The vessel, which, from part of a journal found on board, proves to be the Argo, Thomas Kidson, late master, is lying on shore near a place called the Three Islands, the keel and stern post are gone, and the wheat is going out through the bottom, being entirely spoiled and good for nothing, and the wreck only in a state to be burned for what iron may be saved from it. Some of the inhabitants from the nearest settlement being employed in getting anchors, ropes and any other stores they could find on shore, observed at a little distance, a pole standing in the snow, which they removed; and the following day a dog came out of the hole, which on seeing strangers, immediately returned. Curiosity induced them to clear away the snow, and at the depth of two fathoms and a half, they discovered the dog, and the remains of four human bodies. The animal had eaten most of the flesh of three of them for its subsistence during the winter; one was entire. It appears that the unfortunate crew, having quitted the ship, and got safe on land, were unable to find any habitation, and thus perished from the inclemency of the season. The ridiculous cry of war measures in the provisions to prevent war, and which promise to end in peace, ought to satisfy all reasonable men that the best measures would be condemned by the opposition to the present administration. It is now confessed that a British minister is to be expected—That things look like peace with England—That the nation will adopt conciliatory measures—That our difficulties will be considered, and amicably adjusted. Can measures be absolutely wrong that end in consequences which who may pronounce the. 