From Goshen, by Scotchtown, to Bloomingsburgh. From Poughkeepsie, by New Paltz, and Bruynville, to Bloomingsburgh. From Sullivan, by Cazenovia, and Woodstock, to De Ruyter. In Pennsylvania.-That the post route from Philadelphia to Athens, pass by Romig's Ferry, and the mouth of Durham creek, to Easton. From Bedford to Somerset. From Harrisburg, by Corbert's Mills, Jonestown, and Rohrersburg, to Hamburg. From Catawissee, by Mifflinburg, to Nescopeck. From Liverpool, by Mount Pleasant Mills, Freeburg, Middleburg, and New Berlin, to Mifflinburg. From Reading, by Morgantown, to Downington. From Emaus to Millerstown. From White Horse, by Berlin, Connelsville, Middletown, Merrittstown, Jefferson, Waynesburg, and Morrisville, to Grave Creek Flatts, in Virginia. From Stroudsburg to Orwigsburg. From New Hope, by Lumberville, and Erwinna, to Romig's Ferry, near the mouth of Durham Creek. From Kutztown, by Martztown, New Goshenhoppen, Seemanytown, In Maryland.-From Chesapeake, by Port Deposite, to Conewingo. tavern. From Havre de Grace to Woodlawn. Post-roads established. Pennsylvania. Maryland. In Virginia. From Bath Courthouse, by M'Clintock's, and Anthony's creek, to Lewisburg. Virginia. From Staunton, by Greenville, and Fairfield, to Lexington. From Lexington, by the Calf Pasture, to Faucett's, in Bath county. From Petersburg, by Southerland's Tavern, Lombardy, and Dennis's In North Carolina.-From Williamsborough, by Lynnsville, to Clarksville, in Virginia. From Fayetteville, by Waynesborough, to Stantonburg. From Wadesborough, by Edward Winfield's, Culpepper's store, Jacob Austin's, Charles T. Alexander's, and Maxwell's store, to Charlotte. From Charlotte, by Azrai Cockburn's, and William Taylor's, to Wadesborough. From Newbern, by Streets' Bridge, Croom's Ferry, Hookerstown, Snowhill, and Stantonburgh, to Smithfield. From Lawrenceville, by M'Neill's store, and Nicholas Nall's, to Pittsborough. From Pittsborough, by D. Moffitt's, to Lawrenceville. From Oxford, by Cannon and Young's store, to Clarksville, in Virginia. From Danville, by William Rawling's, and Troublesome Iron Works, to Salem. From Haysville, by Hawkins' Mills, and Chalk Level, to Williamsborough. In South Carolina.—From Columbia, by Richard Harrison's store, to Bechamsville. From Georgetown, by Black river, Bull creek, and Pee Dee Ferries, to Conwayborough. From Conwayborough, by Little river, and Smithville, to Wilmington, in North Carolina. North Caro lina. South Carolina. Post-roads established. Georgia. Ohio. Kentucky. Tennessee. Indiana. From Chester Courthouse, by Cedar Shoals, and M'Donald's Ferry, to Lancaster Courthouse. From John Thompson, junr's, by Richard Howard's, to Godfrey's Ferry, on Big Pee Dee river, or near the same. That the mail from Lumberton, to Marion Courthouse, pass by the most eligible route, omitting Barfield's if necessary. In Georgia.-From Hartford, by Jacksonville, to Perry's Mills, in Tatnal county. That the mail route from Augusta to Savannah shall pass by Waynesborough. From Powelton, by Mount Zion and Eatonton, to Monticello. From Neville to Bethel. That the mail from Marietta to Woodfield, go by Regnier's Mills, in the town of Aurelius. From Feestown, by Bethel, Williamsburg, Lebanon, and Ridgeville, to Dayton. From Lebanon, by Springsborough and Ridgeville, to Xenia. From West Union, by Decatur, Ripley, Bridgewater, Bethel, and Newtown, to Cincinnati. From Greenville to Winchester, in Indiana. From Irville to Mount Vernon. From Piketon, by Robert Bennett's and Asa Boynton's, to Burlington, on the north side of the Ohio river. From Norwalk, in the county of Huron, to Lower Sandusky, in the state of Ohio. In Kentucky. From Falmouth, by Theobald's, to Fredericksburg. That the post-road from Mount Sterling to Prestonburg, pass by the That the post-road from the Great Crossings to the mouth of Cedar, pass by Hesslersville, in Owen county. From Richmond to Estill Courthouse. From Smithland, by America, in Illinois, to Cypress, in Kentucky. From Estill Courthouse, to Patrick's Salt Works, on the north fork of From Newcastle, by Westport, and Bethlehem, to Charlestown in Indiana. From Stamping Grounds to Heslersville. From Frankford, by Heslersville, to Port William. From Shelbyville to New Castle. In Tennessee. From Knoxville, by Morgan Courthouse, to Overton Courthouse. From Morgantown, by Pumpkintown, by the town of Calhoun, to Ross's, on the south side of Tennessee river. From Murfreesborough to Shelbyville. From Carthage, by Lancaster, and Harmony Grove, to Statesville. From Kingston, by William White's on Popular Creek, to Clinton. From Monroe, by Gainesborough, Wiliamsburg, and Beech Hill, to Carthage. From Reynoldsburg to the Lower Chickasaw Bluffs. From Nashville, by Harpeth, and New Hope, to Fayetteville. From Greenville to Greenville College, in the county of Greene. From Sparta, by Allen's Ferry, and Liberty, to Statesville. From Chickasaw Lower Bluff to the post of Arkansas. In Indiana. From Palestine, by Hindostan, to Portersville. From Lawrenceburg, by Aurora, Hanover, and Rising Sun to Vevay. In Illinois. From Kaskaskias, by the Irish Settlement, Covington, From Illinois Saline, in Gallatin, to Golconda. From Montgomery, by Brownsville, and Gill's Ferry, to Jackson, in The mail from Cape Girardeau to Salem, Kentucky, shall pass by America. From Carmi, by Mount Vernon, to Carlisle. From Carmi to Wayne Courthouse and Jefferson Courthouse. From Palmyra, by Wayne Courthouse, Jefferson Courthouse, and Covington, to Belleville. From America to Jonesborough. In Mississippi.-From Natchez, by Franklin, Monticello, Covington, Wayne, and Winchester, to Fort St. Stephens. From Fordsville to Shieldsborough. In Alabama. From Tuscaloosa, by Marion County Courthouse, to Columbus. From Burnt Corn Spring, by Conecuh Courthouse, to Fort Crawford. From Huntsville, by Jackson Courthouse, and Lawrie's Ferry, to Ross's and Washington, in Tennessee. From Cahawba, by Portland, Canton, Prairie Bluff, Black's Bluff, and Foster's, to Fort Claiborne. From Mooresville, by Milton's Bluff, Courtland, Bainbridge, and Big Spring, to Russellville, in Franklin county. From Cahawba, by Joseph Britton's, Old Town, Falls of Cahawba, King and Smith's store, Shelby Courthouse, David M'Laughlin's, St. Clair Courthouse, Vincent Bennett's, the Cherokee Nation, by Ross's and James Patterson's, to Washington, in Tennessee. From the town of Cahawba to the Falls of Cahawba, and to Tuscaloosa. From Courtland to Moulton. From St. Clair Courthouse to Carolsville. In the Missouri Territory.-From New Madrid to Point Pleasant. From Louisiana to New London. That the post-road from Cape Girardeau to Winchester pass by Edward Tanner's. From St. Charles, by Marthasville, Montgomery Courthouse, Loutre Island, Cote Sans Dessein, Nashville, Smithton, John Grayum's, Franklin, Spanish Needle Prairie, Chareton, William W. Monroe's, Grand River, Bloomfield, Missouriton, and Bluffton, to Fort Osage. From Fort Osage, by Mount Vernon, Tabbo, Little Osage Bottom, and Jefferson, to Chareton. In Michigan Territory.-From Detroit, by Pontiac, to Mount Cle mens. APPROVED, May 13, 1820. Illinois. Mississippi. Alabama. Missouri. Michigan. CHAP. CI.-An Act fixing the time for the next meeting of Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the second Monday of November next. APPROVED, May 13, 1820. STATUTE I. May 13, 1820. The next meeting of Congress to be on the 2d Monday of Nov., 1820. CHAP. CII.-An Act to limit the term of office of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, all district attorneys, collectors of the customs, naval officers and surveyors of the customs, navy agents, receivers of public moneys for lands, registers of the land offices, paymasters in the army, the apothecary general, the assistant apothecaries general, and the commissary general of purchases, to be appointed under the laws of the United States, shall be appointed for the term of four years, but shall be removable from office at pleasure. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commission of each and every of the officers named in the first section of this act, now in office, unless vacated by removal from office, or otherwise, shall cease and expire in the manner following: All such commissions, bearing date on or before the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, shall cease and expire on the day and month of their respective dates, which shall next ensue after the thirtieth day of September next; all such commissions, bearing date after the said thirtieth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and before the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall cease and expire on the day and month of their respective dates, which shall next ensue after the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. And all other such commissions shall cease and expire at the expiration of the term of four years from their respective dates. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, and he is hereby authorized, from time to time as in his opinion the interest of the United States may require, to regulate and increase the sums for which the bonds required, or which may be required by the laws of the United States, to be given by the said officers, and by all other officers employed in the disbursement of the public moneys under the direction of the War or Navy Departments, shall be given; and all bonds given in conformity with such regulations shall be as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if given for the sums respectively mentioned in the laws requiring the same. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissions of all officers employed in levying or collecting the public revenue shall be made out and recorded in the Treasury Department, and the seal of the said department affixed thereto; any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That the said seal shall not be affixed to any such commission before the same shall have been signed by the President of the United States. APPROVED, May 15, 1820. CHAP. CIII.-An Act to authorize the President of the United States to borrow a sum not exceeding three millions of dollars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, empowered to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding three millions of dollars, at a rate of interest, payable quarter yearly, not exceeding five per centum per annum, and reimbursable at the will of the government, at any time after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two: or at a rate of interest, payable in like manner, not exceeding six per centum per annum, and reimbursable at the pleasure of the United States; to be applied, in addition to the moneys now in the treasury, or which may be received therein from other sources, during the present year, to defray any of the public expenses, which are, or may be authorized, by law. The stock thereby created shall be transferable in the same manner as is provided by law for the transfer of the public debt. Stock trans ferable. The bank of the United SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Bank of the United States to lend the said sum, or any part thereof; and it is hereby further declared, that it shall be deemed a good execution of the said power to borrow, for the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to cause to be constituted of the Treasury certificates of stock, signed by the register of the treasury, or by a com- may cause certificates of stock missioner of loans, for the sum to be borrowed, or for any part thereof to be constibearing an interest of five per centum per annum, transferrable and reim- tuted at 5 per bursable as aforesaid, and to cause the said certificates of stock to be cent. sold: Provided, That no stock be sold under par. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to employ an agent or agents, for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the loan authorized by this act, or of selling any part of the stock to be created by virtue thereof. A commission, not exceeding one eighth of one per cent, on the amount thus sold, or for which subscriptions shall have been thus obtained, may, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be allowed to such agent or agents; and a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for that object, and also for defraying the expenses of printing, and issuing the subscription certificates, and certificates of stock, and other expenses incident to the due execution of this act. Secretary of the Treasury may employ an agent, &c. One eighth of one per cent. to the agent. 4000 dollars appropriated for the expenses of the loan. So much of the annual ap propriation of 10,000,000 dollars as may be sufficient, appropriated for redemption of stock, and interest, of this loan. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the funds constituting the annual appropriation of ten millions of dollars, for the payment of the principal and interest, of the public debt of the United States, as may be sufficient for that purpose, after satisfying the sums necessary for the payment of the interest, and of such part of the principal, of the said debt, as the United States are now pledged annually to pay or reimburse, is hereby pledged and appropriated for the payment of the interest, and for the reimbursement of the principal, of the stock which may be created by virtue of this act. It shall, accordingly, be the duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund to cause to be applied and paid, out of the said fund, yearly, such sum and sums as may annually be necessary to discharge the interest accruing on the said stock, and to reimburse the principal, as the same may become due, and may be discharged, in conformity with the terms of the loan. And they are further authorized fund, &c. to apply, from time to time, such sum or sums, out of the said fund, as they may think proper, towards discharging, by purchase, and at a price, not above par, the principal of the said stock, or any part thereof. And chase at a price the faith of the United States is hereby pledged to establish sufficient revenues for making up any deficiency that may hereafter take place in the funds hereby appropriated for paying the said interest, and principal sums, or any of them, in manner aforesaid. APPROVED, May 15, 1820. Commissioners of the sinking fund to apply the sums necessary out of the And to pur not above par, &c. STATUTE I. CHAP. CIV. An Act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, and May 15, 1820. to repeal all acts heretofore passed for that purpose. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled "An act (a) Parts of this act are repealed by the act of May 26, 1824, ch. 195. Former acts of incorporation &c. inconsistent |