Page images
PDF
EPUB

1828.]

LEGAL DECISION.

MISCELLANEOUS.

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors]

Tackle, &c. of the

ship Dido, John Welsh, owner.

Attachment for wages. Friday 21st December, 1827.

Mr. Troubat for the libellants, stated this to be a claim for wages up to the time when they were discharged from the Dido, which had been wrecked in the Delaware, the libellants having remained on board five days after she grounded, and assisted in saving the spars, rigging and part of the cargo, and further stated that the respondent refused to pay wages for the said five days, which the libellants insisted on as just and proper. The respondent claimed a postponement until the ensuing Friday, in order to prepare himself to resist the claim, which he intimated he intended to contest as far as respected the rights of wages, even to the time when the ship grounded. The Court allowed the postponement.

On Friday the 28th, this claim was again urged on the part of the libellants, when the respondent appeared and informed the Court, that he had since settled with the libellants, and taken their receipts in full. It appeared too that the libellants had shipped and gone to sea.-Mr. Troubat then stated that he had not seen the

libellants since the last Friday-that they had settled without his knowledge or privity, and had not paid the costs of suit for which he himself had become surety; he therefore concluded by moving for a decree against Mr. Welsh the respondent, for costs, contending that his alleged settlement with the libellants would not protect him from payment of the usual costs.

His honor judge Peters granted the motion, and decreed the respondent to pay the costs.-Phil. Gaz.

[blocks in formation]

9

Compliment.-The Select and Common Councils of Pittsburgh have passed the following resolutions rèspecting our worthy fellow citizen, Frederick Graff, Esq. for furnishing them with Plans, Estimates, &c. respecting the Water-works; for which he declined receiving any compensation:

Resolved, by the Select and Common Councils of the city of Pittsburgh, that the thanks of the councils be given to Frederick Graff, Esq. for the valuable information communicated by him, on the subject of supplying the city with water.

procure a Set of Glass, of the manufactory of Pittsburg, and present the same to Frederick Graff, as a testimony of our respect.

Besolved, that the water committee be authorised to

propriated for the purpose expressed in the above resoResolved, that the sum of one hundred dollars be aplution.

In common council, Dec. 24, 1827-read and adopted.
E. J. ROBERTS, clk.
In select council, read and concurred in.
SAMUEL H. SCOTT, clk.

APPOINTMENTS BY THE MAYOR.

Robert W. Sykes, Esq. Attorney and Solicitor for the
January 1st, 1828.
Corporation.
Thomas T. Stiles,
Joseph Morris, City Commissioners.
Robert H. Smith, Esq. City Clerk.
Robert Brooke,
John Rugan, Collector of Water Rents.
Benjamin Duncan, Principal Corder of Wood at Draw-
bridge Landing, and Receiver of Wharfage.
George Abel, Deputy for the same, in place of David
Paul, resigned.

Henry Myers, jr. Corder of Wood and Receiver of
Wharfage, at Sassafras (Race st.) Landing.

John Marley, Corder of Wood on Schuylkill, and Receiver of Wharfage, and Corder of Wood brought to the City by land.

John M'Lean,

High Constables.

Tons.

Samuel P. Garrigues,

carrying 31,256

do.

108

George Beck,

Joshua Hensey,

Clerks of High st. Market.

John Land, Clerk of Second st. Market.

31,364

Total of Anthracite coal from Mount Carbon, in 1827, and no more is expected this season. The water is intended to be drawn off part of the canals, for the winter, in a few days. 4 boats, with coal included in the above, and 3 boats with 900 bbls. flour, have arrived this day, at Scull's Wharf, and its vicinity, and one or two boats may be sent up the river to day, with loading.

Lehigh has sent from Mauch Chunk, in 1827, From all other places, have been sent, in 1827,

Total, Dec. 31, 1827,

Henry Vollum, Clerk of Broad st. Market.

John Kline, Superintendant for cleaning the city, Southern District.

Joseph Lawrence, Superintendant for cleaning the city,
Northern District.

Isaac Richman, Captain of the Night Watch.
Samuel Stevens, Lieutenant of the Night Watch.
Joseph G. Nancrede, M. D. Vaccine Physician.
Thomas Porter, N. E. Division.

Benjamin W. Nicholson, S. E. do.

30,305

John P. Roberts, S. W.

1,239

James Kerr, N.W.

62,908

[blocks in formation]

Collector of Cases for

do.

the Vac. Physician.

do.

Enoch Lewis, City Regulator and Surveyor, in place of Reading Howell, deceased.

FINANCES OF PENNSYLVANIA.

The following tables of the Finances of the State have been compiled from the Auditor's Reports presented annually to the Legislature. It was our intention to have carried them back to the commencement of the State government; but finding those early statements not drawn up in the methodical manner in which they are at present, we found that it would swell the tables to an immoderate size. The present commence with the year 1802, and we believe embrace most of the items which at present will be considered interesting.

RECEIPTS.

on

on

|Dividends Dividends
Duties on!
Tavern Retailers Militia and
Tax on Tax on
Duties. Bank stock Bridge & Banks and Offices & Licenses. of Foreign Exempt
and U.S. Turnpike Dividends Writs.
Mdze. Fines.

[blocks in formation]

Auc-
Land, and tion
Year L. Office Com-

Auction

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

1803 55,689 97 1804 57,108 12| 1805 62,882 82 1806 65,447 88 1807 46,758 34 1808 52,635 42 1809 318,129 49 1810 93,644 42 1811 137,235 82 1812 125,125 28 1813 106,124 36 1814 99,682 43 1815 105,563 44 1816 85,480 57

24,503 12 105,404 10

2,009 75 22,192 38

6,161 29 444 10,470 96

587 79

8,006 77 67,593 86

204

26,624 20

55,355 07

250,969 11

2,889 40 8,693 35

51,661 74

248,329 53

23,147 90 89,750

16,007 17

8,188 32

154,212 25

18,349 21 100,100 89

2,315 40 21,003 60

5,533 16 829 73

26,689 24 105,500 29,882 64 113,000 18,819 70 114,768 33,635 22 120,108 15 53,706 67 134,867 97

2,591 07 21,645 72

10,050 35

693 14

2,341 94 29,486 80

19,849 12

485 48

3,355 0219,041 32

15,229 43

421 34

24,116 47

9,346 18

889 07

29,373 49

10,814 83

578 09

54,045 45 159,593 86

4,296 22 29,515 46

9,309 87

396 26

55,713 91 191,946 50

7,804 74 26,417 76

9,413 20

735 15

5,475 53

96,040 35 200,404 49,687 78 197,787 50 123,232 20 313,033 50

8,511 37 25,468 35

11,148 26

291 25

[blocks in formation]

8,073 19 26,196 77

4,652 66

988 46

300,000

120,000 00

5,413 59 32,834 69

36,167 05

845,977 07

8,477 63 24,035 92

2,208 47

759 82

100,000

4,550 52

1,139 7020,546 44

78,979 40

703,547 64

1817 62,661 70

82,102 04 217,258 50 78,826 13 200,571

8,172 76 30,184 23|

3,963 95

862 36

29,535 23 8,716 67 25,692 38

968 45

333,670 97

[blocks in formation]

37,631 37 13,044 87 30,682 10 8,932 32 30,899 87 37,852 28,430 36 16,830 70 27,800 76 22,294 51 12,610 43 36,601 51 2,372 64 7,170 22,670 44 6,000 33 31,729 1235,653 22 7,595 20,840 24 4,105 56 35,722 38 29,165 48 12,827 50 24,711 70 8,887 72 30,885 32 18,490 12 22,059 50 8,450 46 42,573 44 51,154 44 12,165 23,272 08 10,790 40 34,566 21 41,545 87 10,865 23,466 34 8,453 97 39,218 15 39,493 07

7,625 64 1,477 07 7,891 22 905 19 7,378 97 2,595 85 1,100,000 5,297 651,193 94 4,126 511,652 06 100,000 2,280 09 2,464 76 210,000 4,153 791,308 27 144,014 5,120 50 1,188 32 249,875 1,516 20 2,413 601,110,250

677,618 09 167,897 87 1,588,757 12

Included in the total column, are the following items, which we had not room to place in separate columns, viz: In1822-16,666 67; 1833-16,666 66; and 1824-16,666 67, instalments on Arch st. Prison. In 1816-186,538 66; 1817-110,617 32; 1824-5,510 27; 1825-6,610 56; and 1827-17,577 60, from U. S. for Expenses of Late War.

2,592 22

100,000

31,263 04 2,294 80

2,414 84 36,449 77

276,664 18

684,690 72

2,019 45 24,483 62

191,862 56

877,762 92

27,426 27

92,819 81

533,346 24

180,000

8,741 80

39,591 40

539,825 72

150,000

[blocks in formation]

6,130 5,995 14 16,442 05

67,493 14

543,790 29

155,022 05

Year

of
Governm't.

Expenses Internal Militia Pensions Pennsyl'a. Education Loans paid improvem't Expenses. and Claimants. Deaf and and Stock Gratuities.

Dumb. purchased. Loans.

EXPENDITURES.

[blocks in formation]

Interest at Philad'a. Penitentiary Convey-
at ing Con-
Inspectors of Pittsburg. victs.

on

the Prison.

[blocks in formation]

9,273 57 12,733 03
3,626 00 14,894 66
1,326 00 8,122 37
14,376 67 8,576 25
9,483 46 7,966 39

1802142,484 23
1803 149,409 52
1805 135,492 71
1896 140,530 34
1807 152,816 59
1808159,792 39 22,538 08 11,426 37
1809 149,282 02 21,076 34 11,883 60
1810138,774 15 26,818 44 8,916 62
1811 155,196 26 33,371 21 7,300 21
1812 162,646 32 38,461 00 10,223 84 5,540 47 14,730 99
1813156,602 61 27,740 00 18,986 12 11,343 85 9,320 37
1814 164,497 30 66,450 00 12,813 59 13,973 84 2,377 06
1815 159,592 28 102,402 50 33,050 45 15,734 82
1816177,373 41 123,309 02 31,979 71 16,978 67 2,432 78
1817 183,095 14333,682 16 34,240 61 18,696 46 21,837 09
1818 184,530 60364,079 52 23,046 98 18,389 80 5,779 49 2,333 33
1819 194,618 66 278,563 47 26,334 37 19,536 85 3,000 39
1820 187,757 50 114,864 77 15,017 41 18,643 32 4,265 72
|1821 169,833 98 577,259 29 17,747 5218,491 83 9,545 0420,680 00
|1822 166,320 13 173,551 08 25,837 6820,051 17 2,760 87 15,951 95
1823 174,984 90 203,535 7234,277 19 21,521 06 2,268 66 12,157 28 150,000 0077,575 79
1824 171,685 41 80,875 6030,289 26 22,754 85 1,122 24 12,000 00 200,000
1825 179,368 07 68,560 52 23,449 04 24,727 81
18,582 65
1826 182,347 43 182,104 99 23,238 05 26,048 63 4,051 37 11,958 77
1827 202,127 24 1,131500 76 26,666 7524,330 68, 9,132 0225,946 02

4,241 91|
4,149 22 12,354 64
5,573 9139,674 50
3,559 13 19,481 54
5,505 34 2,565 57
5,241 28 19,232 45
3,823 89 20,202 44
3,916 73 5,495 92
4,918 27 11,596 18

31,608 07 5,655 83
50,000 00
4,000 00 19,568 85
6,000 00 100,600 00
2,800 00 28,900 00
2,000 00 62,700 00

82,544 15

4,000 00 369,200 00
7,000 00 130,800 00
4,000 00
6,500 00
5,060 00102,138 89

5,000 00 315,265 97

163 14
428 76

[blocks in formation]

391 01

10,406 58 5,025 37|

229,582 30

10,780 58 5,921 50

309,826 01

[blocks in formation]

266,384 99 7,305 00
47,700 00 11,100 00

71,391 95 4,873 40

660,735 29

25,346 59 28,102 04)

22,683 72

487,005 94

7,438 23

6,749 72

25,471 69

[blocks in formation]

17,186 67

23,942 74

1,004 0119,354 91

51,006 00

453,043 05

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

MESSAGE.

Of GOVERNOR SHULZE, to the General Assembly of

Fellow Citizens:

Pennsylvania.

Among the duties which constitutionally devolve on the Chief Magistrate, there is none more important than the annual message which he delivers at the opening of every session of the General Assembly. It is my good fortune, every year, to approach the discharge of this high duty with renewed and increased feelings of gratification. General health, and a multiplication of the good things of this world, are every where to be found throughout Pennsylvania. We are at peace, and plenty flows in upon us through every channel. The national debt contracted for the revolutionary war; by the purchase of Louisiana and the Floridas, and by the war of 1812, is nearly discharged, and the balance is paying off with unexampled rapidity; yet we are in the full enjoyment of the rights of man, and of nations, and we have not only no direct tax to pay, but we have immense sums to devote to the erection of fortifications, and the advancement of internal improvements. May the Giver of all good fill our hearts with gratitude that our lot has been cast in such a country, and at such times as the present! The prosperity we now enjoy, is not one which arises from the devastating march of war in other countries, but is a consequence of that wise course of policy which has called forth all our resources and all our industry. Upon its permanence, therefore, we may confidently rely, and entertain a reasonable hope that it will increase as our resources, talents and industry shall be encouraged to develope themselves.

There is no good, which government can bestow, that we have not derived from it. There is scarcely an evil

[blocks in formation]

which a watchful government can avert which we have not escaped.-After fifty years' experience, of an untried, but well considered system, we are prosperous and happy, beyond all former example, and enjoying, in the highest possible degree, the invaluable rights and privileges of civil and religious liberty. We cannot be too grateful to Almighty God for all the blessings we enjoy, nor too anxious in our prayers to have them preserved to us and to our posterity.

On the system of internal improvement long practised upon in this commonwealth, I submitted my opinions at considerable length at the opening of the last session of the General Assembly. Upon a careful revision, I do not think there is any thing I could wish to alter; to it, therefore, reference may be had, if any shall be deemed necessary, as to the Governor's views of that interesting subject. I have the satisfaction to state, that no doubt is entertained that the Union Canal will be completed early in the spring. The summit level, being in a limestone country, it has been found necessary to plank a distance of seven miles. When this is finished, this great work will be ready to go into full operation. The whole line of the Pennsylvania Canal is under contract, and the contracts have been made at a price far below the estimate of the engineers. From the representations made, I feel assured that fifty miles of the western section of this canal will be completed next spring. I will not, however, anticipate the interesting facts which will be submitted for your consideration in the report of the canal commissioners.

13

they are beneficial in their operation, and indispensable, to give due effect to the policy of the individual states.They concern the general welfare, and correspond with the national exigency. They are the concentrated energy of all, applied under the guidance of all, to the common objects which transcend the powers, or the ability, of the particular states, yet are necessary for the general government. To open, or to aid in opening, those great lines of interior communication, which promise extensive national benefits, in peace and war; to protect American manufactures, and give encouragement to domestic industry, by adequate duties upon articles of foreign competition;-are within those powers of Congress which have been invariably acceded, and whose value becomes more obvious as the bounds of our confederation are extended by the admission of new states. One of those great interior communications, in which the United States and this state are deeply interested, is now so happily advancing that, early next summer, a sloop navigation will be in full operation, connecting the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware. This great improvement has thus far advanced, and it is expected will be brought to perfection, by the funds furnished by the United States Government, by the government of the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, and by individuals.

It is upon the exercise, by congress, of these powers, at proper times, that Pennsylvania must rely to carry into full effect her essential policy, and to crown the liberal efforts she has made within her borders to encourage domestic manufactures, and promote domestic trade and intercourse. Our home industry, indeed, must depend entirely upon congress against foreign legislation and foreign disturbance, since the powers which have been granted to the general government, and are alone adequate to the object, have by the great charter of our union, been expressly denied to the government of the states.

By these improvements, when completed, the resources of Pennsylvania will be greatly augmented; her agriculture encouraged; her manufactures extended; and her internal commerce facilitated and enlarged. These cardinal interests, which thrive only in conjunction, will act upon each other with a mutually beneficial effect, to the common advantage of all our fellow citizens. The farmer who supplies the raw materials, as well as the food for the manufacturer, will find a steady and increas- Intimately associated with the view just presented is ing market, in his neighbourhood, for the surplus pro-another object of exclusive national cognizance, anxiousduction of his farm. The manufacturer, if duly encour-ly desired by the eastern portion of this commonwealth, aged, will in return furnish the fabrics of ingenuity and and it must be acknowledged very important in its bearindustry. The facilities of communication will extending upon the interests of Pennsylvania, as well as most this profitable intercourse throughout the commonwealth of her sister states. The construction of a break water, and while they give value to the minerals abounding in the soil of Pennsylvania, they will open new resources of wealth and additional incentives to industry. These benefits are already partially felt and there is no reason to doubt but they will go on diffusing themselves upon a scale co-extensive with the liberal plan which the wis-provements tend, would render them more valuable and dom of the Legislature has devised.

It has been said, and the truth cannot be too often repeated, that in cultivating her own cardinal interests, Pennsylvania is promoting also the welfare of the other states- The strength of this union depends, in no mean respect, upon the capacity of the several states to supply each others wants, and the intercourse of kindness and good offices which its free exercise will produce. Pennsylvania, rich in coal and iron, producing in abundance food for man, and provided by the bounty of Providence, with numerous streams of water, affording the elementary power to set machinery in motion, seems destined to contribute a considerable part of her quota, towards the general welfare, by the fruits of industry skilfully applied to manufactures.-The maintenance of her relative rank and her ability to uphold that union, upon which our peace and happiness so much depend, is therefore, inseparably connected with internal improvement and American manufactures. It is satisfactory to observe, that justly appreciating her interests and her duty, she has spared no exertion to promote the one and fulfil the other, in a manner worthy of her character and standing.

In regard, however, to both these great objects, there are duties belonging to the government of the Union, and there are powers commensurate with those duties, as unquestionable in their constitutional existence as

or artificial harbour, at the mouth of Delaware bay would afford increased security to the trade of the bay and river; would aid the coasting trade of the United States; would benefit our chief commercial city; and by improving the outlet towards which, on the Atlantic side, all our improductive by the inducement which it would offer to our brethren in the west, to pass their produce and returns within the limits of the state. Having done so much for herself, it seems not unreasonable to hope that Congress will second her exertions by doing, within the appropriate sphere of the power of the Union, what is required to give them due effect.

The act passed by the General Assembly, April 8, 1826, for the restoration of the circuit court, and to alter the judiciary system of the commonwealth, appears to give general satisfaction in the several counties of the state. The system, however, is still believed by the people, and the judges, to be susceptible of much improvement. And it is probable that no subject, which claims the attention of the Legislature, could more beneficially engage it, than the manner in which the laws, generally, are administered throughout the commonwealth. The laws, in relation to intestates, would assuredly be improved, if they were carefully revised. The organization and laws, respecting the orphans' court, have so forcibly impressed my mind, as to the necessity of amendment, that I have in two former messages, to which I beg leave to refer, called legislative attention to the subject.

The commissioners appointed to revise the penal code of the commonwealth, will, it is expected, make their report, so as to be laid before you, early in the session,

« PreviousContinue »