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Augusta Wiscasset Penobscot
Josiah Hook
Joseph Carr
Boston*
COLLECTORS. Joseph Marquand Asa Andrews
SURVEYORS. William Cross
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NEW-YORK REGISTER.
SERTETORS,
PORTS. Champlain Oswego Niagara Butfalo Creek Genesee Sackett's Harbour and Cape St Vincent Perth Amboy Burlington Bridgetown Great Egg Harbour Little Egg Harbour New Brunswick Jersey Philadelphia* Presque Isle Wilmington, Del .* Baltimore*
Town Creek Chester Oxford and Easton Vienna Snowhill
Annapolis Nottingham Llewellenburg Nanjemoy St. Mary's, Md. Havre de Grace Georgetown, D. C. Alexandria Hampton Norfolk Suffolk Smithfield Petersburg Richmond City Point Yorktowu, West Point, and Cumberland East River Tappahannock Urbanna Port Royal Fredericksburg Carter's Creek Charlestown, V. Yeocomico Dumfries Folly Landing Cherry Stone
John Steele Thomas Forster Allen M'Lane Jas. H. M'Culloch
Jas. N. Gordon
John Willis Jolın Ennalls Lemuel P. Spence Jolın Raodall Henry Boswell
Athan. Fenwick
H. Goldsborough John Barnes Charles Simms David Brødie Chas. K. Mallory
Joseph Jones James Gibbon
T. Nelson, jr. J. B. Roberts
Eugene Sullivan William White
Henry Muse William Gray Adam Cooke Ez G. Sherman Jacob Decamps -
John S. Tapscott W. A. Linton Parker Barnes Nathaniel Holland
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Bernard Smith Philip Williams Jas. Glentwortlı
William Lowry Charles Chilton
Benjamin Wilmot
Lewis Ford Wm D. Harrison Robert Chesley
Bath. Dangerfield
Copeland Parker Joseph Prentiss Robert Butler John H Peterson Andrew Torborn Ryland Randolph
John Haile
COLLECTORS. Peter Sailly Nathan Sage Robert Fleming Oliver Forward Jesse Hawley
Perley Keys John Brewster Lemuel Howell Jas. D. Wescott Gideon Leeds Silas Crane
Henry Coffin
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PORTS. South Quay Wilmington (N. C.) Swansborough Winton Windsor Shewarkey Hertford Nixonton Indiantown Currituck Inlet
COLLECTORS. Willis W. Parker Robert Cochrane
SURVEYORS.
Thomas Callender Demsey Jones Peterson Gurley Wm. H Ruffin Henry Hunter Josiah Townsend Samuel Matthews Thomas C. Ferebee Malachi Jones David Richardson T. L. Shannonhouse Jehu Nichols James Morgan
Pasquetank . Newbiggin Creek Tombstone Murfreesborough Newbern Beaufort, (N. C.)
Washington* Edenton* Plymouth Camden* Ocracoke
Charleston*
Georgetown (S. C.)*
Beaufort (S. C.)* Savannah*
Thomas Bourke
Sunbury* Brunswick and Darien
W J. M'Intosh
M.Queen M'Intosh
St. Mary's (G ) Hardwick Louisville
Archibald Clark John J. Jenkins
Richard Ferguson Charles Pelham
Limestone Erie Miami
A. W. Walworth Almon Gibbs Peter P. Ferry
Sandusky Marietta
Cincinnati
Massac Natchez
Henry P. Wilcox John Andrews Gideon D. Cobb W. H. Beaumont William Emerson Louis Blanc
New-Orleans Bayou St. John Charlestown ([ .. ) 'Teche
Beverly Chew
Mobile
Detroit
Michilinackinac
James Miller Adden Lewis Wm. Woodbridge Adam D. Stewart.
Note .- The Ports which have stars affixed, thus, * are those at which ves- sels from the Cape of Good Hope, or any place beyond, are admitted to make entry.
Naval Officers.
Portsmouth, Elijah Hall-Newburyporty Danicl Sweet-Salem, Henry Eikins-Boston, Thomas Melville-Newport, Walter Nichols-Providence,
Francis Hawks Bridges Arundel 'Thos. H. Blount Samuel Tredwell Levi Fagan Enoch Sawyer Thos. S. Singleton Simeon Theus Thos. Chapman William Joyner Arch. S. Bullock James Holmes
Thomas H. Jervey
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NEW-YORK REGISTER.
Samuel Brown-New-York, John Ferguson -- Philadelphia, Samuel Clarke- Baltimore, Joshua Barney-Norfolk, Philemon Gatewood-Wilmington, John D. Jones-Charleston, Thomas Waring -- Savannah, Alexander Irvioe -New-Orleans, Edwin Lorrain.
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Public Appraisers,
Appointed under the Act supplementary to the Collection Law, passed du- ring the session of 1819.
Boston, Williamn Little, Isaac Waters-New-York, Ichabod Prall, Abra- ham R. Lawrence -- Philadelphia, Samuel Ross, Thomas Stewart-Bal- timore, William Dickinson, William Haslett.
United States Patents.
The general law concerning the issuing of Patents will be found in the second volume of the Laws of the United States, page 200. This law pro- vides for citizens only ; but a subsequent law (vol. 5, page 83) provides also for applicants who have resided two years or upwards in the United States, and who are not citizens.
In applying for a patent, it is necessary to attend to every legal form, for in consequence nf inattention to forms only, some of the patents issued for- merly have, in the courts of law, been declared to be null and void.
Mode of Application.
" Every inventor, before he presents his petition to the secretary of state, signifying his desire of obtaining a patent, shall pay into the treasury of the United States, thirty dollars, for which he will be furnished with duplicate receipts, one of which he shall deliver to the secretary of state, when he presents his petition ; and the money thus paid shall be in full for the sundry services to be performed in the office of the secretary of state, consequent to such petition. This petition must be addressed to the secretary of state, and may be in the following or in a similar style :
To the Hon. , Secretary of State of the United States.
The petitiun of A. B. of - -, in the county of -, and state of - w, respectfully represents ;
That your petitioner has invented a new and useful improvement {" or art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful im- provement in any art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter,"] in -- , not known or used before his application, the advantages of which he is desirous of securing to himself and his legal representatives; he therefore prays that letters patent of the l'nited States may be issued, grant- ing unto ynur petitioner, bis heirs, administrators, or assigns, the full and exclusive right, of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his said improvement, (art, invention, machine, manufacture or compo- sition of matter, &c. ) agreeably to the acts of Congress in such case made and provided ; your petitioner having paid thirty dollars into the treasury of the United States, and complied with the other provisions of the said acts. A. B.
The specification or description of the machine, art, discovery, or inveus- tion, must be given in clear and specific terms, designating it from all other invention, and describing the whole in such a manner as to comprehend not only the form and construction, if a machine, but also the mode of using the same ; and if it he only an improvement on a certain machine already invent- ed by the applicant or any other, it ought to be so mentioned as. described ;
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and as this specification, description, or schedule, enters into and forins part of the patent, it must be without any references to a model or drawing, and must be signed by the applicant or applicants, before two witnesses. It is material that this be in good language, and correctly written, as it is trans- cribed into the patent, and the original papers will be deposited in an office, that will hand them down to posterity; by which the honour of the country is concerned in this attention. The inodest inventor will, no doubt, exclude those panegyrics ou the excellence of his invention or discovery, whicha abounds sometimes in the productious of the inferior genius, but which ought not to enter into the patent.
The following, or a similar oath or affirmation, taken [before a judge of any of the courts. or a justice of the peace, or any person qualified to administer an oath] by the applicant or applicants, must be subjoined to the specification, if citizens of the United States :
FORM.
Countyof, State of -- , SS.
On this --- of -- , 181 , before the subscriber, a justice of the peace, in aud for the said county, personally appeared the afcrenamed, A. B. and made solenin oath [or affirmation] according to law, that he verily believes hinself to be the true and original inventor or discorerer of the art, [machiiue, invention, or improvement, composition of matter, &c.] abore specified and described, for ... (mention here the object or intentioo) -, and that he is a citizen of the United States.
, Just. Peace.
If not a citizen (or citizens) the following addition must be made to the declaration, " that he verily believes himself to be the true and original inven- tor or discoverer of the art, &c. And that the same hath not, to the best of his or her knowledge, or belief, been known or used, either in this or any foreign country -. " " Also, that he (or she) hath resided in tlie United States two years and upwards."
It is not necessary that the time of residence should immediately precede the upplication.
If an inventor or discoverer should die intestate, before an application be made for a patent, his legal representatives may apply for the patent, in trust for the heirs at law ; other wise in trust for the devisers.
The specification inust be accompanied by a good drawing, in perspective, of the whole machine or apparatus, " where the nature of the case admits of drawings, or with specimens of the ingredients, and of the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, where the inven- tiun is of a composition of inatter." " And such inventor shall, moreover, cicliver a model of lus machine, provided the secretary shall deem sucha model to be necessary." It is requisite, in giving a drawing of the machine, to give also sectional drawings of the interior when the machine be complex ; and every drawing should be accompanied with explanatory reference, If the machine is complex, a model will likewise be necessary, not only to explain and render it comprehensible to a conunon capacity, but also to pre- veut infringements of riglits ; for many will plead ignorance of drawings, who carnot avoid conviction by wheels and pinions.
l'he dr. wings ought not to exceed a quarto size, and if confined to octavo, they would be still better, where it can be done conveniently and distinctly.
Many of the drawings in this office are executed in a very handsome style, and do mnuch credit to the gentlemen whose names are ascertained. If the artists would always sign thein, with their directions, information might be given to the applicants for patents where to apply for drawings.
The papers must all be sent directed to the superintendent of the Patent Office, uuder cover to the secretary of state, which of course renders them free of postage ; but if models be sent, their freight or carriage hither must be
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paid, and before packing them, the name or names of the inventor or inven- tors should be written thereon, with the name of the machine, and the date, for, soinctimes, on receiving them, it is difficult to know to whom they apper- tain.
'The congress being impressed with a high sense of the value of the inven - tions of our citizens, have purchased an elegant and extensive building, wherein preparations are made for the accommodation of a very numerous collection of the machines illustrative of the ingenuity displayed; and this Museum of the Arts, it is presumed, will stimulate the ingenious to send the models of their macbines and inventions in a style that will rather honuur than discredit themselves and our country.
Copy-rights of books, prints, charts, maps, &c. are secured " by depositing before publication, a printed copy of the title of such map, chart, book or books, in the clerk's office of the district court, where the author or proprictor shall reside, who will record the same; and the author or proprietor shall within two months froin the date of the record, cause a copy of the said record to be publisbed in one or more of the newspapers printed in the United States, for the space of four wecks. And within six months of publishing the map, chart, bouk, or books, the author or proprietor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the sceretary of state, a copy of the same;" and, when leposited and entered in the patent office, a certificate will be returned of its being received. This will secure the sole right of publication, for fourteen years, to the author or proprietor, if a citizen in the United States, or resident therein. " And if, at the expiration of the terin, the author or authors, or proprictors, or any of them, be living and a citizen or citizens of these United States, or residents thicrein, the same exclusive right shall be contiuucd to him or thein, his or their executors, administrators, or assigns, for the further term of fourtecn years; provided, he or they shall cause the title thereof to be recorded and published in the above manner, within six months before the expiration of the first term of fourteen years aforesaid." In securing designs for paper-hangings and ornaments for rooms, &c. a specimen of each should be .leposited in the clerk's office where the inventor resides, who will describe in writing, all the ornaments, and the colours used in each, so as to designate them, with the changes that are proposcd to be used in changing the ground and general tint. Let cach paper thus described, be numbered, 1, 2, 3, &c. and after entering them in the clerk's office, and publishing then as directed, let a specimen of each be sent to the honourable the secretary of state, or through hin to the person who direcis the patent office, with correspondent description and numbers ; and a certificate of such a deposit will complete the requistions of the law in sccuring the exclusive right to each original produc- tion of genius.
WILLIAM THORNTON.
POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT.
The Post Office Establishment is under the direction of a Post Master General, whose office is called the General Post Office, and is kept at the seat of goverment.
Congress, by special act, establishes such post roads as appear to them expedient. At this time there is a main post road which extends 1,733 miles from Roblonstown, on the north-eastern extremity of the sea-coast of the Umed States, to St. Mary's, on the south eastern extremity ; and another main post road, which leads from the seat of government to New Orleans, bei a distance of 1,233 miles, and branches, or cross roads, wisch keep up a conunui.ication between the capital of the United States and the capitals of the individual sta es, and also with every city or village of any note. The aggregate of the extent of the several post roads is about 51,600 miles.
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The mail is carried by contracts made with the Post Master General, who has divided the whole into nearly 400 routes or contracts, and bas stipulated for its conveyalice as often and with such expedition as he finds the public nterest requires. It runs daily between the great and commercial towns; twice a week to the capitals of each state, not commercial; and once a week in other places. The usual rate of travelling on the cross-roads, is 40 miles a day ; and from GO to 120 miles in 24 hours, between the great commercial towns.
Post Offices are established by the Post Master General, at such places as he considers expedient.
There are stages for the conveyance of the mail and passengers, from Belfast in Maine, to St. Mary's in Georgia, and on many of the cross-roads.
RULES AND ORDERS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK,
Passed May 11, 1818.
I. Upon the appearance of five Aldermen and five Assistants, the Mayor, or in his absence the Recorder, shall take the chair as President, and the members be called to order.
SI. Immediately after the President shall have taken the chair, the minutes of the preceding meeting shall be read by the Clerk, to the end that any mistakes therein may be corrected by the Board
III. The President shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Board.
IV. The President shall in all cases be entitled to one vote, and no more.
V. Every member, previous to his speaking, shall rise from his seat, and address himself to the President.
VI. When two or more members shall rise at once, the President shall mame the member who is first to speak.
VII. No person shall speak more than twice to the same question without leave of the Board, nor more than once until every member, choosing to speak, shall have spoken.
VIII. No question on a motion shall be debated or put unless the same be secondled. When a motion is seconded, it shall be stated by the President before debate, and every such motion shall be reduced to writing, if any member desire it.
IX. After a motion is stated by the President, it shall be deemed to be in possession of the Board, but may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment.
X. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received, unless
1. To amend it,
2. To commit it,
3. To postpone it,
4. For the previous question, or
5. To adjourn.
XI. A motion to adjourn shall be always in order, and shall be decided avithout debate.
XII. The previous question, until it is decided, shall preclude all amend- ments and debate of the main question, and shall be in this form,-" Shall the main question now be put ?""
XIII. Every member who shall be present when a question is put, shall vote for or against the same, unless the Board shall excuse him, or unless he be immediately interested in the question, in which case he shall not vote.
XIV. A member called to order shall immediately sit down, unless per- mitted to explain, and the Board, if appealed to, shall decide on the case, but without debate : if there be no appeal, the decision of the Chair shall be submitted to.
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XV. All questions shall be put in the order they are moved, except that in filling up blanks the largest sum and the longest time shall be first put.
XVI. Upon a division in the Board, the names of those who vote for, and of those who vote against the question, shall be eutered upon the minutes, if any two members require it.
XVII. In all divisions taken by the Board it shall be the duty of the Clerk to enter on the minutes the name of the member calling for the division.
XVIII. No motion for reconsideration shall be in order, unless made at the same meeting, or in pursuance of notice then given for the next meeting after that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place, except by unanimous consent.
XIX. All appointments of Officers shall be made by ballot, unless dis- pensed with by the unanimous consent of the Board.
XX. No member shall absent himself without permission from the President.
XXI. All committees shall be appointed by the President, unless otherwise ordered by the Board. Committees appointed to report on any subject re- ferred to them by the Board, shall report a state of facts, and also their opinion thereon in writing ; and no report shall be received nnless the same be signed hy a majority of the Committee.
XXII. Whenever the doors are directed to be closed, all persons, excepting the Members and the Clerk of the Common Council, shall retire.
XXIII. A motion for the order of the day shall take precedence of all other motions, and is to be considered immediately after the reading of petitions and original communications.
XXIV. The Standing Committee shall be as follows :
1. Applications, 2. Assessments, 3. Arts and Sciences, 4. Canal, 3. Charity, 6. Ferries, 7. Finance, 8. Fire Department, 9. Lamps, 10. Laws, 11. Markets, 12. Police, 13. Public Lands and Places, 14. Pub- tic Offices, 15. Repairs, 16. Roads, 17. Streets, 18. Watch, 19. Wharves, Piers and Slips.
Those on Applications, Arts and Sciences, Ferries, Fire Department, Lainps, Laws, Repairs, and Charity, shall consist of three, and the others of five.
By the Common Council.
JACOB MORTON, Elerk.
Annual Bill of Mortality, in the City and County of New-York,
for the year 1819, as reported to the Common Council, by Dr. G. Cuming, City Inspector.
January-74 men, 62 women, 56 boys, 58 girls.
February -- 68 men, 46 women, 68 boys, 41 girls.
March-71 men, 46 women, 40 boys, 42 girls.
April-76 men, 51 women, 53 boys, 46 girls. May-74 men, 51 women, 42 boys, 29 girls. June-72 men, 41 women, 54 boys, 40 girls. July-60 men, 61 women, 84 boys, 58 girls. August-87 men, 77 women, 151 boys, 145 girls. September-76 men, 64 women, 109 boys, 110 girls.
October-83 men, 66 women, 80 boys, 80 girls. November-94 men, 71 women, 62 boys, 39 girls.
December-60 men, 67 women, 52 boys, 41 girls.
TOTAL-895 men, 703 women, 851 boys, 727 girls-making, in the aggregate, 3170.
MERCEIN'S
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TABLE
OF THE
POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT, From 1789 to 1816, inclusive.
Years
No of Post Offices
Amount of Postages
Compensation to Post
Masters
Incidental Expenses
Transportation of the
Nett revenue.
Extent in miles of the
Post Road's
1789
75
S37,935 $8,198 $1,861 $22,081
$5,795
1,875
1791
89
46,294
10,312
3,092
23,293
9,597
1,905
1792
195
67.444
16,518
5,282
32,731
12,913
5,642
1793
209
104,747
21,646
5,660
44,734
32,707
5,642
1794
450
128,947
27,156
9,812
53,005
33,974
11.984
1795
453
160,620
30,272
12,262
75,359
42.727
13,207
1796
468
195,067
35,730
14,353
81,489
63,495
13,207
1797
554
213,998
47,109
13,623
89,382
63,884
16,180
1798
639
232,977
56.035
16,035
107,014
53 893
16,180
1799
677
264,846
63,958
14,605
109,475
76,808
16,180
1800
903
280,803
69,243
16,107
128,644
66,810
20,817
1801 1025
320,444
79 338
23,363
152,450
65,292
22,309
1802 1114
327,045
85,587
21,658
174,671
45,129
25,315
1803 1258
351,823
93,170
24,084
205,110
29,459
25,315
1804 1405
389,450 107,716
24,231
205,555
51,948
29,556
1805 1558
421,373 111,552
26,180
239,635
44 006
31,076
1806 1710
446,106 119,785
28,416
269,033
38,872
33,431
1807 1848
478,763 129.041
32,093
292,751
24,878
33 755
1808 1944
460 564 128,653
28.676
305,499
34,035
1809 2012
506,634 141,579
23,516
332,917
8,621
34,055
1810 2300
551,684 149,438
18,565
327,966
55,715
36,406
1811 2403
587,247' 159,244
20,689
319,166
88,148
36,406
1812 2610
649,208 177 422
22,117
340,626
109,043
39,3-8
1813 -
703,155 221,848
20.605
438,559
22,143
39,540
1814-
730,370 234,354
17,170
475,602
3,344
41 736
1815 3000 1,043,065 241,901
18,441
487.779
294,944
43,966
1816 3260
961,011 257,718
24,744
521,970
156,579
48,976
1817 3459
51,600
1790
75
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A VIEW
OF THE
Progress of the Post Office Department.
The several periods re- ferred tu.
No. of Post Offices.
Length of P'ost Rouds.
Weekly transportation
of the mail in stages.
Weekly transportation
of the masl in sulkies
and on horseback.
Weekly transportation
of tho Mails.
Yearly transportation
of the mails.
Periods.
Nos.
Miles.
Miles.
Miles.
Miles.
Miles.
1793
209
5,642
8,567
7,662
16,229
843,908
1797
554
16,180
14,902
19,708
34,610
1,799,720
1801
1,025
21,840
24,490
34,380
58,870
3,061,964
1803
1,258
25,315
30,172
37,228
67,400
3,501,800
1807
1,848
83,755
41,523
45,000
85,528
4,99,456
1811
2,403
36,406
46,380
61,171
107,580
5,592,65 ..
1816
3,260
48,976
71,046
74,516
145,562
7,569,224
1817
3,459
51,600
The Mail is transported in stages, each day in the year, 10,121 miles.
The Mail is transported in snikies and on horseback, each day io the year, 10,616 miles, making 20,737 miles per day.
If you divide the post roads of the United States into two distinct post routes, the Mail will travel each week, in stages, nearly equal to three times round the globe; aud divide all the post roads in the United States, into four dist nct post rontes, on which the Mail is carried in stages, snlkies, and on ho se ach, it will be equal to a travel of six times, each week, round the globe, averaging one Post Office for every 15 miles of Post road.
The Mail is tranyported by a direct or corresponding line of stages, from Anson in the district of Maine), ria Washington city.to Nashville, (Tennessee ) a distance of 1,48 miles, in a south-western direction. The Mail is trans- ported, by a direct line of stages, from St.Mary's in Georgia, to Highgate, in Vermont, cia Washington city, a distance of 1,369 miles io a northern di- rection.
NEW-YORK STATE PRISON.
Inspectors Frederic Deperster, Isaac J. Donglass, Herman Vosburgh, farael Lewis, Samuel Webb, Henry Eckford, John Poilion.
MERCEIN'S
Chaplain-Rev. John Stanford. Agent-Alexander Coffin, Jun. Principal Keeper-Nicholas Roome. Clerk- Henry Ritter. Deputy Keeper-John Gibson. Captain of the Guard-John Cowdery. Resident Physician-Thomas Van Zandt. Visiting Physicians-William Hamersley, M.D. James R. Manley, M.D. Charles Drake, M. D. D. W. Kissam, M. D. David Quakinbush, N. D. Richard L. Walker, M.D.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
CITY HALL.
The City Hall is the most prominent, and most important building in New- York, and the haodsomest structure in the United States, perhaps of its size in the world. This claste and beautiful edifice stands near the upper end of the Park, and though somewhat encumbered by the vicinity of the Bridewell and Gaol, it is seeo to considerable advantage from almost every quarter. The whole length of this building is 216 feet; breadth 105 feet, including the attic story. It is 66 feet in height. On the cupulo is placed the colossal figure of Justice.
NEW-YORK HOSPITAL.
This institution comprises the Hospital for the reception of the sick and disabled, the Lunatic Asylum, and Lying-in-Hospital. Its length 455 feet ; breadth 450 føet. Its site is in Broadway, near Duane Street.
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