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At New Haven, 3d Tuesday in February and August, and at Hartford, 3d in May and November.
New York,
At New York, 1st Tuesday in February and May, Au- gust and November.
New Jersey,
At Burlington, 1st Tuesday in February and August, and at New Brunswick 1st in May and November.
Pennsylvania,
At Philadelphia, 3d Monday in February, May, August and November.
Delaware,
At Dover, 4th Tuesday in February and August, and at Newcastle, 4th in May and November.
Maryland,
At Easton, 1st Tuesday in March and September, and i» Baltimore, 1st in June and December.
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Virginia, At Williamsburg, Sd Tuesday in March ar.d September, and at Richmond 3d in June and December.
North Carolina,
At Newbern, 1st Monday in February, May, August, and November.
South Carolina,
At Charleston, 3d Monday in March and September, 1st. in July and 2d in December.
Georgia,
At Augusta, on 2d Tuesday in November, and at Savan, nah, 2d in February, May, and August-
Kentucky,
At Frankfort, on 2d Monday in March, 3d in June and November.
Tennessee,
On the Ist Monday in April, July, October, and January. Exclusive of the above-mentioned stated courts, the dis- trict judges have power to hold special courts in their re- ·pective districts at their discretion.
DEPARTMENTS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
JAMES MUNROE, Secretary, Salary $5000 Chief clerk, John Graham, and six clerks.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary, Salary, S5000
Chief clerk, Edward Jones, and five clerks.
Comptroller, Richard Rush, Sulary, S3500 Chief clerk, Nathan Luff borough, and 12 clerks. Auditor, Richard Harrison, Salary, $3000
Chief clerk, Patrick Farrel, and 11 clerks.
Tre suer, Thomas Tudor Tucker, Salary, $3000
Chief clerk, Samuel Brook, and two clerks. Register, Joseph Nourse, Fifteen clerks.
Salary, S2400
WAR DEPARTMENT.
WILLIAM EUSTIS, Secretary,
Chief clerk, --- , and 5 clerks. Salary, 4500
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Accountant, William Simmons,
Salary, $2000 Chief clerk, Peter Hagner, and 8 clerks.
GENERAL OFFICERS, &C. OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY.
MAJOR GENERALS,
Henry Dearborne,
-
James Wilkinson.
Thomas Pinckney,
BRIGADIER GENERALS,
Wade Hampton, ¡ John Armstrong,
James Winchester, John Chandler,
Joseph Bloomfield,
John P. Boyd,
William Hull,
Henry Burbeck,
Thomas Flournoy,
William Henry Harrison.
QUARTER-MASTER GENERAL, Morgan Lewis.
COMMISSARY GENERAL, Callender Irvine.
ADJUTANT GENERAL, Thomas Cushing.
INSPECTOR GENERAL, Alexander Smyth.
QUARTER MASTER'S DEPARTMENT.
MORGAN LEWIS, Quarter Master General.
Anthony Lamb, Deputy Q. Master,
Jacob Eustis, do
William Linnard,
do
Capt. William Swan, do
Major A. Stoddard, do
Lieut. Samuel Champlain, do
Albany Boston Philadelphia
James Thomas, do New Orleans Lieut. D. Baker, Assist. D. Q. M. Detroit Lieut. Hez. Johnson, do Pittsburg Capt. J. B. Walbach, do Portsmouth Capt. James House, do Newport, R. I. . Lieut. H. Yeaton, do Norfolk, Virginia Lieut. S. Champlain, clo Charleston, S. C. Capt. N. Leonard, do Niagara Lieut. S. Clark, do Annapolis Capt. Stephen Ranney, do Salem Lieut. John T. Wirt, do Fort Stoddart Capt. John Nicks, do Fort Hampton, N. C. B. Fontaine
Lieut. J. C. Symmes, do
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Lieut. C. Van De Venter, Assist. D. Q. M.
New York
Lieut. Samuel Perkins,
do
Greenleaf's Point
Mr. Samuel Duncan,
do
Carlisle
But. John Erving, de
Fort Johnson
Lieut. J. W. Bryson,
do
Newport, Ken.
Lieut. Jacob Allbright, čo
Vincennes
Lieut J. Hollingshead, do
Lieut. R. B. Cuyler,
do
Lieut. Rufus Hatch,
do
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.
COL. DECIUS WARDSWORTH, commissary general Major George Bomford, assist. commissary general. Lieut. Sylvanus Thayer, deputy commissary.
Lieut. John Morton, do
COMMISSARY'S DEPARTMENT.
CALLENDER IRVINE, commissary general.
John M'Kinney, Deputy commissary.
John H. Plummer, do
Thomas Buford,
do
J. Langdan, jun.
do
John Cummings,
do
Amaza Stelson,
do
Benjamin Cudworth,
do
John Stith, do
Hanson Kelly,
do
Elisha Tracy,
do
Joseph W. Nickolson,
Benjamin Morgan,
do
Samuel Russel,
do
William Jarvis,
do
Tennessee Kentucky Portsmouth Georgia
S. Carolina Virginia N. Carolina Connecticut New Geneva , New Orleans New York Vermont ...
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
PAUL HAMILTON, secretary, Salary, $4500
Chief clerk, C. W. Goldsborough, and 3 clerks.
Accountant, Thomas Turner, Salary, $2000
Chief clerk, Thomas II. Gilliss, and 8 clerks.
NAVAL FORCE OF THE UNITED STATES.
FRIGATES.
Guns.
Guns
Constitution
44
Chesapeak
44
United States
44
New York
36
President
44
Constellation 36
independence /.
Julius
queniere 44
- Dire
Trenton
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LAK
APPENDIX.
Congress
36
Adams
32
Boston
32
John Adams
Essox
Macedonian, taken from the British by Decatur.
S Wasp (taken)
Ships of war, Hornet, 16
BRIGS.
Siren
16.
Enterprize 14
Argus
16
Vixen 12
Oneida 16
Viper (cutter) 12
170 GUN BOATS.
BOMBS.
Vengeance,
Spitfire,
Etna,
Vesuvius.
32 gun frigate (building) and 11 schooners at Sac- ket's harbour, on the lakes.
OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
CAPTAINS.
Alexander Murray, Isaac Hull,
John Rogers,
Isaac Chauncey,
James Barron,
John Shaw,
William Bainbridge,
John Smith,
Hugh. G. Campbell,
John H. Dent,
Stephen Decatur,
David Porter,
'Thomas Tingey, John Cassin,
Charles Stewart,
Samuel Evans.
MASTERS COMMANDANT.
Charles Gordon,
Joseph Tarbell,
Jacob Jones, James T. Leonard,
James Lawrence, Charles Ludlow,
LIEUTENANTS.
Af. B. Carroll, Sumuel Elbert, Oliver H. Perry, Joseph Bainbridge, John M. Cardner, William M. Crane, D. T. Patterson, Robert Henley, John D. Henley, Charles L. Ridgley, William H. Allen,
Samuel Angus, T. Macdonough, L. Warrington, Octavus A. Page, J. Blakeley, James Biddle, Stephen Cassin, D. S. Dexter, M. T. Woolsey, Jonathan Thorn, George C. Read,
6
ah
Geo. Washington Reed, Arthur Sinclair,
Charles Morris, jun.
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R. T. Spence, Edvard Trenchard, John Orde Creighton, James Renshaw, David Deacon, Louis Alexis, John Downes, Sidney Smith, William Lewis, William Burrows, Thomas Brown,
George Parker,
Nathaniel Haraden,
Walter Winter,
George Merrill,
Samuel Woodhouse,
Charles C. B. Thomson,
James P. Wilmer, Francis I. Mitchell,
T. A. C. Jones,
John M. Funk,
Alexander Wadsworth,
Joseph F. M'Pherson, .
John Porter,
John T. Shubrick.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, WASHINGTON CITY.
GIDEON GRANGER, postmaster general,
$ 3000
Assistant, Abraham Bradley, jun. 1700
Ditto Seth Pease, 1600
Chief clerk, Robert F. How, and 13 clerks.
P Sce " Post Office Establishment."
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
Josiah Meigs.
UNITED STATES MINT, PHILADELPHIA.
ROBERT PATTERSON, director, S 2000
Benjamin Rush, treasurer,
1200
Henry Voigt, coiner, 1500
Joseph Richardson, assayer, 1500
1500
Robert .. cot, engraver,
1200
Adama Eckfeldt, assistant coiner and die forger,
800
Clerks, one at
700
two at
Henry E. Ballard, Thomas Gamble, A. C. Ludlov, B. I. Neale, Joseph I. Nicholson, Walter Stewart, F. H. Babbit, William Carter, jun. Chauncey,
H. Elton, Edward P. Kennedy, Jesse Wilkinson,
Horace Walpole, Alexander James Dallas,
James Wilson,
John B. Nicolson,
B. V. Hoffman, George Budd,
Joseph Nicholson,
John Pettigrew,
Jesse D. Elliot,
George W. Rogers,
Joseph cloud, refiner,
See " Table of Coins. 500
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INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
DIPLOMATIC DEPARTMENT.
MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY.
To France, Jeal Barlow $ 9000
Court of London, 9000
St. Petersburg, John Quincy Adams, 9000
Rio Janeiro in B. . zil, Thomas Sumter, 9000
Madrid, (vacant) 9000
CHARGE DES AFFAIRS.
Great Britain, (vacant) $ 4500
SECRETARIES OF LEGATION.
· 'To France, unknown,
$ 1350
Court of Lomilon, unknown, 1350
CONSULS AND COMMERCIAL AGENTS.
David B. Warden, commercial agent, Paris,
William Lee,
ditto
Bordeaux,
Thomas Aborn,'
vice com. agent, Cayenne,
Peler Walsh, · commercial agent, Cette,
William Buchanan, » ditto
Ethienne Cathalan,
ditto
Marselles,
John Appleton,
ditto
Calais,
Thomas Lovell,
ditto
La Rochelle,
Francis Coffyn,
ditto
Dunkirk,
Henry Wilson,
ditto
Ostend,
Joseph Yznardi,
ditto.
Cadiz,
Robert Montgomery,
ditto
Alicante,
ditto
Riga,
William Kirkpatrick
ditto
Malaga,
Lewis O'Brien,
ditto
St. Andero,
John M. Baker,
ditto
Isles Majorca, Minor- ca and Yviça,
John J. Armstrong,
ditto
· Island of Teneriffe, St. Lucar,
Richard S. Hackley,
ditto
John B. Dabney,
ditto
Fayal and the Azores,
Henry Hill,
ditto
George Joy,
ditto
- St. Salvador in Brazil, Rotterdam,
J. L. Cathcart,
consul,
Madeira,
Sylvanus Bourne, consul general, Amsterdam,
Hans Ran. Saabaye,
ditto
Copenhagen®
Isle France, Bourbon,
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James M'Gregor, consul general, St. Thomas,
Thomas Gamble,
consul,
Santa Cruz,
Frederick W. Lutze,
clitto
Stetin,
William Clarke,
ditto
Embden,
John M. Forbes,
ditto
Hamburg,
F. J Wickhelhausen,
ditto
Bremen,
Philip Marck,
ditto
Franconia,
Philip Depeyster,
ditto
Curracoa,
Edward Carrington,
vice consul,
Canton,
William Riggin,
ditto
Trieste;
James Anderson,
ditto
Gottenburg,
John S. Cogdel,
ditto
Rome,
Thomas Appleton,
ditto
Leghorn,
Alexander Hammet,
clitto
Naples,
Thomas H. Storm,
ditto
Genoa,
Johr Broadbent,
ditto
Messina,
Abraham Gibbs,
ditto
Palermo,
Levitt Ifarris,
ditto
St. Petersburg,
William Stewart,
citto
Smyrna,
Tobias Lear,
consul general,
Algiers,
George Davis,
consul,
Tripoli,
James Simpson,
ditto
Tangier,
J. Roberts Poinsett, consul general, Buenos Ayres, Chili
and Peru,
Thomas L. Halsey,
consul, -
Buenos Ayres,
Samuel Hazard,
citto
Archangel,
William G. Miller,
ditto
Monte Video.
AGENTS FOR SEAMEN AND COMMERCE.
Henry Rose,
agent at Antegua,
Maurice Lisle,
ditto Tortola,
Lewis Forman, ditto Guadaloupe,
Archibald M. Cocke, ditto Martinique,
Maurice Rogers,
ditto St. Jago de Cuba,
William H. Savage,
ditto Island Jamaica,
J. B. Clement,
ditto
Porto Rico,
Richard W. Meade,
ditto
Cadiz.
Note. 'All those appointed to France and its dependencies, and those only, are styled commercial agents.
The fees and emoluments of consuls, as established by law, (excepting those in the Barbary States ) and which of course extends to commercial agents, are as follows, viz.
For authenticating under the consular scal, every protest, declaration, deposition, or other act, which any captain, mas- ter, mariner, or other citizen of the United States, may re- spectively choose to make, the sum of two dollars.
For the taking into possession, inventorying, selling, and finally settling and paying or transmitting the balance due on g 2
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personal estate, left by any citizen of the United States, who shall die within the limits of. his consulate, five per cent. on the gross amount of such estate. .
For taking into possession, and otherwise proceeding on any such estate which shall be delivered over to the legal representative, before the final settlement of the same, two and a half per cent. on such part delivered over as shall not be money, and five per cent. on the gross amount of the re- sidue.
For administering oaths or affirmations to the principal officers of, a vessel confirming the landing of merchandise where he shall reside, twenty five cents each; and for certi- fying the delivery of such merchandise, from every such vessel, one dollar.
MINISTERS, CONSULS, AND COMMISSARIES OF FOREIGN POWERS, RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES ... -1
FROM FRANCE.
J. SERURIER, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- tentialy.
M. Le Baron Lescallier, consul general, New York.
Mare Antoine Alexis Giraud, consul, Boston.
Gerard Cazeaux, vice consul, Portsmonth, N. H.
Honore Felix de Douzy, vice consul, Philadelphia.
Louis Francis Leloup, consul, Baltimore ..
M. Oster, vice consul, Norfolk.
M. Fourcroy, consul, Charleston, S. C.
M. Le Marvis, vice consul, Savannah.
M. Martel, consul, Naiches.
Louis de Tousard, vice consul, New Orleans.
FROM SPAIN.
DON LUIS DE ONIS, envoy extraordinary and minister ple - nipotentiary.
Don Bartolone Renguenet, consul, Pennsylvania, at Phila- delphia.
Don Antonio Argote Villalobos, consul, Virginia and Kentucky.
Don Juan Bauoista Bernaben, consul, Maryland.
Don Diego Morphy, consul, New Orleans.
Don' Felipe Facio, consul, North and South Carolina.
Don Carlos Molvey, consul in the absence of Don Facio.
Don Juan Stoughton, consul, New Hampshire, Massachu -. setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont. ?
Don Jomas Stoughton, consul, New York.
Don Pablo Clacon, vice consul, Alexandria.
Don Carlos Molvey, vice consul, Newport, R. I. absent.
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FROM PORTUGAL.
Joseph Rademaker, consul general. ( Vacant) vice consul at New York. James F. Vornock, vice consul, South Carolina. Richard Codman, vice consul, Massachusetts. Lewis Deblois, vice consul, Washington-
FROM THE LATE BATAVIAN REPUBLIČ.
(Vacant) minister resident.
Adrian Valck, consul, Maryland and Virginia.
(Vacant), consul, Charleston, S. C.
J. H. C. Heinekin, commercial agent, Pennsylvania. Gilbert I. E. Smissart, New York.
FROM SWEDEN.
Rich Soderstrom, coisul general, PHadelphia.
Joseph A. Winthrop, vice consul, Charleston, S. C.
Jonathan Swift, vice consul, Alexandria and other ports on the Potomac.
Rezin D. Shepherd, vice consul, New Orleans.
Henry Ghan, vice consul, New York and Connecticut.
William Scarborough, vice consul, Savannah.
Benjamin Blagge, vice consul, Wilmington, N. C.
Peter Collin, vice consul, Maryland.
John Myers, vice consul, Norfolk and other ports in Virginia, except on the Potomac.
George Rogers, vice consul, Newport, R. I.
S. Blagge, vice consul, Boston, Massachusetts and New Hampshire
John Heidrick, vice consul, Wilmington, Del.
Samuel Israel, consul, Philadelphia.
FROM DENMARK.
R. PEDERSEN, charge de affairs and consul general from the court of Denmark, Philadelphia.
C. L. Juger, secretary to the consulate general, Philadelphia. G. Hammerken, consul, New York.
Charles W. Greene, vice consul, Boston.
F. W Brune, vice consul, Baltimore.
M. Myers, vice consul, Norfolk.
T. Swift, vice consul, Alexandria.
Joseph A. Winthrop, vice consul, Charleston, S. C.
William Scarborough, vice consul, Savannah.
Richard Relf, vice consul, New Orleans.
FROM PRUSSIA.
Johanna Earnst, Christian Shultz, consuls, Baltimore. Jacob Eberheard, August Steinmetz, consuls, Charleston, S.C.
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FROM RUSSIA.
ANDREW DASCHCOFF, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
M. Svertchkoff, conseller of the legation, Washington.
MI. Elizon, Secretary of the legation, Washington.
Paul Sweenin, secretary of the legation, Philadelphia.
Nicholas Kozoff, consul general.
Alexy Eustafiew, consul, Boston.
Members of the Thirteenth Congrees from the State of Pennsylvania.
1st district. City and county of Philadelphia and county of Delaware, Adam & bert, *C. J. Ingersoll, William A erson and *Jan Conrad.
2d. Counties of Chester and Montgomery, Roger Davis and Jonathan Roberts.
3d. Counties of Lancaster and Dauphin, *John Whitehill and. * John Gloninger.
4th. County of York, *Hugh Glasgow.
5th. Counties of Cumberland, Franklin and Adams, Robert Whitehill and- William Crawford.
6th. Counties of Bucks, Northampton, Lehigh and Wayne, Robert Brown and *Samuel D. Ingham.
7th. Counties of Berks and Schuylkill, John M ·Hyneman. 8th. Counties of Bedford, Somerset and Cambria, William Piper.
9th. Counties of Mifflin, Huntingdon, Centre, Clearfield and M Kean, David Bard.
10th, Counties of Northumberland, Luzerne; Bradford, Susquehannah, Lycoming, Tioga and Potter, *Isaac Smith and *Jared Irwin.
11th. Counties of Westmoreland, Indiana, Jefferson and Armstrong, William Findlay.
12th. County of Washington, Aaron Lyle.
13th. Count:es of Fayette and Green, John Smilie (dead).
14th. Counties of Allegheny and Butler, *Adamson Tan- f nehill.
15th. Counties of Beaver, Mercer, Crawford, Erie, Venan- go and Warren, Abner Lacock.
The whole number of members is twenty-three; in the present congress Pennsylvania has but eighteen members. The new members are marked with an asterisk *.
APPENDIX.
GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
SIMON SNYDER, governor, Salary $5333 33 & B. Boileau, secretary to the commonwealth, 2000
MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Assembled on the first Tuesday of December, 1812.
SENATE.
1st district. Edward Hestoh, William Binder, Charles Bid. ile, John Barclay.
Xl. John Newbold, Isaac Wayne.
3d. Peter Frailey, Charles Shoemaker.
4th. William Hamilton, Nathaniel Watson.
5th. James Wilson, Matthias Gress, William Ross.
6th. James Laird.
7th. Jonathan Roberts.
8th. William Erwin.
9th. Melchoir Itham.
10th. William Beale.
11th. William Gilliland, Thomas Campbell.
12th. Abel M'Farlane, Isaac Weaver.
13th. James Lowry.
14th. Presley Carr Lane, speaker.
15th. Jacob Blotcher.
16th. Archibald Ilankin.
17th. Abner Leacock, Walter Lowrie.
18th. Wilson Smith.
19th. James Brady.
20th. John Barrows.
State of Parties. The whole number of members is 31, of these 5 are federalists and 26 republicans.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
City of Philadelphia.
William J. Duane,
t Lewis Rush,
Thomas Sergeant, t Jacob Mitchell.
John Connelly,
County of Philadelphia.
+ John Holmes, Daniel Groves,
+ George Morton, John M'Leod,
Samuci smith, Joseph Clunn.
Jacob Holgate, . + Charles Souder. Bucks. t William H1. Rowland, t Charles Meredith:
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Jesse Bean, Benjamin Reiff,
Montgomery. + Philip Reed, George Weaver.
Chester.
+ Nathaniel Pennepack, + Abraham Bailey, + Lea Puse.
t John Menough, + John G. Bull,
Lancaster.
+ Joel Lightner, + John Hopkins,
f John Graff,
t Jacob Ringgold, + Robert Maxwell, + Jacob Grosch.
York.
James S. Mitchell, + Peter Storm,
Adam Hendrix, t Jacob Heckert,
Cumberland. + Thomas Cochran.
John Davis, Jacob Aiter,
Berks and Schuylkill.
* Jacob Kerbs, Conrad Feger,
+ Jacob Miller, + Jacob Sassemana?
+ John Adams,
Northampton and Wayne.
Daniel W. Dingham,
+ Philip Sellers,
Henry Winters, + S. Stein.
+ Abraham Horn,
Northumberland.
Samuel Bond,
+ Leonard Rupert,
Andrew M. Clenachan,
# George Kremer.
Washington.
Joshua Dickerson, + James Kerr,
Thomas M'Call,
Robert Anderson.
Armstrong, Indiana and Jefferson.
James M'Comb.
Westmoreland.
George Plumer,
t Peter Wallace,
1 Henry Alshouse,
John Shreve, Henry Heaton,
John Tod, speaker
Robert Smith, Jacob Dechert,
David Ferguson, t Amos Ellmaker,
Fayette. John St. Clair.
Bedford. David Fields.
Franklin. + David M'Clay.
Dauphu .
Valent.ne : hauffler ..
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Luzerne.
+ Benjamin Dorrance, + Charles Hines, Huntingdon.
Alexander Dysart. + R. J. Law,
Beaver.
Sohn Lawrence. Allegheny and Butler.
Joseph Reed, Samuel Scott William Marks, + Thomas Cochran.
Mifflin. John Brown.
Wm. Magill,
Delaware.
1 - Thompson,
+
-
Cheney.
Somerset and Cumbria.
+ Daniel Stoy, James Hanna.
Lycoming.
t Henry Welles,
John Forster.
Greene.
Rees Hill.
Adams.
James M' Sherry,
James Robinette.
Centre, Clearfield and M' Keen.
+ Michael Bolinger.
Erie, Crawford and Warren.
John Philips, Patrick Farrelly.
Mercer and Vonango.
James Montgomery, Samuel Dale.
" State of Parties. The whole number of members is 95; of these 18 are federalists and 77 republicans. The new members are designated by a dagger ; and are 47 in num- ber. The usual proportion of the new members annually elected is about one third of the whole number. The names of the federalists are printed in italics. Republican ma- jority 59.
In Joint Meeting of both houses of the legislature the whole number is 126-Republicans 98, federalists 23, re- publican majority 75." [Democratie Press.
COURTS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
The Supreme Court holds Six Terms annually, in fire different districts of the state, viz.
Two in the city of Pinladelphia, for the " Eastern Dis- trict," one of them to begin on the 2d Monday in Decem- ber, to continue 3 weeks. The other on the 2d Monday in March, to continue two weeks, if necessary.
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One term at Pittsburg, for the " Western District," Qu the 1st Monday in September, to continue 2 weeks, if neces- sary.
One at Lancaster, in the " Lancaster District," on the 3d Monday in May.
One at Sunbury, in the county of Northumberland, for the " Middle District," on the Wednesday next following the 2d week of the term of the Lancaster District.
One at Chambersburg, in the "Southern District," on the Monday week next following the end of the 2d week of the term of the " Western District."
The "Eastern District" is composed of the counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Northampton, Montgomery and Delaware.
The " Western District," of the counties of Somerset, Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, Washiington, Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Mercer, Crawford, Erie, Warren, Venango, Armstrong, Cambria, Indiana and Jefferson.
The " Middle Dirtrict," of the counties of Northumber- land, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Centre, Clearfield; M'Kean, Potter, Tinga, Bradford, Susquehanna and Wayne.
'The " Lancaster District," of the counties of Lancaster, Berks, York and Dauphin.
The "Southern District," of the counties of Cumberland, Bedford, Franklin, Huntingdon and Adams.
The Judges are authorized to hold adjourned courts, whenever the business may render it necessary. +
The Courts of Nisi Prius for Philadelphia county, are held at such times and places as the Judges of the Supreme Court may from time to time direct and appoint.
Chief Justice, William Tilghman,
S Jasper Yeates, Salary, §2666 67
Associates, 2 11. HI. Brackenridge, $2000 each. Joseph Barnes, prothonotary of the Eastern District; office in county court house, Philadelphia
William B. Irish, prothionotary of the Western District; office at Pittsburg.
John Finny, prothonotary of the Middle District; office at Sunbury.
John Passmore, prothonotary of the Lancaster District; office at Lancaster.
John Findlay, prothonotary of the Southern District; office at Chambersburg.
The District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia.
This Court is erected by an act of assembly passed the 30th day of March 1811. It is to continue for six years, and
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to have cognizance of all civil pleas and actions, real, per. sonal and mixed, where the sum in controversy exceeds one hundred dollars. It is held by three judges, any two of whom constitute a quorum. The presiding judge is to re- ceive a yearly compensation of 2000 dollars, and the assis- tant judges 800 each, payable quarterly.
It has four terms in each year, viz. in June, September, December, and March if necessary, commencing on the first Monday in each.
Joseph Hemphill, Esq. President.
Jacob Sommers, Esq. Anthony Simmons, Esq. S Assistants.
Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas, are held for the several counties, as follows,-in the
1st district .- In Philadelphia, the 1st Mondays in March and June, 3d in September and Ist in December.
Pres. JACOB RUSH, Esquire.
This court has no original jurisdiction in any civil action where the controversy exceeds one hundred dollars.
2d district .- In York, on the 1st Mondays of January, April, August and November; in Lancaster, on the 21 Mon- days after the commencement of the courts in York; in Dauphin, on the 2d Mondays after the commencement of the courts in Lancaster. Pres. WALTER FRANKLIN, Esq.
3d district .- In Berks on the 1st Mondays in January, April, August and November; in Northampton, on the 2d Mondays after the commencement of the courts in Berks; in Schuylkill, the 2d- Mondays next after the courts in Wayne, [Note-Wayne was held, while part of the 3d dis- trict, on the 2d Mondays after the courts in Northampton. ] in Lehigh, the Mondays next after the courts in Schuylkill. Pres. ROBERT PORTER, Esq.
4th district .- In Bedford on the 1st Mondays in January, April, August and November; in Huntingdon, on the 2d Mondays of the same months; in MifHin on the 3d Mondays of the same months in Centre on the 4th Mondays of the same months.
Pres. JONA. WALKER, Esq.
5th District .- In Beaver, on the 1st Monday in January, last Monday in March, and Ist Nondays in August and No- vember; in Allegheny, on the Mondays succeeding the com- mencement of the courts in Beaver: in Fayette, on the Mon- days succeeding the commencement of the courts in Alleg- heny; in Greene; on the Monday's succeeding the commence- ment of the courts in Favette; in Washington, on the Mon- days preceding the commencement of the courts in Beaver. Pres. SAMUEL ROBERTS, Esq
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6th district .- In Venango, Ist Mondays in November, Fe- bruary, May and August; in Butler on the 2d Mondays of the same months; in Mercer, on the 3d Mondays of the same months; in Crawford, on the 4th Mondays of the same months; in Erie, on the Mondays next following the courts in Craw- ford county. Pres. JESSE MOORE, Esq.
7th district .- In Delaware, on the 2d Monday in April, the 4th Monday in July, and on the 3d Mondays in January and October; in Chester, on the 2d Mondays after the 3d Mondays in January, April, July and October; in Montgomery, on the 2d Mondays after the commencement of the courts in Ches- ter; in Bucks, on the 2d Mondays after the commencement of the courts m Montgomery. Pres. BIRD WILSON, Esq.
8th district .- In Luzerne, on the 1st Mondays in January, April, August and November; in Northumberland, on the 2d . Mondays after the commencement of the courts in Luzerne; in Lycoming, on the 2d Mondays after the commencement of the courts in Northumberland.
Pres. (vacant.)
9th district .- In Cumberland, on the 1st Mondays in Janu- ary, April, August and .November; in Franklin, on the 2d Mondays in the same months; in Adams, on the 3d Mondays in the same months. Pres. JAMES HAMILTON, Esq.
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