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<0TT>m'n?'on of Major sha'l become v:\cnr.t,
the Colonel or it llieie be no Colonci, the
officer next mi command in th?
mentor Battalion shall appoint two til and
proper persons to open and hoici the poll
for the said election, at the Baitalion mus
ter ground of the . said Bat al.on, fron*. 10
o'cToclTih the mofning uirot :our o'clock tn
the 4 tic moon, 'after having adtertUed
same for lliirty days in six p ibiic places
within the said Battalion, and the said man- J
. ageisstiall me?i ai the said place of elec-^
tien the day following, count over ihe vuyes
and declare the election, 3
t ~ " Be it enuctexf? Thai when any vacancy
shall take place in a Captains commission,
the Lieutenant Colonel or officer command
ing the Battalion or squadron, sh .il appoint
two fit and proper persons within the said
company or ttoop to manage the said elec
tion, who shall hold the polls at the usual
muster ground of the said troop or com
pany, from eleven o'clock in the morning
until thrpe o'clock in the afternoon, after
having advertised the same for twenty days
before ihe said election, in at least four
public places in the said company or troop,
and that on the same evening, the maling
ers shall count over the votes and declare
the election.
Be it fur/her enacted, That when the
commission of first lieutenant, second lieu
tenant, ensign or cornet, shall become va
cant, the captain, or if there be no captain,
the major or lieutenant colonel command
ing the said company or troop, shall ap
point two fit and proper persons to hold an
election at the usual muster ground of said
company or troop from eleven o'clock in
the morning until three o'clock in the af
ternoon, after having advertised the same
for at least twenty days previous to the
election, in at least four public places in
the said company or troop, and that on
the same evening the managers shall count
over the votes and declare the election.
Be if further enacted* That when any di
vision, bngude, regiment, battalion squad
ron, company or troop shall be embodied
and in actual service either under the au
thority of this state or of the United States,
the vacancies therein shall be filled by se
niority> tgreeable to usages and customs
of war.
And be it further enacted by the aa/hrrity
aforesaid , That whenever an election is or
dered for a Major Central, or Brigadier
ticneral, it shall be the duly of each Colo
nel, who shall be ordered to hold such elec
tion* logiv^My days notice in his regi
mem, <it suchelection und post up the
said notice for that lengih of time at least
at one public place in each beat in his re
giment.
And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid , That from and after the passing I
of this act, jt shall noi he necessai v in or
der to consn^u^^^ttahoi^jconij_jiViy_U?L
or court of1 enquiry that a field officer should
preside* but tnat the same may consist of a
captain as presiding afficer of said court ;
and four other commissioned officeis ol
said battalion, one of whom at least shall
be of the rank of a captain.
And be i further enacted by the authority
aforeiatdy That the commanding officer of
any division, Brigade, fjegimept-, Battal
ion, Sqoadron, Troop tyr iiompany, who
shall call out the men under his command
to muster, shall be, and he is hereby au
thotised and im Dowered to appoint a Sut
ler, to retail Spirituous liquors at the mus
ter ground of said division, brigade, re
giment* battalion, squadron, troop or com
pany, without any other license or permis
sion; Provided that the said sutler soap*
4 pointed, do furnish a suitable field to ex
ercise the said, troops on, to be approved
by the commanding officer, who shall have
ordered the said muster.
And be it further enacted , That all acU !
l?nd,|>tfrts of acts repugnant to .this act bt,
and the same are hereby tt pealtd.
Ratijlcd in the S* nate ( bomber r December
\9th% 1816.
JAMLS R. PKIXGLF.,
P rem dent of the Senate.
, THO.VlAS BENNE T,
Speaker of the Home of HefireMentativf ?
ji britj f ketch oj the State of Sierru Leon . \
: ? w tit 1814. !
Sierra I con is a country on the
western coast of Africa, lying ' be
tween 7 and todegreesN. latitude.
. A river of the same name passes
. through it nearly in the centre. The
? land on the banks of the river, for a
considerable distance, is peculiarly
fertile, and furnishes a soil well a
dapted to the cultivation of cotton,
rice,- sugar, and most ot the other
tropical productions. The. heat
.of the climate is moderated by re
gular breeaes from the sea, and i*
found in. a good degree congenial to
American and Ltiropean constitu
tions , ? > ha' ? . , ?
This colony was established in
I7ji? under the v direction of the |
Sierra Leone Company In London.
The design of the company w is to
cultivate the luads, to open a trade
with that country, and gradually to
civilize and improve the Atricans
i r he first settlers were about 20a :
whites and a number jq? irte tracks
from Nova Scotia. They com
menced the building of a town^ cal
led Freetown, on the banks of the
Sierra Leone, divided the land into
lots to each individual, and thus
laid the basis of a prosperous colo
nv. The natives were triendlv, and
* ? 9
in less than three years the schools
were regularly attended by more
than 300 children^-- But unhappily
a reverse of fortune awaited them \
their fair prospects were obscured,
and their reasonable expectations
defeated. In 1794a French squad
ron, contraty to implied promise,
and with wanton cruelty, attacked
the colony, dispersed the inhabi
tants, captured the vessels, plun
dered aud burnt the houses, 1 he
colony has since been taken under
the care of the English govern
ment, and is now in a flourishing
state.
? In l 8 1 1 the population in . the H
colony amounted to about 2000,
exclusive of several hundred natives,
who had emigrated from the adja- !
cent country, and were hired by tht*
colonists as laborers. The emi- j
grants have probably beep enrolled '
in the list of citizens. The * pre- |
sent population, therefore, may be
about 3000,
There is a disposition among the
colonists generally to encourage
new settlers who come among them,
either to cultivate the land, oren
I in commercial pursuits. I
The principle employment of the
coU>n^)is agriculrure The pro- 1
ductions of the soil abundantly re
ward their labor. It is believed,
that coffee, rice and cotton' have
become articles of exportation.
Rewards have been proposed to en
courage their cultivation, j This
t< nds to excite an honorable1 emu
lation among the citizens and to
promote among them habits of in
dustry, and a spirit of enterprite.
The education of children is a
subject of particular attention.
There are a number of schools in
the colony, one of which is design
ed ?oc the instruction of adults, the
others for children. The present
number of children in the colony
exceeds 1000. Most of these are ,
placed in the schools, and instruct
ed in all the necessary branches of,
education. Separate schools are
assigned to the boys and toche girls,
Great order is preserved. Here
they are not only initiated in the ru
diments of literatuie, but in this
state of discipline are taught the
important practical lessons of obe
dience, subjection, sobriety, and
industry. Here are laid the starn- <
ina of their characters j here are for
med their depositions, habits tnd
principles 5 and here, in a great de
gree, rest 1 he Futuie hopes and pros
pects of the colony, < >
The state of religious intructlon
deserves notice. They have six .
places for public worship where,
the people generaly and regularly
assemble. The hobrs for public
worship on the Sabbath are 5 and
10 in the morning, and 2 and 6 in
the evening ; other releiigious meet
ings during the week* are usually at
tended at j> in the morning and 6 in
evening.
Several years agtf a -society was
established in the cbiony among
the ptopk of colour for the further
promotion of the christian religion. ;
j We have before us a copy of one of
their addresses to the public, which
j we should be happy to insert would
our limit* permit. It breathes the spi
rit of fervent p'ety. Tliev exprrss |
gratinkie for their mercies, lament
Lthc misery and degradation of their
A:rican brethre-rv complain of the 4
injustice afid~ev41 consequences of
the slave trade, and finally exhort
~their bre th ren to confideTn that Bell
ing, whose government and provi
t dcncc are universal. "
Another favorable trait in the
I character of the colony, is the ex
istence of a society for the relief of
the poor ami infirm. This was
instituted in \ 8 to ; the Governor its
patron, and the principle gentlemen
in the colony are among us active
members. The society is under
good regulations, and is calculated
to be eminently useful ; its good
effects on the dispositions and man
ners of the Atricans can be easily
imagined.
The civil state of the colony
next invites attention. There are
five courts in the^colony, viz. the
court of quarter sessions, the may
or's court, the court of requests, (the
police court, and the court of vice
admiralty. The court ofquarter ses -
sions meets quarterly : the govern,
or presides as judge ; tne jury con-=
sits of twelve men selected uromK.
ft
cuously from rhe Europeans and the
people of colour. The mayor's
court meets quarterly. The court
of requests meets weekly ; its pow
er is limited to the trial for debts
not exceeding two pounds. The
police court meets weekly; their
business is confined to the t?ial of
disorderly conduct. The court of
vice admiralty is held whenever
occasion may require.
The colonists are governed en
tirely by British law, are usually
quiet and peaceable, and are dispos
ed to abide by the devi&sious of their
civil magistrates.
There was a society established
in the colony in i8t2,by the name
of the Friendly Society. This :>o
ciety opened a correspondence with
the African Institution in London.
An intercourse was bIso kept up be
tween the Societies, in order to en
courage che African settlers wiih a
good market for their produce.
The Friendly Society commenccd
with 70I. Sterling, in the spring
, of 1816, the Society was worth
1200I sterling
Early in the winter of 1815, a
bout 30 people of colour left Bos
ton* with a view of settling them
selves in the British colony at Sier
ra Leone, in Africa* The vckv 1 in*
which they sailed was the property
of the celebrated Paul Cuffcc? }
- Capt. Cuflfee has returned to this
country, and brings letters from*
the emigrants to their friends and
benefactors. We have seen one of
the letters datedApril 3, 1816. It
states that they all arrived safe ait -
Sierra Leone, after apas*age of 55
clays, and were welcomed by all the
colony. The place is represented
as good. They have fruits of all ,
kinds and at all seasons of the year,
i'he governor gave each family a
lot ot land in the town, an?T titty a r"
crei of ?good land* sn the eouqtry,.
or more in proportion to tbeir fami- 1
lies, the land in the country is about
tw<* miles from town. They hzvt
a plenty of rice and corn, and all
other food that is ' goad* Yhere
were 5 churche* in the colony, and
3 or 4 ftcfaools, in oneaof which there
is 159 female Africans, who ^ are
taugnt to read 'the word of God*
A letter from Havana, by the schooner
Drs/iutch, dated the 19th innt. says, u the ,
British frigate Tay , on board of which
was Two toillionM of Dollar a, bound to Uie
Havana, was cast away . at Yucaten shore
?whether any part of the money is saved,
I is yet unknown."
Amos Klimaker, Esq. is appointrd
Attorney General of Pennsylvania, vice J,
ingeisoL, Lsq resigned
MFDT~\T.
\t a regular nkiim^ ot the 'fetfJra!
? of??o-+!h~C t he following ic
port was re-ad and appmved:
to >h~ Medical Sort cry of Sou A-' a-o'rw.
1 he C/oiiuuiUte u|)po!iH;.?4 lo hiujuir^
into l he It uth of lupous at present ci,
culaUnyj It thts CHy, *>r the ^mail IV^
InV inn *ucceed?r the T.cone Disease lit
ihe same person ; and or perv6ns taking
^lie Small Pox af cr l^vm^ >liu| n by iuoc?
uUtion ? likewise to ret??rt on the simda
my of Clin. ken l\>x to S.nuil Pox, as it
h.?s lately appeared" ?
"'M ? I'-hat th*v have not, in any in*
stance lound a c se of small po* succeed^
ing vaccine, where ihe person ha* been
propel ly vaccinated, anU the d?sease pas
sed through its regular stairs, attended
with a constitutional affection.? Poey hav<5
carefully traced all the reports uoltiendiy to
vaccination, and invariubtv <!isro*\r d that
ttu'y were entirely unfoumk-d, or not de
serving of credit ? ?n many tnstanccv
the. s nail pox was met with i, person^
sippo^ed to have had the vaccina ; but iu
these, the vaccination was neither followed
l>y constitutional or local .t flection, and the
operation, through neglect or delay, not
iej>eated ; or lUai it wis clone by some one*
unacquainted with the disease,* who hud
never observed .'it, and being* ignorant of
its nattn e and progress, w is, consequent*
ly, unanle to determine whether it' had been
cominunic.iteil.
Untot rtinaiely, Vaccination has general*
ly been stip|K)sed so easy, as to render t..?
opinion of a Physician unnecessary. This,
we Dclieve, has princ pail v "been the rea
son why it has so frequently been entitl
ed to the uninformed and ignorant, who
not only themselves deceived by it, bui be
get in others a false confidence and seruii
ty? oiten attended with fatal consecjutnces^
?Your Committee a*e compelled to state,
. a,Kl ?'^y <?<> with the concurrent opinion
ot other Physicians, that many of the
cases of small pox which have occurred,
, (al,d they mink me greater number,) have
succeeded vaccinatiou, performed by such
jK'isons.? ? Again. they ha*e ascertained,
tl?at many of these reports arose from tho
chicken pox having been mistaken for
small pox i and, though (he termination
of the disease removed the error, the ru
mor remained unaffected.
I4ie evil is not peculiar to Charleston?
it exists in other places, and was lately
noticed by the commitee of the Medical
Society of New-Yo?k; who in their re
port to that body, made the following ex
tract fiom the 7 \ca i%e of />r. * 't hompso*
on Cow/Vr? Persons' little acquainted
with he affection, engage to conduct the
operation of cow pox ? 1 have latelv been in
formed, that the greyer part' of the chil
dren in two parrshes in Scotland w*re %o~
culatcd [vacinated] in this way the result
was, that the small p >x came among them
soon afterwards, arid every one thus inocu
lated became affected with that dreadful
disease ; while these few who hud been
k inoculated hy persons acquainted with the
?appearance* in cow pox, entirely escsprd"
As a proof that vaccination shoulc on
ly be performed by one tfref! ' acquainted
wnh the disease, We will mention the fact,
staled by writers upon ifiiv sMbj^cW* That
jruc vaccination , will hometimr* produce ?
?fluriou* dineatr in one firr?0n , . hough it
% would, not At another/ ? This, then ia
certainly a strong reason for confining t ha
opperatton to the Medical profession ; for
how can it be properly ascertained by any
but those Conversant with the disefNe,
whether ? hey produce a spurious or gen
uine pustuie. ^
The Committee take pleasure fn stating
to the Society, that 1 heir confidence in the
Vaccine, as a preventative of Smail PoX*
continues undiminished ; and ftey think it
the only meant by which the ravage* of
that disease can be effectually put a stop
to.? Proofs of its efficacy are continually
present to out view ; they surround us ois
all sides. Did it not destroy the suscepti
bility to ttnatt pox, iesfcry house would
' have become an hospital scarcely would
there be a family but would have to mourn
the toss of iome favoHte^m^R^^
have been the situation of oiir city for
many months past, *here '"ilTvrtfcnf thou-.
sand* have tilled on it eidcRlsivel)
I houtth it W hardty necesrtry to notice
the evidences t>f it a pi event We tfpt rat ion,
as they are to be found in tvrt) Quarter ofi
ibo Globe* yet we cannSot refrain from
mentioning 6n?- or two:? W 4*teiytrt of
4lu qi?o?inR the ab ove, we mutt bennderafood
lo ia]Tt (h?t we do not yyi ncrcr <f?f believe we
the ctiMenet of tpurioot' Yaccine dlMuc, Inde.
penaent or tnf |fVTUitK TBCnflf j wc wovti DOff# 4
ever induce under tbn headj <^rtrf mqimIom
end irregular appariac* of t|>e 4mm which Me
to frequently meet with after TMCiMtioo, and
Which m couriered by pnytfeian* M requiring th*
repetition of th* operation. We agree with the
gentlemen of the New York Mfcdfcal ?e?^n
when they ob?erve ? * ProfeuM Men thou Id
feel it independently nec eatery to conduct the
proce** of vaccination wkl> the |reMe?t poetible
attention, through all i(? aiagca and until it* com
plete operation on the tyatcm ha* taken placet
and that they shonfd be e*cr reedy to rep^t H*o
proeeta if *ny irregu>*ritv pf deficiency In the fir#
?hjl h^re 4>cen notkcfl'^ i<, *