iY. Carolina General Assembly.
The Legislature of this State adjourn
ed on Monday last, after a session of se
ven weeks having passed 32 Acts of a
Public nature, 119 Private Acts, and 39
Resolutions. We have been favored
by the politeness of Mr. L. D. IVilson,
Senator from this County, with a copy
of the Captions of the several Acts and
Resolutions. In our next paper we will
give the whole of the Public Acts the
following Private Acts and Resolutions
are all that we conceive interesting to
our readers:
Private Acts, For the better
regulation of the County Courts of
INasu arid JNorthampton.
Securing to Rebecca Iluftin, of
Halifax county, such property as
she may hereafter acquire
Establishing New Hope Acade
my, in Edgecombe county, and
x ! a. a .1
incorporating mo irusiees tnereot.
Altering the time of holding the
elections in Greene county for
members of Congress and As
sembly. Incorporating the Nashville
Male and Female Academy.
Incorporating Roanoke Chap
ter, No. 4, in the town of Halifax.
Empowering the commission
ers of Tarborough to sell a part
of the commons of that town.
Appointing commissioners to
lay olf a town at Northampton
Court-house, by the name of
"Jackson."
Authorising the commissioners
of Halifax to sell the Academy
lots and their appurtenances in
said borough.
Resolutions. In favor of John
MacRae, of Faycttcville. Autho
rises the Treasurer to loan Mr.
MacRae 85000 for four years,
without interest, to aid him in
publishing a Map of the State.
Relative to the purchase of In
dian reservations to lands in Hay
wood county. Authorises the Go
vernor to receive proposals for
purchasing the right of all persons,
who derive titles to lands from
Indians, to whom reservations
Were made by the treaties of
1817 and 1819.J
Concerning the reversion of the
State in the Tuscarora lands.
Requests the Governor to receive
proposals from the present pro
prietors, or others, for the pur
chase of the said reversion in fee
simple; and appoints commission
ers to ascertain the quantity and
quality of each tract, with its fee
simple value at the time of exami
nation. Directing the Board of Internal
(Improvement to report to the next
Gjeneral Assembly the amount of
stQ)ck originally subscribed in each
ofy the Navigation companies with
in the State, the. amount subscri
bed on behalf of the State, and
the amount paid on such stock by
;. the State and individuals; also, the
value in cash of such stock, and
the terms in which said companies
will surrender their charters to
the State.
Requesting the Governor to
make application to the British
government for permission to take
copies, from the office of the
Board of Trade and Plantations
in London, of such documents as
relate to the" Colonial history of
.tins .state.
Jlclative to the amendment of
the Constitution of the U. States, jof the college; to make all dis-
fResolves that the Legislature
will not act definitively upon the
resolutions received from Geor
gia, proposing so to amend the
Constitution as to prevent the elec
tion of President and Vice-President
from devolving on Congress;
but that they will delay the same
until the next session of the Le
gislature. (We understand this
is incorrect the resolution was
not finally acted upon.)
Appointing James Iredell and
Bartlett Yancy commissioners to
collect information and prepare a
plan to carry into clfect the estab
lishment of a Lunatic Asylum in
this State, and report to the next
General Assembly.
Poltical College. On our last pasie
will be found the remarks of Mr. Pot'
ter, on introducing the Report of the
Committee on Education, on this bill.
Wc understand it was not finally acted
upon. The Raleigh Star gives the fol
lowing, as its general features:
bnrsnmnnfs necessary for that pur
pose;' and to carry into effect the
details of the bill . It invests them,
in short, with full powers of legis
lation, in all matters appertaining
to the college, conformably tbthe
provisions of the bill; and, in or
der to enable them to effect the
objects contemplated, directs the
Treasurer of the State to borrow
and place in their hands the sum
of two hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars; twenty thousand of
which to be appropriated to the
purchase of a farm and construc
tion of necessary buildings, and
the remaining two hundred thou
sand dollars, to be vested by the
rector and visitors in a permanent
fund; the interest of which to en
ure forever to the benefit of the
college, subject to the manage
ment and control of the rector and
visitors, under the authority and
supervision of the Legislature.
On Saturday 3d inst. the Legis-
This bill proposes the cstab- laturc elcoted Oen. Cailwallader
lishmcntof a central Institution, 'Jones of Orange, Gen. James Mc
upon a farm in the county of jKav of Bladen, and David Clark,
Wake, to which those counties inWsq. of Halifax county, to coin
the State which pay into the Trea- pose the Board of Internal Im
sury by way of taxes, less than a provemcnt for the present year, in
thousand dollars, should be enti-! l)lacc of Gen. Iredell, Maj. For
ded to send one apprentice: those !"cy,and Gon. Dudley, who deelin-
paying over a thousand, and lcssieta,e-elGctl()n- he Governor is,
than two thousand, two; and those cx oincio, President ot tne Doaru.
paying over two thousand, four.
The number which would he fur
nished according to this ratio
would be one hundred and seven.
It also provides that the State
shall have a paramount and inde-
tcasable title to the apprentices,
tor six years trom the dav on
which they might enter collcirc:
during the first three years of
which, thev are to be parried
through a course of discipline and rrvThs mnpr. hrinr th omh m-
instruction conformable to the her. onmniPiP tiin fw?air nf ihwA
rules of the college; and for the volume of the Free Press. On com-
rcmainmg three years, m consid
eration ot the education they shall rons signified their intention of taking the
have received, they are to perform nnnnr fnr ;v niv,.e,,;
the duty ot instructors at such they still desire to receive it, we shall
otcu, ,u uiiaiu, as inc recioi-continue sending it to them, unless
and visitors of the college may otherwise directed, which can easily be
think proper to assign them. The; done personally, at the ensuing County
apprentices are directed to be so-: and Superior Courts, or through the me
lectcd from among all the youths jdiuin of the Pos,masters frorn whom
Xarborottgf),
SATURDAY, FEB. 17, 1827.
inst. when it was finally rejecte-1
in the Senate, by a vote of 2" :
21, (both the Senators fmm!iy
of the State, who shall be within
six months of the age of fifteen
years, and the estate of whose fa
thers shall not exceed in yalue the
sum of a thousand dollars. As a
fundamental rule of discipline, the
bill directs that the apprentices be
divided into five classes, which in
turn are at all times to be actively
cngagc.d in agricultural labors on
the college farin. To elfect this,
the bill previously directs "that a
rector and fifteen visitors, to be
chosen as shall hereinafter be di
rected, be incorporated, under the
name and title of the rector and
visitors of the Political College of
North-Carolina." It then directs
that the visitors be chosen by a
joint ballot of both Houses of the
Legislature, and hold their ap
pointments during the pleasure of
a majority of the members of the
same; and invests them with au
thority to appoint a rector, a pre
sident and four professors for the
college, and prescribe their du
ties; to select the apprentices a
greeably to rules laid down in the
bill; to fix upon the time for the
commencement of the operations
they receive their papers.
ave received a few more
poetical communications we shall ad
here to the determination expressed in
our last two numbers, not to insert any
unless we know the writer, or have a
responsible reference, particularly where
the initials of persons names are introduced.
Superior Courts. The Judges
of the Superior Courts have made
the following arrangement of the
Circuits for the present year: .
Spring. Autumn.
Edenton, Judge Donnell, Judge Martin.
Raleigh, - - - Uuffin, r - Daniel.'
Neivbem, - - Daniel, - - - Donnell.
Cape-Tea-, - - Martin, lluflin.
Hillsborough, - Norwood, - - Strange.
Mountains, - Strange, - - Norwood.
Supreme Court. Rob't Mcln
tyre, of Fayetteville, Spier Whita-r
ker, of Ilaiifax, and Geo. F. Da
vidson, of Iredell, have received
licenses to practice jn the Comity
Courts.
Congress. -The Bankrupt bill
died a second death, on the Gth
State voting against it.)
In the II. of Representative;,
the bill increasing the duty on j,
ported Woolens is yet under con"
sideration.
Gen Saunders, of this State, ha
introduced a resolution into tj.!
House, directing the Secretary
State to transmit to the House
list of such newspapers ineacli'0f
the states in which the lav0f
Congress were directed to be putt
lished in the years 1825 and 182G
also, a list of such in which the
laws are directed to be published
in 1827; designating the chan
which have been made, and thi
causes for such change. In inuo!
ducing this resolution, Gen. Satin
ders charged Mr. Clay with hay.
ing improperly exercised a power
which was at all times dangerous
with having grossly abused the
authority of selecting printers of
the laws and of using it for per!
sonal and political purposes. IJ..
stated the fact that although Mr.
Clay had been in office little more
than 12 months at the last session
of Congress he had then madelG
changes among the publishers a
larger number than all his prede
cessors and that those channel
were made with the sole viewta
advance his own political designs.
(The foregoing resolution pro
duced much debate in the House;
and, in conjunction with a message
from the President; relative to the
difference's between Georgia and
the Creek Indians, has been pro
ductive of much excitcmcnttlie
following passages arc extracted
from 'the message:!
"It ought not, however, to be
disguised, that the act of the Le
gislature of Georgia, under the
construction given to it by the Go
vernor of that State, and the sur
veys made, or attempted, by his
authority, beyond the boundary se
cured by the Treaty of Washing
ton, of April last, to the Creek In
dians, are in direct opposition to
the Supreme law of this land, set
forth in a Treaty, which has re
ceived all the sanctions provided
by the Constitution, which wc have
been sworn to support and main
tain. "Happily distributed as the sove
reign powers of the People of this
Union have been, between their
General and State Governments,
their history has already too often
presented collisions between these
divided authorities, with regard to
the extent of their respective pow
ers. No instance, however, ha
hitherto occurred, in which to
collision has been urged into a
conflict'of actual force. No oth
er case is known to have happen
ed, in w hich the application of mi;
litary force by the Government ot
the Union has been prescribed lor
the enforcement of a law, the vio
lation of which has, within an
single State, been prescribed by i
Legislative act of the State, hi
the present instance, it is my clu
to sav, that, if the Legislative and
Executive authorities of the fctatc
of Georgia should still persevere
in acts of encroachment upon the
territories secured by a sollem11
treaty to the Indians, and thib
of the Union remain unaltefred, 3
superadded obligation, CNilii'