......... ..1.. 420 00) J. W. Martin............... $500 00 Albert Greenleaf........... $87 60 Joseph Doddood ................. 400 00 Francis Marden, 3d........., 9600 L. j. Mills................. 400 00 R. Hewin..io.is Providence, R, I. .............. 500 00 F. H. Teok.................. 250 00 Robert H. Barton.......... 600 00 John Van Vreden........ 250 00 Stephen H. Branch........, 208 35 Edward Phillips........ 250 00 Jobó W. Green............ 83 33 J. H. Goulie.............. 25 00 Henry F. Cooley.......... 25 00 George G. Cofin....... 277 77 William W. Carpenter..... 95 00 Anson Ford......... 93 73 William H. Dart.......... 416 70 Norfolk, Va. F. D. Randall....... 25 00 A. J. McConnico........... 650 00 Charles W. Holly... Daniel Sprague..... 200 00 S. B. McConnico........... 350 00 John B. Barton..... .... 191 66 10 81 Horace Drewry ............ 350 00 Richmond, a. Petersburg, Va. Adrian N. Borodon........ 775 00 John M. Anderson.......... 650 00 Edmund Anderson......... 800 00 Alexander Manlove........ 560 00 George W. Marshall....... 400 00 Richard Batte......... ....... 330 89 Reuben d. Lewis........... 300 00 Philadelphia, Penn. Rochester, N. Y. . 1000 00 C. T. Amsden..... B. Porter..... 1000 00 A. K. Amsdeu............... 327 50 Williain Harbeson,... ..., 800 00 G. R. A. Leonard........ 132 00 E. H. Carmick.... ... 750 00 Robert Palmer.... 61 00 Benjamin Jones, Jr......... 750 00 18aac R. Elwood........... 375 00 W. J. Halleday............. 708 65 St. Louis, Missouri. F. Provorchen............. 600 00 ........... 300 00 Robert J. Park.......... 375 00 R. B. Dallane..... 75 00 Samuel B. Warner, Jr.,.... 374 16 Sarannah, Georgia. A. Headman...... 261 80 Jaines Fisher............... 450 00 W. G. Latimer............ 900 00 David Reeld...... J. G. Door.......... 63 20 700 00 Portland, Maine. Troy, N. Y. Stephen N. Jones.......... 650 00 Jeremiah Haskitt....... ...... 600 00 John S. Christie..... C. D. Maynard............ 312 63 ......... 180 00 W. H. Mills.... ............. 291 67 Vincennes, Indiana. G. E. Harmon.............. 487 50 400 00 L. J. Crenoy ................ 412 50 Elihu Stout................ John Sweet................, 16 67 John Moore................ 200 00 Martin Robinson ............ 200. 00 Portsmouth, N. H. Ulica, N. Y. Thomas B. Leighton....... 700 00 John Harrat............... 437 50 J. B. Cushman....... Abner Greenleaf........... 262 50 H. W. Fengo....... 158 33 ... 262 50 ......... 366 00 .......... Charles R. Smith....... • $180 001 Washington, Penn. A. G. Smith ............... 220 00 William D. Morgan........$700 00 William Richards....... 50 00 S. McMaster... 500 00 Washinglon, D. C. C. D. Morgan... -275 00 Thomas Corcoran......... 1700 00 George W. Morgan........ 350 00 A. S. Morgan.............. 340 00 Thomas L. Noyes.......... 1550 00 Thomas J. Morgan ......... 125 00 Lambert Tree....... ...1200 00 Benjamin Charles.......... 59 00 James H. Kennedy. 1100 00 Augustus M. Crissey.. 40 00 Benjamin L. Bogan........ 950 00 Cornelius Cox...... 760 00 Zanesville, Ohio. Richard Lay....... 760 00 John S. Love................ 75 00 B. W. Jones................ 700 00 Charles J. Love............ 300 00 Benjamin E. Gettings.. 200 00 James McKibben.......... 90 00 C. W. Landsdale... 450 00 E. H. Bliss............. 140 00 A. B. Proctor.......... 390 00 W. T. McKibben.......... 90 00 James H. Boss........ 85.00 Thomas McKibben....... 70 00 George Venable..... 200 00 G. W. Blacksom........... 240 00 Jas. Summers, (watchman) 200 00A. P. Blacksom............ 240 00 same. Regulations respecling Post Offices, Mails, and Post Roads. Every Postmaster is required to keep an office, in which one or more persons shall attend on every day on which a mail shall arrive, by land or water, as well as on other days, at such hours as the Postmaster General shall direct; and it is the duty of the Postmaster, at all reasonable hours, on every day of the week, to deliver on demand, any letter, paper, or packet, to the person entitled in, or authorized-to receive the All letters brought to any post office half an hour before the time of making up the mail, are forwarded therein, except at post offices, where, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, it requires more time for making up the mail, and which he shall accordingly prescribe ; but this, in no case, can exceed one hour. No Postmaster or assistant Postmaster can act as agent for a lottery office, or under any colour of purchase or otherwise, vend lottery tickets; nor can any Postmaster receive free of postage, or frank, lottery schemes, circulars, or tickets. The penalty for a violation of this provision of the law is fifty dollars. No other than a free white person can be employed in carrying the mail; and any contractor who employs, or permits, any other than a free white person to convey the mail, for every such offence, incurs a penalty of twenty dollars. If any person shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of any driver or carrier, or of any horse or carriage, carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction for every such offence, pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and if any ferrymau shall, by wilful negligence, or refusal to transport the mail across any ferry, delay the same, he shall for cit and pay, for every ten minutes that the same shall be so delayed, a sum not exeeeding ten dollars. Postmasters, post-riders, and drivers of mail stages, are exempt from militia duties, and serving on juries. THE JUDICIARY. The Judiciary power of the United States is vested in one Supreme Court, and in sucia inferior courts as Congress, from time to time establish. The present judicial establishment of the United States consists of a Supreme Court, òf thirty-one District Courts, and seven Circuit Courts, which are thus organized: the Supreme Court is composed of one Chief Justice and six Associate Justices, who hold a court in the City of Washington, annually ;, besides which, each of these Justices attends a certain circuit, comprising two or more districts, appropriated to each, and, together with the Judge of the district, compose a Circuit Court, which is holden in each district of the circuit. The District Courts are held respectively by the District Judge alone. Appeals are allowed from the District to the Circuit Court, and from the Circuit to the Supreme Court and, in some cases, where the inconvenience of atteņdiog a court by a Justice of the Supreme Court is very great, the District Courts are invested with Circuit Court powers. Each State is one district, for the purpose of holding District and Circuit Courts therein, with the excepiion of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama, each of which is divided into iwo districts. There are, besides, Territorial courts, which are temporary, and lose that character whenever a Territory becomes a State. In addition to the District Court for the District of Columbia, there is a Circuit Court for that District, which exercises, under the authority of Congress, similar conimon law and equity jurisdiction as the county courts of Maryland and Virginia. Each court has a clerk, a public attorney or prosecutor, and a marshal, all of whom are appointed by the Executive of the United States, with the exception of the clerks, who are appointed by the courts. The compensa. tion of the judges are fixed by law ; that of the clerks, attorneys, and marshals, consists of fees, and, in a few instances, as it regards attorneys and marshals, of a yearly salary of about $200. By an aet of Congress of the 15th of May, 1820, District Attorneys are to be appointed for four years only, removable at pleasure. Marshals have always held their offices for four years, removable at pleasure, in pursuance of the 27th section of the act of the 24th of September, 1789. The Judges hold their offices during good behaviour, and can only be removed on impeachment. The appointments are made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. The Supreme Court of the United States has exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a Srate is a party, except between a Slale and its citizens ; and excepi, also, betweeu a State and citizens of other States, or aliens, in which latter case it has original, but not exclusive jurisdiction--and has exclusively all such jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against ambassadors, or other public ministers, or their domestics, or domestic servants, as a court of law can have or exercise cousistently with the law of nations—and original, but not exclusive jurisdiction of all suits brought by ambassadors, or other public ministers, or in which a consul or vice consul shall be a party. The Supreme Court has also appellate jurisdiction from the Circuit Courts and courts of the several States, in certain cases ; and has power to issue writs of prohibi. tion to the District Courts, when proceeding as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and writs of mandanus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States. A final judgment or decree in any suil, in the highest court of law or equiry of a State, in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in questiou the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is agaiost their validity-or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being re. pugnant to the constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the "ecision is in favor of such their validity-or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption, specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the constitution, trealy, statute, or commission, may be re-examined, and reversed or affirmed, in the Supreme Court of the United States, upon a 'writ of error, the citation being signed by the chief justice, or judge, or chancellor, of the court rendering or passing the judgment or decree complained of, or by a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same manner, and under the saine regulations, and the writ has the same effect, as if the jurigment or decree complained of, had been rendered or passed in a Circuit Court, and the proceeding upon the revisal is also the same, except that the Supreme Couit, instead of remanding the cause for a final decision, may, at their discretion, if the cause shall have been once remanded before, proceed to a final decision of the same and award execution. But no other error can be assigned or regarded as a ground of reversal in any such case, than such as appears on the face of the record and immediately respects the beforementioned questions of validity or construction of the said constitution, treaties, statutes, commissions or authorities in dispule. The following is the mode of suing out a writ of error : in cases or writs of error to a federal court, the writ should be allowed, citation signers, and bond approved, by a circuit judge ; where the writ is to a State court, the same must be done either by a justice of the Supreme Court or by the presiding judge of the court whose judgement is com plained of. With the transcript of the record for the Supreme Court, should be returned the writ, citation, with service, and a copy of the bond, filing in the office below the bond and copies.of the writ and citation JUDGES AND OFFICERS OF THE SUPREME COURT. ......chief justice...... $5000 00 Joseph Story......... associate justice ....Salem, Mass.......... 4500 00 Snith Thompson..... associate justice.... New York, N Y..... 4500 00 John McLean........ associate justice....Cincinnati, Ohio,.... 4500.00 Henry Baldwin ...... associate justice.... Pittsburg, Pa........ 4500 00 James M. Wayne... associate justice.... Savannah. Ga ....... 4500 00 .....associate justice.... 4500 00 Benj. F. Buller...... attorney general.... Washington, D. C... 4000 00 Wm. T. Carrull..... ...............clerk.... Washington, D. C...Fees, &c. Alexander Hunter...............marshal.... Washington, D. C... Fees, &c. DISTRICT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES. The District Courts of the United States, have, exclusively of the courts of the several States, cognizance of all crimes and offences that are cognizable under the authority of the Uniteit Stares, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, where no other punishment than whipping, not exceeding thirty stripes, a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or a term of imprisonment not exceeding six münths, is to be inflicted; and also have exclusive original cognizance of all.civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation, or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons buíthen, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas, saving to suitors, in all cases, the right of a common law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it; and also have exclusive original cognizance of all seizures on land or other waters.than as aforesaid, made, and of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred under the laws of the United States. And they also have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the Circuit ourt, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. And also have cognizance, concurrent, as last mentioned, of all suits at common law, where the United States sue, and the matter in dispute amounts, exclusive of costs, to the sum or value of one hundred dollars. And also have jurisdiction, exclusively of the courts of the several Stales, of all suits against consuls, or vice consulę, except for offences above the description a foresaill. The trial of issues in fact, in the District Courts, in all causes except civil causes of admiralty and maritine jurisdiction, are by jury. The act of 18th December, 1812, requires the district and territorial judges of the United States to reside within the districts and territories respectively, for which they are appointed ; and makes it unlawful-for any judge appointed under the authority of the United States, to exercise the profession or employement of counsel or attorney, or to be engaged in the practice of the law. And any person offending against the injunction or prohibition of this act shall be deen:ed guilty of a misdemeanor. It is made the duty of each District Atlorney to prosecute, in the Jurical District for which he is appointed, all delinquents, for criines and offenres cognizable under the laws of the United States, and all civil actions in which the United States shall be concerned. The Marshal for each District is required to attend the District and Circuit Court, and to execute throughout the district, all lawful precepts fatirected to him, and issued under the authority of the United States. Every marshal, when removed from office, or when the serien for which he is appointed shall expire, has power, notwithstanding, to execute all precepts which may then be in his hands. The Clerks are appointed by the Supreme Court, and the several district courts. The clerk for each district court, is clerk also of the circuit court in such district. Each clerk is required to give bond in the sum of two thousand dollars, faithfully to discharge the duties of his office, and seasonably to record the decrees, judgments, and determinations of the court of which he is clerk. |