balance, in a single campaign, with an Enemy powerful at sea, the expense of all these works, without taking into the estimate the saving of the lives of so many of our Citizens, the protection of cur towns and other property, or the tendency of such works to prevent war.

Our military positions have been maintained at Belle Point, on the Arkansas, at Council Bluff, on the Missouri, at St. Peter's, on the Mississippi, at Green Bay, and on the Upper Lakes. Commodious barracks have already been erected at most of these posts, with such works as were necessary for their defence. Progress has also been made in opening communications between them, and in raising supplies at each for the support of the Troops, by their own labour-particularly those

most remote.

With the Indians, peace has been preserved, and a progress made in carrying into effect the Act of Congress, making an appropriation for their civilization, with the prospect of favourable results. As connected equally with both these objects, our trade with those Tribes is thought to merit the attention of Congress. In their original state, game is their sustenance, and war their occupation; and, if they find no employment from Civilized Powers, they destroy each other. Left to themselves, their extirpation is inevitable. By a judicious regulation of our trade with them, we supply their wants, administer to their comforts, and gradually, as the game retires, draw them to us. By maintaining posts far in the interior, we acquire a more thorough and direct control over them; without which it is confidently believed that a complete change in their manners can never be accomplished. By such posts, aided by a proper regulation of our trade with them, and a judicious civil administration over them, to be provided for by Law, we shall, it is presumed, be enabled, not only to protect our own Settlements from their savage incursions, and preserve peace among the several Tribes, but accomplish also the great purpose of their civilization.

Considerable progress has also been made in the construction of Ships of War, some of which have been launched in the course of the present year.

Our peace with the Powers on the coast of Barbary has been preserved, but we owe it altogether to the presence of our Squadron in the Mediterranean. It has been found equally necessary to employ some of our Vessels, for the protection of our commerce in the Indian Sea, the Pacific, and along the Atlantic coast. The interests which we have depending in those quarters, which have been much improved of late, are of great extent, and of high importance to the Nation, as well as to the Parties concerned, and would undoubtedly suffer, if such protection was not extended to them. In execution of the Law of the last Session, for the suppression of the Slave-trade, some of

our publick Ships have also been employed on the coast of Africa, where several captures have already been made of Vessels engaged in that disgraceful traffick.

Washington, November 14, 1820.

JAMES MONROE.

ACT of Congress of The United States "to impose a new Tonnage Duty on French Ships and Vessels." 15th May, 1820.

SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, in lieu of the tonnage duty now paid on French Ships or Vessels, there shall be paid a duty of 18 dollars per ton, on all French Ships or Vessels which shall be entered in The United States, any Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, that nothing contained in this Act, shall be so construed as to prevent the extension of the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to repeal so much of the several Acts imposing duties on the tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into the United States as imposes a discriminating duty ou tonnage between Foreign Vessels and Vessels of The United States, and between the goods imported into The United States in Foreign Vessels, and Vessels of The United States," to French Ships and Vessels, and the goods imported therein, whenever the Government of France shall accede to the provisions of the Act above referred to.

11. And be it further enacted, that the tonnage duty laid, and directed to be paid by this Act, shall be collected and paid according to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed the 2nd day of March, 1799.

III. And be it further enacted, that this Act shall commence, and be in force, from and after the 1st day of July, 1820.

[Approved-15th May, 1820.]

Act of Congress of The United States. [Approved 3d March, 1815.]-SECT. I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that so much of the several Acts imposing Duties on the Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported into The United States, as imposes a Discriminating Duty of Tonnage, between Foreign Vessels and Vessels of The United States, and between Goods imported into The United States in Foreign Vessels and Vessels of The United States, be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as the same respects the produce or manufacture of the Nation to which such Foreign Ships or Vessels may belong; such repeal to take effect in favour of any Foreign Nation, whenever the President of The United States shall be satisfied that the Discriminating or Countervailing Duties of such Foreign Nation, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of The United States, have been abolished.

ORDONNANCE du Roi de France, relative aux droits de Tonnage à percevoir sur les Navires Américains.--Paris, le 26 Juillet, 1820.

LOUIS, par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre;

Sur le Rapport de notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat des Affaires Etrangères;

Notre Conseil entendu,

Nous avons ordonné et ordonnons ce qui suit:

ART. I. A dater de la publication de la présente Ordonnance, les droits de tonnage qui se perçoivent sur les Navires étrangers, à l'entrée des Ports de notre Royaume situés en Europe, seront remplacés, pour les Navires appartenant aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique, par un droit spécial de 90 francs par tonneau, sans préjudice du décime additionnel.

II. Les Navires Américains qui justifieront être partis des Ports de l'Union et directement pour un Port de France, avant le 15 Juin dernier, époque à laquelle l'Acte du Congrès, en date du 15 Mai, a dû être connu dans toute l'Union, ne seront assujettis qu'aux droits de tonnage ordinaires.

III. Les dispositions de la présente Ordonnance ne seront point applicables aux Navires de l'Union qui viendront sur lest dans les Ports de France.

Elles cesseront de droit, si l'Acte du Congrès du 15 Mai vient à être annullé, et du moment où la connaissance officielle de cette annullation sera parvenu en France.

IV. Notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat des Affaires Etrangères, et notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat de Finance, sont chargés de l'exécution de la présente Ordonnance, qui sera insérée au Bulletin des Lois.

Donné à Paris, en notre Château des Tuileries, le 26 jour de Juillet de l'an de grâce 1820, et de notre Règne le 26e.

Par le Roi:

Le Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat

au Département des Affaires Etrangères.

LOUIS.

PASQUIER.

ACT of Congress of The United States, to release French Ships and Vessels, entering the Ports of The United States prior to the 30th of September, 1820, from the operation of the Act entitled "An Act to impose a new Tonnage Duty on French Ships and Vessels, and for other purposes."

3rd March, 1821.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the provisions

of the Act entitled " An Act to impose a new tonnage duty on French Ships and Vessels," passed May 15, 1820, shall not extend to, or operate upon, any French Ship or Vessel that shall have entered into any Port within the jurisdiction of The United States prior to the 30th day of September, 1820.

SECT. II. And be it further enacted, that the Secretary of the Treasury, after deducting a tonnage duty equal to that paid by every French Ship or Vessel which entered the Ports within the jurisdiction of The United States prior to the passage and operation of the Act entitled "An Act to impose a new tonnage duty on French Ships and Vessels," passed May 15, 1820, from the tonnage duty collected from French Ships and Vessels by virtue of the above recited Act, between the 1st day of July, 1820, and the 30th day of September following, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay and refund the remainder of such tonnage duty, free from costs and charges, to any Person or Persons who shall have authority to receive the same.

III. And be it further enacted, that, in the event of the signature of any Treaty or Convention concerning the Navigation or Commerce between the Dominions of The United States and France, the President of The United States be, and is hereby authorized, should he deem the same expedient, by Proclamation, to suspend, until the end of the next Session of Congress, the operation of the aforesaid Act, entitled "An Act to impose a new tonnage duty on French Ships and Vessels, and for other purposes;" and, also to suspend, as aforesaid, all other duties on French Vessels, or the goods imported in the same, which may exceed the duties on American Vessels and on similar goods imported in the same. JOHN W. TAYLOR,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARD,

President of the Senate pro tempore.

Washington, 3d March, 1821. Approved.

JAMES MONROE.

ORDONNANCE du Roi de France, qui détermine l'époque de la Perception d'un Droit de tonnage sur les Navires Américains.-Paris, le 23 Avril, 1821.

LOUIS, par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre;

Sur le Rapport de notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat au Département des Affaires Etrangères.

Avons ordonné et ordonnons ce qui suit:

ART. I. L'Article Ier de notre Ordonnance du 26 Juillet dernier, par lequel il est établi un droit spécial de 90 francs par tonneau, sans préjudice du décime additionnel, sur les Batimens appartenant aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique, ne sera applicable qu'à ceux desdits Bâtimens entrés dans les Ports de France postérieurement au 12 Décembre dernier.

II. Le montant des perceptions qui, à raison du droit spécial établi par notre Ordonnance du 26 Juillet, auraient été faites sur des Bâtimens des Etats-Unis entrés dans les ports de France avant le 13 Décembre dernier, sera remboursé à qui il appartient, sauf la déduction d'une somme égale au droit de tonnage ordinaire.

III. L'Article II. de notre dite Ordonnance du 26 Juillet dernier est annullé.

IV. Notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat des Affaires Etrangères, et notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat des Finances, sont chargés de l'exécution de la présente Ordonnance, qui sera insérée au Bulletin des Lois. Donné a Paris, en notre Château des Tuileries, le 23 Avril, 1821. LOUIS.

Par le Roi:

Le Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat des Affaires Etrangères, PASQUIER.

PROCLAMATION of the President of The United States, promulgating the Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits, between The United States and Spain of the 22d February, 1819. Washington, 22d February, 1821.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits, between the United States of America, and His Catholic Majesty, was concluded and signed between their Plenipotentiaries, in this City, on the 22d day of February, in the year of our Lord 1819, which Treaty, word for word, is as follows:

Treaty of Amity, Settlement and

Limits, between The United States of America and His Catholic Majesty.

THE United States of America and His Catholic Majesty, desiring to consolidate, on a permanent basis, the friendship and good correspondence which happily prevails between the two

Tratado de Amistad, Arreglo de

Diferencias y Limites, entre Su Magestad Católica y los Estados Unidos de America.

Deseando Su Magestad Católica y los Estados Unidos de America consolidar de un modo permanente la buena correspondencia y amistad que felizmente reyna entre ambas Partes, han re