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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1813
Page
5
The report from Fort Meigs dated the 46th inst notes the North Western Army headquarters expected an aerial attack and prepared to give it a strong reception. The Augusta Chronicle records this Extra edition with these military updates from Washington City.
The New York news notes Commodore Chancey’s fleet leaving Sackets Harbor with Col. Pike’s regiment, aiming for Kingston. Capt. Merry of the Niagara says the privateer Glebe of Baltimore engaged English ships near Lisbon Rock and was pursued by the Zenobia.
Mercer follows reports from Erie on gun boats being launched soon and corvettes nearly planked. Commodore and captains arrive with midshipmen. Dobbin to procure 32 pounders. two 4% gun ships to be built as lake opens. Fortifications planned at basin mouths and a new Presque Isle wharf. Salina burned. cannon and ammunition moved up the Allegheny. James Rosu appointed by the President to survey the Mint.
A magistrate moves to issue process against a minister after a dismissed coachman’s appeal. The magistrate and the officer who served are both taken up and committed, per Rev. York Gaz. Afr 16.
Lexington April 29 1813 residents gathered at Robert Freeman’s home with William H Crawford to toast national leaders and war plans. Toasters praised Washington Madison Congress and the Navy while honored figures like Hull Decatur and Lawrence. The event also included a legislative exchange with plans for a military hospital site and land deeds involving Ursuline nuns and the war department.
A historical act authorizes the Secretary of War to exchange the land housing the U S Military Hospital in New Orleans with the Ursuline Nuns. The text also covers prizes from privateers, their sale by the marshal, payment of proceeds, and marshal commissions under a detailed framework.
The text outlines duties of the marshal to file true accounts of prize property within ten days, with penalties for neglect. It covers removal of captured private vessels before libel, under duty regulations, and lists appropriations for 1813 including military, naval expenses, and congressional salaries and contingencies.
Congress directs the Treasury accounting officers to settle John N Stout of Kentucky's account and pay him eighty seven dollars fifteen cents for fees as jailor in the Archibald Hamilton case with prisoner Archibald Hamilton. The act is signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate and dated May 20, 1812.
The document states that claims to lands in the Mississippi territory are affirmed based on warrants of survey issued by British or Spanish authorities, with the enactment authorized by both houses of the United States Congress.
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