Sussex County, which Mr. Pen so called, from his own seat in that county in England. The capital is, Lewes, a handsome, large town, standing on the lovely bank of a river, between the town and the sea, which makes the harbour. Below this place, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, is Cape Hinlopen, or Cape William; and 20 miles below that Cape James, the farthermost bounds of the province of Pensylvania. 'Tis said, this Cape takes its name from King James the first; in whose time it was known, but the country not well discovered. The line of partition between Pensylvania and Maryland is imaginary. The Whalery we spoke of was at Cape William. Sussex is not full of townships, but like Kent, is inhabited by planters, scattered up and down, as they thought best for their convenience. It sends six mem bers to the Assembly. Thus we have given the reader as full an account, as we could get by the best information of Pensylvania, which was, to use the Proprietary's own words, made at once a Country.-For 'tis certain, no Colony in America came to such perfection in so little time, both in trade, settlements, and numbers. Every one of the six counties has a quarterly and monthly Sessions, and Assizes twice a year. There's a Sheriff or Sheriffs, for each Shire or Coun ty, and Justice is frequently and regularly a ninistred. The six counties run along 20 or 30 miles upon the riv ers and bays, and backwards, as far as they are planted; in some places above 20 miles. Mr. Pen reserves five mannors in each county, as his particular propriety. The inhabitants consist of people of almost all Nations and Religions; but the opinion of the Quakers prevails so far, that they are by much the majority, as the English are of all the other nations.And the English, Dutch, Swedes, French, Indians and Negroes, in the province of Pensylvania, may modestly be computed at 35,000 souls. Tho we have already made some mention of the climate and soil, yet having something to add by further enquiry, we shall do it in this place. The summers here are not much hotter than in England, at least not for above one week; when the heat is sensibly more violent. The earth abounds in Mines, samplers of most sorts of ore having been taken up in every county, and no country in the world is better stored with rivers and creeks, most of them navigable for ships of burthen, and all of them for small craft. Tho not above a thirtieth part of this province is inhabited or planted, yet 'tis cleared every where more than the other parts of America in possession of the English. We shall conclude what we have to say on this head, with a short, but clear account of it, abstracted from a letter the proprietary, William Pen, Esq. did the Historian the honour to write him. "We consume about £18,000 yearly of English growth, and return of our productions directly, and by way of the Islands, what augments the revenue of the crown 30,000 pound. The high lands of Virginia and Maryland are very profitable ones, having moderate hills, and large vales, full of springs and small rivers, emptying themselves into the two great rivers, Sasquehanagh & Delaware; where ships of the largest burthen may ride. Its length is about 300 miles; its breadth 200. All provisions are reasonable, but labour dear, which makes it a good poor man's country; husbandmen and mechanicks getting £15 and £20 wages per annum for their work, besides diet; such as carpenters, smiths, joiners, taylors, shoe-makers, cart-wrights, husbandmen," &c. By which the reader may see, that the temptation for people to go thither, to mend their fortunes, to live pleasantly and plentifully, is so great, that 'tis not to be doubted but this province will get the start of all the other English settlements on the Continent of America. | 181 In obedience to the direction of the several acts of the assembly, in that case made and provided, I have the honor to make report to the legislature, of the business performed in, and the state of this office, within the last year, and of the manner in which the appropri ation for clerk hire has been applied, and of the contingent expenses, including those of the Board of property. Business for which no fees are receivable, viz. 812 New warrants to survey, entered, numbered and filed, copies of which have been made, and directed to the deputy surveyors for execution. Warrants of acceptance, entered, numbered and filed. 155 1109 821 1983 1983 846 1925 Tickets directed to the Secretary of the Land Of fice, each of which required a search to be made. Returns made to the Secretary of the Land Office for patenting, the surveys and warrants endorsed accordingly, and corresponding entries made in the warrant books. Searches for warrants and surveys of which copies or connections were required. Warrants and surveys re-filed, of all which, copies or connections were made. New surveys received from deputy surveyors, examined, compared with the warrants, entered in the deputy surveyor's list of returns, marked in the warrant books, endorsed with the time of acceptance, numbered and filed. New surveys received from contractors with the Board of Property, in pursuance of the provis ions of the act, entitled "An act explanatory and supplementary to the act, entitled An act directing the recovery of the principal and interest due the commonwealth, from persons holding lands by virtue of locations and other office titles, issued from or under the proprietary government, and for other purposes," passed the 11th day of April, 1825, which are in a train of examination, a considerable number of which, have been already completed. 120 Copies of surveys and three connections, embrac- | 1818 47 Tracts, with a great number of searches, made 538 Entries made in the fee book. 4 Quarterly accounts made out and settled at the Auditor general's office. The revising of the patented files (referred to in former reports) has also been further progressed in, during the recess of the legislature, but not yet completed. Business for which fees have been received amounting to $1,021 314, viz. 1138 Copies, extracts and certificates. On the first day of April last, there remained unexpended of the appropriation for clerk hire, for the year ending on that day, $50, since then, there has been applied in the payment of clerks, up to the first day of October last, 1,575 dollars, leaving a balance of 1,625 for the remainder of the year, ending on the first day of April next. 960 858 1818 29 676 48 42 Calculations of amount due. Certificates to the Treasurer of amounts due on Treasurer's receipts entered and delivered to Tickets from the Surveyor General filed. Mortgages and bonds written and executed. Entries in the fee book, transcribing the same quarterly, and settling with the Auditor General. Minutes of the Board of Property recorded and indexed. Transcripts of entries of warrants, &c. for the use of the Surveyor General's office. 70 Searches for the use of Surveyor General's office. Business done in the office from the first October, 1828, to the first October, 1829, for which fees were receivable. 208 145 Searches. 107 Exemplifications of patents, 102 Office copies with seals. 14 Orders for valuing islands. 6 Fuel, 17 17 73 47 16 21 New case for office papers, Sundry repairs, washing and cleaning office and Board of Property room, Miscellaneous, 1 344 439 46 Of which 279 73 has been expended since the first day of April last, (including the above item for a new case, which became necessary for the arrangement of the returns from contractors, and the increasing number of other office papers,) leaving a balance of the appropriation for contingent expenses, of 177 20 for the remainder of the year, ending on the first day of April next. Judgments of Board of Property. Of the balance of the appropriation for clerk hire for the year 1828, which remained unexpended on the first day of October of that year, there was expended in compensating clerks to the first of April, 1829, the sum of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars and four cents. By the act of the 16th April, 1827, there was an annual appropriation for clerk hire, in this office, of three thousand six hundred dollars; and by an act passed the 22d day of April, 1829, there was an additional appropri ation for clerk hire, of $600, making together, $4000 of which sum there hath been expended, in compensating clerks from the first of April to the first of Oct. 1829,two thousand one hundred dollars, leaving a balance to com pensate clerks, from the first of October, 1829, to the first of April, 1830, two thousand one hundred dollars. Of the appropriation for the contingent expenses of In relation to the state of this office, required by the the office, for the year 1828, there remained unexpendprovisions of the act, in pursuance of which this reported on the first of October, of that year, fifty dollars and is made, I can only at present remark, that due care and attention has been observed in bringing up the business of the office, and the preservation and arrangement of the books and papers in their order. All which is respectfully submitted, To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of In conformity to the requsitious of the several acts of the Assembly in that case made and provided, I respect fully report to the House of Representatives, the situation of the office of the Secretary of the Land Office; and also the business done in the office during the year ending with the 30th day of November, 1829. Business done for which no fees are receivable. 827 Patents written, sealed, &c. fifty-eight cents, which sum, together with forty-nine dollars eighty-eight cents of the extra sum appropriat ed by the act of the 22d April, 1829, was expended up to the first of April. By the act of the 22d April, 1829, there was appropriated for the contingent expenses of the office, one hundred forty-nine dollars fifty cents, amounting, with the annual appropriation, to eight hundred forty-nine dollars fifty cents, of which sum there hath been expended, six hundred thirty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents, up to the first October, leaving a balance unexpended of two hundred eleven dollars and eighteen cents, to defray the contingent expenses of the office to the first of April, 1830. Contingent expenses of the office from the first of October, The foregoing statements of the business done in the office, is respectfully submitted. I can only add, that as respects the state of the office, the books are posted, and the warrants registered up to this date. I am respectfully yours, &c. JOSHUA DICKERSON, PENNSYLVANIA CANAL. DELAWARE DIVISION. To the Board of Canal Commissioners. Gentlemen: In obedience to the resolution of the board, passed the 2d of October last, directing "that cach acting canal commissioner and superintendent of canal or rail road, be requested on or before the 25th day of November next, to transmit to the secretary of the board, a report embracing the following particulars: 1st. The amount of work done in the original construction of the work under his charge since the last annual report, specifying its different kinds, and designating the sections on which it has been executed, together with the names of the contractors, the amount paid to each, and the amount then due. 2d. The amount of work done upon his line in making alterations, improvements or repairs, together with the names of the contractors, and the amount paid and the amount due to each; and generally all such facts and observations in relation to the public works under his charge as will furnish to the board and the legislature the fullest and most satisfactory informa tion on the subject. I have the honor to report. That statement marked A. hereunto annexed, exhibits the amount paid to contractors for work done on sections since the last annual statement, (20th November, 1828,) to whom, the kinds and quantities of work done, and the amount now due. Statement B. contains the same information with regard to the mechanical work. There have been but two contracts entered into for repairs, &c. and those are for the repairs of banks, completing small portions left for temporary passages, digging back drains, &c. the amount paid on each is entered at the end of statement 183 work of "every description" remaining to be done, which I immediately communicated to him; statement marked F. is his report in reply. It may not be improper that I should remark, that there are a number of the locks and culverts entirely finished, and that final estimates on them are at this moment in preparation, the amount of which would have been inserted in statement B. as work already completed,could they have been had in time; as it is, they appear in the amount of work yet to be done. Respectfully submitted, THỎ. G. KENNEDY, Supr. Office of the Delaware Division, B. 10,510 00 Statement C. exhibits the present organization of the engineer corps. 73 1,347 60 112 4,633 00 113 4,532 50 Do D. The amount of damges paid since the last annual statement. 1,487 90 300 00 Do E. Shews the amount of monies drawn from MECHANICAL WORK. Basin and and pier at Bristol In order to give the board and the legislature the fullest and most satisfactory information in relation to the state and progress of the work on this division, I addressed a request to Mr. Sergeant, that he would furnish me with a detailed report of the present state of the Aqueducts. No. 1 work, and at the same time give an opinion, founded on his knowledge of all the circumstances, at what time the whole would probably be completed for the purpos es of navigation. I subsequently received a suggestion from the secretary of the board, of the propriety of hav ing an estimate made by the engineer, of the amount of 572 57 No. 6 858 05 6,902 50 6,086 25 4,785 00 $172,303 92 4,568 00 6,871 00 DOLL. CT. Locks. 598 62 Aqueducts. 1,238 90 5 1,323 25 6849 7 4,259 70 3,034 50 950 25 3,149 50 15,972 09 266 75 515 00 68 95 278 70 210 50 80 00 1,646 00 1,066 00 1,235 00 Am't on culverts 8,251 32 200 00 100 00 193 60 200 50 152 00 121 00 150 00 Culvert or waste way for Fackenthall's spring Waste wiers No. 12 131 00 122 00 25 00 25 00 200 00 200 00 200 00 200 00 200 00 2,270 10 3,902 00 14,000 00 335,576 25 on the line is manufactured. No. 21 will probably be finished in a few days, as a small portion of the wood work only is wanting. season. On Nos. 22 and 23, preparations are making to build them early in the spring. The dam, outlet lock, and guard lock, at Easton, are rapidly advancing towards completion, and will undoubtedly be finished early All the culverts to No. 18 inclusive next are now done; No. 19 has been commenced, and would have been finished only for an early rise of water in the river, which retarded materially the operations of The re the contractors in getting in a foundation. maining two will be built as soon as the weather will permit in the spring. The masonry of all the aqueducts on the line, it may be said, is completed; a few perch only on 7 and 9 remains to be done. The wood work or trunks of one, two and three, is also finished, or nearly so. are not The contracts on bridges have been prosecuted with as much diligence as circumstances would permit, but so far advanced as I could have wished.This deficiency may be attributed to the difficulty of procuring timber, which can only be found at the head waters on branches of the Delaware, and must be brought down during the spring or fall freshets. It is therefore not unfrequently the case, that the most sanguine conclusions, based on those contingencies, fail entirely, which may furnish substantial cause for the line not being completed south of New Hope, as was anticipated in the early part of the season. It may, however, be proper to observe in relation to putting the water into that part of the line, that the contractors for building the fence on that portion of the canal, having been subject to the same misfortunes in procuring materials, and consequently have not been able to complete but The fields are generally a small part of their contract. secured by fences running transversly to it, temporarily put up since the canal formation was completed. These must be removed in the event of putting in the water and the owners be subjected to the necessity of putting up fences parallel to the canal, or of leaving their fields open, which would indeed appear unnecessary, inas much as not more than two feet of water in the lowest stage of the river, could be put into the first level, until the proposed dam at the head of Wells' falls is erect ed, or the canal completed from the Lehigh to that place. From New Hope to Easton, the greater part of the work remaining to be done is on sections, and may be advantageously prosecuted during the winter months, unless they should be characterized by unusually severe frosts. If this should not be the case, and the winter prove favourable, a reasonable hope may be indulged that the whole line will be completed and ready to re ceive the water for navigable purposes, by the first of July next, a few days short of three years since the first survey was commenced. I am, respectfully, DELAWARE DIVISION PENNSYLVANIA CANAL. Point Pleasant, Nov. 20, 1829. Thomas G. Kennedy, Esq. Superintendent. Sir-The foregoing statement exhibits the aggregate amounts of work remaining to be done of "every description" on the Delaware line of canal. It will be found by reference to my estimate made Nov. 20, 1828, that the actual cost of the canal will exceed considerably the amount of the original estimate. This, how ever may be accounted for in the cost of the guard lock and dam at New Hope, the outlet lock in the Lehigh dam, lock houses, inside slope walls and parapets, on each side of the canal along the river sections, (for the safety of the travelling on the towing path and road,)and occasional necessary changes in the plan & execution of the work; which have not been taken into consideration in any former estimate. Unforeseen difficultiesalso occur in the excavation of hard pan and rock, not unfrequent-running between this Borough and Tuscarora, via Port ly when previous calculations have been predicated on common earth excavation. The sum total in this report is made mostly from actual measurements in detail, caculated at contract prices, and with liberal allowances where any item is at the estimate of the engineer. The contracts on the line generally are progressing with skill and energy, excepting trifling deviations always attendant upon on a work of such magnitude. The masonry of all the locks, from No. 1 to No. 19 inclusive, is completed, and on many of them nothing remains to be done; No. 20 would have been erected this season, only that it is located directly in front of, and occupies a part of the ground on which a grist mill now stands, where most of the hydraulic cement used Your obedient servant, H. G. SARGENT, Engineer. TUSCARORA STAGE.-A line of stages has commenced Carbon, Middleport and Patterson. This is a convenience to our men of business, and will produce a facility A Pest Office of communication much to be desired. will in all probability be shortly established at Patter son,-as the increase of population will warrant a tri weekly mail up the Schuylkill Valley.-Pottsville, M.J. STATISTICS OF CRIME. We invite attention to the following Tables, on some very interesting views of the operation of the penal code and the state of society with respect to crime; we are indebted for them, to the exertions of a Society, which has been long and successfully laboring in the cause of reformation. Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania-of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the City and County of Philadelphia-of the Mayor's Court of the City of Philadelphia-and of the Court of Quar ter Sessions of the County of Philadelphia, FOR THE YEAR 1829. There were no The offences were committed within the body of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. bills found at the April Sessions of the Court--a case of forgery, which had been continued from October Ses sions 1828, was tried, and the defendant convicted. WALNUT ST. AND EASTERN PENITENTIARY. 24 in the County of Philadelphia, for the year 1829, the nature of the offences for which they were convicted -the Counties from which they came-ages-sexes, &c. |