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In GENERAL ASSEMBLY,,
March 16, 1780.
The Bill intitled " An Act to repeal divers Afis of As
sembly of this Commonwealth, herein after mentioned,
for preventing foreftalling and regrating, and for the en
couragement of fair dealing : And an Aft intirhd, " An
ACT to° permit the making ofwhifkey and other spirits from
rye, barley, or the malt made thereof, under certain re
ftridions therein mentioned ; and to prohibit the distilling
any whiskey or other spirits from any other grain, meal,
malt or flour," was read the second time, and being de
bated by paragraphs, was ordered to be tranferibed for the
third reading, and in the mean time printed for consider
ation.
Extrad from the Minutes,
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
An ACT to alter and amend an AH of Assembly, inti
tied, "An Aft for the effectual suppression of Public
Auctions and Vendues,and to prohibit male persons ca
pable of bearing arms, from being Hawkers and Ped
lars," so far as to allow the sale by Public Auction of
goods damaged or llupwrecked.
WHERE AS in the Aa of Assembly, intitled,
' An Ad for the effectual suppression of Public
Audions and Vendue,, and to prohibit male persons ca
pable of bearing arms, from being Hawkers and Pedlars,''
pissed on the twenty sixth day of November last, no pro
vision was made for the sale by public auction of damaged
goods, or goods saved out of fllips or vessels wrecked, or
which for the fatiriaHion of insurers and others, it may
be proper and reasonable should be fold after that man
ner:
Beit therefore enacted, and it is hereby enaded, by the
Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the au
thority of the fame, T hat from and after the publication
of this AH, all goods and merchandize which shall really
and bona fide be damaged and in a perishable condition,
or which fliall be saved out of any (hips or vessel cafl a
way or wrecked, or focircumfta nced by diftrffs of storms
or otherwise, that the cargoor lading thereof ought to ba
fold for the account of insurers, and anchors or cables ta
ken up at sea or in the river or bay of Delaware, and which
ought to be fold to ascertain the salvage due thereupon to
the petfen or persons who may take up the fame, may be
fold at public auction or vendue the said Aft notwith
standing, fubjeft however to the rules and reftriaions
therein prescribed as to the sale by public auction or ven
due of goods and merchandize thereby permitted to be
fold by public auflion or vendue.
Provided always, and be it further enaded by the au
thority aforefaid, That before the Auctioneer of the city
of Philadelphia shall proceed to fell by public auction or
vendue any goods or merchandize, by virtue of this Ad,
he shall be furnished with the licence of the President, or
Vice President in Council, authorizing such sale in which
the goods and merchandize thereby permitted to be fold as
aforefaid, shall befpecified and particularized, such licence
to be grounded on the report on oath oraffirmation of
three judicious and indifferent men, who being appointed
by the said President, or Vice P-efidenl in Council for
that purpose, shall have carefully enquired of, and view
ed the said goods and merchandize, and found them to
come within the intent and benefit of this A&.
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enabled intoa Law at Philadelphia,
on Thursday the second day of
March, Anno Domini, One thou
sand 'even hundred and eighty.
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
malt or flour."
WHEREAS the operations of an Aft of Assem
bly of this Commonwealth, passed on the second
day of January, which was in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and feveuty-eight, intitled,
£< An AH to prevent foreftalling and regrating, and to
encourage fair dealing ;" and a Supplement, and further
Supplement to tie fame AH, passed on the firfl of Aprif
and tenth of September following : And another Aft 0
Assembly, intitled, “. An Aft for the more effeauahy
preventing engrossing and foreftalling, for the encourage
ment of commerce and the fair trader, and for other pur
poses therein mentioned," passed on the eight day of Oc
tober last : And another AH of Assembly, intitled,
" An Aft to permit the making of whiskey and other spi
rits from rye, barley, andthe malt made thereof, under
certain reftridions therein mentioned ; and to prohibit
the distilling any whiskey or other spirits from any other
grain, meal, malt or flour," passed on the eight day of
October last, have not been found to answer the good pur
poses for which they were made, and have produced some
inconveniences, so that it appears to be of no public ad
vantage that they should continue in force :
Be it therefore enaded, and it is hereby ena&ed, by
the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and bythe
authority of the fame, That the said recited A&s, and
every clause, matter and thing therein contained, be and
the fame are hereby repealed and made void.
To the Printer of the PENNSYLVANIA
PACKET.
SIR,
WHEN the piece finned, “ W Friend in time of need,
came out in your last Tuesday's paper, like all .0-
ther new things, it struck people with wonder, and some
were for itand others against it. It placed tue deprecia
tion and our whole situation in alight in which tl ey had
never been viewed before, and went so faras to fliew that
our losses might be made our gains. It is certainly a hap
py turn of thought that can make one want relieve ano
ther, in such a manner as to overcome both. Now this
An A CT to repeal divers Ads of Assembly of this Com
monwealth, herein after mentioned, for preventing fore
ftalling and regrating, and for the encouragement of
fair dealing : And an Act intitled, " An Aft to per
mit the making of whiskey and other spirits from rye,
barley, or the malt made thereof, under certain reftric
tiohs therein mentioned ; and to prohibit the distilling
any whiskey or other spirits from any other grain, meal
PHILADELPHIA.
is really the case through all the United States for the
Continental currency is at this time so low, that there is
not value enough in it even to carry on ro? T^s of
consequence produces a want of money among the people;
and on the other hand, the State wants to purchase tup
plies. Let each State then strike on its own credit and
fund as much money as each State want to fill up the
necessary quantity for trade; you will then killtwo birds
with one flene ; for the money will both procure the sup
plies, and afterwards enable trade to go on and people to
pay their taxes.-
If we did not want supplies we should be obliged to
strike money, because it redly wanted to circulate trade
by, and we should then be obliged either to loan it out or
lay it out in building bridges or fame other public purpose,
but situated as we are, the two wants came happily toge
ther.
But in order to do these things we must nrft do another
afl of public justice and benefit, that is, we ruuft take up
our nominal public debt at its real value and no more ;
for should we be so unwise and unjuf lto ourselves and our
posterity, to reallize a nominal debt, we everlafiiqfly dis
able ourselves and those that are to come after us, and ruin
the cause and the country entirely.
A Well Wisher to the United States.
A LIST of VESSELSentered at the Naval
OfFicefince the 10th of January, 1780, to toe
j Bth irritant, with an account of their cargoes, from
whence arrived, and to whom consign'd.
January. 10, CHIP Jay, Harman Courier, matter;
1780. ' cargo, 44.hogfheads rur, 10 pipes ct
wine,77 bate,boxen, bags, barrels and crates dry goods,
2® cherts tea, 34 cases gin, 6x31 bushels ialt ; trem St,
Euftatia ; consign'd to Birir M'Claneghan, John Prin
gle, Harman Counter and others.
Feb. 20. Ship Flora, Ephraim Deane, master; cargo,
118 cases dry goods, Seifers china and crockery ware,
3 oarrels sugar, 2 calks block tinn, 20 kegs white lead,
- 40 pieces of Russia duck, 1® pieces of ravens ditto, i
case wool cards, 1 case pins, 5 bagscocoa, 9 pipes and
i calk wine, 41 hogsheads rum, 1100 bum-ds tabi
from St. Euft^tia; confi^n'd to William Pollard, A
lexander Tod, and company end others.
Feb. 23. Brigantine Neptune, Peter Youpg, master;
cargo, £ chest, 1 bale linep, 1 chest tea, 5 bales duf
fields, i bundle, 1 bale and 1 truss blankets, 22 rug,
34 pieces duck, 6 boxes cards, 9 brier dry goods, 9
pieces oznabrigs, 1 crate earthen ware, 2, holts can
vas, 77 yards beaver, 905 bufhcls salt, 400 wt. pow
der, from St. Euftatia , cu'n fign'd to Matthewlrwin,
and co. and.others.
March 6. Brigantine Delaware, James Collins; cargd,
16 hogsheads brown sugar, it hogsheads taffy, 5000
weight coffee, 25 bags cotton ; from Port ^Prince;
consigned to Jonathan Mifflin, Anthony Butler, and
comp.
Ship Hetty, James Jefiah, master ; cargo, 300 bushels
fait, 150 pipes, hoglheads, and quarter calks wine,
40 pieces canvas, 2 calks white-lead, 1000 weight
bar lead, 2 barrels tin, 13 coils cordage; from Te
neriffe ; consigned to Bunner, Murrey, and comp.
Brig George, Alexander Mackay, master ; cargo, 1,3
quarter cafle swine, 40 calks brandy, ioo calks railins,
zsoxes lemons ; from Cadiz; consigned to Philip
Moore, and comp.
Brig Active, Thomas Mefnard, master; cargo, 65
puncheons rum, 247 bags coffee and cocoa, 21 bales,
19 cases, 4 trunks, 22 calks, and 4 bundles dry goods,
10 barrels powder, 2 crates Queen's ware, 4 cherts
tea, 40 cases gin, 2 pipes wine, 300 buOials salt ; from
~t. Euftatia ; consigned to John Wil cocks, Mead and
Fitzfimmons, and comp.
Schooner Stephen, William Stevens, master ; cargo, 32
bolts oznabricks, 7 barrels coffee, 10 hogsheads and
7 puncheons rum, 20 bolts canvas, 132 pieces linen,
4 ditto ftamp'd linen, 30 kegs Spani&TDrown, i case
gin, I pipe wine, i barrel lime juice, 1 bale dry goods,
ibox feap, 200 bulhels lalt ; 'from St. Croix; con
signed to Robert Morris and others.
Schooner B&tfy, Samuel Williams, master ; cargo, 31
barrels and 7 half barrels of rice ; from South-Caio
lina ; consigned to John Matthews.
Sloop Page, Thomas Palmer, master ; cargo, 36 bales
and 7 boxes dry goods, 3% kegs small Ihot, 23 rolls
Iheet-lead, 50 hoglheads white wine, 114 anchors
brandy, 6 cates claret, 6 barrels copperas, 6 crates
Queen's ware, 1 ditto hard ware ; from L'Orient;
consigned to John 'Pringle, and Robert Bridges.
Schooner Vengeance, Samuel Caffan, master ; cargo, 77
barrels and 2 huglheads sugar, 152 bags coffee, 3%
calks taffea; from Port au Prince; consigned to John
Primfle and company.
Sloop Betsy, Joshua Allen, master; cargo, 85© bushels
salt, 23 kegfheads rum, 1 bale dry goods § from St.
Eu&atia; consigned to James Oellers and coi
Brigantine Rebecca, John Chatham, master; cargo,
51 pipes, io halt ditto, and 8 quarter calks wr e, 2
bales blankets, 330 bushels salt ; from Tenerffc ;
consigned to Van Uxum and Clark, and to Robert
Morris.
Sloop Charming Polly, Phoenix Frazier, master; cargo,
io pipes of wine ; from Boston ; consigned to Phoenix
Frazier.
Schooner Buckskin, John Wilson, master; cargo, 218
cherts of sugar ; from Harannah; consigned to Ro
bert Morris.
Brigantine Retaliation, Philip Kollock, master ; cargo,
35 bales, 4 cases, 2 boxes, 1 trunk and 1 bundle dry
goods, 16 pipes and 25 hogtheads brandy, 15 cherts
and 4 quarter chests of tea, 3 hogsheads red, and one
hogshead white wine, 2 boxes medicines ; from L'O
rient ; consigned to Robert Moriis and others.
March 7. Brigantine General Reed, Hugh Stocker,
matter; cargo, 1100 bushels salt, 21 pipes wine; 60
hogsheads rum, 3000 weight coffee, 6 puncheons and
2000 weight cocoa, 2 chests and 4 half ditto tea, 80
bale#, boxes, chests and bundles dry goods, 36 bolts
Russia duck, 260 cases gin, 20 ditto brandy, 2 crates
crockery ware ; from St. Euftatia ; consigned to An
drew and Hugh Hodge and co.
Brigantine Patty, John Prole, master ; cargo, 40 pipes,
6 h^lf do. and 31 quarter calks Sherry wine, gg boxes,
7 calks and 23 bale# dry goods, 11 barrels vinegar,
104 barrel, lemons, 8 barrels powder, 700 bulbil, salt,
£$ jarri m 1 57 «ga raifias, 2 barrels bra ;d,, 2 3
oil rag p,p?.i, § oxes and kr, ssh 1; ^m Ca
- fbz; confi .ello Jo nD maldfon, #nd co. and• tees„
M chij. Senponsr Htnr, John Ord, natter; car
go, 19 hogfhe uls ana 20 bevels lugar, 14 <t!s cof
f 6 barrels tait, 6 h (heads taffea; from Hifpari
ola ; consigned to J rcmiah Frihr, Abram Roberts,
and co
FREDERICK PHILE, Naval Offi r.
+*- #,# ~pi}4< ^-a?##^vo4-& #
NOTICE E hereby given, that the
REGISTER'S ; FFiCEotthe ourt
ot Admiralty of the State of New-jerky,
is now kept in Haddenfield, the Subscriber
having lately removed from Salem to Had
denfild.
J BLOOMFIELD, Register.
March 13, 1780.,
JAMES NEWPOR T,
At biiD ISTILLERY, within tin next^te-way
above Church H ey, in Third-ftree:, (that formerly
o-cufriea by S muei shi%e )
H^ by Wholesale and Retail,
XT E A r Brandy;
G ne^a,
Anifead Water,
Orange Wan,
Siri >of Wine, proper for railing low proof
liquor, &c.
N, B. Heco^tmucs to make the above liquors o' the
belt quality; and gives particular encouraged 111 to
those who buy to fell again.
3d Month 16, .780.
WAS STOLEN last night, ut a die
houfeof Lydia Jones, in frediffrm townlhip,
Chefler county, thefdlowing articles, viz a l;g^t c ^r
ed cloath coat, lately turned and mended rt me elbows,
lined with light brown worfled, wooden buttons, flicked
with pewter nearly riveted, short button hole# worked
with thr-ad, no pocket flaps nor buttons at the hips a
half worn beaver hat, with hat silk loops, the crown li
ned with white bnen, much sullied ; one pair light grey
woolen flockings; onenew fine whitelinen pocket hand
kerchief. Also ia black leather packet book wia fieri
clasp; a quantity of paper money in it, and fame wri
tings, one half iodines and three guineas. Whoever fr
cures the above described articles and money, fa that the
owner shay havethm again, ffiall have od ofthe GUI
NEAS asa reward, paid by JOHN JONES.
To be SOLDby Public Sale,
At the CofLe-Hrufe, <n Wednetcay the %,.h of
Much inftapt, ?t 7 o'clock in the evening
^ FRAMS HOUSE and Lot of GROUND,
situate on the east fide of Third sheet, continued
in the Northern-tihefre, abov^ ethe Barracks, contain
ing in breadth 20 feet, and in depthiig feet ; the hobfe
is pai fed blue, well built, and in goer, repair, fubje&
to a ground-rent of 31. iss currency per annum.
Also, a valuable Tan Yard and Let of Ground, feu^
ate in the town of Glouc^ftt, fr< ndrg the river De
laware, containing about half an acre more or lets, with
the tan-vats, bark-house, beam house, lime-house and
currying-pumps, as they now are.
And also a valuable Lot of Ground, situate on the
north fide of Chma-ftreet, between Front and S conri
streets, in the diftri& of Southwark, containing in
front 60 feet, and in depth ico feet and a half, clear of
ground rent.
Also will be fold at private file, a valuable Nigfoe
Lad, eighteen or hinetten years of age, very c pride cf
taking care of a pair es horses, waitin> on a table, and
doing all kind of house work. He is honest and iobcr.
Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE S O L D,
A L °T of ground containing between fifteen and
/I twenty acres, situate in Trediffrin township, about
to acres cleared, whereon is erected alm 11 lo dwelling
houfe, a liable and th/effiing floor, a spring boufe, over
an excellent spring of water near the door, a small orch
ard, and about two acres of meadow. For terms apply to
Lydia Jones nefr the premises.
TO BE SOLD
Very Cheap, for GAS H, by
COXE, FURMAN and COXE,
In Penn-ftre^t, below Pine-ftrett,
A Good ASSORTMENT of
Q U F E A's W A R F,
Some GLASS WAR E,
A QUANTITY of
P E P P E R,
And a few PIECESof Fine
SWANSKIN S.
One Hundred Pounds Reward.
OTOLEN on the night of the thirteenth inftnnt
U from the door of the funferiber's coach-houle, at th<
back of the Minift^r Plenipotentiary's house, a ligh
English bodied WAGGON, with hoop tire, of a?r
markable thickness, the pole hung very low, iron rin~
at the ends of the axle-trees : Whoever will give m
formation, so that the thief may be apprehended, en;
the Waggon recovered, shall receive the above reward
and reasonable charges.
HENRYGURNEY.
March 14.,