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PHILADELPHIA.
In COUNCIL, Friday, March 10th, 1780.
WHEREAS there are faudry estates held by per
sons who have joined the enemy, to which they
were entitled by marriage and otherwise, which interests
being less than freehold, and hitherto having proved bur
thenfome rather than profitable to the State, ought to be
fold without delay.
Resolved therefore, That the Agents for confifeated es
tates do proceed to the sale of all estates held by attainted
persons less than fee simple, any former resolution of this
Board to the contrary thereof notwithflanding.
Extrad from the Minutes
TIMOTHY MATLACK, Secretary.
Philadelphia, March 10. 1780.
TH E Judges of the Supreme Court will
fit at the Stite-Houfe in this city cn Monday the
third day of April next, to hear claims against the
estates of perfoms attainted of Treason, when such claims
as are not prosecuted will foe dismissed.
ftasad&nf profpea ofhaving a large sum left at laft,ta Iris
hands, of configurable value, when/he pockets of every
body else is drained, will be inclined to objed against it.
But inch men ought to fee, that the distant hopethey trust
to, will really let them down to nothing, unless each State
take the matter up, and make it olfome value, and like
wise, that to make the money of more value to them, than
the goods whicn the public, or any individual procured
for it, would be one of thehigheft a&s of injustice.
It will be opposed by British emuiffaries, if any such we
have, for if Britain can persuade s under a falfe colour
in,, th^ it is our 4uty to pay our debts twice over, while
flicLas not honefly enough to pay t>em on .e, She will gain
ay'r^at advantage over us in point of finance.
It will likewise be opposed by people who may not
fully understand it, and have not given their attention to
matters of finance, but these, if they wish only for what
is best, will not givetheir opinion too food. I have not
time now to make remarks on Lon Office Certificates,
but shall defer that fubjed to another opportunity.
A FRIEND IN TIME OF NEED.
To the Printer of the PENNSLYVANIA PACKET,
SIR,
IH AVEthe highest veneration for the authority of the
Congress. But I fear the exigences of our country in
rhe beginning of the present controversy, led us to ac
quiesce in the exercise of a power in that body which be
longed only to an organifed legislature.— I mean the
power of emitting and funding money.— It is to
this, more than to all the artifices of fraud aud difaffec
tion, that we are to trace the depreciation of the Con
tinental money.
My reasons for this opinion are as follow.
I. A vote for emititng, or funding any sum of money,
should always be accompanied with ways and means to
fink the money emitted or borrowed.—Butthe Congress
having no legislative power over any State can only re
commend taxes for that purpose. They have no power to
raise them themselves.
2. The management of wars, treaties, the pofl-effice
and trade, are such extensive and complicated objects,
that they alone are fufficient to employ the time of the Con
gress, without the business of finance, which is more com
plicated and tedious than all the rest taken together.
3. The Continent is too extensive, and its trade, man
ners, bpinions and governments, are too various to be di
reded by one system of finance.
4. A Continental Treasury can never be fubjeded to
economy or controul.
Instead therefore, of lodgingthe power of emitting or
funding money in the Congress, let each State be called
upon to furnifh her proportion of troops and ships in the
time of war, to be paid by emissions, loans or taxes, as
each State shall think proper. Let the government of
these troops and ships be committed wholly to the Con
gress, and let the Congress still retain the power of ap
pofytingall such General Officers, whose circle of duties
.comprehends the whole of an army or navy.
Tne advantages of this fyflem are as follows:
1. Taxation and the expences of war, would alwaysgo
hand in hand, under the weight and fandion of law.
2. Funds would be more easily procured by Gngle
States, than by a Congress. There is no individual so
inconsiderable, whose influence would not extend so far as
to obtain justice from a State of which he was a citizen ;
butthe influence of an individual, and even of a whole
State is loft in theoc&tn of Continental power.
3. The expences of a war wobld be contraßed. Cul
prits of all kinds would be amenable to the municpial
laws of the State they belonged to, and more suitable per
sons would be employed io every department, than can
be fixed up >n by a representation of the whole Continent,
not more than i-igth of whom, are for the most part,ac
quainted with the charaders of the men for whom they are
obliged to vote.
4. Political knowledge would be more diferiminated by
this mode of raising money and carrying on a war, espe
cially that part of it which relates to finance.
This innovation in our fyflem of government would be
so far from detracting from the refpe& that is due, and I
hope ever will be paid to the august Assembly of the
States, that it will immediately deliver them from a busi
ness in which ahre they have met with the disapprobati
on of their Gonflituents.
A question naturally occurs here, and that is, what shall
be done with the money that has b<en emitted and funded
by the Congress.- To this I answer: Let each State
take its proportion of b >th, together with its own State
debt, and let each State fink them in that way that is most
convenient and agreeable to its citizens. Let the money
that has been funded be pai . off both principal andintereft
in gold and silver at the rate at which it was lent, and let
the money that is in circulation be redeemed gradually
by taxes, or bought in with gold and silver or nevs notes
at the exchange at which it circulates.
The money necessary for the support of foreign Mini
sters, expresses by sea and land, and other Continen
tal charges of a like nature might be derived from the
poft-office, to which each state fhoul. Ifrom the necessity of
the thing, and for its own convenience submit, after ha
ving firft acknowledged its obedience with the formality
of a law. A Hint.
IT having pleased the righteous Governor of the
World, for the punishment of our manifold offences,
t° permit the Sword of War still to harrafs our Country,
]t becomes us to endeavour, by humbling ourselves before
Him, aud turning from every evil way, te avert His an
ger and obtain his favour and blessing : It is therefore
hereby tecomrtiended to the several States,
That WEDNESDAY the twenty-sixth day of
April next, be set apart and observed as a day of FAST
ING, HUMILIATION and PRAYER, that
we may with one heart and one voice implore the Sove
reign Lord of Heaven and earth to remember mercy in
his judgments ; —to make us sincerely penitent for our
tranfgrefficns ; —to prepare us for deliverance, and td
remove the evils with which he hath been pleased to visit
us ; —to banish vice and irreligion from among us, and
eflabltfh virtue and piety by his divine grace; —to bless
all public Councils throughout the United States, giving
them wifJom, firmnefs and unanimity, and directing
them to the bell measures for the public good § — to bless
the Magistrates and people of ever, rank, and animate and
unite the hearts of all to promote the interefl of then Coun
try ; —to bless the public defence, inspiring all Command
ers and Soldiers with magnanimity and perseverance, and
giving vigour and success to the military operations by
sea and land ; —to bless the illufirious Sovereign, and the
nation in alliance with these States, and all who interest
themselves in the support of our rights and liberties j—
to make that alliance of perpetual and extensive ufefulhefs
to those i mmediately concerned, and mankind in general ;
to grant fruitful seasons, and to bless our industry, trade
rind manufadures ;— to bless all schools and seminaries of
learning, and every means ofiaflru&ion and education ; —
to cause wars to cease, and to establish peace among the
nations.
And it is further recommended, That servile labour and
recreations be forbidden on the said day.
DONE in CONGRESS the eleventh day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty, and in the fourth year
of our Independence.
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON,
Attest. President.
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY, March 7, 1780.
The Bill endbd, “ An Aft for the support of Go
vernment and the afaminiftration of Juftice,' 'was read a
second time, and being debated by paragraphs, was or
dered to be transcribed for a third leading, and in the
mean time printed for confederation.
Extras from the Minutes,
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk ts the General Assembly.
An ACT for the support of Government and the ad
ministration of Justice.
TXT HEREAS those, who dedicate their time and
'' abilities to the service of the public, ought to re
ceive a reasonable compenfatioro and retribution for the
fme; and the maintaining the principal Magistrates and
Officers of the State in an honorable manner, adds to the
reputation an luftre thereof, and will be an incitement to
others to merit these high trusts. AND WHEREAS
such of these officers, as dwell in the city of Philadel
phia, for the eate and advantage of the people, are now
fufj&=d to greater expenses th^n in any other part of
the United States, eccafioned by *he residence of Con
gress, the Officers of their different boards, and of the
Miniftcr and Officers of his Most Christian M jefty there
in, and the great resort of people there, in confluence
thereof, which is likely to encreafe. AND WHEREAS
the pure adminittraticri of justice, as it regards personal
security and private property, is of the utmost conse
quence to the immediate and private happinefeof indivi
duds ; and those who held feats in tAe highest Courts of
Judicature, ought to be free, not only from all corrup
tion and influence, but from every temptation, and
rendered entirely independent, as well with refpe& to
the : r salaries as their commfiiois, towards he attaining
of which, the Conftduticn of this Commonwealth re
quires that the salaries of the Justices of the Supreme
Court sh uld be fixed.
Be it therefore enaaed, and it is hereby etn& d by
the Representatives of the Freemen cf the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in G.neral Assembly met, arid
by the authority of the fam , That thefollowihg annu
al fabrics shall be allowed to the several officersot State
herein after mentioned, to commence on the fifteenth
day of April next, and to continue for tne space and
term of seven years, and until the fame shall he after
wardsaltered by the legislature, to be paid to them se
verally on their receipts, or on their draughts quarterly
on the Treasurer of this Sate; that is to fa , to
The President of the Supreme Executive Council, or
Commander in Chiefof the forces of the State, Two
thousand pounds.
The Vice Ptefident, Six hundred pounds.
The Chief Justice, Twelve hundred pounds.
The Second Justice of the S preme Court, Seven hun
dred poir ds.
The Third Justice, Six hundred pounds.
The Attorney General, Two hundred pounds.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the several salaries before mentioned, fril be esti
mated and paid to the refpe&ive officers aforefaid, in the
fame manner and at the fame rate, as is prefcibed by an
Ad, intitled, “ An Aft for the better support of cer
tain Officers of this Sate, and afeertainihg the fpecific
fines and penalties which they may incur by negle& of
duty, passed the twenty Seventh day of November
last.
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TO BE SOL D,
An ELEGANT MAP of
SOUT H - C A ROLINA,
From an a&ual survey. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOL D,
A FISHING SEIN E.
Enquire of SAMUEL YOUNG.
PROCLAMATION,
Philadelphia, March 13, 1780.
AL L persons who have any demands against
me as Deputy Quarter-Mister General, and have
not brought in their accounts, are earnestly requested to
do it immediately, that tney may have certifi a es given
and their accounts fettled : Those who negle& this no
tice, and do not bring in their accounts before the fi ft
of April next, will be excluded from the firft payment
1 am enabled to make,
JOHN MITCHELL, D.QM.G.
TO BE L E T,
CUNDRY Lots of Ground for pasture, adjoining
° the South street of this city. Abo feme Meadow
Ground. Enquire of SAMUEL POWEL,
TO BE S O L D,
At the Subferiber's in Front street, between Race and
. Vine-streets, Philadelphia,
AN excellent new Chaise with harness cotopleat, a
very good second hand Windier Chair with good
harness, and a Kitterene Suik & y with harnel.
JACOB MENG.
FOR SAL E,
A VALUABLE NEGRO MAN, about twenty
" three years o, age: He is an excellent house servant,
and can shave and dress hair. For terms enquire of the
Printer.
Philadelphia, March 13. 1780.
PHILIP WILSO N,
IS removed to a corner house in South and Water cf
Penn streets ; and having imported Rum, Sugar,
Cuff e, Cocoa, Congo Tea arid Salt, will fell on the
1 weft terms. He has also for sale, Bohea and Green
Teas.
RAN AWAY from said Wilson, on Friday last,
a Negro man named BEN, lame in the left leg and
foot, (having been (hot in the back sinews) wags his
body and walks mostly on his toes from the weakness of
his heel; he is about twenty fix yras of age, about five
feet two inches high, bioad and strong made : He had
cn a blue coatee, the Izpells and button-holes bound
with blue tape, cloth coloured breeches and grey stock
ings. A reward of EIGHT DOLLARS, and
charges of taking him up, shall be paid.
TO BE LE T,
A TWO-STORY HOUSE, with three rooms
on each floor, a kitchen, and cellar under the whole
house, a well of exceeding good water near the kitchen,
good (tabling that will hold eight or ten horses, and
about eleven acres of cleared land. The house stands in
an exceeding good place for any public business, being
situated cn the Durham road, in Plumftead township,
Bucks county, leading from Newtown to Bethlehem and
Eaftowh. Poss ffi°n may be taken the firft of April.
Enquire of Joseph Cauffman, in Providence town
flip, Philadelphia county, or Capt. William M'Calla,
Inn-keeper, in Plumftead township, Bucks cr unty.
'feo Hundred Dollars Reward,
STOLEN on We^nefday the Bth instant, (March)
out of the house of the fobferiber, living in Water
ftreet, a few doors below the Drawbridge, Philadelphia,
one silver Cream Pot marked I H. maker GD. four
silver Tea Spoons marked as above, and two Table
Spoons marked II Hi maker IM. Ail silver fmithe
and others to whom the fame may be offered for sale are
requeued to secure them; ard by applying to the sub
scriber the above reward will be paid for the whole of
them, or in proportion for any part, by
JOHN HALL;
Tickets may be had, for a few days, at the l ottery-
Office only, fiom Nine o'clock fill Twelve in the morn
ing, and from Three to F^ve in the afternoon.
STATE of the LOTTE RY, March 14.
PRIZES DRAWN.
, of 10,0 o dollars.
0 of xooo
T 9 of 530
473 of 40
REMAIN in the WHEELS,
j of 30,000 dollars.
1 Of 20,000
2 of 15 000
1 1 of 10,000
To of 50'60
192 of 1000
981 of sbo
10,528 of 40 -
PAUL FOOKS, Check Clerk.
N, B. The Adventurers may be informed of the fate
of their Tickets by applying to the Che^k Clerk, morn.*
ing and evening at {he Lottery Ofli :e.
.Philadelphia, March rg, rfo.
HE Subferibers being appointed Trustees,
m by the General Assembly of this State, for tak
ing care of the State-Isl and, formerly known bv the
name of the Province-Ifbnd, fitua^e on the weft fide cf
Schuylkill, near the mouth thereof, containing about
three hundred arid forty, seven acres of meadow, Give
Notice to all who may desire to rent the fame, that they
will receive propofols written and directed to them, cr
any of them, until the agth instant, when they will be
ready to lease the fame for a term net exceeding seven
years, to the person making the meft advantagecut offer
therefor. JOHN BAYA RD,
GEORGE BRYAN,
Robert knox.
LOTTERY-OFFICE, March ^ 17*0.
THE Managers of the Lottery of the United States
acquaint the Public, That the dr wirg of the
Third Ciafs bevan yeflerday, agreeable to resolve of
Congress, and will continue from day to day until
finished.