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Comnrffary^ 0] Hides Office, Philadelphia, April %
ALL peifons in the Middle Department, viz.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, D laware and Mary
land, who have received Continental Hides, either in
exchange or to tan, and have net fully fettled with the
Commissary of Hides, are once more defined to be
fpeqty in the difeharge of their refpe live contra&s.—
Those persons who have delivered Leather, &c. to any
other than the perlon with whom they contrasted, are
desired to appear at this Office with their receipts, that
their accompts may be aejufted and closed.
All Deputies and Assistant Commissaries of Hides, are
desired to be punctual in fending in their monthly accounts.
It is hoped that all concerned-will pay a due regard
to the above requests, as they will thereby oblige the
public, and save the difagreeabß necessity of taking
measures to oblige them.
GEORGE EWING, C. G. of Hides.
Bristol, April 5.
TH E Public are hereby informed, That the
Subscriber is furnilhed with BOATS, nee; ffary
for the use of the Ferry from this place to the city of
Burlington, where there is also a Ferry kept regular to
this place. Good attendance shall be given, and proper
perfens employed to conduct the p^ffengers. Allo tra
vellers may be accommodated with every necessary for
man and horse; liquors of the firft qualities, such as
Madeira, Port and Fyal wines, punch and toidy, belt
Bristol beer, and Taunton ale, by
ARCHIBALD M'ELROY, Inn keeper,
at the Ferry-house, Bristol.
TO BE, SO L D,
ALIGHT WAGGON almost new, with Gears
compleat for two horses; also a strong Horse fit for
the plough, a young Mare with foal, a Colt one year
old, of the Canada breed, and sundry Farming Utensils.
Enquire of Rachael Taylor, in the Northern Liber
ties, Germantown road, about two miles and a half from
the city.
COVERS MARES this season, at the olantation
late Aaron Alhbridge's, now in tenure of Williara
Jones and Ralph Forrester, in Gofhen township, Ches
ter county, at Sixty Dollars a Mare, and Two
Dollars to the Groom,
TANNER is a fine bay, fifteen hands high; five
years old, and was got by eld Tanner, imported
by Daniel Wolftenhol me, Esq; of Maryland ; his dam
was got by Tanner out of Stella, and (he by Colonel
Talker's Othello out of his famous mare Selima, and is
full filter to Mr. Galloway's Selim.
The HIGHEST PRICE
IS GIVEN FOR
CLEAN LINEN RAGS,
B Y
JOHN D U N L A P.
Ne^tgivn Townfoip, Gloucester Count,, 4b Mo. gtb.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
WHERE AS three men came to the Icufe of the
Subscriber about One o'clock last night, pretend
ing to be Continental Soldiers, and demanded entrance
to search for some of their men, and being let in, asked
for a caxdle and Searched the house, when finding no
men about house but myfelf, they presented their bayo
nets to my breast, and threatened to take my life,unlefs
I delivered my money, and also threatened to break open
the drapers, whereupon myfelf and wife through terror
unlocked the drawers, from whence they took about
One Hundred and Fifty Pounds in old paper money,
Four Hundred and Forty Dollars in Continental money
of those two emissions called in, a hag containing Ten
or Twelve Pounds in Spanish pieces of Eight and small
.pieces of silver, and a bag containing about Ten Shil
lings in pennies. One of the said men was of a low sta
ture, wsre a blue coat turned up with red, and the
others were of a middling size ; one of them had on a
red jacket and pair of trowfers, the other wore brown
or blue turned up with red. Whoever apprehends the
said men, 10 that they may be brought to justice, (hall
receive the above reward, paid by
AQUILLA JONES.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber,
Living in Eafton, Northampton County,
A QUANTITY of PIG IRON, now lying in
A the city of Philadelphia.
4. RICHARD BACKHOUSE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 177%
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G E N E R A L ^^^^^^ ADVERTISER
The FULL-BRED HORSE
A N N E R,
[Price 2s. 6d. single, 2s. by the quantity. Pubhffied every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
Such persons who have receipts for forage, obtained
agreeable to the above resolves of Congress, are desired
to apply to Capt. Benjamin Stoddart, Deppty Forage-Ma
fler General, at the Forage-Office, the upper end of Mart
ket-Btreet, who is appointed to fettle apd pay these which
arg properly authenticated.
wants a place;
A YOUNG MAN that is very well acquainted
with the bufineis of Merchandize and Accompts,
and can Ihew a good recommendation from gentlemen
in this city. Any person wanting in h a one, will be
waited on by leaving a line at the Printer's.
^^^^^ ^^^£&±^*^^^^
PHILADELPHI A.
In CONGRESS, March sth, 1779.
Refolded,
THAT the Quarter-Mailer General, Commissary-
General of P^rchafes, and Cloathier-General, and
such of their Deputies as they shall appoint for that pur
pose, be, and they are hereby authorized and dire&ed to
pay all certificates (of the authenticity whereof they are
or shall be fatisfied) for provisions, forage, eloathing, or
other articles within the line of their refpe&ive Depart
ments, furnilhed by the inhabitants to the troops on de
tachment, or in cases of necessity, where supplies could
not be obtained in a regular course; for which funis so to
be paid, they shall be allowed for their trouble one half
per cent, and no more. The evidence of such supplies be
ing furnilhed, shall, so far as regards the party of whom
received, be the certificates of the officers receiving them.
But the officers in the said Departments, the cloathiers ex
cepted, paying the fame, shall notify the officers who
gave such certificates to render an account of the applica
tion of the articles so received, and the said officers are
hereby directed to render such account accordingly) and
the said Quarter-Master and Commissary General, and
their Deputies, so paying the said certificates, are hereby
authorized and impowered to examine and fettle the said
accounts. And whensoever any mifeonduft shall appear
in any officer signing a certificate, the fame fall be re
ported to the Commander in Chief, if the said officer be
with the main army, and i( not, to the Commanding Ge
neral or officer of the detachment of the army whereih
such officer ihall serve, that a trial and examination be had
by a Court Martial. And if there shall be any injustice
done to the public, or the articles received by the officers
were nnneceffary, or did not come to the use of the troops,
the officer found delinquent shall be obliged to refund to
the United States the whole of the monies paid on the
certificate in pursuance hereof, or such part thereof ^s
shall be adjudged reasonable, and be cashiered, or other
wise dealt with, as a Court- Martial shall determine.
The Cloathier -General, or his Deputies, shall transmit
to the Commissioner appointed for fettling the accounts of
the arrearages of cloathihg<iue to the soldiers in the army,
copies of such certificates as ihall be paid by him, that the
officers signing the certificates, may be called on by the
said Commissioner to render an account the of distribution
of the articles, which ihall be duly charged to the men
who have received them. In case of mifeonduft of any
officer signing a certificate, the like proceedings to be had,
on the application and report of the Commissioner of
Cloathing, as are herein before directed,
No certificate given before this date shall be paid, un
less the fame be presented for payment within fix months
from this day; and no certificate hereafter given shall be
paid, unless presented to the proper officer within three
months after the date thereof.
AND WHEREAS it will be necessary that in future
certificates be more formally authenticated, to prevent
many inconvenieneies which may arise similar to those al
ready experienced:
Refobved, That certificates hereafter given by commif
foned officers, for articles received for the use of the' ar
my, be signed with their names at full length, and the
rank they hold ; and if under a General Officer, that the
regiment to which they belong be added;
-That the particular articles received be inserted in the
body of the certificate, their value, the time when, arid
place where received, in letters, not, in figures:
That the certificates be direAed to the principal of the
Department, whose duty it js to provide the articles so re
ceived, or his nearest Deputy ; separate certificates to be
given, whensoever the articles appertain to several De
partments;.
That officers keep exafl copies of the certificates they
give, and transmit other copies to the nefreft Deputy or
Agent in the Department, giving him the necessary in
formation refpe&ing the bu finefs:
That the Deputies transmit copies of all the certificates
they pay to their principals, that enquiry-may be made
whether the giving the certificates was necessary for the
public service, and whether the things received have been
properly applied. Extras from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
In the most pressing terms we hereby beseech you, that
these efficacious remedies may, with all possible speed, be
put into execution, since we have had the experience,
that the English endeavour to amuse us only by words,
as the difeharge of some vessels, to which they have agreed:
goes on in the slowest manner poffible,'
In the mean time we likewise address ourfefas to your
Serene Highness as High Admiral of these United States,
and Defender of their free navigation. The lead boat
ugder the flag of these States, if unjustly captured, ought
not (we are certain) to escape your notice. The high
office which y@u hold is.infulted in her. And whatx
number of ships, what considerable treasures er.ru fted to
the fafety ofihat flag, have not been forcibly taken from
the fubjefts of this State ! The fame ships arc still, in
great numbers, laying fa different ports of England.
Though all of them should be given up to us, and as we
hope they will, upon the strenuous representations of the
States, be instantly discharged, yet prudence seems to
dictate that we should be on our guard against future in
sults. We have been at sundry times before, in the fame
case as the present, and which remains still in @ur memo
ry, the loss of so many millions which our commerce sus
tained in the year 1758, and which, by the continuance
of the war, have been much more increased than at that
time could be limited or afeertained. Should not this con
sideration induce us to wifli to be once and for ever freed
therefrom?
This requires, men of war to be put in commif
figraand joined into fle^s. Borne of these are new at the
> They take theliberty to observe on thq anfiver of th:
British court, that it is repugnant to the rights and liber
ties of the treaties of commerce, heretofore eflabldhed and
concluded upon between their H ; gh Mightinesses and th t
court ; and that they make no difficulty to set up againfT
tifefe solemn treaties, & to whith they have sworn, a-pre
tended right of con^eniency, which being quite arbitrary,
fuperledes all treaties, and renders our fortunes dependant
on the will of our neighbour.
Is it to be wondered at, that those who are immediately
concerned fliould complain on account of such cruel in
justice? Should we not at the pfofpe& be filled with ap
prehensions that the ruin of our whole commerce may be
the consequence of such an absurd pretence of ri^ht?
The whole commerce and the fafety of our poffeTons
alway'srelied on the good faith of treaties;- they ought
not, therefore, in any one article be fubjeft to any r.rbi
trary breaches, else we constantly trade with fear and ha
zud. These treaties being universally known, are the
foundations upon which other nations, nay, the whole
world, have trusted their effefts to the freedom of our dag
Should these foundations be shaken ; Should we lose that
confidence, then our navigation muff Shortly be at an end.
oVe have the more reason to be upon our guard
against such dangerous confequerrces, firice we have been
given to understand that, the British Ministry is more
condefeendent to other nations (with whom they never
made any such treaties) who have declared themselves vi
g®roufly against them on thelaws of nature and of nations.
And Should not we, Netherlanders, speak up as bold as
they for a much greater right ? Indeed, we ought.
Might we not flatter ourfelve,s, that such repeated vigo
rous remonstrances of our Republic would be productive
of that happy event, that the English, without any frivo
lous delay, Should reflore our captured and detained ves
sels and their cargoes, ,with cost and damages, and remove
all unjust and arbitrary exceptions, to the end that
by the driven compliance with these treaties, the freedom
of our flag might be acknowledged and remain stable.
Wherefore we beseech your Serene Highness mo,l gra^
cious support and powerful co-operation in such effectual
measures, as we trust their High Mightinesses, upon our
complaints and petitions, will be pleased to take, for
averring and fatisfying the damages fuflained in our com
merce.
%, of a spirited MEMORIAL printed so William
the Fish, Prince of Orange, Hereditary Stadtbolder of
the United Netherlands, Captain General, H^b Admi
ral, etc. by a deputation from the Merchants of' Holland.
Translated from the Dutch.
Serene, Most Noble Prince and Lord,
AP '' OUGH it was but the other day that your
Serene Highiufs granted a gracious audience to a
Committee of Merchants ^ Arafterdam, and assured
them of your gracious aid and support,; nevertheless the
combined Merchants of the yriiaciptil trading cities of
Holland, compelled by freth occasions/ -once more take
refuge to your Serene Highness, and submit their concerns
to your serious attention.
Have they heretofore been alarmed at the condua of
the British (hips of war and privateers, in seizing and cap
turing, their vessels navigating under the free flag of the
States, how gmeb more are they now flruck at the con
dud of the Britilh Ministry, in their anfiver to tl e just
representations of,their High Mightinesses, made by their
Envoy Extraordinary the Count'of Welderen.
They, therefore, again address your Serene Highness;
and implore, in the most solemn manner, your adual dnd
efficacious protedion.