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Mordecai Lewis, and Co.
Have for Sale, at their Here in Sepond-ftreet, neat Spruce
ftreet, a variety of MERCHANDIZE, among which
are;
Broad cloths,
Worked Hos?,
Ditto Mitts,
Coloured and white kid
Mitts.
Dark and light ground,
Callicoes and Chintzes,
Nonbatu, Pontivy, and
Roy,lie linens
3-4, and yard wide Britta
nias, Checkc,
Damafle table cloths and
Napkins
FOR SA L E,
The old eflablifhed Ferry, a
little below the Fills of Trenton, on the Jetley fide,
with two good BOATS, and any quantity of Land,
from 3to 100 acres. The proprietor would prefer dis
posing of the Ferry with about 15 acres of Land, plcaf
antly situated, having a handsome front on the river
Delaware, and extending up the Ferry lane, oppofc
colonel Cox's land; p>rt of which 15 acres adjo ning
the river, commands a most beautiful and extensive
prefpeft, and is of course capable of very great improv
ement.
Any person inclining to become a purchaser, may
know the term 4 (which will not be unreasonable) by
applying to HUGH RUNYAN, near Trenton.
Trenton, September 16. tbc6t.
This MOR NING,
At TE N o'clock,
At the Marshal's Office,
Will be Sold by Public Au&ion,
The Sloop Amelia,
Siczed and Condemn'd in the court of Admiralty for
this Rate.
CLEMENT BIDDLE, Medial.
Philadelphia, Q&ober 30, £7.81.
A Silver : plated Tea Urn,
'" ALSO,
Two large plated Salvers,
And a hollow-worked plated Bread-Basket,
V 7 I TH
Two Cases of Knives and Forks,
And federal jappanhed Waiters,
All the above of the nf^eft Fashions and most e egant
Patterns',
TO BE SOL D, BY
Edward Pole.
In Mwm,ftrWfc ^r thr. Court House.
Samuel Mackean,
In Second street, the second door below Chefnut-ftreet,
has just opened an Assortment of
Superfine and second Cloths,
of the most fcfhronable Colours,
Caffimers, Mens Silk and Worsted Stockings, Cordu
roys, Listings, &c. &c.
A Town . Lot,
IN a central Situ^tioh and genteel Neighbourhood,
To be SOLD: Also, A large and convenient
HOUSE, to be LET; together with Ten Acres of
GROUND, within three miles of the city, on a healthy
Situation, commanding an agreeable and exunfive View.
Likewise several LOTS of LAN D, from 10 to 25
Acres, To be LET. Enquire of the Pointer.
To be SOLD,
A healthy, honed, sober Negro Wench,
who is a very good house servant as the can wath,
iron, few, cook, &c. &c. Enquire of the printer.
VOL. X.l
TUESDA Y,
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O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
White Sheeting,
Plain and fprig'd Muslin,
Mantuas,
Eil wide Persian Taffaties
Rose, black, and blue 3.4
Persians,
Sewing Silks and Thread,
6d, £d, lod, and xod,
Nails,
Claret in hoghtheads,
Ard a Quantity of
Opium.
An ORDINANCE for regulating
the Treasury and adjusting Public Ac
counts.
BE IT ORDAINED, by the United States in Con
grefs affembied, that from and after the soth day
of September, 1781, the fuH&ions and appointments cf
the commissioners of the treasury, chambers of accounts,
auditor general, auditors, and extra commissioners of
accounts, their assistants, under officers and clerks,
shall cease and determine: That for the more effeauzi
execution of the business of the treasury, and the set
tlement of the public accounts, the following officers
shall be appointed in aid of the fuperintsndant of fi
nance, his assistant, secretary and clerks, namely, a
comptroller, a treasurer, a reg fter, auditors and clerks.
The comptroller (had be appointed by Congress, with
general authority to infpeft and superintend the fetde
raent of public accounts, and all subordinate officers
concerned therein : it (hail be his immediate duty to fee
that the public accounts are expeditiously and properly
adjusted, and accurately and fafely kept. And, that it
mey be done with the greater facility, he shall diie& a
general form in which all the public accounts shall be
Rated and rendered. He fl:all t..ke care that the ba
lances of public monies are punctually depefited in the
hands of the treasurer. The comptroller shall commit
every account to such c'erk, for examination, as he fliall
judge most proper for that purpose, naming also the
auditor to whom the clerk shall transmit it. When ah
account is audited in the manner herein after described,
it ihaii be reported to the comptroller, and any person
who shall think himfelf aggrieved by the judgment of
the auditor, fh%ll have a privilege of appealing within
fourteen days to the t'oroptroller. In all such appeals
the comptroller fh>U openly and publicly hear the par
ties, and nis d<ci6on shall be coDclufive. The account
being finally adjuft^d, shall be tranfmitred by the comp
troller to the^cgitter, to be entered of record; and a
note cf the balance shall be certified by the comptroller
to the fuperintCndanc of finance, to make out the pro
peg ^arr ^nt fot'ply^nt.
The treasurer HOT be appointed by Congress. It
foil be his cut? ^receive and keep all monies of the
United Slaty,fed iffye them on warrants drawn by the
pretident of codify or the fupeiintendant 01 finance.
On receiving monfy he shall give a receipt, and on eve
ry pay merit take cne, to serve as his voucher. He shall
render his accounts quarterly to the comptroller fox ex
amination add Settlement, and transmit a copy when
audited to the fuparintend^t.
The register shall be appointed by Congress. He
shall keep al the public accounts, both of receipts and
expenditure, and every warrant on the treasury or
$ others fh^li be entered and countersigned by the register
before it ihall be paid. H shall have the appointment
ibf the clerk or clerks necedary to assist him in his of
' rice.
The auditors, the number of whom shall be fixed by
the (uperir.tendant of finance, (had be appointed by
Congr^fs, After an account Shall beexanrined by the
clerk, in the manner herein after dire&<d, it shall be
delivered to |he auditor, who shall hear the party, and
the clerk, and determine upon the obje&ionr, and be
ing Satisfied that the account is properly adjusted, shall
pass it as audited, and transmit it to the comptroller.
The clerks, the number of whom shall also be regu
lated by the fuperintendant of finance, sh 11 be ap
pointed by the comptroller : It shall be their duty re
ipedtvely to examine all accounts which ffiall be com
mitted to them by the comptroller, to cored all er
rors, and to note in writing what may appear excep
tionable, either as to the propriety cf the charges, or
the validity of the vouchers ; and transmit the accounts
with his remarks to the auditor; and the party, for
himfelf, and the clerk, on behalf of the public, shall
be hearud before the auditor.
That the several officers before mentioned, shall re
fpedivrly take an oats, to he acminiftered by the pre
sident of Congtefs, or one of the judges of the supreme
or Superior court within any of the United States, for
the tathful execution of the trust rapofed in them rc
fpeaively.
Done by the United States : n Cengrefs assem
bled, the 1 Ith day ot September, in the year
of our lord, one Poulan I (even hundred and
eighty-one, and in the sixth year of our inde
pendence.
THOMAS M'KEAN, President.
Attest. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
TH E
DUBLI N, May 24.
A Letter from the mayor of Newcastle to the lord
provost of Edinburgh, dated May 12, gives advice,
that a (hip arrived there that morning, the matter of
which was at Amsterdam the sth instant and learned
from report, as well as from the public papers, that
fourteen (hips of war had, a day or two before that time,
failed out of the Texel, supposed to he destined for the
Wefer, to intercept an English convoy with a fleet of
transports.
A fort of counterfeit (hillings are in circulation, worse
than any before seen. They are very broad, and very
thin, mere brass, slightly covered with a light metal.
They have not any imprffion on either fide, and are
not worth a farthing each, yet look like (hillings much
worn.
There hath not any circumstance for a century past
occurred, which reflected equal honour on the inhabi
tants of Dublin, as that of providing all the country
corps with quarters for the general review of the north
e^R part of the province of Leinfler, which is to be
held on the sth of June next. In the short (pace of
two days, billets were provided for 5000 men, and
were it necessary ten times as m my might be had in the
course of a week, so earnest are the inhabitants in their
desire of obliging these guardians of their country :
and to the honour of the fair sex be it said, that in the
Rotunda, Stephen's green, and other fashionable wards,
most of billets were signed by the ladies of the respec
tive houses where any applications were made. These
flattering circumflances, and the time of the review be
ing on Whitfun holidays, when business cannot interfere
it is thought will determine many corps in the province
(who have not returned their .names) to come to Dub
lin and join their virtuous brethren in the line, on the
day of review.
Extrad of a letter from Rotterdam, May 18.
“ This afternoon about half an hour past four
o'clock, a courier passed through this city from Paris
to the Hague, with the agreeable news, that the fleet
of Dutch fllips flolen by the English, and going from
St. Euftatia to England, have been retaken by M. de
la Motte Piquet, and carried into one of the ports of
France"
The Dutch have a dying squadron of (hips, which
fail or a short cruize every morning, and return into
the Texel in the evening, the sole object of their expe
dition is the distressing of our commerce and the secu
rity of their own, but we do not learn that our trade
has yet fuffered by the activity and spirit of this formi
dable equipment.
May 19. The circumstance mentioned in some of
the papers, of a gunner being difeharged from an of
fice in the earth , is falfe, and seems to have been propare
gated only for the purpose of sowing diffention, and of
creating prejudice against an administration, tliat with
to express a due sense of the utility and consequence of
the volunteer corps of Ireland.
We hear that great preparations are making by the
citizens of Dublin for the ensuing grand review. Vo
luntary offers are daily made to the committee appoint
ed to procure billets, for the accommodation of the vo
lunteers—from a conviction that too great compliments
cannot be paid to the defenders and faviours of their
country.
As the English prints have announced, that the king
has presented a royal ftmdard to the city volunteers of
London, it may be a matter well worthy the refleaion
of his excellency thelord Lieutenant, whether a similar
honour may not with much juflice, propriety and policy
be (hewn to the Irish volunteer army.
It is remarked by many, that the beefeaters of the
castle never looked so fat as at present: a pretty con
vincing proof that the spits of his excellency's kitchen
are not fufferd to ru!t as reported to have been thd
cate in the last adminifiration—or in other words, that
they fplendeant usu.
We hear that the persons accused of poisoning some
years ago, Mr. O'Flaherty of the county of Kilkenny,
have applied to the court of king's bench to be tried
in Dublin, whole petition, it 'is said, will be complied
with.
A young man in Church street fell down flairs on
Thurfiay morning last, between twel.ve.and one o'clock,
and was killed on the (pot. It is very remarkable, that
disobedience and difrefpea to parents seldom escape
punishment even in this life. The unhappy youth
often abused and beat his aged mother; it is therefore
greatly to be feared that he has met with the just re
ward due to such unnatural impiety. Let his fatal
catastrophe be a warning to all children never to lift
their hands to parents, left the Almighty hand should
be lifted up against them. Honour your parents,
(fays tire God of Israel) that your days may be long
upon the e rt.h. If he is willing to fhort^n them, who
can prolong them? If he is willing to deffroy, who can
preserve ?.
OCTOBER 30, 1,81.
[NUMB. 800.