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hACT to amend an a& of General Afembly of thisfate,
intitled, An aft for the regulation of waggons, and the
supplement andjurther supplement to the jaid a£.
WHEREAS, in and by the art of General Assembly,
intitled, An aft tor the regulation of waggons,
carriages, and pack-horses for the public service, piuea at
Lancaster, on the fecend day of January Une moulded
(even hundred and seventy-eight, it is enacted, tuat •' up
on application to the Waggon-Mailer General of cus ILIC
hy the Quarter-Master General, he Ihall iliue m) oiner
to the County Waggon-Mailers to lurnilh me number of
waggons and teams that may be wameu, lai.mg care,
that, as far as circumitances will admit, tuey perform me
faid,fervice in rotation, paying due regard to mole wrioie
waggons have already been in me service."
AND WHEREAS the liberal couhrudion that has
been given to the authority veiled ia toe Quarter-Matter
General of the Fcederal Army, has been iucn as to enaure
his Deputies to call torth the waggons of this hate, 111 tuch
numbers, and for such lengthy and dillant Services, as to
greatly overburthen and oppress the husbandmen thereof,
and to hinder the tillage of the country, and the Supply
of bread, as well for the use of the Fo^erA Army, as LAC
fuflentation of the inhabitants; For remedy whereof,
Be it eaa&da, and it is bercoy enaaea y the Repre
fenlatuves uj the freemen of the Commowiveattb oj renn-
Jyloania, in General Ajembly met, and by the authority of
she fame, That, from and after the publication of this
aft, no waggon or waggons, team or teams, be furnilhed
by the Waggon- Matter of tne itate, or any of 111 s depu
ties, to the Quarter-Mailer General, or any other officer
for the public service, unless with the approbation and
warrant of the Supreme Executive Council of this state,
who are hereby authorized to judge of t^e number of fucn
waggons and teams, length 01 lervice not exceeding thir
ty days, and distance which such waggon or waggons
team or teams, may be employed for and sent. Proved
ahuajj, That nothing herein contained, Ihall extend to
repeal the authority in the said recited act given tc offi
cers who have in charge tne public records or piper and
to Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants of tne lever coun
ties, to demand waggons and teams for tne public service
as heretofore.
And be it further enabled ley the authority ajorejaid, That
if any perfun, from and alter the publication of this ft,
shall, on any pretence whatsoever, other than to supply
the demands of the officers having in charge the public
records, and the Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants atore
faid, seize, take or impress any waggon or waggons, cart
or carts, team or teams, horle or iiorfes, or any of the
gears, haraefs, or any parts, furniture, or accoutrements
of any waggon or cart, without having firfl obtained an
express warrant from tne Supreme Executive Council for
that purpose, signed by the President or Vice-President in
Council ; every person so offending Ihall, upon proficu
tion by indictment in any Court of Quarter Seflions, be
ing thereof convicted, forfeit and pay to trie use of this
state, the sum of Five Hundred Pounds ; and the party
grieved shall also recover of such perlon so offending, in
an action of trespass, treble damages, together with treble
costs of suit.
AND WHEREAS, the waggons and teams of this
state, drawn out for tne public service, have been, through
the peculation and fraud of diihoneft men, mifappbed
and perverted to the purposes of conveying and transport
ing private property, to the mamfeft oppression of the
good people of this state, by increasing the burthen of
this fatiguing service, and the waile of the public treasure,
and the great disgust and disquiet of the good people of
this state. Wherefore, for erfcdual remedy thereof,
Be it enabled by the authority afore,aid, That, from and
after the publication of this aft, if any offi t er in the ser
vice of this state, or of the United States of America, er
any other person, shall transport on any waggon, cart or
horse, drawn out for public tile by virtue of tie laws of
this state, or carry, or cause to be transported er carried,
any goods and merchandize, or other private property
not belonging to the United States, or one of them, or to
this state, other tn&n the baggage and other accommoda
tions allowed by Congress, or by the Commander in Chief
of the Federal Army, ®r the Supreme Executive Council
of this state, to the officers and soldiers, and other persons
employed in the public service such persons so offending,
shall, if convicted thereof upon profecuton by indictment
for the fame in any Court of Quarter- Sessions, forfeit
the sum of Five Hundred Pounds to the use of this
state; and every Justice of the Peace, Constable, and eve
ry other person, is hereby enabled to seize, for his own
use and benefit, all such private property, except as is be
fore excepted, so carried or carrying, transported or trans
porting, within this state, and to prosecute the fame te
condemnation, in any Court of Common-Pleas in this
slate, by information in rem; and that no claim for the
fame shall be admitted by the Court till fufficient security
be given by the person claiming, to answer all costs to
the seizer, in case the said claimant Ihall fail; or if the
said private property, so carried and transported as afore
faid, be removed, the value of th- fame shall be recover
ed to the use of any perfan who ihall sue for the fame, by
action of debt in any Court of Common Pleas in this
state; in which information in rem or action of debt,
the onus probandi, shall lie upon the claimant or defendant.
—And for the more thorough correction of this public
abuse, the owner and owners of such waggon, team, cart,
or horse, upon the conviction of any person or persons as
aforefaid, of any such perversion or misapplication of any
waggon or waggons, team or teams, cart or carts, horse
or horses, in transporting or carrying of private property as
aforefaid, shall recover treble the pay or hire of the fame
as allowed by this aft, together with costs; if not ex eed
ing Ten Pounds, in the manner in which small debts is
recoverable ; if exceeding Ten Pounds, by an aßion of
trespass.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid, That,
from arid after the publication of this a&, the pay of a
waggon and four horses with a driver, called into the pu
blic service by virtue of this aR, shall be Four Pounds
Ten Shillings per day ; and that the pay of a waggon and
two horses and driver, shall be Three Pounds per day ;
and that the hire of a pack-horse, with proper furniture,
shall be Ten Shillings per day : The horses being by the
public found with forage, and the drivers with rations
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
if any person shall be sued or prosecuted for any thing
done in purfunnce of this aft, he may plead the general
issue, ahd give this a& and the special matter in evidence;
and if the plaintiff difeontinue, be nuufuited, or fail, the
defendant shall recover treble costs.
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enabled into a iaiu at Philadelphia, on Monday the fiftb
day ot April, in the year One tboufand jeven hundred
and feuenty nine.
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
Refolded, That the thanks of the United States of Ame
rica be given to Major-General Lee, Colonel William
Moultrie, Colonel Willi m Thompson, and the officers
and soldiers under their command, who, on the 28th of
June last, repulsed, with so much valour, the attack which
was made that day on the state of South Carolina, by the
fieet and army of his Britannic Majefly.
Published by order of Con^refs,
CHARLES THOMSON, See.
tn CONGRESS, July 24th, i 7 76.
Refolded, That all the resolutions of this Congress puff
ed on the 23d day of March last, and on the third day of
April last, relating to ships and other vessels, their tackle,
apparel and furniture, and all goods, wares and merchan
dizes, belonging to any inhabitant or inhabitants of Great-
Eritain, taken on the high seas, or between high and low
water mark, be extended to all ships and other vessels,
their tackle, apparel and furniture, and to all goods, wares
and merchandizes, belonging to any fubjeß or fubjeßs of
the King of Great-Britain ; except the inhabitants of the
Bermudas, and Providence or Bahama inlands.
In CONGRESS, March 29th, 1779,
Whereas the Bahama Islands are now garrisoned by and
under the military government of the King of Great-Bri
tain, and the inhabitants of the said Islands have of late
fitted out many privateers and armed vessels for crulfing
on the coasts of these United States, and that such priva
teers and armed vessels have actually captured divers ves
sels, the property of the citizens of these states, on the
coast of South Carolina :
Refolded, That the resolution of Congress of the twen
ty-fourth day of July, *776, so far as it relates to the said
Bahama Islands, be repealed, and from and after the date
of this resolution held void.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
In COUNCIL, Philadelphia, April 13th, 1779.
WHEREAS frequent applications are made to this
Board for the remission of fines and other punilhments in
fii&ed on offenders by the several Courts of Justice in this
state, the determinations upon which deeply affeß the
fafety of the inhabitants and the course of public jufiice.
Wherefore
Refolded, That it be a Handing rule, that no such ap
plications be proceeded on, farther than reading them,
unless a tranfeript of the sentence of the Court be also sent
to this Board, signed by the proper officer; and that it
will in future be expeßed, that the Judges of the Court
before which any criminal is convißed, or forae of them,
de recommend the case to this Board, with their reasons
for so doing. Extrafi from the Minutes,
T. MATLA CK, Secretary.
In CONGRESS, April 13th, 1779.
A letter of this day from General Lee was read, re
presenting that in a publication @f this day, there is a pa
ragraph refpe<ffmg General Moultrie's having defended
Fort Sullivan against his (General Lee's) judgment,
which throws him into the disagreeable alternative of ei
ther silently fitting down under a charge which may make
an impression in the minds of the people unfavorable to
his conduct and capacity, or of juftifying himfelf bva
publication, which at this juncture mya be inexpedi
ent , that if Coogrefs will condefeend to appoint a Com
mittee to hear what he has to fay on that fubje&, he has
no doubt of making his conduct appear fatisfaßory ; but
if that measure should be thought improper, then requeu
ing that they will order the letter of thanks with which
they honored him on the occasion 0 be republilhed.
Rejoin'd, That the vote of thanks to Major-General
I.ee on account of his conduct on the 28th of June, 1776,
be republilhed ; and that Congress have no reason to alter
their opinion of his conduct on that occasion.
Memorial presented to the States of Holland by his Excel
lency the Duke $f Vauguyon, Ambassador of France at
the Hague, December % 1775.
High and Mighty Lords,
T HE King, my master, being persuaded that your
' High and Mighty Powers are animated with a desire
of perpetuating the harmony which subsists between
France and the States-General, and to conform scrupu
lously in the present circumstances with the most absolute
principles of neutrality, has been induced to include the
United Provinces in the regulations he enaßed, in the
month of July last, concerning the trade and navigation
of neutral Powers. His Majesty has no reason to dou,t
of your High Mightinesses perseverance in those princi
ples, as they have given him repeated assurances of it,
and that they form the most solid foundation of the se
curity and prosperity of the Republic. Nevertheless his
Majefly thinks it necessary to receive a full certainty on
this head; for which reason he has ordered me to de
mand of your High Mightinesses a clear and precise ex
planation on their late determinations, and to declare
that on their answer he will regulate his measures, either
to support or annul his regulations, so far as your fubjeHs
may be concerned in them.
To explain, in a more clear view, the King my ma
ster's intentions, I shall have the honor to observe to
your High Mightinesses, that his Majefly experts that you
will procure to the flag of the United Provinces all the li
berty belonging to it, as a consequence of their inde
pendence, and to their commerce all the juflice they are
intitled to by the law of nations and treaties; the least
deviation from those-principles would charaHerife a par
tiality, the effects of which would necessarily occasion
not only the cessation of the advantages his Majefly has
secured to your flag, by his edi& in regard to neutral
Powers, but also the essential and gratuitous favors
which the commerce of your fubjeds enjoy in the ports
of his kingdom, on no other foundation than his Maje
fly's good-will and affection for your High Mightiaeffes.
In CONGRES S, July 20th, 1,76.
Married, Major-General ARNOLD to Miss PEGGY
SHIPPEN, youngest Daughter of Edward Shippen, Efa
CADWALADER MORRIS, Esq; to Miss .STRUT
TEE. Mr. JOHN KEPPLE to Miss LYNN.
fit The American Philosophical Society is to meet at
the College on Friday evening next, precisely at seven
o'clock; and as fumdry Gentlemen stand proposed to be
ballotted for as neu Members, the attendance of all the
former Members who are in town, or to whom it can be
made convenient, is earnestly detired.
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TH E Annual Election of Directors and a
Treasurer tor the Library Company of Philadel
phia so tleenfuing year, will be held at the Library
Room on Monday the thi^d day of May next, at Three
o'clock in the afternoon, when and where the Members
ot the laid company are hereby notified to attend.
By order of the Board of Direflors,
Aprils} ANDREW ROBESON, Secretary,
THE Trufters of New-Jersey Collrge are required t®
attend a Meeting of the Boaid at their hall, in
Princetcn, the 21st of April next, at nine o'clock.
The bufiuefsis of inch importance to the institution,
that it is hoped no Member uid b? absent.
JAMES CALDWELL, Cierk.
N^w-ferfey, April 13.
To be S O L T) at Vendue,
At Abfecom Bridge, on Wednesday the 21st instant,
CT 1 HE Snow POLL Y, per inventory. Abo her
CARGO, comifting of al out one hundred and
twenty ho^fheads of TOBACCO.
By order of the Court of Admiralty,
JOSEPH POTTS, Martha!.
'do be SCL D by Public Vendue,
On Tuefcay the fourth of May next, at eleven o'clock
in the mining, on the prenrfes, if not before fold by
private faie,
A LOT of ground situate on the east fide of Third
✓l Hreet, opposite Benjamin Chew, E quire's, con
taining sixty feet in front and one hundred feet in depth,
on which is er &ed a stable and coach-house, being a
corner lot to York Itreet, and lubje& to a ground-rent
of 61. sterling per annum.
And on the Ome day, at Three o'clock in the after
noon, will be fold on the pr<mifeß,rif rot before fold by
private tale, ore half of a lot of ground situate on Pegg's
Run, containing ninety feet in breadth and two hun
dred tect in depth, (adjoining Mr. Howarth's tan-yard)
with the valuable improvements thereon, confining of a
dwelling-houle, baik-houfe, curriers ffiop, leather
houfe, and annul one hundred tan-pitta or vatk, toge
ther with every other necessary improvement for carry
ing on the tanning bufinels in a very extensive m?nuer,
and allowed 10 be one of the most commodious tan-yards
on the continent.
Aad on the tame day, at Six o'clock in the evening,
at tne Merchants Coffee house, if not before fold by
private tale, two plantations or tracts of land, situate in
Warrington townthip, Bucks county, twenty miles from
Philadelphia, adjoining Mrs. Ferguson's plantation
called Gr^me P^k; one of laid plantations is now in
the tenwe or occupation of Mr. John Bogart, and con
tains about two hundred acres, a very great proportion
of which is meadow, with a farm house, barn, stables,
and other necessary improvements ; the other plantation
is now in ihe_ tenure or occupation of Mr. Henry
M'Knftiey, and contains about one hundred and fe
v^ntecn acres, a great proportion of which is meadow,
with a farm houle, barn, (tables, and other necessary
improvements. The above described plantations will
be fold together, as they adjoin each other and are ca
pable of very great improvements, one third of said
tra&s being very well calculated to be made into meadow
at an easy eXpence. For further particulars enquire of
Mark Freeman, ax Afheton Humphreys, Elquire's,
in Second-street, near Spruce-street.
N. B. Any one chufiag to view said plantations, will
pleaie to call on Mi. James PauLl, who lives conti
guous thereto, and will thew the fame.
T 0 B e Tol d,
A LOT or piece of ground situate on the south fide
A of Market-street, between Seventh and Eighth
ftreets, at the distance of 32 feet from Seventh-fl eet,
containing in front on Market-street 36 feet, and ex
tending in depth southward 124. feet to a ten feet alley
extending from Seventh -street, with the privilege of the
said alley Also four tracts, pieces or parcels of land,
situate, lying and being contiguous to and adjoining each
other in the county of Cumberland, containing together
1465 acres or thereabouts, more or less. For further
particulars enquire oFAssheton Humphreys, Attor
ney at Law, at his Office in Second-street, between
Spruce and Union-ftrects, where draughts of the pre
mises may be seen.
Mill,one, April 12.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTED from Col. Craig's company of the
third Pennlylvania Rrgiment, a certain JOHN
DELONG, a Serjeant ; he went on furlough to Lower
Smithfield township, in Northampton county, and is
supposed to be still living there: Had on when he de
ferred, a blue regimental coat turned up with red,
white cloth jacket and breeches, an old hat and a Con
tinental ffiirt. Whoever takes up and secures the said
deserter in any gaol or guard-house, so that he may be
brought to the regiment, shall receive the above reward.
JOHN HENDERSON, Capt. Lieut. 3 d P. R.
PARCHMEN T,
Of the belt quality, SOLD by
JOHN D WNL A P.