The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-02-18 00:00:00, page 1

In C OUNCI L,
Lancaster, Februdr, 14, 1778.
The resolves of Congress of February the third
were now read—Thereupon Ordered, That the said
refrives be publ fired in die German and Englhh
News papers; and ail persons whom they do or may
concern are to take notice and a& accordingly.
Extrall from the Minutes,
T. M AT LACK, Secretary
In CONGRESS, February 3, 1778.
RESOLVED,
rp AAT every officer, who holds or (hall here-
X after hold a commission or office from Congress,
shall take and fubicribe the following oath or affirm
auon ;
“ [ do acknowledge the United States of
America, to be Free, Independent and Sovereign
States, and declare that the people thereof owe no
allegiance or obedience t ? George tl e Third, King
of Great-Bri^in; and I renounce, refute and abjure
any allegiance cr obedience to him; and 1 do(wear
(or affirm) that I vii to the urmod of my power,
luppoft, maintain and defend the said United States,
againl the said Kin, George the Third, his heirs
ah successors, and his and their abettors, assistants
and ad erects, and will Cave dieted Unred States
in the office cf winch 1 now hold, with 6de
li v, G^rdnz to the belt of my (kin and undcr
fcndi:So be p me God.
That ad officers of the army (hall take and sub
scribe the foregoing oath or affirmation, before the
C< Wunder in Chief, or any M.jor General or Bri
gadier General.
That nil Ificors of the navy fliall take and fubferibe
the f.me, before one of the ommiilieners of the
Navy Boards, or before a Judge or Just ce of the
Peace of the S ate, wherein they refpe&ively reside
or shall receive rhe ; r commissions or warrants.
That ah perfens holding any civil office of trust or
profit, und r the Congre s of thele United States,
shall take and lubßribe the said oath or affirmation
before a Judge or Judice of the Peace of the State
wherein they refpettively reside.
That every officer having the difpo'al of public
mone% or who is or shall be intruded with the charge
or distribution of pubic stores, shall, at the time if
taking and sub cubing the foregoing oath or affirm
ation, also take an oath or affirmation of office in the
following words.
“ I co swear (or affirm) that I will faith
filly, truly and impattiahy execute the office of
to which I am appointed, and render a true account,
when thereunto required, of all public monies by
me received or expended, and of al stores or other
effeds to me intruded, which belong to the United
States, and will, in all reipe^s, difcbarge the trull
reposed in me with justice and integrity, to the belt
of my Ikil and understanding."
That every officer, taking the foregoing oaths or
affirmations or either of them, shall obtain frem the
person administering the fame, duplicate certificates
fpecifying the time of his taking it or them, and al
so his name and rank or employment.
That every mili ary officer shall deliver or trans
mit one of the certificates so obtained, to the Com
mander in Chief or the Commander of a Department,
or to such person, as by Genera! Orders shall be ap
pointed to receive the fame; and the said command
ing officers shall cause the certificates so received to
be lent to the Secretary of Congress, and shall keep
an exTt lift of the names ofall officers whose certi
ficates shall be received and forwarded, together with
their several ranks and the times of their being qua
lified.
That every officer in the navy shall deliver or fend
one o' the certificates by him obtained to the Navy
Board most convenient, who are required to trans
mit the fame, and also a certificate of their own
^affl^^
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G EN ERA L
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1778.
qualifications, to the Marine Committee, as soon as
conveniently may be.
That every other person employed in any civil de
parment or office as above mentioned, shall fend or
deliver one of the certificates by him obtained to the
Secretary of the State to which he belongs, or to
such other person or persons, as the Governor or
PreGdent of such State shall direct. And the Go
vernors or Preside ts of the several States, are here
by requested to attend to this matter, and to cause
the certificates, when received, to be transmitted to
the Secretary of Congress.
That each deponent 01 affirmant (hall retain and
keep the oilier certifies e, by him obtained, as a
voucher of his having complied with what is hereby
erj ined him,
Ref Feed, That every officer civil or military, now
in office, shall take and fubferibe the qualification
above di efled, within twenty days after notice here
of; and every person he. carter appointed to any of
fice, by or under the authority of the Congress cf
rhe United S ates cf America, shall take and sub
scribe the feme, previous to his ailing in such office:
And every officer who shall continue or presume to
exercise any commission civil or military, under the
auth< rity of the Congress of the United States of
America, without taking the qualification, in time
and manner above dirtied, shall be cashiered and
forfeit two months pay to the nfe of the United States
of America, and be rendered incapable cf feiving in
the army of the Gid States, and of executing there
after any office under Congrtfs.
And whereas many perlons, enjoyed as Deputy
or Affitant Comm.Airies or Quarter Masters, or in
other civil departmen s, are dilperfed in various parts
of the continent, over whom neither Corgrefs nor
the head of their refpedive departments can have the
immediate infpe&ion.
Refolded, I hat it be recommended to the legida
tive and executive authority of every State, to take
effectual meatuses for preventing any person, within
their Stale, from exercising any office in the civil
department of the army or in any other civil depart
ment under Congress, who shall not, when thereun
to required by any Magistrate, produce a legal lap
pointment to that office and a certificate of his having
taken the foregoing oa.hs or affirmations, or who
(hall regies or refuse to take and fubferibe the said
oaths or affirmations within the time above limited.
Refolded, That the refolutiocs passed the 2 Ift day
of October 1776, prescribing the form of an oath or
affirmation, and directing the fame to be fubferibed
by officers holding commiffims or offices from Con
gress, be and they are hereby repealed.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
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AFE W copies of Doctor Price's OBSER
VATIONS on CIVIL LIBERTY,
my be had of JOHN DUNLAP, in Qieen
ftreet, Lancaster.
T OBE S O L D,
And entered on immediately, in the County of Albe
marle and S ate of Virginia,
a TRACT 0! LAND containing between fix
£1 and eight hundred acres, lying on the North
branch of Janies River, about two miles from the town
of Chirloitevilh, on which are a good dwelling, house,
kitchen, barn, ftrble, and other convenient ont-houfes;
also a valuable grist mill working two pair of stones,
lately erefted on a bold confrant stream, which may
readily be converted ints a very orofitable merchant
mill, being very ad vantageotifty, situated for that kind
of bufinels : There is cleared and inclofed under good
fences on the said traft ofland, about one hundred
acres, molt cf which is sown with fall grain. Any
person inclinable to purchase may know the terms by
applying to the (uofcriber, now in York Town, or a
few weeks hence on the piemi es.
JOHN HARVIE.
T H E
THE
ADVERTISED.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
,1 COr PER.PLA FE PRINTER, a person of a
,°° d chaja^ter, capable oi carrying on this branch
0. bonnets. Such a one may, by applying to M ff/s.
^all and Sellers, Printers, in York-Town, Penn
sylvania, or to the Printer hereof, enter into immedi
ate employ.
Fenh/,q>a,a, t. Reading, Feb, 1778.
No 1 iCE :s hereby given to the sundry
Deputy Waggon-Matters General of this State,
to transmit copies ot the lifts of all the Waggons and
Teams, and the names of the owners thereof in their
refoedive Counties, to me in Riding, as soon Jia
tach power, according to law.
JAMES young, w. m. g. s.p.
THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
DES E fF ED from Lebanon, th, f.llowing per
lons ben) ^ng to the 1 3th P^nnfilyaniu ' :
."^"^ Clement Shire, about fcfj t 'tight
inches nigh, ter complexion, fair h a:r . % bcut eighteen
or nmeteen years of age. John Scott, about five
feet seven inches high, blind of o^e eye, of a □Q
complexion, and about thirty years ct arc. P~r : R
Ring, about five ^et seven or eight :cc^ iuj, 'of
ajwarthy complexion, and about thirty ^ar^ _ft
Whoever takes up said defeitrrs a: d tecur^ them'in
any gaol of the United States, shall h^e fcr the firft
mentioned, FIFTEEN DOLLARS, and f
the others TEN DOLLARS, and ailJJjjh
ges, paid by WILLIAM MOORE,‘
Lieut. : 3 th P. R?g.'
February 177 g.
SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
J 2ft ni g ht )out of the fub
°"°& '(fable in Drum more Townihip, Lan
c^er County, a black HORSE, about fifteen hands
^°< ?"' a natural p „„, Q^^ hair „
, nh -sxoretop and mane. Whoever takes up said
horse so that the owner may have him again, and fe
f° ", heina Y be brou hr to justice,
shall have the above Reward, or EIGU T DOLLARS
for tne horse, ana reasonable charges if brought home.
F aid by WILLIAM RITCHEY, Jun.
TO BE S O L D,
For Ca(h or Credit,
A PLANTATION within thirty-three and a half
nules of the City of Philadelphia, on the road to
Reading, containing 170 acres of land, under good
feiQce, about ,3 acres tillable, with 10 acres ofmeadow
producing clover hay, equal in quality and quantity to
any in the State, watered by a constant stream, which
is Sufficient with a fail for a fulling-mill ; the remain
der good wood-land. A large house, with thiee rooms
and a kitchen on the firft floor, five on the tecond, and
,™ °" "- ""^ c °mpleatly finished ; OYt-buildinga
fufficient with a small expence to contain fifty head of
cattle and fifty tons of hay orgrain, exclufiva of a house
and barn (arable for a tenant; together with all the
stock, implements of husbandry, and 20 acres of ^rain
', the ground. For further particulars enquire of th^
lubferibsr on the said plantation.
THOMAS MASON.
Just fuhlifed, and to be fold by
JOHN D U N L A P,
Tn Queen-Street, Lancaster,
Father A B R A H A M's
POCKET ALMANACK
For the Year 1778.
Being the Third Year of the Independence of America
Fitted to the use ofPennfylvania and the adjacent States!
Containing (hefides many ufeful Lists, &c.)
The Articles of CONFEDERATION and PEk^P
TUAL UNION between the States of Americ
as uropofed by Congress to the Legislatures of the
different States.
This great Confederacy is so intimately conne&ed
with the Freedom, Happiness and Indeo^d^ce of the
People of America, that no person can hold a proper
rank in society, without being fully acquainted with
its very important contents.
*#* Ibe Agronomical calculations of this Almanack „ r ,
composed by David Rittenhouse, & M. T t^s
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