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An ACT mo-e efc&ualiy to prevent counterfeiting the
Continental Loan-Office Certiorates, the Continental
Loan Offic Bills of Exchange, and the Paper Money
of the United States of America, or an) o them.
WH E RBAS the want of a fufficient quantity of
gold and silver, to answer the pu^ofes of com
merce, the exigencies of zovernmur, and to carry on
t; e orefent just and neceff ry war against the King of
Gre^t Britain, induced the Congress of the United Co
lonies, and now States of America, and also the Ass mb^es,
Con^reffes and Conventions of the several Thirteen Co
loni^ and now States of America, to emit and circu
h^e certain P f per Bills of Credit, to pfs in payments for
limited periods, the counterfeiting of which, or the utter
in~ the fame (o counterfeited, as aad for true, gooo and
genuine bills, knowing the fame to be so co^^erfeited,
rath ufuplly been made felonies in these United States re
'eAND y ivHEREAS by an A& intitled " An Act for ma
ino the Continental B Is of Credit, and the Bills of Credit
emitted by refolds o; t^e late Adem^hes, ^,1 tenner, a
for other purposes therein mentioned," the counterfeiting
fuciiPaper Bills of Credit, or uttering any of them
counterfeited, knowing them to be fu:h, which were iflued
befo-e the twenty-eighth day of January, in the year one
(tofan l.feven hundre 1 and seventy-seven, are made felo.
nie# of death without benefit of Clergy ; and the counter
feiting the Bills of Credit of this Commonwealth, made and
iffsed'by virtue of An Ad, infilled “ An AO for emit
tin r the sum of two hundred thousand pounds in Bills of
Credit, for the defence of this State, and providing
2 'un J for finbin~ the fame by a tax on ail eflates real and
pcrfmal, and all t r xad?s within the fame ” or emitted
and made current by the resolves of the late Affmbbes of
Pennsylvania, cr the uttering such Bills, k rowing them to
be counterfeit, as aforefaid, is, by the said Act :oal~ a ia
lony of death, but not ousting the benefit of Clergy.
A N D WHEREAS the counterfeiting the Certificates
of the Continental Loan-Offices, or any of the bills of
Cr- Id, emitted by the resolves of the Congress of the Uni
ted Stages, or felling, giving in payment or othetye ut
tering or distributing any of the laid counterfeit Ctrnr
cr^°nr BiHs of Credit, knowin g them to be such, is, by
an Ad inritiH"An AR for punifui^g the counterfeiting
the Continental Loan-Office Certifi- ares and Lottery Tick
ets " made a felony of de th, not ousting Clergy; and the
counterfeiting ^y of the said paper Bills of Credit, or Con
tinental Loan Office Certificates, or uttering any o. them,
knowing the fame to be so counterfeited, which have ifr
fuel fime the T ven y fihn day of M% One thoufanc
fev^n hundred and seventy eight, and alto the counter
fating or uttering rs aforefaid, any of the Continental
Loan Office Bills of Exchange, is punishable only by the
common I 7 w. ,
AND WHEREAS : t is just and right that offences and
-crimes of equal enormity and guilt should receive the like
lifamems, and it highly interests each of the United
States, by all means in their power to provide against the
debasing of their medium of commerce.
Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enabled, by the
p^p^fwat^s of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of
R Vfyvan : a, in General Assembly met, and by the au
thority of the fame, That from and after tie publication
oath's Aft, if any person or persons fliall, within this State
or e'fewhere prepare, engrave, stamp forge or print, cr
cause or pro u:e to be p e ared, engraved, stamped, forged
cr printed, the ceude f i refem dance of any Paper Bills
of CreJr issued, emitted or made by the Congress of the
Units;! States cf America, or by the Af^embher, Congreffer,
Conventions, or other leeiff tive authority of this, or of
any ot er of the hid States, or which fliall be issued, emit
te I or made by them r. for Lively, on or before the firft day
of January now next eafuing ; or of any of the Certificates
of the fever'll Continental Loan Offices, or Continental
Lom-Offi e Bills of Ex ': r n e issued or made, or which
sh 11 at any time hr after be rfiued or made, or fha 1
counterfeit or fim the name or names of the signers of any
true B Ils or Loan Office Certificates, or Continental Lo n
Office Cills of Ex hange, to such counterfeit paper, wuh
an intention that such ^ount rfeit paper flidl be pafd in
payments, or received as genuine and good Bills, Certi,
ficates or Bills of Ex h rcge, whether the fame be so passed
or received, or not; or if any person or persons fliall, in
this State, paL, pay, or tender in payment, any such
counterfeit Money or Certificates, or Bills of Exchange,
or deliver the fame to any other person or persons
with an intention that they be passed, paid or received, as
and for rood and genuine, knowing the fame to be forged
or counterfeited ; every such person being thereof lawfully
convicted or attainted ii any Court of Oyer and Fermi
ner within this State, by verdifl of a Jury, or conteffio!i
of the party offending, or being indicted thereof Illall
Hind mute, or not directly answer to the indictment; or
shall perempt ril/ c al enge more th inthe number es twenty
persons legal y eturn A d to be of the Jury for the trial of fwh
offender; fhi. 1 be adjudged a felon, and fliall (offer dea'h
without benefit T Clergy. And if any person cr persons
shall counterfeit any of the Gid Bills of Credit, Loan-
Office Certificates or Bills of Exchange, by altering thede
nomination thereof, with design to increase the value of such
' Bills, Certificates or Bills of Exchange, or shall utter
such B ; lls, Certificates or Bills ofExchange, knowing them
to be so counterfeited or altered as aforefaid, and shall be
thereof legally convicted in any Court of Record in this
State, such person or persons shall be sentenced to the pil
lory and have both his or her ears cut off, and nailed to
the pillory, and be publickly whipped on his or her bare
back with thirty nine lashes, well laid on; and moreover
every such offender shall forfeit the sum of two thousand
pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania, to be levied, on his
or her lands and tenements, goods and chatties, the one
moiety to the use of the Stae, and the other moiety to the
dih overer ; and the offender shall pay to the party grieved
double the value bf the damages thereby sustained, toge
ther with the costs and charges of prosecution; and in case
the offender hath not fufficient to fatisfy the difeoverer, for
his or her damages and charges, and t) pay the forfeiture
aforefaid, in such case the offender shall, by order of the
Court where he or the shall be convicted, be fold as a fer
vent, for any term not exceeding seven years, for fatisfac
tion. .
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That if any person or persons shall, within this State, pre
pare or make any paper of the similitude or liknefs of the
paper prepared or made for, and used by the Congress of
the United States of America, or the person or persons
employed by them, for the purpose of striking their pa
per Bills of Credit, Continental Loan Office Certificates,
or Continental Bills of Exchange, upon, and on which,
the fame are or fh.il be flruck, printed or made; or if any
person or persons, fliall within this State, prepare or make
any paper ofthe similitude or likeoefs of the paper pre
pared cr made for, and used by the Legislative Authority
of this State, for the purpose of striking their Paper Mo
ney upon, an I on which the fame is, or shall be printed and
made, and shall give, fell, deliver or otherwise employ,
or willingly fuffer the fame to bet aken by or delivered, or
otherwise disposed of to any person or persons whomsoever,
except to Congress, or to the Legislature of this State, or
of force other of the United States, or to their order, or
the order of some person or persons authorized by them
refpeftively; be, the or they, being legally convicted
thereof, in any Court of Record in this State, shall be ini
prifoned at the diferetion of the court, and moreover shall
forfeit all his, her or their goods and chatties, and one moi
ety of the lan is tothe life of this Commonwealth.
And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, That if
any perlon or perlons, shall take and prosecute any of the
herein before mentioned felons to convi&iop, within this
State, upon every such convi&io% and procuring a Certi
ficate thereof, under the hands of the Judges, before whom
the conviction fliall be, or either of them, which the said
Judges are hereby dirtied and required to give, such per
lon or persons shall receive of the Treasurer cfahfy Com
inonweilh, the fam of one hundred pounds lawful money
of this State, which the said Treasurer is hereby directed
and required to pay out of the public money in his hands,
and the fame shall be allowed to him at the settlement of
h is aci ounts,
JOHN BAYA RD, Speaker.
Enafted into a Law at Philadelphia on Friday the
Twenty-sixth day of November, Anno Domini
O:.e thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk of General Affetnbly.
An ACT to repeal part of an Aft, intitled " An Aft, for
making more equal the burthen of the public defence,
an! for filling the quota of troops to be railed in this
State, " And to continue for a longer time the A&, in
titled " An AR tomfpower the Supreme Executive Coun
cil and Justices of the Supreme Court to apprehend fuf
p-Red persons, and increase the fines to which persons
are liable, for negleding to perform their tour of mili
tia duty.”
WH EREA Sin and by the AR firft above men
tioned, a double tax was annually imposed upon
all the estates reabaud personal, of every person not fub
je& to, nor performing military duty, by the militia law
of this State ; which is found by experience to be burthen
force and inconvenient.
Be it therefore e r aßed and it is hereby enacted by the
Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of
Pennfylvinia, in General Assembly met, and by the autho
rity of the fame, That so much of the said AR as impo
ses double taxes, upon any person or persons whatfoexer,
be, and is hereby repealed and made void, any thing in
the said AR to the contrary notwithstanding.
AND WHERE AS an AR passed the last session
of the late Assembly, intitled " An AR to impower the
Supreme Executive Council and Juflices of the Supreme
Court, to apprehend fuf,Red persons, and to increase the
fines to which persons are liable, for neglecting to per
form their tour of militia duty, '' will expire at the end
of the present session of this Assembly, and it is necessary
that the fame should be continued for a longer time.
Be it therefore furthe: enaßed by the authority aforefaid,
That the Did AR intitled “ An AR, to impower the Su
preme Executive Council, and Justices of the Supreme
Court, to apprehend fufpe&ed persons, and to increase the
fines to which persons are liable, for negleßing to perform
their tour of militia duty "be, and the fame is hereby de
clared to be in full force and virtue, for, and during the
spate of fix months, from the publication of this A&, ch
iefs the war between the United States of America and
Great Britain fliall sooner cease, and no longer.
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enaßed into a Law at Philadelphia on Saturday
the twenty seventh day of November, io the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and se
venty-nine. • _
THOMAS PAIN E,
Clerk of General Assembly.
4 44.QD$*+ **,*:++ W* D f*4+
Chefler County, ff.
BY virtue of a writ under the b^nd and seal of the
Hono^be John Bayard, Enquire, Speaker ofthe
General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Peunfylva
nia, to me dircß^d, hearing d^te the twenty-seventh
day o' Novemner Est, I do hereby give public notice to
the Freemen of the County of Chester, Tint an ele&ion
will be held at the ufoal places in the said County, on
Saturday, the eleventh day of this instant, (December)
in order to choose one Representative, the aioft noted
for wisdom and virtue, to serve in General Assembly for
the County aforefaid, in the room and stead of Sketch
ley Merton, John Culb-rtfon, aid John Fleming, Ef
quirct, who were equid in votes at the 1 ft annual eleßi
on, an! no foft determination could be made who was
the legal Representative.
Dec \, ,779. DAVID MACKY, Sheriff.
TO BE S O L D,
AS MALL Plantation situated in Oxford townflnp,
Philadelphia county, about fix inles from the city,
adjoin ng the lai ds of William Buz'y, senior, Nathan
Whitman and Jicob Neff, containing ieventy-fx and a
hlf acres, about thirty or upwards woodland, supposed
by competent judges to contain one thousand cords, ex
clusive of a lai,e proportion of (hip timber; the remain
der high and level, free from any broken ground, and
commands a profpe& of the river : There is also on the
said place a log house with two rooms on a floor, and a
we'l of good water, a frame barn and stabling, with an
orchard; the land fertile and kind, and twenty acres of
good swamp meadow may be made. For further ^ parti
culars enquire of William Buzby, junior, living on
the premifrs.
To the D EALE R S in S PIRITUOU S
L I Q_U O R S.
BY a Law of this State, laying a duty of One Shil
ling per gallon on all spirituous liquors fold by re
tail, or for private consumption, and for the entry of
all spirituous liquors bought either in the State of Ma
rvland, New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, the hay or river
Delaware, or the State of New Jersey, with the Col
le&or of the ci+y or county where the fame may be
brought, (or with the next Magistrate) before the fame
shall be unloaded, fold, bartered or drawn off, under
the penalty of forfeiture of the whole. It is therefore
hoped and expelled, that thole whom it may concern
will enter their liquors at my office on Chefnut-fret
wharf, with the marks, number and contents of each
calk or vessel, and of whom purchased ; and those who
arc in arrears for Excise to discharge the fame.
Nov. 24. WILLIAM CRISPIN, Collet
COMMISSION STORE
KEPT BY
RICHARD FOOTMAN,
In Second-street, a few doors below Market street, and
opposite Black H>rfe Alley, for the reception of
Merchandize, particularly for Importers, who are not
accommodated with convenient stores.
For S AL E at said store,
A VARIETY of MERCHANDIZE, con
fining of Calicoes, Chintzes, Linens, Checks,
Cutlery, Woolens, Britannian, Hylon and Bohea
Tea, &c.
Said Footman continues to fell by Auction, House
hold Furniture, &c. for persons leaving the State, Ex
ecutors and Administrators.
EIGHTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED AWAY on the 20th inst. (Novem
bei) from the fubferiber in Second-street, near
Spruce-street, a light brindled MILCH COW; (he
had a calf about two months since; has a thick neck,
feme white on her face, hips and flank, and is in very
good order. Whoever secures her so that the owner
may have her again, (hall receive the above reward.
JOSEPH PEMBERTON.
Port of Philadelphia, Penrfylvania, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
TOOTICE is hereby given, That 3 Court of Admi
ralty will be held at the Court-House in the city of
Philadelphia, on the seventeenth day of December next,
at T n o'clock in the forenoon of the lame day, then
and there to try the truth of the fads alledged in the
bill of StephenDucater,&c. (who as well,&c.) against the
Packet (loop or vessel celled the Lexey, lately com
manded by James Hunter, her tackle, apparel, fur
niture and cargo: To the end and intent that the
owner or owners, or any person concerned therein, may
appear and (hew cause, if any they have, why the fame
should not be condemned according to the pra er of the
said bill. By order of the fudge,
November 25. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
Philadelphia, December 4.
WHEREAS the Honorable the Supreme
Executive Council of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, hath been pleased to arpint the sub
scriber Auctioneer of the city of Philadelphia, accord
ing to an AR of General Assembly passed the 26 h ult 4
entitled " An AR for the effectual fyppreffion of pub
lic Auctions and Vendues," &c. He therefore takes
this earliest opportunity of informing the Public, That
his Store ?t the corner of Front and South-streets will
be open for the rec.ption of all such Goods as are ro be
dilpolep of agreeable to fa:d AR, where constant atten
dance will be given until a more central Store can be
procured, which will be as soon as possible. He like
wise will give his attendance at the Coffee-houfe, (in
CofFrehoufe hours) when he may be fpeken with, at
tend files there, or where it may best suit the owners of
such property as the said AR admits of fab.
And the Public may be zflued th^t, with a ftri& ad
heiencerto the aforefaid AR, every tiling for their la
tisfaßion rejecting said office will be done in the power
of Their mo# obecient humble f«rvant,
WILLIAM BROWN, Auctioneer.
AN V E
A WOMAN with a good breast of milk. None
need apply who cannoc be well recommenced. En
quire of the Printer.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
BROKE out of rhe fubiciiner's ftahle, on fhurfda,
the gdind. (D cem er) a red rem HORSE, near
fifteen hinds high, eight years old, pres and trots. =
Whoever secures the laid hor'e so thrt tie owner may
recover him again, shall be p^id the above reward, by
JAMES WILSON.
STRAYED or STOLEN, on the night cf the
° 24th of November left, out of the stable o' J bn
Douglass, Tavern keeper, in P quea, a sorrel MAKE,
four years old, about fourteen or fifteen hands high,
with a far and snip, (he is with foal, had no flioes on,
and is a natural trotter. Whoever secures the thief in
any gaol, so that he may be brought to justice and the
owner may get his mire again, shall have the above re
ward and all reasonable charges, paid by John Dou
glass, or by John Wilson, living on Mill Creek, in
Leacock township, Lancaster county.
, TO BX SOLD BY
JOHN DUNLAR
^ (B und or unbound) any quantity of
DILWORTH's SPELLING BOOK,
Printed on fine strong paper and a new type.
N. B. Those who buy by the thousand fliall nave a
large allowance.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.