The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-01-02 00:00:00, page 2

An ad to revive and amend an aft intitled, '' An aft
to suspend the operation for a limited time o. the
vefil laws of this commonwealth for making the bills
of credit of the United Stages a legal tender in the
p yment of debts, equal to gold and silver.
Section x IHEREAS the above recited inti-
VV tied, “ An aft to suspend the opera
tion for a limited time of the several laws of tris com
monwealth for making the bills of credit of the United
States a legal tender in the payment ^fdebts, ^qual to
gold and fi!ver," passed die thirty-firft day of May
loft pa ft, would have expired by its own limitation at
the end of the last session of assembly, but the fame
was continued by an a& puffed the twenty-second day
of September last, until the end of the pre' nt feffi'on of
assembly : and it is just and necessary that the fame
Should be continued until the value of the Aid curren
cy can be fixe! at some certain fiandard, and a pro
per mode efiabufhed, which will make the advantages
equal to both debtor and creditor :
Sect. 2. Be it therefore enafled, and it is hereby en
tfted, by the reprefentatiw s of the freemen of the com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in general assembly net,
and by the authority of the fame, That the said aftin
tit'ed, ' An aft to suspend the operation for a limited
time of the several laws of this commonwealth for ma
king the bi Is of credit of the Unit • States a lepal ten
der in the payment of debts, equal to gold and silver,"
p-fe'l the thirty firft day of May, one thousand seven
hundred and eigh y, and every article, matter, and
thing therein contained, (except 'oe elaufe limiting
the time of its continuance) is hereby revived and con
tinued, atid "declared to be in full force, except where
the fame is hereby altered or amended.
Sect. 3. Provided always, nevertheless, That where
any person or persons are about to remove out of this
Rate, and refufe to give security to their creditor or
creditors, or where any person or persons refufe to
appear without process, and put in fpecia! bail to the
plain iff'' action for the debt or cause f.r which he
complains: or where any tenant or tenants have com
mitted or shall commit any waste or deftruft on in
th* houfs or lands, or hold possession agimQ the
will of the landlord," after the expiration of the feafe ;
in all such cases it shall and may be lawful, for (uch
landlords or creditors, to make difireffes or bring suits
as tie case may require for their rents, debts or de
mands, and the enabling elaufe of the sirs lmentioned
a fl, fufoending the operation of the several laws of
this commonwealth, for making the bills of cred t of
the United States a legal tender in the payment of debts
equal to gold and silver, revived and continued by
t is aft, shall be extended to such landlords ai<l cre
ditors, in as full and ample a manner, as if no such
difirefs had been made or suit brought : any thing in
the proviso to the firft mentioned aft revived and
amended by this aft or in this ad contained to thecon
trary thereof in any wife nofwihftanding.
Signed by order of the house,
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, speaker.
Enabled into a law at Philadelphia, on
Friday, the twenty-second d y of De
cemb r, in the year of cur lord one
thoufa d seven hundred and e ghty.
SAMUEL STERETT,
clerk of the general assembly. .
An ACT to fettle and adjuff tie accounts of the
troops of this State in he service of the United States,
and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Sedion 1. ^/HEREAS, from a variety of cau
ses, the United States have not been
able to comply with their engagements heretofore
made to the officers and private men of the Pennsyl
vania live.: which nath occasioned great injury to thole
troops, to whose virtuous exertions America is much
indebted:,
S?& 2. Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby
enabled, by the reorefentatives of the freemen of tee
commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general affem'd,
met, and by the authority of the (am, That the su
preme executive council be, and they are hereby au
thorize and directed to appoint three auditors, to fet
tle the depreciation of the pay accounts of ail the offi
cers and private men of the Pennsylvania line, from
the firfl day o f January, one thousand seven hundred
and fe/enty seven to the firft day of Auguff, one
thousand seven hundred ?nd eighty ; and b e laid au
ditors, or any two of them, are hereby im owered
and dire^ed to estimate, in specie, all funis of conti
nental money received by the said officers and private
men, on account of their pay, within the period afore
faid, agreeable to a Teale of depreciation herein after
mentioned anl contained
Sefl. 3 Anl be it further enabled by the auth taty
afcrefuid, That the said auditors, or any two of them,
are hereby impovyered ano directed to give :o the offi
cers and private men, to whom pay on such settlement
as aforefaid (hall be found due, certificates, fpecifying
the films due in specie; which certificates shall be re
ceived and considered as equal to specie in payment
of the estates herein after mentioned and directed to
's^t 4. And be if further enabled by the authority
aforefaid, That all confifeated estates, not already
fold or appropriated to public use, shall, on the firft
nex , or as loon after as may be conve
rhec' be disposed of at public sale for toe highest
price' -which sale the supreme executive council are
hereby directed to order the agent' for confifeated
effaces to make, giving due notice thereof; and the
said agents are hereby directed to receive in payment
for the estates which they shall fell as aforefaid, specie,
or bills of credit of this date equivalent thereto, or
the certificates aforefaid, which fa!es shall be made
the fame terms of payment as have heretofore
directed in the sale of other confifeated estates.
Seft. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforefaid, Thain order to prevent the certificates of
the private men of the line aforefaid from being coun
terfeited or becoming objects of (peculation, no trans
fer or assignment of the fame shall be good ana valid
in law, unless attested by the officer commanding the
regiment to which said privates shall belong.
STATE or PENNSYLVANIA.
SeR. 6. Ard be itfurther enabled by the authority
aforefaid, That i 1 cafethe poffchur or possessors of the
f rid certificates shall think proper to purchase vnloca
t<d lands belonging to tnis Rate with the fame, then
and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the com
missioners or other proper officers of the land offi~e, so
soon as the said office shall be opened by law, and they
are hereby direfhd to receive the said certificates so
unpaid equal in value to specie in payment for the
lands so purchased from the said land office: which
lands purchased with and pa'd for in the ce tificatfs
aforefaid, are to be tradedand grant lat the fame price
at which unlocated lands shall or may be rated and
granted to any p rfon or persons tendering gold sr fit
ver, or currency equivalent thereto.1
Sea. 7. An I be it father enacted by the authority
aforefaid. T at the said auditors (hall in like manner
fettle and adiufi the accounts of all officers and pri
vate men of the tin aforefaid, wro have fallen or died
in the service during :nr said periol; and them widows,
and children shall be intitled to such certificates ana to
all the benefits and advantages hereby granted to the
officers and private men now in the rf aic fline.
Sed. 8 And be it further enabled by the authority
aforefaid, That 'he officers and priv te men of the Gate
navy, now it, actual service, shall and are hereby ce
clfd to b^ equally intiikd to all benefits and allow
ances extended to the Peonfyl'ania line by this aft,
and all offi^ and soldiers of this date, taken prisoners
in the aflual service ohthi c or the United states, Inalt
likewise be co fi ered as being within the intent and
meaning o' this ass, to far as to be in^itled to ad the
benefits and advantages hereby granted and extended to
the officers an I privates oft e Pennsylvania line afor said.
Sed. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforefaid, That the auditors aforefaid, previous to their
enteri g on the duti s required of them by this aft,
shall severally take the following oath or affirmation,,
to wit, " I, A B,dofwear or ffirm, (as thecafe may
be) tnat I will well and truly p rform all and lingular
the duties required of me by the as fintitled, ' 'An aft
to fettle and ad aft the accounts of the troops of this
flite, (meaning' Penny! 1 ania) in the service of the
United States,<and for other purposes therein mention
ed, to the best of my knowledge and abilities, without
parti riity or re pe& to any person or persons whatsoe
ver " And the auditors aforefaid are hereby fully
authorifed and di effed to fettle the aforefai' accounts
upon oath or affirmation, which oath or affirmation
shall be by them adminiflered.
S j ft. ro. And be it further enabled by the authority
aforefaid, Teat this or any future assembly, notwith
standing the provision made as aforefaid, may or (hall,
if they think proper, call in all such certificates given
and not redeemed as aforefaid, and pay off the fame in
specie or other current m ney equivalent.
ScR. 11. And b, it further enabled by -the authority
aforefaid, Thrt in case any of the confifeated estates
above mentioned, shall be fold and paid for in
or other current money, then the agents aforefaid (hall
pay the said monies so received to the treasurer of this
hate, which he is hereby directed to reserve for re
deeming the certificates aforefaid, which shall remain
unpaid m such manner as the general assembly shall or
dr and direst: and all certificates received by the
agents aforefaid, and conimiffioners of the land office,
by virtue of this aft, dial! be by them delivered to the
treasurer aforefaid, who is heresy directed to keep the
fame, to be cancelled and destroyed in such manner as
the eneral assembly shall order and direQ.
Sert. 12. And be it further ena&ed by the authori
ty aforef id, That the following scale of depreciation
fhaXl be the rule by which the said auditors shall be
governed in the settlement aforefaid;
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven.
January, One and an half.
February, One and an half.
March, Two.
April, Two and an half.
M:y, Two and 11 half.
June, Two and an half^
July, Three.
AuguTt, Three.
September, Three.
October, Three.
November, Three.
December, Four.
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight-
January, Four.
February, Five.
March, Five.
Aprd, Six.
M'y, Five.
June, Four.
July, Four.
August, Five.
September, Five.
October, , Five.
November, Six.
December, Six.
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine,
January, °ight.
February, Ten.
March, Ten and an half.
April, Seventeen.
May, Twenty-four.
June, Twenty.
July, Nineteen.
August, Twenty.^
September, Twenty-four.
October, Thirty.
November, Thirty-eight and an half-
December, Forty-one and an half.
One thousand seven hundred and eighty.
January, Forty and an half.
February, Forty-seven and an half.
March, Sixty-one and an half.
April, Sixty-one and an half.
May, Fifty-nine.
June, Sixty-one and an half.
July, Sixty-four and an half.
Sett. 13. And be it further enabled by the authori
ty aforefaid, That the auditors aforefaid shall be inti
tled to receive the fame pay and allowances as the au
ditors of this Rate appointed by the legislature for the
settlement of the public accounts.
Extra& from the Royal South-Carolina Gazette;
dated Charleflown, November 16, 1780.
“ The following persons were yesterday taken up
and put on board one of the prison (hips.
Benjamin Cudworth, Edward Weyman,
Richard Berisford, James Wakefield,
Samuel Prioleau, junior, Chriflopher Peters,
Arthur Middleton, Thomas Savage,
Joseph Bee, George Abbot Hall,
John Splatt Cripps, Daniel De Saufure,
Henry Crouch, Daniel Bordeaux,
Philip Smith, John Berwick,
Benjamin Dorril, , Benjamin Waller,
Morton Wilkinson, William Lee,
Benjamin Poßell, William Jones,
William Logan,
with three others, whose names we have not learnt. 9 ^
Tn another paper, dated Charleftown, November
27, 1780, is the following advertisement, viz.
" IN consequence of the powers rafted in me by the
right honourable earl Cornwallis, and warrants recei
ved from his lordffrip and the Commandant of Charles-
Town, I do hereby make public, to all whom it ma,
concern, that I have given the necessary orders for the
seizures of the eflates, both real and personal, of those
persons whose names are a under mention.., excepting
such property in Charles- Town as is secured to those
wh& were in the town at the time of the capitulation.
And I do hereby firieiy prohibit alband every person
er persons from attempting to conceal, remove or in an,
way injure the f rid property on pain of being punilhe&
as aiding and abetting rebellion. (Signed)
JOHN CRUDER.
Jo^ n Rhtiedge, Joh 0 Itarleflon^junior,
Henry Laurens, Isaac Hariefton,,
Thomas Ferguson, Isaac Motte,
Christopher Gadsden, Nicholas Eveleigb,
William Moultrie, John Lewis Gervais,
Pierce Butler, Stephen Bull,
Ralph Izard, Peter Horry,
Arthur Middleton, Hugh Horry,
Charles Cotifworth Pinck- Thomas Heyward,
ney , William Clay Snipes.' %
Francis Marion,
Tie above are oublifhed' to shew in what manner the
British keep their faith whether pledged by capitulati
ons or proclamations and what those have to expeft
who tru ft toei'her. Is it nothigh time t@ think of retali
ation ? or in future neither to give or take quarter from
such an enemy.
&^^&®^^
T H E Members of the American Philo
' fophical Society, fcr promoting uiefu Knowledge,
are desired to take Notice, th^t their ELECTION for
the Officers of the said Society -vill be held at their
ufu?l ,N<e of meeting, at Carpeßter's - hall, on Friday,
thrgh of January next, between the hours of two and
five o'clock, in th* afternoon, agreeable to their
charter of incorporation. OWEN BIDDLE, secretary.
Sen. 14. And be it further enabled by the authori
ty aforefaid, That pruned certificates shall be provided
by direction of the supreme executive council, in such
manner and form as they shall judge necessary and pro
per, and delivered to the auditors aforefaid, to be by
them applied to the ufts and purposes herein before
directed.
BELOW are the numbers of Loan-office Certificates
which was taken in Chefape^k-bay about the 23th
of November last, on board the Luzerne, capt. Sharp,
by the privateer Trimmer, captain Phillips iom New-
York, viz. No. 2700 and 2701, dated* 20th Feru^y,
) 779 , each 1000 dollars payable to Samuel S. Coale,
emitted by Thomas Smith, enquire, t eafarer of the
Continental Loan office, in Philadelphia ; No. 639$
and 6396, dated March 1779, 5 0 ° d ^ lars each > Pay
able to Thomas B. Hodgkin, emitted by Thomas
Harrwood, enquire, treasurer of th: Continental Le?,-
effice in Annapolis ; a description cf the above Certifi
es es is lodged in b th the Loan-offices, and will be
stopped if presented for payment.
Annapolis, Dec. 21, 1780. JOS. DOWSON.
following Goods.
A LARGE quantityof Toly's Garters by the
best 1 ifh mess Beef, grols,
in barrels and half barrels, ?< ke sos Pins,
Best mes Pork in ditto,
Ir sh Rote Butter in firkins,
Madeira Wine in pipes and
hog (heads,
Choice Neats Tongues in
ke £ s >
Mould and dipt Candles in
boxes
Excellent bottled Claret,
A quantity of assorted Tin
Wart, jappaned and
phi-,
THE (übferiher has, in his possession, a dark Brindle
CO'V with a white head and four white feet, 2
^hito ttreak across her shoulders 1 He is in doubt whe
ther (he is his property or not : Therefore gives Notice,
that if any person will com: and prova his property,
paying charges, may take her away.„
HENRY SCHRiVER, in Eighth firect.
Philadelphia, Dec. 29, 1780.
Signed by order of th* house.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker
Enafted into a law at Philadelphia,
on Monday, the eighteenth day
of December, in the year cf our -
Lord one thousand seven hundred
and eighty.
SAMUEL STERETT,
Clerk of the general assembly.
TO BE S'O LD,
By Davis Bevan,
One door above Walnui-ftreet, in Water-street, the
Cu eyes,
White Threads,
Seme extraordinary Lon
don made Cioaths Brushes,
Ditto Scrubing Brushes,
Best Durham Mustard,
Scotch Snuff,
Chefliire Cheee,
Powder B zs,
Arid a Variety of other
Gooes not here men
tioned.