The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-02-16 00:00:00, page 1

WAR OFFIC E.
February 6, 1782.
THE several Contradors for supplying Rations,
deliverable by the United States, are to issue to
the military Officers on stationary Duty at the several
Posts and Places to which their Contrasts extend, such
Rations or Parts of Rations as the said Officers may
choose to draw, not exceeding in Value the fubfifl
ance Money allowed to such Officers refpeftively in
lieu of Rations : The Amount of such Issues to regi
mental Officers to be paid by the regimental Pay-
Masters; and of those made to Officers of the Milita
ry, Staff and Hospital, by the Pay-Master General,
©r his Deputy. The Contractors Accounts to be sign
ed by the Officers, on delivery of the several Orders of
the Officer for such Issues. With refpeft to Officers
not on Duty, officers passing or repaffing, or on Fur
lough, it shall be diferetionary with the Contractors to
issue or not ; but in case of Issue, the Officer shall pay
therefor, and not the Pay-Mafler. The Balance of
Subfiflance Money, which shall remain after Payment
of the Contractors Accounts in the Hands of the seve
ral Pay-Maflers, shall be by them paid over monthly
to their refpedive Officers to whom the fame shall be
due.
Of the Public Lots of this
City, for the Redemption of the Bills of Credit of this
State, dated April the 29th, 1780, will be held at the
Coffee-Houfe, on MONDAY the 18th Instant,
at TEN o'clock in the Forenoon. A PLAN
of the LOTS may be seen at the Coffee-Hcufe, end at
the Surveyor-General's Office. The CONDITIONS
the fame as the last SALES. February 9.
Notice is hereby given, That
the Public EXAMINATION of CANDIDATES for
Medical and other Degrees in the University of
Pennsylvania, will be continued on Saturday the 16th
Instant ; and that the Public COMMENCEMENT
will be held on Thursday the 21st of March next.
By Order of the Trustees,
S. STERETT, Secretary.
University, Bth Feb. 1782.
The Commander in Chief having in general Orders
of the 18th January last determined, what Officers
should have Servants and their Number : Therefore,
for the greater Convenience of the Officers it is order
ed, that in future the Rations due to such Officers Ser
vants, shall not be drawn by the Corps to which they
belong, but shall be deduced from the Amount of
eacli Provision Return, and the Servants shall be sup
plied with Provision by the Officers to whom they are
attached, who shall be allowed therefor the Subfiftance
Money equivalent to as many Rations as each Officer
is refpeaively allowed Servants by the abovementioned
Order. And in every Regimen al Return the Number
of Servants to Officers in the Regiment shall be fpeci
fied generally, and such Soldiers of the Regiment, as
are Servants to other Officers, shall be fpecified parti
cularly, with the Name and Rank of the Officers to
whom they are attached.
Officers on stationary Duty on Detachments, or
with the Army in the Field, shall be intitled to draw
from the Quarter-Mafler the Forage and Wood for
merly allowed them ; but Officers not on such Duty, or
who are passing or re-passing, or are on Furlough,
shall not be allowed to draw either Forage or Wood.
Officers who are sent from the Army on particular
Duty, by Order of the Commander in Chief, or com
manding Officer of a separate Department, will be al
lowed the reasonable Expences attending the Executi
on of such Duty. M. CLARKSON, Assistant
Secretary at War.
N. B. The several Printers are requested to insert
the above in their Papers.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a court of admiralty
" will be held at Wilmington, in the state aforefaid,
on Saturday the 23d day of this instant, February, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, then and
there to try the truth of the fafts alledger in the libel
of Hugh Lyle (qui tam) against the (loop Hawk, bur
den about 45 tons, her tackle, apparel, furniture and
cargo. To the end and intent, that tne owner or own
ers thereof, or any person concerned therein, may ap
pear and (hew cause, if any they have, why the fame
Should not be condemned according to the prayer of the
said libel. By order of the judge,
BENJAMIN VINING, Regiftcr.
SATURDAY,
VOL. XI.I Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY. —Price Six-Pence.
Court of Admiralty, Delaware State.
To ALL whom it may concern.
A FURTHER SALE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Philadelphia, February 1, 1782
PROPOSALS will be received in this Office until the
firft da, of April inclufivr, for a Contrast to (up
ply the Rations deliverable to the moving Arm; #by the
United States, from the firft Day of May to the lift
Day of December, inclusive, to the Leftward of Dela
ware River.
The Contractors are to issue the Rations, and the
Propofate are to contain the lowest Prices 2nd the long
est Terms of Payment, as allo the Price of the compo
nent Parts, which are —
One pound Beef sr three-quarters pound P^rk,
One pound Bread,
One gill Rum or Whiskey,
One quart Salt and two quarts Vinegar for 100
Rations,
Eight pounds Soap and three pounds of Candles for
700 Rations
Ths Proposals will alb contain the Prices at which the
following Articles of Hospital Store will be deli
vered—
One gill Weft India Rum,
One gill Madeira Wine,
One gill Port Wine,
One gill Vinegar,
Ona pound MiUcovado Sugar,
On# pound Bohea Tea,
One pound Coffee,
One pound hard Soap,
One pourd t Low Candles,
One pint Indian or oat Meal.
The several Places for colleding the Magazines, as
well as the Quantities to be coUffled will, from time to
time, be pointed out by the Commander in Chief, or
Commander of the Department.
Any Provisions or Stores which may be destroyed
or loft in the Magazines by the Event# of War, to be
paid for by the United States, according to Teims to
be fettled for that Purpose in the Contrast.
The necessary Removal of Provisions or Stores from
such Magazines, to be also made at the Expence of the
United States, but to be perfumed by the Contr &ors.
[AI! die Printers in the United States are requested
to publish this Advertifement.]
JANUARY 29, 1782.
PROPOSALS will be received in this Office, until
Saturday the 16th of February next, for (applying
by contrad, to SAMUEL MILES, Efqaire, Deputy
Quarter- Mailer General m this city, Fifty-five
HORSES fit for mounting Dragoons. Such Horses
to b- free from blemish cud warranted fpund, nut un
der fifteen hands high, nor under five nor above nine
years of age. The Horses to be delivered on the firft
day of April next, and then to be infpe&ed by fach per
sons as shall be agreed on and named in the Contract
The Proposals to contain the lowest Price and lungeft
Terms of Payment,
Major BAUMAN, of tbe New-York or Srend Regi
ment of Artillery,
Has drawn a Map
Of the Investment of York and Gloucester,
in Virginia.
Shewing how those places were believed in form, by
the allied army of America and France; the British
lines of defence, and the American and French lines
of approach ; with part of York river, and the British
flops, as they then appeared funk before York ; and
the whole encampment in its vicinity.
This MAP, by desire of many gentlemen, will be
published as toon as a number of copies are lubferibed
tor fullicient to defray the expence. Those gentlemen
who incline to become lubferibers, may fee the Draught
and Conditions at M. Claypoo'e's Printing office, in
Market-street, and at the Coffee house ; where sub
scriptions ate taken in.
The gentlemen who have already fubferibed, will be
be so obliging as to pay their fubicription money to Mr.
Claypoole.
TO BE SOL D, A
Likely healthy Negro Woman,
with her TWO CHILDREN, a Boy and a Girl,
They are fold for no other reason than the inconveni
ence arising to their present owner from such an addi
tion to the family. The Wench is a good plain cook,
and can be well recommended for her honefly and so
briety. Enquire of the Printer. Jan. 23.
Office of Finance,
Office of Finance,
O R, THE
THE
SU P £RFINE Broad
cloths,
Second ditto,
Irish Ratteens.
Fine Coating,
Blue Plains,
Cotton Velvet,
Emboyfed Serge,
C^mblet and Duroys,
Mafquret and Caliiman
coes,
Vest Patterns,
Mens and womens Hose,
Mens and boyscoarfe yarn
ditto.
Cotton and linen Checks,
Russia Sheetings,
Ticklenburgs and Ozna
brigs,
Fine Laval and Plattilia
Linens,
3-4 and yard wide Brit
tani?s,
5-4. wide Shetting,
Y^rd wide room and house
Linen,
Licen and cotton Stripes,
Ladies Kid Gloves,
Sewing Silks and Skclle
tons, 1
Bett steel Razors,
Bedford county, December 8, iflu
WHER EAS the estates of Jacob Hare
and Harry Gordon, late of the county o' Bed
ford, having been in due course of law forfeited to this
state, we the fubferibers, agents for the said county of
Bedford, do hereby give Notice, that the real estates
of the laid Jacob Hire and Hany Gordon, within the
said county, confiftir,g of the following Meffuages and
Tracts of Land, viz.
One Mefluage and Tra& of Land, containing about;
330 acres, situate in the said county of Bedford, in
Hopewell township, late the prop rty of the said Flare.
One Meffuage and Trad of Land, containing about
1700 acres, with good Buildir gs, &c. thereon, situate
in Frankftewn township, in the county aforelaid, late
the property of the said Harry Gordon.
Wirt be Sold at Public Vendue, at the Court House
of said county, on Thursday the 18th day of April
next, the file to begin precisely at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, and continue from day to day until the whole
is fold. The ifrms of file will be according to lrw, viz.
One fourth part of the purchase money to be paid in
ten days after (ale, or the premises again to revert to
the state, and the bidder be liable to forfeit the said one
fourth part of the purchefe money, and the remainder
within enr month #fter sale, and in failure thereof the
premises in like manner to revert to the state, and the
fourth part paid to be forfeited; and on certificates of
payment being produced from the agents or either of
them, deeds will be given as by law dirked.
And to prevert ^ll difficulties in refpe& of payment,
the ag nts will attend at sh^ Court House, on the joth
day after sale, to receive the fi:ft payment, and in like
manner on the 30th day after sale to receive the last
payment, after which no purchase money will be re
ceived, but the premises again fold for ths use of the
commonwealth.
In Market street, the corner of Strawberry allev, a
neat Affjrtment of the following GCODS, which
he will fell low for Cfh, ard take in paym^t this
or any neighbouring State Money at a moderate ex
change; also, will receive French Guineas at an
equal value with English, and French Crowns in
like proportion.
Blank Policies of Infuraoce,
And we the agents do allo, pursuant to law, hereby
notify all the claimants to the said premises, or any
part thereof, and creditors to the said Jacob Hare and
Harry Gordon, to exhibit their claims and demands to
the justices of the supreme court within the timementi
ted by law, or they will be forever barred from the re
covery thereof.
JUST OPENE D,
And to be SOLD, Who^fale and Retail,
By John "Levins,
Upon SHIPS or GOODS,
To be fold by David C. Claypools
FEBRUARY 16, 1,82:
GIDEON RITCHIE,).
CH. MICRYDER, ) Agents.
Coat and vest Buttons,
Ribbons of different cc
iours,
Fustians,
Fine light and dark Chint
zer,
Light and dark Callicoes
and Cottons,
Cambricks and Lawns,
Lwn Handkercheifs,'
Silk ditto,
Romal and check ditto,
Fine plain and striped
Muslins,
Bl^ck and white Mode,
Whre, black, and nj/k
Persians,
A nett Assortment of
SILK'S luch as Indias,
Paduafoys, Ducapes
Luteftrings and Man
tuas of different colours,
1% 8, <nd 7 quarters w;d<
fine Rose Blankets,
Eoflifh Playing Ckfds,
T'P",
White and coloured
Threads,
Pinr,
Shirt Buttons, &c. &c.
[NUMB 847.