The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-09-19 00:00:00, page 3

Be it ensued by (he Representatives of the Freemen
,fthe Commonwealth of Peuufylvania in General Assem
bly met, and by the authority of the fame, That the ave
rage price of common labour by the day, in the city of
Philadelphia and counties of this State refptaively, shall
be inquired into, afeertained and fix*d by die Representa
tives of the Freemen cf the Commonwealth cf Pennfylvar
nia,in General Assembly met, which price so fixed and de
termined, shall be the rate by which all fines and penalties
for neglect of Militia duty, and the bounty of the Mili
tin, frill be eflimaed and determined, during, and from
that time, to the next fitting of General Assembly, and so
from time to time at every (according session.
Provided always, That this Ad n®r any thing herein
contained, shall be construed to alter, mitigate or difebarge
any fine or penalty already accrued, or which may here
after accrue before the said rate shall be determined and
fixed by the General Alterably as aforesaid ; but that all
and singular the powers and authority ot the Quarter Ses
sions, as given by the said Aft, shall continue until the
said rate shall be fixed by the General Assembly, and no
longer..
AND WHEREAS sundry former Lieutenants and
Sub-Lieutenants who have afted under the late Militia
Law, have refufed or negle&d to deliver up the duplicates,
books and papers belonging to their effi es, whereby the
fines and penalties accrued for former delinquencies still
remain uncolleaed, to the great difcouragem~nt of
those, who have rendered their personal fervce in time of
danger, and to the injury of the public. For remedy
whereof,
Be it entiled by the authority aforefafd,Tsat if any per
foo who may have a&ed in the offi -e of Lieutenant or
Sub-Lieutenant of the city of Philadelphia, or any of the
counties of this S'ate, shall, upon the resignation of his of
fice or being legally fuperceded therein, refute to deliver up
to his successor in office, or to any person who is >r th di be
appointed by the Prefi lent or Vice Prfident in Council
to receive the fame, all and finguUr the books, dufli r tes,
returns, or other papers belonging to. or in ufein his said
office, (demand being firft male thereof in writing) he or
they so offending, shall forfeit the sum of ten thoufmd
pounds for every such refofal, to be rtco cred upon in
diOment, bill, plaint, or information, or by aAion of
debt, in any Court of Record within this State, one moie
ty thereof to the life of the poor of the township where
fueb offender shall reside, and theother moiety thereof, to
the person who shall prosecute the fame to effe&, and in
case ofa second refufal, such person shall fuller as well
the said penalty, as the farther punifhmtut of fix months
imprisonment, wit cut bail or main prize ; and theJufli
ces of the Court where such penalty fhd! be recovered,
shall order the said commitment accordingly.
Be it enacted by the authority afort'a:J,T at so much,
and such parts of the I w to which tris is a Supplement,
¥ are by this Aa altered and amended, be and are here
by repealed and declared null and void.
P H ILADELPHI A, September T 9.
Extract of a letter from Princeton, dated Sept 17.
“ A dferter from Staten Iflan^ tells me, Gen. Clin
ton R embarked and failed up toe Sound towards New-
London, yesterday, with 10,000 men. They had ad
v:eeof thearovvlat New-Port, of the Second divifien of
French troops."
In CONGRESS Avguft 10, 1780
(^ ON GREBS todk into confidermion the report of
the Committee on the memorial ^f the general offi
Ct'S; whereupon,
Revived, That the said general officers be informed,
* that Crncrffs havert 00 timu been unmindful of the mi
litary virtues which have difFnguifhd the army of the
United States through the course o: this war, and that it
has be a coudautly "one of the principal objefls of their
care, not only te.provide for tie health and comfort of the
army, but to gratify the reasonable defter, as far as the
public exigencies would admit.
That patience and fe f-depial, fortitude and perseve
rance, and the chear'ul facrifice of time, health an I for
tune, are necessary virtues, which both the citizen and
the folder are called on to exercise, whihl flrugfUng
for the liberties of their country;
And that moderation, frugality and temper-ore, must
be among the chief supports, as well vs Nie brighter or
naments of that kind of civil government, which is wifely
instituted by the federal States in this union :
That it has been recommended to thefeveral States, to
make compenfition to the officers and folders to them
rerpefliveiy belonging, for the depreciation of then pay ;
and that Congress will take speedy meafurss for b'qoi a
ting and paying what is due on that account, to officers
and soldiers who do not be eng to the quota @f any
State :
That from and after the firft day of Aaguft 178 % the
army shall be entitled to receive their pay as stated be
fore the firft day of January 1777, in the new bills emit
ted pursuant to therefolution of Congress, of the 18th day
of March last:
That the officers shall hereafter be allowed five dollars
per month, in the said new bills, for each retained ration :
That the Board of War be directed to report to Cen
grefs. a lift of the officers not belonging to the quota of
any State, with an account of the balance due to each,
to make their pay good for pas lfervices, agreeably to the
resolutions ofthe 10th day of April lafl :
That ftp h of the States as have not made compensation
to their officers and folders, agreeably to the recommen
dation of the 17th August 1779 be and they are hereby
requeued to do it as soon as possible:
That the urov fton for granting lands by the resolution
of the 16th September 1776, be, and is hereby extended to
the genera)officers, in the following proportion, to wit:
A Major General 1100 acres.
A Brigadier General 850 acres.
That the officers of the army be furnifhed as soon as
possible, with two months pay, on account to relieve their
present wants, mentioned in 'he memorial.
August 24.
Refolded, That the officers of the line of the army com
manding corps, when in ca^p, be allowed to draw so
many of the rations of provisions heretofore withheld, as
the Commander in Chief, cr the commander of a Rparate
army Ihall judge necessary, but that no provision be iffu.
ed for back rations not drawn on the days they become
due:
That if it shall appear that the fubfiftehce money allow
ed to the officers in lieu of the rations withheld, is not
equal to the cast ofthe rations, the deficiency shall here
after be made up to them :
That the reflation of the 15th day of May 1778, grant
ing half pay for (even years, to the officers ot the army
who should continue in the service to the end of
the vrar, be extended to the widows of those officers
who have died cr shall hereafter die in the Service, to
commence from the time of such officer's death, and con
tinue for the term of feren years, or if there be no widow,
or in case of her death or intermarriage, the said half pay
be given to the orphan children of the officer dying as a
forefaid, if he Mail have left any : And that it be recom
mended to the Legifhtures of the refpeHive States to
which such efFi ers belong, to make provision for paying
the fame, on account of the United States :
That the re Drifting clause in the resolution of the 15th
February, 1778, granting half pay to the officers for fe
vea years, expressed in these words, viz. “ and not hcl I
" any office of profit under these States or any of them,"
be, and is hereby repealed.
Extra— 'rom the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
+,§?s§„**'p4+*+<<l*Mt ? +
A PROCLAMATION.
-WHEREAS the Honourable Thomas M Kean, Esq;
Chw Justice, William Auguftas Atlee, Esq; Se
cond Justice, John Evans, Bq; Third justice, and
Gorge B yan, Eq; Fourth Justice of the Supreme
Court, and of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and ' Ge
neral Jail Delivery for the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania, have iffutd their Precept, d^ted the twenty-sixth
day of Auguff lalf, to me dire&id, for bolding a Court
of O, er and Terminer and General Jail Delivery a ? the
State hvule in the city of Philadelphia, for the city and
county of Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fifth
day of September n^xt. NOTICE is hereby given
t all Just era of the Peace, the Coroner, Efcheator, 2nd
Constables within the said city and county, that they
be then and there in tut r own perfon^, with their relit,
records, indium nts, and ether rem nibranees, to do
those things that t> th ir offices in thit b halt apper
tain to be done ; aifu all they who will potecute again*
the prifonars that are or then sh 11 be in the jail or the
said city and roqaty, are to be then and there to prose
cute against them as shall be just. And all others whom
r orav concern, a;e desired to take notice hereof and
govern themf^es accordingly
DATED at Philadelphia, the Third Day of
Srp^mher, in the V ar cf our Lord, One
Thou and S van Huud^d and Eighty, and
in the fifth Y^r of A CT .erie,,n Independence,
N. B. A Court of Admiralty Sessions will
be held at the fame time and place, oy the Honourable
the Juftrcea of the Supreme Court, and the judge of the
Admiralty.
JAMES CLAYPOOLE, Sheriff.
God save the Commonwealth.
General Post Office, Pbiladepbia, Sc,. 14, 1780.
H E Sublet ber has in his Foißffion a
a varies 0 VALUABLE PAPERS, m
chi ing Custom Houf^ and other Certificates, Bills of
Exchange, Protested Buis ^ith the Protefis, Ships Pa
pers, Letts s of After 1, , Bills of Lading, Bills of Sde,
Notes of H^*d, &o. &c. which wcr, encl fed in Let
tets not called for at the several Pod-Offices in the U
nited Swes. The owners may recover tnun, by ap
plying t?
EBENEZER HAZARD,
Infyeacr of d ad Le ters >0 the G^n. Port. Office.
CT Flic Primers of news-papers in the leveral States
are requeued to publish the above, and continue it for
some time.
Philadelphia, Sept, ?8, 1780.
'To be S OLD by Public Au&ion,
O f Fhiay next, ths 23d inst. (to begin at nine o'clock
in the forenoon) it the hours of jdm Fries, in Race
ftreet, near Th *d street,
BEDSTEADS, beds, bedding, dining tables,
ta tables, «reffing table, walnut drawers, walnut
d<lk, looking glares, pewter, China, Queen's ware,
fim-r table an 1 tea spoons, one large brats kettle, iron
canuieftiAs, one piece cf curtain caliico, variety of wo.
mens wearing apparel, one open stove, andirons, Iho
vels and tongs, pots and ketb&s, a cot bedhead, a va
riety of tin pa^, and a number ot other articles too
tedious to mention.
All performs having any demands against the eftale of
Hannah Maulsßy, ueceGerl, are r quelled to bring
in their accompts, properly atteftid, that tue fame may
be Settled. JOHN FAILS, Adminiftratcr.
TO BE SOLD BY
PETER WHITESIDE & Co.
In Walrut-ftreet,
Bast LIVERPOOL
S A L T.
Out of the ship Albion.
HYNS TAYLOR, Upholsterer,
Is rcmoveu from Second-street into Front Itreet, near
ly opposite the Coffee boule, and has for SALE,'
SOME elegant chintz for bed and window curuins,
French drelfrs and fine live gooie feathers, lacking
bottoms, a folding camp.bedhead, three yellow moreen
window curtains hinged, with Lthr, lines and toffels
and cornices; Venetian window blinds painted grreo;
All loris of Upholherers we rk made in the newert fashion
on short no ice Gentlemen of the Army and Navy
may be Supplied with cotts, camp fouls, camp tables
feather beds, all forts of mattresses, travelling trunks'
bottle cases, canteens, &c.
HoufhJd Furniture and Dry Goods fold by commit
fiou on reasonable terms.
Wanted to hire, a genteel Hogfir, with coach-house
and stables.
To be S' O I, D by Public ^uTlion,
At the Coffee Louie, on wNnefdry the 27th ir.ftart,
at Twelve o'clock.
rt VALUABLE Plantation or piece of land, ebn-
P^ tabling lev nt; atr.f, with allowances for high
ways, ftiu^re and lying in the tewnflup of D-pfrud, and'
county of (Bouedkr, in die State of l\6w.Jdrf.\, of
which there is tw^ve acres cleared, and under good
fence, with a quantity of good hearing fruit trees on
the fame; the remainder whi timbered with oak, hick
ory and pine, convenient to leveral save mills and grist
mills, and within seven miles of a landing, either on
Mantua or 1 imber creiki ; with a gord Iquare log dwel
ling boule, tb;ee rooms on the lower floor, and two
fire places, a good cellar under the fa-^e, and a good
well of water near the door ; the fcuation is fit in; for
any public business, such as tavern or ttoic, it lying on
the greet lord leaving from Gioucefter to Cape May
and great Egg barer ur.
B URGLA R Y.
Four "Oboufand Dollars Reward.
ON toe night of t e thirteenth inft.uv, a' tit eleven
o', lock, the hou<e of the iu del er was bloke .o
pen, by two men aimed with b yonct^, and robbed of
the following c#ih and goads, v.z Quo hundred and
twent, English Guineas, fix half Johannes's, two Dou
bloons, two Piftoler, twenty-nine Spmifh mill'd Dd-
Lrs, a quantity o' small silver pieces, such as quarter
dollars, pnieveens, & . the turn . ot known ; five sh 1-
Bngs ,d Coppers ; a piece abow the size of a dollar, it
has three hor and three chains it had b.^n wo:e
round a chilli neck, aid it had been gilt but it was
worn off ahneft ; there was a wild man on it, and it was
called a wild man's Do'Lr; lihewie number piece arg er
than a Dollar, vias cAtty a G dfatrers piece ; a bun
die of old Pesinf.lmanis moneys ^"4 4boat fi teen hun
dred poen.dein Continental Currency : Five laige fit
ver Table Spoony the m ike?# c ame T.h, one br^e di
ver Tea Spo^n, marked L S. E. maker's rinne I. G.
on? filve: Pa, >poon, the h^nd\ rouch bau^ ed ; a pair
of filter Tea Tongs, marked S. K. about 27 yards
fine 7-Srhs %hite kinin, in cue piece, about n yards
yard ^ide, lrfh Lifted.
As the robbery was perpetrated in the desk, it is
impc ffiule to give a pachcuitt deftrip ion of the vi bins;
they were both men of 1 rge ftari re, and one of then;
w?s barefooted. The; made towards fouthwaih, ^ fe
vtraf papers they took wih them were found ne„ mor
nngin Love Lane. Truy left behind them in a (hed^
nor the heufe, a fan re wave g'T pin fl fk, about
half fall of in— proof rum ; th"s circumfUnce is parti
cularly mentioned, in hopes th t the I perfon whe fep.
plied the rum, or knows any thing of the 3 fk, will
give such information as m#y led to a dur v. r> cf
them, Tire above reward of Four Thoufard Dollars, is
hereby offered lor appr heading and co^v/aing the
prronsconcerned in the above feb cry, end frf cu
ring the moret -nd ff Bs, so thatthe owner m<yhve
them regain, or Two Thouhud Dollars for obtairon the
money and eff<& only, and in proportion for any pair
thereof.
JOHN EVERLY.
P-ffyunk, Sep'rnh'r 14.
One Thoufaud Boltes Record.
RAN ^AWAY on Saturday the 12h S-p mber inst„
4 a Negroe Lid mroed T O M, ^mt 17 rr r 8
years of ag, , ofa yellow complex^ 0, rpb,f b # ir,^t-vt
5 icet sor 6 inches high, fl%nt.lim^ and well made;
haden and tiok with him, a light blue hunting shirt
and trovers, a blue broadcloth coat turned up with red
baize and fiiver wafc j buttons, a white, broadek th waift
cuat, a pair cf leather breeches and fom- ot er clonus I
And also a Negroe Man named C A TO, ab ot z 3 or
24 years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches hi r h, straight and
well made, walks upright arid is a fell black, t kwth
him a light brown and a dark brown crate, dark brown
jacket and breeches and fomecrer deaths.
They went off together, and are both acquainted in
the Jersey, and will poffioly take that way to get within
the Briinh lines ; the Lad as he hys, wa* boru 00 Lorig-
Island. Whoever take, up and fecu- s the said Negron,
or brings them to the own rs , hvi , in Lam after b< rugh:
Pennsylvania, the i recev, oe bve Reward, or FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS so, e ^ er o f them, with read
able expence-.
JOHN HUBLEY
WILLIAM PARR.
TO BE SOLD,
AL OT of Ground in the Northern Liberties,
bounded on tta est fid of Front street, con
taining 94 feet front cn fid street, an. extend
ing that breadth into the river D daw^re, on which there
is a large wharf, 15 teet wat;r«tth end of it at low wa
ter ; a large Bort 68 hy 34 fat,one ditto, 20 yls feet;,
a cooper s fho.p and chane house ; and on Front ft^rc
there istwo go d three it ry brick houses, well fimfh d,
and almost new. Ary person incining to purcha p,
may know the terms, by applying to the fubferiher,
who lives on ,he preMites, an j has for hie about thir
ty Tons of Logwo d.
PETER KNIGHT.
— „ P , ad ;lpbit, so nr ,8
rue Hundred Dollars Reward.
DAN A W AV, on the rigut of the i6:h inst.
_ 'he Subfrrwer, a likely Negro Man, name! POM
about fi e get fix ire es high, quare built,
twenty.hve or thirty years of ag. e , bid on when he went
away, 3 round old hat, red jacket, drilling short coat,
and tow linen tronfers.'
Whoever takes up hid Servant, and secures him in
any goal of the United States, or returns h, m to hia
matter in r,ont oelow Wal mt street, sh 11 receive
the above reward, and gr-teful ntkmWe^ ^ t .
WILLIAM NICHOLA
T"" ° f "^ afe forbid him
off at their peril. J °