The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-04-08 00:00:00, page 3

Art ACT for the regulation of the markets in the City of
Philadelphia, andjor other purpose's therein mentioned.
WHEREAS the foreftalljng and regrating of provi
lions in and near the city of Philadelphia, has
firoduced great inconveniences, and, if not retrained, is
ikely to bring great distress upon the inhabitants of Eid
city and its vicinity. For remedy whereof,
Be it enabled, and it is hereby exalted by the Repre
fentattves of the Freemen cf the Commonueatth of Penn
sylvania, in General Afcmbly met, and by the authority of
the fame. That, from and aftet the publication of this aft,
if any person shall buy, or cause to be bought, any provi
sions or visuals whatsoever, for the food of man, corri
ini by laid or by water towards the market of the hid
city, or shall make any bargain, contrast or promise, for
the having or buying the fame, or any part thereof, so
Coming as aforefaid, before the said provisions or victuals
shall be in the said market, ready to be fold, or fliall make
any motion by word, letter, message or otherwise, to
any person, for the enhancing of the price or dearer
felling of any thing above-mentioned, 'or shall diffnade or
labour any perfen coming to said market to abstain or for
bear to bring provisions or viduals to the said market ;
every such person so offending flhall be deemed a foreftaller,
and proceeded against as such in the Court of Quarter-
Sessions of the city of Philadelphia, or of the county
wherein the offence shall be committed.
And be it further enafled by the authority aforefaid, That
if any person shall within the market of the said city, of
elsewhere withii ifour miles of the county Court-house in
the said city, regrate, obtain, er get into his or her hands
of poffeffioa, any provisions of victuals, and do fell the
fame again within the fame market, or elsewhere within
the circuit of four miles round the said Court-house as
aforefaied, very such person shall be deemed and proceeded
again ft as aforefaid as a regrater.
Provided always, That nothing herein' contained shall
extend to any inn-keeper or other viHualler buying in the
said market, to fell the fame within his own dwelling to
(except the lands jyih^ between Keeler's Lane to the
Southward, find the military works erected by the British
array an the Northern Liberties to the northward, and
extending from the river Delaware to Schuylkill.) And
bl case any such creature shall be found looie and at large
within either of the said tocufhips, except as above ex
cepted, it fh.ll and may be lawful for any treeholder or
inaabitaat whirin the fame, and for any orner perlon ait.
ing by me authority or command of any fuco freeholder
or inhabitant, to take up such creature g&iug at large,
whether the fame is trespassing or not, and to impound or
confine the fame in the common and epeupound of the
township erected or to be created for that purpose, and
there to detain the fame until the owner or callers thereof
shall pay to the Overseers of the Poor cf such townllap the
fam oi Twenty Sailings fine, for every feature so iurfer
ed to run or go at large and taken up as aforefaid, arid
reasonable coll and charges for keeping the fame, and
pry for any damage whicu fuca creature shall have done
on the meadows, gardens or fields of any of the inhabitants
of the said townships in such manner as is herein after di
rected.
Andbe it further enaEied by the authority aforefaid. That
no horse, mare, gelding, cow, ox, bull, iheep, or other
cattle, shall be turned out and go feeding within the laid
townships between fun-rife and fun set, except it be under
the cart and attendance of a regular herdsman to be em
ployed for that purpole by the inhabitants of the City cf
Philadelphia, and of the laid townships of Paffyunk; Moy
amenfing, the Northern Liberties and Germantown re
fpediveiy. And it any such creature shall in the day time
trespass and do damage upon any embanked meadow,
garden, orchard, or upon any plowed or cltiuvated ground
then employed for the raffing of grain, hemp, flax, hops,
potatoes, cabbages, turnips, or other vegetables witnin
tne said townships, it shall be lawful for any of the said
freeholders or inhabitants, and tor any other person act
ing by the authority er command of such freeholder or in
habitant, to take up such creature, trespassing on the mea
dow or other cultivated ground of any inhabitant thereof,
although such ground be not inclofed in fence, and put the
fame into the pound of the township, there to be detained
and kept unnl the owner of the trespassing creature or
creatures shall have fatisfied the damage done to the person
or persona that have been injured thereby, bell des the colls
of impounding and keeping the fame.
Provided always. That where such trespassing creature
shall have beep entry fled oy the owner thereof to the care
of a regular herdsman, such owner shall have his remedy
againit the herdsman by wnofe neglect such creature has
been fuffered to commit trespass.
And be it further euaUedby the authority aforefaid, That
the pounds Which by virtue of an Aft of General Affem
biy or tuts Stale intiiled " An All for erecting of pounds
" in each townihip of this Province," are already erected
in the aforefaid township shall be used for the impounding
of creatures trespassing within the meaning of this Alt.
And the'pound keepers thereof shall take tne charge of the
creatures delivered to him according to the directions of
the fame Aft. But where there is rao such pounds erected,
or pound- keepers appointed, or the pound is not fufficient
for the putting this Alt in execution; that then and in
either of the said cases it shall and may be lawful for the
perlons whole lands are uninclofed or any of them to ere&
a pound or pounds, and to appoint pound keepers.
And be it further exacted by she authority aforefaid, That
the notices concerning creatures impounded shall be giveri
to the owners thereof; or publicly adyertifed, and the costs
and charges of impounding and Keeping the fame with the
fines set upon owners of tuch creatures, arid the damages
fuffered by their trespass, shall be assessed and recovered
in the fame manner, and the persons breaking such pounds
or refeuing cattle lawfully impounded therein, punilhed as
in the aforefaid Alt for erecting of pounds, and in the Alt
intitled “ An Alt concerning cattle, horses and sheep
" trespassing within this Province," is directed and pro
vided.
Ana be it further enacted by the authority ajorefaid, That
this Alt ihall be and continue in force from the publica
tion thereof, until the firfl day of December next, and no
longer. JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enabled into a taw at Philadelphia, on Monday, the fifth
• day of April, One thousand seven hundred andfeventy
nine. JOHN MORRIS, Jun.
Clerk of General Assembly.
Salfbury Township, Laneafter County, April 3.
EIGHfY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN last night, a dark bay Marc, with foal,
'fix years old, fifteen hands high, paces and trots, her
off hind foot white, a small white ring round her right
car, and not shod when ftolcn; also a new saddle and
bridle, a pair of caiffkin boots, a pair of plated spurt,
a light coloured great-coat, a black and white crape
coat and jacket, all home spun, a new beaver hat, and
about one hundred pounds in cash. The thief is a Ger
man, named Christian Briman, about five feet eight
inches high, smooth face, and short fair hair. Who
ever takes up and secures the above-mentioned mare,
and the other articles, so that the owners may get them
again, shall have the above reward, paid by
BENJAMIN WALLACE.
JOHN WHITEHILL, Jun.
TO BE SO L D,
AVERY likely young Mulatto Man Slave, an ex
cellent taylor by trade, as well as a very good fer
vent for a gentleman : He has had the small-pox and
measles, is very healthy, and understands waiting at
table well, taking care of horses, riding, and driving a
carriage. Enquire of the Printer.
N. B. As the money will not be wanted till Septem
ber 1780, it may lay at interest in the purchaser's hands
dn giving security, or the emissions out of circulation
will be taken.
o'clock,
A SUIT of almost new Sails; a large quantity of
standing and running Rigging, two Cables, o>e
Anchor, a parcel of Blocks, a good Caboufe, two
Biunderbuffes, a pair of Pistols, &c. &c. lately belong
ing to a Square-rigged vessel.
7, W O hundred 2nd seventy seven thousand eighteen
-4 in^h SHINGLES, neatly made up in bundles.
Enquire of Fisher and Roberts, the lower fide of
Market-ltreet wharf, Philadelphia.
To tie SOLD at Public Vendue,
At the Ceffee-houfe, on Friday next, at Twelve
his guests; not to any butcher anting in Ns proper n#
fiery and craft, and not foreftalling or regrating ; nor to
any hacklier or retailer buying provisions or victuals in
the laid market, and not elsewhere, after ten o'clock 111
the forenoon and not earlier, in order that the inhabitants
of the said city, needing food for the use of themselves
and their families, may be firft supplied,
Provided also, That this all Anil not extend to wines,
oyls sugars, nor other imported victuals, fait and hill on
ly excepted' ;and that no person within the compass cf
tour miles as aforefaid, w^o shall buy. any oxen, bulls,
cows, heifers, calves, swine, sheep, lambs, goats, or kid,
living, and shall fell the fame again alive or dead; after
having fed them for five weeks on his own land or in his
own possession, shall be within the meaning of this aft.
efid be it further exacted by the authority aforefaid, That
it any person shall be guilty of any of the said offences, be
or the iha.ll for the firit offence be imprisoned two months,
and forfeit the value of the goods by him or her so fore
stalled or regrated as aforefaid; for the fetond offence the
said offender shall be imprisoned for haff es a year s and for
feit double the value of the goods by him or her forefta!!-
ed or regrated as aforefaid; and for the third offence, such •
offender shall be set in th^ pillory, forfeit all his goods, and
be imprisoned at the discretion of the Court; and the said
forfeitures shall be difiributed, one half to the use of fne
slate, and tree other half to the person who shall prosecute
within two months after the offence shall be committed.
AND WHEREAS the practice of buying and felling
the necessaries of life and other commodities with hard
money, or specie, is one cf toe means of depreciating the
Continental Bills of Credit;- :
Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforffaid, That,
from arid after the passing of this aft, no person or persons
whatsoever, within this commonwealth, ihail buy or fell;
or offer to buy or fell, any of the nectfiaries 01 life, or
other commodities, with or for hard, money ( and if an,
person shall be convicted of buying or felling, or offering
to buy or fell, any merchandize, eommociities, or any of
the necessaries of life, er renting cf houses or lands for
hard money, contrary to this aft, he or the so offending
shall forfeit and pay, ter the use ot this state, Fifty Pounds,
and the value of the things so bought or feld, or offered
to be bought or fold, or the amount ot the rent hiked or
demanded for such house or lands. z
AND WHEREAS there have been great abuses com
mitted in the aflize and weight of all forts of bread, made
for and exposed to fak in the city of Philadelphia ;
Be st therefore enacted by the auiharity aforefaid, That
it shall and may be lawful to and for any three of the Jus
tices of the Peace 111 and for the city ot Philadelphia, or
any of the counties within this Rate, and they are hereby
impowered and required, as often as there Ihafl be occasi
on, to set, afeertaiiland appoint the assize and weight of
all forts of bread, which shall be made for sale, fold or
exposed to file, within the laid city and liberties, or any
county of this state, and the price to be paid for the fame,
as fully, to all intents and purposes, as the Mayor or Re
corder, and any two. of the Aldermen cf the said city,
ought or could have done by the laws cf the province of
Fenrifyivania, in force on the fourteenth day of May, One
thousand seven hundred and seventy -fix.
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Evalded into a Law, at Philadelphia, on Monday, the
fifth day of April, One thoufandfroen hundred and fe
ventj-ninc. JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
f' H E Public are desired to take notice, That
1 there will be a FAIR held at Noxentown, in
N^wcaftle County, the twenty-ninth irritant.
April 6.
TO BE SOL D,
And will be delivered in the city of Philadelphia by the
firft of May,
JOHN D U N LA P,
Wholesale and Retail, bound or in sheets, for the emif
fons called out of circulation,
The following B 0 0K S, in the German Language,
elegantly printed, viz.
Large family bibles,
TESTAMENTS,
PbALM-BOOKS,
Marburg HYMN-BOOKS,
PSALTERS,
Lutheran CATECHISMS,
Calvinist CATECHISMS,
The above Books are allo fold by Ludwig Lauman,
Esq; Lancaster; Mr. Bilmgre, York Town ; Mr. Hower
^ erid b T °!^ Maryland; Mr. John Spangenbem
Eafton; Mr. Joseph Heister, Reading ; and Mr. Chris.
topher Loughner, Philadelphia.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Wednesday the fourteenth of April, at the Coffees
1 : House,
A COMMODIOUS two llory brick Mefluage or
Tenement and flame Kitchen, with the. Lot of
Ground thereto belonging, lituate on the,north fide of
George's Alley, commonly called Coates's Alley be
tween Saffafrafs and Vine-streets, in the city of Phila
delphia ; containing in breadth east and weft sixteen feet,
and in depth ninety feet, adjoining ground of Hugh
M'Cullocb and others : There is a well on the premises
for a necessary, twenty feet deep. The whole clear of
ground-rent. The title indisputable.
Likewise a frame Cooper's Shop, eighteen feet square,
erected on a lot late of John Parrack's, since forfeited
to the State, on the north fide of Saffafrafs- ftfect, near
Delaware.
WHER EAS divers complaints have lately
been made to the Overseers of the Poor of this
city of the great damage sustained by individuals from
Hogs fuffered to run at large: This is therefore to for
warn every perfen, owners of Hogs in this city, to
confine them, otherwise the A& of Assembly made and
provided in inch case will be put in ,three against them;
Philadelphia, By order of the Overseers,
April 3 . JOHN SHIELDS, Clerk.
CA M Eto the plantation of the fubferiber,
in Charlertown township, Chester county, early
last Fall, a (mail brindled yearling BULL. The
owner is d^fired to come, prove property, pay charges
and take him away. MOSES COATES.
TO BE S O L D,
'TWO Tenements and three Lots in Southwark,
3 containing in front one hundred and three feet, and
in depth about two hundred feet. Enquire of George
Campbell, in Walnut-street, Philadelphia.
JOSEPHCRUKSHANK,
On t^e north fide of Market- fireet, between Second and
/TSl,!.gre^ty eppofite the Butchers Shamble's;
OEAMAN's Daily Affiffant. Toting Clerk's Ma-
O g^z'.ne. bring a colL&icn of precedents of bonds,
notes, wills, deeds, and most other instruments of
o"img # Bartlett's Gentleman Farrier's Repertory ;
or a collection of elegant and approved receipts for the
difrafes of horses. Primitive Physic; or an easy and
natural method ®f curing r.scftdifeafes. The Oecoi.cmy
or Human Life. Clarke's Cordery. Dilworth's Schools
m>ftei'. iAffifiant. Dilworth's Spelling-books; Man
fan's and New-England Primers. Mary Moilin,av.x>
Poems. Thomas Ellwood's Lifei John Wolman's
WoAs. ..
The hi, heft price given for CLEAN LINEN RAGS
by said Crukshank.
, Luncdfl^r, March 29, .
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD,
RAN AWA Y from the fubfenher, living in the
, borough of Lancafier, in the county cf Lancaster,
ooSurJay the fourteenth fay of March irritant, a like
ly Negro Wench named N ANT S, about thjrty years
o' "g e $ and about five feet high, has the mark of a cut
in htrunder jip, and was lately bought at Cambridge,
in Thibet County, Maryland : Had cn when (he w^Rf
away, a bue and white striped lincey petticoat and
jack t, and an old, beaver h:t: She was taken up next
mornihg about hx miles hem Larcafter, on the great
pad basing item thence to Reading, b, William Da
vis ana Sarriuel Davis, who kept her a night and a qay
and a half, but dia not inform the owner thereof.
Whoever takes up said Negro Wench and Retires her,
so that her miller may have her again, or if brought
home to him, shall have the above reward and reafena
ble charge;, paid by
>2, PETER HQOFNAGLt.
TO BE SOL I),
A VALUABLE Tr & of tond, containing fix
>M hunched .acres, in tbe Foiks of Spfqcehanna.
Northumberland County. Enquire of the Printer.
, N. B. The emrihons called out of circulation will be
taken in p.aimepr.
M A D EI R A INE;
Bv the pipe or quarter-cilk, and
C O U NTKY R U M;
In hogsheads and tierces, to be SOLD by
harman and Lewis,
At their fibre near the Drawbridge.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
As a CLik to a Compting-hcufe in this city,
A PERSON thoroughly versed in accempts, that
" writes a tolerable herd, 2nd can be well recom
mended; the hrgheft fairy will tie given. Apply to
th^P-inkr...,.,
An Apprentice is also wanted, of a reputable family
and good morals. No fee will be required.
To BE SOLD BY