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rice, and advancing and heightening the nominal value of
commodities ; forremedy whereof,
Beit entitled by the authority aforefaid, That during
the continuance of this Aft, the Marsh if of the Court of
Admiralty of this State, shall not fellany goods, wares or
merchandizes, or other property, by public Auction or
Vendue; saving and excepting the ihips or other vessels,
taken and condemned as prize, which vessels he mail put
up with, and fell together with their tackle, furniture and
cannon, and not separately ; and saving also such goods
really perishable in their nature, or greatly damaged so as
not to be kept without further injury, till the trial o' the
capture be finifhed, the fame to be so reported to the Judge
of the Court of Admiralty of this State, upon the oaths of
judicious and indifferent persons, appointed to view the
fame ; under like penalties and forfeiture, to be recover
ed in like manner and to like use, as the forfeitures herein
before mentioned and direded.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the said Marfh^l shall make out an exaft inventory
of the prizes taken upon water, and condemned in the
Court of Admiralty, and sh ill have them appraised by
three or more sworn appraisers, t® be appointed by the said
Judge, at the true value thereof in current money ; which
inventory and appraifement in which the distribution here
in after directed Shall be diflinguiShed, shall be filed with
the Register of tne said Court of Admiralty; and in case
no appeal be entered in due time, or in case there shall be
execution of the decree of the said Court, upon security
being entered in double the value, the fame (except Ships
and vessels and such perishable and damaged goods as
aforefaid) shall be divided and distributed by the said Mar
shal in equal and fair shares and proportions, to the
Agent of the owners of the fllip of war if any there be,
of the one part, and to the Agent of the Captain or Com
mander, mariners and other persons, entitled by beiag
present at the feifure of such prize, on the other p.rt ; or
if two or more Ships of w?r Shall have right to such prize,
then into two general divisions, one for each, to be Sub
divided between the owners and crew of both of the said
Ships as aforefaid, where such divisions and sub divisions
Shall be proper and just; but, into no farther or less parts
or Shires. And in case it shall so happen that the nature
of the property to be diftributed,s aforefaid, Shall not ad
mit of a division and difiribution perfectly equal, then the
right of the fame in kind shall be determined by lott, and
the unavoidable difference therein, shall be equalifed and
pail in money by the party receiving such goods, to the other
party; and tne like mode of distribution Shall take place
in case of re-capture, unless the former owner shall forth
with pay down the salvage in current money ; and the said
Marshal is by virtue of this Act, enabled to retain in his
hands, a fufficiency of the goods or property condemned to
secure to him in all such cases of distribution, as aforefaid,
the payment of the costs of suit, and other reasonable char
ges by him expended, for the securing and distributing the
said captures.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the said Marflial for all goods so difiributed Shall be
entituled to a fee of one sou th per centum, and no more.
And the said appraisers shall be allowed and paid a reason
able reward for each day which they thill be employed
therein, to be afeertained by the said Judge ; the said al
lowance to be defrayed out of the said captures.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That if any Printer or other person, during the continu
ance of this Aft, shall print, write or publish any adver
tisement of the sale of any goods or property not warrant
ed or allowed by this Aft, he or She so offending Shall
forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred pounds ; one half
part thereof to the person who Shill sue for the fame, and
the other half part thereof to the use of the Overseers of
the Poor of the city or place where the offence shall be
committed; which sum Shall be recoverable in a summary
way before any Justice of the Peace of the proper city or
county, in the manner in which demands not exceeding
fifty pounds are recoverable, with costs of suit.
And be it further enafted by the authority aforefaid,
That if any male person, capable of bearing arms in the
Militia, shall, during the continuance of this Aft, by
virtue of any licence or otherwise, travel or go about as a
pedlar or hawker within this State, the person fa offend
ing Shall forfeit the goods which he shall carry about with
him for sale, or Grill offer to sale ; and any commissioned
officer of the Militia or Constable may, and he is hereby
enjoined to seize and prosecute the fame to condemnation,
if under the value of fifty pounds, before any Justice of
the peace of the county in a Summary way; if above the
value of fifty pounds, in the Court of Common Pleas of
the fame county, to be distributed, the one half to the said
Officer or Constable, and the other half to the Overseers
of the Poor, for the use of the Poor of the townihip or
place where the offence was committed; otherwise such
offender Shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds, to
be recovered by adieu of debt or by indidment, and ap
plied to the fame use as the penalties and forfeitures im
posed by this Ad on persons who Shall fell goods by pub
lic vendue, contrary to this Ad, are direded to be reco
vered and applied as aforefaid.
And be it further enaded by the authority aforefaid,
That an Ad of General Assembly, intitled “ An Ad for
regulating Pedlars, Vendues, &c.” passed on the four
teenth day of February,[which was in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and Seventy-nine,fo far as the
fame relates to public vendues; and also so much of the
said Ad as relates to pedlars and hawkers, as is by this Ad
altered or amended, and no more thereof, is hereby re
pealed.
And be it further enaded by the authority aforefaid,
That one other Ad of General Assembly, intitled " An
Ad to prohibit the sale of goods by public vendue, and
to regulate hawkers and pedlars within this State," passed
on the nineteenth day of June, which was in the year of
our Lord One thonfand seven hundred and Seventy-seven,
is also repealed.
And be it further enaded by the authority aforefaid,
That this Ad Shall continue and be in force until the ter
mination and end of the present war between the United
States of America and Great Britain, and no longer.
JOHN BAYA RD, Speaker.
Enaded into a Law at Philadelphia on Friday the
Twenty-sixth day of November, Anno Domini
One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy-nine.
THOMAS PAINE,
Cl§rk of General Assembly.
Philadelphia, December 3, 177,1
TO B E SO L D,
For Cash or Loin-Office Certificates,
ON E undivided half of 1700 acres of LAN D,
Situate on Stony Creek, the weft fide of the Alle
ghany Mountain, one mile distant from the great road
leading from Bedford to Ligonier, being part of a traft
of land known by the name of Hurst's Township, Sur
veyed in purluance of a grant from the Honorable Wil
liam Penn, Esq; to Letitia Penn, dried the 13th day
of September, 1683, one fourth part of which may easily
be converted into excellent watered meadow, the up
land strong and we'l timbered, the mountain adjacent
affording an inexhaustible bank of iron ore and stone
coal, with convenient streams for erefting the firft iron
or Steel works on the Continent, from whence every
kind of produce may for a trifling expence be trans
ported by water to the Ohio.
Three hundred acres of improved land in Turkey
foot township, in the county of Bedford, on which are
ert^ed a good log house, barn and spring-house, with
fifty acres of land cleared, twenty of which are good
meadow; now in the tenure of Frederick UnfeL
One hundred acres adjoining the last mentioned tr &,
well improved ; now in the tenure of Paul Ernfberger.
Six hundred and forty-five acres of land on Coxe's
Creek, in the township and county aforefaid, adjoining
lands of Col. Richard Brown, Abraham Cable, Esq;
and others; on which are two good dwelling houses, a
spring house, Indian-torn house, a large new double
barn with a Shingled root, and upwards of three hundred
and twenty acres of meadow of the firft quality cleared,
from whence the greatest part of the neighbourhood are
yearly supplied with hay ; now in the tenure of James
Black, Esq;
The whole of those lands are situate in the center of a
large German Settlement, and not thirty miles from the
river Potomack. For further particulars apply to
6 JOHN VANDEREN, Junior.
Just imported for sale at P. WHITESIDE and Co's,
in Walnut-ftrett,
FINE and coarse Woollens and Blankets,
Cutlery,
A variety of Silks and Sattins,
Modes, Cambricks, Gauze, and Clear Lawns,
Sail Duck, &c.
Also a quantity of Leather, Morocco and Spanish
Skins, Russia and dressed Deer-Skins, and Jesuits Bark
of the firft qniity. ________
One Hundred Dollars Regard.
WA S taken out of a gentleman's entry, on Tues
day evening, the goth ®f November, betwixt the
hours of Ssven and Nine, a Silver TANKA RD,
holding a quart, marked P E M on the handle, the
letters greatly defaced. Whoever returns the fame to
the Printer Shall receive the above reward, and no ques
tions alked. All fdver-fmiths are requested to stop it if
offered or Sale.
TO BE SO L D,
AL ARGE quantity of the best and most beauti
ful ENGLISH CARPETING, the great
est part of figures entirely new : The whole to be fold
together. Enquire of the Printer. 4
TO BE SO L D,
AN elegant new crane necked CO A C H, modelled
exadly by the coach imported by the Honorable
Richard Penn, Esq; from London, and varnished in
the fame manner, and richly gilded , with a large oral
in the front and back, and glads# to them ; green silk
curtains and Spring tellers to the dorrs. This co-ch is
made to open all round, and When Shut up, cufhigne
lined with green silk and borders to overlap are fitted to
the ovals and quarters, so that it is a perfectly commo
dious Summer or winter carriage: The wholelined with
fuperfine green Broadcloth, trimmed with white silk
American lace. Enquire of the Printer. 4
PHILADELPHIA, December 4 .
Yeftaday arrived in 28 days from St. Euftatia, the sloop
Favourite, Capt. Leech, loaded with salt. Capt. Leech
faded in company with the Ship Jay, belonging to thisport,
and in latitude 26 was separated from her, in a heavy gale
of wind; he soon after was chafed by the Ship Pickering,
from Salem, New-England; which obliged him to throw
his papers overboard.
§t§ In the Ad for regulating Chimney-Sweepers, pub
lifhed in our last, the clause refpeding the appointment of
the officer was omitted, for which reafan it is re-publiShed
in the fourth page of this paper,
%* The sale of the CARLISLE IRON WORKS, in
Cumberland county,which was adjourned to this evening;
is now further adjourned to Tuesday evening next, at Five
o'clock, to be then held here: This delay is occasioned by
the Vendue- Matter not having yet received his commissi
on, and the uncertainty of the precise time when he may
obtain it.
Thursday Evening, December 2, 1779.
Philadelphia, December 3.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or STOLEN out of a pasture on the
Commons of this city, between the Bettering house
and the Light horse Stables, on the night of the 29th
of November last, a large brown OX, with long wide
horns, both ears cropped, branded on one fide U S,
though not easily te^n, and is in excellent order. Allo
a large black C O W, with a white face, nine or ten
years old, in good order and within a few days of
calving. Whoever will give information of the above
deCribed cattle so that the owner may get them again,
shall receive, if Strayed, One Hundred Dollars, but if
stolen and the thief brought to justice, the above reward,
paid by JOSEPH OGDEN.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
XV AS STOLEN, last night, out of the hotife of
the fubferiber, in Eaflown township, Ch^fter coun
ty, the following articles, viz. A new light coloured
coat, made of fine country cloth; anew brown lii en
coatee ; a pair of buck Skin breeches, almost new ; a half
worn lead coloured cloth jacket; a furr hat }-^
new, two silk bankerchiefs, three count; Aide &iri
two pair blue yarn ribbed flockings, alc three rive
dollars, and some eleven penny pieces anri old coppers
in the breeches pocket. The above article ^ere folen
by a certain George Atkifon, an Englishman, between
thirty and forty years of age, a thin Spare man, t out
five feet fix inches high, black complexion, black „
and has a double row of upper teeth, one large 0<
which in each fide of his mouth appear) outside ri
under lip when he laughs; he is remarkably gr:;
drink : Had on when he went away, a failor'sjrk
made of brown cloth, and a pair of tow trowfers;
fuppofsd he will wear the above described hat, as h?
left his own. Whoever takes up and secures said thief,
so that he may be brought to justice and the owner may
recover the eloaths, Shall receive the above reward and
reasonable charges, paid b,
November 3. JAMES MORRIS.
PERSONS properly qualified to a& as STEW
ARD and MATRON in the Pennsylvania Hos
pital. No persons need apply who cannot produce
Sufficient recommendations for honesty and sobriety.
Enquire of Joseph Swift or Joshua Howell,
the present fitting Managers.
ANDREW and JAMES CALDWELL
Have for SAL E;
A NE AT affutment of Broadcloths, ribbed Cali
-1l mancoes, Worftid Hose, Erhea Tea, &c.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
CTOLEN on the night of rhe zfift (De mber)
out of the fubferiber's fUble in Elm-ftr, et, a grey
HORSE, about fifteen hands high, nine or ten years
old, Short switch tail and mane, had some maiks of tar
on his neck and Shoulders, and a Small black mark ip
his forehead owing to the hair being rubbed of, lately
rough Shod with fal. Likewise a Saddle and Bride,
double reined, with bitt and bordon almost ne^ ; the
fuddle.cloth white with blue edge. Whoever viU give
information of the fame, So that the hor e, &. ma° be
recovered again, shall have the above reward, or in pio
portion foi saddle or bridle, paid by
EDWARD GARRIGUES.
One Hundred Pounds Reward.
WHEREAS the fubferiber was bail for the ap
pearance of Benjamin Nugent, of Cumberla^ °
county, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Ge
neral Goal Delivery, held at Carhfle, the 18th of
Oftober last past, and he not appearing according to
promise; therefore any person whe will apprehend
said Benjamin Nugent, and secure him in any goal of
the State of Pennsylvania, f© that he may be brought
to tryal at a Court of Cumberland county aforefaid,
shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charg.
es paid by MOSES LAMB.
November rl.
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN D UNLA P,
In Market.ftreet, Philadelphia;
The following BOOKS, in the Gern@ Lt-nay
elegantly printed, viz.N
Large family bibles,
TESTAMENTS,
PSALM-BOOKS,
Marburg HYMN-BOOKS,
PSALTERS,
Lutheran CATECHISMS,
Calvinist CATECHISMS,
The above Books are also fold by Ludwig lan
Esq; Lancaster; Mr. Bilmire, York Town ; Mi
Ftt&erick-Town, Maryland; Mr. John Spaniers
Eafton; Mr. Joseph Heister, Reading ; and M C
topber Loughner, Philadelphia.
TO BE L E T,
The following PROPERTY in tin County of Can©
May, in the State of NewJerfej.
ON a ledfe tor a ceir.in ren ,—o>e third of the
herbage of the Sevin-mile Beach, which will Sup
port forty cattle annually from October till July, with
out any person to take care of them.
On a lease for any number of years, for such a pro*
portion ot the produce #s will be advantageous as well
to the tenant as landlord,—Three plantation: and trafr
of land and mar^, laying on the waters of Dennis'sCreek
two of which have good landings, from which there m 3;
b f,n car carriage in Shallops to Pi i/adelphi,, and the
third within half a mile of a landing ; each true will keep
thirty or forty cattle, the land equal to any in that coun
ty,, will bear a plentiful cop of every kind of grain,
and the tenant will have liberty to clear any quantity of
land he chufes upon terms beneficial to him.
A large quantity ot very valuable timber within one
mile of a landing, to be made into pipe, hogshead and
barrel Staves, by delivering the owner one half at the
slump.
Also a number of lots of cedar swamp, on a snare.
In Short, any persons who have plenty of labourers
may be assured of making a profitable control by apply
ing to Thomas LeaMinc, Senior, near the premises,
or the Subscriber in Water fleet, below the Drawbridge.
Philadelphia.
THOMAS LEAMING, Junior.
WANTE D,