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I# CONGRES S, July 1, 1779.
YX, HEREAS the Legislature of the State of North-
Carolina have reprefeoted, that from the difficul
ties of communicating intelligence in that State© and
• the remote Situation of many of its inhabitants, it was
impossible that they Should receive seasonable notice to
carry the money of the emissions of May the zoth, 1777,
and April the nth, 1778, to the proper office by the
time limited by Congress, and have therefore requested
Congress to grant such farther time for that purpose, that
the inhabitants of the said State may not be injured :
AND WHEREAS it is also represented to Congress that
many persons in the different States have been prevented
by unforefeen causes from complying with the said reso
lution: AND WHEREAS it was not the intention of
Congress that individuals possessed of the said bills should
sustain any farther inconvenience than such as arose from
the necessary cautions against counterfeits :
Resolved therefore, That alb bills of the said emis
sions which (hall be brought into the Continental Loan-
Offices, before the firft day of January next, (hall at the
election of the owners be received either oh loan or to be
exchanged for other bills; and that the fame rules and
precautions as are provided for registering, certifying and
defacing the bills of the said emissions received by the re
fpeHive Commissioners of the Loan-Offices before the firft
day of June last, beobferved in refpea to all bills of the
said emissions which shall be brought in by virtue of this
resolution.
Provided that each holder of such bills shall previously
take the following oath er affirmation, and cause to be de
livered to the refpeTive Commissioners of the Continen
tal Loan-Offices a certificate thereof, signed by the Ma
gistrate administering the fame : "I do swear
(or solemnly affirm,) that dollars, of the emissi
ons of May 20th, 1777, and April iith, 1778, of the fol
lowing numbers and denominations, viz. . were
€ my property or in my possession on the firft of June, 17,,,
or at the time of my being informed of the refoliation of
Congress of the second of January, 1779, f° r taking the
said emissions out of circulation, and were not obtained
directly or indirectly at a discount."
That the Commissioners of the Continental Loan-Offi
ces be authorifed to pay off the indented certificates which
they shall have issued for exchanging bills of the emissi
ons of May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778, to any per
sons to whom such certificates may be inderfed, provided
that each endorsement (hall be witnessed by a Magistrate :
That the Commissioners of the several Continental
Loan-Offices make returns to the Board of Treasury im
mediately after the firft day of January next of the a
mountoi the Bills received in their refpedive offices after
the said firft day of June to be exchanged as aforefaid, and
that for this purpose proper bills be lodged at the said of
fices within sixty days from and after the firft day of Ja
nuary aforefaid.
March 28, 1,80.
Resolved, That the resolution of the 2d of July, 1779,
granting further time for bringing in Bills of Credit of
the emiffioosof May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778, cal
led out of circulation by the resolution of the id of Ja
nuary, 1779, except the providing clause, be revived and
extended to the firft day of January next :
That all bills of the laid emissions not brought in by
or before the said firft day of January next, be afterwards
irredeemable.
Extras from the Minutes,
CHARLES T H OMSON, Sec Ty.
Fsr the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
Number 11.
TH E depression of America has been, and will re
main, the ultimate object of the king of Great-
Britain. But the Houle of Bourbon having in
terfered, it has become the immediate object, to put down
the strength of that House. Hence it is, that in his speech
f to both Houses of Parliament, he is silent with regard
to his Colonies of North-America, and (peaks only of the
“ encroaching power of the House of Bourbon." This
chiefly occupies his thoughts, as the block, firft to be re
moved, before he can entertain the least hope of shaking
our independence.
Ireland, catching the celestial (park of liberty, has kind
led to a flame, and it has become the policy of the king
of Great-Britain to grant the free trade demanded, left
weakened in his strength by the secession of that kingdom,
he be diverted from his purpose of hostilities against these
States. The mildness of his answers to the Irilh Parlia
ment, is the offspring of this policy, while at the fame
time, the ambiguity of his expreflion, in offering an e
qual, not a free trade, fufficiently difeovers his natural
meanness and duplicity of mind. He gives good words to
f November % 1779.
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Ireland, that he may retain her in obedience for the pre
sent, reserving the ground of an evasion, when it may be
convenient for him to explain away, or retract hiVcon
ceffions. But the king can moreeafily grant to Ireland the
privileges the demands, though humiliating to his views,
and contrary to the bent of his spirit, than surcease the
war against America, because in the one case he will not
so sensibly defeend and confefs himfell vanquished, as in the
other, where, having denied all right to resist, and affirm
ed all power to subdue, his pride must be wounded mor
tally, in feeing every expectation, like a blighted blossom,
fall to the ground.
The war against America, on the part of the King of
Great-Britain, is a war of passion. According to the
declaration of his courttys, he is " hisownMi^iftefr." The
Councils have originated from himfelf; he has delated
the measures. Indeed they bear evidently the refemblaoce
of his mind, which is that of extreme maliee, united with
the greatest weakness. For this rteafon, he will not safily
desist from his thoughts of subjugation. He conceives his
reputation immediately interefled, and feels like an indivi
dual, who having set on foot an enterprize of singular whim
and bizare conceit, is unwilling to admit the idea of a dis
appointment, as nothing but success even in the eyeof the o
most undifeerning, can relieve the shame of the prosecu
tion of it. He is prompted to persist in his resolution, by
every motive of pride unwilling to be humbled, of revenge
fer resistance to his will, and of cruelty, the exercise of
which is pleating to his nature. The continuance of the
war will be in proportion to the existence ofthefe motives,
and to the duration of his power. The motives will ex
ist eternal; his power will not be limited by a short time.
We had heretofore depended, not alittte, on the oppo
sition of the minority, in the House of Lords and Com
mons, to the measures of the Court; apprehending that
these, in the mean time, would impede the wheels of go
vernment, and finally, by routing the nation to a sense of
their true interest bring them to a feafe of juflice with
regard to these States. But we have experienced, what
was at firft believed by many, that not rhe love of liber
ty, or justice, prompted the eloquence of the harangues
of these men, nor did they vociferate against the measures
of the Court, for any other reason, but because they them
selves were not the Ministry. As soon as a door of pro
fit, or of honor was laid open to them, they entered, and
their clamours against administration were no more heard.
Th^conduft of Adans, is a recent example. ' This man
had uniformly voted against administration in the earlier
part of the session of Parliament preceding the last ; but,
" towards the end of it, having taken a tour through the
several counties, he found that the Minivers were not so
much to blame, as those whom they had entrusted." We
are not to suppose that " euphryfy or rue, had purged
the vitual nerve," at this jundure, but that metals, titles,
or favour in some other fliape, had engaged his heart.
From this time, the Ministers are.rather inactive, than
incapable, and some, the greatest knaves and greatest dun
ces in the nation (among which is Lord Stormont §) are
men of the firft integrity, and the rarest abilities,
By means of the influence established over the venal
minds of his Parliament, the tyrant will be able to carry
on the war as long as his people can supply money for that
purpose; and this will be until the fleets of our ally, and
armed vessels of the States, shall beat the fleets, and so ef
feauaily distress the trade of Britain, that the manufactu
rers and farmers of the kingdom shall no longer have mo
ney to, supply the taxes necessary to carry on the war ; and
until, by the regulation of our finances, on this continent,
and unanimity amongst ourselves, and finally by the ex
pulsion of the enemy frem ourborder\,we shall strike away
every ground of hope, and leave it nb longer possible for
them to make the least effort against us,
An ANti Anglican.
§ The easy triumph which our Plenipotentiaries at Pa
ris had over his vigilance and penetration, is an evidence
of his incapacity for any office.
¥a&W^^®iOsa<W^m^
TO THE TUBLIG
WHEREAS sundry estates have been
advertised to be fold on the 12th of April next,
and through some mistake made by ths Clerk : The falc
is postponed to a future day.
GEORGE SMITH, ] Agents for
WILLIAM M'MULLIN. ] P. county.
March 29th, 1780.
„~W A" S' L= O S T,'
ON Monday last on the Lancaster road, be
tween Downings town, and the Three Crown Ta
vern, Eighty four Half Johannefer and Sev^Moidoies,
directed, Capt. Clayton, Lancaster, No. 1. Niched up
in a piece of oznaburgs. Whoever has found the fame,
and will deliver it to the Printer hereof, or to Capt,
Clayton at Lancaster, shall be well rewarded.
March x£th, i,se.
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ments or frauds committed by me, [if any}
during my acting in that, the Quarter-Mat
ter or Forage Department.
H: HOLLINGSWORTH,
D. Q. M. G.
Head of Elk, March 28, 1760.
PUBLIC NOTRE is hereby given by
A the fubferiber, That the Commiffipn
ers appointed by the Honorable Continen
tal Congress to fettle the accounts tranfeded
by me, under direction of the Honorable
the Board of War, in the year 1775, are
now setting at the house of Mr. David Ric
ketts, within a mile of this place. This
is therefore to request all perlons that I
have done bufineis with on public accounts,
and others, to give them, the said Commil
fioners, all information of my proceedings,
and to make known to them all embezzle-
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
November 23, 177,• A, M.
A PETITION from Henry Dougherty, of the city
4 I of Philadelphia, referred over from the late lljuu
of Affemuly, was read; aad thereupon,
Relolved, That the frid Henry Dougherty is hereby
appointed to the office of Colleftor of the Duties impend
by an Act ot Affimidy intitlcd, “ An A4l for impeding a
duty on persons convicted of heinous crimes, and to pre
vent poor and impotent persons being imported into this
Rovince," (now State).
Ext?ad from the Minutes,
Thomas Paine, Clerk of the Gen. Afcihbly.
Y^ HEREAS the Assembly of Pennsylvania, in the
'' year of our Lord One (houfand seven hundred 3rd
seventy-sour, palled an Aft intitled, " An A& to p p e
vent infectious diseases being brought into the city of
Philadelphia," of which the following is an extr &:
"And be it further enacted by the authority afore
,, fail, That no Commander, Mister or other perkn
" having charge of any Flip or vessel bound to the pori
" of Philadelphia, or to any other port or place within
“ this Province, having on board at the time tlfe said
“ fbip or veflel departed from any port or place whatfo
" ALT beyond the Igas any greater number of persons,
" whether passengers or fervante, or both, than fo:tv,
" or having any person disordered with an infeadr
" disease, or coming from any sickly port or place, fr di
" bring his (hip ®r veffei, or fuffer or permit the fame
" to be brought, nearer to the city than the blind call
" ed Little Mud Island, near the mouth of the river
" Schuylkill, or shall bring on shore, or cayfe or fuff^r
" to be landed or brought on shore, at ary port or pl?e
" within this Province, any of such paffengeis or ler
" vant#, or any part or parcel of their goods crest&,,
" or the goods or eff^&e of any other person or periods
" whatever, until he shall have obtained a licence or
" permit in writing for that purpose under the hard of
" the Officer or his Deputy appointed by virtue of th:
'' A& intitled, An Aft for imposing a duty on perform
" convi&eJ of heinous crimes, and to prevent poor and
“ impotent persons being imported into this Province
“ under the penalty of Five Hundred Pounds, being
" thereof legally convi&ed in any Cou t of Quarter Scl
" fions within this Province," (now S ate).
AND WHEREAS the Honorable the Affembly'
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, taking into con
fide^rion the above AT, have been pieafed to nominate
and appoint th* fubferiber Health Officer for the port cf
Philadelphia, of which all Matters, Commanders, cr
other persons having charge of any fbip or vetiU comin
into the said port, a e desired to take notice and govc^
themUlves accordingly.
HENRY DOUGHERTY, Haith Officer.
APRIL I, 1780.
T H E