The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-01-21 00:00:00, page 3

IN C 0 N CR^s S,
January 13, 1779°
W- E cannot review the progress of the revo
luti< n which has given freedom to America,
without admiring the goodness and grate
folly acknowledging the interpufmon of Divine Provi
dence. O^reffed by the Prince who ought to have
exerted himfelf for cur protection, and Suddenly call
ed upon to repel his unprovoked invJion —without
arms' or ammunition, without military drfctplme or
permanent finances, without ah eitabrimed govern
ment or allies; enfeebled by habitual attachments to
our very enemies—We were precipitated into the
expensive operations incident to a Rate of war, with
one of the most formidable nations on earth. Thus
surrounded on all tides with wants and difficulties and
dangers, notwithstanding the internal wealth or our
country, immediate taxation was impr^hc^le; a^d,
for the fame reason and a Quire cf ill luccesa.
rent p^^ls, we could not hope, either at home or
abroad, borrow mney to supply cur exigencies.
Dumbly rearing en the favor of Heaven in a r^ghte^
cus cauk, and ^mfidmg in the juUice and i^repiuty
of our inched feiiow citizens, we, from necUhty, em
braced the expedient of emitting paper money on the
faith of the United States, f^ the expences of, the
war—an expedient which had often been fuccelsiuEy
praßifed in icoarate States while we were fubjefted to
Liuffi domination. The implacable vengeance with
which we have been pursued has competed us to the
most ftreotious and urnemitted efforts: Large iffue.s cf
money were of cordequence indifpenfibly neteffary,
and the paper currency multiplied beyond what was
competent for the purposes of a circulating medium.
This alone could not fail to discredit it in fomedegee.
The arts of an unprincipled enemy have increased the
mUchiet In despair of subduing the free spirit of
America by force of arms, or the intrigues of rego
ciation, AS their la# effort they have had reconfe to
fraud# Their emifikries have beeh employed in a va
riety of artifices to debate car money, and to raise toe
price of commodities. The fears and apyrehenfions
of the people have been alarmed by % mifreprefeniation ;
While our enemies of the highest r^nk have not befita
ted to counterfeit the bills of credit and disperse them
throughout the United Spates.
Such being the emharraffments which interrupt a
free circulation of our paper money, they loudly call
for a remedy; and Congrsfs, from a Regard to good
faith, to private justice, and to public fafety, are
bound to apply it. Happily, by a combination of
2ufyiciou events, every obstacle is removed, and the
meats placed within nur reach. Those hostile armies
which attempted to eTlave us, no longer ft rmidable,
are wafted and- dispersed. Cur independence is efta
bliffied on a fiim basis; ' car ref, &ive Governments
which con pose the Union, are fetden and in the vigor
ous exercile of uocbntrculed authority. Ah Alliance,
on terras cf perfe& equality, is formed with one of the
greareft nations on earth; and, freed in a high degree
from external aff^lts, we have leisure to d;re& our
attention to mecnemy, and our.it founts to support
the public credit: To raise the value of our paper mo
ney, and to redeem it, will not, we are persuaded, be
difficult; nor to check and defeat the pernicious cur
rency of counterfeits, impraaicabie: Both require a
fir less share of public virtue and public vigilance than
have distinguished this arduous conflict.
Without public inconvenience or private diftre%
the whole of the debt incurred in paper emissions to
this day, may be cancelled by taxes: It may be can
celled in a period so limited as must leave the peflefor
of the bills Satisfied with his security; and if by a con
tinuance cf the war the public service flioald demand
further cmiffions, they too may be cancelled within the
fame period : It being evident that our ability to sustain
a tax must encreafe in proportion to the quantity cf
money in circulation.
The danger from counterfeits can only be avoided
by calling in and exchanging the emifLons which have
chiefly (offered by that species of fraud. To publish
the marks of detention, and still to leave the true bills
current, will not be prudent; as it must afford an op
portunity for correcting defeats and cheating more se
curely.
To defend the emission intended for the exchange
from counterfeits, the ftrongeß guards will be devised;
and it is expeded that the mat ks of authenticity will be
so obvious, and the difficulty of fnccefsful imitation so
great, as to difeourage the attempt or elude its effects.
Upon these weighty confideratidns Congress have
agreed to the annexed Resolutions, and recommend
them to the immediate attention of the refpe&ive Le
gislatures of the United States, to the end that Laws
may be enaded to give them the mofc fptedy, decisive,
and effectual operation.
January 2, 1779.
W° HEREAS these United States, unprovi
ded with revenues, and not heretofore in
a condition to raise them, have, in the course of
the present war, repeatedly been under the ne
cessity of emitting bills of credit, for the redemp^
tion of which the faith of these United States has
been solemnly pledged; and the credit of which
their honor and fafety as well as justice is highly
concerned to support hndeftablilh. And whereas
to that end it is essentially neceflary to afeertain
the periods of their redemption; and seasonably
to establish funds, which, in due tirae, without
distressing the people, shall make adequate prb
vifion for the fame. And whereas, in apporti
oning the payments for the said fund, it is expe
dient that an extra sum be called for the current
year, both on account of the present eaTe of pay
ing it and to reduce the surplus in circulation.—
Therefore
Resolved, That these United States be called
on to pay in their respective quotas of fifteen mil
lions of dollars in the year 17 79, a ^d of fix mil
lions of dollars annually for 18 years from and
after the year 1779, as a fund for finking the
emiflions and loans of these United States to tire
31st day of December, 1778, inclufive^
That if the continuance and circumftqnceS of
the war shall make any further emissions neces
sary the year ensuing, they shall be funk in the man
ner and within the period aforefaid.
That ^^ of the bills emitted by order of Congress,
prior to t^ year 1780, and no others, be received in
payment cf the said quotas.
That the bills received on the Lid quotas, except
those for the year 1779, ^ e applied firft for payment
of the icterefl, and feCondly of the principal of
loans made by these United States, prior to the year
1780, and that the residue, together with those re
ceived on the quotas of the year 1779, be not re
ifTued, but burned and destroyed as Congress shall
direct.,
And whereas many counterfeits have appeared in
circulation, of various denominations, of the emis
sions of May 20, i 777, and April 11, 1778, and
counterfeits cf these emissions have lately been issued
by our enemies at Nqw-York, and are found to be
fpreadin? and increasing fall in various parts of these
United States; whereby individuals are defrauded,
prices enhanced, and the credit of the paper curren
cy greatly injured; and it is become neceflary for
the security of individuals arid fafety of the public,
that those two emissions should crafe to be a circula
ting medium, and fhoul? be called in, and exchang
ed, or otherwise provided for as soon as may be with
convenience to the present holders. Therefore
Resolved, That the following bills be when oat of
circulation, namely, the whole emissions cl May 20,
1777, and April 11, 17,8.
That they be brought in for that purpose in the
manner hereafter provided by the firft day of June
next, and not afterwards redeemable.
That they be received for debts and taxes into the
Continental Treasury, and into the State! reafuries
for Continental taxes, until the firft day cf June next.
That they be received until the firft day of June
next, into the Continental Loan-Offices, either on
loan or to be exchanged, at the election cf the ow
ners. for other bills of the, like tenor, to be provided
for that purpafe.
T : ar the bills lodged in the said offices to be so
exchanged, be there registered, and indented certi
ficates thereof given to the owners by the refpedive
Commiflioners of the said offices.
That the Commissioners of the Loan-Offices make
returns to the Treafary Board immediately after the
firft day of June next, of the amount of the bills re
ceived into their refpedive offices to be exchanged as
aforefaid, and that proper bills to exchange the fame
be furnished and ready to be delivered out at their
said "offices, within 60 days from and alter the said
fiift day of June.
That the firft mentioned bills, as they are brought
into the Treasuries and Loan-Offices, be immediately
creffed and struck through with a circular punch of
one inch diameter, to be afterwards examined and
burned, as Congress fnall direct.
January 5, 1779.
RES OLVE D, That the federal States raise by
taxes refpe&ively as follows, for their quotas of
the fifteen millions of Dollars for the year 1 779.
New-Hampshire 500,000
Massachusetts-Bay 2,000,000
Rhode-Bland and)
Providence Plantations^ 3 o °> oo °
Connecticut 1,700,000
New-York 800,000
New-Jersey 800,000
Pennsylvania 1 1,900,000
Delaware 150,000
Maryland 1,560,000
Virginia 2,400,000
North-Carolina, 1,090,000
South-Carolina 1,800,000,
Georgia being invaded, is\
hereafter to raise > 15,000,000
her proportion. )
That the said several fams, or any greater films
wnich shall be paid by any of the States into the
Continental Treasury, shall be placed to their
respective credits on entered, on the fame termj
as are set forth in the Refolutien of Congress pall
ed November 22d, 1777.1
January 14, 1770-
RESOLVED, That the Bills to be ehnitted
^ for exchanging others, agreeable to the
Revolutions of Congress the 2d instant, or for
supporting the war, the ensuing year, be of the
following denominations, viz. 65. 60. 55. 50.
4§. 40. 35. 30. 20. 8. 7. 5. 4. 3. and 2. Dol
lars; and One Dollar.
That the Form of the Bills be as follows,
" No. , Dollars. The bearer
C: is entitled to receive Spanish Milled
" Dollars, or an equal sum in Gold or Silver,
" according to a Resolution of Congress of the
“ 14th of January, 1779 "
Thareach of the said Bills be numbered and
signed by two persons.
That the faith of the United States be pledged
for the Redemption of such Bills, on or before
the firft Day of January 1797, agreeable to the
Reflations of Congress aforefaid.
That for preventing the counterfeiting of the
said Bills, new stamps with additional checks, be
provided, and a fuffieient number of proof-sheets
struck, arid sent with the Signatures of each
Signer, to the Afiemblies of the refp&ftive States,
to be lodged by them, under proper Regulations,
in Public Offices in their federal counties, towns
and diftricris, for the benefit of the inhabitants
of the United States.
Extracts from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
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TO BE S O L D,
% TWENTY- SECOND PART of the ILLINOIS
A PURCHASE. Enquire of Mr. Edward Fox,
at the Treasury Office in Third-street.
TH E Citizens of Philadelphia who wiin to
become fabferibets for the New-Jersey Gazette,
may enter their names with Moses Bartram, Apo
thecary, in Second- street, a few doers above Arch
ftreet, or with Robert Aitken, Printer and Book
seller, in Front-street, nearly cfpofite the Coffee-houfe,
at One Dollar and an Half per quarter, the mogey to
be paid at the tirae of entrance.
TO ba fold by way of public vendue, cn fecond+da,
^ the 2sh of February next, by the fubfer ber, living
near Downing's Town, in East Caln township, Chefler
county, the following articles, viz. Two copper stills,
one containing 118 gallons, the other 3s, and hog
(heads, c fk, &c. with ali distilling utensils. He basalfo
for sale one ton of country manufactured Reel, a valua
ble mare and colt, swine, and many other things too
tedious to mention, for c^fn only. The vendue to be
gin'at twelve o'clock on said day, when due attendance
will be given by EPHRAIM JONES.
t'o 'B E SOL D,
SEVERAL Houses and Lots cf Ground in and.
° about the city, Plantations in the country, and about
fix th qknd acres of unimproved Land, lying in diffe
rent tra&s or parcels of about three hundred acres each,
in Northumberland County, For terms of sale apply
to Assheton Humphreys, Conveyancer and Attor
ney at Law, at his office in Second street, between
Spruce and Union-streets.
Philadelphia, Ja?z. 19.
—T~O B~ E 7-0- L~ D,
TW 0 Tenements arid three Lets in Southwark,
containing in front one hundred and three feet, and
in depth about eighty feet. Enquire of George
Campbell, in Walnut street, Philadelphia, ts.
——— — - SOL D,
A STOUT NEGRO WENCH, eighteen
years old, has had the small-pox, very fit for town
or country. Any person wanting such a Wench may
fee her, and know the terms, by applying to Patrick
Byrne, in-Front-street, the corner cf Walnut-ftrect,
Philadelphia.
AN Y Gentleman who writes a good and
neat hand, and will undertake to tranferibe a
manufeript of about 80 pages, will find employment
by applying immediately at Mrs. Norris's in Walnuts
street, the second door fiem the corner cf Second
ftreet.
TH E fubferiber has for sale, at his hcufe
in Front-street, opposite Mr. Thomas Penrose's
ship-yard, in Southwark, a quantity of good Weft-
Jndia and French RU M, in hogsheads and tierces,
which will be fold at the lowest prices for circulating
caffi. JOHN TURNER.
N. B. Likewise a few tons of HAY to be fold for
the cm ffions called in by Congress.
WAS left on the plantation of the fub
feriber, in Providence township, Philadelphia
county, feme time ago, by a drover, a drove-down
BULL, of a pale red colour. The owner is desired
to come, prove his property, pay charges and take him
away, otherwise he will be fold for costs in two weeks
after the date hereof.
Jan. 19. GEORGE CLEMENCE,