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G EN ERA L b^&^ ADVERTISER.
^SUPPLEMENTS an AS! in
titled, " An Acl for flriki^g the sum
of One Hundred fboujand Pounds in
Bills of Credit for the prefect Jupport
of the army, andjor f abiding a fund
for the redemption of the fame, and for
other purposes therein mentioned."
'IffTHEREAS it is necef-
VW Gry that '" e Bills of Credit emitted and
V V wade current by the A& nititled, "An
Aft for ftr ; king the sum of One Hundred Thousand
Pounds in Bills oCCredit for the prefect support of the
army, and for eftabhfhing a fund for the redemption of
the fame, and for otbt r , urpofes therein mentioned, te
made a legal tender, in all cases whatsoever:
Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enabled, by
the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth
of Penn(ylvania tn General Affably met, and by tne
authority of the fame, Taat th. Bills of Credit emitted by
the A& aforefaid, be and are hereby declared to be legal
tender to all intents and perries whatsoever, and frail
be taken and received in payment in all bargains, con
trails, purchases agreement^ dealings, debts, dues and
demands, according to the sum fpecified in the said Bills;
to be taken and received at the rate or value of fifteen
Killings for every two dollars, and so in proportion ter
a larger or less sum, and of equal value in the payment
of such bargain, contrast, purchase, agreement, dealing,
debt, due and demand whatsoever, with two Spanish
Billed dollars, each weighing feventeeo penny weight
and fix grains; and fi2ty (hillings of the emission afore
faid, shall be taken and received at the rate of, or equal
in value to, one gold half Johannes es Portugal, weigh
ing nine penny weight, and in the like proportion for all
ether gold or silver coin; any contrast, agreement of
bargain between parties to tne contrary in any wife not
withflanding.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That if any person or persons, bodies pcl^ic and corpo
rate, from and alter the publication of this A&. fliall re
fufe to receive any of the said Bills of Credit, when tend
ered in payment of any debt, bargain, contrast or de
mand whatsoever provided the whole of the said debt or
demand be so tendered, fetch perlon or perlons, bodies
politic and corporate so refufin,, shall be or ever barred
from suing for, or recovering the fame before any Judge,
or in any Court of this State.
And ba it further enafted by the authority aforefaid;
That if any person whatsoever, shall after the paring of
this Aft, refufe to take and receive any of the Bills' of
Credit aforefaid, in payment for any live flock, necessary
oflife, commodity, manufacture articieor goods what
soever, which he or the shall fell, or expose to sale, or
offer the fame for a less price or Smaller turn of money to
be paid in gold or fryer, than in the Bills of Credit emit
ted as aforefaid, or that shall give or receive a greater
nominal sum of said Bills of Credit, for a lets in geld or
silver, every fetch person. .being thereof legally convicted
in any Court of General Quarter Seffioas of tne Peace in
this State, shall fcr ts e firfl offence, forfeit and pay dou
ble the value of the article or articles so fold or exposed
to sale; one moiety thereof to the person or persons giving
information of the fame, 'and profrenting the offender to
conviction, add the other moiety for the use of tne poor
of the City, diPriQ or township, where the off nee flialf
be committed; and for the fecund offence, shall fuffir
imprisonment during the present war, and forfeit to the
Commonwealth one half of his or her lands and tenements,
goods and chattels.
And be it further enafled by the authority aforefaid,
That the party giving information as aforefaid, (had be
admitted a competent witoefs on the trial of offenders
against this A'& ; any hw, custom or usage to the con
trary in any wife not^i'h ftanoing.
And be it further enided by the authority aforefaid,
That so much of the Bills of Credit aforftid, as have
been received by the Lieutenants and Sub Lieutenants of
the City of P dladelp ia, and the several Counties ofthis
State, the Collectors of texe% or ether public dues ;
-County Treafur<rs, and all public Agents, for or on
account of any tax, public due, Mmrii floe or forfeit
ure whatever, fliall in the settlement of t e accounts of
the said Officers and Agents refpeaively, be efiimated
and paid, at the fame rate, at which the fa $ d Bills were
received by them rcfpt&ivfly.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the rate of exchange between Continental Curren
cy and the Bids of Credit, hreby made legal tender,
fliall be, and hereby is declared to be, feventy-five of the
former for one of the latter ; which rate of exchange
fliall continue till the firft day of February next; and the
Supreme Executive Council, are hereby empowered and
required, trom and ait^r the said Gift day of February,
TUESDAY,
( Published every Tuesday and Saturday.]
to publish in the several English and German news
papers, printed in the City of Philadelphia, in the tirft
week in Every month, the then rate of exchange between
specie and Continental money ; which exchange io pub
lilhed in each month, shall be the exchange between Con
tinental money and the State money hereby made a legal
tender. Stored by Order of the House,
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker.
Enabled into a Law at Philadelphia, on Satur
day, the twenty - third day of December, in
the year of our Lord, One thousand feveti
hundred and eighty.
SAMUEL STERETT,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
^ACT to compleat the quota of the
Federal Army aligned to this State.
WHEREAS the practice of inlifling soldiers fcr
short terras has been attended with great incon
venience and danger to this and the United States, in
creating a neceffiiy of frequently calling forth the Mili
tia at a very heavy expence and wifle of important time,
and by reducing the forces in the field at critical periods
to a number yaftly inadequate to the fervicei For the
prevention of which in future, the Legiflatuie conceive it
to be abfolufely necessary to raise, with ail possible ex
pedition, a (efficient number of troops to compleat the
quota of tl^ army Acquired of this State by the Honorable
the Congress, to serve during the prefect war with Great-
Britain, and have therefore agreed, That
It be enabled, and it is hereby enabled, by th^ Repre
f/ntatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Penn
f, Ivania, in General Affembi) met, and b, the authority
of the fame, That there shall, with all convenient speed,
be inlifted within thia State two thousand (even hundred
able bodied men, to (erve during the present war with
Great-Britainy who fliall be railed and procured by or at
the expence of the inhabitants of the City of Philadelphia
and the several Counties of this State, in number and ac
cording to the proportion following, to wit: By
The City and County of Philadelphia, eight hundred and
ninety-five :
The County of Bucks, one hundred and seventy-seven:
The County of Chefler, two hundred and eighty four:
The County of Lancafler, three hundred and eighty-four:
The County of York, two hundred and fourteen :
The County of Cumberland, two hundred and two:
The County of Berks, one hundred and ninety three:
The County of Northampton, one hundred and twelve:
The County es Bedford, fixty-ener
The County of Northumberland, Seventy-five: And
The County of Weflmoreland, one hundred and three.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the Commiffioherg of theCity and the several Coun
ties of this State respectively, or any two of them, fliall
direct the Aififfors of the several Townships, Wards and
Diftrids in the faid'City and Counties refpe&ively, to°
meet at the tio es and places herein after mentioned, that
L to fay, In theCity and Counties of Philadelphia, Bucks,
Chester, Leafier, Berks arid Northampton, on or be
fore the twenty second day of January next ; and in shh
Counties of York, Cumberland, Bedford, Northumber
land and Weftmoreland, on or before the firt day of Fe
bruary nett, at the ufuhl places of holding Courts in the
said City and Counties refpeaively, orat such other place
or places where the said Commissioners shall thi&k moss
convenient, and shall then and there, in conjunction with
the said Assessors, proceed toclafs the taxable perfon,, and
property within the said City and Counties reCpeCSvely,
in such mannef that the said property, together with a
proportional sum on all taxable fiogle freemen, shall be
divided into as many equal parts as the said quota of
men, which the said City er Counties refpeaively are by
this Act r^qhired'to inlift, ffiall Confiff of, paying due re
gard to the ease and convenience of the inhabitants, by
including those who reside near to each other within the
fame class ; and fliall transmit to the federal claff^, by
persons by them to be appointed for that Service, an or
der in writing under the hands of the said Commiffioners,-
or any two of them, -with a duplicate annexed, contain-'
ing the names of each and every person composing the
fame, requiring each es the said elaffes to inlift during the
war, and deliver to the proper officer, one able-bodied
recruit within fifteen days thereafter.
And bp it further enaded' by the authority aforefaid,,
That every class which shall deliver a soldier, wlvo was
inlifled during the present war and hath deferred the ser
vice, to the officer appointed as aforefaid, shall be ex
cused from furmfhiog a recruit as above required.
Provided always, That nothing herein contain d shall
authorize any person or perlons to inlift any deserter frem
the British" army, or from the navy of the United States,
as a recruit for the class to which he belongs, or for any
other.
THE
Number 693.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid.
That if any class or classes fliall negle& or refufe to in
lift one able bodied recruit as aforefaid, within the time
limited and direfted, or to make return thereof to the
Assessor of the proper Township, Ward or Diftria, it
fliall and may be lawful for the said Commiflioners or
any twoof theffi, and the Assessor of such Ward, Di
drift or Township, where such negled or re/ufai shall
happen, to proceed and levy on each class so negleaing
hr refuting, a tax not exceeding Fifteen Pounds specie,
or otner current money equivalent, on the perforis se
verally composing such class or classes, in equal propor
tions, according to the last public tax levied therein ;
which they are hereby enjoined and direded to do with
in two days after such negled or refufal, and shall cause
the fame to be levied, collected and paid in the manner at
present in force ^nd practice, with refpeft to other taxes.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid.
That where anj class or person therein shall furnifh such
recruit, and any jifpute may arise about the sum or
sums of money which any person or persons therein should
or ought to pay towards the irifrifimerit of such recruit,
or fliall negled or refufe to pay their proportion thereof,
the fame shall be adjuftsd, collected and' paid in the man
ner directed by the foregoing clause, for the levying,'
collecting 2nd paying the expences of inliftment, in ca
ses where the classes have neglected or refufed.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid.
That the Supreme Executive Council be, and they are
hereby authorized and impaired to appoint an officer of
officers for the purpose of recruiting, and taking all re
cruits in charge, that fliall be iwlifted in pursuance of this
Aft, and make such drafts on the Treasurer of the State,
for the filling up the aforefaid quota of troops in the City
of Philadelphia and the. several Counties, as by them from
time to time shall be judged neceffarf, in favor of such.
officer or officers to be by them appointed for the service
aforefaid, so as the funis drawn for do not exceed the pe
nalties incurred by the delinquent classes.
And be it farther enacted by the authority aforefaid.
That every such recruit inlifted for any class, shall be
attested before the next or feme Justice of the Peace, and
if accepted by him, shall 'by one of the said classes be de
livered to the nearest Officer appointed for that purpofy
who, upon the receipt of such recruit, and certificate
from the said Justice of the Peace of his having been at
tested as above, shall give a receipt in favour of such class
fcr said recruit.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid.
That all monies paid by executors, guardians, or others
in legal trust, in right of another, in pursuance of this
Ass, shall he allowed in their accounts at the time of the
settlement thereof.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That every recruit so inhfted and entered into the ar
my, shall receive one compleat suit of deaths each year,
and at the end of the war two hundred acres of land, and
all other pay, gratuities end exemptions that other sol
diers in the line of this State are or shall be entitled to.
And be it further enaded by the authority aforefaid,
That any County Commiffioher herein required to per
form certain duties, and negleding or refufiug so to do,
a.cording to the true intent and meaning of this Aft,
(except in" case of sickness or removal) fhall' be fined by
tne Supreme Executive Council of this State, in any sum
not exceeding Five Hundred Pounds. And any Asses
sor, Collector or other person required in pursuance of
this A& to perform any duty, and' negleaihg dr refufiug
to perform the fame, (except as above excepted) shall be
fined ih any sum not exceeding One Hundred Pounds,
by the Commissioners of the City or any of the Coun
ties of this State, or any two of them, where the offence
may happen, who shall appoint another or others in theirs
head.
AND WHERE A S it may happen that a part of
the whole of the property in some of the said classes may
not have any person in the occupation or possession there
of, or resident thereon, to represent it :
Be it therefore further enafted by the authority afore
faid, That the Gollador of the township, ward or diftria,
wherein such property may be feuhd, shall give speedy
information thereof tothe Commissioners of the County,
who Qll without delay publish, or cause to be published,
in fame of the news-papers printed in the City of
Philadelphia, for three weeks successively, an account of
all property so circumstanced in the r said county, and of
the sum or funds of money changeable thereon, requiring;
the owner or owners to make payment thereof to the
proper person, at or before the expiration of two months
from the date of such publication ; and on failure of such
payment at the expiration of such term, the Cemmiffion
ers of die proper county, or any two of them, may, and
they are hereby authorized, impowered and required, to
expose such property or as much thereof as may be ne
cessary to pay fuchfum or sums of money, with reasona
ble costs, to sale at public au&ion, and after due and
public notice given of such intended sale for at least tear
days, to fell the fame to the highest and best bidder ,
and the (aid Commissioners, or any two of them, shall
convey any house, lands or tenements so fold, to the
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