The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-02-25 00:00:00, page 4

In CONGRESS, r^rtt^y G, i,;3.
O R the better regulating; the Holpi
ff' tals cf the United States,
Rtfohed, That there be a Deputy D>
rector (general tor the hospitals between
Hedibn and Tor >wmack rivers; and that
t^e fuperintendmg care of the Director
General be extended equally over the hoi-
Vpitals in every ditfrid, and that he be ex
^uLd from the duty of providing Supplies
when rhe -Deputy Director General Ihall
be reedy to enter upon the office.
Thar the several officers of the hospitals
shall ccale to exerciie such of their former
powers as arc herein aligned to other orh
cers thereof.
That in the absence of the Director Ge
neral from any diftridt, the Physician Ge-.
neral and Surgeon General shall hereafter
determine the number of hospitals to be
provided by the Deputy Director General,
for the lick and wounded, and (hall Super
intend and control! the affairs of luch hos
pitals.
That the Director General shall consult
with the Yhyfician General and Surgeon
General in each didrift, about the supplies
ntceffary for the hospitals, and shall give
orders in writing to the Deputy Director
'General thereof to provide the fame ; and
in the absence of the Director General, the
PhyfiEan Gene r al and Surgeon General
shall issue such orders.
That each Deputy Direct ar General
shall appoint one or more of the Affidant
Deputy Directors under him, for the sole
purpole of providing beds, furniture, u
tenlils, hospital eloathing, and luch like
articles, and shall appoint one or more to
provide medicines, instruments, dressings,
herbs and ncceffaries of a similar kind.
That the Director Generaldhaii frequent
ly visit the Hospitals in each diffrift, and
lee that the regulations are carried into ef
feff, shall examine into the number and
qualifications of the hospital officers, report
toCongrefs any abuses that may have taken
place, and dilcharge the supernumerary
officers if there be any, that all unnecessary
txpences may be laved to the public: And
when the Director General is in any parti
cular diftrid, the Physician General and
Surgeon General in that district, shall not
appoint any officers without bis conicoid
That on the lettlement of hospital ac
counts, the officers intruded witl ipublic
money, shall produce vouchers to prove
the expenditure, and receipts from the pro
per officers of the Hospitals, ipecifymg the
delivery of the (lores, and other articles
purchased; and the Apothecaries, Mates,
Stewards, Matrons and other officers re
ceiving such stores and other articles, shall
be accountable for the fame, and shall pro
duce vouchers for the delivery thereof,
from luch officers, and according to such
forms, as the Physicians General and Sur
geons General have directed, or shall from
time to time direct ; which forms and di
redions the Physicians and Surgeons Ge
neral shall report to the Board of I reafury.
That the Director General, or, in his
absence from the diftrid, the Physician Ge
neral and Surgeon General, shall appoint a
™Ward-master tor each hospital, to receive
the arms, accoutrements and eloathing of
each soldier admitted therein, keeping en
tries of, and giving receipts for, such ar
ticles which, on the recovery of the soldi
er, shall be returned to him, or in case of
his death, the arms and accoutrements shall
L^AC^S'J, ER; Printed by JOHN DUNLAP, in Queen-street.
be delivered to Tie Committary or Deputy
Commissary of military stores, and receipts
be taken for the fame ; and the Ward
matter shall receive, and be accountable,,
for the holpkal eloathing, and perform such
other Services as the Physician General or
Surgeon General shall direct
That the PhyGeiarrs General and Surge
ons General shall hereafter make no returns
to the Deputy Directors General, but the
return shall be made by the laid officers
relpedtivGy to the Director General, who
shall carefully transmit copies of each with
his monthly return to Congress, and fut
pend such of the'officers aforesaid, as neg
j< (ft this or any other part of their duty,
and shall report their names to Congrels.
That the Director and Deputy Directors
General forthwith prepare their accounts
and adjust them w.th the Commissioners
of Claims at the Board of Treasury.
That Four Dylars a d&y and the former
allowance of rations, be hereafter allowed
to each Affidant Deputy Director, and the
Commissary of the Hospitals in each diftridt;
and One Dollar a day and two rations to
each Ward-matter.
Refolded, That Doctor Potts be called
from the Northern dittricf and be appoint
ed to ad as Deputy Director General in
the Middle district.
Refetved, That the deleft Assistant De
puty Dircdor in the Northern diff rid shall
execute the office of the Deputy Director
General in the said diftrid, until the fur
ther orders of Congress.
That the Salaries of the hospital officers,
and debts contrasted for the Hospital of
the Middle diftrid, to the time of Dodor
Potts's entering upon the office of Deputy
Director General therein, shall be adjusted
and paid by the Diredor General, who
shall deliver all the public stores in his pos
session to the Deputy Director General or
his order, taking duplicate receipts for the
fame, and tranlmitting one of each to the
Board of Treasury: And the fame rule
shall be observed by Dodor Potts, with re
fped to the salaries and debts of the Hol
pitals of the Northern dittrid, and the
public stores thereof, which are to be de
livered to his successor in office in that dif
trid. Extrafl Jron the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec.
WWO W^W^^W^^W
Camp, Kal<ej Fo^ge, Dec. 3 0, 1777.
IN compliance with his Excellency's orders
of the 27th nut. requiring all Brigadiers ami Of
ficers commanding Brigades, to make a thia enquiry
concerning all the Officers absent from then Brigades ;
and such as are absent without leave from proper au
thority, or having had such leave remain unneceflarily
absent, are to be immediately notified to return to
Camp, on pain of being fuq &ided or cashiered.
I do therefore require and ttridly enjoin all the Offi
cers belonging to the firlt Pennsylvania Brigade, that
comes within tne above description, to repair immedi
ately to Camp, in order to lave tnemlelves the biulh
that such a ftigrna thrown on their characters would
rive, to perlons of the least Itnfibility ; and likewile
lave his Excellency the pain of the performance.
JAMES CHAMBERS, Col. ift Reg.
Commanding ill Pennl. Brigade.
THIRTY DOLLAR) REWARD.
RAN AWAY in the night of the s th instant,
(February) from the fubicriner, living in Bait
Township, Lancaster County, a Negro man named
TOM, about twenty two years old, five feet five or
fix inches high, well made; had on a halt-worn Inuff
coloured coat, blue jacket, cloth coloured breeches,
light blue stockings, good Ihoes, and an old felt hat.
He took with him a three.years old COLT, past lalt
June, fourteen and a halt hands high, trots and can
ters well, of a black colour, no brand nor natural
mark. Whoever takes up and secures said Negro and
Horse, so that the owner may have them again, fliall
have the above reward and reasonable charges, or
FIFTEEN DOLLARS for either, paid by
ROBERT THOMPSON.
Z 4r rt fy^ r , Febrttr r y 7, r,^/
BY VIRTUE of fpeciE directions of the
Honorable the P efident and Council of the Com
monwealth of Penrlylvania, We do order, that Colo
nel S. Culbertson, Lieutenant Colonel John Wyrk,
and M jor John Johnson; Captains William Huflon.
Fatrick Jack, and —— Wallace ; Lieutenants J. no
Barr, John Ewing, and John Hart; Ensigns j^hn
Gardner, P.rkefon, DavmStmrcl, an^ Reftnn n
Juncans, be ditcharged trem doing Militia Duty at.
present, on account of the proportion ot men being
inadequate to the num' eroft fficers. And we do offer
the officers above-mentioned our hearty thinks tor
their activity, forwardness and cenftant attendance,
and reluctance in returning home.
JOHN CAROTHERS, L. of C. C.
JAMES GREGORY, S. L.
BENJAMIN BLY TH, S.L. C. C.
GEORGE SHARP. S. L. C. C.
Reading, ,anua„ 27, 1778.
,To be SOLD at PUBLIC SALE,
On the 3d day of March next, (if not kroner fold by
priva e Lie) by the fubferiber, living in the laid
town,
AT W O story brhk Miffuage or Tenement, go
feet by 35, with a cellar under rhe whole, and a
half lot of ground, situate on the w< fl fide of Callow,
hill-street, neerthe Court House in said town, 30 Let
front on said CUiowhihrttr er, and 2 30 feet deep, with
a two-story kitchen, and cellar under the fame, a pi
rtza, and other conveniences ; the whole elegantly
finished, and Suitable for a private family or tor any
}blic business. For terms of file apply to
DANIEL ROSE.
Donegal, February 6, 1778.
T O B E S OL D,
By the fubferiber (at the requ ft of the owners) in the
interior parts of the County of Lancaster,
FIVE thousand acres of L A N D, of good quali
ty, well watered and timbered ; one thousand in
the County of Northumberland, three hundred and
twenty in the County of Cumberland, with an Inland
in the River Susquehanna adjacent thereunto ; one
hundred in the County of York, oppose the Ferry
called Croutche’s, one mile above Middletown ; two
thousand acres, or thereabout, in the County of Weft
moreland, known by the name of Squirtel-H 11: A
gr p at part of said land is lime-stone, well-watered and
timbered, the whole fit for plough or feythe, capable
of great improvements, the chief of them well adapted
for water-works, meadow, er otherwise, as the owner
may choose. Indisputable rigbts.will be made to any
purchaser, and cafli (legal tender of this or the United
State<) received as payment; otherwise bonds upon
interest, as may belt suit the purchaser. Teims of sale
to be made known by the fubferiber.
BAJU[R EM GALBRAITH.
FOURTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
^TO LEN out of the liable of the fubfcrib°r, living
' in Southampton Township, Bucks County, in the
night of the i 9 h of December lad, alight grey Horse,
about fourteen hands and an inch high, and about six
teen years old, high boned, low neck, big head, long
mane, and a four look, paces very easy, and trots out
of hand, had on one shoe before, the hair worn eff the
right thigh with the trace the bigness of the palm of a
man's hand, a final! lump on his back, and a scab on
the right fide below his back bone under the sere part
of the saddle. Whoever takes np the said horse, and
the thief, lo that the owner may have the horse again
and the thief be brought to justice, shall have the above
reward, or for the horse roly TEN DOLLARS,
and reasonable charges, paid by
NICHOLAS VANSANDT.
T E SO L
A VALUABLE Plantation or Trad of Land,
& fixate in Eatt-Nottingham, f^uth of the line in
Cascil County, within half a mile of the Brick Meeting
boufe ; containing about 300 acie„ as well watered, if
not better, than any other place in the Township; it
is extremely well calculated for meadow, there being
upwards of 20 acres made, and a large quantity may
be made, the most of which may be 'watered by two
never-fading streams, one of which being already
brought over a bank of meadow, runs through the
garden, and will at pleasure produce a good season for
plants of any kind in the dried part of summer; the
upland is easy laboured, and produces grain or pas
ture well; it consists of nine fields, with corftant wa-.
''/." '", and may with the Imall expence of twenty
Shillings, have water in eight, which never fails, with
out breaking one acre of the whole : The wood land is
exceeding well timbered. On said premises are two
good apple-orchards with about 250 hearing trees of
good fruit, and about 350 bearing peach-trees ; also a
good frame dwelling-house, lately wearher-boarded
and covered, with two large rooms below and four
above, a good square log kitchen adjoining said honfe,
likewise a barn, stables, and other out-houses. The
whole is pleasantly situated between two roads, one
leading from the Brick Meeting.houfe to Christiana-
Bridge, the other from said house to Charleftown. Any
perton inclining to purchase may know the terms by
applying to WILLIAM BEAN, living on the
premises.
N. B. Th*re is also a tract very commodiously situ
ated, adjoining the above, confiding of near 3 co acres,
with good improvements, an excellent spring, a good
orchard and meadows; with an indisputable title. En
quire cf JAMES GALT, on the premises.