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PHILADELPHI A.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
Monday May 29.
The Bill intitled “ An Aft to eretl part of the coun
ty of Weftmoreland into two counties," was read the
second time, and being debated by paragraphs was or
dered to be transcribed for the third reading, and in
the mean time printed for consideration.
Extrad from the Minutes,
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
An ma for erecting part of the county of Weftmore
land into three fep rate counties.
IX7"HEREAS a great number of the inhabitants
VV of the county of Weftmoreland) on the south
fide of the Youghiogani river and east of the river
Monangohela, have represented to the Assembly of
this commonwealth the great har ships they lie under,
from being so remote from the present feat of judica
ture and the public offices:
And whereas a great number of the inhabitants of
the said county of Weftmoreland, on the weft fide of
said river Monangohela, have represented to the As
sembly of this commonwealth the great hardthips thy
lie under from being so remote from the present feat
of judicature and the public offices ; and have also re
presented to this Assembly many other their grievan
ces, and prayed relief in the premises: for remedy
whereof.
ift. Be it ena&ed, and it is hereby enabled, by the re
presentatives of the freemen of the commonwealth of
Fennfylvania in General Affemoly met, and by the
authority of the fame, that all and angular the lands
lying within the commonwealth of Fennfylvania, and
being within the bou diries following, abatis to fay,
beginning in the line commonly called Meson and
Dickson's line, where the mod westerly branch, com
monly called the south or great branch, of Youg eio
gany river, crosses the f me then down tl e eaflerly fide
of the said branch and river to its junction with the
Monangohela river ; thence up the weft fide of the
said Monango: eb river to where it is interfered by
M^afon and Dickson's line aforefaid, and by tee said
line to the place of beginning, Q !1 be, and the fame
is hereby declared to be, erected into a county, here
after to be called A.
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2d. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, that all and finguir the lands lying within the
commonwealth if Pennsylvania, and being within the
bound ries following, that is to fay, beginning at the
junction of the rivers Allogmy and Monangohela ;
then up the weft fide of the said Monangohela river to
where Me foil and Dickson's line crosses the said river ;
thence by the said line and the course thereof to the
western extent of this commonwe Ith, that is to by ;
till five degrees of longitude from Delaware fiver be
compleated on the said line ; fhence due north to the
Ohio river r thence by such northerly and eafterl,
courses as shall include all the inhabitants within this
commonwealth northward, between the Merediahs of
the last described line and the mouth of the Monan
gohela river, to the place of beginning; shall be, and
the fame is hereby declared to be, erected into a coun
ty henceforth to be called B
3d. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the inhabitants of the said counties of A.
and B. fha'l at all times hereafter, se
verally, have and enjoy all and Angular the jurifdic
tidns, powers, rights, liberties and priviledges whatso
ever, which the inhabitants of any other county with
in the said commonwealth do, may, or ought to enjoy,
by any charter of previledges, or the laws of this com
monwealth, or by any other ways and means whatso
ever; excepting only in the number of their represen
tatives to serve in general assembly of this common
wealth ; in which case it is provided and further enabled
<by the' authority afofefaid, that the freeholders and
Inhabitants of each township, within thefaid counties
of A. and B. qualified by the laws of
this commonwealth to ele&, shall meet at some conve
nient place within their refpedive townships, at the
fame time the freeholders and inhabitants of the several
townships of the other counties (hall meet for like pur
pose, and proceed to choose intpe^ors; and that the
freemen and inhabitants of thf said counties, qualified
as aforefaid, shall meet, that is to fay, the inhabitants
of the said county of A. at Beafon's-Town;
and tie inhabitants of the said county of B.
at such place or places as the trustees herein after ap
pointed shall appont and make known, at tie fame
time the inhabitants of the other counties shall meet
for the like purposes, and proceed severally to elebt
representatives or delegates to serve them in assembly,
in the fame manner, and under the f me rul s, regula
tions and penalties, as by the confutation and laws
of this commonwealth are directed in refperi to other
counties which said reprefenta fives, when so chpfen,
Ihall be members of the general assembly of the com
monwealth of Fennfylvania, and shall fit and act as
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such, as fully and freely as any of the representatives
for the other counties within this commonwealth, do,
may, can, or ought to do.
4th. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforefaid, that the justices ot the supreme court of
this commonwealth, and the judges of the high court
of errors and appeals, ihall have like powers, jurisdic
tions arid authorities in and concerning the said coun
ties of A. and B. as by the law they
are yefted with and entitled to in the other counties
within tens commonwealth.
sth. And be it further enabled by the authority
aforefaid, That such of the juftice^ of the peace for the
county of Weftmoreland, wtidfe habitations, by this
division, shall fall within the said counties of A.
or B. shall continue to hold and exercise their
said offices of justices of the peace in and for the said
county of A. or B. into which they
may severally fall, arid be holden, reputed and taken,
and are hereby declared to be, to all intents and pur?
poses, justices of the peace id and for the said county
of A. or B. into which they fall, until
their commissions do expire by their own limitation,
or until they are removed from their said office, accor
ding to the directions of the constitution and laws of
this commonwealth ; and that the president or vice pre
sident and council of this commonwealth do, by such
ways and means as to them shall seem proper, cause
the said counties of A. and B. to be
divided ihto proper townships; and jufiices of the peace
in addition to thole aforefaid therein to be elected, and
commissioned according to the directions of the conffi
tution and haws of this commonwealth; which said
justices, or any three of them for each f the Gid coun
ties of A. and B. respectively, shall
and may hold courts of general qu rter fellions of the
peace and goal delivery, and county courts for hol
ding of pleas; and shall have all and fingulaf the pow
ers, rights, jurisdictions and authorities, to all intents
and purposes, as other the justices of t;.e court of gene
ral quarter sessions, and justices of the county courts
for holding of pleas in the other counties aforefaid may,
can, or ought to have in their respective counties;
which said courts ihall fit and be held for trie said coun
ty of A- on the firft Tuesday in March, June;
September and December; at Bekfoii's- Town afore
f id within the fail county of A. and for the
said county of B. on the third Tuesday's in
every of toe months aforefaid, at such place as tie
trustees herein after appointed lh ill appoint and direCt ;
and the ileCtior, of representatives to serve id the gene
ral assembly and supreme executive council, fheriff's,
CQrroners, commissioners, assessors, and all other offi
cers of the faj counties, who are or shall be appointed
to be annually, or triannually elected, shall be made
and elected for the said county of A. at Bea
fon's-Town afofefaid, and for the said county of B.
at such place or places as the trustees aforefaid
for the said county of B. shall appoint and
mak^known to thl eaffembly of this commonwealth, at
the fame time, and in the fame manner as by the con
stitution, and the laws ofthe commonwealth aforefaid
is directed to be done in the other counties within this
commonwealth; and it shill be lawful for the freemen
of the said counties refpeftively, for the firft year, to
choose three commissioners for raffing county rates and
levies for the said counties.
6th. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforefaid, that it shall and may be lawful for A. B.'
C. D. or any three of them, to purchase and take af
fufance to them and their heirs of a piecd of land situate
in Beafon's town aforefaid in truftand for the use of
the inhabitants of the said county of A. and
thereupon to erect and build a court house and prison
Sufficient to accommodate the public service of the said
county of A. and for E.T. all or any three of them,
to purchase and take affufahce as aforefaid of a piece
bf land in some convenient place in the said county of
B. and thereon to ereC tand build as aforefaid
for the use of the inhabitants of the said county of B.
7th. And be it further enaCted by the authority
aforefaid, that for the defraying the charges of pur
cnafing the lands, building and erecting the couft
houfes and prisons aforefaid, it shall and may be law
ful to and for the commiffi,oners and assessors of the said
Counties of A. and B. refpeftively;
ora majority of them, to assess and levy, and they
are hereby required to assess and levy, in the manner
directed by the aft for raising county rates and levies,
so much money as the said trustees of the said coun
ties of A. and B. refpedively, or any
three of them, shall judge rieceffary for purchasing the
binds, and building the said court-house and p ifori.
Provided always, the sum of money to be raised in any
one of the said counties does not exceed
pounds, money of this common
wealth.
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A DVERTISER.
On I hurfday next will be published and fold by
JOHN DUNL A F,
ALL THE
L A ,W,. S
Enaaed in the Third Sitting of the Fourth /
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Of the Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA,
Waich commenced at Philadelphia, oh Wdnefday the
T^nth day of May, in the year of our Loid One
thousand seven hundred and eighty.
O ~E S O 1
By the Subscribers Agents of Coifilcated Eftatet, for
Philadelphia County.
A FRAME SHOP, zo feet wide, by 90 feet
long, with 3 irnitbs forges, chimneys, &c. therein,
ana part thereof occupied at a carpenter's (hop, contain
ing lundry benches, &c. frurate in the Northern Liber
ties, on Thi<d street, oppoiite the Barracks. All will
be told at the Court Houiein this city cn the zed inst.
GEORGE SMITH, ) Agents for
WILLIAM MCMULLIN,) P. County.
June 9.
TO BE SOLD BY
J OHN SPARHA WK,
lu Secon i-rireet, five doers below the Friends Meeting,
A GENERAL assortment of BOOKS, &c.
among which are late Magazin,#, Boyer's French
Dictionary, Family Bibles, Hume's Hittory of England,
Gjidfmith' sditto. A gte.it variety of Paper Hangings,
the belt large Writing Paper; Bl nk Bools; Parchment,
Su veying instruments,. Quadrants, the left Lancets;
Copper S ales and Weights, Money-Scales, &c.
, Druggs and Medicine „iz. Camphor, Opium, Quick
fiver, Peruvian Balk, Sweet Oil, K^fer's Pil s, J fui 's
Di ops,Turlington's B dfam, Harlem Oil, D tf,'sEbxir,
Sco.s Pills, British 01, Bat trim's Drops, & . &c.
Aho may be had at lame place, Tanners O 1 ana Bri
ftvl Gials.Z
Cinp, > em Morris-Town, Jure 3. lyfo.
One Thousand Dollars Reward.
CTOLEN out ut the Patture of Mr. John Logan, in
' Mendham township, Morris county, 911 the night of
the 30th 0 May lift, a Black MARE, four years old,
fourteen and a half hands high;(hod all round, with three
write feet, a Itai in her forehead, trots and hand gal
lops remarkably well, very high fpuited. Whoever takes
up said Mare and the Thief, so that the fubferiber may
h ve the Mare, and the Thief be brought to punifh
mnt, ihall have the above reward, or Five Hundred
Dollars for the Mare only, by
ALEXANDER PARKER,
Capt. 7th Penn. Regt.
TO BE S O D
A full bred M A R E,
Late the property of General Hand.
CHE is about x$ hands high, g years old, very active
and full of spirit, wks got by Wildair, out ot an
imported Mare ; (he has loft cne of her eyes, hit would
lie very valuable to breed from. Inquire ot SAMUEL
HCDGSON, back of the City Tavern.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
CTRAYED away from the Commons of this city,
° about the sixth inst. a black and white C OW, the
end of her horns sawed pff, branded I. B. on the upper
part of each horn, a white spot in her forehead, long
tail ; (he was lately bled, the pin and hair lelt fift to
the orrifice in her deck when the went away ; ? small
piece ct both ears cut off, her horns stands a lutle<fkew.
It is supposed ffie is gone up the Germantown or Ridge
Road, as (he came from a place abou twenty-one miles
up that way. Whoever t«kes her up, and brings her
to the fubferiber, living in Spruce ftre?t, between Fourth
and F frh-ftreet,, shall have the above reward.
June !%. ROBERT HARDIE.
TO BE SOLD
An elegant Young HORSE,
Fifteen hands high, and of extraordinary blood.
Enquire of the Printer.
—fr a NTED
About Five Miles from this City,
A WOMAN to wadi and iron in a large family ;
so if (he unaerft nds taking care of a small dairy,the
will be the more agreeable. Good wages will be g ve#,
if (he c^n be well recommended. Enquire of the
Printer.
THE
JUNE i 3, 1780.