The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-10-02 00:00:00, page 2

<TA TE or PENNSYLVANIA.
h A C T for levying a duty on certain enumerated articles,
andean vnpoftW five aer centum, ad valorem, on all other
goods, Wares and mer andi%e imported into this State, and
a tax upon real and , rfonal property, for the discharge of
the debts of the Unitei States of America, agreeable to
Aa, of Congre/s th<r in recited, and for other purposes,
therein mentioned.
WH ri Kri A) the Memorable Congress 'of the United\
States of America, by their a& of the eighteenth
day of April, on^'thoufauddeven hundred and eighty-'
three, did resolve, That it be recommended to the several
State?, as indifeenfibly necefiuy to the restoration of pub-,
lie credit, and to the punctual and honorable discharge
of the public debts, to invert the United States in Congress
assembled with a power to levy, for the use of the United
States, the following duties upon goods imported into the
said States from any foreign port, Efland or plantation ;
upon all rum, of 'Jamaica proof, per gallon, four nineti
eths of a dollar ; upon all other Spirituous liquors, three
ninetieths ditto; upon Madeira wine, twelve ninetieths,
ditto; upon all other win eg, fix ninetieths^ditro ; Upon
common bohea tea; per pound, fix ninetieths ditto; upon
all other teas, twenty-four ninetieths ditto; upon pepper,
per pound, three ninetieths ditto; uponbiown Sugar, perfo
pound, one-half ninetieth ditto; upon loaf fugar,' two
ninetieths^ktop upon all other Sugars, one ninetieth dit-'
•to; upon molalfes, per gallon, one ninetieth ditto; upon
cocoa and coff-e, per pouhd; one'fiin^tieth'ditto; 'upon''
all other goods, a duty of five per centum ad valorem, at
the time and place of importation : Provided, that mme
' of the fwd duties ' flrail be applied to any other JuirpoSe
than the difeharge of the interest or principal of the debts
contrasted on the faith of the United States for Supporting
the war, agreeably to the resolution of the sixteenth day
of December lalt, nor be continued for a longer terfh than
twep y-five years: And .provided, that the collectors of
the laid duties fhail be appointed by the States within which
their offices are to be refpeCtT el, exerciled, b'ut'when so
appointed fhail be amenable to and be removable by the
United State, in Congress assembled alone ^ And in case
any State (ball not make such appointment "within one
mdnth after notice given for that purpole, the appoint
ment may be made by the United-States m Congress aflem
bled.
Be it therefore* evaded, and it is hereby Bti&d by the Rte
prefentattves of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, in General .Affembty met, and by the authority oj
the Jame, That the 'United States in Congress assembled
fhail be, and. they are hereby fully authori fed and em
powered to levy,, for the use of the United States afore
faid, the following duties upon goods impoi ted into this
State from .ny foreign port, island or plantation, not
within any of thd United States; upon all rum, of Ja
maica pro f, per gallon, four ninetieths of a dollar; upon
all othr fpiritubus liquors, three ninetieths of a dollar;
upon Madeira wine, twelve ninetieths of a dollar; upon
ail other wines, fix ninetieths of a dollar ; upon common
bohea tea, per pound, fix ninetieths of a dollar; upon all
other teas, twenty-four ninetieths of a dollar; upon pep
per, per pound, tnree ninetieths of a dollar; upon brown
' ll ^b P^ r pound, one half ninetieth of a dollar; upon
loaf sugar, two ninetieths of a dollar ; upon all other
sugars one ninetieth of a dollar; upon molasses, per gal
lon, one ninetieth of a dollar ; upon cocoa and coffee, per
pound, one ninetieth of a dollar; and upon all other
goods, a duty of five per cent, ad valorem, at the time
and place of importation; for and during the term of
twenty-five years.
Provided always, and be it enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the laid duties (hall be applied to the difeharg
ing of the interest and princial of the debts contrasted on
the faith of the United States for supporting the war,
agreeable to the resolution of the United States in Con
gress of tiie sixteenth day of December last: And the Su
preme Executive Council of this State shall, as often as
occasion mey be, appoint the Collectors of the duties
aforefaid, whrh Collectors so appointed shall be amenable
to and removable by the United States in Congress alone:
And in case the Supreme Executive Council of this State
fhail not m ke fich appointment within one month after
notice given to them for that purpose, the appointment
may be made by the United States in Congress assembled.
Amf be it enabled by the Authority aforefaid, That before
anv oT the aforefaid Collectors, or their successors, shall
eater upon the execution of the duties of their refpeCtive
o Tices, each and every of them shall make oath or affirma
tion for the faithful difeharge of the fame, and shall enter
int) bonds, with two fufficient sureties, to the President
or Vice-President of the Supreme Executive Council, for
the faithful discharge of their refpe&ive duties, and for
the accounting for and paying all such sums of money as
they shall from time to time receive by virtue of this aft.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
every such Coll°6tor shall be en itled to such commiSHons
for their services, on the whole of the monies by them
received and paid by. virtue of this act, as. Congress shall
hereafter allow.
AND WHEREAS the Congress of the United States,
by their aft of the eighteenth day of April, one thousand
seven hundred and eightv-th ee aforefaid, did resolve,
that it be further recommended to the federal States to
establish, for a term limited to twenty-five years, and to
appropriate to the difeharge of the interest and principal
of the debts contrasted on the faith of the United States
for supporting the war, substantial and effectual revenues,
of such nature as they may judge most convenient for
supplying their refpe&ive proportions of one million five
hundred thousand dollars annually, exclusive of the afore
mentioned duties, which proportion to be fixed and
equalized from time to time, according to the rule which
is or may be prescribed by the articles of confederation ;
provided, that until the rule of the confederation can be
carried into practice, the proportion of the State of Penn
filvania. of the said one million and five hundred thou
sand dollars, fliall be two hundred and five thousand one
hundred and eighty-nine dollars :
Be it therefore enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
the f.+id proportion of the one million five hundred thou
sand dollars as aforefaid, annually, for the term of twen
ty-five years, shall be raised and levied on the persons
and estates of the inhabitants of this State, for the uses
and purpofe* aforefaid, in such manner as the Legislature
of this Commonwealth shall from time to time hereafter
direct: Provided always, that if any of the annual pro
portions of the one million two hundred and five thou-
find one hundred and eighty-nine dollars aforefaid shall
be otherwise raised, and paid to the United States for the
uses and purposes aforefaid, then such annual levy or tax
shall be difedntinued./
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That
the money to be railed by virtue of this aft shall be, and
it hereby is appropriated to me difeharge of the interest
and principal of the debts contrasted ' ort the faith of the
United States for supporting the war.
Provided always, and be it 'enabled by' the authority afore
faid, That this aCt Shall not take effect, until each and
every of the Thirteen United States fhAll make laws con
formable to the a&s of Congress on 'which this aft is
founded.
AND WHEREAS Congress did, 6n the eighteenth
day of April aforefaid, resolve, That an annual account
of the proceeds and application of all the aforementioned
revenues Should be made out and transmitted to the seve
ral States, distinguishing the proceeds of each of the
fpecified articles, and the amount of the whole revenue
received from each State, together with the allowances
made to the several officers employed in the collection of
the said revenues:<
Be it therefore enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
the said accounts, when made out in the form and man
ner aforefaid, and transmitted to the Supreme Executive
Council, shall forthwith be transmitted to the Comptrol
-Ir-General of this State, who shall enter the fame in fair
arid fepafate books, and shall lay the said books before
the Assembly of this Stare, or the Supreme Executive
Council, when thereto required ; and for the fatiffaCtion
of the good people of this State, the said accounts shall
be published by the said Comptroller, as often as the Af
femblflhal! direct.
And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, That the aft,
~entituled " An AFI to veji tn the Congress of the United
States s'power do levy duties of five per centum, ad valo
rem, on certain goods and merchandize imported into this
Commonwealth, and or frizes and prize goods condemned in
' the Court of Admiralty' of this State after the firfl day of
May, one thousand felen hundred and eighty-one, and ap
propriating the fame," parted the fifth day of fyri/, one
thousand seven hundred and mighty-one, and every elaufe,
matter and' thing therein contained, be, and the fame is
'hereby repealed and made void.
Signed, by Order of the House,
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker.
Enabled into a law, at Philadelphia, on
Tuesday, the twenty-third day of Sep
tember, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand seven hundred and eighty-three.
PETER Z. LLOYD, Clerk of the General Afembly.
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Foreign Intelligence.
COPENHAGEN, July t.
THE navigator who hasdifcow red the island emerg
ed from the sea, declares its position to be at eight
miles diflance from the rocks, the fartheft from Ice
land, called the Rocks des Oi'eaux. At fix miles nif.
tance he observed a thick smoke to arise ; he got with
in hall a mile, and failed round it. He perceived every
where, pumice-flones swimming on the furface; by
founding he found 44 fathom at W. S. W. of the
Reycences; and flicking to the lead some sea-coal, on
drawing near to the Rocks des Oifeaux, he found no
alteration. The inhabitants if Iceland informed him,
they had felt no earthquake; they had only observed,
about easter, something flaming in the-sea, to the south
of Grindbourg : the king, as has been observed, has
ordered poffeffon to be taken of the island, and has
called it Ny-Oce. —
DUBLI N, July 19.
A person high in tne confidence of government be
ing asked, yefLrday, at the cuflom house, wnat fleps
had been taken, or enquiry made, concerning the de
tension and refold to entry of the American vessels at
Cork ? replied, that, in his opinion, the sass either did
not exist, or was grofly misrepresented, as the cham
ber of commerce had not made any application on
that head, to the lord lieutenant, as, if there had, the
business would have been immediately attended to.
L ONDO N,
July ti. A letter from Vienna brings advice, that
the emperor has received intel igence that a Turkish
army is on their march towards the borders of Hun
gary, therefore the emperor has ordered a large body
of forces to march for the frontier towns, to prevent
if possible the enemy committing depredations on any
of his fubjeOs.
Very large sums of specie are shipped from Amfier
dam, on board tie squadron carrying Mr. Van Ber
tel, the envoy appointed to Congress, to be put into
the Philadelphia date bank; and two very opulent
merchants of Holland, it is said, are gone from Am
flerdam, to establish houses in Philadelphia.
July 21- A society of twelve merchants of Philadel
phia and of London, are now forming themselves into
a company to b* filled the Canada company, with a
capital of 150,000 b in order to push the fur trade of
North-America to its utmost limits, and which is like
ly to turn out a mine of wealth to the United States.
Warehouses and ports are already ere&ed and erecting
at Detroit, Niagara, Frontenac, Crown-Point, and
Ticonderoga, in order to form the grand depot at Al
bany and New-York. This trade, crampt as it here
tofore has been by the regulations in this country,
generally amounted to seven or eight hundred thousand
pounds per annum, and the furs through the medium
of the London merchants found their way, leaving a
duty in England, to all parts of the continent of Eu
rope, and even to those parts of Russia where furs of
a Similar kind are found.
Very large remittances have, within these three days,
been sent from the Dutch and the Austrian Nether
lands, to buy into our funds.
The king of Prussia has ordered 50,000 men to b*
encamped in Si'efi ', and to hold themselves in perftH
readiness for other fervicv ; and it appears frpm various
accounts from Germany and Russia, that a war between
the latter and the Porte is inevitable.
Two ships frem Philadelphia, with thirteen flripes
flying, are fafe arrived at Belfafl.
Fxfha of a letter from Amsterdam, July 9; ™
" The Guilbert galley is arrived at the T<xel from
Surinam, which place (he left the 20th of May, at
which period the French troops, who had been in the
garrison there ever since their recapture from the Eng
lish, had all embarked, and left our garrison in full
possession."
The Amiable Elisabeth, from I'Orient to Philadel
phia, met with uncommon bad weather at sea, in which
she threw the greatest part of her cargo overboard, and
was afterwards towed by an English ship into New
foundland, a mere wreck.
July 28. On Tuesday last, as the crew of she Lon
don man of war teas paying off at Chatham, there be
ing a general cheer through the ship, of messmates and
old friends, of various descriptions, taking leave, the
grog was handed about with the usual briskness. One
of the tars, who till then was a 'favorite in the regions
of old Nep une, became a vi&im to the spirit of Juni
per. The captain being apprized of his situation, in
fi^e'd on the tailor's flaying on board for that night,
and offered to keep his money for him till next morn
ing. But the insult was too great for the flomach of
Jack, who now being difeharged, thought himfelf per
leflly free from controul, and to revenge himfelf of the
offence, took his hat between his hands, which con
tained 50 guineas, and throwed it overboard, faying,
" now lam easy, d nmy eyes, I will go and work
for more."
To the PR^NfEk of the Morning Chronicle-
S I R,
THE debate in the house of lords the other day, on
the fubjefl of his majefly's proclamation ofthe sth
instant, nfuft have affeHed the minds of the generality
of teaders vafioufly, like the vibrating of a balance.
I beg leave to make some observations on thefubjeft
matter, tor thecorfideration of the public. Some years
ago, there were no fflanders circumstanced, to fend to
the continent for provisions, lumber, &c. and the dis
tresses of the late war, must have rendered them less so
now. If the Islands are to have any supply from the
Continent of North America, it must be effeaed by
vessels fitted out in Britain, of 'the small kind, from 30
to 80 tons burthen, purposely for that employ, for
no regular Weft Indiaman can make the voyage by
way of the continent, from a prevalency of winds, ad
verse to that rout ; and a trip for lumber, is only
made, when no sugars can be had that season, by
way of easing the charges of the voyages
But if the sugar-cane can be raised to arty perfection
in Georgia, or South-Carolina, and no doubt trial
will be made, then by th? common return of melaffes,
&c. from the French and Spanish islands, for lumber
and provisions, the American flares will be fuffici fitly
fnpplied ; and it is not lik ly they will admit sf any
intercourse between the Britilh islands and their fubjeHs,
on the terms of the proclamation. I hesitate not to de
clare, that the British islands will feel the effed severely
at times, almost to flarvation.
In my opinion, the trial has too much hazard at
tached to it. A liberal and just intercourse between the
North-American flatus and our Weft-India islands, by
a free admission of each others vessels, on the fame terms
and imports on both sides, having industry and emula
tion to preponderate, would be in the end, the bed po
licya Perhaps the favourer of smuggling advised it, at
a trap to Catch Vankeys in, knowing, thatthe Creoles
and true Barbadians born, love turkeys, and will hold
out a temptation, to get fnpplied with f r efh provisions.
I fee the conference, petty augers, as called, wil
carry molasses to the French islands, to meet the Ame
rican vessels, and barter for what they want, and that
article will be made by the movement 30 per cent, to
the planter, under the French melaffes, which former
ly was the reverse. Our ports being open to, and theirs
shut against the American vessels.
N. B. Melaffes will not answer freight and charges
to Europe. NAUTICU S.
P. S. I believe few planters will hold it wrongto pay
the price salted provisions, &c. from Europe, will come
to in the Wert Indies, they being fufficiently under
the hatches of the merchants for goods, &c. had, long
before the sugar is made.
Philadelphia, O&ober 2.
State of Pennsylvania, viz.
RECEIPT of continental taxes from the state of
Pennsylvania, pulifhed in pursuance of the sixth ar
ticle of inftruaions from the office of finance, dated the
12th day of February, 1783.
For the month of September, 1783.
Dollars
Sept. 8, Received of David Ritten-\
house, esquire, ) 453 1
13, of ditto 3000
151 , of ditto 184,
?6, of ditto 4000
22, of ditfO 2212
29, of ditto 1775
Dollars, 17359
Amounting in al 1 , to seventeen thousand three hun
dred and fifty-nine dollars.
J. SWANWICK, receiver of con
tinentaltaxes for Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, October 1, 1783.
Tuesday morning at ten o'clock came on, in the fa
prenic court, before the honorable chief justice M'Kean
and the honorable George Bryan, esquire, toe trial of
four Genoefe sailors, for the murder of captain William
Pickels. At eight o'clock in the evening the jury
(one half of which we re foreign gentlemen) withdrew,
arid brought in tieir verdict at four o'clock yesterday
morning, when Francisco Merfcar, P*dro Giacabo
and Matteo Brutefli, were found guilty, and the
fourth, Pafco Carolo, was acquitted.
On Thursday lafl, Charles He-tly and Matthew
Coulthurft, esquires, were admitted and sworn attor
nies of the supreme court of this date ; and on Mon
day fol owing, were admitted and sworn attorntes of
the court of common fleas.