The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-03-28 00:00:00, page 1

In CONGRESS, March 18th, 1780.
THES E United States having been driven into
this just and necessary war at a time when no re
gular civil governments were eftiblifhed, of fufficj
ent energy to enforce the collection of taxes, or to provide
funds for the redemption of such Bills of Credit as their
necessities obliged them to issue; and before the powers of
Europe were Efficiently convinced of the justice of their
fault, or of the probable event of the controversy to afford
them aid or credit, in consequence of which, their Bills
incredfing in quantity beyond the fura necessary for the
purpose of a circulating medium, and wanting at the fame
time fpecific funds to rest on for their redemption, they
have seen them daily fink in value, notwithstanding every
effort that has been made to support the fame ; insomuch
that they are now passed by common consent in most parts
of these United Starts, at lead thirty.nine fortieths below
their nominal value, anJ flill remain in a state of depre
ciation, whereby the community fufftrs great injustice,
the public finances are deranged and the necessary disposi
tions for the defence of the country are much impeded and
perplexed; and as effectually to remedy these evils for
which purpose the United States are now become compe
tent, their independence being well assured, their civil
governments established and vigorous, and the spirit of
their citizens ardent for exertion, it is necessary speedily
to reduce the quantity of the paper medium in circulati
on, and to eftablffh and appropriate funds that shall en
fore the punctual redemption of the Bills; therefore,
Resolved, That the several States continue to bring
inf , the Continental Treasury by taxes, or othetwife, their
full quotas of Fifteen million dollars monthly, as align
ed them by the resolution of the 7th of October, 1779; a
claufein the resolution of the 23d or February lafl, for rein
qoifhing two thirds of the said quotas to the contrary not
withftinding; and that the States be further called on
to make provision for continuing to bring into the said
Treasury their like quotas monthly to the month of April,
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, inclusive :
That silver and gold be receivable in payment of the
said quotas at the rate of ose Spauifh milled dollar, in
lieu of forty dollars of the Bids now in circulation :
That the said Bills as paid in, except for the months
of January and February past, which may be necessary
for the difebarge of past contracts be not re-'ffued but de
stroyed :
That as faft as the said Bills shall be brought in to be
destroyed, and funds shall be established as hereafter men
tioned for other Bills, other Bills be issued not to exceed
on any account one twentieth part of the hominal sumos
the Bills brought in to be defrayed :
That the Bills which shall be issued, be redeemable in
specie, within fix years alter the present, and bear an in
terest at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid
also in specie atthe redemption 'of the Bills, or at the ele&i
onefthe holder annually at the refpeaive Continental Loam
Offices, in Sterling Bills of Exchange drawn by the United
States on their Commissioners in Europ~,.at four (hillings
and fix pence sterling per dollar.
That the said new Bills issue on the funds of individual
States for that purpose established, and be figged by
persons appointed by them, and that the faith of the United
States be also pledged for the payment of the said Bills, in
case any State on whole funds they'fhall be emuted fliould
by the events pf war be rendered incapable to redeem them;
which undertaking of the United States, and that of draw
ing Bills of Exchange for payment of interest as aforefaid,
shall be indorfed on the Bills to be emitted, and signed by
a Commissioner to be appointed by Congress for that pur
pose :
That the face of the Bills to be emitted read as fol
lows, viz.
The possessor of this Bill shall be paid -Spanish
milled dollars, by the thirty-firft day of December 786,
with interest in like money at the rate of five percent per
annum by the State of— : — according to an Aft of
the Legislature of the said State of the——- day of •
1780.
And the indorfement fliall be as follows, viz.
The United States ensure the payment of the within
Bill, and will draw Billsof Exchange for the interest annu
ally if demanded, according to a resolution of Congress of
the ilth day of March, 1780.
That the said new Bills shall be struck under the di
rection of the Board of Treasury, in due proportion for each
State according to their said monthly quotas, and lodged
in the Continental Loan-Offices in the refpeaive States,
where the Commissioner to be appointed by Congress in
conjunction with such persons as the refieftive States, ap
point, shall attend the figging of the said Bills, which shall
be compleated no fafter than in the aforefaid proportion of
one to twenty of the other Bills brought in to be defrayed,
and which shall be lodged for that purpose in the said
Loan Offices.
That as the said new Bills are signed and compleated,
the States refpedively, on whose funds they issue, receive
fix tenths of them ; and that the remainder be fubjed to
the orders of the United States, and credited to the States
on whose funds they are issued, the accounts whereof shall
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be adjusted agreeably to the resolution of the sixth of Oc
ober, 1779.
That tne said new Bills be receivable in payment of
the said monthly quotas at the fame rate as aforefaid of spe
cie; the interest thereon to be computed to the refpe&+
ive States, to the day the payment becomes due.
That the refpeaive States be charged with such parts
of the interest on their said Bills, as shall be paid by the
United States in Blls of Exchange, and the accounts there
of shall be adjusted agreeably to the resolution aforefaid of
the sixth of October, 1779.
That whenever interest on the Bills to be emitted shall
be paid prior to their redemption, such Bills shall be there
upon exchanged for others of the like tenor, to bear date
from the expiration of the year for which such interest is
paid.
That the several States be called on to provide funds
for their quotas of the said new Bills, to be so productive
as to fink or redeem one sixth part of them annually after
the firft day of January next,
That nothing in the forego ng resolutions shall be con
firmed to ascertain the proportions of the expence incur
red by the war, which each State on a final adjustment
ought to be charged with; or to exclude the claims of any
State to have the prices at which different States have
furnifhed supplies for the army hereafter taken into con
sideration and equitably adjusted. ,
That the foregoing resolutions, with a letter from the
President, be dispatched to the Executive ofthe several
States, and that they be requeued to call their Assemblies
if not already convened, as speedily as possible to take
them into immediate consideration, to establish ample and
certain funds for the purposes therein mentioned, and to
take every other mrafure necessary to carry the fame into
full and vigorous effect, andthat they transmit their Ads
for that purpose to Congress without delay.
Published 6) Order of Congress,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
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Philadelphia, March 28, 1780.
WH EREAS the Effaces of John Parrock,
Samuel Shoemaker, John Butcher, Joel Evans,
Peter Arthur, John Kesrfley ^nd Andrew Elliot, hte of
the county of Pnilaueiphia, having been in due course
of law forfeited and feiz.d to the use of this State, We,
the Subferibers, Agents for the said county, do hereby
give notice, that the estates of the said John Parrock,
Samuel Shoemaker, Jahn Butcher, Joel Evans, Peter
Arthur, John K.?cif l y and Andrew Elliot, consisting
of the following trails and parcels of land , viz. John
Pcrock's, No. i, one lot 1 n Spring Garden, in the Nor
thern Liberties, containing 140 feet by 36, on which
are two bri-k britches and wtoalrn tenement; No. a.
one lot in the Liberties aforefaid, containing about five
acrer, a (mail brick tenement thereon; Samuel Shoema
ker, No. 1. a trad of land on the bnks of the river
Schuylkill, containing about 27 acres, a hand feme brick
huu e and tundry improvements thereon ; No. 2. one
trad in the Precind of Richmond, on Pint no Point
road, of about 70 acres with improvements; No. 3 one
other oa& adjoining thereto, also two lets in Kin 66ng
toM , Joan Butcher one trad in Biockley Township, of
about fifty fix acres on Schuylkill with improvements;
Joel Evans onetia& in Blockley fownfhip aforefaid, of
about fifty acres; Peter Arthur one lot in Southwaik,
15 feet by go; John Kcarfly about 3 acres and a half in
the Northern Liberties ; Andrew Elliot one lot on the
Gloucester Pointroad, of about 25 acres, also one trad
on the Ridge road of about 50 acres, and one other
on the Lower Ferry road, ofabout 35 acres. AU which
will be fold at Public V,ndue, at the Court House, at
Philadelphia, on the 12th day of April next, the sales
will continue from day to day, till the whole be dispo
sed of.
The terms of (ale will be according to law, as fob
lows, to wit, One fourth p^rt of the purchase money to
be paid in ten days alter fate, or the premises again to
revert to the State,and the bidder liable to forfeit the said
one-fourth of the parchife-mone,. The remainder
thereof to be paid in one month ; and on a certificate be.
ing produced from the Agents, or either of them, of ful
payment of the purchase money, a deed will be given,
as by law directed.
And we the Agents, do also pursuant to law, hereby
notify all the claimants of the said pfemifes, or any of
them, and creditors of the said John P^rrock, Samuel
Shoemaker, John Butcher, Joel Evans, Peter Arthur,
John Keai fley and Andrew Elliot, to exhibit their claims
and demands to the Juftces of the Supreme Court, with
in the time limited by law, or they will be for ever bar
red from the recovery thereof.
GEORGE SMITH, ] A ,
WIL. MCMULLIN,] ^nts.
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In GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
November 23, 1779. A. M.
A PETITION from Henry Dougherty, ofthe city
of Philadelphia, referred over from the late House
of Assembly, was read; and thereupon,
Reiolved, That the Rid Henry Dougherty is hereby
appointed tothe office of Colleger of the Duties iinpofed
by an Aft of Affably intitlcd, “ An Aa for imputing a
duty on persons convicted of heinous crimes, and to pre
vent poor and impotent persons being imported into this
Province," (now State).
Extract from the Minutes,
Thomas Paine, Clerk of the Gen. Affcmbly.
W" EREAS the Assembly of Perinfylvania, in the
V year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-sour, puffed an A& intitled, " An Aft to pre
vent infectious diseases being brought into the city of
Philadelphia," of which the following is an extr &:
" And be it further ena&ed by the authority afore
" said, That no Commander, Mister or other person
•" having charge of any (hip or vessel bound to the port
" of Philadelphia, or to any other port or place within
" this Province, having on board at the time the said
" (hip or veflel departed from any port or place whatfo
" ever beyond the leas any greater number of persons,
" whether passengers or feryante, or both, than forty,
" or having any perlon disordered with an infe&ious
" disease, or coming froin any sickly port or place, shall
" bring his (hip er vessel, or fuffer er permit the fame
" to be brought, nearer to the city than the Island call
“ ed Little Mud Island, near the mouth of the river
" Schuylkill, or shall bring on shore, or cause or fuffer
" to b e landed or brought on fliore, at any port or place
" within this Province, any of such passengers or fer
“ vants, or any part or parcel of their goods or effeas,
" or the goods or eft&s of any other person or perlons
" whatever, until he shall have obtained 1 licence or
" permit in writing for that purpose Under the hand of
" the Officer or his Deputy appointed by virtue of the
" A& intitled, An Aft for imposing a, duty on persons
" convi&ed of heinous crimes, and to prevent poor and
" impotent persons being imported into this Province,
" under the penalty of Five Hundred Pounds, befog
" thereof legally convicted in any Court of Quarter lef
“ lions within this Province," (now State).
AND WHEREAS the Honorable the Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, taking into con
sideration the above Aft, have been pleased to nominate
and appoint the fubferiber Health Officer for the port of
Philadelphia, of which all Mailers,. Commanders, or
other persons having charge of any (bip cr vessel coming
into the said port, are desired to take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
HENRY DOUGHERTY, Health Officer,
npHAT Part #f the CARGO of the
I Ship Golden Role, which was condemned as prize
in the Court of Admiralty; is now ready for distribution.
The Agent or Agents duly authorifed by officers, sea
men, or others having right or (hare therein, by being
on board the privateer brigantine Holker, at the time cf
the above capture or otherwise, are hereby informed
thereof, that they may appear and make known within
thyee days from the date hereof, his or their authority :d
aft as Agent or Agents for such persons, agreeable to
law. MATTHEW CLARKSON, Maithal.
March st, 1780.
To be SOLD at Private Sale,
Or exchanged for milk Cows and Calves, in the town
of Northumberland,
A LOT and TENEMENT. The Lot contains
41 sixty feet in front and two hundred and forty feet in
depth. A good deed will be given. Enquire of the
Printer.
Philadelphia, March 23, 1780.
To be SOLD by Public Außion,
At the Coffee-House, on Wednesday the 29th inst,
at it o'clock.
A pair of excellent COLOGNE MILLSTONES, and
one pair of small FRENCH BURR STONES,
for a Chocolate Mill-
One Hundred Pounds Reward.
STOLEN on the night of the thirteenth instant,
from the door of the fubferiber's coach-house, at the
back of the Minister Plenipotentiary's house, a light
English bodied W AGGO N, with hebp tire, of a re
markable thickness, the pole hung very low, iron rings
at the ends of the axle-trees % Whoever will give in
formation, so that the thief may be apprehended, and
the Waggon recovered, fliall receive the above reward,
and reasonable charges.
March 14. HENRY GURNEY.
MARCH 28, 1780
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