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PHI L A DELP IKI A.
An ACT for repealing part of an A&, intitled, " A fur
ther Supplement to the AR ihtifcd, an Afl far the further
security of Government , and for disarming ferfas
who shall not have given alterations of allegiance and fi
delity to this State, or feme other of the United States.
%X 7 HEREAS in and by an ad intitled, " A fur-
VV ther supplement to the aft intitled, an aft for the
further security of government," passed on the fifth day of
December last, it is enabled, that every perlon nbw in of
fice or place of trail under this government, shall, on or
before the firft day of April next, and every person here
after appointed or elected into any office of trust under this
government whatsoever, shall, before he enters upon the
execution or duties thereof, cake and subscribe before the
said Commissioners, or one of them, the aforefaid oath or
affirmation.
AND WHEREAS it has been cenfidered, that t' a of
ficers of this state, who in the day of difficulty and danger
accepted places of trust, and thereby exposed themfefts
in a-particular manner to the resentment of the King of
Great Britain ; and that such persons, and all others who
gave assurances of their allegiance to this state, and abjured
the King of Great Britain and his facceffors, on or before
the firft day of June last, according to the form of the aft
intitled, " An aft for the further security of government,"
passed on the firft day of April last, had thereby manifeft
ed their attachment to the community of this common
wealth in a fatisfadory manner.
Be it therefore enaaen, and it is hereby enabled by the Re
presentatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of
the fame, That the said recited clause is hereby repealed
and declared null and void ; and that no person who took
and fubferibed the said oath or affirmation of allegiance
and abjuration, as prescribed in and by the said a& in
titled, " An ad for the further security of government,"
on or before the firft day of ^une last, shall be under any
obligation to take and subscribe the oath prescribed in and
by the said a&, intitled, “ A further supplement to the
a& intitled, an aft for the further security of government,"
in order to qualify such person to hold or accept any of
fice or place of trust in this government.
AND WHEREAS it is very improper and dangerous
that perforag difaffefted to the liberty and independence of
this state should possess or have in their own keeping, or
elsewhere, any fire arms, or other weapons used in war,
or any gun powder:
Bett therefore enaaed by the authority aforefaid, That
From and after the passing of this aft, the Lieutenant or
, any Sub-Lieutenant of the militia of any county or place
within this state, shall be, and is hereby empowered to
disarm any person or person, who shall not have taken any
oath or affirmation of allegiance to this or any other state,
and against whom information on oath shall be given be
fore any Justice of the Peace, that such person is fufpefled
to be difaffefted to the independence of this state; and
shall take from every such person any cannon, mortar, or
other piece of ordnance, or any blunderbuss, wall-piece,
musket, fufee, earbine or pistols, or other fire arms, or
any hand gun; and any sword, cutlass, bayonet, pike, or
other warlike weapon, out of any building, house or place
belonging to such person.
And be it further evaded by the authority aforefaid, That
a comp Teat lift of all arms which have been or shall be ta
ken from any person or persons by any Lieutenant, Sub-
Lieutenant, or by any other person or persons acting un
der hi# or their authority, shall be made out and lodged
by such lieutenant or Sub-Lieutenant, or other person,
in the office of the Clerk of the Peace of the proper coun
ty, and the persons names from whom the fame were taken,
which shall be open to the infpedion @f any person request
ing thefame, paying Two Shillings and Six Pence therefor;
and such Lieutenant or Sub Lieutenant shall, and is hereby
declared to be,accountable to this state for the said arms.
And be it further enafted by the authority aforefaid, That
the Justices of the Peace within this commonwealth, and
each and every of them, shall, and they are hereby autho-
Jized and impowered to administer all and every of the
aths and affirmations required to be taken by the a& in
titled, “ A further supplement to the ad intitled, an aft
for the further security of government," and to proceed in
all things therein as the Commissioners appointed to ad
minister the said oaths and affirmations are by the said
supplement required in the premises.
JOHN BAYA RD, Speaker.
Enabled into a law at Philadelphia, on Friday the se
cond day of April, in the year Fine thousand seven
hundred and seventy-nine.
JOHN' MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of General Assembly.
rr®R ta,L9Dt L>vQi i^ean ^r^AL, nv# QVfr&AQAP
Verses by the late Dr. Berkley,B^Q ©J Cloyne, ,ab
lifted tn 1,5 , upon the thenfrofpeß of planting Arts and
Learning in America
TH E Muse, &@fled ^an age and dime.
Barren, of every glorious theme,
In distant lands now waits a better time,
Producing fu jests worthy fame.
In happy climes, the feat of Innocence,
Where Nature guides, and Virtue rules,
Where men shall not impose for truth and sense,
The pedantry of Courts and Schools.
In happy climes, where, from the genial fun,
And virgih earth, such scenes ensue,
The force of Art by nature seems outdone,
And fanci ed beauties by the true.
There shall be lung another golden age,
The rife of empire a,nd of arts;
The good and great infpirmg epic rage.
The wisest heads and noblest hearts- >
Not such as Eurofc breeds in her decay ;
Such as flie bred when frefh and young,
When Heav'nly flame did animate her clay,
By future poets shall be sung.
Westward the course of empire takes its way ;
The four firft ads already past,
The fifth shall clof# the Drama with the day,
Time's noblest offsp ring is the last.
ladelphia, the dinrifl of Southwark, and the tovonftips of
MoyamenJing, Paffyuxk and the Northern Liberties, in the
county of Philadelphia.
WHEREAS the cjrcumflances of the city of Phila
delphia in the month of May last, under the pow
er of th? enemy, hindered the due and lawful eleftioh of
Managersand Treasurer of the corporation of the Contri
butors, to the relief and employment of the poor of the ci
ty of Philadelphia; Whereby the support and direction of
the poor of the said city, the diftrift ofSouthwark, and
the townfllips of Paffyunk, Moyamenfing and the North
ern Liberties, united and collected in one alms house with
in the said city, is interrupted and obstructed:
AND WHEREAS therate or assessment directed by
the aft of Assembly, intitled "An a£tfor the relief of the
poor," passed on the twenty-ninth of March, One thou
sand feveri hundred and seventy-one, net exceeding Three
pence in the pound, on, till eflates real and personal, and of
Six (hillings,per head on every freeman, not otherwise ra
ted for his eft,te within said city, diftriH and townihip6
respectively, is found to be very inadequate to 'the sup
port of the poor in the said alms.houfe, and thf poor there
to belonging, and the frequent repetition thereof would
be very inconvenient to the Overseers of the pror, and
very troublesome to the inhabitants. For remedy where-,
of,
Be it therefore erased, and it is hereby enabled by the Re
pr£ftaatiles 0/ the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pern-,
filvania, in General Assembly met, and b, the authority of
the fame, That Joseph Blewer, Philip Boehm, Thomas
Cuthbert, Jacob Graff, John Meafe, John Nixon, Wil
liam Rufli, Daniel Roberdeau, William Henry, John Shee,
Chriftaphef Ludwick and James Wharton, fhiil be, and
hereby are appointed and constituted Maiiager^, and
Francis Kopkinfon Treasurer of laid alms-hcnfe, to have,
hold, exercise and enjoy all and singular the powers, au
thorities and direction and employment of the poor of said
city, dirtria and townships, as fully as any Managers le
g by chosen by the said Contributors, to the relief and em
ployment of the poor in the city of Philadelphia, might,
could or have heretofore held, ex^rcifed or enjoyed the
fame, the Managers hereby appointed to continue in office
antrt the Contributors, to the relief and employment of
the said poor, who are legally qualified by taking,and fub
feribing the oath or affirmation of allegiance to the state;
shall under the a& of their incorporation cleft officers as
aforefaid.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
it shall and may be lawful for two of the Judges of the
City Court, and two of the Justices of the Peace for the
county of Philadelphia, upon the complaint of the Mana
gers of the said alms-house, that a sum of money is wanted,
or likely so to be for the support and employment of the
poor in the said alms-house, to issue their warrants under
their hands and seals, directed to the Overseers of the poor
of the said city, diflriD and townihips, requiring them to
forthwith, levy, colled aa^raife, by an equal assessment
upon theclear yearly value, as they shall reasonably esti
mate the fame, of all real and personal eflates within the
said city, diftrid and townships refpe&ively, a rate or t?x
not exceeding One shilling and Six pence in the pound
upon all taxables, ahd Thirty-fix shillings per head on
every freeman, not otherwise rated in such tax for the re
lief of the poor, and the said rate shall be repeated as of
ten as the said Judges, Justices and Managers shall find
the fame necessary.
And be it further enaaed by the authority aforefaid, That
the said recited aft for the relief of the poor, passed the
twenty- ninth of March, One thousand seven hundred
and seventy-one, except so much as is herein before altered
and repealed, shall continue, be and remain, and is here
by declared to be in full force and effeH.
AnAbe it further snared by the authority aforefaid, That
the said recited aft, with this supplement thereto, shall
continue in force for the fpaceof five years, and from thence
to the end of the next fitting of the Assembly and no lon
ger.
PERUSING your paper of the 29th, I find some
harsh sentiments thrown out against the Jury who fat
on the trial of David Franks, as he fays for a misdemeanor.
Was it Hot more in regard to the Public (who I hope will
always stand forth in behalf of Juries, who are and ever
have been esteemed as the bulwark of Justice and Liberty)
than to the chimerical observations of any hot-headed
scribbler in this or any ether place He fays it was on a
charge of giving intelligence to the enemy at New-York;
a conftruttion that never was admitted by the Jury, nor
I believe will by the Public. This Gentleman is totally
unacquainted with business, as from the contents of David
Franks's letter to his brother it must appear he never in
tended they should be known in New-York at all, as the
confluence must have totally ruined his feheree of getting
the ration raised to one Filling sterling, though the con
tents of the letter were totally disapproved of by the Jury.
But I beg this great Censor to let me aik him a few ques
tions. First, If he had a mind to give the enemy at New-
York intelligence, why not mention the price current of
goods to Captain Thomas Moore ? Secondly, Whether he
would find a man guilty where there was no Law known
or given for the offence? Where there is no law there is
no transgression. Another thing I have to mention, that
the charge in the bill of indiHment was so high, or other
wise contained what the Law of this State would have stiled
misprision of treason, but the Grand Jury brought it in
misdemeanor. Now, Sir, I beg to ask you, whether you
would have had us make aLaw,or leave it to a superior bo
dy, ourAffembly?The work you have undertaken is beneath
the cha/aHer of a friend to this Commonwealth, as it has
a tendency to destroy the strength of Juries, and touch
mens characters who were on oath to do justice to the best
of their knowledge. It appeared very clear that we could
not, from the letters as you have quoted, find they would
Mr. Dunlap,
SIR,
Your publishing the following in yotfr Paper will much
oblige your humble servant,
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Ena&ed into a law at Philadelphia, on Friday the second
da, of April, in the year One thoufandfoien hundred
and fed/enty-nine.,
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
DAVIS BEVAN.
have mentioned the words hard necemry mac was inc rca
fon of so long delay, you are mistaken, for after it was
dark we could do nothing, as we were deprived of candle
by order of the Court, or the matter would haveJjeen de
termined as it is before tert o'clock.
I do not mean to give you these reasons; they are to
the Public ; as I think yob or any other man beneath my
notice who would so far censure either this or any Jury
that may fit hereafter. I am' , with due refpe&,
The Public's humble servan t,
One of that Jury.
4^30, CT9. DAVIS BEVAN.
P. S. It muftappear to every man of btafinefs that the
letter to M. Franks, was not for the purposes mentioned
by this censor, but a letter of negotiation for private emo
lument, and not to injure the States.
On Monday last, thei^h inst. about break of ddy, a
detachment of Briulh, confiding of seven hundred men,
were d(covered by a scouting party of Col. Ford's, coming
up the North River, about Haifa mile be'ow Red Bank,
who immediately gwe the al rmv The enemy directly
lorded four hundred men at Painter's Point, and about
forty of them marched up to Shrewfbury; the remainder '
Av nt about half a mile to the weft ward, and came out
sbout VPm. Ward)ll's place, with a view to cut off the re
treat of rarir three hundred of our people polled on that
station. Col, Ford's party (uncert, in of theenemy's force)
retreated, and got ab®ut four hundred yards ahead of them;
Ihe enemy pursued them to the Falls, tiring all the way,
but could not overtake them. The/ then set fire to
High Sheriff Van Breenk' shoufe, and a small house, the
property of and adjoining to 'Cd. Hendrickson's dwelling
house, which were burnt to the ground. They also fired
the houfe} of Qpt tin Richard M'Knight an'd John Little,
Efg; but they were extinguished by the activity of
the inhabitants, before they had fuffered much damage-
The enemy then returned to Shrewfbury, plundering all
the wy to Colonel Breeze's, whom they robbed of all his
money and most of his plate, and dt Justice Holmes's
where they plundered and destroyed every thing they could
lay their hands upon ; and theh retreated to their boats,
a lew militia firing on them; They then went to Middle
ton, and joined three hundred who hed crossed over there,
when the four hundred marched to Shrewfbury. and Raid
till evening; burning a house and barn, aad plundering
fomeof the inhabitants. Colonel Holmes had by this time
affemblediotie hundred and forty of the militia, who drove
them to their boats near the gut dividing the Highlands
from S ^dy-hook. O aof the enemy was killed, and an
other taken prifoher. The enemy carried off with them
Justice Coyenhbvsn and for, likewise several others. They
got oil by sunset, and returned to New-York, taking
away some cattle and hones
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'l™ HE Sons of St. Tamatiy, and their adopted Brethren,
of St. Patrick, St. Andrew, and St. George, are de
sired to meet this day, being the 1 ft of May, at theTheatre,
in Southwark, at two o'clock. Dinner on the table at
three o'clock.
Ne-wcafile County, April 27, 1779.
To be SOLD at Public Vendue,
Or. Saturday the fifteenth day of May, on the premises,
AVERY valuable Plantation and Tra& of Land,
lituate in Brandywine hundred, h i said county, on
th~ great road leading from Philadelphia to Wilmington,
within half a mile of the latter; containing one hundred
and fifty one acres, twehty whereof excellent marfa
meadow in good order. There are on the premises a
large nev stone dwelling-house, Rone barn, fpring
houfe, granary, and other valuable improvements. The
arable land fictile, and the fitvation healthy and plea
sant. The afoiefaid land, niarfh aad premies the estate
late of Joshua North, of laid county; confifeated to the
ule of the Delaware State, by a late Act of Assembly of
said State, and to be fold by
WILLIAM M'CLAY, Commiffionef
for Newcastle County.
Was married last Tu/day evening,. Capt. OWEN
PARRIES to Mils JEANY LUKENS, ot Horfeham.
N. B. The dining at the late Proprietors being incon
venient, the Theatre is preferred to any other place.
W A S LO S T,
On Tuesday last, on the Commons of this city,
A NEAT CANE, with a pinchbeck head. Who
-4 1 ever has found the fame, and will return it to the
Printer hereof, ftrall receive a reward of T WENTY
DOLLARS.
W A S L 0 ^=l;
On the twenty-eighth of April,
AB ON D upon George George, for the sum of
161. 3s sod. payable the firft day of May. Who
ever will deliver said bond to Charles Greer, living
in Eighth-street, at the corner of Arch street, Phila
delphia, ffiall have TWENTY DOLLARS reward.
WANTED to R E~nV
For a Term of Years,
A PLANTATION of about two or three hundred
1 1 acres, with a good dwelling-house, flables, &c.
thereon. Any period may hear of a Rentor by apply
ing to the Printer.
TO BE S~O' L-d7"
A HEALTHY, active NEGRO BOY, about
A fix years old, who has had the small-pox and mea
lies. For particulars apply at the B^r of the Coffee
houfe.
TWENTY DOLLARSREWARD:
WAS LOST on Saturday evening, the seven
teenth instant, (April) between the corner of
Fourth and Chefnut-ftreets and Spruce and Water
ftreets, a REMNANT of about a yard and aquarter
of changeable TABBY, blue and orange. Whoever
has found the fame and will bring it te the Printer, shall
be entitled to the above reward,