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An A CT for procuring a supply of provisions and other
neceff cries for the use of the army.
ty HERBAS the Honorable the Congress of these Uni
" ted States, have resolved that this State be called on
to procure within the present year, the following articles
for the use of the army, viz. forty thousand barrels of flour,
two hundred thousand bushels of Indian corn, or other
short forage equivalent, one thousand (even hundred tons
of hay, fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-nine
bushels of fait, and twenty four thousand four hundred
and twenty three gallons of rum, in order therefore to
comply with the said requisition,
Be it enabled, and it is hereby enacted, by the Repre
sentatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the authority
of the fame, That for the purpose of carrying this Aft in
to effeA, there be appointed one Commissioner of Purchases
in the city of Philadelphia, and one in each county of this
State, by the President or Vice President in Council, the
persons so appointed to be resident in the city or county
for which they are refpe&ively appointed.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That each and every of the said Commissioners, before they
enter upon the execution of their trust, shall give such fe
furity for the faithful performance thereof, as the said
Council shall think proper, and take the following oatn
or affirmation, (which may be admitiiflered by any Justice
of the Peace in the city or county for which the said
Commissioners shall be refpeaively appointed) to wit, I.
A. B. do ("wear (or affirm) that I will diligently and faith
fully without favour, affe&ion or partiality, execute the
duty and trust reposed in me by an Ad of the General
Assembly of this Commonwealth, intit'ed, " An Ad for
procuring a supply of provisions and other neccffaries for
the ^fe of the army."
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the said Commissioners shall federally id the city and
each of the counties for which they are refpeaively ap
pointed, be authorized and required to purchase all the
Wheat and wheat-flour, and other articles above enumera
ted, which can be procured within the said city and several
counties respectively, for which they are chosen, and not
elsewhere, at fu ch price or prices as shall be ascertained
and fixed, in the Mariner which is herein after directed and
appointed. Aad in cate a Efficient quantity of wheat or
ether articles so required, cannot be procured by purcbafe,
that then, and m that case, any or either of the said Com
miflioners, h wing knowledge or cause to apprehend, that
any wheat or flour, rye, Indian carb, or other necessa
ries so required, are withheld from fate or public market,
may, and is hereby required to apply to the next Judice
of the Peace, and lodge such information with him, who
thereupon, is hereby authorized and required to issue his
warrant, under his hand and seal, direded to the Consta
ble of thefeid tow/ihip or diftrid, and two reputable Free
holders, who sh ill upon receipt thereof, proceed with the
said Cornmiffloner, to where such fisur, grain, or other
stores is fyppofed to be ; and there to demand of the own
er or other perlon, having care thereof, to admit such offi
cer, Freeholders and Commissioners to view the fame; and
on his negi^a on refofil so do, it shall, and may be lawful
for the said Conftabie,Freeholders and Commissioner, with
such assistance as may be necessary, tobreak open, in the
day time, any house, barn, outhouse, mill or store-house,
or otherhoufes, where such grain or slur may be fuf
fc^ed to be, and leizz and take into their poffeßiou all
inch wheat and wheat flour, and other articles as above,
whether found in the hands of millers, merchants, tra
ders, farmers cr others, leaving to the farmers as much as
may be fufheient to support their families, until the firff
day of August next after such seizure, and o^e third of
what, shall be found in their poff/ffion, over and above
the fame quantity, and toJi owners Sufficient only for the
support of their families, during the time aforefaid. Pro
vided always, that no person or persons be allo wed to retain
the faid'ont third part over and above what is necessary
for the support of his or their family; unless the, fame be
of hisown raising or growth, and in case any debate shall
arise as to what ought to be detained by theowner, it shall
be fettled as the price is herein after directed to be.
Provided nevertheless, That if any or either of the said
Commissioners in purfwance of this Aft, shall seize any
wheat or other necessaries required by this Ad, in the
hands or possession of any tenant, being bona fide the rent
reserved for said land and due in wheat, or other grain to
the landlord, then, and in that case, it shall and may be
lawful for the said tenant to pay or tender in payment to
the said landlord or to his attorney, all tnonies so received
for such wheat or other grain from said Commifficoer,
such payment so made or tendered to be made, shall be
deemed good and available in law, again ft all further suit
or suits, or other proceedings of the said landlord, for,
or in recovery of any such rent, or any part thereof, any
law cuflom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the said Commissioners, and each of them, within
the city or county for which they are repeftively appoint
ed, be authorized and required to hire, or if need be, to
seize any mill or mills for grinding the said wheat, and to
hire or seize as aforefaid, any ftoc&loufes tor the fafe
keeping the Gid wheat and flour, and to hire, or if need
be, to impress any horses and carriages, boats and other
vessels, for tranfperthig the fame, and to hire persons and
procure maters! ;or making! acks, barrels, or other pro
per calks or boxes for the containing or trahf,orting the
fame, to hire fit persons for threihing out the wheat or
other grain above mentioned, if it may be necessary, and
in general to do all and every thing which may be need
ful for the procuring, colfeding and transporting the said
wheat and flour, and other above enumerated articles, to
such place or places as are herein after directed. And it
shall and may be lawful forthe said Commissioners, to feite
and take all wheat, rye and flour that has been bought
by Quarter Masters, Commissaries, Forage Platters or
their Deputies, or persons anting under them, and which
is now lying in any mill or store-house, paying them the
money they have advanced thereon cr assuming the pay
ment to the persons of whom the said Quarter-Matters or
Commissaries bought the fame, provided they have not
paid them, unless the said Commissary shall, upon appli
cation made to him by the Commissioner, render an ac
count of the quantity of wheat, rye, flour or any other
grain, by him purchased and laying in said store-house or
mill, and give fufficient aflurance under his hand, that the
PHILADELPHIA.
WJ wheat, rye and floor or other grain, shall be in twen
ty days deposited in a preper magazine for the use of the
army.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the price of such articles shall be ascertained and fix
ed by the said Commissioner and party, or in case they can
not agree by, and with theaffiftance of such reputable third
perfoo not interested, immediately io the price as may be
appointed for that purpose, by the next Justice of the Peace,
and such price so fixed, shall be paid in ready money, or
lawfully tendered before such wheat or flour or other arti
cles asabove to bought dr seized shall be removed, and
the said Commissioners refpeaively shall take receipts in a
proper book for that purpose, for all monies so paid, men
tioning the quantity of articles so bought or seized, and
the price of the fame, and the name of the perlon from
whom bought or fe.zed in words atlength.
And be it farther ena&ed by the authority aforefaid,
That the said wheat and flour, and the shorts and bran,
and other enumerated articles, when collected by the said
Commissioners, or any of them, shall be transported and
delivered by them, in fueh quantities and proportions,
and at such times and places as by the Supreme Executive
Council of this Commonwealth, shall from time be
ordered and required fa that the fame may be conveyed
and deposited in such place or places within this State, as
the Commander in Chief shall appoint and dirttl, and the
Commffiooer shall employ proper waggons and carriages
for transporting the said gram or flour, paying the wag
goner or owner thereof, by the hundred weight or buflfel
per mile, they finding their own forage, or paying the
Commissioner for any forage, he may from time to time
supply them with, in order to enable them to transport
said grain or flour.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid ,
That each and every of the said Commif^oners shall cease
and desist from purchasing and collecting wheat and flour
and other articles by virtue of thisAft,"whenever they (had
be ordered so to do by the Supreme Executive Council,
and the said Council shall superintend the said purchase, so
as from time to time diced,limit, rest rain,difmifs or fuper
ceed the said Commissioners of Purchase or any of them;
as shall in their difereetion.beft promote the public service,
and that the said Commiffionery and every of them be en
joined and required to make monthly returns to the said
Council'of their proceedings, and efthe quantities of wheat
and flour and other articles procured by them in pursuance
of this Ad, and shall fettle their accounts annually and
finally witb the Committee of Accounts of the Gennal
Assembly.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That any Commissioner aforefaid, who shall after pur
chasing the articles, or any of them, directed to be par
chafed by this Ad, clandestinely dispose of, or fell or
barter the fame, or any part thereof, or shall deal on his
own account, or on the account of any other person, in
any of the articles which he shall be directed to purchafe
by virtue of this Aft, or shall deal in any other article, or
make any purchase whatever, (otherwise than as herein
direded, with the money he may be entrusted with by
Virtue of this Aft or shall lend out the fame, each Com
miffioaer so offending, shall, on convi&ion thereof, by
proof of one or mor A witnesses, before a'ny Court of Quar
~er Session?, forfeit and pay double the value of the arti
cles so dealt in, or the (dm so lent as aforefaid.
And be it further ena&ed by the authority aforefaid,
That the State Treasurer when he issues any of the money
emitted by the Aft of this session for emitting money, to
the Commissioners agreeable to the orders of the Supreme
Executive Council, shall number each half sheet on the
margin, and sign his name in words st length thereto, and
each Commissioner at the settlement of hisaccounts in case
he has not paid the whole a.vay in purchases, shall return
the money remaining in his hands, in the very identical
fnests or hair sheets he received, under the penalty of for
feiting double tie sum so remaining so be recovered by
adion of debt.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the (aid Commissioners, for their trouble and expence
exclcfive of all costs, for seizure, threshing, carting, boat
ing, Borage and grinding, shall be allowed two (hillings
for every barrel of flour, for every hundred bulhelsof
short forage fifteen (hillings, for every ton of hay seven
(hillings and fix pence, for every hundred bushels of (alt
fifteen (hillings and five (hillings for every ' hundred gal
lons of rum or other spirits, and for all monies expended
in the employment of waggons, boats or carriages in trans
porting the fame, two and a half per cent.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That all Judices, Sheriffs and other civil officers, be, and
they are hereby enjoined and required to aid and assist
the said Commissioners, and every of them, to carry this
law and the indention thereof, into full and speedy effea.
And be it further ena^ed by the authority aiorefaid,
That during the continuance of this Aft, no Quarter
Master, Forage Master, Coenmiffary cf any of their De
puties or Assistants or ot, er officer on the flaffof Congress,
be fuffered or allowed to purchase any wheat or wheat flour
or other of the above articles, except for their own private
consumption within this State, upon pain of forfeiting the
value of the wheat or wheat flour, or other article so by
him or them purchased, and that any or either of them
offending herein, Iliall aud may be indited in any court of
Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the said city or county
of this State, and being convicted thereof, shall be adjud
ged to forfeit and pay to the amount of the value of ths
said article or articles f® by him or them purchased, one
half to the use of the informer and the other half to the
me of this Commonwealth, on the trial of which indid
merit the said informer shall be received and admitted as a
witness.
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
\ Enabled into a Law, at Philadelphia, on
Thursday, the twenty-third day of
March, Anno Domini, One thousand
seven hundred and eighty.
THOMAS PAINE,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
TO BE SOLD BY
LEONARD DORSEY,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
S A L T,
OT aa exceeding good QUALITY.
BE S O L D,
For Continental Money, Bills upon France, or Loan-
Office Certificates drawing interest or France,
A PLANTA Tlt)N containing two hundred und
eighty-tour acres of land, pleauntl, fr, ie on Vie
main road leading from Tienwn to Abento^n, vhia
two and a half miles of Tienton ana the fame alliance
from a landing, which maker it much more valuable as
a team may haul four loads of wood in a day from it to
the landing. There is a small dwelling boule and a
small orchard on it; about fifty acres cleared, the rest
good woodland, on which there may be about twelve
acres of meadow made. For terms apply, to Mr, Alex
ander Nelson, Merchant, in Water-street, above W al
nut Breit, Philadelphia, or to the fubferiber in Tren
ton, StAte of ^ew-fcrley, where the premises may be
viewed and the terms made known,
BERNARD HANLON.
Let the PUBLIC BE^RE.
WHEREAS Bernard Hanlon, ot Trenton, hag
advertised in the New Jersey G^zrtte, a planta
tion for sale, lying jn Nottingham township, and coun
ty of 1} rhngton—l the underwritten fubferiher take
this method to inform the public that the said land ori
ginally belonged to John Porterfield, in see-simple, and
after the death of my grand-father was regularly attach'd
by my father as lawful executor of my deceased grand
father, to an(w?r a debt cue to the effete of my said
grand-father from the said John Porterfield, and, accor
ding to a regular coupe of law, was fold by the then
Sheriff Joseph Hollingshead, at public sale, whip my
father proved the purchaser ; but my father dying be
fore he received the Sheriff's deed for the said land, his
administrators have since been told that they muff wait
till I, who was the Heir of my deceased father, should
become of age. Therefore being now of full age, do
forewarn all manner of persons from purchefing the
fame, as I am determined to defend rey title against any
claim founded on any attachment made on (aid land,
to answer any other debt of said Porterfield, since it was
fold at public (ale, as above.
Trenton, March 14, 17^0. Isaiah Yard.
GENERAET^^N^F F 1^
,Philadelphia, March 22, 1780.
"AT °TICE is hereby given, 7 hat,
in ptirfuance of the Refoives of Con
greis, there have been destroyed in this Of
fice, the following sums of the emissions
of Continental Currency taken out of cir
culation, viz.
Dollars.
Of the emission of May 20, 1777, 12,445,567
Of the emission of April 11, 1778, 19,858,804
. 3^4,371
FRANCIS HOPKINSON,
Treasurer of Loans.
WAS F O U N D,
On the lift instant March, near the store of the fubferi
ber, in Front- street, between Market and Arch
ftreets, Philadelphia,
A PAIR of SILK STOCKINGS. Whoever
' hzs loft them, by proving their property, paying
charges, may have them again, by applying to John
Rots.
Also, LOST sometime in December last, near the
Indian Queen in Fourth-street, a double Leather Pocket-
Book, in which was a State Lottery Ticket; a Thirty
Dollar Bill of the emission of May or April, and sund
ry other papers. Whoever has found the fame, shall
have One Hundred Dollars Reward.
N. B. To be fold at said John Rofs'e store, in Front
ftreet, all kinds of dry goods, genteel mahogany and
walnut furn ; ture, confining of defies, tables, chairs,
lookin g-glades, brass and iron smoothing irohi, copper
wafli kettles, glass lanthorns, and a variety of mens
and womans /hoc#, a few pair of mens boors, buckfkia
breeches, sundry suits of mens eloathing, fiber mount
ed (words, Windsor chairs, glazed pictures, a compleat
let of tea china, glass ware, beaver hats, bed-ticking,
ladies silk gowns, two exceeding good clocks, in maho
gany cases.
He continues to receive and fell on commission all
kinds of goods. Those who please to favor him with
their commands, will oblige their humble fervent
March 22, 17^0. JOHN ROSS.
J-AMES newpo r~t,
At his DISTILLER Y, within tha next gate-way
above Churchalley, in Third-Greet, (that formerly
occupied by Samuel Burge)
Has by Wholesale and Retail,
RT EAT Brandy,
Geneva,
Aniteed Water,
Orange Water,
Spirits of Wine, proper for railing low proof
liquors, &c.
N. B. He continucs to niake the above liquors of the
belt quality; and gives particular encouragement to
those who buy to fell again.
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN DUNL A P,
( Bound or unbound )
ANY QUANTITY OF
DILWORTH'S SPELLING BOOK,
Printed on fine strong paper and a new type.
N. B. Those who buy by the thousand shall have a
large allowance.