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Extracts from the JOURNALS of CONGRESS,
January 3, 1780.
ACCORDING to order Congress took into consi
deration the report of the Medical Committee, viz.
" That each and every officer hereafter mentioned and de
scribed in this resolve, belonging to the Medical Depart
ment, in the hospitals or army, who is now in the service
of the United States, and Shall continue therein duringthe
war, and not hold any office of profit under the United
States orany of them, shall, after the conclusion of the
war, be entitled to receive annually for the term of seven
years, if .they shall live to long, viz. the Physicians Ge
neral,' Surgeons General, the Physician and Surgeon Ge
neral o' the army, the Deputy Directors General each, a
sum equal tothehalf pay granted and extended to a Co
lonelin the line of me army, by a resolve of Congress of
the 15th of May, 1778; theSenior Surgeons and Phyfi,
ciaps, Assistant Deputy Directors, and the Apothecary
General each, a fam equal to the half pay of a Lieutenant
Colonel granted and extended by the resolve aforefaid ;
the Junior or Second Surgeons of the Hospitals, and the
Regimental Surgeons each, a sum equal to the half-pay
of a Major in the line, granted and extended as aforefaidj
the Mates of the Regimental Surgeons, the Apothecaries,
Mates or Assistants each, a sum equal to the half-pay
granted and extended to a Lieutenant in the line of the ar
my by the resolve aforefaid : The whole of the foregoing
allowances are to be fubjed in every refpefl to the fame
rules, reftriftions and limitations, upon which the half
pay of the aforementioned officers of the line was granted
and extended by the said resolve of the 15th of May,
1778:
" That each of the aforementioned and described offi
cers in the Medical Department, or their legal represen
tatives refpeaively, shall be entitled to the like quantity
eflanus with the aforementioned and described officers of
the line in due proportion t® the sums granted to them
refpeeively by the preceding resolve, upon the fame con
ditions, and fubjeft to the fame rules, refttiaions and li
mitations, as the grants of lands to the aforementioned of
ficers of the line by a resolve of Congress ©f September 16,
1776."
On the question to agree to the firft proposition for
granting half-pay, the yeas and nays were required,
And it passed in the negative.
On the question to agree to the second proposition for
granting lands, the States were equally divided, and the
question loft.
January 14.
Whereas Brigadier General du Portail and Colonel
Laumoy, and Lieutenant Colonel de Gouvion, have con
tinued in the service of the United States, pursuant to a
resolution of Congress of theist of January, 1779, and
under a permission from the Minister Plenipotentiary of
His Most Christian Majesty, and have obtained from
the Commander in Chief ample testimonials of hono
rable and ufeful services rendered during the last cam-
paign :
Resolved, That Brigadier General du Portail and Mes
sieurs Laumoy and Gouvion be retained in the service of
the United States (if permission can be obtained for that
purpose from His Most Christian Maj fly or his Minister
Plenipotentiary) so long, during the present war, as fliall
be confident with their inclinations and duty as officers
to their King :
That the Board be directed to confer with the Minister
of France on the fubjed, and inform General du Portail
and Messieurs Laumoy and Gouvion of the result of such
conference.
On motion of the Committee for foreign affairs, Congress
came to the following refoluti&n:
Whereas by the eleventh article of the treaty of amity
and commerce between His Most Christian Majesty and
the United States of America, it is provided " that the
fubjeds and inhabitants of the said United States, cr any
oneof them, fliall not be reputed Aubains in France, and
consequently fliall be exempted from the Droit d'Au
baine, or other similar duty under what name foover ;
they may by testament, donation or otherwise dispose of
their goods, moveable and immoveable, in favour of such
perlons ar to them shall fees good, and their heirs fubjeds
of the said United States, residing whether in France or else
where, may succeed them, ab inteftat, without being obli
ged to obtain letters of naturalization and without having
theeffea of this concession contefled or impeded under pre
text of any rights or prerogatives of Provinces, cities or
private persons: And the said heirs, whether such by parti
cular title or ab inteftat, shall be exempt from allduty called
Droit d'Detra&iob, or other duty of the fame kind; sa
ving nevertheless the local rights or duties as much and as
long as similar ones are not established by the United States
or any of them. The fubjeds of the most Christian King
shall enjoy, on their part, in all the dominions cf the said
States, an entire and perfect reciprocity relative to the
stipulation contained in the present article; but it if at
the fame time agreed, that its contents shall not effect the
laws made or that may be made hereafter in France, a
gairift emigrations, which shall remain in all their force
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GEN ER A L
SATURDAY
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[ Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
January 17.
r Congress took into consideration the report of the Com
mittee appointed on the 12th of November last, to report
a proper allowance for the officers of sundry departments
from the last adjustment of their accounts: Whereupon
Resolved, That the Treasurer, the Commissioners of the
Board of War, the Commissioners of the Chambers of Ac
counts, the Commissioners of the Navy Boards, the Se
cretaries of the Board of Treasury and of the Board of
War, the Affiffant Auditor General, and the Clerks of the
Board of Treasury, Board of War, Chambers of Accounts,
Treasurer, Auditor General, and of the Secretary of Ccn
grefs, be entitled to receive, in lieuofevery other allow
ance, from the 2d day of November, 1778, or from the
dates of their appointments, if elected after that time, the
fame salaries as are allowed them refpeftively by a resolu
tion of Congress of the 23d of October and one of the 12th
of November, 1779 :
That the pay of John Gibson, Esquire, for his services
whilst Auditor General, be as follows; from the 9th of
December, 1776, the time of the last adjustment ofhis
account, to the 16th of October, 1778, at the rate of one
thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars per annum;
from the date last mentioned, to the 2d of November,
'778, at the rateof three thousand four hundred and thirty
dollars per annum; and from thence to the 25th of No
vember, 1779, at the rate of twelve thousand dollars per
annum:
That the pay of the Secretary of Congress be as follows;
from the 10th of February, 1778, the date of the last fet
tjement of his account, to the 16th of October following,
at the rate of twe thousand dollars per annum ; from the
time last mentioned to the zd of November, 1778, four
thousand dollars per annum; aud from and after that day
until the further order of Congress, at the rate of fourteen
thousand dollars per annum:.
That the salary of the Secretary of the Marine Commit
tee be from the id of November, 1778, at the rate of eight
thousand dollars per annum, until he was appointed Se
cretary to the Board of Admiralty:
That the pay of the Clerks of the Commercial Commit
tee, the Clerk of the Navy Board of the middle diftria,
and the Secretary of Ordnance and Paymaster to the
Board of War and Ordnance, from the 20th of Novem
ber, 1778, or from the dates of their appointments if e
lefted alter that time, be at the rate of eight thousand dol
lars per annum refpemvely, until the further order of Con
gress :
That William Story, having performed the service of
Clerk and Paymaster to the Navy Board of the Pattern
diftri&, be intitled to receive from the 2dof November,
1778, in lieu of every other allowance, at the rate of eight
thousand dollars per annum, until the further order of
Congress :
That the salary of the Treasurer of loans from the 2d
of November, 1778, be the farce as that of a Commission
er of the Chambers of Accounts, until the further order
of Congress, in full of all services in the said office :
That the accounts of the said officers be fortwith ad.
justed and closed.
Resolved, That Congress are impressed with a high fence
of the attachment and zeal of the Magistrates and inhabi
tants of the Stare of New-Jersey in the common cause,
and of their ready and eft'eaual exertions in providing
and furnishing the army under hi^ Excellency the Com
mander in Chief with provisions, at a time when the dif
ficulty of transportation rendered such exertions absolutely
necessary.
and vigor ; and the United States, on their partor any of
them, shall be at libe»ty to enad such laws relative to that
matter as to them shall seem proper.''
Resolved, That it be recommended to the legislatures
of thefeveral United States to make, provision, where not
already made, for conferring like privileges and immuni?
tics on the fubjeas of His Most Christian Majesty, agreea
ble to the form aud spirit of the above recited article.
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Delaware State, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern,
TC[ OTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at the Court-house in the
town of Dover, on Tuesday the 28'h instant, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, then and there
to try the truth of the fa&s alledged in the libel of Mat
thew Lawler, Commander of the private armed brig
Holkcr, againtt the sloop called the Two Brothers, late
ly commanded by Capt. John M'Cleban, with her tackle,
apparel, furniture and cargo: To the end and intent
that the owner or owners of the said floep, or any per
sons concerned therein, may appear and Shew cause, if
any they have, why the fame should not be condemned
according to the prayer of the said libel.
B, order of the 'Judge,
BENJAMIN VINING, Reg.
Doner, March 8, 1780.
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On MONDAY the twenty.feventh inst. (March)
at Ten o'clock, in the borctagh ot Wilmington will
be SOLI),
THE CARGO of the Prize Sloop TWO
BROI HERS, confining of Sugar in hogf
and barrels, Rom j n hogfficads, C\ ff^ in bags
and a few boxes of Chocolate. And in the aftemvoA
the fame day will also be fold, the VESSEL with
all her materials, &c. as She c^e from ha, a. ^r in
ventory to be fe^ a: the place of file. She is a Bermu
dian-budt hoop of hxty tons burthen, pierced for twelve
guns, and fails remaikably hft.
By order of the Judge' of the Court of Admiralty
for the Delaware State,
- GEORGE LATIMER, Marshal.
Philadefbia, March 6, 1780.
be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Thursday the 23d inst. (March) at ten o'clock in
^^ rcn °°"' ""^ P'^tion of the fubferiber, in
Middletown township, Chester county,
A l" 'A" '° N containing" '93 acres of
Lana, rne hAr cleared ; the woodland is exceeding
good, confuting of chefnut, oak, hickory, walnut and
good whitcoak; eighteen acres of good meadow, and
"^fofnay^ made ; there are on the premises two good
dwelling heft two good fpring-houtes, two good
bans and ftaehrg, two gardens, one of th^m p^ed,
three app^ orchards, and other forts of fiuit. The whole
prennfes well watered, and in good repair, sixteen miles
from Pnihcelohitnd five from Chester, on the great
road leading fam Chester to Downing,.Town ?t th.
lame time will be fed wheat and rye in the giound'.
y ° u ¥ cattlr > fce p> h ^ c()i n
by the bushel, hay, flax, and Sundry ether things too
teaicusto mention. The terms will be made known
at 1112 time of tale, and . attendance given, by
ROBERT MCLELLAN.
Philadelphia, February 26, 1780.
To be SOL 1) by Public Audiien,
On the 27th day of March, at two o'clock in the after
noon, on the premises,
TWO certain Lots of GROUND, in German
town, one ci them Situate on the north-w^fteily
fide on the inrin street, containing in breadth or, the said
ffre^t eighty feet, and in depth to G;een-ftrect about
eight hundred feet, bounded northwardly by Samuel
Bringhurft's ground and Smith's shop, and the Subscrib
er's other ground. This is a high, pierfant and even
foot, and Leg very convenient for any public business.
other of them fituae on the Southwardly fide of
Manheim-ftrcet, leading to the river Schuylkill, ab^ut
three hundred feet to the westward of the Aid ihain
street, containing fn breadth on the fain M^heim-ftn et
one hundred and ninety five feet, and in depth to the
late Baltis Reiei's ground three hundred and thirty two
feet, or thereabouts. The terms of sale will be made
known at the said au&ion, where du at&ndane will
be given, by JOSEPH SHIPPEN.
TO BE LE T,
AC 0 NVENIEN r good H OUSE, withala-ge
garden, coach-house and Stable, v ry pkafan.ly
Situated in a healthy part of the country, about four
mile, from the city. E quire of the Printer.
J O H N D I AMON D
R O P E-M AK E R,
Living in Market street, above Sixth- street, Philadel
phia, makes and fells Wholesale and Retail,
SEWING, whipping, Line and blocking twine;
log, deep lea and hand lead lines ; houfline and mar
line, jack and fishing-lines of all forts; drum and 0-
bared cord, bedcords, sacking bottom lines, baling
lines, plow traces, halters, white rope of all loir, &c.
To be SOLD at Private Sale,
Or exchanged for milk Cows and Calves, in the town
of Northumberland,
A LO r and 1 ENEMEN T. The Lot contains
'' Sixty feet in ^ont and two hundred am forty feet in
depth. A good deed will be given. Enquire of the
Printer.
WAS TA KE~N° UT
In the River Delaware,
Two RAFTS of PINE BOARDS. The
1 owner proving property ana paring charge: may
have them again, by applying to THOMAS YOUNG,
in Chrittiau-itreet, Southwark.
N. B. If the own^r does not apply by the firft of April
they will be fold for the charges.
MARCH 18, Ifo,
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