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TUESDAY, J ULY 4 , 1780.
THE
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O R I THE
GENERAL ADVERTISED
Philadelphia, June 27, 1780.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby gi
ven, That the Chamber of the Commissioners of
Accounts, at the Treasury Board of the United States,
are open, from 9 o'clock in the morning until 1 o'clock
in the afternoon, and from 3 until 6 o'clock in the (-
vening. By order of the Board,
WILLIAM RAMSEY, Clk.
TO BE SOLD BY
Andrew & James Caldwell,
WEST-INDIA RUM,
GIN,
COFFEE,
COCOA,
MADEIRA WINE,
CLARET in Hogsheads,
ALLUM,
JESUIT'S BARK,
BRIMSTONE,
A Few Pieces of CALLICO,
And a Quantity of ENGLISH NEEDLES,
June 30.
WILLIAM ADCOCK,
At the South-east corner of Second and Matket
ftreets,
HAS FOR SALE,
AFE W pieces of Second Cloths, Black Sergede
nims, Superfine white Caffimer, Muhins, India
Dimities, Cambrickty Lawns, Perfuns, Scotch and co
loured Threads, &c. &c. Also a few calks of Vinegar.
N. B. Said Adcock receives goods to fell on com
mission.
IMPORTED and to be SOL D, by
BENJAMIN HARBESON,
At his house the north fide of Market Areet, a fcw ho,(heads of
Excellent Port au-Prince sugars,
coffee, good Teneriffe wine in pipes; he onunuts
to carry on the COPPERSMITHSBUSINES S
as usual, and has STILL S of various tizes, from
zoo down to 20 gallons, all which he will fell as reafen
able as the times will admit.
Philadelphia, June 29, 1780.
TO BE LE T,
AF RONT PARLOUR, in a public part of
the city, and in a genteel neighbourhood, which
would suit for an office : It hat been formerly occupied
as such. Enquire of the Printer.
Genteel Lodgings to be had as above.
FO R S A L E,
A NEGROE LAD,
FIFTEEN years old, bred to house work, veil
grown, and has had the small pox and meazles,
is very healthy. Inquire of the Printer.
Philadelphia, June 29, 1780.'
NINETr"DOLL ARS RETARD.
CTRAYED away the 16th 'hftant, from a lot in
° Third-street in this city, a RED COW with a white
face, a remarkable long tail, and milks only with the
two fore tit#. Whoever takes up and delivers the laid
Cow to the fubferiber in Spruce street, next door to the
Sheriff, shall have the above reward.
MARY HOLTON,
June 2,, 1780.
Philadelphia, June 30, 1780.
THE Subferiber having inclofed in a letter to Mr.
Jonathan Rumford of Wilmington a certificate,
figged by Francis Wade, Esq ( D.QM- G. No. 33,
for five thousand five hundred and thirty fix dollar#,
payable to Major Daniel Adams, dated the sth day of
April, 1780, which letter with said certificate being
mifearried. Any person who meets with the fame, will
be thankfully rewarded for fending it to the lubicribei,
near the corner of Arch-street in Second-ttreet, or to
Mr. Rumford, in Wilmington. It can be of no life to
any person, but the person its made payable to as pay
ment is stopped in the proper offices.
PETER GALLAGHER.
Philadelphia, June 30, 1790.
WANTED Immediately,
AW OMAN with a good bread of milk, such an
one coming well recommended, may hear es a
^ood place by applying to the Printer.
[ Published every Tuesday, and Saturday. ]
EXT R ACTS from the Journals of Congress.
TUESDAY, May 23, 17^0.
CONGRESS took into configuration the report
of the Medical Committee, to whom was referred
the letter from Governor Trumbull of the iff inst.
and thereupon
Refolyed, That the Director General, or in his ab
sence the Deputy Director General, of the hospitals in the
Eastern Diftria, be, and he is hereby directed to hire a
suitable house at or ne^r the port of New-London, in the
State of Connecticut, for the reception of such fi<k Ame
rican prisoners as shall from time to time be exchanged
and landed in that neighbourhood, and that one Senior
Surgeon or Peyfieian, ^ad a suitable number of mates, be
occasionally employed therein, as the number of sick Iliall
increase or diminish.
Agreeable to order, Congress took into consideration
the following resolutions moved by Mr. Scott, viz.
Whereas Congress, in and by certain resolutions of the
24th of September last, did, among other things, unani
mously resolve, to proceed on theist day of February then
next, without delay, to hear and examine into the nib
putes jind differences relative to the jurifdiQion between
the States of New-Hampfltire, Massachusetts Bay and
New-York, refpeCtively, or such of them who should pats
laws for the purpose, on the one part, and the people of
a certain diftrid of country commonly called the New-
Hamphiire Grants, who claim to be a separate jurisdic
tion, on the other ; and after a full and fair hearing to
decide and determine the fame according to equity; and
Congress did thereby pledge their faith to execute and
support their decisions and determinations in the premises,
ana did thereby unanimously resolve, that it was the duty
of the people of the diftrift aforefaid to abstain in the
mean time from exercising any power over any of the in
habitants 0! the said dittrid wno profefs themselves to be
citizens of or owe allegiance to any or either of the said
States; and also that in the mean time the said three
Spaces ought, in the opinion of Congress, to suspend ex
ecuting tneir laws over any of the inhabitants ot the said
diftritt, except such of them as profefs allegiance to, and
confess the jurifdidion of the fame refpettively : And
further, that Congress would confider any violences com
mitted against tre tenor, true intent and meaning of the
said resolution, as a breach of the peace of the confedera
cy, which they were determined to keep and maintain :
And whereas Congrefsdid thereby further unammoufiy
resolve,. that, in their opinion, no unappropriated lands
or estates which were or might be adjudged, forfeited cr
confifeated, lying in the said diftritt, ought, until a fi
nal decision of Congress in the premises, to be granted or
fold:
And whereas those of the people of the said diffrift,
who assume to be a separate and independent State, and
to exercise a separate jurifdfaion over the said dihria of
country, having due notice of the said refolutionsof Con
gress, did, in General Assembly by them afiumed to be
held, at Manchester, within the said diflri&, on the 20th
day of October last, resolve, to support tneir right to inde
pendence at Congress, and to the world, in the charac
ter of a Free and Independent State, and did also, in direct
contradiction to the said resolutions of Congress, resolve to
make grants ot all or any part of the unappropriated lands
within their jurifdiaion that ihould not interfere with any
former grants : And whereas, although the said States of
New-Hampshire and New York reflectively did, before
the iff day of February last, pais such laws as aforefaid,
and by their Agent and Delegate in Congress, have ever
iince chat day declared themselves ready to support their
refpedive rights in the premises before Congress: And
the people of the said diftrid nave by their Agent refutes
to submit then claim of independence to the decision of
Congress : And, in defiance of the resolutions aforefaid,
have proceeded to grant such lands as aforefaid, and others
by them deemed confifeated, and in divers instances ex
ercited civil and military authority over the persons and
eftatesof certain inhabitants within the said diftrid who
profefs themselves to be citizens of, and to owe allegiance
to the said State of New-York: And whereas Congress,
for these and other reasons, convinced of the neceflity of
bringing the said controversy concerning the premises, to
a rail and fair hearing, examination, decision and deter
mination, from which they have hitherto been prevented
for want of the actual representation in Congress of a fuf
ficient number of States not interefied in the said contro
versy, did, on the 17th instant, order that the Frefident
write to the Executives of the States of Delaware and Ma
ryland, (being the two States now actually unrepresented
in Congress,) to tend forward immediately, and to keep
up a representation in Congress, a# matters of the highest
importance are now before them:
Kefolved therefore, That tee people inhabiting the said
diftrid of country have, in the aforefaid ads and tranf
abtions. been and, by the perpetration of similar acts and
tranfa&ions, cr any others contrary to the true intent and
meaning of the above in part recited resolutions of Con
gress, will be guilty of the breach of the confederacy of
the United States of North America.
Resolved, That these United States are bound to pro
tea every of the said States in the full enjoyment of their
rights and property against every uferpatibu or invasion
whatsoever.
Refelved, That, in any future determination of the
controversy in the premises by Congress; concerning the
property of foil within the said diliria, by any other
perlons in the mode prescribed by such other parts in the
said relocations as are not herein above recited, all grants
of land by the assumed government cr authority of the
people of the said dittos ; and also all gahts by the re
fpedive governments of the Stales of New H mpflore,
Massachusetts Bay and New Yo k, poherior to the said
ref&lution of Congress o^the 24th day < f September last,
for any lands within the said diftrift, and prior to such
determination as aforefaid, ought to be de \nec, tfteemed,
taken and adjudged to be abfojutely null and void
Refolded; that Congress wilt; a; soon as a fufficient
number of these United States oninterefted in the said con
troversy to be determined by Congress Ilia I be aHudliy
represented, take up the fame as the order of the day, and
will proceed without delay to hear and examine, and fi
nally decide and determine tee fame, and will, pursuant
to the r said former ref Id ions, execute and support such
their decision and determinations
A motion w s made by Mr Ellery fecohdeJ by Mr.
Holten, That the fame be pofi poped:
Anti bn the que,ftion or poftpbuiug,
The yeas and neas were required, and
It passed in the affirmative:
A motion was tnen made by Mr. Burke seconded by
Mr. A. Janes, in the words following viz.
" That the lands contained within the limits of the
United States, are, and of right ought (0 be, under the
jurrfdi&ioa of someone or other of the Thirteen United
States, and of ho other power, and areand olri;ht ought
to be under the foilera! protect on of the United States:
And that the United States in Congress assembled, are
bound to employ the common forces and common powers
in support of the juriid^tion of any of the said States,
whenever the fame shall be invaded or infringed."
It was moved by Mr. Fell, seconded by Mr. Houflou,
to refer the above motion to a Coromitte of three;
And on the qut flion for referring,
The Yeas and Nays were required; and
It was resolved in the affirmative:
The Members chosen Mr. Houston, Mr. Henry and
Mr- Burke.
Mr. Scott, a Delegate from the State of New-York,
laid before congress an affidavit of Jonathan Hunt, of
Hiofdale, purporting " that he had been credibly inform
" ed, and verily believes, t at the assumed government of
" the New Hampftiiie Grants, called Vermont, intends
" immediate y after theist of June next, to put their laws
" in execution over the per pus and eflate# of the inha,
" bitants of the said Grants, and to exaff from them an
" oath of allegiance to their pretended State," &c.
whereupon,
Ordered, That the affidavit, together with the copy of
a letter to his Excellency Governor Clinton, dated Bat
tlefborough, May 2d, 1780, and signed " by order of the
"'Committee fromeleven towns, Samuel Minott, Chair
" man," be referred to the above Committee, and that
they make report to morrow :
On the question tor referring the above papers.
Toe Yeas and Nays were required, and
It passed in the affirmative.
May 24.
The Board of Treasury, to whom was referred the re
port of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, relative to Sa
muel W. Stockton, lately employed by the honorable W.
Lee, Esquire, late Commissioner of the United Slates at
the Courts ot Vienna and Berlin, brought ina report,
which was taken into confederation ; and thereupon,,
Resolved, That the said Samuel W. Stockton he allow
ed a faliry at the rate of three hundred pounds fieriing per
annum, while he was employed by the fid William Lee-
That he be debited with the monies which he has recei
ved from the fald William Lee ; and that the whole of the
papers be referred to the Auditor General, in order that
the account may be liquidated, agreeably to the principles
aforefaid:
On the question to agree to the foregoing resolution,
The Yeas and Nays were required, and
It passed in the affirmative.
The Committee appointed to confer will the joint Com
mittees of the Supreme Executive Council and the Gene
ral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on
the fubjefts mentioned in the extract from the Minutes of
the said General Assembly ofthe 20th instant, delivered in
a report, which was read ; whereupon,
On motion of Mr. Ellsworth fecondid by Mr. Holten.
Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to
take tnto consideration ' the outflanking debts due from
the Commiflary and QuartermafterG<ir ral's departments,
for which Certificates have been given of the balances
due, and report further means for difeh tegi&g the fame :
The Mem. ers chosen Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. Houston and
Mr. Henry.
The Committee to wh^m was referred the memorial of