Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser — [Portsmouth, N.H.], 1785-10-14 00:00:00, page 2

surveyed, ffiall forfeit one quarter part of the articles so
delivered; and any person purchasing for exportation,any
of the articles before enumerated and who ihall receive
them before the yare culled or furveyed,fhall forfeit one
quarter part of the article so purchased, one half to the
informer, who shall sue for the fame, in any court in
this State, proper to try the fame, or before any Justice
of the Peace in the county where the said penalty ihall
become due, in case the forfeiture does not exceed for
ty fillings, the other half to the poor of the town, Where
the offence is committed.
Jndbe it further enabled, That from and after the said
firft day of June, next, the master or owner of any ves
sel, having any ftaves, hoops, shooks, boards, clapboard,
Singles or heading, on board for their cargo, and which
shall be Whipped for exportation to a foreign market after
the said firft day of June next, before such vessel ihall be
Cleared at the naval-office, ihall produce a certificate
that such ftaves, hoops, shooks, boards, clapboards,
shingles and heading, have been culled or surveyed, and
Ihall likewise make oath before the naval-officer (whois
hereby required and impowered to administer the fame)
or before any justice of the peace, who ihall give a cer
tificate of the said oath, which ihall, by the mailer or
owner, be transmitted to the naval-officer, that the
boards, ftaves, hoops, shooks, clapboards, shingles and
heading, on board his vessel, are, bona fide, the famecer
tified to have been culled or surveyed, and that he has
no other on board, and that he will not take any others
on board.
And be it further enabled, That from and after the
said firft day of jl^e next, if any person Ihall presume
to Ihip off any boards, ftaves, hoops,fhooks clapboards,
shingles or heading, unless the fame ihall have been
firft culled or surveyed, and marked by a sworn culler
or surveyor, as by this a<st required, he ihall forfeit one
quarter part of such articles to be disposed of, one half
to the poor of the town where the offence is committed,
and the other half to the surveyor or any person or per
sons who Ihall sue for the fame, which he or they are
enabled to do by adion, bill, plaint, or information, in
any Court proper to try the fame.
And be it further enabled, That in case any culler or
surveyor ihall connive at, or allow of the breach of this
ad, or ihall be guilty of any fraud or deceit in survey
ing or culling of boards, ftaves, hoops, shooks, clap
boards, Singles or heading, he ihall forfeit and pay the
sum of ten pounds for each offence ; and in case of his
jefufal, to attend the aforefaid service, when he shall be
thereto requested he ihall forfeit and pay the sum of
tiventy fillings, the forfeiture and penalties to be reco
vered and disposed of as aforefaid.
And the standard for the thickness of merchantable
plank, ihall be two inches, and when any ihall be
purchased for particular use of different thickness, it
Shall be admeafured and calculated by that standard.
And be it further enabled by the authority aforefaid. That
all ads heretofore made for the admeafurement of boards,
and for regulating the tale and dimensions of Ihingles,
clapboards, hoops, shooks, ftaves and heading, be and
they hereby are repealed.
This ad not to be in force until the firft day of June
next.
State of New-Hampshire.
In the House of Representatives, June 18, 1785.
The foregoing bill having been read a third time,
Voted, That it pass to be enabled.
Sent up for concurrence,
JOHN SULLIVAN, Speaker.
In SENATE, June 21, 1785.
This bill was read a third time, and voted, That
the fame be enaded.
J. LANGDON, President.
A true copy, Attest,
JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'ry-
A GENTLEMAN, who had some time paid his ad
dresses to a young lady, having occasion to go into
the country, called on her to take his leave, but was
surprised to hear Miss was not up, and accordingly told
the maid he was sorry her young mistress indulged her
felf so much in the arms of Morpheus— —The maid
said she probably might forget Mr Morpheus's name,
and therefore hoped he would be kind enough to write
down the message.— —He, agreeable to the girl's re
quest, wrote the message down, which she faithfully
gave her mistress—The young lady, on reading the note
turned pale, called her lover a cruel, jealous man, to
fufped she had an intrigue with any person, much more
Mr. Morpheus, a man she never saw nor heard of in
her life.—The moment breakfaft was over, she polled to
a female confidant and shewed the note, declaring that
for such ungenerous suspicion, she was determined never
mote to speak to her lover again.—Her friend being
better read, explained the matter, telling her that Mor
pheus was the God of Sleep ; and that all her lover
meant was, to chide her for slumbering so long. —Miss
saw her error, blushed for it, and in the morning things
were amicably fettled.
AMONG the letters intercepted in the Spanish
Packet, brought into Scotland, is one which comes
from Cordova, in the Tucuman, in South-America,
and mentions that a Negress, named Louisa Truxo, is
now living there, aged 175 years : In order to authen
ticate such an extraordinary circumstance, the council
of that city hath judicially examined every information
capable of atteftingit.—lt appears from ar. interrogatory
of the Negress, that she remembers perfectly having
seen the prelate Fernando Truxo, her firft maker, who
died in the year 1614 ; an d that a year before his death
he gave her, with other property, towards a fund for
founding a university. As no register of baptisms ex
ited till long since, carewus taken to colled every proof,
From the London Magazine, for 1780.
ANECDOT E.
Messieurs Printers,
THE general spirit and sense of the people being
now universally known throughout the State, to
be so much in favour of an emission of paper money on
loan, that they have had town-meetings and conventions
to give inftrnflions to their Representatives, at the ap
proaching session of the General Affembiy ; in which it
is expected to be the firft matter taken up, before they
proceed to any other business ; it has been suggested by
some that, even if thewhole body of the Representatives
should urge the expediency of such a measure, it will
be non-concurred in the Senate, and the general request
of the people fruftrated.— This suggestion, however
true it may seem from appearances, and in a speculative
view, from the circumstances of the gentlemen who com
pose that honorable department, yet it is not founded
upon any declarative fads, and it is an impeachment of
their honour and sensibility, to suppose them so obdu
rate and unfeeling, as to deny the people at large, the
gratification of their hopes and wishes, especially when
they aft nothing unjust, unreasonable or unrighteous.
If these gentlemen are very rich, and have a large
number of distressed persons indebted to them, and that
felf-intereft (hould predominate in their minds, urged
by only their fears of its depreciating, and that they
should pei fonally fuffer great losses in their private for
tunes, yet is this fufficient to support a suggestion to their
difhonour ? No. some of them have experienced a large
share of popularity,and by an open, manly, and disinter
ested deportment have so ingratiated themselves intothe
good graces and favours of the people, that they hold
them in the hipheft esteem. And is it to be supposed
that these gentlemen wonld set themselves against the
sense of the people ? (which was the basts of our boafed
Cenfitution) merely to gratify their own wishes or pri
vate views, or can they be supposed to know more than
the whole State : they well know that the proposed
emission of money is to be funded upon real securities,
at a depreciated rate of valuation, and that every debt
they receive in this money, becomes secured, when per
haps it may now be unfafe ; and that any depreciation
mull be only temporary ; it is not like the money which
has been emitted upon public faith, by which the peo.
ple of the State and the creditors of government have
been greffiy wronged ; promiling to pay fiver and gold
on demand, for thousands of pounds, when there was not
a shilling in the treasury to pay any thing ; even the
Continental money (for the redemption of which, not
the credit of the United States, but the States themselves
were pledged by Congress) was not emitted upon a
foundation any thing like so secure as the present pro
poled currency, for as it has turned out, notwithstand
ing so solemnly pledging the States themselves ; how
many thousands of doTlars emitted by Congress in 1775,
are now dead in the possessors hands without any hopes
of redemption, and who can they oblige to redeem it ?
but in the present case, private individuals take up the
money and mortgage their estates at one third of the ap
prized value on oath, and if they are not redeemed in
the limitted time, they are liable to a forfeiture, and will
any man be so unwise as to run such a rifque as to loose
hiseftate for one third of its value, and furthermore, sup
pose a person had silver or gold to let, would he wish a
better Security ? It is therefore wished the fears of the
people may subside for the present, a short time will dis
cover whether patriotism is founded upon private views
or the public good.
It is said, that a gentleman who now fills one of the
moll important dignified Rations in the United States,
a gentleman of the firft character for literature and po
litical knowledge, and one of the firft fortunes on the
continent, has given it as his opinion that if the govern
ment of the Massachusetts state does not immediately
issue a paper currency, it will be a ruined state.—ls the
government and people of New- Hamplhire in a better
condition, without money, without trade, and so invol
ved one with another, that nothing but oppression is to
be seen ; anions, judgments and executions on onefide,
and no mercy on the other—horrid condition this ! and
yet there are some so callous and unfeeling, as not
to be moved at the fight, but wish its continuance, while
they themselves are even cumbersome to the People.
A little while and we (hall fee who are the friends to
the people and who are not, and it is hoped and expeded,
and it ought to be executed with firmnefs for their fafe
ty ; from whence arises our fears of the expected de
preciation ? are there any determined to do it ? cannot
laws be fabricated to prevent it ? if not, the people
will enter into associations to support its credit, and
tending to ascertain this uncommon fad ; one of which
proofs was the deposition of another Negress, named
Monuella, who is known to be 120 years old, and she
declares, that when she was a mere child, she remem
bers this Louisa Truxo was an old woman.
Was now approaching near,
When straight the sentry of the night,
Roar'd horrid, “ who comes there ?"
" A pried I am from holy Rome,"
Quoth John, " for want of grace,
'' Condemn'd alas ! to have my doom
" In this tremend'ous place."
" A priest ! —ftand off," repli'd the guard,
" Your wicked life to rue,
" Is there no other hell prepar'd
" For cannibals like you ?
'' Go, wretch, go where you may remove,
" For I Ihall always fear,
'' That you who eat the Gods above,
" Will eat the Devils here."
The Non-Elect FRIAR.
AFFLICTED fore with gout or stone,
(But which we do not find)
Not long ago died Friar John,
And left this world behind.
To hell's dire gate, the trembling wight,
For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
thhy will withdraw themselves from any connexions with
those presumptuous, contrasted, and narrow fouls, who
(hall ever refufe it or depreciate it; they (hall be put
into Coventry, and those persons who now knew them
(hall know them no more. Solemn associations will
have the force of law, and those who openly counter
aft those measures which are adopted to save the people
and ease their burdens, must be considered as co-opera
ting with our enemies to dellroy us, and must be no
ticed accordingly.
Let some ot our merchants and traders with Britain
speak, and they will tell you of afociarions in London,
not to fend out any more goods to America or at leak
to the New-England States, even if thev fend them
the money in hand ; the letters are circular, and many
now, like Felix of old. fear and tremble, for these
merchants of the association have not only determined
not to drip goods, but they have sent out their agents
joined with lawyers, to enforce payments, and to push
for their debts with unrelenting ardour. If justice
ffiould be denied them in our courts, the treaty of peace
will be broke ; but if they are put upon equal footing
with ourselves, and be obliged to take the currency of
the State, it will give some relief to the debtor, by
giving him an opportunity to pay his debts in the cur
rency, if they will take it, or to wait till he can build
vessels for sale, at foreign markets, in which they will
be assisted by their foreign creditors, (hip-builders, and
every t^delman to equip a (hip, have declared ' that
they will take the proposed currency, q gentlemen to
whom many thousands of pounds arc due, n a % openly
declared, that they will take it for their debts.
Let the contracted, felfifh, and niggardly wretches
hug their wealth, while only the manly, generous
and publick spirited gentlemen know how to use it.
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^|At his Shop in Pav'd Street, Portsmouth.
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