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count against the Rate, and praying payment, was read,
and ordered to lie on the table.
A petition from Isaac Collins, printer to the
state, was read, praying a permanent appointment as
printer by law, for such a length of time, and under
such regulations as to the legillature should seem meet,
and that he may have leave to present a bill for that
purpose;
Ordered, That the petitioner have leave to present a
bill agreeably to the prayer of his petition.
The house adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The house met.
The engrossed bill, intitled, ' an ad for making par
tition of a trad of land in Essex county, commonly
called Afhfield's trad,' was read and compared; on
the question, whether the fame do pass ? it was car
ried in the affirmative, as follows:
Yeas. Messrs. Blauvelt, Nicoll, Garritfe, A. Clark,
Marsh, Combs, Schuurman, Bonney, Schenck, Still
well, Bunn, Blair, Kelley, R. S. Smith, Biddle, J.
Smith, Davis, Houghton, Baker, Whilden, Cook,
Starke, Burgin, Bowen, Sheppard, Hankinfon, Beard
flee, Longstreet.
Nays. Messrs. Cooper, Hall.
Ordered, That the speaker do sign the said bill.
Ordered, That mr. Schuurman do carry the said
bill to the council for concurrence.
Mr. Nicoll, agreeably to leave given, and in behalf
of the petitioner, presented the draught of a bill, in
titled, 'an ad for enabling Nicholas Lczeir to ered
and maintain a mill and the necessary waterworks for
improving the fame, on and near Hackinfack river, in
the county of Bergen, and state of New-Jersey ;' which
bill was read, and ordered a second reading.
The engrossed bill, intitled, ' an ad to difeourage
the keeping of dogs,' was read and compared; on
the question, whether the fame do pass? It was car
ried in the affirmative, as follows:
Yeas. Messrs. Nicoll, A. Clark, Marsh, Schuur
man, Bonney, Walton, Schenck, Stillwell, Blair, Kelley,
R. S. Smith, J. Smith, Davis, Sinnickfon, Houghton,
Baker, Whilden, Starke, Arnold, Bowen, Sheppard.
Nays. Messrs. Blauvelt, Garritfe, Combs, Bunn,
Biddle, Cooper, T. Clark, Hall, Holme, Lambert,
Cook, Burgin, Hankinfon, Beardflce, Longstreet.
Ordered, That the speaker do sign the fame.
Ordered, That mr. Schuurman do carry the said
bill to council for concurrence.
Agreeably to the order of the day, the sergeant at
arms informed the house he had obeyed their orders of
the 23d inst. that Nathaniel Farrand was in his custo
dy, and that he had fubpeenaed the witnesses named in
the said order, who were also attending in town;
Ordered, That the said Nathaniel Farrand be brought
before the house, who being called appeared, was ex
amined on the charges exhibited against him ; and the
following evidences were called, sworn and examined,
to wit, John Tucker, Jonas Wade and Aaron Wi
nans;
Ordered, That the consideration of the above charges
be postponed till to-morrow morning.
Ordered, That the sergeant at arms take into his
custody art fafely keep the bodies of Nathaniel Far
rand, Jacob Winans and Aaron Winans, until dis
charged from his custody by order of this house.
Mr. R. S. Smith, agreeably to leave given, and in
behalf of the petitioner, presented the draught of a
bill, intitled, ' an aft for appointing a publick printer
to the state of New-Jersey, and for declaring the cre
dit and authenticity of all such ads and proceedings,
as shall be printed and published by him, under the
direction of the legislative -council and general assembly,
or of either of them, or of the joint-meeting ;' which
bill was read, and ordered to be referred to the next
session.
A petition from Jonas Ward, an insolvent debtor,
confined in the gaol of the county of Essex, praying
that a law may be passed to relieve him from confine
ment, was read, and referred to the committee ap
pointed to bring in a supplement to the ad for the re
lief of insolvent debtors.
The house adjourned till to-morrow morning nine of
the clock.
Saturday, May 27, 1786.
The house met.
A petition from the justices and freeholders of the
county of Somerset, praying that the forty-firft fedi
on of the bill, intitled, ' an ad for regulating roads
and bridges,' may be repealed, was read, and referred
to the next fitting.
Mr. A. Clark, from the committee appointed to
join the committee of council in joint conference, re
ported,
THAT the said joint-committees have had several
conferences, and agreed to report to the refpedive houses
as follows:
ift, That it is the opinion of the committee a tax
of £. 10,419 15 0 be levied for the present year, to be
paid into the treasury on or before the 20th day of
December next, and when received to be applied in
addition to the revenue money towards discharging the
present year's interest on the continental debt due to
the citizens of this state, and that the bills now in cir
culation, called revenue bills, be made a legal tender.
2d, That the confifcated lands, and the publick bar
racks, in this state be fold as soon as convenient to
wards discharging the state debt ; and that in such sale
credit be given, and payment in state securities be
made, at executing the deeds, previous to the pur
chasers taking possession of the purchased premises.
3d, That a revenue be raised by an impost and excise.
By order of the committee,
ABRAHAM CLARK.
To which report the house agreed.
Whereupon,
Ordered, That meffrs. Schuurman and Cook be a
committee to bring in a bill to raise by tax the sum of
£. 10,419 15 0, and for making the present revenue
money a legal tender, agreeably to the firft paragraph
in the said report.
Ordered, That meffrs. R. S. Smith, Sinnickfon and
Combs, be a committee to prepare and present a bill
agreeably to the second paragraph in the said report.
Ordered, That meffrs. A. Clark, Sinnickfon, Shep
pard, R. S. Smith, Schuurman and Blair, be a com
mittee to bring in a bill to raise a revenue agreeably
to the third paragraph of the said report.
The house resumed the consideration of the charges
exhibited against Nathaniel Farrand; whereupon,
Ordered, That a suit be instituted by the attorney
general of this state against Jacob Winans, for re
ceiving the amount of three surplus certificates given
by Nathaniel Farrand, to the use of said Jacob Wi
nans, one of which was to Nathaniel Pike, for £. 627 2 2,
the other two payable to John- Tucker, for the above
sum of £. 627 2 2 each, for which it appears the said
Farrand received no originals, and that the auditor de
liver the attorney-general all the papers in his pos
session necessary for the prosecution.
Ordered, That the sergeant at arms attend Natha
niel Farrand to his house, and receive from him all
the certificates with the books and vouchers in his
possession, containing accounts of the receipts or issues
of certificates, giving a receipt therefor if required,
and return the said Farrand in custody to this place.
Also, ordered, that Nathaniel Farrand deliver to the
sergeant at arms all the publick certificates and pa
pers in his possession.
(To be continued. )
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American Intelligence.
Sr. JAGO DE LA VEGA, April 20.
A LETTER from Liverpool mentions, the Princess
Royal Guineaman being returned to that port,
having disposed of her slave cargo at the Spanish Island
of TriniJada ; the captain of a French vessel then at
anchor there, agreed for the purchase of 150 of them,
which were accordingly delivered, and payment was
to be made by him in dollars the following day; but
the honefl purchafcr unobserved weighed anchor and
took French leave in the night; in the morning the
Princess Royal went in pursuit of the villain, but returned
without success, he having got clear off with his boo
ty. —This may be considered as a new species offwin
dling!
NEW-Y 0 R K, June 26.
The Jamaica papers contain great complaints of the
bad situation of the commerce of that island. They
state that a certain loss attends the shipping of pro
duce: that bills cannot be had without a very large
premium; and that a great part of their remittances
mult be made in specie, to the impoverilhment of the
inhabitants; and that nine boxes of silver and five of
gold, were ready to be ffiipped off from one mercan
tile house in Kingdon.
Yesterday arrived at this port from Charleston,
South-Carolina, the brig Mercury, captain Tinker,
after a passage of eight days.—A ihort time previous
to the failing of this vessel, a dreadful fire broke out
in Broad-street, in that city, which consumed a num
ber of capital buildings, and destroyed property to a
considerable value.
The celebrated Doctor Moyes has bid adieu to the
American continent. He lately failed from Charleston,
South-Carolina, on board the ship Amelia, bound
from that port to London.
We learn from Augusta, in Georgia, that the late
disturbances with the Creek Indians have subsided for
the present, they having diftppeared.
The honourable JOHN SULLIVAN, esquire, is cho
sen president of the state of New-Hampshire, for the
ensuing year.
Extras of a letter from Charleston (S. C.) May 18.
" Tuesday last arrived here from Savannah, the
lloop Sally, captain Ifaacs.—ln her was brought pri
soner, the poftrider, that lately alleged he was rob
bed on his way from this city to Savannah, doubts
being entertained as to the truth of the tale which he
told."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in London to his
friend in Halifax, dated March 20, 1786.
'° With refpeft to your part of the globe, where,
free from the disquieting sensations which this popu
lous town occasions, you breathe the breath of free
dom, and have reason to look forward to future pros
perity, government are determined to secure the carry
ing trade. By orders issued in council, in pursuance
of an aft passed the session before last, all American
vessels were prohibited to load or to be unladen at any
of our Weft-India ports. This prohibition has prov
ed so salutary to our navigation, that this session it
has been continued. It has been declared and prov
ed, that British bottoms, navigated according to law,
have entirely carried on the commerce between the
Weft-Indies and the United States; and that as great
an importation of American commodities to the Weft-
Indies has taken place since the war, as in any leven
years, upon an average, before the war.
" It has been attended likewise with another great be
nefit—The supply of the Weft-Indies with Newfound
land fifh, &c. in British bottoms, which has already
employed about 400 ships, and thereby makes an in
crease of about 4000 seamen. The confining the sup
ply of bread, flour and live stock, to actual Britifh
built ships to Newfoundland, mult gall your indepen
dent neighbours, as much as it will advantage our ma
rine. Surely if all these advantages should con
tinue or increase, and Nova-Scotia and Canada in
time be enabled to supply the Weft-India illands with
provisions, &c. the wealth that will thereby ^rife to
the colonies and this country will be immense, and
place you in a more profitable way, and attended
with more advantages than America could ever have
A woman representing Holland, seated on a throne,
the Batavian lion by her fide, armed with seven ar
rows, a symbol of the Belgic Union, alluding to the
peace concluded with the emperor; Holland offering
the olive to a nymph of the Efcaut: Renown appears
in the air, blowing a trumpet, and streamer ornament
ed with the fleur delis. In the centre is a garland,
forming a civic crown supported by two hands, with
fevcral other fymbolieal figures . On the exergue is,
Duplici feedere falva
The Legend.
8 Nov. Pace cum Romano Imperatore.
10 Ejufd. Feedere cum Rege Gallic initis.
On the reverse is a Mercury, with his attributes, and
the following infeription:
Gratis animi menumentum illujirifimis bujus difficil
limi negotii pr^feSis dicatum, quibu/dam civibus mer
catoribus Amjielodamenjibus.
M,DCC,£XXXVI.
ExtraS of a letter from the adminiJlrators of the French
colon, '' H ''P a ™° la ' dated Port-au-Prince, 7th May,
" A great drought has prevailed in this colony for
months, and all kind of provisions for slaves are as
dear as they are scarce. We forefee that the scarcity
will last some months more, because all the subsistence
which was kept in store will soon be consumed, as
the dryness has not permitted to raise or plant any.—
Cargoes of corn, peafe, beans, rice, potatoes, and
all kind of provisions for slaves, will certainly give A
benefit to the importer."
RICHMON D, June 15.
On Saturday last as the two mr. Geters were re
turning home from Port-Royal, there came on a very
severe ihower of rain, which induced them to take
shelter under a large oak. They had not remained
there long, before the tree was struck with lightning,
which killed both them and their horses upon the spot.
June 22. Saturday last a negro woman in this city
was delivered (in the space of an hour) of three fine
children ; what was very remarkable, they had nearly a
full set of teeth : since which they have died ; the mo
ther is likely to do well.
Last week several negroes belonging to mr Hartwell
Meacon, of New-Kent, took shelter in a barn from a
severe shower of rain ; they had not remained long in
it before a whirlwind blew it down, and wounded five
of them.
The Bermuda papers informs us, that most of the
Weft-India islands are so well stocked at present with
flour, that fuperfine will not fetch above five dollars
per barrel.
PHI iTnTFTTTTTQ^e! 7.
ExtraS of a letter from Pittfourg, dated May
27, 1786.
" Alsace, a principal chief of the Seneca nations,
on his arrival in town, having heard of some depre
dations committed by the Indians down the river
Ohio, on the white inhabitants, requeued a council
with the commanding officer of the garrison, captain
Armstrong, which being granted.—.
been in. Besides, past experience will teach the co.
lonifts to behave liberally and ingenuously towards this
country ; and this country will learn, that to promote
and invigorate their general welfare, whatever mea
sures are intended to be adopted, must be begun with,
and afterwards steadily adhered to.
" I have thus touched upon the two greatest things
in this country—finance and commerce, which imply
every advantage, strength and refpedability we can
enjoy; and you will observe from what I have wrote,
(which is all from very good authority) that if these
plans succeed, this country can by no means be said
to be in a declining situation.
" I am very much pleased to hear that so many of
the Nantucket people intend fettling at Dartmouth.
What an influx of wealth and advantage w
to you! I understand that France had con
take, and they had agreed to fell, a very laiye
tity of oil, while they were under the Con/
I should imagine their becoming British fuifocts ^i,
invalidate the bargain—for they will always find a
market in England for all the oil they can furnifh."
Extracts of letters from Jamaica, April 22.
" The fliip Pimento, Freeman, from New-York, has
been seized at Port Antonio this week, by Daniel Flow
erdew, esquire, also the brig Sophia, Griffin, by his
majesty's ship Iphiginia, at Spring Garden wharf, in
the parilh of St. George's."
April 20. " Saturday last, at a court of vice-ad
miralty held at Spanish-Town, the ship Brothers, be
longing to Isaac Lafcefles Winn, esquire, and the brig
Royal Midshipman, American property, with their
cargoes, lately seized by Daniel Flowerdew, esquire,
were libelled for a breach of the laws of trade, and,
after a long hearing, were both condemned."
May 6. " The brig Betsey, captain M'Clean, which
arrived from Baltimore yesterday, was immediately
taken possession of by Daniel Flowerdew, esquire.
" We hear that a vessel from North-America, with
forty horses on board, is seized at Savanna la Mar,
by the officers of the port."
By accounts from Stratford, in Connecticut, we arc
informed that the right reverend bishop Seabury
has lately ordained fcveral candidates for holy orders
in the Episcopal church ; and at the town of Stratford
near four hundred persons were confirmed by the bi
shop, agreeably to the Rubrick in the church of Eng
land's liturgy.
Captain Hazelden of the ship Betsey, on the 13th
instant, in lat. 36. 9. long. 68. o. spoke the ship Grace,
captain Armour, from this port for Amsterdam, five
days out, all well.
On account of the league offenfive and defenfive,
between France and Holland, the following medal has
been struck :