The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-06-06 00:00:00, page 1

T HE subscribers beg leave to inform the publick,
1 that the New berry, belonging to John Burrows
and George Beatty, a litde above the Falls, and near
ly opposite to irecton, is now in good repair, with
good boatsfy where due attendance, will be given by
the publick's humble Servants,
JOHN BURROWS,
GERSHOM MOORE.
May 24, 1735. 3 m
T 0 inriroYTDr
A Large and valuable trad of unimproved LAND,
. 1 confining of upland, irefh and fait meadow, ly
ing on Maurice river, Rate of New-Jerfry. The fufa
meadow, confiding of between three and four hundred
acres, by being improved will produce excellent timo
thy or clover, which abounds in the neighbourhood. —
The terms will be made easy to the purchaser; or pa
per Securities of the date of Pennsylvania or New-fer
fey will be received in payment. Enquire of JESSE
HAND, at Cape-May, or JOSEPH C. FISHER, in
Philadelphia. 8w
T O B F. SOL D,
A valuable Trad of LAND,
CONTAINING 300 acres, lituate within three miles
of fronton, in the county of Burlington, and
township of Nottingham, and within 2 miles of Lam
berton, where it is expected the federal town will be
erected. On laid tradt there is clay and wood fuhici
ent to make brick for the building, it being all woodland,
except twelve acres; one hundred of it may be made
good meadow, which may be laid from fix inches to
one foot under water, or kept dry all winter, as the
purchaser Shad plcale ; and contiguous to it there is
great range fur cattle. Paper money, notes given to the
officers and soldiers of the Jersey line, and final fettie
rnent of their pay, loan-office certificates, and notes
given by Benjamin 1 hornpion, Esq. ul be taken in
payment. For turih; r particulars e of Robert
Peai son, in Nottingham, Joseph , or the sub
scriber in Trenton. JOSEPH HIGBEE,
N. B. The meadow-land is a deep rich foil, and not
fubjed to be flooded.
May 1785. t f
JUS T PUBLISHE D,
And to be fold at the Printing-Office in Tren
ton —-
OBSERVATIONS
ON THE
IMPORTANCE
OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
AND
The Means of making it ,a Benefit to the World.
* y
RICHARD PRICE, I). D. L. L. D.
And Fellow of the Royal Society of London,
and of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in
New-England.
These Observations are comprized under the fol
lowing Heads:
I. Of the Importance of the Revolution which has
eftablilhed the Independence of the United States.
11. Of the Means of promoting human Improvement
and Happiness in the United States.
111. Of Peace, and the Means of perpetuating it.
IV. Of Liberty.
V. Of Liberty of Discussion.
VI. Of Liberty of Conscience, and Civil Esta
blishments of Religion.
VIL Of Education.
VIII. Of the Dangers to which the American States
are exposed.
IX. Of Debis and Internal Wars.
X. Of an unequal Distribution of Property.
XI. Of Trade, Banks, and Paper Credit.
XU. Of Oaths.
XIII. Ofthe Negro Trade and Slavery.
NEW-JERSEY GAZFTTF'
A Quantity of
Wrapping-Paper,
Of superior Quality,
To be had at the Printing-Office in Teuton.
[Vol. VIII.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLINS, Printer to the State,
To the PUBLICK.
MONDAY, June 6, 1785.
Seventh. That the lands of non-refiderit propri
etors Shall in no ca s e b e taxed higher than those of re
sidents within any new state, before the admission
thereof to a vote by its delegates in Congress.
That whensoever any of the said states shall have
of free inhabitants as many as shall then be in any one,
the least numerous, of the thirteen original states, such
state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Con
gress of the United States, on an equal footing with
the said original states; provided the consent of so
many states in Congress is firft obtained as may at the
time be competent to such admission. And in order
to adapt the said articles of confederation to the state
of Congress, when its numbers shall be thus increased,
it shall be proposed to the legislatures of the states,
originally parties thereto, to require the assent of two
thirds of the United States in Congress assembled,
. i HIRD. Ihat they in no case shall interfere with
the primary Ufrfil of the foil by the United States
in Congress afUrnbled; nor with-the ordinances and
regulations uhivh Congress may find necessary for se
curing the title in such foil to the bona fidepurchafers.
Fourth. That they shall be fubjed to pay a part
of the federal debts, contrasted or to be contracted,
to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to
the fame common rule and measure by which appor
tionments thereof Shall be made on the other states.
Fifth. That no tax shall be imposed on lands
the property of the United States.
Sixth. I hat their respective governments shall
be republican.
By the United States in Congress assembled.
, Apnl 23, 1784.
Resolved,
THAT so much of the territory ceded, or to
be ceded by individual states, to the United
States, as is already purchased, or shall be
purchaled, of the Indian inhabitants, and
offered for file by Congress, shall be divided into dif
tind states in the following manner, as nearly as such
cessions will admit ; that is to lay, by parallels of la
titude, so that each Rate shall comprehend from north
to south two degrees of latitude, beginning to count
from the completion of forty-five degrees north of the
equator ; and by meridians of longitude, one of which
shall pass through the lowed point of the rapids of
Ohio, and the other through the wefterircape of the
mouth of the great Kanhaway : but the territory east
ward of this Jaft meridian, between the Ohio, lake
Erie, and Pennsylvania, shall be ore Rate, whatsoever
may be its comprehension of latitude. That which
may lie beyond the completion of the forty-fifth de
gree between the said meridians, shall make part of
the date adjoining it on rhe south; and t rat part of
the Ohio, which is between the fame meridians, co
inciding nearly with the parallel of thirty-nine de
grefs, shall be lubitituted so far in lieu of that paral
lel as a boundary line.
I hat the settlers on any territory so purchased and
ottered for sale, shall, either on their own petition, or
on the order of Congress, receive authority from them,
with appointments of time aed place, for their free
males of full age, within the limits of their state, to
meet together, for the purpose of establishing a tem
porary government, to adopt the constitution and laws
of any one of the original states; so that such laws
nevertbeUfs shall be fubje&r Iteration by their or
dinary legislature; and to ereU, fubjeft to alike al
teration, counties, townships, or other divisions, for
the election of members for their legislature.
Ihat when any such state shall have acquired
twenty tl.oufand free inhabitants, on giving due proof
thereof to Congress, they Shall receive from them au
thority, with appointments of time and place, to call
a convention of reprefenratives, to cftab&h a perma
nent constitution and government for themselves: Pro
vided that both the temporary and permanent govern
merits be established on thele principles as their basis.
First. 1 hat they shall forever remain a part of
this confederacy of the United States of America.
Second. that they UUI be fubjed to the arti
cles ot confederation in ail those cases in which the
original States Shall be so fubjeeff; and to all the a&s
and ordinances of the United States in Congress as
sembled, conformable thereto.
T H E
An Ordinance for ascertaining the Mode
of dijfeofing °f Lands in the Western
Territory.
BE it Ordained by the United States in
Congress assembled, That the territory ceded
by individual states, to the United States, which has
been purchased of the Indian inhabitants, Shall be dis
posed of in the following manner:
A surveyor from each state shall be appointed by
Congress or a committee of the states, who shall take
an oath for the faithful discharge of his duty, before
the geographer of the United States, who is hereby
empowered and directed to adminiftcr the fame ; and
the like oath shall be administered to each chain car
rier, by the surveyor under whom he ads.
The geographer, under whose direction the sur
veyors shall ad, shall occasionally form such regulati
ons for their condud, as he shall deem nectary;
and shall have authority to suspend them for mifeGn
dud in office, and shall make report of the fame to
Congress or to the committee of the states; and he
shall make report in case of sickness, death, or resig
nation of any surveyor.
The surveyors, as they are refpedivcly qualified,
shall proceed to divide the said territory into town
fllips of fix miles square, by lines running due north
and south, and others eroding these at right angles, as
near as may be, unless where the boundaries of the
late Indian purchases may render the fame impractica
ble, and then they shall depart from this rule no far
ther than such particular circumstances may require.
And each surveyor shall be allowed and paid at the
rate of two dollars for every mile in length he shall
run, including the wages of chain carriers, markers,
and every other expence attending the fame.
The firft line running north and south as aforefaid,
shall begin on the river Ohio, at a point that shall be
found to be due north from the western termination
of a line which has been run as the southern bounda
ry of the state of Pennsylvania ; and the firft line run
ning east and weft, shall begin at the fame point, and
shall extend throughout the whole territory; provid
ed that nothing herein shall be construed, 'as fixing
the western boundary of the state of Pennsylvania.—
The geographer shall designate the townships or frac
tional parts of townships, by numbers progressively
from south to north, always beginning each range with
No. I ; and the ranges shall be distinguished by their
progressive numbers to the westward. The firft range
extending from the Ohio to the lake Erie, beiiTg
marked No. t. The geographer shall personally at
tend to the running of the firft east and weft line ; and
shall take the latitude of the extremes of the firft
north and south line, and of the mouths of the prin
cipal rivers.
That the preceding articles shall be formed into a
charter of compact: shall be duly executed by the
president of the United States in Congress assembled,
under his hand, and the seal of the United States ;
shall be promulgated ; and shall stand as fundamental
constitutions between the thirteen original states, and
each of the several states now newly described, unal
terable from and after the sale of any part of the terri
tory of such state, pursuant to this resolve, but by
the joint consent of the United States in Congress as,
fembled, and of the particular state within which fuel)
alteration is proposed to be made.
in all those cases wherein by the said articles the as
sent of nine states is now required ; which being agreed
to by them, shall be binding on the new states. Un
til inch admission by tneir delegates into Congress,
any of the said states after the eltablifhment of their
temporary government shall have authority to keep a
member in Congress, with a right of debating, but not
of voting. , .
That meaiures not inconsistent with the principles
of the confederation, and necessary for the preserva
tion of peace and good order among the settlers, in
any of the said new states, until they shall assume a
temporary government as aforefaid, may from time to
time be taken by the United States in Congress as
sembled.
May 20, 1785.
[Numb. 369.]