The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-06-12 00:00:00, page 3

state, to proceed to the sale of said estates, and to repeal
an act to suspend the sales of real estates, which have,
or hereafter may become forfeited to, and vested in
this Rate ; to empower the said agents to fell the lands
and pubiick barracks belonging to this state; and to
repeal the aft, intitled, ' an aft for further futpending
the sales of forfeited estates in this state.
An aft for defraying sundry incidental charges.
An aft for the relief of Adam Green and John Hull,
of Hardwick, in the county of Sussex.
An act for firiking and making current one hundred
thousand pounds in bills of credit, to be let out on
loan, and directing the mode for finking the fame.
At a joint-meeting of the council and general aflfem
bly of this state on Thursday the firft instant, the ho
nourable David Brearley, esquire, was unanimous
ly re-appointed chief-juftice.
Abraham Schuyler, esquire, of New-Brunswick,
was appointed for this state collector of the continen
tal impost, to be raised in conformity to the aft, inti
tled, ' an aft to enable the Congress of the United
States to levy duties of five per centum ad valorum,
on certain goods and merchandize imported into this
state, and on prizes and prize goods, and for appro
priating the fame.
Samuel W. Stockton, esquire, was unanimously
re-appointed clerk of the courts of quarter-sessions
and courts of common-pleas for the county of Hun
terdon.
Anthony Keasby, esquire, was appointed clerk
of the said courts for the county of Salem.
James Parker, esquire, was elected mayor of the
city of Perth-Amboy.
Extras from the ahl, intitled, ' an ahi for friking and
making current one hundred thousand pounds in bills of
credit, to be let out on loan, and directing the mode
for finking the fame.'
And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, that the aforefaid bills of credit made and is
sued by virtue of this aft, (hall be and continue cur
rent for and during the time and space of twelve
years, from the fifth day of December, in the year
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-fix, between
man and man, but shall be received by the said com
miffionets and the treasurer of this state for fix months
thereafter, and no longer, and shall be received and
paid for the fame value expressed in and upon each
bill for goods or lands, or any other thing bought
and fold by all persons whatsoever within this state,
according to their rates; and the tender of said bills
for payment, and difeharging any debt or debts, bar
gains, sales of land, or other things, bonds, mort
gages, specialties and contrasts whatsoever already
made, or hereafter to be made, either for sterling
money, silver money, dollars, or any other species
of gold or silver, shall be as effectual in the law, to
all intents and purposes, as if the species contracted
for had been offered and tendered for the fame.
And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
Aid, that in all cases where a tender shall be made
in said bills of credit by or in behalf of any debtor
to any creditor or creditors, or his, her or their ex
ecutors, administrators or attorney, for the payment
of any judgment, execution, debt or debts, dues or
demands whatsoever, which is or are already due and
payable, or may hereafter become due and payable
during the currency of the said bills, and such cre
ditor or creditors shall refufe to accept the said bills
;n difeharge of such judgment, execution, debt, due
or demand, that it shall and may be lawful for the
debtor or other person in his or her behalf making
such tender, to deliver said bills so tendered to the
clerk of the court of common pleas in the county in
which such tender shall be made, which the said
cletkishereby required to receive as a deposit for the use
of such creditor, and to give a receipt therefor to the
person depositing the fame, fpecifying on what account
the fame was deposited, which bills so deposited shall
be the property of the creditor, and while remain
ing with the clerk shall be at the rifle of such credi
tor to whom or on whose account the fame was ten
dered, and shall be delivered by the clerk to such
creditor when demanded, upon his or her delivering
to the clerk, for the use of the debtor, the bond or
other specialty, if any, for the difeharge of which
such tender was made; and upon the tender of said
bills, and depositing the fame as aforefaid, provided the
whole debt, with the costs, if any have accrued there
on, shall be tendered and deposited, the debtor and
his and her executors and administrators shall be, and
they and each of them is and are hereby difeharged
from all judgments, executions, and all other debts,
dues and demands, for the payment whereof such
tender shall be made as aforefaid ; and the creditor
and creditors, his, her and their executors and ad
ministrators, shall be, and is and are hereby preclud
ed and barred from bringing and carrying on any
action or aliens or proceeding on any judgment or
execution after a tender and deposit for payment of
the lame shall be made as aforefaid; which receipt,
given by the clerk as aforefaid, shall by him be re
corded if required by the person to whom given,
which receipt, or a copy thereof certified by said
clerk, together with the testimony or deposition of
one creditable witness in proof of the tender being
made as aforefaid, shall at all times be admitted in
al! courts of judicature as good and fufficient evi-
And be it further enacted by the authority afore
faid, that if any person or persons whatsoever within
this state, during the currency of the said bills of
credit, shall offer to fell, or expose to sale, any goods
or chattels whatsoever, and deny or refufe to fell, or
ask a greater value for the fame, unless payment be
made in gold or silver, or other current coin, and not
in said bills of credit, whereby the credit of the said
bills may be impaired, then and in such case the per
son so exposing to sale and refuting as aforefaid shall,
in case the goods or chattels offered to sale do not
exceed the sum of twenty (hillings in value, forfeit
the sum of twelve (hillings ; and, in case the goods
or chattels offered to sale do exceed the value of
twenty (hillings, shall forfeit one half of the value
thereof, which forfeitures shall be sued for, and re
covered with costs of suit, by any one of the over
seers of the poor of the township where the offence
is committed, to whom information thereof shall be
given, to be applied, when recovered, to the use of
the poor of said township. And if any person shall of
fer any discount upon the receipt or payment of a
debt, between the bills to be issued by virtue of this
ad and gold or silver, or offer to fell said bills for a
sum less than the value mentioned thereon to be paid
in gold or silver, or any other kind of pay,
every person so offending by lessening, or thereby at
tempting to lessen, the value of said bills, shall, for
each and every such offence, forfeit the sum of twelve
pounds, to be sued for and recovered with costs of
suit by any one of the overseers of the poor of the town
ship where the offence is committed, to whom infor
mation thereof shall be given, to be applied towards
the support of the poor as aforefaid.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
An ahi for making the bills emitted by the ahl, in
titled, an aft for raising a revenue of thirty
one thousand t<wo hundred and fifty-nine pounds
five frillings per annum, for the term of twenty
five years, for the purpose of paying the interest
and principal of debts due from the United
States, agreeably to a recommendation of Con
grefo °f tbe eighteenth day of April seventeen
hundred aad eighty-three, and for appropriating
the fame, a legal tender in this state.
BE it enacted by the council and general afTembly
of this state, and it is hereby enabled by the
authority of the fame, that, from and after the pub
lication of this aft, the bills emitted in and by vir
tue of an aft, intitled, ' an aft for raising a revenue
of thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty-nine
pounds five Killings per annum, for the term of
twenty-five years, for the purpole of paying the in
terest and principal of debts due from the United
States, agreeably to a recommendation of Congress
of the eighteenth day of April one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-three, and for appropriating the
fame, shall be, and the fame are hereby declared to
be a legal tender, in the payment of all debts, dues
or contrasts whatsoever within this state, in the manner,
and as full in every refped as the bills to be emitted
by an ad, intitled, ' an ad for striking and making
current one hundred thousand pounds in bills of cre
dit, to be let out on loan, and directing the mode for
finking the fame,' are by said ad made a tender, and
every person attempting to lessen the value of said
bills in any or either of the cases mentioned in the
said last recited ad, shall be fubjed to the penalties
therein directed, to be recovered in like manner.
Faffed at New-Brunswick, June I, 1786.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
An ahi for the relief of poor and insolvent debtors.
WHEREAS a number of poor and insolvent
debtors appear now to be confined in the se
veral gaols of this state, who are willing to deliver
dence of payment, and shall operate as a full dif
eharge of every action which may be brought for re
covery of any debt or demand, for the payment of
which tender shall be made in said bills as aforefaid.
And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, that if any person, being an inhabitant of this
state, shall, by himfelf or assignee, sue or arrest ano
ther inhabitant of this state in any other of the Unit
ed States after a tender made of the debt or de
mand in the bills of credit made current by this ad,
provided the said debt or demand shall have been con
tracted in this state, shall be liable for, and make
good, and pay the party so sued out of this state,
the whole amount of the sum which may be reco
vered from him or her in another state, together with
all the costs and charges sustained thereby, to be re
covered in any court of record in this state where
the fame shall be cognizable, with costs of suit.
Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall
be construed to affect any action that shall be brought
in another state upon a bond, bill or other specialty prov
ed to have been bona fide assigned by any citizen of
this state to a citizen of another state before the pub
lication of this ad.
TO BE SOL D,
AT PUBLICK VENDUE,
ON Thursday the 6th of July next, the pleasantly
situated feat of the late dodor Lewis Johnson,
at Perth-Amboy, containing two hundred and nine
acres; it will be fold in two lots, as it is conveniently
situated to be laid off into two genteel feats. There
will likewise be fold, several commodious lots and wa
ter lots, part of the estate of Henry Cuyler, late de
ceased. Likewise, to be fold on the fame day, a com
modious water lot, extending in front on Water-
Street twenty-fix feet, and in rear to low water
mark; on which there is a new well built storehouse,
thirty-fix feet long and twenty-two wide, with an ex
cellent dry cellar under it. The conditions will be
made known at the time and place of sale, by
JAMES PARKER,
BOWES REED.
June 10, 1786. 4W
WHEREAS John Ansley, esquire, of the kingdom
of Great-Britain, has been specially appointed
under the authority of an aft of the British parliament,
intitled, ‘ an aft for appointing commissioners further
to enquire into the losses and services of all such per
sons who have fuffered in their rights, properties and
profeffions, during the late unhappy diffentions in
America, in consequence of their loyalty to his ma
jesty and attachment to the British government,' to repair
to the United States of America, for the purpose of hear
ing, enquiring and examining into such faffs and cir
cumstances, and collecting such information as may
be material, for the better afeertaining the several
claims which have been presented under the authority
of the above mentioned or any former aft:
Notice is therefore hereby given,
That the said John Ansley has opened an office in
Broad-Street, in the city of New-York, and entered
upon the execution of the trusts in him vested.
And whereas an inquiry has been accordingly insti
tuted into the cases of James Delancey, esquire, Fre
derick Philipfe, esquire, brigadier-general Oliver De
lancey, mr. Isaac Low, mr. Hugh Wallace, mr. Alex
ander Wallace, colonel Beverley Robinson, colonel
Roger Morris, Robert Bayard, esquire, and colonel
James Delancey, in the firft instance ; all persons
therefore in any way interested in the enquiry above
mentioned, either as friends, relatives or agents, to
prove the titles of the claimants, or as creditors hav
ing demands on the estates confifeated, either by way
of mortgages, bond debts or otherwise, are hereby re
quested to notify the fame at the said office, by let
ter directed to John Ansley, esquire, Broad-Street,
New-York, as soon as conveniently may be, fpecify
ing the sum or sums of money in demand, together
with the date thereof, to the end that justice may be
done in the premiies, and that such further orders, d : -
redions and appointments may be made as the c
cumftances of each case may require, and that t
fame may in due time be examined into and afcertai
ed accordingly.
Office of Claims, Broad-Street, New-York,
May 29, 1786. 3 w
A quantity of excellent
WRITING-PAPER,
To be fold, wholesale and retail, by the Printer.
all their efFeda to their creditors, and yet cannot hav&
the advantage of an ad, intitled, ‘ an ad for the re
lief of insolvent debtors,' by reason the creditors of
those persons so confined, or a majority in value of
his, her or their creditors, refufe to join with such
debtor or debtors, in a petition to the court for that
purpose; therefore,
Sed. I. Be it enaded by the council and general
afTembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the fame, that all and every person
or persons who may be, at the publication of this
ad, in adual confinement in any gaol within this
state, shall be intitled to all the benefits and advan
tages of the before recited ad, as fully to all intents
and purposes whatsoever, as if his, her or their cre
ditors, or a majority of his, her or their creditors
had petitioned or joined with such debtor or debtors,
in a petition to the court for the benefit of said ad,
any thing in the before recited ad to the contrary
notwithstanding.
2. Provided always, and it is hereby further en
aded, that before any debtor shall be discharged by
virtue of this ad, he or she shall conform him or
herfelf to all the conditions authorizing a difeharge
from confinement mentioned in the said ad, intitled,
' an ad for the relief of insolvent debtors,' except
ing that part which requires a majority in value of
the creditors petitioning as aforefaid. Provided also,
that no person whatsoever, not having obtained a ma
jority in value of creditors in his or her favour to
petition, shall be entitled to a difeharge by this ad,
wliere the creditors of such prisoner, or one or more
of them, shall weekly pay to the gaol-keeper three
(hillings and nine pence per week, for the support of
the said prisoner.
3. And be it enaded, that nothing in this ad
(hall be continued to give relief to prisoners in con
finement, on a capias ad fatisfaciendum, where the
fheriff or coroner hath been prosecuted for an escape
of such prisoner, on the adion for which he or die
is confined.
Palled at New-Brunswick, June 1, 1786.