The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-06-19 00:00:00, page 1

An aft more effectually to empower the justices and
chosen freeholders in the several counties in this
state, to call to account county collectors for money
and other publick property by them received.
TTTHEREAS the laws for calling to account the
VV county collectors in this state are not fufficient
ly explicit to answer all the good purposes intended ;
therefore,
, Be it enacted by the council and general assembly of
this state, and it is hereby enaCted by the authority
of the fame, that the board ofjuftices and chosen free
holders in each refpettive county in this state, incorpo
rated by an aft, intitled, ' an aCt incorporating the jus
tices and chosen freeholders in the several counties in
this state, for the purpose of taking titles for lots of
land on which the courthouses, gaols and other pub
lick buildings belonging to the refpeftive counties, are
now or hereafter may be ereCted,' shall be, and here
by are refpeCtively authorized and empowered in their
c rporate capacity, at any time or times they may
nk proper, to call to account all county collectors,
ich have been or may be appointed in their respec
tive counties, for all monies or other publick proper
ty, which have been or hereafter may be received by
them or either of them, for which they are not made
accountable to the treasurer of this state, and to
commence and prosecute any suit or suits, action or
actions, against any county collector for such m@nev
or other publick property in their hands.
Passed at New-Brunswick, June 1, 1786.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
A supplement to an ad, intitled, an ad to direct the
agents of forfeited estates in the refpedive counties of
this Rate, to proceed to the sale of said estates, and to
repeal an ad to suspend the sales of real estates, which
have, or hereafter may become forfeited to, and
vested in this state; to empower the said agents to
fell the lands and publick barracks belonging to this
state; and to repeal the ad, intitled, ' an ad for
further suspending the sales of forfeited estates in this
state.
Sed. I. E it enaded by the council and ge
neral assembly of this state, and it
is hereby enacted by the authority
, of the fame, that the agents of
g, forfeited estates in the refpedive
counties of this state, shall, and
they hereby are required to proceed to fell all real
estates in their refpedive counties, which have been
forfeited to, or vested in this state, and against which
final judgment hath been entered in behalf of the
state, previous to the third day of February seventeen
hundred and eighty-three, as loon as conveniently may
be, after the firft day of September next, conforming
in ail refpeds to the directions contained in the ad,
intitled, ' an ad to direct the agents of forfeited es
tates in the relpedivc counties of this state, to pro
ceed to the sale of said estates, and to repeal an ad
to suspend the tale of real estates which have, or here
after may become forfeited to, and vested in this ftate,'
the dire&ions in this ad contained to the contrary ex
cepted. And the laid agents in the several counties
in this state wherein lands have been purchased, for
the use of barracks, are hereby empowered and di
rected in behalf of the said state, in like manner, to
fell the said lands, together with the buildings ereCted
thereon, and make legal conveyances for the fame to the
purchaser in see-simple : and the said agents are here
by directed to give three months credit to any pur
chaser of said premises, and to receive in payment there
tor lawful money of this state, notes given for depre
ciation of pay due to the officers and soldiers of the
Jersey line, notes given by the commissioners on set
tlement of pay due to the militia of this state, notes
given for debts liquidated by Silas Condid, esquire,
and notes given by the treasurer for balances due to
perlons on demands against forfeited estates; to and
for which purchased premises the said agents are here
by required to give titles, after full payment of the
purchase money is made : and the said agents are here
by required to pay the money and notes by them re
ceived into the treasury of the state, on or before the
firft day of March next. Provided always, that no
interest fliall be allowed to the said agents, that may
arise on such state obligations as they may receive in
payment as aforefaid, after the day or time when the
said sales were made.
2. And be it further enacted, that the aft, intitled,
‘ an act for further suspending the sales of forfeited
estates in this state, passed the twenty-eighth day of
November, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, be, and
the fame is hereby repealed.
Passed at New-Brunswick, June I, 1786.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
STATE of NE W-J ERS EY.
[Vol. IX.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
MO ND AY, June 19, 1786.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
An aft for the establishment of a coinage of copper
in this state.
lITHEREAS the copper coin now current and paff
v v ing in this state consists mostly of base metal,
and of coppers so small and light as to be of very
little real value, whereby the citizens of this state are
fubjeCted to manifeft lots and inconvenience, and are
liable to be greatly defrauded ; for remedy whereof,
Sect. I. Be it enacted by the council and general
assembly of this state, and it is hereby enabled by the
authority of the fame, that Walter Mould, Thomas
Goadfby and Albion Cox, and the survivors and survivor
of them, are hereby authorized and empowered, from
and after the publication of this aft, to strike and
coin in copper for this state, a sum equal in value to
ten thousand pounds, at fifteen coppers to the shilling
2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore
faid, that the coppers so to be coined shall be of pure
copper, and of the weight of fix penny weight and
"X f, ns .i that they shall be manufactured and coined
within this state, and shall have such marks and in
scriptions as shall .be directed by the justices of the
lupreme court, or any one of them.
, A A L ° d b f it f urther enacted by the authority afore
laid coppers f ° to be struck and coined,
shall be of the value aforefaid, unless the United States
in Congress assembled shall, by a publick aCt, aherthe
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
An aCt for felling the proprieties, shares of propriety;
and rights to unlocated lands of persons whose
estates have become forfeited to, and vested in this
state.
WHEREAS the interest of the state requires, that
the proprieties, shares of propriety, and rights
to unlocated lands of persons whose estates have be
come forfeited to this state, be fold as speedily as
possible ; therefore,
Sect. i. Be it enacted by the council and general as
sembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the fame, that the agent of the county
of Middlesex be, and he is hereby appointed agent for
felling the proprieties, shares of propriety, and rights
to unlocated lands in Eall New-Jersey, belonging to
persons whose estates have become forfeited to, and
vested in this state; and the agent of the county of
Burlington for the time being, is in like manner ap
pointed agent for felling the proprieties, shares of pro
priety, and rights to unlocated lands in Weft New-
Jersey, belonging to persons whose estates have become
forfeited as aforefaid.
3. And be it further enaCted by the authority afore
faid, that the said agents shall receive in payment for
such proprieties, shares of propriety, and right to un
located lands, lawful money of this state, officers and
soldiers notes given for the depreciation of their pay,
notes given by the commissioners on settlement for
pay due to the militia of this state, notes given for
debts liquidated by Silas CondiCt, esquire, and notes
given by the treasurer for balances due to persons on
demands against forfeited estates.
4. And be it further enaCted by the authority afore
faid, that the said agents shall, and they are hereby direct
ed to give fix months credit for the payment ofthe pur
chase money, upon their receiving fufficient security for
the fame, and the said agents are further required to pay
the money or state obligations which they may re
ceive in consequence of the sales aforefaid within one
month after such time of credit shall expire. Pro
vided always, that no interest shall be allowed to the
said agents that may arise on any such state obligations,
as they may receive in payment as aforefaid, after the
day or time when the said sales were made.
Passed at New-Brunswick, June I, 1786.
2. And be it further enaCted by the authority afore
faid, that the said agents shall, as soon as may be,
after passing this aft, enquire into and afeertain
the proprieties, shares of propriety, and rights to un
located lands in their respective diftriCts, of persons
whose estates have been forfeited to, and vested in this
state, and thereupon shall advertise the fame for sale,
giving one month's notice by advertisements published
in one of the news-papers of this state, and in one of
the news-papers of Pennsylvania and New-York, par
ticularly describing in said advertisements the said pro
prieties, shares of propriety, and rights to unlocated
lands to be fold, and shall proceed to the sale thereof,
in parcels at publick vendue, and convey the fame to
the purchaser or purchasers, according to the directi
ons of the act, intitled, 'an aCtto direCt the agents
of forfeited estates in the refjeCtive counties in this
state, to proceed to the sale of.faid estates, and to re
peal an aft to suspend the sale of real estates whicli
have or hereafter may become forfeited to, and vested
in this state;
THE
valuation thereof, to which alteration the value thereof
shall at all times be fubjeCt.
4. And be it further enaCted by the authority afore
faid, that the said Walter Mould, Thomas Goadfby
and Albion Cox, before they shall enter on or begin
the coinage aforefaid; shall enter into bond to the go
vernor or commander in chief of this state; to the use
of the state, with at least two fufficient lureties in the
sum of ten thousand pounds; conditioned that the said
Walter Mould, Thothas Goadfby and Albion Cox, or
one or more of them, shall, within two years after the
publication of this aCt, strike and coin within this
state, the full sum of ten thousand pounds in coppers
as aforefaid, and that they shall faithfully and honestly
demean themselves in coining said coppers; and that
they will deliver to the treasurer of this state or his
order, for the use of the state, ode tenth part of the
full sum they shall strike and coin as aforefaid, which
said tenth part shall be paid quarterly unto the trea
surer as aforefaid, by the said Walter Mould, Thomas
Goadfby and Albion Cox, from the time they shall
begin to coin as aforefaid, during the time they may
carry on said business, which bond the treasurer is
authorized and empowered to take, and the fame to
file in the auditor's office; and the said Walter Mould,
Thomas Goadfby and Albion Cox, shall, at the time
of giving said bond, refpe&ively take an oath or affir
mation, that they will well and truly account to the
legislature for the tenth part of all the coppers they
may coin as aforefaid, and that they will truly and
faithfully execute the said coinage agreeably to the
true intent and meaning of this aft.
5. And be it further enabled, that if any person or
perlons whatsoever, shall strike or coin any coppers
within this state, without leave being firft had and
obtained from the legislature to do the fame, fliall
forfeit and pay for each day he or they may be so em
ployed in striking or coining coppers, contrary to the
true intent and meaning of this ad, the sum of twelve
pounds, to be recovered by the collector of the coun
ty, in an aCtion of debt, in any court where the fame
may be cognizable, with costs of suit, to be paid unto
the treasurer of the state for the time being, for the
use of the state.
Passed at New-Brunswick, June r, 1786.
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Foreign Intelligence.
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LONDO N, April 10.
T'HE sources from which the annual million for con
-1 ftituting a finking fund, is to be drawn, are as
determined, permanent and certain, as those from
which we derive the means of maintaining our fleets,
and difeharging the expences of the civil lift. Indeed,
if there be a difference in point of certainty, it is in
favour of the finking fund. For the minister is to pro
pose, and the parliament will doubtless agree to ensure
and protect the new fund in such a manner as to give
it the security of even a sacred treasure, and to ren
der it fafe in spite of any artifice of the mod crafty
ministry. That this much ought to be done, mr.
Pitt has already delivered it as his mature opinion;
and when he gave his opinion, he met, and with justice
too, the approbation of all who heard him. If the
circumstances be duly weighed, how truly contempti
ble will the efforts of those political deceivers appear,
who would have us be persuaded that the means of
establishing the long wished for finking fund depend
on events that are adventitious and fugitive ?— The
fad is, government will infallibly have it in their pow
er to throw into the fund by Christmas next, the sum
of seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds ; that is,
they will be able to make good two hundred and fifty
thousand pounds, by the end of each subsequent quar
ter, which is precisely what the chanceller of the ex
chequer intimated to the house of commons, in the course
of his very long and eloquent speech on the business
in point.
The dispute between ministry and the opposition re
lative to the question, whether there will or will not
be a surplus, after the defraying the expenditure of
the present year, is obscure ; because they who fay
they doubt, are unwilling to be informed. The fol
lowing remarks will enable the world to judge for it
felf: ministry intend to allot every year a million ster
ling to the purpose of paying off the publick debt.
If however, in the present and the following years,
they shall not allot the sum mentioned, and if at the
fame time, the national income fhouid be the fame
that it was last year, then, if the total of the exigen
cies of the empire fhouid be provided for, it appears
that there would be an annual overplus of two hundred
and fifty thousand pounds. But ministry will have a link
ing fund, to which mul tbe contributed a million a
year. In this case if they provide for the whole of the
exigencies of the empire, while they receive no sum
[Numb. 423.]