The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-02-24 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD,
TH AT noted and valuable Farm late the estate
of Thomas Norris, deceased, situate in the town
ship of Windsor, county of Middlesex, and Rate of
New-Jersey, containing about 438 acres, having on
the fame a good house, barn, orchard and other necel
fary improvements ; being convenient to mill and mar
ket, within about 4 miles of Princeton, and about 8
from Trenton :—1 he whole or part will be fold, as
best suits the purchaser. It may be very conveniently
divided into two farms, having a fufficient quantity
of wood-land suitably proportioned to each farm ;
about 60 acres of good swamp, a part cleared and will
make meadow.—Also about 8 acres of the best Mai
denhead meadow, within 1^ miles of said farm.—The
payments made easy. For further particulars enquire
of the fubferibers on the premises, who will give an
indisputable title for the fame.
GEORGE NORRIS, ) Executors
JAMES NORRIS, 5 cut °™
February 2, 1784. 4 w l
TO BE SOL D,
By the subscriber, of Monmouth county, in the Rate
of New-Jersey,
A Valuable trad of pine land, containing two thou
sand fix hundred acres, on which is a good saw
mill and eight tenants; on some of the tenements is
twenty or thirty acres of meadow, situate the nearest
part about one mile from Horner's-Town, and about
nine miles from Allentown ; the mill is so near the in
habitants that there is generally a market at the mill
for all the can saw.
Also three hundred acres on the north fide of Toms
river, about half a mile below the bridge, on which
are Sixty acres of good salt meadow, and some good
English meadow.
Also Sixty acres at mufqueto cove, most of it excel
lent salt meadow.
Also seventy acres of meadow on a branch of Ma
teeteunk river, below a saw-mill lately built by Major
Walton and company.
Also one hundred and twenty acres on the head
branch of Toms river, situate about nine miles from
Allentown, on which is a large quantity of paint, al
lowed by the painters to be as good as any Spanish
brown whatever.
Also eighty acres of upland, joining to Mr. Abra
ham Anderson's and Mr. William Taylor's, about ten
miles from Allentown, joining the road to Middle
town-point.
Also eighty acres of land lying to the southward
of the place generally called Smith's place, fifteen
acres of which is where has been an old saw-mill
,ond ; good meadow.
Also one hundred and fifty acres of good pine land,
on the main road to Toms river, generally called the
half moon.
Also forty-fix acres of meadow and upland, above
the road that crofles the Indian run by John Imlay's.
Also one half of the Union mill lot, whereon is an
extraordinary place to rebuild a saw-mill,
Also several pieces of cedar swamps.
A good title will be given to the purchasers by
JOHN LAWRENCE.
February 5, 1784. §w,
~T O BE SOL D,
At private sale, in Windsor township, Middlesex
county,
AHoufe and lot of land of about fourteen acres;
there are on the premises a grist and saw-mill,
waggon-houfe and Rables, a good garden, and
spring of water at the door with a house over it; the
whole have not been many years ereded. They were
formerly known by the name of Kinnans' Mills, now
the property of the subscriber. The above mills stand
on a good stream of water, and a healthy part of the
country ; a good stand for a store. For terms and
particulars apply to the subscriber on the premises.
wilson srour.
N. B. Also a few West-Jersey rights on the low
est terms.
February 9, 1784. 4 w T
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. VII.]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to'the State.
TUESDAY, February 24, 1784.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
An Afi to procure an eflimate of the number of
inhabitants in the fate of New-Jersey.
WHEREAS Congress have recom
mended to the several Rates in uni
on, to afeertain and transmit to
them the number of inhabitants be
longing to each state, both white
and black, in order that the expences of the war may
be more equitably quotaed upon the refpettive Rates;
and it appealing necessary that the said recommenda
tion Should be complied with, therefore,
Seii. I. Be it enabled by the Council and General
Assembly of this Rate, and it is hereby enabled by the
authority of the fame, That the assessors of the re
fpedive townfllips, precin&s or wards, in this Rate,
shall, at the time of taking the firft lift of the persons
and articles made ratable as is directed in and by the
ad, intitled, An aft for raifng a revenue of Thirty
one Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty-nine Pounds
Five Shillings per annum, for the term of twenty
five years, for the pur,ofe of paying the interest and
principal of debts due from the United States, agree
ably to a recommendation of Congress of the 'eigh
teenth day of April, One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Eighty-three, and for appropriating the fame,
take an exad account of the number of white and
other free inhabitants of all ages, sexes and conditi
ons, Indians excepted ; and also a like account of all
flares within their refpedive townships, precincts and
wards, and shall enter the account of the white and
other free inhabitants in a separate column in their re
fpedive duplicates, and an account of ihe'flaves in a
separate column also ; and shall, when met together to
fettle the quotas of the refpedive townships, precinds
and wards, enter in a separate column in the abstract,
to be by them made and signed, the number of white
and other free inhabitants as aforefaid taken ; and also
in a separate column in the said abftraft, the number
of Haves taken as aforefaid.
2. And be it enabled, That if any assessor shall ne
gle& or refufe to perform the duties required of him
by this ad, he shall, for such neglect or refufal, be
fubje& to the like penalties as is inflicted in and by
the before-recited aft for neglect or refufal of duty,
which penalty shall be recovered and applied in like
manner as therein directed.
3. And be it further enabled, That if any inhabi
tant of this Rate shall refufe to deliver to the assessors
as aforefaid when demanded, an exact account of the
number of whites and blacks that compose his or her
family, each and every person so refufirig shall forfeit
and pay the sum of three pounds, to be sued for and
recovered with costs of suit by the assessor to whom
such refufal shall be made, to be paid by the assessor
who may recover the fame to one of the overfeeis of
the poor of the township wherein such penalty may be
recovered, to be applied to and for the use of the poor
of such township.
A. Faffed at Trenton, December 24, 1782.
A true copy from the original,
MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk
of tlie General Assembly.
To the Printer of the New-Jersey Gazette.
Sir,
ON E of the most important advantages that the
citizens of these United States expect to reap
from our late glorious revolution, is the liberty of
freely enquiring into the conduct of men in publick
trust; and of freely delivering their sentiments upon
all publick measures without fear or constraint. From
such investigation, while carried on with decency and
temper, no man, or set of men, either are or ought to
be exempted; and by such investigation our liberties
are more likely to be preferred, and those in publick
Rations more likely to )e kept within the bounds of
their duty.
I was not a little futprized on enquiring into the
proceedings of our Legislature at their last fitting, to
find the Council of this Rate a second time difap
THE
pointed by the Assembly, in their resolve of ordering
a prosecution against Mr. Tucker for the balance,
which, by his own account, appears to be due from
him to the Rate, of monies lately in his hands, as trea
surer. That he was pofleffed of a very considerable
sum of money in the above capacity, appears by his
own Shewing : —That he has never paid it, he admits
by his account produced; but the reason he assigns
for not paying it is merely supported by his own de
claration of a loss or a robbery, which, in 2 case of
this kind, is no evidence at all. The question there
fore, whether he has been excusably bereft of it, and
is in consequence to be forever acquitted against all
demands from the Rate upon that head ; or whether)
on the contrary, he has either criminally pocketed it,
or did so negligently keep it as that it must, by his ne
glect of not taking the proper steps to save it, inevi
tably fall into the hands of the enemy (in either cf
which two latter cases he is equally liable to pay it)
the citizens of this Rate have an undoubted right to
have properly determined. But this matter cannot, as
I conceive, be properly or Satisfactorily determined,
save by a jury of twelve men, in a due course of law.
To the institution of such trial, they appear therefore
to be clearly entitled ; and in the opinion of all judi
cious and impartial men whose sentiments 1 have heard
on the subject, it is matter of mystery and astonish
ment that the Council have not been able, after two
successive efforts, to obtain the concurrence of the
other branch of the Legislature to a resolve so mani
festly regular and constitutional, as the one above
mentioned for directing such trial. In a former case
of the like nature, when the treasurer of this Rate, on
pretence of a robbery, did not account to the fatisfac
tion of the people for the non-produition of the mo
ney deposited with him, the very gentleman, if I am
rightly informed, who is now io fearful of a Similar
suit against himfelf, was then the most zealous advo
cate for this mode of investigation. It is certainly the
only proper and fatisfadory. because it is the only le
gal and constitutional mode of ultimately- determining
his guilt or innocence: Because wretched indeed would
be the condition of the citizens of this Rate (and such
would frequently be our case were the Assemblies the fi
nal judges) if upon the strongest presumption, either of
downright peculation, or notorious negligence in the
treasurer, the delinquent officer Should have Such an inte
rell in cither house, that no legal trial could be procured
against him, for want of the joint concurrence of both
houses. Wretched indeed, if a matter of such seri
ous importance Should be Slurred over by a body of
men no ways competent to the bufmefs of such deci
sion ; and with whom, from their unacquaitnednefs,
in contemplation of law, with the nature of evidence,
the confident assertions of the accused might pass for
proof, and his vociferous non sense for matter of ex
culpation. For the Legislature to determine whether,
as a point of law, the man in question is responsible
for the money committed to his charge, is, 1 am per
suaded, entirely out of their department. It is a mat
ter that clearly belongs to the judicial branch ; and
nothing can be more dangerous to our liberties than
an encroachment upon that branch by the legislative.
It may indeed be objected that if it rests with the As
sembly to order such prosecution, they ought to have
proper reason for so doing ; and if so, they being the
judges of the reason, may consequently refrain front
Such order on conceiving the reason alleged for it in
fufticient for the purpose. But this argument is ra
ther Specious than solid. The bare responsibility of
the officer for the money's not forth-coming, is fuffici
ent for ordering the only legal mode of determining
whether he is Rill a debtor for it to the publick or not.
The Aflembly's going farther and receiving affidavits,
either of the party himfelf or of any other witnesses in
his vindication, and finally determining upon the sup
posed merits that he is not liable for the caffi ; or what
precisely amounts to the fame thing, their refufin" to
join with the Council in directing a trial at law, which
is implicatively adjudging him to be innocent, upon
such extrajudicial hearing, is, in my humbte opinion, ar
rogating to themselves that judicial authority which the
constitution has delegated to the courts of justice, and
in the determination of which alone the people ought
to acquirfee iqfye^ing all pecuniary demands of the
[Numb. 302.]