The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1791-05-26 00:00:00, page 1

An ACT to continue in force
the Ad therein mentioned^
and to make further provi
sion for the payment of Pen
sions to Invalids, and for the
support of Light-Houfes,Bea
cons, Buoys and Public Piers.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Represent atives of the United States
if America in Congress afembled, That
the a&, entitled, " An aft to provide
for mitigating or remitting the for
feitures and penalties accruing under
the revenue laws in certain cases there
in mentioned," shall be and is hereby
continued in force until the end of the
next session of Congress, and no longer.
And be it further enafled, That the
yearly pensions which have been allow
ed by or in pursuance of any aft or
law of the United States, to persons
who were wounded and disabled during
the late war, shall for the space of one
year from the fourth day of March
next, be paid out of the freafury of the
United States, under such regulations
as the President of the United States
may direft.'
And be it further enabled, That all ex
pences which shall accrue from the firft
day of July next, inclusively for the
necessary support, maintenance and re
pairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys
and public piers, shall be defrayed by
the United States, until the firft day of
July, in the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-two, notwithstand
ing such light-houses, beacons, buoys,
or public piers, with the lands and ten
ements thereunto belonging, and the
jurifdidion of the fame, shall not in the
mean time be ceded to or vested in the
United States, by the State or States
refpedively, in which the fame may be,
and that the said time be further allow
ed to the States refpe<ftircly, to make
such cession. Provided, that nothing
in the said aft shall be construed to li
mit or restrain the power of the Presi
dent of the United States, to grant
pardons for offences against the United
States.
Frederick Aug. Muhlenberg,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Pice-Prefdent of the
United States, and President of the Senate.
Approved—March the third, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office
of the Secretary of State.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of
[State.
LAWS of the UNITED STATES.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER,at his Office in Market-Street, at Nine shillings per Annum.
CONGRESSGUNITED STATES
AT THEIR THIRD SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia,
®n Monday the 6th of December, 1790.
An ACT supplementary to the
Ad, making provision for
the reduction of the Public
Debt.
WHEREAS it hath been made
known to Congress that the Pre
sident of the United States, in conse
quence of " An A& making provision
for the reduction of the public debt,"
hath caused a certain loan to be made
in Holland, on account of the United
States, to the amount of three millions
of florins, bearing an interest of five
per centum per annum, and reimbursa
ble in fix yearly inftalments, commenc
ing in the year one thousand eight hun
dred, and ending in the year one thou.-
sand eight hundred and fix, or at any
time sooner, in whole, or in part, at
the option of the United States.
Containingrthe Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both ufefu}& entertaining.
THURSDAY, May 26, 1,91.] THE [Volume xxxv-Numb. 177,,
New - Hampfeire Gazette, and the General Ndvert^er.
Be it evaded and declared, by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress, That the
loan aforefaid ihall be deemed and con
strued to be within the true intent and
meaning of the said ad, intitled " An
Aft making provision for the reduction
of the public debt," and that any far
ther loan, to the extent of the princi
pal sum authorized to be borrowed by
the said aft, the interest whereof shall
be five per centum per annum, and the
charges whereof shall not exceed the
said rate of four and a half per centum,
shall, in like manner, be deemed and
construed to be within the true intent
and meaning of the said aft.
Frederick Aug. Muhlenberg,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Nice-President of the
United States, and President of the Senate,
Approved—March the third, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office
of the Secretary of State.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of
[State.
And whereas it hath been also stated
to Congress, that the charges upon the
said loan have amounted to four and a
half per centum, whereby a doubt hath
arisen, whether the said loan be within
the meaning of the said last mentioned
ad, which limits the rate of interest to
five per centum per annum :
And whereas it is expedient that the
said doubt be removed :
So fays the Virginian Planter : he
has raised tobacco on a field, until the
foil is exhausted—he knows not how
to fertilize the land again—his only re
source is to clear a new spot and take
benefit of natures' manure. This does
for the present. But when his land is
all impoverished, what will he do ?—
Go to Kentucky ; as the New-England
men to Genefee. But when the western
world is all peopled, what will our do
for the present folks do for good land ?
The answer is easy ; necessity will com
pel them to use common sense ; and com
mon sense will soon make old poor land
rich again. When farmers learn to
work it right, they will keep it good,
for the Prompter ventures to assert,
that a proper tillage will forever keep
land good. How does nature work it ?
Why nature covers land with herbage
—that herbage withers and rots upon
the land —and gradually forms a rich
black mould—But farmers, when they
have used land until it will bear no
crops, let it lie without feeding it. No
herbage grows on the land, until weeds
and little grass creep in by chance, af
ter three or four years, these begin to
enrich the foil by decaying on the land,
and after losing the use of the land
some years, the farmer ploughs it for a
Crop and has a job at killing weeds.
Surely the man does not work it right —
but he fays it will do for the present.
But no body is so apt to put off things
with, it will do for the present as corporate
bodies. If the navigation es a river
The PROMPTER.
It will do for the present.
CUSTOM, with an iron rod, rule)
four fifths of mankind. My fa
ther planted corn on a certain piece of
land —it answered well— l do the fame,
though it does not answer well. My
neighbour such a one tells me that I
had better try a change of crops, deep
ploughing, or sowing turnips or clover ;
it may be the land will recruit—but
my neighbour is notional and fond of
new things —l do not like projects—My
father did so before me, and it does for
the present.
wants improvements the public body,
that is, any body, every body and no body,
immedately exclaims, " how did our
fathers get along—the river did well
enough for them—it mus do for the pre
sent." If a bad law exist, by which the
public money is to be collected in the
wef manner that can be imagined ; or
if a constitution is defective, permitting
the fame men to be maker and judges of
a law—or the fame men to rejudge a
caafe in a higher court which they have
store judged in a lower court, or which
makes a legislature of 200 men, a
supreme court, to review the decisions
of all inferior courts and reverse their
judgment ; or if a constitution has no
executive at all —and a judiciary power
dependent on the annual votes of 200
men, which is little better than none, I
fay, ifa man proposes, any reformation
in these particulars, the public body
fays, away with your projects —let us go
on our good old way —it will do for the
present.
So in little public bodies—a town or
a city—the poor must be provided for—
bridges must be built—roads must be
repaired ; —How ? By a tax or by
labor. Is it best to raise money enough
this yea' to pay the town debt ? No,
fays the town. We will raise almost
enough— this will do for the present.
Let a little debt accrue every year,
until the whole will make a filling tax
—and pay the whole at once, Put off
—put off ; fays the town. And so fays
the Sinner.
I then undertook it, but was obliged
to spend much time to qualify it to the
taste of certain, but could not do it to
all and save a good confeience, if the
kingdom of glory had been at stake ;
but all their objections were answered
by their own principles, and finally ev
ery shadow of cause of objection remo
ved by Abraham Dow in full assembly
of Friends at his house, the firft of June
the fame year ; and when I had got it
still farther approbated by Friends, and
Abridge must be built. Is it best
to build a good one ; offtone, or some
materials that will last ? No, it will
cost more, fays the town ; a wooden
bridge will do for the present. The
w,jer may carry it away—it will decay
and some body may break his neck by
its fall—but no matter — it must do for
the present:
I will elofe with the following short,
but pertinent letter, which I have
lately received from an unknown hand.
To the Prompter.
SIR,
In your last number, do you mean
M£? ™A. B.
To A. B.
SIR,
I do, and all that are like you be
tween A and Z, and you have not on
earth a better friend than the
PROMPTER.
For the GAZETTE.
MR. PRINTER,
In regard to justice, please to insert
the following.
IN the year 1780 one Paul Hvffey
brought a piece to me wrote by fe
remy Belknap on the pretended lawful
nefs of the disciples of Christ drawing
the sword one against another, in de
fence of the kingdom of this world,
and desired me to answer it by all
means. I judged it of great importance
indeed that it fnould be answered, but
knowing! was notable myfelf to go thro'
the cost, and that it would hurt said
Huffey greatly to do it himfelf, I waited
till I obtained full approbation of the
leaders of the society of Friends in the
matter, and suitable encouragement to
be help'd through the cost.
the largest encouragement for assist
ance, I went on with it, but before I
could get it into print, it cost me an
hundred dollars in time and interest,
and much persecution, and threatening
of my life. However, I went on with
it with undaunted fortitude and un
conquerable perseverance, that I might
faithfully difeharge my trust, but as
soon as I had got involved in the charge
of debt, one Joshua Folsom, a very
holy man, interposed, and by divine
counsel, prevented the people from de
filing their hands with my corruption :
therefore the whole cost fell upon me,
and beside that, my loss of time and
damage was very great, all which is
brought upon me by means of Friends,
and however they may try to wind
from it, it will remain an unalterable
truth before God forever.
After I had got emerged from my
difficulty and cost in that refpeft, I be
gan to take very tender and very gen
tle courses to obtain some fatisfadion
from friends with which I had labor'd
several years, but they displeased me
still more.
I then began to fignify to them that
they were greatly in debt to me for
what I had done at their request and
encouragement, but they multiplied
offences ; therefore, to gain them if
possible I laid out a way for them to
give me fatisfadion in the very line of
their own covenant, that is to fay, to
do as much to set up schools of educa
tion and virtue among them, as I had
expended, and had been damaged in
accomplishing a matter of their own
instigation and encouragement, and
thereby endeavor to establish peace and
amity among mankind. Then did they
multiply their offences much more a
bundantly : therefore have I taken this
way to address them in civility and
kindness.
Portsmouth Academy
IS now open for the reception of
BOARDERS and SCHOLARS for
inftruaion in Spelling, Reading, Writing,
Arithmetic, Accounts, English Grammar,
Geography, Chronology, Hiflory, Composi
tion, Embroidery, plain Needle-Work, To^
cal Mafic, Infrumental Mafic, Dancings
Drawing, French Language, &C.
Any of the above branches will be
taught Separately to those who may
chuf# it. April 30, 179 b
Now kind Friends, the holiness of
Folsom, your counfellor, is turned into
corruption, and my just duo %m you,
is 750 dollars, good silver money (be
sides other damages which I demand
not) and if you will deliver it to me, I
will be at peace with you in that re
fpeft, and I will appropriate it to the
purpose of serving you and mankind in
the line of virtue and goodness : oth
erwise my war is great, and the conse
quences will be mighty before God.
WILLIAM SCALES.
April 21st, 1791;
To all Nations.
WHEREAS ye are contending for
liberty and justice, liberate the Jews
and restore them their lands.
They were subdued without right,
salvation is of them, and by benevo
lence in their fathers we obtained it.
By the authority of eternal reason you
are commanded to remit them from
their bondage, and do them juffice :
otherwise your struggles about liberty
and justice will be as devouring fire.
Union in the principles of universal
justice is solicited, a complete method
to take the longitude by observation
investigated, and union in the princi
ples aforefaid will lay a foundation to
treat with the nations about it.
Wm. SCALES.
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