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had they been appointed agreeably to the
before recited ad ; and in case of negled
or refufal of the fheriff aforefaid, for the
space of thirty days, he shall be subject
to pay to the treasurer of this Rate, the
interest which would arise on the sum pro
portioned to such county negleding to
choose officers as aforefaid, from the fifth
day of December seventeen hundred and
eighty-fix, till the said officers are cliofen.
4. And whereas divers counties have
proceeded to the election of loan-officers
after the time appointed by law for that
purpose ; therefore, Be it enacted by the
authority aforefaid, that the said appoint'
ments fliall be as good and valid in law,
as if they had been appointed within the
time limited in the said eighth fedion of
the aforefaid recited a€t.
5. And whereas doubts have arisen,
and may hill arise with many, whether
the bills of credit directed to be emit
ed by the ad, intitled, an aft for striking
and making current one hundred thousand
pounds in bills of credit, to be let out on
loan, and direding the mode for finking
the fame, be by the said ad made re
ceivable in payment of taxes ; be it fur
ther enacted, that the said bills of credit
so directed to be emitted (hall, and they
are hereby made and declared to be a
legal tender in all cases whatsoever within
this Rate.
Faffed at Trenton, November 3, 1786.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
An additional Supplement to the adl, intitled,
an ahl for raifag a revenue of thirty-one
thousand two hundred and fifty-nine pounds
five fillings per annum, for the term of
twenty-five years, for the purpose of pay
ing the interest and principal of debts due
from the United States, agreeably to a
recommendation of Congress of the eigh
teenth day of April one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-three, and for appro
priating the fame, and to the supplemen
tary ahi to the ahi above-recited.
WHEREAS, from the great scarci
ty of a circulating medium, the
payment and collection of the taxes for
the present year, at the time and within
the period required by law, appears to be
altogether impracticable if not impossible ;
therefore,
Sed. I, Be it enaded by the council and
general aflembly of this date, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the
fame, that the time fixed in the fourth
faction of the supplementary ad to an ad,
intitled, an ad for railing a revenue of
thirty-one thousand two hundred and
fifty-nine pounds five (hillings per annum,
for the term of twenty-five years, for the
purpose of paying the interest and princi
pal of debts due from the United States,
agreeably to a recommendation of Con
gress of the eighteenth day of April one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-three,
and for appropriating the fame ; and the
time fixed in the fifth fedion of the ad,
intitled, an ad to provide for the payment
of the several officers of the government
of New-Jersey for one year, to commence
the twelfth day of Odober seventeen
hundred and eighty-five, and to end the
twelfth day of October seventeen hundred
and eighty-fix, and to raise the sum of ten
thousand pounds for the above purposes, I
and for defraying other contingent ex
pences of government; for the township, |
precinct or ward collectors to deliver the |
tax by them collided or received, together 1
with the duplicates of such tax or affelT-j
ment to the collector of the fame county,
shall, for the present year only, be pro
longed to the twentieth day of December,
and that the time fixed in the fame fourth
fedion of the aboverecited supplementary
ad, and in the before-mentioned fifth fedi
on of the above-recited ad, for the re
fpedive county collectors to pay the sums
by them received to the treasurer of the
Rate, (hall be prolonged to the thirtieth
day of December for the present year,
and all county, township, precind and
ward collectors, the treasurer of the Rate,
and all other persons interested or affeded,
hereby are direded and required to govern
and conduct themselves accordingly, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding.
2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforefaid, that the time limited
to thirty days in the thirteenth fedion of
the ad, intitled, an ad to dired the mode
of levying taxes, and to enforce the col
lodion of the fame, for the several con
stables in this Rate to execute the war
rants of distress issued by the justices of
the peace for taxes unpaid, be, and it is
hereby extended to the fifteenth day of
December, for the present year, and no
longer, any law to the contrary notwith
standing.
Faffed at Trenton, November 7, 1786.
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Foreign Intelligence.
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L o n d o n, Auguß is.
THE good' and humane Howard, who is now
gone to Constantinople, to endeavour to put a
stop to the ravages of the plague, will have number
less difficulties to encounter, though if any person
can surmount them he will; among others, is the
custom of the Turks wearing the furs, &c. of the
people who die with that distemper, and their firm
belief in the Mahometan dodrine of predeßination;
a doctrine that has brought their empire to its pre
sent state, as actuated with tin's belief, the Turks
rush to battle with the ferocity of tigers, and the
bravery displayed by some of them in the last war
with the Ruffians is incredible, they have drove on
to the very mouths of the cannon, though death was
the inevitable consequence.
Extrafl of a fetter from Cadiz, July 20.
" The El Neptune, a new firft rate of 110 guns
(as large as the San Trinidada) lately launched, is
found to have her top works so exceedingly heavy,
that there is already a talk of her being taken into
dock to be cut down to a two decker, in which state
she will be able to mount 90 guns, and will be ser
viceable. She was with difficulty prevented overfet
ting as die went off. This causes great outcry against
Monsieur Vaillance, the builder."
American Intelligence.
BOST O N, Od. 16.
IFRIDAY1 FRIDAY last, in the house of representatives, a
bill passed to be engrossed, for establishing a
mint within this commonwealth, in conformity to
the ordinance of Congress, for the coining such
pieces of money, as are directed in said ordinance,
viz. in gold, eagles and half-eagles. Silver, dollars,
half-dollars, double dimes, dimes, and half-dimes.
Copper, cents and half-cents. The copper coinage
is not to exceed the value of 70,000 dollars.
On Friday his excellency communicated to the le
gislature, information of an attempt made on the
night of Thursday last, to carry off a number of
cannon from the forts on Dorchester heights. The
thieves had with them five teams for the purpofe—
one of which was partly loaded, when a number of
persons fufpeding their design, furprized them in it,
and obliged them to quit their enterprize.
NEW-LONDO N,- Aug. 6.
Abridgement of the fate of politicks in Europe
and America, for September.
In Europe. England still in the dumps at the loss
of America, and waiting but for the infringement of
the treaty on our part to wage another war. Ire, |
land jealous of their neighbours, and secretly wifh-|
ing an opportunity to shake off their connexion with
Britain. Holland verging daily more and more to
wards anarchy and confufion. France augmenting
their navy, and cherishing with a liberal hand the arts
of war. The politics of Prussia remain in fatu
quo —their monarch on the confines of eternity his
death will occasion great commotions anting th
powers of Europe. Ruffia,by the wife administration
of their empress, blooming like a garden..
In America. The New-England Rates, ala 1
discord and convulsions are their cbara&erift
especially Rhode-Bland and Massachusetts, the
mer diftra&ed with paper money, the latter w
mobs; both of the evils very troublesome while th.
last, but of a perishable nature, and usually of fhoi
duration. New-York like an unchristian Jew, watch
ing every opportunity to take advantage of their
neighbours necessity. The southern Rates appear t<
be tranquil, a fracas now and then, serves but to
restore greater tranquility in the end ; they seem vir
tuously endeavouring to cherish, with a foftering
hand, the arts of peace, husbandry and manufac
tures, are there encouraged under the auspicious in
fluence of the assemblies.
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N E W-Y O R K, 0^26.
On Saturday last arrived at Philadelphia from
London, the ihip Friendship, captain Kennedy, and
the Harmony, captain Willett. By the latter, Lon
don papers have been received to the 18th of Au
gust; from one of which, of August 17th, we have
extta&ed the following:
Yesterday a messenger arrived at the ft it 1 7of
Rate's office, with the important advice c
of FREDERICK the THIRD, King
which happened on Friday last. Frederick th.
was born on the 24th of January 1712. I
ried on the 12th of June 1733, Elizabeth Christ „ „
Brunswick Wolfenbuttle. Frederick IV. wa^
on the 25th of September 1744: he married Julv
14, 1765, firft, the princess Elizabeth Chri&n/
Ulrica, of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle: and fecendL
on the 14th of July 1769, Frederick Luui: 4 ,o
Hesse Darmftadt, and he has issue by both marri
ages.
The death of the king of Prussia will considerably
affed the politics of Europe. It is an event for whicl
nations have been preparing for many months, am
I which will not be fuffered to pass over unimprovec
The emperor will now, perhaps, find other employ
ment for his troops than merely preparing them so
war; and he will give an opportunity to the ne?
king to illustrate his character. It is said of Frede
rick IV. that he poffefles the strong features of hi
uncle's character: that he has imbibed his politic
and will religiously follow his footfteps. If he doe
not, what will become of the embarrassed Stadthold
er?
And in a paper of the 18th, appears the foliowin
paragraph:
We find that the circumstance communicated to u
with such appearance of reality, is untrue, and ths
his Prussian majesty is not only still in existence, bu
in better health than he has been for some time
It is necessary for us to state, that the account wa
handed to us by a gentleman to whose informatio
we have from experience of its authenticity, bee
disposed to give implicit belief. In this inßance h
was deceived. The means used by the interested fa
bricators to procure credit for this Rory were lingu
lar. The stratagem was laid with infinite art. It wa
calculated to make a temporary impression on th
market, which it affected. The Rocks fell one pe
cent.
Says a late writer, “ It is a maxim with Mon
tefquieu, and a maxim too which has never bee
disputed, That virtue is necessary to tlie very ex
iftence of a republick." Virtue was the main pilla
of the Grecian popular governments. Had they pre
served their virtue, and in this way enforced th
wife laws of Solon and Lycurgus, Athens and La
cedemon might have continued to this day in a
their republican simplicity and glory. But their vir
tue being loft, their government fuffered a necessary
change, and they have long experienced all the hor
rors of despotism.
It was this that supported the Roman republick for
a long succession of years, until by a concurrence of
circuniftances her virtue received a fatal wound, and
lingering, died. Ambition and avarice, as is natural
succeeding to the place of virtue, and the govern
ment of consequence became defpotick.
This maintains that noble spirit of freedom whic
actuates the popular governments of Switzerland
and renders it subservient to the interests of tha
happy people.
In Ihort, virtue alone can preserve the America!
States from an unhappy, not to fay deftrußive revo
lution in government."
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8.
INTELLIGENCE from the WESTER
COUNTRY.
A letter from captain Thomas Hutchins, date
Camp, at the junction of Wheeling Rivulet and th
Ohio, October 12, 1786, to his excellency the pre
fideat of Congress, fays, “ The last letter I had th