The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-01-20 00:00:00, page 1

WHEREAS the Honourable the
Congress of the United States as
sembled, by their aft of the eigh
teenth day of April, One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty
three, for the purpose of restoring publick credit, and
difeharging the debts due from the United States, re
commended the levying certain duties upon goods im
ported from foreign p^rts ; and, in addition thereto,
" Recommended to the several Rates to eftabliK, for
a term limited to twenty-five years, and to appropri
ate to the discharge of the interest and principal of
the debts contrasted on the faith of the United States
for supporting the war, substantial and effectual reve
nues of such nature as they may judge mod conveni
ent, for supplying their refpedive proportion of One
Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars annually,
exclusive of the afore-mentioned duties ; which pro
portion shall be affixed and equalized, from time to
time, according to the rule which is or may be pre
scribed by the articles of confederation; and in case
the revenues eftabliffied by any Rate shall at any time
yield a sum exceeding its actual proportion, the cxcefs
shall be refunded to it ; and in case the revenues of
any state shall be found to be deficient, the immedi
ate deficiency than be made up by such Rate with as
little delay as possible, and a future deficiency guarded
against by an enlargement of the revenues established.
Provided, That until the rule of the confederation can
be carried into pradice, tire proportions of the said
Qne Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars shall be
as follows :" In which recommendation the propor
tion of this flat, is fixed at Eighty-three Thousand
Three Hundred and Fifty-eight Dollars, equal to
Thirty-one Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty-nine
Pounds Five Shillings; in order, therefore, to com
ply with the before in part recited recommendation
of Congress,
SeR. I. Be it enabled by the Council and General
Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enaded by
the authority of the fame, That there shall be asses
sed, levied and raised, on the several inhabitants of
this state, their goods and chattels, and on the lands
and tenements within the fame, for the time being,
the sum of Thirty-mne Thousand Two Hundred and
Fifty-nine Pounds Five Shillings, yearly and every
year, for the term of twenty-five years ; the firft pay
ment whereof to be in the year One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Eighty-four, and the last in the year
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight; and that
the fame shall be assessed, collected and paid into the
treasury, on or before the firft day of Odober, in
each and every of said twenty-five years; which pay
ments shall be made , in gold or silver, or other lawful
current money of this state, or in the bills issued for
paying interest on publick debts, pursuant to the direc
tions of this aft.
2. And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That in aflefling the aforefaid sum of Thirty-one
Thousand two Hundred and Fifty-nine Pounds Five
Shillings, the several persons, articles and things,
made taxable by tins ad, shall in eacli &nd every of
the aforefaid years be valued aid rated at the difere
tion of the assessors.
All householders (under which description shall be
included all married men living with their parents,
and not supporting a feparat^ table) the eftin^ated va
lue of whose ratable estate does not amount to twen
ty-five pounds, any sum in proportion to their abili
ties, not exceeding fix pounds over and above their
certainties and other estate made ratable by this ad.
All merchants, Kopkeepers and traders, any sum
not exceeding twelve pounds.
STATE OF NEw-JERS E Y.
An Act for raising a revenue of Thirty-one Thou
sand Two Hundred and Fifty-nine Pounds Five
Shillings per annum, for the term of twenty-five
years, for the frurpfc offering the intereJi and
principal of debts due from the United States,
agreeably to a recommendation of Congress ©f the
eighteenth day of April, One Thoujand Seven
Hundred and Eighty- three, and for appropriating
the fame.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. VIL]
TRENTON: Printed by ISAAC COLLIN S, Printer to the State.
TUESDA Y, Jan UARY 20, 1784.
All accustomed fifheries, the property of private
perlons, where fifh are caught for sale, any sum not
exceeding five pounds.
All sawmills, that saw timber for file or hire, any
sum not exceeding five pounds.
All gristmills, for each pair of stones, any sum not
exceeding three pounds five shillings.
All fullingmills, any sum not exceeding three
pounds.
All furnaces, any sum not exceeding nine pounds.
Ah forges that work pig-iron, and all forges and
bloomaries that work bar-iron immediately from the
ore, any sum not exceeding forty shillings for each fire.
All rolling and flittingmills, any sum not exceeding
fifteen pounds-
All Rills, that diftil spirituous liquors for sale or
hire, any sum not exceeding three pounds.
All breweries, that brew for sale or hire, any sum
not exceeding two pounds.
All tavernkeepers or retailers of spirituous liquors,
any sum not exceeding five pounds.
All tanyards, that tan leather for sale or hire, any
sum not exceeding five pounds
Every ferry or toll bridge, any sum not exceeding
nine pounds.
Every coasting sloop, schooner, fhallop, flat, pas
sage-boat, pilot-boat, wood-boat and pettiauger, that
carries freight for sale or hire, in proportion to their
burden and business, any sum not exceeding fix
pounds.
Every Angle man, whether he lives with his parents
or otherwise, who keeps a horse, mare or gelding, any
sum not exceeding twenty-live shillings.
Every single maw, whether he lives with his pa
rents or othetwife, who does not keep a horse, mare
or gelding, any sum not exceeding fifteen shillings.
Provided always, That every single man possessed of
a ratable estate, the tax whereof amounts to the high
est sum he is above directed to be rated at, shall be
assessed for such estate only, and not as a single man.
Every male slave, between the ages of sixteen and
fifty-five years, any sum not exceeding ten shillings.
Provided always, 1 hat no slave shall be taxed vKo is
unable to work, or may appear to the assessor to be no
profit to his master or miltrefs.
Every coach, chariot, four wheeled chaise or phae
ton, any sum not exceeding three pounds.
Every two horse chaise or curricle, any sum not ex
ceeding ten shillings.
Every riding chair, kittereen or sulky, any sum not
exceeding three shillings.
Every light travelling waggon with a top or cover
ing, that bangs on springs, shall be rated any sum not
exceeding thirty shillings.
All covering horses, of three years old and up
wards, that cover for hire, any sum not exceeding
five pounds.
All other horses, mares and geldings, of two years
old and upwards, shall be valued at twenty-five kil
lings each head.
All horned cattle, of two years old and upwards,
shall be valued at twenty Killings each head.
All trails of land held or owned by deed, patent,
occupancy, survey or otherwise, whether improved or'
unimproved, Kall be valued at the discretion of the
assessors in each refpedive county of this state, at any
sum not exceeding eighty pounds by the hundred
acres. Provided always, That all lands whereon any
improvement is made, the whole trad Kall be consi
dered as improved land. And provided also, That
houses and lots of land situate, lying and being in any
county of this state, of ten acres of land and under,
Kall not be included in the above valuation, but fuch'
Kall be valued by the refpedive assessors at their dis
cretion, having regard to their yearly rent and value,
proportioning the fame as nearly as may be to the va
lue of land aforefaid.
3. And be.it enaded by the authority aforefaid,
That the said sum of thirty-one thousand two hundred
•and fifty-nine pounds five Killings, shall be assessed,
levied and raised, in the several counties in this ftate,'
according to the quotas that Kall be fixed by the le
giflaiure every four years during said term after the
firft year's tax, the quota of which firft tax ar affefT
ment shall be as follows:
THE
By the county of Bergen, the sum of one thousand
eight hundred and forty-fix pounds eight Killings and
ten-pence three farthings.
By the county of Essex, the sum of two thousand
two hundred and ninety-fix pounds eighteen Killings
and fix-pence three farthings.
By the county of Middlesex, the sum of two thou
sand five hundred and fifty pounds eleven shillings and
nine-pence.
By the county of Monmouth, the sum of three
thousand one hundred and ninety-eight pounds and
two-pence three farthings.
By the county of Somerset, the sum of two thou
sand seven hundred and sixty pounds fix Killings and
eight-pence farthing.
By the county of Burlington, the sum of three
thousand two hundred and seventy-nine pounds nine
teen Killings and three farthings.
By the county of Glougefter, the sum of two thou
sand four hundred and sixty-three pounds three Kil
lings and fix-pence farthing.
By the county of Salem, the sum of two thousand
one hundred and twenty-four pounds five Killings and
one penny farthing.
By the county of Cape-May, the sum of five hun
dred and eighty-five pounds nineteen Killings and
two-pence.
By the county of Hunterdon, the sum of four thou
sand two hundred amd forty-eight pounds seven shil
lings and three-pence three farthings.
By the county of Morris, the sum of two thousand
four hundred and twenty-two pounds and one penny
half-penny.
By the county of Cumberland, the sum of one thou
sand three hundred and five pounds twelve Killings.
By the county of Sussex, the sum of two thousand
one hundred and seventy-seven pounds twelve Kil
lings and seven pence.
4. And be it further enaded, That it Kall and may
be lawful for the legislature of this state to alter,
either by encreafing or reducing the aggregate amount
of the annual tax directed by this ad, so far as to
make the fame conformable to such future quota as
may be fixed by Congress for this state, agreeably to
the rule which now is, or hereafter may be, fixed for
that purpose.
5. .IND WHEREAS some of the townships, pre
cinds and wards within this state, may hereafter ne
gled to eled affeMbrs or collectors in the manner di
rected by law; for remedy whereof, Be it enabled,
That any two justices of the peace of the county,
wlieiever such delinquency happens, are liereby re
quired to notify the inhabitants thereof, by advertise
ment set up in three of the most publick places with
in such townlhip, precind or ward, to meet together
on the last Monday in May, at two o'clock in the af
ternoon, at the usual place for holding of their annual
town-meetings ; at which meeting it Kall and may be
lawful for them, by plurality of voices, to eled such
and so many town-officers as they are entitled to by
law or charter, that they have not already chosen ;
and the officers so elected Kall perform the fame du
ties, and be fubjed to the fame penalties, as if they
had been regularly chosen at the annual town-meet
ing.
6. And be it, enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the assessors of the several town Kips, precinbls
or wards, in each refpedive county of this state, Kall,
before they proceed to the duties required of them by
this ad, severally take the following oath or affirma
tion before a justice of the peace in the refpedive
counties, viz.
T H AT I will truly and impartially value and as
sess the ratable estate of the inhabitants of the
town Kip, precind or ward of p ur _
fuant to the directions of the ad, intitled, “ An ad
" for railing a revenue of I hirty-one Thousand Two
" Hundred and Fifty-nine Pounds Five Shillings per
" annnm, 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 recom
mendation of Congress of the eighteenth day of
" April, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
" three, and for appropriating the fame."
7. AND, to the end that the said tax may be
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