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grefs, shall report a calendar of all grants executed
by him, stating in different columns thereof the date,
grantee, quantity, how much of that was for military
service, the hundred and lot.
The monies arising from the sale of warrants shall
be applied to the finking such part of the principal of
the national debt as Congress shall from time to time
direct, and to no other purpose whatsoever.
The register, before he enters on the duties of his
office, shall give such bond and security for the faith
ful difeharge thereof as Congress, or the Committee
of the States, shall approve, and shall be entitled to
receive, for the execution of every grant, dol
lars, for every lot the fame shall contain, or
dollars if it be for a whole hundred ; which shall be
paid at the time he receives the warrant and certifi
cate, and shall be deemed fatisfadion for all the ser
vices and expences of his office, except the purchase
of bocks for registering grants and of the seal of his
office.
Every surveyor shall also, before he enters on the
duties of his office, give such bond and security, for
the faithful discharge thereof, as Congress, or the
Committee of the States, shall approve, and shall be
entitled to receive for eveiy lot located with him
dollais, and dollars for a whole hundred, which
shall be paid at the time of location, and shall be
deemed fatisfaftion for all the services and expences
of his office. But where he shall have admitted more
locations than one on the fame land, he shall restore
the fees received from the party whose location shall
be set aside.
A surveyor desiring to locate land for himfelf, shall
make such location with the register.
And whereas Congress, by their resolutions of Sep
tember 16, 1776, and August 12, 1780, stipulated
grants of land to the officers and soldiers who should
engage in the service of the United States, and con
tinue therein to the close of the war, or until dis
charged by Congress, and to the representatives of
such officers and soldiers as should be slain by the ene
my, in the following proportions, to wit, to a major
general 1100 acres, to a brigadier 850, to a colonel
500, to a lieutenant colonel 450, to a major 400, to
a captain 300, to a lieutenant 2CO, to an ensign 15®,
and to a non-commissioned officer or soldier 100; for
complying therefore with such stipulation, and for as
certaining the evidence of rights accruing under the
fame which shall be receivable instead of money, it is
ordained, that the evidence to be required from com
missioned officers shall be a certificate from the war
office of their rank and c< itinuance in service to the
end of the war ; from non commissioned officers and
soldiers, a certificate from the captain of their com
pany, countersigned by the officer who commanded
their regiment at the time of their discharge, that they
were enlisted into the service of the United States,
during the war, and continued therein to the close of
it, to wit, to the day of 1783, an d from
the representatives of such officers and soldiers as
were slain by the enemy, a certificate from the fame
authority, of the rank or term of enlistment of the
deceased, and that he was slain by the enemy, toge
ther with fatisfadory affidavits that they are his re
presentatives ; which evidences shall be receivable by
the loan-officers of the United States, in the Rate to
the line of which he belonged, or by the treasurer if
he belonged to the line of no state: And on the war
rant issued shall be an endorsement, signed by the
treasurer or loan-officer, declaring the proportion
thereof which was fatisfied by military service; and
in the fame proportion shall all fees be abated to
which that warrant would otherwise be fubje&. The
proceedings on it in all other refpeds shall be the
fame as on a warrant issued wholly for money.
Saving and confirming always to all officers and sol
diers entitled to lands on the northern fide of the 0-
hio, by donation or bounty from the Commonwealth
of Virginia, and to all persons claiming under them
all rights to which they are so entitled by the laws
of the said state and the ads of Congress, accepting
the cession of western territory from the said states.
DUB L_l N, May 18.
FRIDAY, in consequence of the prorogation
of parliament, the friends of Mr. Cary applied
at the New Gaol for his enlargement, but no
gaoler could be found ; they then waited on
the lord mayor, who, by advice of the recorder, or
dered his immediate discharge, which was complied
with about eight o'clock in the evening, amidst the
plaudits of a great concourse of people.
We are informed that Whitfun-Monday is appoint
ed by his excellency general Pitt, commander in chief
of the forces in this kingdom, for a general review
of the troops which compose the garrison of Dublin.
Whether this be a political manoeuvre, to deprive our
volunteers, who are to be reviewed the fame day, of
the use of the park, or for other purposes, is matter
of speculation.
Foreign Intelligence.
LOND O N, June 7.
The Stadtholder is recovering his popularity every
hour ; his last appeal to the several Rates is much ad
mired for its spirit, and at the fame time amounts to.
a juftification of his publick conduct from the com
mencement of the last war.
ANTICIPATIO N.
The following extrafl of a letter mill appear in the
Paris Gazette :
Extras of a letter from London, May 10, 1784.
'7 his day a most dreadful riot took place at Co
vent Garden, between the contending parties in the
opposing interests of the Right Honourable Charles
James fox, Lord Hood, and Sir Cecil Wray, can
didates to serve the city of Westminster, in the ensu
ing parliament.
" The contest was long, and the consequences
dreadful. To describe the fray would be impossible,
as each party contend —it was in the cause of Li
berty.—The peace officers took the Liberty of at
tempting to apprehend some musicians, who are ad
mirable in performing on marrow bones and cleav
ers ; and the musicians, on the other hand, took the
liberty of applying their inflruments to the heads of
the peace officers. This produced a disagreeable dis
cord, which however terminated in the silencing of
several, but the guards being called in, the musicians
were overpowered.
" The fire kept up by the guards was aftonifhing—
an old woman received a bullet in the rear, which has
not yet been extracted, though a consultation of the
faculty lat upon the wound four hours.
" A musket ball penetrated the head of a magi
strate four inches, but it not having reached the brain,
his worship is in a fair way of recovery.
" A noble lord received a violent blow from a
broad-sword, on the temple ; but meeting with oppo
sition from a horn under his lordship's hat, it glanced
aside and cut oft the falfe nose of an Honourable Ba
ronet.
" Among the ladies, two loft their tetes. One had
her cork rump foot off, and several were deprived of
their eye-brows."
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American Intelligence.
B OST O N, July 14.
THE taste for air balloon matters has grown to
such an extravagant pitch, that nothing can
pretend to have any intrinfick value in it, unless it has
this name as an appendage. The gentlemen and ladies
upon the bon ton, are not the only objects that can
boast of this aerial bombaftick insignia to their orna
ments ; as a countryman was heard to cry, one day
last week—" Fine balloon string beans."
The present agitation of the publick mind will serve
to fofter the spirit of leaving this country, unless go
vernment, by acceding to our claims, proves that the
constitution in sass, as well as in theory, affords the
blessings of civil liberty to the inhabitants of Ireland.
If, after a resolute struggle, Irishmen shall be found
divested of the right of aflually chufng that house of
commons which is entrusted with the national purse,
the citizen of the world—the friend of mankind,
should, perhaps, no more repine at the view of ap
proaching depopulation, than he does at the emigra
tion of the poor Genevefe from their native land,
which no longer encourages the reGdence of freemen.
Mr. Fox and his adherents have very dextroufly
taken advantage of the general dislike to Mr. Foster's
press bill. Behold, fay they, the fir£ fruits of Mr.
Pitt's administration; when he has destroyed the li
berty of the press in Ireland, his next attempt will be
on the English press.
On Friday last, the paymaster of one of the regi
ments on Dublin duty received 10001. in bank notes,
from the agent, for the use of the regiment; on his
return to the barracks at night, he was induced by a
female he met on Essex bridge, to retire to her lodg
ings at the rear of Fleet-street, where he went to bed,
but before morning bis companion robbed him of all
the notes, 30 guineas in cash, and his gold watch,
with which she and her confederates escaped; and
when the gentleman awoke, there was not another
human being in the house. This loss had such an ef
fed on him, that it totally deprived him of his reason,
and he lies in a very melancholy situation.
May 20. Letters from London advise, that Charles
Fox, notwithstanding the hurry of his election, is par
ticularly sedulous in collecting every possible informa
tion from the newspapers, or otherwise, refpe&ing
the affairs of this kingdom, its diffracted state, and the
difaffeftion to Great-Britain, which our bungling mi
nisters have caused, in order to lay the matter, in a
proper form, before the house of commons, at its
meeting.
ANNAPOLIS, August 5.
By the COMMITTEE of the S TATE S,
August 2, 1784.
THE committee, consisting of Mr. Read, Mr.
Chafe, and Mr. Hand, to whom was referred a letter
dated PafTay, 12th May, 1784, from Mr. Franklin,
minister plenipotentiary from the United States to
the court of Versailles, directed to the president of
Congress, and enclosing a copy of the ratification of
the definitive treaty of peace on the part of his Bri
tannick majesty, exchanged with that on the part of
the United States of America the 12th May, 1784,
at Paffay, reported the draught of a letter to be signed
by the chairman of the committee of the Rates, and
transmitted, together with a copy of the ratification,
to the supreme executive authority of each of the
United States. Which was agreed to.
Ordered, That the ratification of the definitive
treaty of peace on the part of his Britannick majesty,
exchanged for that on the part of the United States
of America on the 12th May, 1784, at Paffay, in
France, be entered on the journal. Which is in the
words following:
GEORG E the Third, by the grace of God, King
of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, defender of
the faith, Duke of,Brunfwick and Lunenburg,
Arch Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy
Roman empire, &c.
WHEREAS a definitive treaty of peace and
friendship between us and our good friends the United
States of America, viz. New-Hampshire, Massachu
setts-Bay, Rhode-Ifland and Providence Plantations,
Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N. Carolina, South-
Carolina, and Georgia, was concluded and signed at
Paris, on the third day of September last, by the ple
nipotentiaries of us, and our said good friends, duly
and refpe&ively authorized for that purpose; which
definitive treaty is in the form and words following:
(Here insert it.)
W E have seen and coniidored the definitive treaty
aforefaid, have approved, ratified, accepted, and con
firmed it, in all and every one of its articles and
clauses, as we do by these presents, for ourselves, our
heirs, and successors, approve, ratify, accept, and
confirm tire fame ; engaging and promising, upon our
royal word, that we will sincerely and faithfully per
form and observe all and singular the things which
are contained in the aforefaid treaty; and that we
will never fuffer it to be violated by any one, or trans
gressed in any manner, as far as it lies in our power.
For the greater testimony and validity of all which,
we have caused our great seal of Great-Britain to be
affixed to these presents, which we have signed with
our royal hand.
Given at our court at St. James's, the ninth day
of April, one thousand seven hundred and eigh
ty-four, in the twenty-fourth year of our reign.
(Signed) GEORGE R.
Ordered, That the foregoing ratification be pub
lished in the Maryland Gazette.
By the UNITE D STATES in CON-
G RESS assembled, Tuesday, June 3, 1784.
WHEREAS a body of troops, to consist of 700
men, non-commissioned officers and privates, properly
officered, are immediately and indispensably necessary
for taking possession of the western posts, as soon as
evacuated by the troops of his Britannick Majesty,
for the protection of the northwestern frontiers, and
for guarding the publick stores;
Refolded, I hat it be, and it is hereby recommended
to the Rates hereafter named, as most conveniently
situated, to furnifh from their militia 700 men, to
serve for twelve months, unless sooner difeharged, in
the following proportions, viz.
Connecticut, 165
New-York, 165
New-Jersey, 110
Pennsylvania, 260
700
Resolved, That the secretary in the war-office take
order for forming the said troops, when assembled,
into one regiment, to consist of eight companies of in
fantry and two of artillery, arming and equipping
them in a soldier-like manner, and that he be autho
rized to direct their destination and operations, fubjeft
to the order of Congress, and to the committee of the
states in the recess of Congress.
Resolved, That the pay, subsistence and rations of
the officers and men, shall be the fame as have been
heretofore allowed to the troops of the United States ;
and that each officer and soldier shall receive one
month's pay, after they are embodied and before their
march.
Resolved, That the ftafF and commiflioned officers
of the said troops consist of the following, and be fur
nifhed by the several states herein after mentioned;
That is to fay,
One lieutenant colonel commandant, from Penn
sylvania.
Two majors (one from Connedicut, one from New-
York) each major to command a company.
Eight captains from the several states furnifhing
the troops, in the nearest proportion to the number of
the men furnifhed.