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Refolded,
THAT the Managers of the Lottery be authorifed
I to employ their Agents in each State to pay off
the prizes of the tickets fold by them refpettively,
and for this purpose to draw on the several Continent
al Loan-Offices for so much of the money arising on
the sales ofthe tickets, and deposited in such offices
reflectively, as they shall find necessary to pay off
such prizes.
That the fevcral Agents be inftrufted by the Ma
kers, previous to the payment of prizes not of the
cveft denomination in each class, to receive uhe
tickets entitling the poffeflors to such prizes, give re
ceipts for the fame, and transmit them to the Ma
nagers for their examination, with the names of the
refpedive owners endorsed thereon, and fpecifying
which of the said prizes are, at the owners request, to
be paid in Loan-Office certificates.
Re/olved, That the Loan-Office certificates, which
may issue for prizes of the second class of the Lottery
of the United States, fhali bear an interest of fix per
centum per annum, any resolution to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Refolded, That the Managers be directed forthwith
to prepare and make sale of the tickets of the second
class of the Lottery :
That the drawing thereof commence the firft day of
January next, and be completed as soon as may be ;
and that all the tickets then unfold be the property
and at the rifque of the United States.
JUNE 3.
Ordered, That printed pamphlets, containing lifts
of the prizes drawn by the adventurers in the firft
class of the Lottery of the United States, be transmit
ted by the Managers to the Assemblies, Commissioners
of the Loan-Offices, Post-Masters and Lottery A
gents, and to every person entrufied with the sale of
tickets in the several States, for the free infpedion of
the several adventurers; And that the Printers in
the several States be requested to publish the whole in
weekly portions.
Extras from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
^ B. The Printers of news-papers in the several
States are desired to publish the foregoing resolutions,
and to continue the fame in their papers from time to
re, until the drawing of the second class commences.
In CONGRES S, May 19, 1778.
WHEREAS Congress, by a resolve passed the 19th
day of January last, determined that captive
officers ffiould receive pay, as well when on parole
as when in the enemy's possession, for so long time
as they continue to be officers of the United States,
and liable to be called into service upon being releas
ed from their captivity: And whereas divers officers
have been and may be made prisoners, and continue
such beyond the period within which they are liable
to be called into service; and as it has been found
that such officers, when released on parole, are some
times debarred from the pursuit of their former em
ployments, or, being liable always to be recalledin
to captivity at the pleasure of the enemy, are pre-
From ^LEYDEN GAZETTE.
(Lranflated from the French. )
Upon a motion, in the Irilh House of Lords, for
an Address to the King and Lord Lieutenant, after
bis Lordship had delivered a Speech to that H.,ufe
on the 14th of April last year, Lord Mountmorri, a
very young Nobleman of great abilities and spirit,
rose and said.
My Lords,
“"ff~F I rife once more, encouraged by the indul-
M gence your Lordships have Ihewn to my youth,
it is not with design to fay a single word that
may occasion a debate, or give even the ap
g pearance of opposition to the prudent motion ;
but to assure your Lordihips that I exceedingly
approve a speech in which there is not a word to en
gage the consent or approbation of the Parliament to
the detestable war beyond sea, to a war which I think:
unjust and useless in its beginning, absurd and ridi
culous in the conduct of it, and ruinous and destruc
tive in the issue, unless Providence interpose, and by
its mighty hand save the empire from deftrudion. I
have the fatisfaftion of thinking <w e are not engaged
in such a war; a war, conduced by a band of va
gabonds and knights errand, on the coasts of America.
Had there been a word with that view in the Speech,
I should immediately have protested against whatso
ever should have been done in. qonfequence of it.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. I.)
TOR K-T O W N.
In CONGRESS, May 2, 1778.
WEDNESDAY, July 1, 1778.
The Members chosen, Mr. Drayton, Mr. R. H. Lee,
Mr. G. Morris, Mr. Witherspoon, and Mr. S. Adams.
Ordered, That the Committee retire into the next
room, and prepare an answer to Lord Howe and Ge
neral Clinton's letters.
I he Committee, appointed to prepare answers to
Lord Howe and Gen. Clinton's letters, brought in a
draught, which was read and agreed to, as follows:
My Lord, York-Tocon, June 6, 1778.
J HAVE had the honour of laying your Lordship's
1 letter of the 27th of May, with the acts ofthe Bri
tish Parliament inclofed, before Congress ; and I am
inftru&ed to acquaint your Lordship, that they have
already expressed their sentiments upon bills, not es
sentially different from those aCts, in a publication of
the 22d of April last.
^Your Lordfllip mav be assured, that when the
King of Great-Britam Qiall be seriously disposed to
put an end to the unprovoked and cruel war waged
against these United States, Congress will readily at
tend to such terms of peace as may consist with the
honour of independent nations, the interest- of their
constituents^ and the sacred regard they mean to pay
to treaties. I am, my Lord, with all due considera
tion,
Vour Lordship's most obedient Servant,
HENRY LAURENS,
Loraffrum frefdffl of Congress,
vented from entering into such engagements and plans
of business as their necessary support demands :
Refolded, That all officers in the land service of the
United States, who have been or fhali be made pfi
foners by the enemy, fhali be entitled to receive the
full pay and rations while in the enemy's possession,
deducting only from their rations such supplies as
they may have received from the enemy, or the Com
missary of prisoners ; and that all such officers when
admitted on their parole shall receive their full pay,
without rations, until they shall be exchanged or dis
charged from their parcle, or that a general change
of circumftanccs shall render their pay no longer ne-
Ceflary for their support, as Congress shall hereafter
determine#
MAY au
Resolved, That it be recommended to the Legi
slatures of the refpe&ive States, to enaCt laws for ex
empting from militia duty all persons who have de
serted, or hereafter shall desert, from the British ar
my or navy, during the present war.
That it be farther recommended to the Legisla
tures of the refpeCtive States, to disqualify, by law,
all prisoners and deserters from anting as substitutes
in the militia during the present war, to render all
such contracis void, and to authorize any prisoner,
or deserter who may be engaged as a substitute, to
appropriate to his own use all monies by him re
ceived on such agreement.
Extract front the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
In CONGRESS, June 6, 1778.
A Letter of the 27th of May from Lord Howe,
and one of the 3d of June from General Clinton,
at Philadelphia, accompanied with three a&s of Par
lian&it were read.—The letters are as follow:
SIR, Philadelphia, May 27, 1778.
LI A VIN G, by a packet just arrived from Grcat-
Butain, leceived the King's commands to trans
mit to the Congress, and the Commander in Chief of
their troops, the copies of two aCts palled this session
of Parliament, for quieting the disorders now subsist
ing in these colonies, and preparing the way for the
return or peace, I embrace the earliest opportunity
to forward the inclofed copies of those act, and of
one other ad relating to the government of the pro
vince of Massachusetts-Bay, for the inf irmation of
the Congress thereon; most sincerely hoping this
Communication will be productive of the desired good
efforts. I am, with due consideration, Sir,
Tour most obedient Servant,
Henry Laurens, Esq. HOWE.
Prudent wf the Congress.
SIR, Head-barters, Philad. June 3, 1778.
J AM directed to transmit to Congress, and the Com
mander in Chief of their troops, printed copies of
three conciliatory ads of Parliament: Let me add
my most sincere wishes, that they may produce the
desirable effect which is hoped from them. I have
the honour to be, Sir, Tour most obedient and
Most humble Servant,
Henry Laurens, % H. CLINTON.'
Prefdent of the Congress.
Ordered, That they be referred to a Committee of
Five.
THE
tn CONGRESS, June 8, 1778.
WHEREAS the exportation of provisions from these
States hath occasioned much difficulty in pro
curing supplies for our armies, and, by the capture
of vessels concerned in such exportation, the armies
of the enemy have been freed from distresses, that
would have greatly embarrassed their operations:
And whereas, for the easy supply of our armies, and
to embarrass and distress the enemy the ensuing cam
paign, it is absolutely necessary an embargo should
be immediately laid, to prohibit such exportations:
And as, from the distance of the States from Con
gress, and the different periods of assembling their
legislatures, the good end of such embargo would be
wholly fruftrated, inould Congress not proceed to
impnfe the emhnrzo: Therefore.
Rejolved, That an embargo be, and it hereby is
laid, to prohibit the exportation of wheat, flour, rye,
Indian corn, rice, bread, beef, pork, bacon, live flock
and other provisions, from any of these United States,
from and after the tenth day of June instant, until
the fifteenth day of November next, unless sooner re
voked by Congress. Provided, that this embargo
shall not be construed to prevent the taking on board
such provision, as shall be necessary for the stores on
ly of any ships or vessels of war, or others trading
to and from these States.
Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to the
refpeftive States to take the most effectual measures
for carrying the foregoing resolution into immediate
execution.
J U NE 9 .
Whereas doubts have arisen, as to the fam which
shall be paid for the rations, which now may be due
and owing to Officers in the service of these States,
and also as to the vouchers for drawing the fame ;
by reason whereof the intentions of Congress, with
refped to such Officers, are fruftrated:
Refolded, That the value of the rations due since
the firft day of last January till the firft instant, be
estimated at One Third of a Dollar, and that the
Officers do present their accounts to the Paymaster-
General or Deputy Paymaster-General, who shall
adjust and pay the fame. Provided always, That
the said officers shall make oath to their accounts re
fpedively, which oaths the said Paynlafters are here
by empowered and directed to administer, and trans
mit the said accounts, with receipts thereon, to the
Treasury. Extras from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
WHEREAS Congress have received information
and complaints, " That violence have been
done by American armed vessels to neutral nations, m
seizing fltips belonging to their fubjeds and under
their colours, and in making captures of those of the
enemy whilst under the protection of neutral coasts,
contrary to the usage and custom of nations." To
the end that such unjuftifiable aad piratical acts,
which reflect difhonour upon the national character of
thele States, may be in future effectually prevented^
the said Congress hath thought proper to direct, en
join and command, and they do hereby direct, en
join and command; all Captains, Commanders and
other Officers and Seamen, belonging to any Ameri
can armed vessels, to govern themselves ftriCtly in all
things agreeably to the tenor of their commissions,
and the inftruCtions and resolutions of Congress ; par
ticularly that they pay a sacred regard to the rights of
neutral powers, and the ^ and custom wfcivilized
A PROCLAMATION.
SIR, York-Town, June 6, 17,5.
I HAVE had the honour of laying your letter of the
3d instant, with the ads of the British Parliament
which came inclofed, before Congress ; and I am
inftruded to acquaint you, Sir, that they have already
expressed their sentiments upon bills, not effentiall,
different from those ads, in a publication of the 23d
of April last.
Be assured, Sir, when the King of Great-Britaim
shall be seriously disposed to put an end to the unpro
voked and cruel war waged against these United
States, Congress will readily attend to such terms of
peace as may consist with the honour of independent
nations, the interest of their constituents, and the sa
cred regard they mean to pay to treaties. 1 have the
honour to be, Sir,
Tour most obedient and
Most bumble Servant,
HENRY LAURENS,
His Excellency Pref dent of Congress,
Sir Henry Clinton, K, B. Philad.
Published by Order of Congress,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
[Numb. 30.]