The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-05-29 00:00:00, page 2

"Nays. Messrs. Schuurman, Walton, Schenck, R.
S. Smith, J. Smith, T. Clark, Davis, Sinnickfon, Hall,
Baker, Swain, Whilden, Lambert, Burgin, Bowen,
Sheppard.
Ordered, That the speaker do sign the fame.
Ordered, That mr. Garritfe do carry the said bill to
the council for concurrence.
The house resumed the consideration of the bill, in
titled, ' an adt to raise a revenue from practitioners of
the law, proprietors of Rages, and keepers of ferries
and taverns within the ftate.'
An amendment was moved to the title and agreed
to, that the fame read as follows : 'an aft to raise a
revenue from certain profeffions, offices, occupations,
and from proprietors of stages and keepers of ferries
and taverns, within the Rate of New-Jersey ;' and,
after some time spent thereon,
Ordered, That the further consideration of the said
bill be postponed.
The house adjourned till to-morrow morning nine
of the clock.
Tuesday, March 21, 1786.
The house met.
A motion was made by mr. Sinnickfon, seconded by
mr. Swain, that a committee be appointed to confider
of ways and means to enable this state to comply
with the requisition of Congress of the 27th Septem
ber 1785, and make provision for the payment of one
year's interest on the state debt, and to report the
fame to this house; on whicli the previous question
was moved by mr. A. Clark, seconded by mr. Starke;
on the question, whether the house agree to the pre
vious question? It was carried in the affirmative, as
follows :
Yeas. Messrs. Terhune, Nicoll, Garritfe, A. Clark,
Marlh, Combs, Bonney, Walton, Schenck, Stillwell,
Bunn, Blair, Kelley, Baker, Houghton, Cook, Starke,
Arnold, Hankinfon, Beardflee, Longstreet.
Nays. Messrs. Blauvelt, Schuurman, R. S. Smith,
Biddle, J. Smith, Cooper, T. Clark, Davis, Sinnick
fon, Hall, Swain, Whilden, Lambert, Burgin, Shep
pard.
Mr. Garritfe reported, that he had obeyed the or
der of the house.
A petition from Ebenezer Cowell, accompanied with
an account against the state, and praying an allowance,
was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
The bill, intitled, ' an aft to explain and amend an
aft, intitled, an aft to pass eßates in fee by certain
devises in wills and testaments, and to limit estates in
tail,' was read a second time, debated, and ordered
to be engrossed.
A message from the council by mr. Kitchel.
' Council-chamber, March 21, 1786.
' Ordered,
'THAT mr. Kitchel do carry to the house of af
' fembly the bill, intitled, ' an ad for establishing a
' coinage of copper in this ftate,' and to request their
' concurrence therein.'
Which bill was read, and ordered a second reading.
The engrossed bill, intitled, ' an aft to explain and
amend an adt, intitled, an a& to pass estates in fee by
certain devises in wills and testaments, and to limit
estates in tail,' was read and compared; on the questi
on, whether the said bill do pass? It was carried in
the affirmative, as follows:
Yeas. Messrs. Terhune, Blauvelt, Nicoll, Garritfe,
A. Clark, Marfo, Combs, Schuurman, Bonney, Wal
ton, Schenck, Stillwell, Bunn, Blair, Kelley, R. S.
Smith, Biddle, J. Smith, Cooper, T. Clark, Davis,
Hall, Baker, Lambert, Houghton, Cook, Starke, Ar
nold, Bowen, Burgin, Sheppard, Hankinfon, Beardflee,
Longßreet.
Nays. Messrs. Sinnickfon, Swain, Whilden.
Ordered, That the speaker do sign the fame.
Ordered, That mr. Schuurman do carry the said bill
to council for concurrence.
A certificate of half-pay, adjudged by the court of
quarter-sessions in the county of Morris, in favour of
Deborah Minthorn, widow of William Minthorn,
who was killed in the service of the United States
while a soldier in the firft regiment of this state, was
read and approved ;
Ordered, That a warrant do issue in favour of the
said Deborah Minthorn for the sum of twenty-five
Shillings per month, from the firft day of November
1781, for and during her widowhood.
The bill, intitled, ' an aft for the relief of Benjamin
Williams, Daniel Pierson, Mercellas Post and Jonas
Ward, insolvent debtors now confined in the gaol of
the county of Effex,' was read a second time, and the
title amended to read as follows: ' an aft for the re
lief of insolvent debtors confined in gaol in the se
veral counties of this state upon the conditions therein
mentioned ;' and, being further amended in the house,
was ordered to be engrossed.
A certificate of half-pay, adjudged by the court of
quarter-sessions in the county of Morris, in favour of
Sarah Hathaway, the widow of Joseph Hathaway,
who died while in the service of the United States,
was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
The house adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The house met.
The engrossed bill, intitled, 'an aft for the relief
of insolvent debtors confined in gaol in the several
counties of this state upon the conditions therein men
tioned,' was read and compared ; on the question, whe
ther the fame do pass ? It was carried in the affirma
tive, as follows:
Yeas. Messrs. Terhune, Blauvelt, Garritfe, A. Clark,
Marsh, Combs, Schuurman, Bonney, Walton, Schenck,
Stillwell, Bunn, Kelley, R. S. Smith, J. Smith, Coop
er, Davis, Sinnickfon, Hall, Baker, Swain, Whilden,
Lambert, Houghton, Cook, Burgin, Sheppard, Han
kinfon.
Nays. Messrs. Biddle, Starke, Arnold, Beardflee,
Longstreet.
Ordered, That the speaker do sign the fame.
Ordered, That mr. Bonney do carry the said bill
to the council for concurrence.
A message from the council by mr. S. Ogden.
' Council-chamber, March 21, 1786.
' THE council having taken into consideration the
'refolution from the house of assembly, relative to
' appointing commissioners to meet commissioners to
' be appointed by the other states to examine the re
' lative situation and trade of the said states, &c.
' Resolved, That the house do concur therein.'
Mr. Bonney reported, that he had obeyed the or
der of the house.
Mr. Schuurman reported, that he had obeyed the or
der of the house.
Mr. Combs, from the committee appointed for
that purpose, reported the draught of a bill, intitled,
' an aft for defraying certain incidental charges,' which
was read, and ordered a second reading.
A motion was made by mr. Marsh, seconded by
mr. A. Clark, that a committee may be appointed to de
vise ways and means for discharging the principal and
interest of the state debt, and to report their opinion
thereon to the house; to which the house agreed ;
whereupon,
Ordered, That meffrs. A. Clark, Schuurman and R.
S. Smith, be the committee.
The house taking into consideration, that when they
passed the aft for the support of government, from
November 1784 to November 1785, it was the expec
tation of the legislature, that the Congress of the
United States would have continued at Trenton, and
that in consideration thereof they allowed the dele
gates of this state three dollars per day ; but that ho
nourable body having, on the day after the passing of
that aft, resolved, that they would remove to New-
York, where our delegates were obliged to attend at
a much greater expence than was expected; therefore,
Resolved, That each of them be allowed the addi
tional sum of one dollar per day for each day they at
tended in Congress during their appointment, which
the treasurer is hereby directed to pay ; and their or
either of their receipts for the fame shall be a fufficient
voucher in the settlement of his accounts with this
state.
Ordered, That mr. Walton do carry the said reso
lution to the council for concurrence.
Whereas the mode for contractors to transmit cer
tificates in their possession into the treasury, directed
by a resolution of this house of the 20th ultimo, and
concurred in by council, will probably be attend
ed with difficulty and delay, and it being neceffarv
that the state should be possessed of the fame; there
fore,
Resolved, That the auditor be, and he is hereby di
rected to procure the said certificates from the several
contractors by fending a person or persons duly autho
rized to demand the fame; and the refpeCtive con
tractors are hereby required to deliver the certificates
aforefaid to the person thus authorized to draw from
the treasury any sum not exceeding thirty pounds to
defray the expence thereof, whose receipt shall be a
fufficient voucher to the treasurer for the expenditure
of so much money in the settlement of his accounts.
Ordered, That mr. Walton do carry the said reso
lution to the council for concurrence.'
The memorial of John Sparks was read the second
time, and it appearing that said Sparks stands charged
in the auditor's office with a balance due to this state
in the sum of £. 42 0 8; and it also appearing that
said Sparks, encouraged thereto by the house of assem
bly at that time, had expended part of the publick mo
ney, then in his hands, in purchasing forage for the
army at the time they were in great distress for want
of the fame, for which expenditure the said Sparks
received publick securities ; whereupon,
Resolved, That the treasurer be directed to receive of
said John Sparks publick securities to the amount of
the above balance, upon his paying the costs accrued
on a prosecution against him at the suit of the state;
and that said Sparks, upon such payment, be dis
charged of the above-said balance against him.
Ordered, That mr. Walton do carry the said resolu
tion to the council for their concurrence.
The bill, intitled, ' an ad for erecting Paulus-Hook,
in the county of Bergen, into a free port,' was read a
second time, and ordered a third reading.
The bill, intitled, ' an aft for establishing a coinage
of copper in this ftate,' was read a second time, and
ordered a third reading.
The members withdrew to attend a joint-meeting;
and, being returned, the speaker resumed the chair,'
and then the house adjourned till to-morrow morning
nine of the clock.
Wednesday, March 22, 1786.
The house met.
A warrant in favour of Martha Hathaway, in lieu
of one given to her dated June 17, 1780, and a war
rant in favour of Deborah Minthorn, widow of Wil
liam Minthorn, entitling her to receive the amount
of her late husband's half,pay, were read, approved,
and ordered to be signed.
Ordered, That mr. Bunn do carry the said warrants
to council for concurrence.
Mr. Bunn reported, that he had obeyed the order
of the house.
Whereas a warrant, of the 16th of March 1780,
was granted to Elizabeth Horton, widow of doctor
Jonathan Horton, deceased, for her said husband's
half-pay; and a warrant of the 21st December 1781,
was granted to Catharine Piatt, widow of major Da
niel Piatt, deceased, for her said husband's half-pay;
and also a warrant of the 6th of December 1781, was
granted to Rachel Shores, widow of Peleg Shores,
deceased, a late soldier in colonel Wind's regiment,
for her said husband's half-pay; upon which warrants,
especially the firft, large sums of money from time
to time have been paid; and it now appearing that the
said Horton, Piatt and Shores died by ticknefs and not
in consequence of any wounds they received in the
service or otherwise, in such h manner as to entitle
their widows, or either of them, to half-pay of their
deceased husbands ; whereupon,
Resolved, That the aforefaid warrants to Elizabeth
Horton, Catharine Piatt and Rachel Shores, be, and
they and each of them are hereby revoked and made void.
Ordered, That mr. Blair do carry the said resolution
to the council for concurrence.
Mr. A. Clark, from the committee appointed to de
vise ways and means for discharging the principal and
interest of the state debt, reported as follows:
THAT they find the state debt may be ranked in
five classes, viz.
Notes given for depreciation of pay to the officers
and soldiers of the Jersey line.
Notes given to the militia.
Contractors' certificates.
Surplus certificates.
And a few certificates given by commissioners ap
pointed to loan money.
That the two firft are already liquidated, and the
three laR are now under liquidation by a commission
er, and will not be completed before October: that
it is necessary that the creditors of the state should be
on a perfect equality, and that when provision shall be
made for any one species of debts, the like provision
should be made for all, and this cannot be done until
the whole are liquidated ; at which time it is the opi
nion of the committee, that all the confifcated estates
and publick barracks in this state should be fold, ant
that the state debts of every kind should be receiver
in payment: that the remaining debts of the state
should be then difeharged by taxes, in which the state
securities should be taken in payment.
By order of the committee,
ABRAHAM CLARK.
To which report the house agreed.
The bill, intitled, ' an aCt for establishing a coinage
of copper in this ftate,' was read a third time; on the
question, whether the said bill do pass ? It was carried
in the negative, as follows:
Yeas. Messrs. Blauvelt, Schuurman, Bunn, Blair,
R. S. Smith, Biddle, J. Smith, Davis, Swain, Lam
bert, Starke, Arnold, Hankinfon, Beardflee.
Nays. Messrs, Terhune, Nicoll, Garritfe, A. Clark.
Marsh, Combs, Bonney, Schenck, Kelley, Cooper.
T. Clark, Sinnickfon, Hall, Baker, Whilden, Houghs
ton, Cook, Burgin, Bowen, Sheppard.
Ordered, That mr. Blair do wait on the council, and
acquaint them that the said bill is rejected by this
house
Mr. Blair reported, that he had obeyed the ordei
of the house.
A motion was made by mr. Marsh, seconded by mr
Walton, for leave to present a bill with the following
title: 'an aCt for striking and making current out
hundred thousand pounds in bills of credit, to be let
out on loan, and directing the mode of finking the
fame ;' on the question, whether the house agree
thereto ? It was carried in the affirmative, as follows
Yeas. Messrs. Garritfe, A. Clark, Marsh, Combs
Bonney, Walton, Schenck, Stillwell, Bunn, Blair
Kelley, Baker, Lambert, Houghton, Cook, Starke
Arnold, Hankinfon, Beardflee, Longstreet.
Nays. Messrs. Terhune, Blauvelt, Nicoll, Schuur
man, R. S. Smith, Biddle, J. Smith, Cooper, T. Clark
Davis, Sinnickfon, Hall, Swain, Whilden, Burgin
Bowen, Sheppard.
Which being read,
Ordered, That the said bill be read a second time.
( To be concluded in our next. )
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Foreign Intelligence.
VIENN A, Feb. 18.
THE ambassadors extraordinary from the states c
Holland, having been admitted to their audienc
of leave on the fifth infant, Mynheer Van Waffenaa
informed the emperor, " that as the mission they ha
the honour of performing at the Imperial Court bein
fulfilled by the so much wished for restoration of peac
and union between his Imperial majesty and the r<
publick, their high mightinesses had thought proper t
recal them."
His Imperial majesty assured their high mightineffi
" that he was equally pleated the disputes that ha
arisen were finally fettled."
LONDO N, March 10.
Yesterday lord Howe attended on the king at S
James's, and delivered to the king some defpatch
lately received from Herbert Sawyer, esquire, nav
commander in chief on the American station, whi<
were brought over in the Brilk sloop of war arrive
at Falmouth.
Mr. Adams, the American minister, was lent to <
Wednesday evening, and yesterday he had a cons
rence with the two secretaries of state, on occasion
some late advices received from America.
Governor Penn is soon to go out to America in tl
character of ambassador and plenipotentiary from t
British court.—lt is supposed that his appointment
this great office is to be attributed to the influence
lord Lonfdale, between whom and the governor the
has long subsisted the ftrideft and most intimate friend
ship.
A report is prevalent, that the king of Prussia mean:
the ensuing summer to restore the Stadtholder to all
his rights of sovereignty over the states of Holland, i
which, however, he will be certainly opposed by th
arms of France, who with to render the United Stat
a pure democracy, as in that case France can alwa
command the Belgic power with equal effect, as
the states were her own colonies.
March 16. By letters from the Hague it appea