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PENNSYLVANIA LEDGER:
Philadelphia, Oftober 29, 1776.
THE Publishers of the several weekly NEWS
PAPERS in this City, are under the disa
greeable Necedity of informing their Subscribers,
that the extraordinary Advance in the Price of Pa
per, and other Materials in the Printing Business,
has obliged them to raise the Price to FIFE EEN
SHILLINGS per Annum; and they hope their
Customers will not take it amiss to find that Price
charged from and after the First Day of January
next. —Those who should not incline to have the
Papers feat after that Time, are desired to call and
difeharge their Arrears; such as do not, we shall
conclude they agree to the advanced Price, and
shall continue to fend them accordingly. —Persons
fubferibing for the Papers after this Date to be
charged Fifteen Shillings per Annum, and to
pay 7/ 6d Entrance.
HALL and SELLERS.
^ Philadelphia: Printed by James Humphreys, junr. in Front-facet, at the Corner of Black
horse Alley:—Where Essays, Articles of News, Advertisements, &c. are gratefully received and impartially inserted. And
Where Subferiptions are taken in for this Paper, at Fifteen Shillings per Year.
JUST PUBLISHED and TO BE SOLD, by
James Humphreys, junior,
At the Corner of Black horse alley, Front- street,
THE
Universal Almanack,
For 1777.
g„ntaining besides the ulual Calculations and a
great variety of other ufeful and entertaining
matter,
A CURIOUS anecdote of Chapelle, a famous
French author. Dying Speech of a Punster.
Remarkable Legacy of an ague fit. Extra&: from
the Rural Socrates. Verses on a Dial. Epigram
on the Times. On a Stolen Kiss. The French
Peasant, a tale. Country Bumpkin. The Teach
er taught. Way they fatten Lambs for London
market. Preservative against Infection. Variety of
Receipts, &c. &c.
*, The Calculations of this Almanack are the
performance of the ingenious D. Rid FENHOUSE
A. M. of this city.
GRAI N S~Tnd" Y EAST
To be had of
ROBERT HA R E, and Comp.
At the Porter Brew-house, between Vine and Race
ftreets, in Water-street. The Sale of Grains will
begin on Tuesday next, the 26th inst. and that
of Yeast on Thursday the filth of December.
The best Price and ready Money
Is given for
Clean Linen Rags,
By the PRINTER hereof.
TWENTY DOLLARS Reward.
RAN away on the night of the 13th inst. from
the fubferiber, a Negro man named CIESAR,
about twenty-two years of age, a smart, polite,
likely, well made fellow, about five feet three inch
es high. He took with him a light coloured rat
teen coat new turned, with plain metal buttons, a
dark grey jockey coat moth eaten on the back, fun
dryjackets, a pair of claret colour velvet breeches,
a pair of white clqth ditto, some white cotton and
thread flockings, a pair of new blue yarn ditto, a
pair of turned pumps, a pair of shoes, a pair of
fafhionable plated buckles, a good beaver hat, some
linen and check shirts, and may have sundry other
things. It is likely he is gone towards the camp,
as he is very fond of being a fifer or drummer, and
may pass for a freeman; or gone on board some
outward bound vessel. Masters of vessels are re
quested to take care not to carry him off. Whoe
ver takes up and secures said Negro so that his mas
ter gets him again, shall have the above reward and
reasonable charges.
Pbilad. Nop. 14, ff SAMUEL JACKSON.
November 30, 1776.
WEEKLY ADVERTISE R.
Wm. and THOMAS BRADFORD.
JOHN DUNLAP.
JAMES HUMPHREYS, junr.
Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey
SA T U R DAY, November 30, 1776.
Middletown TownflAp, Cumberland County Nov. 4/6.
On Monday, the 2d day of December next, <will be
SOL D at public vendue, by the fubferibers, ex
ecutors of the last mill and tefament of Robert
Callender, of the tomnjhip aforejaid, deceased,
upon the premises,
AL L the valuable plantition and trad of about
1200 acres of excellent Lime Jione Land, lately
advertised to be fold at private tale, situate in Eail
Pennlborough township in the County aforefaid,
about ten miles Eastward of the town of Carlifle,
on the great road leading from Harris's ferry to the
said town ; whereon are erected and built, one ex
cellent merchant mill and law mill adjacent, both
in very good repair and now in the tenure of Mr.
Francis Silvers, at one hundred and forty pounds
per annum on a never failing dream of water, known
by the name of Silvers spring, the head of which
is not one mile diflant from the said mills, and
abounds with the fineft of trout, is in a plentiful
Country for wheat and all kinds of grain; the mill
house is built of lime stone, two dories high and
has in it two pair 01 stones, two boufting cloths
and holding works, the whole of which go by wa
ter; together with a new two dory done dwelling
house and large done barn, now, with part of the
land, in the tenure of Mr. John M'Curdy, who
keeps a public house of entertainment, for which
business it is most advantageously situated; —also
one other very large two dory done dwelling house
and frame barn, with other stables and out houses,
which is with another part of the said land, in the
tenure of another person; this trad may be conve
niently divided into three plantations, each getting
a fufficiency of water and timber ground to turn
into meadow, and is by those who know it deemed
as valuable an estate, according to the quantity of
land, as is now to be fold on the Continent, and
will be fold either together or in separate tra&s; a
clear and indisputable title will be given for the fame
and credit for part of the purchase money, on pay
ing interest for the fame if required, by
FRANCES CALLENDER,Executrix.
WILLIAM NEIL, )
WILLIAM IRWIN, (Executors.
MATTHIAS SLOUGH.)
A PERSON capable of teaching English, Wri
ting, and Arithmetic, is wanted in the Col
lege, to supply the place of Mr. Carithers, the pre
sent Charity Mafler, who has accepted of a commis
sion in the battalions now raising. Any person
whom this place may suit is desired to apply to the
Provof.
An orderly Family who is disposed to take Board
ers for College, may hear of a house adjoining the
fame on an easy rent, by applying as above.
r fHE RECORDER of DEEDS, for
[the City and County of Philadelphia,
hath now in his Poflefilon a Number of old
Deeds, for Premises situate in several Parts of
the Province of Pennsylvania, the Lower Coun
ties on Delaware and New-Jersey; the Persons
who are entitled thereto may have them, on
producing proper Vouchers and Payment of
Fees.
THREE DOLLARS Reward.
STRAYED or stolen out of Hugh Watt's pas
ture, Hanover township, Lancaster county, A
bright bay HORSE, eleven or twelve years old,
with a speck on the right eye, branded on the lek
flioulder and right buttuck with the letter M, a
faddie mark on his wither that the hair has not yet
grown on, newly shod on the fore feet and trots all.
Whoever takes up the said horse and lends him to
Hugh Watt abovementioned, or to the fubferiber
living in Connogochieg, Cumberland county, or
to Col. Potters old place, shall have the above re
ward and all reasonable charges
% JOHN GIBSON.
Genuine Keyfefs Pills,
To be had of the Printer.
THE
The CONSTITUTION and FORM of GOVERN.
MENT agreed to by the Delegates of MARY
LAND in free and full Convention assembled.
I. r 1 HAT the legislature confix of two diftinft
I branches, a senate, and a house of dele
gates, which shall be filled the General Assembly of
Maryland.
2. That the house of delegates shall be chosen,
in the following manner. All freemen above twen
ty-one years of age, having a freehold of fifty acres
of land in the county in which they offer to vote,
and raiding therein, and all freemen having pro
perty in this date above the value of thirty pounds
current money, and having resided in the county
in which they offer to vote one whole year next
preceeding the election, shall have a right of fuf
frage in the election of delegates for iuch county;
and all freemen so qualified shall, on the firft Mon
day of October seventeen hundred and seventy-se
ven, and on the fame day in every year thereafter,
assemble in the counties in which they are refpedively
qualified to vote, at the court-house in the said
counties, or at such other place as the legislature
shall direct, and when assembled they shall proceed
to elect, viva voce, four delegates for their respec
tive counties, of the most wife, sensible, and dis
creet of the people, residents in the county where
they are to be chosen one whole year next preceed
ing the election, above twenty-one years of age,
and having in the date real or personal property
above the value of five hundred pounds current
money, and upon the final calling of the polls the
four persons who shall appear to have the greatest
number of legal votes, shall be declared and re
turned duly ele&ed for their refpeftive county.
3. That the fheriff of each county, or in case of
sickness, his deputy, (summoning two justices of
the county, who are required to attend for the pre
servation of the peace) shall be judge of the elec
tion, and may adjourn from day to day, if neces
sary, till the fame be finifhed, io that the whole
election shall be concluded in four days, and shall
make his return thereof, under his hand, to the
chancellor of this state for the time being.
4. That all persons, qualified by the charter of
the city of Annapolis to vote for burgefTes, shall, on
the fame firft Monday of October seventeen hun
dred and seventy seven, and on the fame day in
every year for ever thereafter, eleft viva voce, by a
majority of votes, two delegates, qualified agree
able to the said charter; that the mayor, recorder,
and aldermen, of the said city, or any three of
them, be judges of the election, appoint the place
in the said city for holding the fame, and may ad
journ from day to day as aforefaid, and shall make
return thereof as aforefaid; but the inhabitants of
the said city shall not be entitled to vote for dele
gates for Anne-Arundel county, unless they have
a freehold of fifty acres of land in the county, dif
tind from the city.
5. That all persons, inhabitants of Baltimore
town, and having the fame qualifications as elec
tors in the county, shall, on the fame firft Monday
of October seventeen hundred and seventy-seven,
and on the fame day in every year for ever thereaf
ter, at such place in the laid town as the judges
fuali appoint, eled viva voce, by a majority of votes,
two delegates, qualified as aforefaid; but if the
said inhabitants of the town shall so decrease, a$
that the number of persons having right of luffrage
therein shall have been for the space of seven years
fecceffively less than one half the number of votes
in some one county in this state, such town thence
forward shall cease to fend two delegates or repre
sentatives to the house of delegates, untill the said
town shall have one half of die number of votes in
some one county in this state.
6. That the commissioners of the said town, or
any three or more of them, for the time being, shall
be judges of the said election, and may adjourn as
aforefaid, and shall make return thereof as afore
faid; but the inhabitants of the said town fnall not
be entitled to vote for, or be cle&ed delegates for,
Baltimore county, neither shall the inhabitants of
Laltimore county, out of the limits of Balrimore
town, be entitled to vole for, or be tiered delegates
for. the said town..
Numb. XCVII.