Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-07-26 00:00:00, page 1

Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, if fort, T. 153 33 o c
, Pearl — <53 33 0 0
Allum, C. 7 0 750
Anchors, so oil 12 c
Bread, Ship C. 4 0 6 0
Butter ffi 012 014
• ? Mess B. 14 50 35 0
)Gargo No. r, — 13 0 13 50
) No. 2, — 12 0 12 50
gel (Refufe —7 5 0 8 c
Beans, white bu. 1 0 1 10
'Brandy, Spaniih 4th pr. G. 145 150
, NaplesqM^r. -- 125 133
Earley . bu. 092 095
Brimtfone, C. 4 0 45c
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 0
Corn, Indian -- 083 oco
Rye -- 083 087
Cassia ffi 050 06<
Cloves -' 1 33 1 4-
Coffee — 0 26 0 28
Cheese, American — 0 7 011
Cotton,foreign fearer — 0 33 °4°
, American -- 0 0 025
Cordage, American C. 14 50 15 o
, Foreign, -- 12 0 12 50
Chocolate, common ffi 020 0 0
, belt N0.2^1 -- 028 033
Candles, mould — 017 ° 4
, dipt -- 0 13 05
Coals, foreign Ch. 12 0 13 0
, American, -- 17 0 0 0
Copperas, C. 35° 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 16 0 17
FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (For Cajh) 2| a 3 per cent. adv.
do. do. : :• : bo days, : ; do. : 2 a2, d<>. do.
do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. : I|u2 do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : par
do. on Amsterdam, payablein do. 60 days, : : 1 pr. cent. adv.
BE it rafted by the Senate and House cf
frrefentati^s of the United States of d^^-
ca^inO^rejs cf-mbied, That any person or
ner'fo^ ^> cue legal representatives of any per
font- ^ rf^ who were refilled in the Mississippi
territory c^re twenty feveuth day of Ollo^r,
in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety
five and who had irior to that day obtained ei
ther from tile British government of Well Florida,
or from the Spanifo government, any warrant o
order of furve^ for lands lying within the said ter
ritory, to which the Indian title had been extin
guidied, and wtpeb were on that day actually in
habited ana cultivated by such person or paTons,
or for his or their use, (hall be confirmed in their
claims to such lands in the fame in niter as if their
titles had been compleated : Provided however.
That no such incomplete title fliall b'e confirmed,
vnlefs the person in whose name such warrant or
order of survey had been granted, was at the time
of its date either the head of a family, or above
the age of twenty-one years.
Sec. 2. ^nd be it further enabled, That
to every person, or to the legal representative or
reprefenutives of every person who, being either
the head of a family, or of twenty-one years of
did on that day of the year seventeen hundred
^nd ninety-seven, when the Miffifippi territory was
finally evacuated by the Spanish troops, actual
ly inhabit and cultivate a traft of land in the Paid
territory not claimed by virtue either of the pre
ceding fettion, ar of any &itiih grant, or of the
Ar the Second Session,
frun and held at the City of Washington, in the
Territory o f Columbia, on Monday, the Jixth
ts December, one thousand eight hundred
andtwo.
fordoing tie grants of land, and providing
for the 'dtjpfal of the lands of the Larded
States, fourth of thefate of Tennefo.
NUMBER 48. VOL. IV.]
[Pub/ifeed bv Authority.]
SEVENTH CONGRESS
OF THE
Unites States ;
AN ACT
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF TYE LAWS OR THE UNITED ST AI ES.
CTben gou fyall t^efe beets relate freak of tfoem ag tbeg are : nothing extenuate, nor set baton ouflt in malice.
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Republican Ledger,
I Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Russia, tfqual. Bt. 20 0 22 0
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 1 0 0 0
riih, Merchant, C. 450 5 0
,W. India mark. -- 350 375
Scale — 275 3 0
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 80 85c
Flour, super. trefh -- 80 850
, fine -7 0 7S'
, middlings — 6 0 0 0
, country C. 350 355
ruiuck T. 35 0 0 0
<Briftol cr.lo by 8, bx. 15 0 o c
9 b Y 7> - z 3 0 r 3 5 c
^1 Bby6, -- 10 50 11 c
^ /Hamburg roby 8, -- 11 0 11 5c
7by9, -- II 0 11 5c
Gun Powder ft, 040 042
Geneva, Holland if prG. 1 10 1 15
, American -- 080 0 0
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard ft) 012 0 14
Iron, Philadelphia 1.115 ° "° °
, Russia -- lio 0 112 0
, Swedes --112 0 115 0
Logwood T. 40 0 '45 c
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 18 0 0 0
, dry -- 16 0 17 °
, red -= II 0 12 c
, sheet — 13 0 0 0
Lumber, boards clear M. 16 0 17 0
, , merch. — 9 ° to e
articles of agreement and cession between the Unit
ed States and the State of Georgia, the Cid tract
of land thus inhabited and tultiv.ted, (hall be
granted : Provided however, That not more than
one traft fliall be thus granted to any one person,
and the fame (hall not contain mote than hx hun
dred and forty acres: And provided also, That
this donation! (hall not be made to any person who
claims any other trad of laud in the laid territory
oy virtue of any Brihih or Spanish grant, or or
der ot survey.
Sec. 3. And be it farther enabled, $ That
every person, and the legal representatives of
every person, who being the head of a family, or
above the age of twenty-one years, doth at the
time of puffing this aft, inhabit and cultivate a
track of land in,the (aid territory, not claimed by
virtue of the preceding feftions of this att, or of
any British grant, or of the articles of agreement
and cession above mentioned, th all be entitled to
a preference in becoming the purchaser from the
United States, of such trail of land, at the price at
which the other lands of the United States in the
laid territory, are by this alt directed to be fold ;
and payment may be made therefor in the fame
manner, and under the fame conditions as directed
by this act for such other lauds : Provided however,
That no interest mall be charged upon any of the
inftdlments until they refpe&ively become payable.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted^ T hat
for the difoofal of the'lands of the United States
u ithin the Miffifippi territory, tr 0 land offices
(hall be ettablifhed in the fame, one at such place
m the county of Adams, as (WI be designated by
the Piefident of the United States, for rhe lands
lying weft of “ Pearl river," fomerimes called
" half way river ;" and one at such place in the
county of Wafliington, as shall be designated by
the President of the United States, for the lands
lying east of Pearl river ; and tor each of the (aid
ffices, a register and a receiver of public monies
dial: be appointed, who (hall give security in the
lame manner, and in the fame funis, and whole
duties and authority (hall in every refpeft be the
fame in relation to the lands which shall be difpof
ed of at their offices, as are by law provided in
relation to the registers and the receivers or public
monies in the several offices eftabliflied for the dis
posal of the lands of the United States, uortli of
the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky
river.
Sec. 5. And be in further enabled. That
every person claiming lands by virtue of any
British grant, or of the three firft feltions of this
act, or of the articles of agreement and cession be
tween the United States and the date of Georgia,
shall before the last day of March, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and four, deliver to the
register of the land office, within whose ddtrict the
land may be, a notice in writing, dating the nature
and extent of his daims ; together with a plot of
^Dolefaic prices Current, at portfmoutb, ^eto^ampfyire,
Couefe of Grange, at Lofton, Tulp 2%
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS,
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1803.
the traft or traits claimed, and shall also on or
before that day, deliver to the said remitter, for the
purpose of being recorded, ever, grant, order of
fartey, deed, conveyance, or other written evi
dence of his claim, and the fame shall be recorded
by the laid register, in books to be kept for that
purpose, on receiving from the parties at the rate
of twelve and a half cents, for every, hundred
words contained in such written evidence of their
claim ; and if such person shall neglelt to deliver
such notice in writing, of his claim, together with
a plot as aforefdd, or cause to ce recorded fitch
written evidence of the fame, all his right, so far
as the fame is derived from the above mentioned
articles of agreement, or from the three hrif sec
tions of this aft, shall become void, and forever
thereafter be, barred ; nor wall any grant, order
of survey, deed, conveyance, or other written
evidence, which dial! not be recorded as above di
rected, ever after be considered or admitted as
evidence in any court in the United States, against
any grant derived from the United States.
Sect. 6. And be it further enabled, That
the register of the land office in Adanis county,
and two other persons who shall be appointed by
the President of the United States, alone shall, lor
the l».nds h ing welt of Pearl river, and the remitter
of tne land office of Wellington county, together
With two other petfons who fhaii be appointed by
the Pieiident of the United States alone shall, for
the lands lying east of Pearlrn er, refpedivejy be
commifiigners, lor the purpose of afcertaming the
rights of perlons, claim^c the benefit of the arti
cles of agreement and cession between the United
States and the ilate of Georgia, or of the t>ree firit
lections of this act ; and the said comuhilioners
flrall, previous to entering on the duties of their
appointment, tefpeftiveiy take and fobferibe the
following oath or affirmaglfo, before some person
qualified to administer the fame : “I do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will impartially
exercise and difeharge the duties imposed upon
me, by an aft of Congress, entitled, an alt regu
lating the grants of land and providing for the
difpofU of the lands of the United States fouth of
the date of Tenneflee, <0 the belt of mi (kill and
judgment." And it mail be the duty of the said
commiffiouers to meet in the county of Adams,
and in Wafliington county aforefayd, refpe&bely,
on or before the firft day of December next, and
they shall not adjourn to an, other place, or lor a
longer time than three days, until the firft day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and four, and
until they shall have completed the business of
their appointment. And each board, or a major
ity of each board, shall, in their refpeltive dif
trias, have power to hear and decide in a sum
mary manner, all matters refpe&ing ftich claims,
also to administer oaths and examine witnesses,
and such other tellimony as may be adduced, and
to determine thereon according to justice and
equity ; wh^h determination, so hr a; relates to
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Singles — 150 220
Lemons frejh bx. 0 0 to 50
Lime, hhd. 2 50 0 0
Leather, Soal, dried, tb 022 023
Violates G. 046 048
Nutmegs it )4 50 5 0
Nail Rods farce C. 7 0 0 0
M ' °33 0 0
ri | 6dj ' -- 066 0 0
^1 6d, wrought -1 0 1 6
< ; rod, do. infpeded-- 150 162
^ I 2od, do. do. -- 225 233
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 II 0
-4 r Liver Jcarce B. 11 0 12 0
Q [Linfeed G. 142 15 (
Pepper lb 028 o<
/ ( Bone Middlings, 20 0 22 c
No.x 17 0 18 0
AC N 0.2 0 0 17 0
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento th 0 20 0 0
Pitch, . B. 433 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 0
Redwood T. 55 0 60 0
Raifins/re/b calk 8 0 850
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 1 5
, Windward 3dfr.-- 95 0 1 0
Rice farce C. b 0 0 0
Rosin B. 450 0 0
Soap, white ftj 014 016
, brown -- 010 olb
, caftile & - 0 17 0 20
Sugar, Havannah C. 17 0 0 0
, East-India -- 12 0 12 50
INLAND BILLS.
Bills on Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cain) Fai per cent cif.
do. Philadelphia, : : do. : I^2 do. do.
do. New-York, — : : do. : 1 do. de.
do: Philadelphia, or 1 ,
New-York, f 6 : do. I^2 do.
N. B. Bills at Shorter fight, proportionably higher.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
any rights derived from the articles of agreement
above mentioned, or from the three firft feftioha
of this a&, shall be final ; and for the fafe keep
ing of the papers and evidence produced and re
cording their proceedings, the said boards, respec
tively, shall have power to appoint a clerk,
whole duty it shall be to enter in a book to be
kept for that purpose, perfect and correct min
utes of the proceedings, decisions, meetings and
adjournments of the boards, together with the
evidence on which such decisions are made; which
books and papers, on the dilution of the boards
shall be transmitted to, and lodged in the office of
the Secretary of State ; and on or before such
clerk entering on the duties of hs office, he shall
take and fubferibe the following oath or affirma
tion t) wit : “I do solemnly swear
(or afbrm)cs the case mav be, that I will truly and
faithfully enter and record all minutes proceedings
and decisions of the board of commissioners for tfe
county of appointed under and by vir
tue of an aft of the United States, entitled ^An
aft regulating the grants of land, and providing
tor the dilpofdl of the lands of the United States
Coach of the state of Tennessee," and well and
faithfully do and perform all other alts and things
in said a&, pointed out as the duty of a clerk of
tne falu boat d," w Inch oath (had be entered 00 the
minutes of the board ; and When it shall appear
to them that the claimant is entitled to a craft of
land under the articles of agreement and cession
with Georgia aforesaid, in virtue of a British or
Spanish grant legally and fully executed,they (ball
give a certificate thereof, describing the trad of
land and grant, and bating that the claimant is
confirmed in his title thereto by virtue if the said
articles; which certificate, being recorded bv the
register el ibeland office, while duty it shall be
to record the famein a book tu be kept by him
for that purpose, shall amount to a relioqulhmeut
forever on the part et the United States to any
claim whatever to such trait of End : and when
it shall appear to the laid commi:lioners that the
claimant is entitled to a tr It cf land by virtue of
a settlement under the Bourbon alt of Georgia
recognized in the Gid articles of agreement and
ce ,°% r ,° f eil ^ r ""' ™° fr ^ Deions of this
ate, th, hnol give a certificate thereof, fiating
the circumdances of the case, and that the claim
ant is entitled to receive a patent for such a traft
of land by virtue of this act ; which certificate
b< mg duly entered with the register of the land
office, on or before ilte firft dav of January,
eigetcen hundred and five, shall etxitle the party
to a patent for the said tract, which shall issue in
like manner as is provided by this act for the other
lands of the United States,without the psrtv paying
any thing therefor, except the (uveying expences
and the fees of office. And when it shall appear
to the said commissioners that the claimant is entit
led to a right of pre-emption by virtue of the third
fegion of this att, they (hall give a certificate
Current prices of per from to
D. c D. c.
Sugar, Weft-India -- 10 0 12 0
Starch, Poland ft) 0 18 0 0
, American -- 0 I2| 017
Sugar, Loaf ftj 021 022
Salt, St. Übes farce H. 6 0 650
, Turk's IPand - - 6 0 0 0
, Liverpool — 5 0 6 0
, Rock -- 0 0 7 0
Steel, German ib 013 0 16
, English — 014 016
Salt Petre, refined -- 034 040
Shot Patent, C. 14 0 0 0
. fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
I do. do. heading -- 26 0 28 0
>}W. O. bbl. — 10 0 12 50
fl R. O. hhd. -- 12 0 13 0
I do. Shooks 066 0 0
(W O. do. 120 130
Tin in fhccts bx. 18 0 27 0
Far B. 35° 4 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 45°
Tea, Hyfon lb. x 50 1 60
, Souchong -- 075 °bo
, Bohea — 032 0 0
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
, Georgia — 550 0 0
Twine, sewing doz. 5 0 55°
^/^ r 5 ° 5 ^
~[Madeira G. 217 2~g
^ I Lisbon farce, — i 5 o o 'o
^ < Sherry, — 142 150
I Malagafarce q.c. 30 o 0 0
(Red Port — j^ 150