The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1793-01-30 00:00:00, page 1

t Newhampfhire
■ WEDNESDAY, January 30, 1793.]
In the year of our LORD, one thousand,
Jeven hundred and ninety.two.
*' '* An AR, in addition to an A3,
(L. S.) entitled "An Aftfor the pun
^, h ijhment of certain crimes lot
capital.
Whereas larcenies are frequent, and the
guilty escape with little puuijhment,
without making recommence ; not
withjlanding the laws now in force :
THEREFORE,
BE it enaAed by the Senate and House
of Re^ejentatives in General-Court
convened, That whensoever any per
son by due course oflaw, shall be here
after convicted of dealing any Horse or
Horses, Mule or Males, neat Cattle or
Sheep, every fach person shall be mark
ed with a line of India Ink, well and
deeply inferred above the Eye-brows,
from the hair of the Temples on the
one fide, to the hairof the Temples on
the other fide of the Forehead, and by a
line in the fame manner inferred from
the centre of the line aforefaid to the
tend of the Nose on the mod prominent
part thereof, on the firft convidion ;
and for dealing any other personal pro
perty, shall be marked in like manner
C 8 the second convidion And every
fach person shall remain in custody, not
exceeding thirtyuays,till the faidmarks
are well and effedually fixed, and shall
be liable to be marked again in case by
any means he shall rub out or efface
the fame. And the Sheriff of each
County shall make,or cause to be made,
the marks aforefaid as soon as con
veniently may be after conviction,
and shall receive therefor out of the
County Treasury where the conviction
shall be, the turn of fix (hillings for
marking each convict as aforefaid.
And any person's having been before
convicted of Theft in any part of the
United States of America, shall be
deemed a firft conviction within the
intentof this A#. And any person to
whom one convifted of stealing, is pot
to service to make fatisfadion, may in
any manner, without cruelty, chain or
wherwife (hackle or confine in the pub
lic Gaols or eifewhere, such convict in
service, in fach manner as may be ne
teffary for his performing, from day to
day, the talk or labour enjoined on him.
Nevertheless, if the cost and treble
damages be paid, it shall be in the
power of the Court before whom the
conviQion shall be, to remit the punish
ment in this additional Act provided ;
but the person so convifted shall be lia
ble to the fame punishment on the nertt
conviction, which shall not be remit
ted.
And be it further enafled, That where
cny person shall have been convicted
and marked as aforefaid, in all, or any
subsequent conviction, he shall receive
the additional puniihmentof whipping
no; exceeding one hundred firipes, and
be fee on the Gallows with a rope
obout his neck not exceeding two huurs
But no judgment before a Justice
of the Peace on ^charge of theft, (hall
be deemed a conviaion within the
meaning of this ACt, nor shall any
thing herein repeal any former ACt.
And be it further enadled, That if any
perlon convicted of dealing in any
case, shall be unable to pay the cost
^d charges of bringing him to con-
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Thief ?13.
EXETE R, (New-Hampfoire) Printed by HENRY RANLET.
The widows and orphans cbmpen
fatian Bill was again difeuffed,amend
ed, and ordered to be engrolled for a
third reading.
Mr. Ames brought in a report on
the petition of Joseph Henderson, for
merly of the Eastern-Navy-board :
It goes to a partial grant of his claim.
A Bill for afeertaining the claims
of Lewis Gerungay ; the Copper-
Coinage Bill—and a Bill for compen
sating Udney Hay,were read the third
time and puffed the house.
Mr. Sedgwick reported a bill for
comp^nfaring John Tucker, Clerk of
the Supreme Court of the United
States.
A report from the Secretary of State,
communicating a lift of the Clerks in
his office, &c. was read.
On motion of Mr. Gerry, the me
morials of the officers of the Massachu
setts, Pennsylvania, New-York, New-
Hampshire,and Maryland lines of the
late army, was referred to a commit
tee of the whole, and made the order
of the day for next Monday week.
THURSDAY, JAN.J.
A Bill to regulate the claims of in
valid per.boners, was read twice, and
committed.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2.
SEVERAL petitions, as ulual, were
read and disposed of.
Mr. Steele's motion for reducing
the military establishment to two re
giments,was debated a long time, but
no question was taken thereon.
The Bill for the relief of the widows
of those persons who fell in the'fervice
of the United States, whilst anting un
der flags of truce with the Indians,
was difeuffed ; and partly gone though
with.
A report from the Secretary at
War, enclosing a lift of the several
persons employed in the Department
of War,with the salaries allowed each,
was received, and read.
The Bill for the relief of the wid
ows, &c. of certain persons killed by
the Indians, was difeuffed, amended,
and laid on the table.
The motion for reducing the mili
tary establishment of the United
States, was again debated, but no de
cdton was had thereon.
vision, or shall escape, the fame being
unpaid, said cost and charges shall
be paid out of the County Treasury
where such conviction shall be, at foch
rcafonable rate as the Court of General
Demons of the Peace shall order. —~
In the House ofiß epresen tat I ves,
Dec. 13th, 1792.
This bill having had three several
readings puffed to be enacted.
. S*nt up for concurrence.
John Samuel Shekburne, S^rahr.
In Senate, Dec. 18% 1792.
This bill having been read a third
time, voted that the lame be enabled.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, Prefant.
A true copy—Attest,
/Joseph Pearson, Sec'ry.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
CONGRESS.
ORDER OF THS DAY.
FRIDAY, JAN. 4.
THE
In committee of the whole, on the
bill to regulate claims to invalid pen
fiooers. Mr. Dayton in the chair.
The motion of Mr. Venable for in
validating the proceedings of the
judges, pursuant to the law passed last
session, was difeuffed. Mr. Giles
called for the reading of all the repre
fen:ations relative to the law,received
from the judges the last winter. A
lengthy debate ensued on this motion,
in which the conftrudion put on the
above law by theju^ges, was critically
difeuffed until after three o'clock.
The committee arbfe without taking
a vote, and the chairman reported
progress.— Adjourned•
1 If WASHINGTON goes to France,
cveiy TYRANT will soon quit it!!!
Making provision for the lupport of
government for the year 1793, was re
ported, by a feled committee, read
twice, in committee of the whole,
and reported without amendment.
MONDAY, Jan. 7.
A Bill refpeding the inhabitants of
Port St. Vincennes, was read twice,
and committed.
A NEW APPROPRIATION BILL,
A statement of the several loans
.made by the Executive of the United
States, with the appropriations of
the fame, was received, and ordered
to he printed.
TUfaJealid Pensioners Bill was a
gain difeuffed, but no order was taken
thereon.
Id committee of the whole, the
motion for this parpofe, was again
debated, and various modifications
thereof, were propoled, and negatived
—after which the original motion, as
moved by Mr. Steele, was put and
negatived, only 21 members riling in
favour of it. The Committee then
role, and the chairman repotted ac
cordingly.
LONDON, Sep. 21.
WE have authority to assure our
readers, that a very flattering
invitation has been sent from France
to General Washington, to take
the command in chief of its patriotick
army. We have no less confidence
in declaring, thatif another compa^gn
is had in Fr^c^, this renowned soldier
will make it against the Most of insol
ent foes now confederated to destroy
the liberties of mankind, and those
principles which have rendered Amer,
tea more valuable than all the rest of
the Globe. If that faviour of his
country, and giver of freedom,accepts
the call, he is to form a part of his
Ikff from some of his old brother of
ficers.
We expect every day to hear that
Congreft iwill deliberate on the. pro
priety of assisting France, as also to
what amount.
Petitions from William Seymour,
the merchants of the city of Hudson,
Gabriel Alien, Nicholas Veiglend,
Jonis Stevens, and others, on local
subj&, weie read, and variously dif
pefeiicf.
The widows and Orphans compen
fatim Bill, was read a third time, and
pallid.
REDUCTION OF MILITARY ES
TABLISHMENT.
SATURDAY, JAN. 5.
Gazetteer
[Numb. XXX of Volume VII.
T^E various principalities, which
belong to this division of Europe, arc
generally opposed to the progress of
liberty ; and if ecclesiastical anathemas
or plenary indulgencies can effea
ought to annihilate the Rights of Man,
their fpecihc virtues, no doubt, will
have the faireft trial. The merits of
the Roman Pontiff, as Bilhop of th*
Church of Rome, we are not disposed
to dispute ; and so long as he confines
himfelf to regulate the conclave, or
create Cardinals, let him be applauded
by those who are attached to the Papal
Religion : But the very moment, that
he consecrates standards which are to
be crimsoned with human blood, pro
nounces the non-apostolic benedidion
on diabolic artillery, or delivers over
to his infernal Highness the fouls of
men, we are necefliated to believe,that
he very illy imitates his father St. Pe
ter ; and he mutt pardon even ortho
doxy itfelf, for capturing the croft of
the Holy See, fileucing the guns of
the vatican, and liberating his
spiritual prisoners from purgatorial
chains. The temporal Princes of It
aly, his dear and-beloved children
have adopted an excellent method to
work out their political ruin : The fal
vatory powers of the Pope will very
soon be demanded; to extricate his
Sardinian Majesty from unforeseen
difficulties : And his favourite Cardi
nal Maury, who preached before Lou
is XV. from these words, "Yet forty
days and Nineveh shall be defiroyed,"
may live to fee the accomplishment
of his text, and be obliged to cry out,
'Babylon is fallen.' A late writer on
the Revelations, conjedures that the
Pope and his adherents are to be ut
terly burnt with fire : We credit his
denunciations as truth, if he will only
admit, that the blaze of reason, and
the flame of freedom are defined for
the destroyers of ecclesiastical tyran
ny. Fires which in their own na
ture are more powerful than any ma
terial element of which we have cog
nizance, for ihefe divide asunder
ty'hurch and State, and flatter their
Babel builders on plains more extensive
than those of Shinar, nor leave a little
Zoar for the refuge of fuperftitiou and
bigotry.
DENMARK.
AMID those political colvulfions,
which agitate the neighbouring
Potentants, Denmark has hitherto pre
served an ostensible tranquility. The
most celebrated edid which has adorn
ed their annals,is the decreed abolition
of African slavery, which takes place.
A. D. 1802. May all the powers of
Europe, who have had any concern in
this abominable traffic, take pattern
from Denmark, and whilst they ac
knowledge, that she is worthy of imi
tation, copy the philanthropic exam
ple, and receive that tribute of praise,
which the friends of humanity pant to
bellow.
IT is a melancholy observation, and
nevertheless true, that countries which
owe their political existence to free
dom, in time degenerate from the
very principles of Liberty ; and i<
POLITICAL REVIEW.
(Continued from our las.)
SWITZERLAND.
ITALY.