The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-03-21 00:00:00, page 4

AQUAKER observed,
that Moses was the
firft of their profeffion, as
he quaked exceedingly. No
fays a bystander, the devil
was the oldest quaker, as
he always trembled.
SEAT of the muses.
T, AR from the noise of worldly Ilrife
, I with to Spend my days ;
There to enjoy a rural life.
And fiag my feeble lays,
There to feled a little foot,
Beside feme ve dant hill, „
Where [might rear a simple cot,
And hear the murmuring rill.
At' this delightful rural place,
Where [ might live at eale ;
X would the works of nature trace,
Where ev'ry feene must please.
My fleeting day, with joy should glide
Without the pompt of life,
My greatest with and highest pride,
To be remov'd from ftrife.
I'd breathe the air of early day
And drink the chryfta! dream,
While warbling birds their joy convey
By Ringing notes serene.
At noon I'd courtthe hawthorn bow'r,
And view the gelid fount ;
Secure from Sol's.all potent pow'rj;
I'd all my joys recount.
When beauteous birds enchant the
grove
By tinging lovely airs,
Throughout the shady woods I'd rove
To find the happy pairs, ~,
When night refum'd her ebon throne,
And Qynthia gave her light ;
I'd then return to happy home !
T'enjoy her lovely fight.
With books I'd pass the eve away,
And then retire to rest ^
Taste balmy deep till coming day,
With sweet repose refrefh'd.
Sometimes with case I'd join the
bands,
And dance along the green,
While rustic nymphs rtioald give
their hands,
And drive away dull spleen.
With joys like these I'd pass my life,
In my fequefter'd cot ;
Remov'd from noise and far from
ftrife,
Contented with my lot.
FLORIO.
the best EPIGRAM
In toe Engli/b Language—so fays the
celebrated Dr, Johnson,
" Dum vidimus —vivamus."
LIVE while you live, the Epicure
would fay, _
And seize the pleasures of the present
. day :
Live while you live, theft cred Prea
cher cries.
And give to GOD each moment as it
flies.
Lord in my view, let both united be !
We live to pleasure. when we live to
thee.
^ Clergyman, in company,
after a repast, at table
aJkedtbe waiter wbat religi
on be was brought up under.
As for that replied the other,
Iwas not brought up at all,
bag came up a-foot, fir.
O''^^
ANECDOTES.
.And be it further enaded. That every
printer of ne^fpapers may fend one
paper to each and every other printer
of newspapers within the U. States,
free of pottage, under such regulations
as thePortmaderGeneral shall provide.
And be it further enacted. That all
newspapers, conveyed in a mail, shall
be under a cover open at one end, car
ried in separate bags from the letters,
and charged with the payment of one
cent, for any distance not more than
one hundred miles, and one cent and a
half for any greater distance — And it
shall be the duty ofthe Formatter-Ge
neral and his deputy, to keep a sepa
rate account for the newspapers, and
the deputy postmasters shall receive
fifty percent on the portage of all news
papers—And if any other matter or
thing be enclosed in such papers, the
whole packet shall be charged, agree
ably to the rates established by this
a&, for letters or packets. And if any
of the persons employed in an, de
partment of the poft-ffice shall unlaw,
fully detain, delay, embezzle or de
stroy any newspaper, with which he
shall be entfufted, such offenders, for
every such offence, shall forfeit a fam
not exceeding fifty dollars: Provided,
That the Poftraafter-General, in any
contrad he may entc? into, for the
conveyance of the mail, may author
ize the person, with whom such con
trad it made, to carry newspapers,
other than those conveyed in the mail.
And be it farther enacted, That the
Poftmarter-General be,and he is here
by authorifed to allow to the deputy
postmasters refpe&ively,fuch commifi
fion on the monies ariling for the port
age of letters and packets, as he shall
think adequate to their refpeftive fer
vi, : Proveded, That the said com
mission shall not exceed forty per cent
to any deputy, whose compensation
thereby shall not exceed fifty dollars,
nor thirty per cent to any deputy,
whose compensation thereby shall not
exceed one hundred dollars,nor twen
ty per cent to any other deputy, ex
cept the postmaster at the port where
the European rackets do, or shall stea
dily arrive : To whom such farther al
lowance, in addition to the emolu
[Concluded from the second page.]
And be it fur ther enabled, That the
following letters and packets, and no
other, shall be received and conveyed
by pest, free of portage,under such re
ftri&ions,as are herein after provided;
that is to fay ; All letters and packets
to or from the President or Vice-Pre
sident of the United States, and all
letters and packets, not exceeding two
ounces in weight, to or from any
member of the Senate, or House of
Representatives, the Secretary of the
Senate, or Clerk of the House of
Representatives, during their actual
attendance in any session of Cpngrefs,
and twenty days after such session. All
letters to and from the Secretary of
the Trefury ,ahd his assistant, Compt
roller,. Register, and Auditor of the
Treasury, the Treasurer, the Secre
tary of State, the Secretary at War,
the Gommiffioners for fettling the ac
counts between the United States and
individual State,, rhe Potlmafler- Ge
neral and his affirtant: Provided,That
no person shall frank, or enclose any
letter or packet, other than his own ;
but any public letter or packet from
the department of the Treasury may
be franked by the Secretary.of the
Treasury or the affiant Secretary, or
by the Comptroller, Register, Auditor
or Trcafarer; and that each person
before named shall deliver to the poft
offee every letter or packet enclosed
to him, which x^v be directed to any
other person, n>Sng the place,
from whence it came by port, and the
ufo4l portage (hall be charged thereon.
And be it further enabled, That if
any person shall counterfeit the hand
writing of any other person, in order
to evade the ptymentof portage ; such
person or persons, io offending,
and being thereof duly convitled,
shall forfeit and pay, for every such of
fence, the sum of one hundred dollars.
meats of bis office, shall be made, as
the Foftmafter-General shall deem a
reasonable compensation for his extra-
Services in the receipt and dispatch of
letters, originally received into his
office, frrsa on board such packets,and
by him foriv^r&d to other offices—
And provided alf, That the compen
fatiohs aforefaid shall not e>{ed eigh
teen hundred dollars per annum to
any one postmaster for all Services by
him rendered.
And he it further enacted. That if
any deputy poftnaßer or other person,
authorized to receive the portage of
letters red packets,fhall negled or re
fufe to render his accounts', and pay
over to the Poftmallcr-General the
balance by him due,at the end of every
three acnihs, it shall be the duty of
the Pa.' rafter-General,to cause afuit
to be commenced against the person
or perfors so neglecting or refuting—•
And if the Pofimafter-General shall
nor cao 4 n such suit to be commenced
within tnree months, from .the end of
ever : ^ch 'bree months, the balances
due non. every such delinquent shall
be cbarged'to, and recoverable from
the Postmaster-General.
, And be it further enacted, That all
pecuniary penalties and forfeitures,
incurred under this aft, /ball be, one
I half for the use of the person or persons
informing,and prosecuting for the
fame, the other half to the use of the
Unitrd.States.fr., ^^ ...
And he it further enacted. That it
Ifhall be lawful far the Poftmafler-Ce
;fteral, to make provision, where it may
;be necessary for the receipt of all let-
I ters and packets intended to be con
; veyed by any ship or^veffel, beyond
; sea, or from any port of the U. States
to another port therein ; and the letters
Io received shall be formed into a mail
sealed up,and directed to the poftmaf
;ter of the port to which such ship or
vert-el ihali be b und. And for every
letter or packet so received.there shall
be paid, at the time it's reception, a
postage of one cent. And the Foft
;mailer-General may make arrange-.
I ments with the postmasters in any so-
Ireign country for the reciprocal receipt
l and delivery of letters and packets,
ithrough the port-offices.
• And be it further enacted. That the
I depty poftmarters,and the persons em
ployed in the tranfportacion elf the
[mail, shall be exempt from militia du
ties,or any fine dr penalty for neglect
thereof. ,'
And he it farther enacted. That all
the surplus-revenue, of the general
port-office, which shall have accrued,
Ito the firft day of June next, not here
;tofore appropriated, be, and thefame
lis hereby appropriated towards de
fraying any deficiency which may a
rise in the revenue of the said depart
ment for the year next ensuing.
And be it further enacted. That the
a& parted the left session of Coagrefs,
intituled "An aft to continue in
force, for a limited time, an ad,
intituled," An aft for the temporary
eftablifoment of the poftoffice," be,
and the fame is hereby continued in
fall force until the firft day of June
next, and no longer:
And be it further enacted, That this
a& shall be in force for the term es
two year from the said firft day of
June next,, and no longer.
Jonathan Trumbull, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
John Anavis,Vice-Pref dent of the U.
States, and President of the Senate.
Approved — Feb. 23d 1792.
George Washington,
Prefdent of the United States.
Deposited among theßolls intheOffice
of the Secretary of State.
Thomas Jefferson,
Secretary of State.
fuf Publijbed,
By Mess. George&Joh n Osborne,
And for sale at this Office,
OBSERVATIONS occasioned by
Writngs against Alterations,
proposed in the CONVENTION, to
be made in the -JUDICIARY SYS
TEM—„a Member tfthe Convention.
Ift. The certificate given by the
state, fpecifying that the perlon pos
sessing the fame is in fad an invalid,
and afeertaining the sum to which at
such he is annually entitled. .
zJ. An affidavit, agreeably to the
following form:
A. B. came before me, one of the
Justices of the county of in the
date of . and made ca+h that he
is the fame A. B. to whom the origin
nal certificate in his possession was
given,of which the following h a copy
(the certificate given by the Rate to be
recited) That he served (regiment,
corps or vessel). at the time he was
disabled, and that he now resides iri
the and county of and has re
sided there for the last years, pre
vious to which he redded ia
In case an invalid fhoold apply for
payment by an attorney, the said at
torney, besides the certificate andoath
before recited, must produce a special
letter of an attorney agreeably to the
following form:
I, A. B. of county of state
of do hereby conftitrite arid appoint
C. D. of my lawful attorney, to
receive in my behalf of my pen
sion, for fix months, as an invalid of
the United States, from the fourth day
of September,one thoofand seven hun
dred and ninety-one, and ending the
fourth day of March, one thousand fc
ven hundred and ninety-two.
Signed and sealed
in the presence of
} Witnesses.
Acknowledged before me,
Application of executorsand admi
nistrators must be accompanied with
legal evidence of their refpeaiveof
fices, and also of the time the invalids
died, whose pension they may claim.
By command of the Prefideat of the
United States.
H. KNOX, Secretary of War,
Five Dollars Reward..
QTRAYED or
) ftclen, from
'''°"° °' "'
f'" °' c r i° er >° n th e
HIT -71 night cf the 16th
infant a black
MARE, with a small star on her fore
head, one white hitd foot, and one
hip lower than the other, 13 years
old, trots and paces. Alfo —
A dark brown COLT, with
a star on her forehead, a white spot
on her uofe, three while feet, trots all,
about nine months old. Whoever
will return them to the fubfcriber>,hall
receive the above reward.
i JOSIAH SHAW.
Hampton Feb, 27, 1792.
If Are NOTICE—--
ALL persons are hereby
d 1 cautioned against purchasing of
Abraham Silver/ of Cbefer,
a note for . Seventy Five Pounds, ffgned
by the fubferi her) it being delivered him
en certain conditions which be has not
complied with.•
Stephen Hills.
Cheffer, FeLiq., 1792-^.
A CL persons are hereby
' -A cautioned against purchasing of
Joseph Gordon, of Exeter, cord
wainer, a note for seventy fillings
ondfeven pence, signed by me, as ic
was fraudulently obtained—and fam
determined not to pay it.
Daniel Smith.
K%fon\ Feb, to, 1792.
WAR DEPARTMENTS
: 1 . 'JANUARY 2, 17,2,
Information is hereby
A given to all the military invalids
of the United State*,^hat the sums to
which they are entitled for fix months
of their annual penlion, from the 4th
day of September, 1791, and which
will become due on the sth day of
March, 1792, wil!& paid on the said
day by theCommiffioners of the Loans
within the states refpeaively, under
the ufaal regulations, viz. •
Every application for payment muff
be accompanied by the following
vouchers.