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Newhampfhire
CONGRESS ofthe UNITED STATES:
THIRD SESSION.
Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia,
on Monday the sixth of December, one
thoujand Jeven hundred and ninety.
An ACT fupplementory tothe
A<st making provision for
the reduction of the Pub-
lic debt.
WHERE AS it bath been made
known to Congress that the Pre
sident of the United States in consequence
of " An Aft making provision for the
reduction of the public debt," hath caus
ed a certain loan to be made in Holland,
On account of the United States,to the a
mount of three millions of florins, bear-
ing an interest of five per centum per
annum, and reimhurfable in fix yearly
inftalmen^, commencing in the year one
thousand eight bundled, and ending in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
fix, or at any time sooner in whole or in
part, at the option of the United States.
And whereas it hath been also dated
to Congress, that the charges upon the
Aid loan have amounted to four and a
half per cen cm, whereby a doubt hath
arisen, whether the said loan be within
the meaning of the said lad mentioned
act which limits the rate of interest to
five per centum pet annum ;
And whereat it is expedient that the
said doub: be removed ;
BE it cnaded by the Senate and House
of Reprejentattves of the United States
of America, tn Congress assembled.. That
the loan aforefaid shall be deemed and
construed to oe within the true intent and
meaning of the said a&, intituled" An
act making provision for the reduction of
the public deb.,' and that any farther
loan,, to the .extend of the principal sum
authorized to be borrowed by the laid aft,
the inierelt whereof lha|l be five per cen
tum per annum, and 'tie charges where
of shall not exceed the said rate of four
and a half per centum, fhai in like man
ner be deemed and construed to be with
in the true intent and meaning of the
said ad.
Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
DUTIES payable on GOODS
imported into the United
States of America.
By Ad of Congress, July 4, 1790.
, CENTS.
Ale, beer or porter, in calks, per
ga110n,. 5
Ale, beer or porter in bottles, per.
doz. - 20
Anchors, 71 per cent.
Annifeed, 10 per cent.
Blank books, 10 per cent.
Boots, per pair, §0
Bricks, 10 per cent.
Brushes, 71 per cent.
Buckles, 10 per cent.
Buttons, all 7% per cent.
Cabinet wares,. 7| per cent.
Candles, of tallow, per lb. 2
- —wax or fpermaceti, 6
Cables, per cwt. 100
Canes, walking sticks, and whips,
7; per cent.
Cambricks, 74 per cent.
Capers, currants, cloves, comfits,
cinnamon, 10 per cent.
Carriages, coach, chariot, phaetons,
chaise, folb, and parts thereof,
ig per cent.
Cards, wool & cotton, per doz. 50
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office
of the Secretary cf S ate.
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Secretary of State.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Pr fident of the
Approved, March the third, 1791, ,
SATURDAY, April 23, 1791.]
U. States, and President of the Senate.
EXETER, (New-Hampfare) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
G. WASHINGTON,
President of the United States.
playing, per pack, 10
Carpets and carpeting,
71 per cent.
Cheese per pound, 4
Chintzes and callicoes, coloured,
72 per cent.
Cloathing, ready made,
7 1-2 percent.
Clocks & watches, 10 do.
Coal, per bushel, - - 3
Cocoa, per pound, - -1
Coffee, per pound, - - , 4
Cordage, tarred, per cwt. - 100
untarred, and yarn, per
. cwt. , - - 150
Cotton, per pound, -2
Dates, 10 per cent.
Drugs, (except dyes)
7 1-2 per cent,
Figs, 10 per cent.
Gauzes, 7 1-2 per cent.
Ginger, 10 per cent.
Glass, looking, window, and other
glass, except quart bottles,
12 i-zper cent.
Gunpowder, 10 per cent.
Gloves of leather, 7 1-2 do.
Groceries, except enumerated,
~ 10 per rent.
Hats, of beaver, fur, wucl, or mix
ture of either, 7 1 2 per cent.
Hemp, per hundred wt. - 54
Jewelry and paste-work,
10 per cent.
Indigo, par pound, 25
Iron callings, flit and rolled
7 1-2 per cent.
Lawns ^nd laces, 7 1-2 co
Lace, gold & silver, 10 do^
Lampblack, 10 do.
Lead, per pound, - -. I
Leather, tanned or tawed, and ma
nufactures (chiefly on val.) of
leather not otherwise rated,
7 1-2 per cent.
Lemons and limes, 10 do,
Mace, 10 de.
Malt, per bushel,, - - 10
Marble wares, 10 per cent.
Medicines,except dye,, 7 i-zdo.
Millenary,ready made, 7 i-2do.
Molasses, per gallon, 3
M hard in flour, 10 per cent.
Muffins and Muflinets,
71-2 per cent. b
Nails or spikes, per lb.l
Nankins, 7 1-2 per cent.
Nutmegs, 10 per cent.
Olives, oil, oranges, pickles,
jo per cent.
Pack-thread or twine, per cwt. 300
Painters colours, except dyes,
10 per cent.
Paper, writing or wraping, paper
hangings and pasteboard,
10 per cent.
Parchments & vellum, 10 do.r
Pepper, per pound,6
Pictures & prints, 10 per cent.
Pimenta, per pound, 4
Plumbs & prunes, 10 per cent.
Raisins, jo per cent.
Saddles, ~.7 1-2 per cent.
Salt, per bushel, 12
Shoes, flippers or golofhoes, of lea
ther, per pair, : .7
Shoes or flippers, of silk or fluff, 10
Soap, per pound, 2
Silks and satins, wrought,
71-2 per cent.
Snuff, per pound, , io
DISTILLED SPIRITS.
More than io per cent, below proof,
per gallon, ...,. 12
sto 10 below proof, per gallon, 12 1-2
Proof and not more than 5 below
proof, per gallon. 13
Above, not exceeding 20 per cent.
per gallon,ls
20 to 40, per gall. • 20
40, per gallon, 25
Solo carriages, 15 per cent.
Steel unwrooght, per cwt. 75;
Sugars, brown, per pound, 1 12
all others, per pound, 21-2
candy, 10 per cent.
Teas, from China or India, in ships
of the United States.
Bobea, per po^nd, 10
c &ii^
Tto
——Souchong, or other black, 18
Other green, per pound, 20
From Europe, in ships as above.
Teas, Bohea, per pound, 12
Souchong, or other black, 21
Hyfon, per pound, 46
Other green, per pound, 24
All teas in any other manner.
Teas, Bohea, per pound, j§
Souchong or other black, 27
.Hyfon, per pound, 50
Ocher green, per pound, 30
All goods, except teas, from China,
or Inia, in ships not of the United
States as before mentioned, ad
valorem, 12 1-2 per cent.
Tables, tiles, 10 per cent,
Tobacco, manufactured, per lb. . 6
Velvets and velverets, 7 1-2 p. cent,
Ware, earthen, china, done and
slate, 10 per. cent.
Ware, gold, silver and plated.
Gocul had been confined to his room
about a fortnight by a fever and flux ;
I frequently visited him in that time, but
did not apprehend his dissolution was so
near, till last Tuefday morning, the 20th
inst. when fending to enquire after his
health, my servant informed me he was
removed from his own house to the banks
of a creek that runs from Collyghaut (a
place held sacred by the Hindoos, and
where the water is taken up that is used
in administering oaths to Hindoos in and
about Calcutta) into the river Ganges,
as you know is customary with them, in
order to die in or near that river, or some
creek that runs into it. At about nine
o'clock in the evening of that day I went
to fee him, where he lay on a Fly Palan
quin in a boat in that creek. His fer
vang told me he could hear but was not
7 1-2 per cent.
On all other goods, at the time and
place of importation, on the value there
of, § per cent.—Ten per cent, more for
duties if in vessels not of the United
States, except where additional duty on
fach goods.—Except the following arti
cles, exempted from duty, viz. Salt
petre, tin in pigs, tin plates, old pew
ter, brass, iron and brass wire, copper in
plates, wool, dying woods,, and dying
drugs, raw hides and ftins,undreffed furs,
Billions, tutenag, plainer of Paris, fea
ttores of vessels, cloths, books, furniture
a d tools cf persons coming to reside here,
Philosophical apparatus for feminarics,
goons to be exported to foreign places in
some vessels, and all articles of growth,
produce or manufactures of the United
States. Goods ad valorem, to be va
lued by adding 20 per cent, to the actual
coff, if from the Cape of Good Hope, or
beyond, & 10 per cent, from any other
place.
London, particular, per gall, 35
Other Madeira, per gallon, 30
Sherry Wine, per gall. ?<
Other wine, per gall. , 20
Wares, tin, pewter, and copper.
From Dunlap's American Daily
Advertiser.
(Printed at Philadelphia.)
A particular account relative to an Hin
doo Woman's burning herjelf alive with
het deceased HuJbana'.
[Taken from an authentic Letter, dated
Calcutta, July 25, 1489.]
Gocul chunres gosaul,a
Bramin of fuperiour cast, whole
character as a merchant and a man of in
tegrity was very refpedable among Eu
ropeans, and exceedingly so with every
native who had any knowledge of him ;
for he maintained a great many poor dai-.
ly at his house, and in the neighbourhood
where he lived ; and he extended his ge
nerosity to many Europeans, by lending
them money, when in distress—was Go
vernour Verelft's Banian ; and from that
circumstance, I believe, you can confirm
all I have advanced in Gocul's favour.
10 per cent,
Madeira Wine.
Gazetteer.
[Numb. 38 of Volume
able to. speak to any body. I went neat
him and called to him by name ; he knew
my voice, turned about, and held out his
hand to me ; 1 took hold of it, and found
it very cold ; he pressed mine, and laid
he was obliged to rae for coming to fee
him. I told him he would get his death
by lying exposed, without covering (for
he was naked to his hips) to the moist
air this rainy season, close to 2 nasty mud
dy bank : he said. he wished to be cold,
for that he was then burning with heat
(altho' his hand, as obferyed before, was
very cold.) I then put roy hard to his
forehead, which was also very cold ; fti!l
he infilled that he was burning with heat.
I begged him to allow me to order him
to be carried back to his own house ; he
shook his head, but said nothing in an
swer. I repeated the>requeft, but he
shook his head again without faying a
word. I did not imagine such a pro
position would be attended to, because it
is an invariable custom, you know, a,
mong the Hindoos, when given over by
their doctors, to be removed to the banks
of the Ganges, or some creek that runs
into ic, which they have a very faperfti,
tious veneration for.; and I have heard,
that if a Hindoo dies in his own houle,
it is razed to the ground. Gocul's is a
very large house, and such a circumstance
would consequently be a great detriment
to the estate. ! staid about a quarter of
an hour with him. On coming away,
he repeated his obligations to me for the
visits I paid him during his illness, and
tor my attention to him at that time in
particular, and pressed my hand very
hard at parting for he was perfectly sen
sible „ and I believe, if proper care had
been taken of him, it was in the power
of medicine to have restored his health.
There were a vast number of Bramins
reading, and prating near him. Early
the next morning I sent my servant to
aik how ne, was ; he brought me for an
f*er, that Gocul was in the fare state as
when I left him the proceeding night ;
and whilst I was at breakfaft, one of his
dependents came to tell me he was dead.
I went to fee him soon after, and found
him covered with a sheet. f then en
quired if either of his wives (for he had
two) would burn with him ; no body
there could inform me. I desired one of
his dependents to let me know if either
of them resolved to burn, that I might be
present ; this was about eight o'clock
last Wednesday morning. At ten o'clock
the corps was carried to Collighant, a
little village about .a mile higher up the
creek, and about two miles and an half
from Calcutta. Between twelve and one
o'clock, the fame day, Mr. Shakefpear,
who had an esteem for Gocul, whose ne
phew Joynerain Gofaul, is Mr. Shake
fpear's Banian, called on me to let me
know that Gocul's firft wife Tarryael,
was resolved to burn. We accordingly
went together, and reached Collyhaut in
time, where Gocul, lay on a pile of san
dal wood and dry straw, about four feet
from the ground, on the banks of the
creek, as naked as when I saw him the
night before. His wife, we were told,
was praying, on the edge of the creek,
where we were informed her children
(two.boys and one girl, one of the boys
seven years, the . other five, and the girl
thirteen months old) were present wi h
her and : Kidenchurn, Gocul's. eldest
brother : that at firft fight of her children,
the Hrang ties of human nature, strug
gling with her resolution, drew a tear
from her ; but (he soon recovered herfelf.
and told her children their father was
dead, and that the was going to die with
him ; that they must look up to their un
cle, pointing to Kiftenchurn, who with
his son Joynerain before mentioned,
would be both father and mother to them
—and that they mutt therefore obey them
in the fame manner as they would Gocul
and herfelf if living. Then turning to
Kiftenchurn, she enjoined him, and re
commended him to enjoin Joynerain,
(who was then at Dacca) to be fathers
and protestors to her children, and CClU
mitted them to their care#