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Pounds per Centum, per A mum and regulated by
the aforefaid Compilation, and redeemable within
fevea Years after the.fame shall be emitted by anAQ
of this or any future General Assembly of this S.ate.,
That all bills of the common Currency as aforefaidj
Which shall be depofi ed or loaned to this State a
grceable to this A&, shill be exempted from any
kind of Tax, until the Morito therefor shall be re
funded and paid. That the Faith of this State be,
and the fame is hereby plighted to fulfil' the afore
laid Engagement; and that seasonable Provifiuns
flrail be made to discharge the fame.
And whereas the Blls of public Credit which are
ordered to be emitted by Virtue of this Aft are
founded upon the most indubitable Principles of pub
lic Credit, and ought to be regarded accordingly.
Be it therefore ena&ed by the Authority aforesaid;
That all Bills of public Credit which shall be emit
ted by this Aft, fhtll be received in Payment of all
Salaries,F.es, and Rewards for Services within this
State, as the fame was eftabl fh?d by Law in the
Year 17,4 ; and that no Quarter- Matter, Commis
sary, or other Person employed to purchase any Ar
ticles for the Army, Navy, or Troops of this State,
or to hire any Service on a public Account, (hill
give in said Bills ordered to be emitted by this Aft,
more therefor than the fame could be purchased.
hired or engaged for were the fame paid for in Gold
or Silver a? aforefaid. Aid if any Quarter Master,
Comm ffaiy or other Person employed as aforefaid,
shall knowingly give more for any Parchafe, Hire or
Service, than the fame might have been obtained for
in Gold or Silver Coin, according to the aforefaid
Computations, he shall forfeit to the amount of the
Sums which he fhril expend in Violation of this
A&, and shall also forfeit the Sum of One Hundred
Pounds in Bills of public Credit, which Ihall be
issued by this A&, or the like Sum in Gold or Silver
as aforefaid j to be recovered by Bill, Plaint, or In
formation.
And whereas it is apprehend that there may be
feme lurking Villains and Traitors in this State, who
under the Maik of Friendship are by a dark, infidu
ous, and deferable Condu&, endeavouring to de
feat every public Measure. however just and necef
fery for the Establishment of the Liberties of the
County ; incited by those vile Motives, they may
endeavour, by offering exorbitant Prices in Gold or
Silver, or in Bills ordered by this A& to be emit
ted, for Articles and Services wanted for the Public,
fa as to occasion io a very unnecessary Manner, the
Prices of Things totife, with a View to diArefs the
Public..
Be it therefore enabled by the Authority aforefaid,
That if any Person within this State shall so condua,
either by offering or giving excessive and unneceffa
ry Prices for any Article or Service, either in Gold
or Silver or in Bills ordered to be emitted by this
A& or in any other Manner as shall afford a reason
able Proof to that Court who shall have Cognizance
of his Offence, that his Design and Intention wag to
defeat in any Degree, the Benefit which this State
ought and has a right to cxpe& for the use cf their
public Credit, as aforefaid, every such Offender shall
upon Conviction before that Court who shall have
legal Cognizance and Trial ofhis Offence, be fen
fenced to pay such Fine as they shall judge reasona
ble, and he shall also be imprisoned for a Term not
more than three Years.
And be it further enacted by the Authority afore
Aid, That Jabez Hamlin, George Wyllys, Elfha
Williams, John Chefler and Benjamin Payne, Efqi's.
be a Committee to cause said Bills ordered to be emit
ted by this A&, to be imprinted, ard that any two
of tie, sign the fame , which Bills shall confil of
various Denominations from Nine Pence to Forty
Shillings, according to the Dfcretion of said Com
mitres : Which Bills as faft as they are signed, shall
be by said Committee delivered to the Treasurer of
this State, who shall eivehis Receipt therefor, and
shall from Time to Time deliver out the fame as he
shall be ordered according to Law.
And the said Committee are also hereby direaed
to prepare a Efficient Number of suitable Bank Notes,
properly indented, and deliver the fame to the Slate
Tteafa% taking his Receipt therefor; which Bank
Notes shall be regularly filled up by the Treasurer,
and finned by irm and shall iffae and be deliver
ed to such Pk so is as fhril depofi; or loan Bills of the
common Currency, agreeably to this Aft. And
when Payment cf said Bank Notes Bull be made ac
cording to ths A& such Payments shall be made
to the P..fcffm cf such Bank Notes. And the
"v^fo/er of this S'ate is hereby dirtied to make
frit Entries cfbe Sums and Persons from whom
freh Brito were borrowed, and not difpefe the e'>f
but as he fhril be efptcially dirtied by the General
Assembly of t^c S-ate.
And it is further enaAed, That for the Relief cf
the I .decent who are unable to pay their Proporti-
ons of the three left Taxes granted and laid by this
A&, the Civil Authority and Select men of the seve
ral Towns are authorized and directed to abate either
in whole or in part of the Rites cf such of the In
habitants of their refps&ve Towns as they shall
judge Hand in greeted need cf such Abatements, to
the amount of one twentieth Part of such Town's
Proportion of fuch.Tax or Taxes, and lodge a Lift
cf such Abatements with the Town Clerk cf such
Towns refpe&:vely b and deliver a Copy thereof to
the Collectors of such Tax or Taxes ; and the said
CoHedm shall be allowed. Credit for said Abate
ments in their Settlement with the Treasurer.
An Act for repealing an A&, entitled, An A& for
fopporting the Credit and Currency of the Bills cf
Credit, emitted and made current by the Congress
of the United States of America, and the Bills of
public Credit, of this State, and for the furtherance
and promoting commutative Ju&ce.
BE it enacted by the Governor, Council, and
Rrprefentatives, in General Court afcmbled,
ano by the Authority of the fame, Thht the said A&,
entitled as aforefaid, be; and the fame is hereby re
pealed, and made null and void.
Be it farther ena&ed by the Authority aforefaid,
That the Bills of Credit heretofore emitted by the
Aithority of Congress, or of the General Assembly
of this State, shall be a legal Tender as Money in all
Prym:nb within this State, accordin, to their current
Value, having regard as well to the Time of making
all ContraAs as to the Time of rendering Judgment ;-
to which all Courts within this State, in their ref
peAive Jurifdiaions, are to conform themselves.
Provided neveriheteft, That the Brils of Credit
heretofore emitted by the United St t^, shall remain
a legal Tender at the nominal Value, to answer all
Debts due from the Inhabitants of this Sfati to their
Creditors in other States, until such Time as the
State or Sates to which such Creditors belong shall
make fimil&Laws to promote equal Justice.
BOSTON, March 20.'
Extrafl of a letter from Newbury. Port,
. March 14, 1780.
" I understand from some French Gazettes,
that Count D'Eftaing has arrived in France ;
that the BritiJh have taken off the prohibition
upon the Irijh Trade ; and from Mr. Guar
doca's letter, that a Bririfo squadron under
Admiral Rodney, confining tf24 Ships, have
thrown in fuccours into the garrison of Gibral
ter, after an obstinate Engagement with a
much inferior Spanish Squadron, in which the
latter, confining of 6 Ships of the Line, did
Wonders, according to the Reports from Spain,
in defraying an equal Number of British to
their whole Squadron, andyet getting off with
theirs, though three Ships were fo.difabled, as
to be unfit for Repairs."
HARTFOR D, March 28.
The Privateer Ship Recovery, commanded
by Capt. Smedley, has taken andfent into Ne
w a Sloop from St. Kitts, loaden with
Rum.
The Privateer Brig Le Defpencer, Michael
Melally, commander, from New-London, is
taken by a Frigate, and carried into New-
Tork.
We are informed that a few days'ago, a par
ty of the enemy, conffling of about 600, from
St. Johns, had advanced as far as Skeenfbo
rough, and defrayed some Iron Works, Mills,
&c. And that a number of Militia, under the
command of Col. Herrick, were gone in pursuit
of them.
A few Days ago was sent into Newport, by
the Letter of Marque Sloop Retalliation, Capt.
Whittelfo, of Say-Brook, a large Brig, laden
with Oats, &c. She failed from Ireland with
a Fleet cf VifluaVers, for New York, and had
been 11 Weeks cut.
TO BE SOLD.
A Very likely well limb'd N EGRO B OY,
*bcut 15 years cf a^e, capable of any business
ibata boy of his age is capable cf ; remarkable for
firenqth, is mefl tried to hoofc woik &c. Enquire
of D„ William Jepfea of Hartford, or the Printers.
NOTIFICATION.
BY order of the Proprietor'^ Mr ting th^ fabicri
ber is direßed 0 take this method to notify the
Proprietors of New Canaan, in the county cf Alba
ny, and Sea eof New York ?yp>ir at th? boufe
of Solomon Deming in said New Cihaan, on Wel
nefday the third day of May nex^ wo o'clock af
ternoon, at which time arid plide ther iwill be ex^
posed to sale a' public vendue, for pall char 1% a
Lot of Land lying in hid New Cina^ >, known by
the name of public lot, unless force othur mode is
adopted whereby hid charges may be cancelled, and
do all other bufinefi thought necessary to b: done
on said day,'
JONATHAN WARNER P.op Clerk,
New Canaan, March 16, 1,80.
THE fubferibers being appointed by the hon.
the judge of probate for the county of Li+ch
field,commiffioners to receive and examine the claims,
of the several creditors cf Michael Chapman; late of
Litchfield in said county deceased, whose estate i#
represented insolvent; hereby give notice that they
'fhall attend.that bufinpfs at the duelling house of
Capt. Alexander Waugh, in said Litchfield, on the
second Thursday of April next, and on the firft
Thursday of May next, at two o'clock in the after
noon on said days.
Alexander Waugh; ,
Samuel Jackson, . !Commiffioners.
Amos Frisbib, j
Litchfield, March 20. 1780, .
HartfordT^TNbircrtfo:
LAST night made his escape from the goal in thia
place, pne BENJAMIN HICKQX a Tory
Pfrioner; is a middling fizid man, about 45 years
old, had on a light coloured furtout, old bever hat,.
leather breeches and tailed wig. Whoever will take
up said Prisoner and confine him in this, or any other
goal in this flatty shall have one hundred dollars re
ward and reafjaable charges paid, by
EZ'l. WILLIAMS, Sheriff.
N. B. He has a family at Braintree; in Boston
S'ate. and likely he has gone that way.
SOLD, " '-
By MOSES MORS E,
About 30 rods north of the Court Hotife, Hartford,
GOOD Jamaica Spirit, Wefl India Rum by the
Hhd. Birrel or finale Gallon. Sugar, Tea,
Alifpice, Chocolate, Snuff the best of Indigo and
Chapel Needles. Sewing Silk. Also, a large quan
tity of Leather Breeches and Deer Skins, which
may be bought very cheap for Continental or Hard
Money or Wheat, if applied for soon.
Hartford, March 28^ 1780.
State of Vermont, ) Rockingham,
Cumberland County. J March 18, 1780.
WHEREAS application hath been made to me
the fubferiber one of the Justices of the Pcac&
in and fjr said county, by more than one sixteenth
part es the proprietors of the townffip of Bridgwa
ter, in said county, to warn a meeting cf the propri
etors of said townffiip. These are therefore to warn
said proprietors to meet at the dwelling house of
Capt. Strong, innholder in the town of Woodcock
in said county, on the 9th day of May next, at 9 o'
clock in the morning, to a& on the following articles,
v^z. 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said meet
ing. 2. To choose a Clerk for said proprietors. 3.
To fee if the proprietors will allow the frft fettlere
to pick one hundred acres each. 4 To fee if the
proprietors will raise a fam of money to make roads
to 0 and in said township. 5. Ta fee if the pro
prietors will survey said townfh p. and to a& on any
other article they shall think proper when met.
REUBEN JONES, J.Bice Peace.
PINE BOARDS will be given for a good New
Milch COW. Enquire of the Printers.
THE fubferiber hereby informs the inhabitants
of the town of Hartford, and all others oblig
ed by law to pay taxes in said town, that he has re
ceived from the Treasurer, Warrants to colle& of the
inhabitants the sum of 24 s. on the pound, one half
to be paid in to said Treasurer by the firft day of
April, and the other half by the firft day of June
next. As there has been orders presented to me al
ready for much more than the one half of said 245.
I hereby define the inhabitants, &c. to meet me at the
times and places hereafter mentioned, for the purpose
of paying their rates, viz. At Mr. David Bull's, on
Monday the 3d cf April. At Mr. Moses Butler's,
on Tuesday the 4th. At Mr. Stephen Hopkins's,
on Wednesday the sth. At Mr. Benjamin'sj (the
east fide of the river) on Thuifday the 6 h. At Mr.
Little's, on Friday the 7th. At Mr. Hills's, (in
Oxford) on Monday the 10th. And at Mr. Still
man's, (in Wethersfield) on Tuesday the 1 Ith.
JOHN DOD D, Collcaor.
Hartford, March 27, 1780.