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War Offtcb Ntv. 18, 17,8.
THE several Deputies ^d Affiflants in the
departments of Qar^,.Rafter General, Com
miffir eh General of Purcbafes and Issues, and Com
nrffary of Hides are hereby ftrAly enjoined and
required, forthwith to make the returns to this
Board, and the Officers at the head of their different
departments, which the Regulations cf Congress,
pointing out their refpeAive duties, dired. It is
expe&ed, that immediate attention be paid to this
requisition.
By Order of the Board,
P. SCULL, Secretary.
About fifty acres of land,
in Hartford Commons in the fid tier, well
wooded adjoining to Windsor bounds, to be fold by
NORMAND MORRISON.
Hartford, Dec. 7, 1778.
A Large Quantity of well dressed DEER
§K IN S, to be fcld by Timothy Pal-
MeR at his house in Suffield, for Continental Bills.
Svffield. Dec. 8. 1778.
OUND, the beginning of November last, a
Pair of SADDLE-BAGS, containing a
pair qf slices, and some other articles. The owner
may have them, by applying to Mrs. Porter of
Wethersfield, and paying charges.
ALL Persons that have any demands on the
estate of Mr. Joel Clark, late of Simfbury. de
ceased, are desired to exhibit the fame to the Sub
scribers, and receive their pay : And all persons in
debted to said estate, by book, are hereby notified,
that unleft they forthwith fettle the fame, they may
expe& trouble.
JOEL CLARK 7
REUBEN CLARK, > Adminiflrat.
LYDIA CLARK, )
Simfbury, Dec. 4 1778.
BR O K E into the eaclofure of the Subscriber,
in Gofnen, in June last, a Small Red STEER,
three years old, no white except a small foot on his
belly and end of his tail a hollow crop off the right
ear. and a hole through :he fame. The owner may
have him,on proving his property and paying charges.
SETH PIERCE.
Cornwall, Nov. 12 1773.
BROKE into the enclosure of the Subscriber,
about theist of November, two yearling HEI
FERS. The owner may have them again, by
proving his property and paying cbarge r .
EZEKIEL OSBORN.
EaH Windsor, Dec. 1, 1778.
BR O KE into the enclosure of the Subscriber,
the 7th of November last, a Monfe Colour'd
MARE, white fare, hind feet and legs white,
white on her off fore foot; ffiod all round. The
owner may have her on paying charges.
AARON BUS H.
Enfield, Dec. 7, 1778.
ST RAYED or STOLEN, put of the
paßure of Mr. Jonathan Squier, of Durham,
on the night of the 2d inst. a Bay HORSE, five
years old, about 14 hands high, star in her forehead,
hind feet white; £hod with new shoes all round, a
natural pacer, and is branded on the left shoulder
thus Cc. Whoever takes up said horse and returns
him to Mr. David Squier in Durham, or the sub
scriber fh^l receive Twelve Dollars reward, and
charges.
EDWARD ADAM SQUIER.
Cornwall, Nov. 6, 1778.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, the 12th
day of November inst. a Chefnut Coloured
HORSE, about 14 hands high, bald face, near
bind foot white, natural trotter, shod before.
ALLEN SEYMOUR.
Hartford, Weft Dwifion Nov 30 1,78,
TUESDAY, December 15, I„C THE [Number 725.
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
AND THE
WE EKL Y "I N T E LL IGENCER.
HARTFORD: Printed by W ATSON and GOODWIN, rear the Great Bridge.
The following Queries, wb, the Answers, are in
serted at the particular w equeft of many of our
Readers.
From the CONNECTICUT JOURNAL.
Mess. Printers,
THE following Queries often arise in my
mind, and I look upon them important and
interesting.-. Offering them therefore to the Public,
at this time, I conceive may not be unseasonable or
improper, and serve as a Memento to those who have
been infirumental in depreciating our paper medium,
and thereby increasing ow public debt to an enor
mous sum, such as Monopolizers of foreign commo
dities, with-holders of the produce of our farms,
the Commissaries of our armies, their under flrap
pers, the ox buyers, and that more detestable set of
men, who from principles inimical to the indepen
dence of these States, have been unwearied and in
defatigable to ruin the credit of the bills, who feeing
they could not effect their primary intention, now
seem determined to swallow up the needy, " and
to make the poor of the land to fail, that they may
buy the poor for filter, and the needy for a pair of
shoes." I therefore request them a place in your
next Journal, and if any one by proper aufwers, can
alleviate the anxiety I feel, whenever they occur to
my mind, they will render a very acceptable ser
vice to SENEX.
Query 1. Do the possessors of Continental bills
expe£ lever to receive their nominal value in filvir,
agreeable to resolution of Congress? If they do---
o^2. Is thee in reality so great a'fcarcity of the
necessaries of life the produce of our farms, as that
the pofTeffors of them, can be juftified in demanding
and receiving five or fir Continental dollars for a
bushel of wheat, wh ch heretofore has,not been fold
for more than one Spanish mill'd dollar; or 12 or
15 pence per pound for grass fed mutton or beef,
which has never been fold for more than from two
to three pence per pound in hard money ?
Q. 3. May anv people, nation, kingdom or state,
hope for, or expert the smiles and protection ofhea
ven, inlets the laws by which they govern, are
founded in jufliee, equity and righteousness, and
difeountenance opp*effion, fraud and injufiice in e
very shape ?
Q 4. Is there any ju4ice, equity or righteauf
nefs in a law, which obliges a creditor to difeharge
a debt of 600 Spanish mill'd dollars, which the deb
tor actually received in hard money, or what was
equivalent thereto, (perhaps the whole estate of a wi
dow or orphan child) for 600 Continental dollars,
under thir present depreciated value, which will not
at this time purchase more of the necessaries of life
than 100 Spanish mill'd dollars ? Or,
Q; 5. Is it honest; just or right, that the! Clergy
fhouid be obliged to accept the nominal sum of their
salaries, in Continental bills, which will not pur
chase more than one sixth part of the necessaries cf
li^, that the sum flipulated for would purchase, when
the contract was made ?
N. B. I am no Clergyman, nor candidate for the
ministry, nor connected with any of that order.
Q. 6. Was our present contest with Great-Britain,
and any further emission of bills immediately to
cease would not 50,000]. sterling worth of well
forted vendible, European goods, imported into this
State, and fold at the present advance, and two more
such taxes as we have last paid, draw all the money
out of the pockets of nine tenths of the inhabitants
of this State ? v
'O;,. When that effected, by what method will
the remaining part of the out Handing bills, be call'd
in, funk and discharged?
o^B. Will not the possessors of the bills, then
efleem everv Continental dollar they are poffefs'd of,
equal to a Spanish mill'd dollar, or part with them,
unless equal to silver ?
Q 9. Will the day-labourer be content to work
twelve days in harvest time, to purchase a fix dollar
bill of a farmer to pay his tax, who received it for
one single bushel of wheat ? Or will a man fell his
cow to a grazier for 10 dollars, for the fame purpose,
who received that sum for a halfa hundred of graft
fed beef ?
Q: i°- Will not nine tenths of the inhabitants of
these States, when their pockets are emptied by
taxation, of all the continental bills they are posses
sed of, esteem the other tenth the authors of their de
preciation, and all the additional expence of the war
occasioned thereby, and look upon it highly oppref
flve, fhouid the supreme legislature of these States,
enforce taxation, for the private emolument of those
very men who depreciated them, either from latent
enmity to the independence of these States, or to
aggrandize themselves upon the ruins cf their coun
ty’ by reducing the landed interest into a fewhands,
and tne fargreater part of our present freeholders, to
the necessity of becoming tenants at will, to our
new made gentry, the modern jobbers' and gorman
dizing engroffers of the present day.
Wili it not be doing arid justice to the
pofTetrors of the bills to pay off every cmiffion in pro
portion to their depreciated value 1
_ Q. 12. Is there any reason why a farmer fhouid
in 1775 no more than 4or 5 /hillings per bushel
for wheat, and in 17,8 demands and receive, 5 or
6 a ^™' r in ^75 Willingly fells
grass fed beef from 16 to 20 3. per hundred, and in
1778 demand from sto 61. per hundred when at
the lame time it cannot be said there is any general
scarcity of those ffaple commodities in this and the
neighbouring States 1
Perhaps it may be said. we must keep faith with
foreign nations, to this every one will readily assent,
that all contrasts made with foreign Courts' muff b^
reiigioufly fulfilled.-- But,
Q^ 13. May net individuals of any nation under
Heaven, who have received our bills, at a depreci
ated value, confident with the ftri&eft jufuce
paid off at the fame rate; and by the fame rule, with
our own withholder; engroffers, and extortioners,
who would facrifice their country for gain, and our
latent enemies who would gladiy afford their affifi
tance to Great-Britain to rivet their chains, upon us
and our posterity ? '&
NUMBER I.
HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY
RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A
NATON.
THE regard due to the venerable age of Senex,
the desire of alleviating the deftrefs of a patri
otic father, whose heart, it seems, is almost ready to
burst with anxiety for the Clergy, the Widow and
the Fatherless; especially the desire cf serving the
cause of Justice and of my country induce me to
take up my pen and to devote that moderate share of
abilities of which I am mailer to the important pur
pose of giving a candid, rational, and as far as
be, a complete answer to his thirteen queOfor
They are all reducible to this one, What ought be
dene with regard to our paper Medium, and for the
adminifhation of public justice in the present state of
things ? Whoever can give a good answer to this, no
doubt, will deserve well of the public. Hoc opus,
hic labor est. It is an inquiry es great and gene
ral concern.Pablic faith, jufiice, peace and fafety the
reputation of the American States, not only at home
but among foreign nations, not barely for the pre
sent, but for ages to come, are concerned, deeply
concerned in it. The private interest and future
comfortable fubfiflence of many thousands of our
honest and ufeful inhabitants is almost wholly de
pendant on a clear understanding and proper manage
ment of this great affair. Indeed the grand cause for
which so much blood and treafiire have been expend
ed, and for which such prodigious exertions have
been made, may be put to the utmost hazard, nay.
may be totally loft by narrow mistaken politicks and
mismanagement refpe&ing it. Therefore it ought
to be clearly investigated and to have all possible light
thrown upon it. So great a question can only be
determined on great and general principles, and from
enlarged views of the extensive operation of a great
variety of things and circumstances, It requires no
small compass and variety ofthought for its iliuftratidn.