The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-01-21 00:00:00, page 4

MONDAY, DEC. 19.
- i ?| ^HE House proceeded to the con
fideraflon of a message received
from the Senate, that they " inffed"
on their firft amendment to the repre
sentation bill (by which they propo
sed to change the atio of representa
tion, from thirty to three thousand.)
A motion being made, that the
House Ihould “ recede" frora their dis
agreement to the Senate's amendment,
the q^elbon was thereon taken, and
lolt:—yeas, 27— nays, 33.
A motion being then made, that
the House should 66 adhere" to their
disagreement, the tpellion was there
on taken, and carried :—Yeas, jz—
Nays, 27.'
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
His goodness runs an eidlefs rbund ;
All glory to the Lord ! ^^• !
His mercy never knows a bound;
And be his name ador'd !
'Tis fov'reign mere, finds us food.
And,we are cloth'd with love ;
While grace Hands pointing out the
Thus we begin the lasting song:
And when we close our eyes,
Let the next age thy praise prolong
'Till time and nature dies.
[Our life is ever on the wing,
And death is ever nigh ;
The moment when our lives begin,
We all begin to die.]
Yet, mighty God! our fleeting days
Th, lifting favours (hare,
Yet wi:h the bounties of thy grace
Thou load'd the roiling year.
The present moments just appear,
: Then slide away in haste,
That we can never fay they're here ;
But only fay, they're pad.
READ a second time the Bill for
eftabliihing a Mint—and the Bill in
titled, ''An Aafor carrying into effe&
a contraa between the United Statu,
andthe State of Pennsylvania."
Hy& N
Gn the fartnefo gtyLind the goodness
of
TIME! what an empty vapour 'tis!
And days hoUßift the,are ?
Swift as an Indian arrow flies.
Or like a (hooting star.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, DEC 21.
The Appropriation Bill was signed
by the Speaker. Read a firft time the
Bill, for carrying into effect a contrast
between the U. S. and the State of
Pennsylvania for the purchase of 4
trad of land bordering on Lake
POSI OFFICE BILL,
Was gone through with, excepting
the Sth, zzd and 23d fe&ions, which
fefpea newspapers.
I''l§^
THURSDAY, DEC. 22.
Read a second time &Contr&aß'&
Mr. Goodhue preferred a peri don
es Lawrance Furlong, praying com-
SEAT of the MUSES.
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: road, <
That leads our fouls above.
IN SENATE— eec. 26.
Mr. Smith (S. C,) presented a me
morial and petition of sundry mer
chants of ^outb-Carolina, who were in
business in that Sta'ebefore the revo
lution—dating the hardships impeded
on them, in confluence of being o
bliged to receive during the war, pa
per money for debts, &c. and now be
ing called on to pay their ^foreign
creditors in specie, pursuant to the
treaty of peace, and pray that Con
gress would grant such relief as they
may fee meet —'read and laid on the
table.
The 17th ftaion, from which the
committee had, in a former fitting,
struck out the words 66 ffial be
deemed guilty of felony, and shall;
fuffer death"—was taken up in order
to fill the blank.
The a#ft clause of the fedion being
read, as follows—" And be it further
enafted, that if any perlon, employed
in any of the departments of the ge
neral poft-office, into whole hands or
custody any letter, packet, or any bag
or mail of letters, or other matters or
things, intended to be conveyed by
post, shall be delivered, shall unlaw
fully open, secrete, embezzle, or de
stroy any such letter, packet or thing,
or any bag, or mail of letters, or shall
take therefrom any bank note,or bank
post bill, bill of exchange, warrantof
the Treasury of the United States,
note of alignment of flock in the
funds, letters of attorney for receiv
ing annuities or dividends, or for fel
ling flock in the funds, or for receiv
ing the interest thereof, or any letter
of credit, or note for or relating to the
payment of money, or other bond or
warrant, draft,, bill, or promifoiy
note, whatsoever, for the payment of
money—every such offender, employ
ed as aforefaid,and being thereof duly
convided, *''***"
, A motion was made by Mr. Boudi
not, to fill up the blank with these
words, " shall forfeit and pay a fom
not exceeding dollars, and fuf.
fa imprisonment for a term not ex
ceeding years."
In opposition to this mitigation of
the punishment, it was observed, that
the crimes, which the committee
willed to prevent ty the clause under
The postponed fettions of this Bill
were taken into consideration. The
3 # h fedion was amended, so as to fix
the rates of postage, as follows :
For a Angle letter to or from any
place, not exceeding the distance of
3omiles,6 cents.—from 30 to 60 milesß
cents — from 60 to 100 miles, 10
cents—frbin 100 to 150 miles 12^
cents— from 150 to 200 miles, 15
cents —from 200 to 250 miles, 17
ccnts=from 250 to 350 miles, 20
cents^-and 25 cents for any greater
diftance.^ . : ";
[The 26th, 27th, and zSth, the re
port of the committee of the whole
House on the Poft-Office bill was ta
ken into consideration.=Th* Horse
have agreed that one 'eett : /ball be
charged for every newspaper for any
distance not more than 100 miles,and
one andan half for any greater dif
tance.],, $.
In Committee of the whole, on the
poll-office bill—Mr. W. Smith in the
chair."
TheContraa BAZ was read a third
time, and passed to be engreffed.
penfation for certain services. Re
ferred to the Secretary of the Trea
fury*
A memorial from the%^r Society,
refpefting the Indian if'ar, was read
and hid on the table.
The bill relative to the ele&ion of
President and Vice - President ; and de
claring, in case of Vacancies what of
ficer (hall att as President, was de
bated in Committee of the whole,and
progtefs made therein.
FRIDAY, DEC. 23.
The President, by meikge, in form
ed the House he had approved the
Appropriation Aa.
Several reports on private subj &s
were aded on. 'j
P^S7.OFFICE BILL.
consideration, were crimes of no trivi
al nature,but heinous breeches of trust
by persons employed by the public,in
confidential offices :—that a theft of
this kind, committed by a post-master
involves a much greater degree of
criminality, than the adion of him
who deals money from a drawer, or
cattle f om a plantation :—That the
poll offi.es will be numerous, and it
may perhaps be difficult to find per
sons of charader to keep them all ;
and in case any of the officers happen
to be a dishonest man,there will be no
fecuri'y for the public property en
trcited to his hands, unless they be re
drained by the apprehension of a se
vere punishment :—if the punishment
of death was not thought too fevers
for the forgery of a bill of only five or
fix pounds, it ffiould be remembered,
that a letter passing from one mer
chant to another, although it contain
no bills, may ofen be of greater im
porance, than another enclosing pro
perty to the amount of a hundred
peered:=the crimes, contemplated
in the ciafe,would probably never be
'committed, but bpon letters cf conse
quence ; and the perfan who would
teribera ely incur such guilt, must be
a man so thcrougiy depraved, as to be
unfit to live:—if any mitigation were
to be mide in the punishment of
thefts aid robberies committed on
the post, it Should be in the cases men
tioned in the ißth:fedion, where the
offenders are not persons in trust :—
but if the , fl-cfficers Were to be trea
ted with such leni:y as was proposed
in the amendment, then robberies of
every department of the government,
might as well on the fame principles,
be pun,(h;, not with dca'h, but with
a gentle reprimand ; —if the motion
prevailed, it was hoped that the bUnk
for the term of imprifonraeht, would
be filled up with at least " eighty" or
" ninety .rears" , . . t
of JOHN DUDLEY,/^ of
Briarwood, in the county of
Rockingham gentleman,decea.
fed,are desired to exhibit the
fame to the fub/criber, Admi
nistrator, to /aid eflate—and
all fc r/ons indebted to said
eflate are requeued to Jettle
the Jame immediately.
Benj. Dearborn.
VARIOUS kinds of
Foolscap and Pot
Writing- Paper,to^be fold at
this office.
IHE nonresident owners
of Land, in Exeter, who have
net paid their taxes for 1791, are
hereby informed—that unlcfs they pay
them to the fubferiber in two weeks
from the date hereof, their Lands will
be advertised for file.;
Shackford S. Bennett, Col.
Exeter, January, 1792.;
C A S H,
AND THE HIGHEST PRICE GIVEN
FOR
FLAX
AT THE
Duck Manufactory
in EXETER.
Large and common Demy
—Crown & FoolfcapPrint
ing ditto.—-and a few reams
of Wrapping ditto—which
wil| be fold cheap for Case.
^LL perjons basing any
claims again/l the Estate
ALSO,
Treafnrj-ofr.ee, Nro. Ham,fare —
EXETER, JAN., to, 1792.
THE Honorable General
Court, by a Refoiuuon passed
the goth of December 1791, having
(among other things) Ordered
" That the expediency of tffuing
Extents for the Outflandjng Taxes
be left diferetionary with the Trea
forer, any former order of the Gene
ral Court to "the contrary notwith
standing: Excepting only that this
Refoivc shall not affed or alter the
force of any Vote or Resolve for flay
ing Extents in particular cases."
The Treasurer thinks it
his duty to call on all Colle&ors, and
on the Selectmen where Collegers
have not been returned agreeably to
Law, to make payment of the fems
due from themrefpedivelv. It ap
pears by the returns, lately made by
Selectmen, that large firms have been
colle^ed from the pedpl% .which sums
are no; paid into the^Treafary ; some
towns have paid all the Tares requir
ed of them ; others owe small sums,
while 'fome others are much in arrears.
The General Court at their late fefi—
• (ion have, made feme orders to facili
tate the payment of the Taxes jue.in
paper ; There has not been any ffate
Tax required for the last, or present
year, and it is the opinion of the
Treasurer, that tbeTrue Ihtercft of
the good people of this. State will be
promoted by a speedy cofleaion of all
outdancing Taxes ; Therefore he re
quests that all concerned would pay
immediate and particular attention to
this notice ; pay the sums due_ from
them refpeaively, and thereby five
h@ the trouble and themfelvcs the
expence of Extents.
J. T. GILMAN, Trefor.
State of New-Hampshire.
IN SENATE, j'an. 5, 1792.
VOTED, that the Trea-
V lurer call on all perlons indebted
to the S ate for Impost or Excise,
to pay or renew their refpd&ive Bonds
with Interest by the twenty-second
day of March next, with such securi
ties as the Treasurer may require,and
that he issue Extents agaibft xlb per^
sons who shall refufe or neglect to .
comply with this order
Sent down for concurrence :
JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'ry.
In the House of Reprefen.
natives the fame day read and con
curred.
Treasury, Offin, Neou Hampfcre—
t Exeter, Jan. io. 1792. #
PURSUANT to the above
A - —all concerned are requested to
pay, or renew their Bonds, agreeably
to said vote, otherwise Extents will
be iffted.t
J. f. Gilman, Treafr.
W M . PLUMER, fyder.
A true Coby—Artef:.
JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'ry.
S"f PuUi/bed;\
niVINE HYMNS— of,.
P SPIRITUAL SONGS;
For the uTe of Religious Affemblics
and Private Chriftiamb—being a col
lection by
JoJhua Smith—and others.
Fourth Exeter Edition corrected —
containing in the whole, 145 Hymns
of various metres.
Printed and Sold at the Printing-
Office in Exeter, by wholeftle or re
tail- Sold also by Mr. Samuel Sleeper,
nt his house in Poplin. Y
A LMANACKW the
year 1792,10 be fold
at this office, very cheap by
eth groce or dozen.
LANKSof various kinds
for sale at this Office.