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'every Non Affuciator, is illegal, and the said sum ought
not to be paid.
Rejolved, That the late Ordinance of the Convention
empowering two or more Justices of the Peace to impri
son for an indefinite time, at their diferetion, all persons
whom they shall judge to be guilty of the offences therein
fpecified, is a dangerous attack on the liberties of the
good people of Pennsylvania, and a violation of their
molt sacred rights, and therefore ought not to be consi
dered as obligatory.
In Convention, Saturday, September 28, 1776.
Refolded, That immediate public Notice be given, by
the Secretary, that the Freemen of this State are im
powered, by the Frame of Government this Day passed,
to choose, at their next Election for Representatives, in
the City of Philadelphia, and each County, one Person
as a Counfellor of State.
In Council of Safety, Philadelphia, October 1, 1776.
Refolded, That this Board will, on Saturday next, ap
point twelve recruiting ferjeants, to raise the more ex
peditioudy the quota of men to be furnished by this State
to the continent, agreeable to a late resolve of Congress.
Ordered, That the above resolve be published, that per
foras willing to engage in that service, who can be well
recommended, may lend in their applications.
Extract from the minutes,
JACOB S. HOWELL, Secretary.
By RICHARD Vifeount HOW Eof the Kingdom of
Ireland, and WILLIAM HOWE, Esq; General of
his Majesty, forces in America, the King's Coinmif
fioners for restoring peace to his Majesty's Colonies
and Plantations in North-America, &c. &c. &c.
D EC LARATI O N.
Although the Congress, whom the misguided
Americans fuller to dired their opposition to a re
establishment of the constitutional government of these
provinces, have disavowed every purpose of reconcili
ation, not consonant with their extravagant and inad
miffable claim of Independency, the King's Commiffion
cr3 think fit to declare, that they are equally desirous to
confer with his Majesty's well affected fubjeds, upon the
means of restoring the public tranquility, and eftahlifh
ing a permanent union with every Colony, as a part of
the British Empire. '
The King being most graciously disposed to direct a
revision of such of his royal inftrudions as may be con
strued to lay an improper restraint upon the freedom of
legislation in any of his colonies, and to concur in the
revifal of all afts by which his fubjedts there may think
themselves aggrieved, it is recommended to/he inhabi
tants at large, to reflet feriouOy upon their present con
dition and expectations, and to judge for themselves,
whether it be more confident with their honour and hap
piness to offer up their lives as a facrifice to the unjust
and precarious cause in which they are engaged, or to
return to their allegiance, accept the blessings of peace,
and be secured in a free enjoyment of their liberty and
properties, upon the true principles of the constitution.
Given at Netty-York, the nineteenth day of Septem
ber, ^76. HOWE.
By command of their Excel- W. HOWE.
lencies, Hen. Strachey.
The following Declaration of Lord and General Howe
was printed in a Hand Bill at New York.
By RICHARD Vifeount HOWE of the Kingdom of
Ireland, and WILLIAM HOWE, Esq; General of
his Majesty's forces in America, the King's Conimif
fioners for deluding the good people of America by
insidious offers of peace, or shedding their blood with
out mercy.
DECLARATION.
ALTHOUGH the Congress, whom the much in
jured Americans fuffcr to direct their opposition to
the establishment of tyranny, and an unconstitutional
government over these provinces, have difavoWed every
purpose of reconciliation, not consonant with that liber
ty to which they have the most clear and undeniable
right; the King's Commiffi mers aforefaid think fit to
declare, that they are equally delirous to confer with
his Majesty's fubjeds (if any so weak and abandoned are
to be found) upon the means of establishing a permanent
tyranny over every colony, and fix them the everlasting
Haves of the British Empire.
The King being most gracioufiy pleased to direct a
revision of such of his royal inftruCtions as may seem not
to lay a fufficient restraint upon the freedom of legisla
tion in any of the colonies, and to concur in the revifal
of all acts by which his fubjeCts there may think them
selves aggrieved, for the better strengthening and con
firming the fame, it is recommended to the inhabitants
at large, to reflect seriously upon their present condition
and expectations, and to judge for themselves, whether
it be more confident with their honour and happiuefs to
rifqde their lives in defence of a glorious independancy,
or return to the galling yoke of tyrannic usurpation,
and be deprived of every security in the enjoyment of
their liberty and properties, upon the true principles of
a wicked and deftruCtive policy. HOWE.
W.HOWE.
In Committee of InffeEion' and Observation for the
Cit, and Liberties of Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1776.
On motion it was unanimously resolved, That the
Committee of Infpedion and Observation for the city and
liberties of Philadelphia, and the townships of Moya
rntnfing and Paffyunk, be dissolved, and they are hereby
dissolved. The Committee of Accounts, and for the
distribution of salt, to be continued until the business for
which they were appointed be finally fettled.
Extract from the Minutes,"
SAMUEL C. MORRIS, Secretary.
All persons, who have any accounts against the late
Committee of Infpedion for this city and liberties, are
desired to bring them in immediately to any one of the
fubferibers, in order for settlement. It is expected that
every demand will be furnifhed by the 15th day of Octo
ber next, at which time they intend completing this
business.
fohn Bayard, Jonathan B. Smith, Jofepb Dean, Sharp
Delany, Francis Gurney, Chriflopher Mar,tall, Wil
liam Ball, and Samuel C. Morris, Committee of Ac
counts.
Head-quarters, Perth-Amboy, Sept. 9, 1776.
THE officers and soldiers of Col. Hart's Battalion of.
Pennsylvania Associators, having done their duty as good
and orderly soldiers, and having furnished a company for
the Flying Camp, are hereby difeharged the service of
the States, and permitted to return hdm'e.
SAMUEL GRIFFIN, Dep. Adjut. Gen.
To William Baxter, Esq; Lieutenant Colonel.
Explanation of the above.
An ACT for the Security of the Government of
NEW-JERSEY.
WHEREAS it is essentially necessary for the fafe
ty of the State, that every person, who holds any
office or post of a public nature, should evince his fidelity
and attachment to the government from whence he de
rives protection, and under which he ig authorifed to a&:
And whereas to effeC tthis important purpose, it is ne
cessary that a proper test be established to be taken by all
officers civil and military within this State ; and that the
Governor or Commander in Chief be authorifed by law
to administer such test, and the official and other neces
sary oaths in the several counties thereof.
I. Therefore, be it enabled by the Council and Gene
ral Assembly qf this State, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the fame, that the following test fliall
be taken by all officers civil and military, who are now
in office, or hereafter shall be appointed, elected or com
missioned, within the several Counties of this State, that
is to fay, I, A. B. dofincerely profefs and swear (or if one
of the people called Quakers, affirm) that Ido not hold
m yfelf bound to bear allegiance to the King of Great- Bri
tain. So help me God.
I, A. B. do /mcerel, profefs and swear (or if one of the
people called Quakers, affirm) that I do and mill bear
true faith and allegiance to the government ejiablijhed in
this State, under the authority of the people, 'So help me
God.
Which oaths or affirmations shall be kdminiftefred by
any person or persons who shall be duly authorized to
tender the fame by the Commander in Chief of this State,
by dedimus proteflatem or otherwise, And all officers re
fufing or neglecting, for the term of one month after no
tification given by any person named in the dedimus pro
tefatem, to take the said test, are hereby declared to be
difquahfied and incapable of executing such their offices;
in which case some other fit person or persons shall, pur-'
fuant to law, be appointed or ele&ed as the case may
require.'
2. And whereas it is necessary that fit persons be duly
impowered to qualify the Magistrates and other officers
who have been or shall be elected, appointed or com
mdnoned thioughout this State ; be it enabled by the au
thority aforefaid, that his Excellency the Governor, or
the Commander in Chief for the time being, shall be,
and he is hereby authorifed to issue commissions of de
dimus protejiatem, or other commiffi ms, from time to
time, as occasion may require, for the purposes aforefaid.
3. And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, That the
aft passed the sth ©f May 1772, intituled, “ An ad for
" V ie Security of his Majesty's government of New Jer
" fey," and so much of the aft passed the 10th of Febru
ary, 1727-8, intituled, “ An aCt prescribing the forms
“ of declaration of fidelity, the effect of the abjuration
“ oath and affirmation, instead of the form heretofore
'equaled in such cases, and for repealing the former
" aCts in the like cases made and provided," as relates
to taking affirmations to the King of Great-Britain, and
the acts thereby repealed, shall be, and the fame are
hereby repealed.
Faffed at Princeton the 19th of September, 1776.
Pursuant to the foregoing aft, his Excellency the Go
vernor has been pleased to issue a commiflion to the
M^mbeis of the Council, the Justices of the Supreme
Court, the Secretary and the Clerk of the Supreme Court,
empowering them and each of them to adminiftet the
oaths and affirmations, as the case may require, to all
officers civil and military within this State, and commis
sions to the Judges and Clarks of the Inferior Courts of
Common Fleas, empowering them and each of them to
admihifter tlie oaths and affirmations in like manner
within their refpeCtive counties.
•"" ACT to tender certain Bills of Credit a legal tender
within this State, and to prevent the counterfeiting of the
fame, and other Bills of Credit.
WHEREAS sundry difaffefted persons have refuted
to take in payment the Bills of Credit emitted by
the Continental Congress; and also the Bills of Credit
emitted by the late Congress or Convention of this State*
and whereas it is expedient that the said Bills, and also
the B^s of Credit lately issued on loan in this State,
should be a legal tender.
1. Be it therefore enabled by the Council and General
Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the fame, that the Bills of
Credit emitted and made current by the Continental
Congreis, the Bills ol Credit emitted and made current
by the Congress or Convention of this State, and the
Bills of Credit issued on loan by virtue of an aft of the
legislature of New-Jersey, made and passed in the year
ot our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy
four, intituled, “ An aft for striking one hundred thou
“ land pounds in Bills of Credit, and directing the mode
for linking the fame, shall be, and they and each of
them are hereby declared to be a legal tender for the
payment of money; and if any perfim or persons, from
and after the publication hereof, shall refufe to take any
of the said Bills of Credit when the fame shall be properly
tendeied in payment of any debt or demand whatsoever
(provided the whole of such debt or demand be so
tendered) he, she, or they so refufing shall be forever
bailed from filing for, or recovering the fame in any
court in this State; and if any suit or suits shall be com
menced foi such debt or demand, after tender and refu
fal as aforefaid, the defendant may plead payment, and
give this ad and the special matter in evidence.
2 'A"^ w ^ ereas it is necessary that the counterfeiting
of the bills of Credit, made current by public authority,
should be prevented, be it enabled by the authority, afore
laid, that all and every person and persons who, from
and aftei the publication hereof, shall counterfeit or alter
any of the aforefaid Bills of Credit by this ad made a
legal tender, or any of the Bills of Credit emitted and
made current by any of the Assemblies, Conventions @r
Congresses of any of the United States of North America,
or utter any Bill or Bills so counterfeited or altered know
ing the fame to be so counterfeited or altered as as wefaid,
and be duly convicted thereof, fhafl be adjudged guilty of
Felony, and be puniflied with death in like manner as
persons convi&ed of counterfeiting or altering the former
Bills of Credit ot this State, and knowingly uttering the
fame, might or should have been.
Passed at Princeton the 20th of September, 1776.
[Thofe Printers mhofe Papers circulate in the Jerseys are
defred to insert the foregoing dels.]
ft The Members of the Committee of the County of
Philadelphia-art requested to meet, at 12 o'clock, on Sa
^^y, the fif th day of October, at the house of Jacob
Neff.'
TH E Members of The Society for the Relief of poor a™d
diftreged Makers of Ships, their Widows and Children, are
deared to attend their General Meeting, at the Coffee-houfe, on
Monday Evening, the 7th of October inst. at the 6th Hour.
On Thuifday and Friday next, at Nine N Clock C^-'A T
At Footman and Jeyes's Vender
At the Corner of vim: and Second-Precis,
WILL begin the Sale of.a large APd;tn e, tr f * - ^
: dize, confining of bread and nmr<w Cloths.'
Bearskins, Naps, Plains, embossed F/anne,s, ,haloc t
Calimancoes,Damafks, Poplins, DorfetteefyChc.H,V< r
ings, Damafcuffes, Lc rettas, playing Cards, Cambrick a :
&c. Also H'oulh Id Furniture and Wearing Apparel.
To be SOLD by public S ALE, on 'iburjday, the 2.,•
October next, at 3 o' clock in the afternoon, on ,bt preubfa.
THAI noted TAKER N, called the Fox Cbace, being cr
Cross Road leading from Philadelphia to Lancafler, Dany
Chef er and Brandywine in the townjbip of Haverford, Cbtfer corny,
about 10 miles from the city of Philadelphia, adjoining the lands of
Meffeurs Samuel and Charles Humphreys Mses Parker, and tubers,
containing about 60 or 70'acres, mo^e or left, to be surveyed after it
is fold, about 18 or 20 acres of which are quell timbered, anlhthe rest
cleared, with all the improvements thereunto bclcvgmg; it is new in
the tenure and under a lease to the Widow Coats, which will expire
the ictb of April next, at ^6l. per annum. Whoever inclines to
view the place before the day of sale, will please to apply to NicWas
Pecbin, adjoining laid plae. 'I he conditions of sale will be made
known on the day of sale, by Nicholas Pechin, Chrtsto-
I— Pechin ,^ Martin Miller, Admirerators.
Philadelphia, Ofl ber 1, 1776.
A I L that have any demands aginft the efiate el JA MES
41"°°1'> late of this city Boat-builder, deceased. are
zecucfted to bring in their accounts, that they may be adjufrd
and paid ; and thufe that are indebted to the fai<lefate, by bond,
note, or book-account, are desired to pay the fame to
Nathaniel Brown.
^WO D oTL ARS REWARD.
STR AYED away from the plantation of the fubferiher,
in Darby township, the 14th Sept, last, two MARES, viz.
A Sorrel, three years old last June, a blaze down her face, nei
ther brand or ear-mark, shod before with old shoes. The other
a ßay, two years old last May, with a large ftn and ft ur
white feet, branded on the near shoulder I. B. Whoever takes
up and secures them, so that the owner may have them again,
shall receive the above reward for both, or one Dollar for either,
paid by Jonathan Bonsall.|
TO BE SOLD,
On the ptemifes, the 24th day of this instant O^ober,
A VALUABLE plantation, lituate in the township of
Williftown, in tl e county of Chester, containing 120 acres
°' "A N D, very pleasantly fit-rated, and in a very healthy part
of the country ; there are on the premises three feoarate Qvell
ing houses, a new stone barn. 45 feet by 25, a flabl^ cart-ftufa,
hay-ioft and heg house, all of stone, a good stone tyring hr use,
over a never-failing spring of water; there is a gocd advan n of
ere&ng any kind of water works on the premises; as Ridiey
Creek runs a confider&e distance through the land : there is a
considerable quantity of meadow made and well watered^ and
mere may be made, and all well watered by Jafting ibeans; the
plowland is Very good for grain and pasture, the woodland we'l
timbered; there is a young bearing orchard, of near 400 trees, of
very good fruit of different kinds ; the whole in ; ood repair.
Those that have a mind to view the premises, before the day f
sale, will be mown by applying to the fubferiber, living on ihd
premises. !he title is indisputably good, and the conditions of
payment will be made known at the time of sale, by
t JOHNBRIGG S.
LOS 1, on Monday Evening last, on the Road between
Mr. M'Veagh's Tavern, at Frankford, and the George, in
Philadelphia, a red POCKET-BOOK wanting a Clip,
containing a Cornelian Ring, sundry Papers and Letters of Va
lue only tq the Owner, and Thirty Dollars in Money. Wh eve!
brings the fame to the Printers hereof, shall receive TEN
DOLLARS Reward. -ft
Philadelphia, September 30, 1776.
ALL those who have any demands against the estate of John
Hyder, late of this city, d^afed, are desired to bring
in their accounts, properly attested, to John Hyder, in New-
Jersey, or Ann Wiles, in Water street, near the Upper Fetry,
that they may be fettled ; and it is requeued that all those who
are indebted to said estate will, to prevent further trouble, irih
mediately difeharge the fame. John Hyder, Adminif rator,'
t Ann Wiles. Adminiftratrir.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward.
STO L EN, on the night of the 2%th of September last from
the pasture of Hugh Ely, living in Buckingham townfoip, Bucks
county, aforrel MARE, about 10 years old, full 141 bands high,
with a large blaxe in her face, both hind feet white, wLitifo mane
and tail, & small saddle spot on each fide of ber back, and a small
hard lump at the place of buckling the throat frap, paces and trots
well, .and fueled a foal when taken. Any person taking up said
mare, and giving intelligence, so that the owner may get ber again,
shall have Two Dollars, and if brought home the above r^ r d
and reap nable charges, said by f 0 HNELY
STRAYED away, on the zyb of Septemb^aftTf^fbe
fubferiber, in Frankford, near Philadelphia, a brown fIARE,
about 15 bands high, 10 years old. well food before, neither brand
nor natural mark remembered, except afw white Fairs in her fire
bead ; Jbe is a natural pacer, tbougb trots feme times out of Land,
has a fwitcb tail, and is trimmed under the bridle. Whoever ball
take up the said mare, and secure ber, f® that the owner m § get
ber again, Jball have Fifteen Shillings rewa d, arid reaion^blr
charges, paid by UM GIBSO if §
Philadelphia, September 23, 1-176
FOUR POUNDS Reward.
RUN away from the fubferiber, living in Spring-Garden,
a servant man named Frederick Beyerlein, about"ig or 20
years of age, jho-t and well set, bas brown bair, one of 'bis fore
fingers is crooked and Jiff• ,bad on a fine bat, a green cloth coatj
with edge feel buttons, a white linen , jacket, white flriped breeches,
white flockings, new shoes, feel buckles, and wbi efbirt. Whoever
takes up said servant and secures him, so that bis maftr may gt
him again, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges,
paid by Lewrs-tRoAK, Tanner.
Philadelphia, September 24, 177&
R UN away from the fubferiber, living in Kne-f set, an ap
prentice boy, named John Peter Pouel, between 16 and 17
years of age, has red bair freckled face, an old bat, black fotped
linfey-woolfey jacket with Jleeves, friped linen trowfers. Whoever
takes up said apprentice, and secures him, so that bis maser may get
him again, fall have Twenty Shillings reward, and all readable
charges, paid by Joshua Lampater, Butcher.f
College of Philadelphia, September 24, 1776.
THE Lectures on Materia Meoica, Chemistry,
and the Practice of Physic, will begin on the last
Tuesday of O&ober.
so be fold for 100/. and not less, or hired for 22/. a year,
AVERY likely young Negroe man, who can cook, bake,
brew, do all forts of house-work, underfands tending on
a Gentleman's table and taking care of horses well, is sober and
good tempered. Whoever wants, may apply to the PRINTERS
hereof who will inform them where to write for said Negroe.---
The duty was paid for him, at Philadelphia, fume years ago •
he has had the small-pox.
To be S OLD, on reasonable Terms,
SIX Thousand Acres of patented LAND, in the Coiinties
of Northumberland, Bedford and Weftmoreland. It is very
rich Land, well watered, and has a large Proportion of low Bot
tom, easy to be cleared for Meadow, and in the Neighbourhood
of Mills and several Settlements. Enquire of Lewis Weiss