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teen yean? old; ke has a small blaze in .
face, n number of saddle marks, a white
mane and tail. The owner is desired to |
come, prove property, pay charges and
take him away.
JOHN STEWART.
June 23d, 1807.
NOTICE.
Tuf. Subscribers earnestly request
those, indebted to them, to pay their rc
aoective accounts, by the first day of
August next, otherwise suits will he
commenced indiscriminately, without
further notice.
I lv v have on hand a neat assortment
of seasonable GOODS, which they will
sell remarkably chean for cash.
Txre SAM* & B- BEALL.
Wheeling 2Qth June, 1807.
JL S I OPEXED, and now for Sale,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
SUMMER &? FALL GOODS,
I ogether with Ironmonger if and Groce
ries all of which the Subscriber will sell
upoq the most reduced prices, for Cash
or such Country Produce as will suit the
U heeling Market.
also iniorms the Merchants of
'V heeling and its vicinitv, that he is
commissioned to sell, for the Domestic
Alnnujuctunng Society of Philadelphia,
a general supply of AMERICAN
PRINTS and SHAWLS,
winch will be sold at the Philadelphia
(e»sh prices. A credit of ninety days
will he given to Merchants who give
t.K-n notes with approved indorsers.—
I t may not be improper to mention, that
should the above Goods he found suit
able, and encouragement be given, a
constant supply may be had at the Sub
; si iber s Store, in V heeling.
THOMAS EVANS.
Wheeling, June 25th, 1807.
New Goods.
The Subscribers have lately received
from Philadelphia, in addition to their
former stock, a general assortment of
I'jry Goods, Groceries, Queenswarc,
English Blister & Crowley Steel, Socket
Shovels, Spades, Hoes, American and
German Scythes ; al so Sickles of the
b<ot kind, made by R. Long, of Penn
Ivitnia.
, Castings, Bar-Iron, and New-Gcncva
'•lass, by the large or small quantity, as
la.ual.
EVANS 8c GRIFFITH.
, ' '-heeling, June 2 tth, 1807,
FRESH GOODS.
The Subscriber h as lately received an
addition to his assortment of Merchan
dise, which will be sold very reasonable
for Cash or good produce. As he in
tends to be more limited in Crediting in
future, he hopes those who have been
favoured will consider their interest and
pay off their accounts before the first of
September ensuing, to avoid common
unnecessary misunderstandings with
their verv humble Servant,
JOHN WHITE?
Wheeling 3d June 1807.
Commonwealth of Virginia
I.V COUNCIL, April l(i, 1807.
| For the information of those persons
tvho are entitled to lands in that part of
the state of Ohio reserved by the Legis
lature of Virginia, in their act of cession,
lor satisfying bounties due to the officers J
and soldiers of the Virginia line on Con
tinental establishment; it is advised,
that so much of the act of the lart.ses
sion of Congress as relates to the grant
ing of further tune for locating those
warrants, be published bv the- printer
for the commonwealth, at least once a
week, in his paper, for three months,
and also once a week, for two weeks, in
all other newspapers published in Vir
ginia and the district of Columbia.
It is alfo advised, that the rules adopt
ed by the Executive, in relation to the
evidence to-be adduced by claimants for
military land warrants, and to tiie a
mourt of allowance to be made them in
certain cases, be in lihe manner, and
tor the above periods, published in the
said papers,-which rules are as fol
lows :
1. In all cases where a certificate of
I military services i.i adduced as evidence
of a claim for land bounty, the signa
ture must be authenticated by bis ac
knowledgment before some magistrate,
or by the affidavits of two witnesses at
least; and where a certificate of the
same nature is granted by a person not
a commandant of a corps, the same
must be verified by the affidavit of such
person, accompanied by a certificate of
b:s credibility, from the court of the
county or corporation in which he re
sides, or from i omc magistrate thereof.
2d. Any officer or soldier who has
served fora longer period than six years,
is entitled to additional land bounty, in
proportion to the time which lie may
have served beyond the six ycart, al
though $ie said additional service may
lall short of, or exceed one year.
Extract from the Journals of Council,
DANIEL L. HYLTON,
Clerk of the Council.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Cong ress assembled, That
the officers and soldiers of the Virginia
line, on Continental establishment, their
heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands
w ithin the tract reserved by Virginia
between the Little Miami and Scioto ri
vers, tor satisfying the legal bounties
ol her officers and soldiers upon Con
tinental establishment, shall be allow
ed a further time of three years from
the twentv-third of March next, to
complete their locations, and a fur
ther time of five years from the said
twenty-third of March next, to return
their surveys and warrants, or certified
copies of warrants, to the office of the
secretary of the w^r department ; any
thing in the act entitled “ An act to as
certain the boundary of the lands re
served by the state of Virginia north
west of the river Ohio, for the satisfac
tion ot her officers and soldiers on Con
tinental establishment, and to limit the
period for locating the said land,” to the
contrary notwithstanding: Provided,
no locations as aforesaid shall, after the
passing of this act, be made on tracts of
land for which patents had been previ
ously issued, and any patent which may
nevertheless be obtained for land locat
ed contrary to the provisions of this sec
tion, shall be considered as null and
void.
a Court held for Brooke county, r.:^ ,
Monday the 25 th day of May, 1807.
Robert Campbell, Complainant,
vs.
Abel Cain, Alexander Griffith, Richard!
Wells, Stephen Laggct and John
Goorify, Defendants-In Chancery.
This day came the Complainant by hie Coun
f-1, and it appearing to the fatisfaction of the
Court, that the Defendant, Abel Cain, is not ar»
inhabitant of thi« Commonwealth;
It is O. dered by the Court, that the Defen
dant Abel Cain do appear here on the fecond
day of Auguft Term next, and anfwer the
Complainant s bill ; and that a copy of thi#
order hr publifhed for two months fucce (lively
<n the Wheeling Rcpofitory, and that another
copy he ported up at the door of the Court
hfuif? of this County, for a like period of two
mon'hs Copy from the minutes,
Atteft, S. CONNFF.L,
For JOHN CONNELL, C, B. C.