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teen years old; he has a small blaze in
face, a 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.
The Subscribers earnestly request
those indebted to them, to pay their re
spective accounts, by the first day of
August next, otherwise suits will be
commenced indiscriminately, without
further notice.
They have on hand a neat assortment
of seasonable GOODS, which they will
sell remarkably cheap for cash.
SAM. & It. BEALL.
Wheeling 20th June, 1807.
JUST OPENED, and now for Sale,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
SUMMER &P FALL GOODS,
Together with Ironmongery and Groce
ries; all of which the Subscriber w ill sell
upon the most reduced prices, for Cash
or such Country Produce as will suit the
Wheeling Market.
He also informs the Merchants of
Wheeling and its vicinity, that he is
commissioned to sell, for the Domestic
Manufacturing Society of Philadelphia,
a general supply of AMERICAN
PRINTS and SHAWLS,
which will be sold at the Philadelphia
Cash prices. A credit of ninety days
will be given to Merchants who give
their notes with approved indorsers.—
It may not he improper to mention, that
should the above Goods be found suit
able, and encouragement be given, a
constant supply may be had at the Sub
ssriber’s Store, in Wheeling.
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
Dry C loods, Groceries, (Queensware, I
English Blister Sc Crowley Steel, Socket
Shovels, Spades, H6rs, American and
German Scythes ; also Sickles of the
best kind, made by K. Long, of Penn
sylvania.
Castings, Bar-Iron, and New-Gcneva
Glass, by the large or small quantity, as
usual.
EVANS & GRIFFITH.
>v heeling, June 24th, lb07, I
fresh goods.
The Subscriber has 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 very humble Servant,
JOHN WHITE
Wheeling 3d June 1807.
Commonwealth of Virginia.
IN COUNCIL, April '16, 1807.
For the information of those persons
who are entitled to lands in that part of
the state of Ohio reserved by the Legis
lature of Virginia, in their act of cession,
for satisfying bounties due to the officers
and soldiersof the Virginia line on Con
tinental establishment; it is advised,
that so much of the act of the last ses
sion of Congress as relates to the grant
ing of further time for locating those
warrants, be published by the printer
for the comm mwealth, 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 the a
nrsount of allowance to be made them in
certain casts, be in lihe manner, and
for the above periods* published in the
sair1 papers,-which rules are as fol
lows :
1. In all cases where a certificate of
military services is adduced as evidence
of a claim for land bounty, the .signa
ture must be authenticated by his ac
knowledgment before some magistrate,
or by the affidavits of two witnesses at
least; and where a certificate of the
lame nature is granted by a person not
a commandant of a corps, the same
must he verified by the affidavit of such
jv rson, accompanied by a certificate of
nis credibility, from the court of the
county or corporation in which he re
sides, or lron> some magistrate thereof.
2d. Any officer or soldier who has
serv« d lot a longer period than six years,
is entitled to additional land bounty, in
proportion to the lime which he may
| have suved beyond the six years, al
though the said additional sendee ma^
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 Congress assembled, That
the officers and soldiers of the Virginia
line, on Continental establishment, theii*
heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands
within the tract reserved by Virginia
between the Little Miami and Scioto ri
vers, for satisfying the legal bounties,
of her officers and soldiers upon Con
tinental establishment, shall be allow
ed a further time of three years from,
the twenty-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 war department; any
thing in the act entitled u 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 of 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.
At a Court held for Brooke county, on
Monday the 25 th day of May, 1807.
Robert Campbell, Complainant,
vs.
Abel Cain, Alexander Griffith, Richard *
Wells, Stephen I.agget and John
Goorley, Defendants.—In Chancery.
This day came the Complainant by his Coun*
fel, and it appearing to the fatisfaction of thd
Court, that the Defendant, Abel Cain, is not an
inhabitant of this Commonwealth:
It is Odered by the Court, that the D?fen*
dant Abel Cain do appear here on the fecontl
clay of Auguft Term nezt\ and anfwer the
Complainant's bill ; and that a copy of this
order be publilhed for two months fueccflively
in the Wheeling Rcpofitory, and that another
copy be polled up at the door of the Court
houfe of (hip County, for a like period of two
mon'hs Copy from the minutes,
Atteft, 8. CONNEEL. '
Tor JOHN CONNELL-, C. B. C*