Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1801-08-03 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY EZEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 473.]
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1801.
[VOLUME IV.]
Remonstrance,
by the Merchants of New Haven, on the appointment of Samuel Bishop, Esq. Collector of the Revenue of that Port, in the place of Elias Goodrich, Esq.—Together with the President's reply.
To THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq. President of the United States.
The undersigned Merchants, residing at the port and within the District of New Haven, respectfully remonstrate against the late removal of Elias Goodrich, Esq. from the office of Collector for the District of New Haven, and the appointment of Samuel Bishop, Esq. to fill his vacancy—As the ground of our remonstrance we represent that the office while filled by Mr. Goodrich was conducted with a promptness, integrity and ability, satisfactory to the mercantile interest of this District—a promptness and ability not to be found in his successor.
Believing the character of E. Goodrich, Esq. as an officer to be unexceptionable, we lament that it should be conceived necessary, that a change in the administration must produce a change in the subordinate officers, and in this instance we have especially to lament that certain measures have succeeded in deceiving the President so far as to induce him to appoint a man to an important office, who does not possess those qualifications necessary for the discharge of its duties. We hesitate not to say that had the President known the circumstances, and situation of the candidate, he would have rejected the application. To prove this let facts be submitted to the consideration of the President.
Samuel Bishop, Esq. will be seventy-eight years old in November next.—He is labouring under a full portion of those infirmities which are incident to that advanced period of life—
With these infirmities and an alarming loss of eyesight, though he was once a decent penman, it is now with difficulty he can even write his name.—
He was never bred an accountant—nor has the course of his business, ever led him to an acquaintance with the most simple forms of accounting.—
He is totally unacquainted with the system of Revenue Laws, and the forms of doing mercantile business, and is now too far advanced in life, and too much enfeebled both in body and mind, ever to learn either.—
A man whose age, whose infirmities, and want of the requisite knowledge is such, is unfit to be the Collector for the District of New Haven.
We are aware that it may be said, he has furnished with reputation, and now holds, several offices in the City, Town and Country,—but it will be remembered that none of them are by recent promotion; his office of Mayor he holds by Charter during the pleasure of the Legislature, and he is continued as Judge of the County Court, and Town Clerk, because the people of this State are not in the habit of neglecting those who once enjoyed their confidence by a long course of usefulness.
Knowing the man as we do, we do not hesitate to say that he cannot, without aid, perform a single official act.
It may be said that the appointment was with a view to the aid of his son Abraham Bishop, Esq. and that he is to be the real Collector. We presume the business must be done by him if done at all—Yet we cannot be led to believe that the President would knowingly appoint a person to the discharge of duties to which he was incompetent, with a design that they should be performed by his son. If however this was the case we explicitly state that Abraham Bishop, Esq. is so entirely destitute of public confidence, so conspicuous for his enmity to commerce, and opposition to order, and so odious to his fellow citizens, that we presume his warmest partisans would not have hazarded a recommendation of him.
Knowing these facts of which we must believe the President ignorant, and relying on assurances, that he will promote the general welfare, without regarding distinction of parties, we cherish the idea that our grief at the rejection of Mr. Goodrich, will not be augmented by the continuance of a father utterly unqualified for the office, or of a son so universally condemned.
We assure the President that the sentiments thus expressed, are the sentiments of the Merchants and importers of the District. That such a class of citizens should be heard patiently, and their well-founded complaints redressed, if practicable, we are fully persuaded. If it be an object, "to restore harmony to social intercourse," and if a decision, "at the bar of public reason," be worthy of attention, surely such a portion of the community, will not plead in vain, for a reconsideration of this appointment, and that such an important office may be filled by a person competent to the performance of its duties, and in some degree acceptable to the public.
Signed by Jeremiah Arwater, Elias Shipman, Abraham Bradley, Abel Burnett, and others, to the number of eighty persons.
WE certify that the signers of the foregoing Remonstrance are the owners of more than
seven eights of the navigation of the port of New Haven.
(Signed) ISAAC BEERS, President of the Bank, and of the Chamber of Commerce in New Haven. ELIAS SHIPMAN, President of the New Haven Insurance Company,
The President's Reply.
WASHINGTON, JULY 12, 1801.
GENTLEMEN, I HAVE received the Remonstrance you were pleased to address to me, on the appointment of Samuel Bishop, to the office of Collector of New Haven, lately vacated by the death of David Austin. The right of our fellow citizens to represent to the public functionaries their opinion, on proceedings interesting to them, is unquestionably a Constitutional right, often useful, sometimes necessary, and will always be respectfully acknowledged by me.
Of the various Executive duties, no one excites more anxious concern than that of placing the interest of our fellow citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their station. No duty at the same time, is more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of characters possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to other information, which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect. In the cause of Samuel Bishop, however, the subject of your remonstrance, time was taken, information was sought, and such obtained as could leave no room for doubt of his fitness. From private sources it was learnt that his understanding was found, his integrity pure, his character untainted. And the offices confided to him within his own state are public evidences of the estimation in which he is held by the state in general, and the city and township particularly in which he lives. He is said to be the Town Clerk, a Justice of the Peace, Mayor of the city of New Haven, an office held at the will of the Legislature; Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven county, a court of high criminal and civil jurisdiction, wherein most causes are decided without the right of appeal or review; and sole Judge of Court of Probates, wherein he singly decides all questions of wills, settlement of estates, testate and intestate: appoints guardians, settles their accounts, and in fact has under his jurisdiction and care all the property real and personal of persons dying. The two last offices, in the annual gift of the legislature, were given to him in May last.
Is it possible that the man to whom the Legislature of Connecticut has so recently committed trusts of such difficulty and magnitude, is "unfit to be the Collector of the district of New Haven," though acknowledged in the same writing, to have obtained all this confidence "by a long course of usefulness?"—It is objected indeed, in the remonstrance that he is 77 years of age: but at a much more advanced age, our Franklin was the ornament of human nature. He may not be able to perform in person all the details of his office; but if he gives us the benefit of his understanding, his integrity, his watchfulness, and takes care that all the details are well performed by himself or his necessary assistants, all public purposes will be answered. The remonstrance indeed does not allege that the office has been illly conducted, but only apprehends that it will be so. Should this happen in event, be assured I will do in it what shall be just and necessary for the public service. In the mean time he should be tried without being prejudged.
The removal, as it is called, of Mr. Goodrich, forms another subject of complaint. Declarations by myself in favor of political tolerance, exhortations to harmony and affection in social intercourse, and to respect for the equal rights of the minority, have, on certain occasions, been quoted and misconstrued into assurances that the tenure of offices was to be undisturbed. But could candor apply such a construction? It is not indeed in the Remonstrance that we find it: but it leads to the explanations which that calls for. When it is considered that during the late administration, those who were not of a particular sect of politics were excluded from all office; when by a steady pursuit of this measure, nearly the whole offices of the United States were monopolized by that sect; when the public sentiment at length declared itself and burst open the doors of honor and confidence to those whose opinions they more approved; was it to be imagined that this monopoly of office was still to be continued in the hands of the minority? Does it violate their equal rights, to assert some right in the majority also? Is it political intolerance to claim a proportionate share in the direction of the public affairs? Can they not harmonize in society unless they have every thing in their own hands? If the will of the nation, manifested by their various elections, calls for an administration of government according with the opinions of those elected; if, for the fulfilment of that will, displacements are necessary, with whom can they so
justly begin as with persons appointed in the last moments of an administration, not for its own aid, but to begin a career at the same time, with their successors, by whom they had never been approved, and who could scarcely expect from them a cordial co-operation?
Mr. Goodrich was one of these.—Was it proper for him to place himself in office, without knowing whether those whose agent he was to be, could have confidence in his agency? Can the preference of another, as the successor of Mr. Austin, be candidly called a removal of Mr. Goodrich? If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained?—Those by death are few, by resignation none. Can any other mode then but removal, be proposed? This is a painful office; but it is made my duty, and I meet it as such. I proceed in the operation with deliberation and enquiry, that it may injure the best men least; and effect the purposes of justice and public utility with the least private distress; that it may be thrown as much as possible on delinquency, on oppression, on intoleration, on anti-revolutionary adherence to our enemies.
The remonstrance laments "that a change in the administration must produce a change in the subordinate officers;" in other words, that it should be deemed necessary for all officers to think with their principal. But on whom does this imputation bear? on those who have excluded from office every shade of opinion which was not theirs? or on those who have been so excluded? I lament sincerely that unessential differences in opinion should have been deemed sufficient to interdict half the society from the right and blessings of self-government; to proscribe them as unworthy of every trust. It would have been to me a circumstance of great relief had I found a moderate participation of office in the hands of the majority; I would gladly have left to time and accident to raise them to their just share. But their total exclusion calls for prompter corrective measures. I shall correct the procedure; but that done, return with joy to that state of things when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest? is he capable? is he faithful to the Constitution?
I tender you the homage of my high respect, TH: JEFFERSON. To Elias Shipman, Esq. and others. Members of the Committee of the Merchants of New Haven.
From the New York Gazette. Messrs LANG & CO.
IN your paper of Saturday, I read with painful surprise the announcement of Mr. Sand's dismissal from the Office of Collector of this port;—for, notwithstanding the apprehensions entertained by many respectable citizens who knew his worth and qualifications, I could not prepare my mind to believe that Government would so far have abandoned its dignity, its ter- and formal declarations, as to have sacrificed to the views of party spirit, an officer whom it was its duty to countenance and continue. It was to be expected, that the general with that prevailed among all descriptions of society, (and plead so strongly in his behalf) would have been consulted, and the will of the People respected by their servants. How far this Republican principle has been recognized by Mr. Jefferson, I submit to the citizens at large to determine.
The reflections which this ungracious act suggests, are painfully humiliating—it establishes the resolution of Mr. Jefferson to become the head of a party—the patron only of his advocates the protector merely of those who have been instrumental in investing him with power to abuse.
One half of the people of the United States, for having exercised the first privilege of free men, are, it seems, to be treated as outlaws. The consequences of this new order of things, however, must soon be felt. Men of merit and virtue, considering themselves degraded and insulted, will retire for awhile, and permit the raging tempest of Faction to blow and disturb;—in this "tempestuous sea" they will behold with silent indignation the demagogues of every town and hamlet attempting to guide the storm that already begins to display its angry front. The deluded, infatuated multitude will soon begin to hesitate, wonder and reflect—to take an anxious retrospect of former felicity, and denounce as a curse the motives that impelled them to work a change. They will soon discover that thirst for office only, and not amelioration of system, was the secret of opposition, and the excitement that alone rendered certain characters indefatigably industrious. Should this expectation be realized, we shall have cause for consolation; and although it is our destiny, for a few years, to submit to the violences and outrages of the prevailing party, yet, we may calculate with assurance upon the restoration of our former controul. A people daily insulted, will become impatient of their sufferings, and in due season indignantly frown upon the authors of them. A SUBSCRIBER.
Mr. Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, appointed by Mr. Jefferson, has declared, that next to the impost, the national revenue should be drawn from a direct tax on lands!
Miscellaneous Articles.
A CHECK TO THE SPIRIT OF EMIGRATION. NEW YORK. JULY 22.
Extract of a letter from capt. J. Allen, to the owners in New York, dated Newry. June 10, 1801. "You may think strange of my staying here so long, without accomplishing the business which I engaged in. I had every assurance from the Consul of getting permission to take passengers, with orders to advertise and engage. I accordingly engaged 250 cabin and steerage passengers, to be landed at Norfolk or New Castle; but a new Lord Lieutenant arriving, has put a stop to all people leaving the kingdom."
Extract of a letter from Messrs. I. Coby and Sons, to the same.
"Capt. Allen goes to Liverpool, for which port he will proceed to morrow. He has been detained nineteen days, in expectation of obtaining permission to take passengers to America; but our memorials had not effect, as he did not arrive till after the Lord Lieutenant and privy Council had issued a prohibition."
We understand that Mr. Peale, of Philadelphia, has lately returned from a trip up the North River, where he purchased the most material parts of the bones of the great American animal commonly called the Mammoth, as well as the right of taking up the remainder. Within the space of two or three months he expects to have it in his power to put together a complete skeleton for the Museum.
WORCESTER. JULY 22. BLASTING OF GRAIN.
Much has been said of the deleterious effects of Barbary bulhes upon English Grain.—A striking fact is mentioned as occurring this season in the field of Mr. Nathaniel Harrison of this town. A single Barbary bulh stood in a field of three acres of Rye, the whole of which was blasted; the Barbary bulh appeared to be the centre of the injury; near it the blast was absolute and total, as you receded from it the effect lessened, and at the greatest distance it was the least. The grain in the vicinity was everywhere good.
BOSTON. JULY 27. LATE FROM SOUTH OF EUROPE.
Capt. Freeman arrived since our last from the Mediterranean, left Malta the 17th May, and informs, that a vessel which left Egypt, the 29th April, had arrived at Malta with intelligence, that Gen. Baird with 6000 troops, had reached Suez from India: That every exertion was making at Malta to reinforce and supply the army in Egypt, and that the corps of Conde had arrived at Malta to do duty there:—That Gantheaume's squadron, by the last accounts, was the island of Elba, in the Tuscan sea.—Capt. F. brought letters from Mr. Cathcart, to the Secretary of State, dated in April, and observes, that the Bey of Tripoli had not declared war against the United States, although a number of his privateers were out, two had seized from Malta three days previous to capt. F's arrival at that place, a large prize ship, Swedish, mounting 20 guns was then fitting out, no American vessel had been captured by them. We are further informed by capt. F. that the greatest exertions are making by the French, in all the Neapolitan and Sicilian ports, to strengthen their works, to augment their maritime force, and to prevent the English from having any trade or succour in these places.
FOREIGN ARTICLE.
LONDON. JUNE 4.
Copy of a letter from Lieut. Gen. Hutchinson, to the Secretary of State.
Camp before Alexandria, April 20, 1801.
"SIR, "IT is with great pleasure I am to inform you of the success of a corps of Turks and British under the command of Col. Stencier.—they were ordered from hence about ten days ago, for the purpose of forcing the enemy from the town and castle of R.etta, which commands the navigation of the Nile. This operation has perfectly succeeded. We are now masters of the western branch of that river, and of course have opened a communication with the Delta, from which we shall derive all necessary supplies, and the French have scarcely any troops there, and none capable of making a serious resistance.
"The enemy had about eight hundred men at Rosetta when they were attacked. They made but a feeble effort to sustain themselves, and retired to the Right Bank of the Nile, leaving a few men killed and prisoners. They left a garrison in the fort, against which our batteries opened on the 9th inst. the conditions are the same as were granted to the castle of Aboukir.
"I owe many obligations to Col. Stencier, for the zeal, activity and military talents, which he has displayed in the conduct of this important service; and I beg leave to recommend him as deserving and most excellent officer.
"I have the honor to be, &c. J. H. HUTCHINSON, Maj. Genl."

POETRY.
THE OATH.
By the look of consent, by the glistening tear, By the oath to my soul in a language divine; By the roses that glow'd on the lips of my fair When, with rapture transported, I prest them to mine
By the smiles, that enliven'd her elegant face When she saw that I CONSTRUED THOSE BLUSHES SO WELL When she saw that love's eye could such character trace, And read on her heart, what her tongue would not tell.
By that heart, sensibility's favorite shrine, Where innocence, virtue and truth find their throne, By these let me swear that this bosom of mine Is fill'd with thy image, my —, alone!
But stop, silly Damon, 'tis need less to swear, When arguments stronger than fondness can prove, Dost thou doubt, my dear girl, that my passion's sincere, You Mirror will show a pledge of my love.
The Committee of Health,
RENEW their annual address to the inhabitants of the town of Portland, by republishing the 11th section of the law to prevent the spreading of malignant fevers and contagious sickness, to which they request that particular attention may be paid the present season. The section is as follows:
"BE it further enacted, That each town or district in this Commonwealth, may at their meeting held in March or April annually, or at any other meeting legally warned for that purpose, when they shall judge it to be necessary, choose and appoint a Health Committee to consist of not less than five, nor more than nine suitable persons, or one person to be a Health Officer, whose duty it shall be to remove all filth of any kind whatever, which shall be found in any of the streets, lanes, wharves, docks, or any other place whatever, within the limits of the town to which such Committee or Health Officer belongs, whenever such filth shall, in their judgments, endanger the lives or the health of the inhabitants thereof; all expenses thereof to be paid by the person or persons who placed it there, if known, or if not, by the town by which said Committee or Health Officer was appointed. And whenever any filth as aforesaid shall be found on any private property, said Committee or Health Officer shall notify and order the owner or occupier thereof, after twenty four hours to remove the same at their own expense; and in case said owner or occupier shall neglect to remove such filth from his or her property after the expiration of the time aforesaid, he or they so offending shall forfeit, and pay a fine of one hundred dollars to be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, by said Committee or Health Officer, before any Court proper to try the same, for the use of the poor of the town in which such offence is committed. And said owner or occupier as aforesaid shall be obliged to repay to said town all costs and charges, which the said Committee or Health Officer may have incurred in removing the filth from his or her property; and in case of refusal to pay the same, he or they may be sued in the same way as is provided in this act for the recovery of fines as aforesaid."
The good wishes and well meant endeavors of the Committee during the two last years, have been in some measure successful; but it must be very evident that many have neglected to comply with the wholesome provision of the law. It is the duty of the Committee to enforce it, and they hereby give notice that they shall inflict the penalty on every person who shall be guilty of his own and the general safety, without favor or distinction. In the mean time the co-operation of every citizen is requested, and the Committee hope that the time of common danger during the hot season may affect all in such a manner as to render the chastisement of law unnecessary.
And to the intent that it may be understood in what manner the Committee will prosecute their duty, they give notice that the following regulations will be observed.
1. The Committee will appoint suitable persons to remove such nuisances as are within their jurisdiction, at the expense of the offender, or of the town. 2. After reasonable notice to any person, of the opinion of the committee that any filth is within the design of the law, suits will be commenced and prosecuted without favor or distinction. 3. Information given to the Inspector of Police will be attended to by the Committee. 4. The Inspector of Police is appointed a sub-committee to direct such persons as shall be employed by this Committee, and they are hereby required to obey his orders.
JOSIAH TUCKER, Inspector of Police. THOMAS MOTLEY, EBENEZER MAYO, WILLIAM SYMMES, SALMON CHASE. Portland, June 15.
The Inspector of Police,
SENSIBLE of the obligation he is under faithfully to discharge the duties of the office committed to him by the town, takes this opportunity publicly to declare his determination to carry fully into effect the By-Laws "To prevent the spreading of malignant fevers and other contagious sickness," and for other purposes. To enable him to discharge his duty, and to answer the design of these laws, he earnestly solicits the aid and assistance of all the well disposed citizens, in keeping clean the streets, lanes and backyards. And as cleanliness is conducive to health, and is an ornament of the town, he anticipates a ready compliance with the laws in this respect. It being impossible for the Inspector to discover every neglect and violation of the good and wholesome regulations of the town, he hopes the inhabitants will be attentive and vigilant, and complain to him of all nuisances, and of any offences against the laws; and he assures them of his readiness and determination to bring all offenders to punishment.
JOSIAH TUCKER. Inspector of Police. (64-8w)
TAKE NOTICE!
STRAYED or Stolen, on Wednesday night the 8th inst. from the inclosure of Mr. John Waterhouse, in Poland, a middling sized HORSE, eight or nine years old, of a deep red colour, with a black mane and tail, and a white spot in his forehead, trots all. Whoever has or will take up said Horse, and give information of him, or return him to the subscriber, or to Winteroth Ricker, Innholder in Poland; or to Daniel Heaney, Innholder in Gray, shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble, and all necessary charges paid by me.
JOHN ROBINSON. Paris, July 21, 1801.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In Senate, March 4, 1801.
WHEREAS application has been made to this Court, by a number of persons who served in the late American Army, during the war with Great Britain, praying for a grant of some of the unappropriated Lands in this Commonwealth, and as such a grant will promote the settlement of such land, as well as be some reward to those citizens, whose meritorious services in the field, so essentially contributed to establish our Independence.
Therefore, Resolved, That there be, and hereby is granted to each non-commissioned Officer and Soldier, who enlisted into the late American Army to serve during the war with Great Britain, and who was returned as a part of this State's quota of said army, who did actually serve in said army, the full term of three years, and who were honorably discharged; and unto the Children, if any there be, if not to the Widow of such non-commissioned Officer and Soldier, and to them only, who enlisted as aforesaid and died in said services, two hundred acres, to be laid out at the expense of the Commonwealth, as soon as there shall appear a number sufficient to take up a quantity of Land that shall be equal to a township of six miles square, to be divided and appropriated under such regulations as the General Court shall hereafter prescribe, within the following limits, viz.—Beginning at the northeast corner of the land now appropriated by the committee for the sale of eastern land, on the eastern line of this Commonwealth, thence running west six miles, thence northerly in a line parallel with the said eastern land, until a tract shall be completed sufficient for each non-commissioned officer and private soldier, their children or widows as aforesaid, to have the aforesaid quantity of two hundred acres, or twenty dollars as equivalent for the aforesaid two hundred acres, to be paid out of the Treasury to the Selectmen of the town, where any such non-commissioned officer or soldier, their children or widow, as aforesaid, resides, for his or their own use and benefit.
And be it further resolved, That where any such non-commissioned officer or soldier, has deceased, or shall deceased, before he shall get possession of the land hereby granted to him, his children or widow as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the same; and in order to secure to said non-commissioned officers and privates, and their children and widows, the benefit of this grant,
It is further resolved, That all deeds, mortgages, or conveyances of, or bonds or contracts of every description concerning any of the said lands, which may be made by any such non-commissioned officer or private, his children or widow, before the same shall be laid out, and have a settlement made thereon, and five acres thereof shall have been brought under improvement, shall be null and void.
Provided always, That no such non-commissioned officer or soldier, his children or widow, shall have any benefit from this Resolve, who shall not make application therefor within three years from the time of passing this Resolve, and who shall not make the aforesaid settlement and cultivation within the term of six years—and the Secretary is directed to publish this resolve in such of the newspapers printed in this Commonwealth as his excellency the Governor may direct, six weeks successively, directly after passing the same.
Sent down for concurrence, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. In the House of Representatives, March 4, 1801. Read and concurred. EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. March 5, 1801—Approved. CALEB STRONG. A true copy—Attest, JOHN AVERY, Secretary.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In the House of Representatives, June 17th, 1801.
WHEREAS further Legislative provision appears necessary to carry into effect a Resolve, passed the 4th day of March last, respecting the grant of Lands, or Money in lieu thereof, to certain persons therein described:
Therefore, Resolved, That all persons claiming Land or Money, by virtue of that or this present Resolve, and applying therefor within the time therein limited, shall produce to the Secretary and Treasurer of the Commonwealth, such evidence as to them shall appear satisfactory, that the respective claimants, as aforesaid, are the persons described or intended in said Resolve:—And the said Secretary and Treasurer shall certify the number and description of persons applying or claiming as aforesaid, to the General Court, on the first Tuesday of the next session thereof, and also on the first Tuesday of every subsequent session, until the time limited for claiming, as aforesaid, shall have expired.
Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That the Governor, with advice of Council, is requested, as soon as may be, to appoint some suitable person or persons, to survey or cause to be surveyed, and laid out into two hundred acre Lots the Land described in said Resolve, or so much thereof as shall appear to be necessary, at the expense of the Commonwealth, which survey, with the plan thereof, shall be returned and lodged in the Secretary's Office.
Sec. 3. And be it further resolved, That the Lots surveyed as aforesaid shall be assigned to the several persons claiming and being entitled to the same, as aforesaid, by the Secretary and Treasurer, in such manner as they shall deem most conformable to the spirit and meaning of said Resolve of the fifth of March.
Sec. 4. And be it further resolved, That the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, is hereby authorised to draw a warrant on the Treasurer, for the sum of twenty dollars, in favor of any such claimant, who elect to receive the same, in full satisfaction of his or her claim to the benefits of the former and this resolve, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, of the Union Bank, if necessary, for the purpose of carrying into effect the object of this and the aforesaid Resolve.
Sec. 5. And be it further resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary and Treasurer to keep a record of the names and places of abode, and such other material circumstances relating to the several claimants as shall be deemed necessary to obviate all disputes respecting the justice of their claims, and to issue a certificate in favor of each and every person, whose claim, as aforesaid, shall appear to be good and valid, which certificates, subscribed by the Secretary and Treasurer, shall be received by the Governor and Council as the only proper evidence, to entitle the holder thereof to the benefit of the present or former Resolve. And the Secretary is directed to publish this Resolve in such Newspapers printed in this Commonwealth, as his excellency the Governor may direct, six weeks successively, directly after passing the same.
Sent up for concurrence, EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker. In Senate, June 19, 1801.—Read and concurred. DAVID COBB, President. June 19, 1801—Approved. CALEB STRONG. A true copy—Attest, JOHN AVERY, Secretary. (8w-6y)
Wheaton's Jaundice Bitters.
Secured to him by letters Patent from the President of the United States.
THE successful effects of these Bitters have been fully experienced, in correcting and carrying off jaundice and bilious matter from the stomach; and at the same time strengthening the stomach, increasing the appetite, and removing the linking faint distressed feeling, and the sleepy dull heaviness, so disagreeable to be borne, and the pressure and distress of breathing; restoring also strength to the weak and trembling limbs, removing the yellowness of countenance so common to jaundice and weakly people, and also the dizziness of the head and weakness of the sight. They remarkably relieve low spirited and melancholy people, and carry off hysterical and hypochondriac complaints. They are an excellent remedy for scrofulous and scorbutic disorders. They are very useful for Seamen to take often when at sea, particularly in warm climates, as a preventative against disorders incident to such climates (which are generally putrid and bilious) by removing obstructions, carrying off bile, and giving a free circulation to the blood.
The above Bitters are for sale by JOHN COE, at No. 5, Fifth-street.—And at his Shop in Newgloucester.—Price 3/6 the Box. Portland, July 13, 1801. (6w-6y)
NOTICE is hereby given, that the following tracts of Land are taxed in bills committed to me the subscriber, Collector of the Twelfth Collection District, Fifth Division, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to collect—agreeably to an Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed the 14th of July, A. D. 1798, entitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States"—for which legal notice has been given by the Collector; and yet the taxes set on said tracts remain unpaid, in the sums following:
Table with 5 columns: Description of the several Lots and Tracts, No. of Lots, Range, Division, Value of each Lot, Tax on each Lot. Rows include: 20 Eastern, 11 Middle, 8 Western, 10 Middle, 11 Western, etc.
DIRECT TAX.
Sixth Collection District. Second Division, State of Massachusetts.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident and unknown proprietors of the following Lots & Tracts of Land within said district, that a Direct Tax became due and payable on said Lots, the seventh of April, A. D. 1800, viz.
Table with 5 columns: No. of Lots, Range, Division, Tax on house, Tax on land. Rows include: NORWAY, PARIS, HEBRON-NEWTOWN.
John Brigham occupant, Simon Jackson owner, one tract of land lying in Hebron, it being lot No. 1, Value of Tax Value of land. 1st Range, 1st Division of the town, on the site of the lot; two grist-mills, one pair of stones each; one D. C. C. D. C. house area 684 feet, one 200 50 40 1050 2 97 story high, 7 windows, 35 Tax on house, 40 feet of glass, built of wood. Total 3 37
And unless said taxes are paid on or before Tuesday the fifteenth day of September next, so much of said lots and tracts will be sold on said day, at Public Vendue, to the highest bidder, according to law, at my dwelling house in Hebron, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the same, together with costs and charges.
SAMUEL PARRIS, Collector of said Collection District. Hebron, June 18, 1801. (65-8)
STRAYED from the Suid river, on the morning of a fat COW—Sparked red and white, about seven years old.—Whoever will return her, or inform the owner that he may have her again, shall be handsomely rewarded by
JOSIAH DOW.
WHEREAS RUTHY, wife of me the subscriber, has eloped my bed and board, and refuses to live with me—I therefore hereby forbid any and all persons trusting her on my account, as I will not pay one farthing of her contracting after this date. JOHN BL'KELT.
Wiltset, July 13, 1801.
WHEREAS LOIS, wife of me the subscriber, has eloped my bed and board—Therefore I hereby forbid any person or persons trusting her on my account, and will not pay one farthing of her contracting after this date. SAMUEL DAVIS.
Bethel, July 13.
DIRECT TAX.
Sixteenth Collection District, Second Division, State of Massachusetts.
AGREEABLE to an Act of Congress of the United States, passed the 14th of July, 1798, entitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States,"—Notice is hereby given to the nonresident and unknown proprietors of the following Lots and Tracts of Land within said collection district, that a Direct Tax became due and payable on said Lots and Tracts the 7th day of April 1800, (viz.)
Table with 5 columns: Description of the several Lots and Tracts, No. of Lots, Range, Division, Value of each Lot, Tax on each Lot. Rows include: Lands in Sanford—Owners unknown, North end Cage Grant, Lands lying in Lebanon—Owners unknown.
Table with 5 columns: Description of the several Lots and Tracts, No. of Lots, Range, Division, Value of each Lot, Tax on each Lot. Rows include: Lands lying in Shopleigh—Owners unknown, Range 9 north by No. one, South end of one, North end of one, West part of one, South side of one, North end of one, South end of No. 2, Half Lot, South side of one, North part of one, North part of one, North part of one, S. W. corner of one, East end of one, East end of one, North part of one, S. E. end of one, East corner of one, By Samuel Hasty, Part of Baker's Grant, Andrews' Grant.
And unless said Taxes are paid, together with necessary costs and charges, within sixty days, I shall proceed to collect the same by distress and sale of said Lots and Tracts, at my dwelling house in said Sanford, on Wednesday the 9th day of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
WILLIAM EMERY, Collector of the Sixteenth Collection District, Second Division. Sanford, June 15th, 1801.
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