The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-01-26 00:00:00

K E N T U C K E G A Z E T T E
S A T U R D A Y, JANUARY 26, 1788.
NOTE is hereby given that the Commissioners... have appointed... to be held at... the 10th day of February...
FOR SALE
The following tracts of valuable lands, viz. three hundred acres in the county of Nelson on Cartwright's creek...
ROBERT BARR
Has just received a fresh assortment of grocery and dye stuffs, and has opened the remaining stock of his dry goods...
As the subscriber intends to return to the settlement in the spring, he...
EARNESTLY
Respectfully and earnestly to him, to pay up their respective balances as soon as possible.
As I propose cutting trade as soon as this cargo of merchandise is vended, shall in future sell on the lowest terms...
He has just received a fresh assortment of dry goods, and has opened the remaining stock of his dry goods...
JUST OPENED
A NEW STORE ON THE MOST REASONABLE TERMS FOR CASH BUYERS.
Stolen away from Flat run, between Hinkston and Stoner, some time in December last, a black horse, five years old...
He public should be cautioned how they deal with a certain Capt. John Martin of Lincoln county...
LEXINGTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Is now opened, where Latin, Greek and the different branches of science will be critically taught...
Whereas I paid my bond with Mr. John South security, to a Samuel Ewing some years past, for four hundred acres of land...
Whereas Capt. R. Terrel has in his possession two bonds of four hundred pounds each upon Col. Wm. Childers deceased...
The Public are cautioned against purchasing a tract of five hundred acres of land lying on Licking creek...
A BAT BEARE
With a blaze in her face, five years old, fifteen hands high, neither docked nor branched, stood before, trots naturally...
The public are hereby informed that as there never was any species of connection between William Hoy and the subscribers...

R I C H M O N D, D.
An ACT relating to TOBACCO, & giving in PAY- MENT of CERTAIN TAXES for the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.
WHEREAS it is represented to this present General Assembly, that it will be a great relief and ease to the citizens of this commonwealth to enable them to discharge the taxes due for the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, under the act, entitled, "An act to amend and reduce the several acts of assembly for assessing certain taxes and duties, and for establishing a permanent revenue into one act," with notes for improved tobacco; and that this ease may be given to the people without lessening the public revenue, by fixing an equitable price on the tobacco, having regard to the selling price thereof at each warehouse within this state:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, That it shall be lawful for any person chargeable with the taxes aforesaid to discharge the same in inspectors receipts or notes for good merchantable crop tobacco not less than nine hundred and fifty pounds net weight, and not inspeced more than one year when offered, in payment, at the rate he easer mentioned: At Pague in Hanover Town, Byrds, Shocoe, Roe's, Riewy, Rye, Manchester, Warwick and Oldham, at thirty shillings per hundred: At all the ware-houses in and about Petersburg or Appomattox, at twenty nine shillings per hundred: At all the ware-houses on York and Mattaponny rivers and their branches, from Newcastle to York Town inclusive: at the College Landing, Hampton, and Deacon's Neck; and at all the ware-houses from Falmouth to Rows and Gibson's on Rappahannock inclusive; and at all the ware-houses from the falls of Potomack to Aquia inclusive, at twenty eight shillings per hundred: At all the ware-houses on the different rivers, creeks or bays within this commonwealth, not herein enumerated, at twenty six shillings per hundred, except the ware-houses he easter mentioned, at which tobacco shall be received at the following rates, to wit: At Quantico at twenty eight shillings per hundred: and at Lynch's twenty six shillings per hundred: At Chow's ferry and Greasy's at twenty two shillings per hundred; or in transfer receipts or notes for tobacco at the rate of one hundred and ten pounds for one hundred pounds of crop tobacco at any public inspection within this commonwealth. That all tobaccos received under this act at any of the ware-houses within the District commonly called and known by the name of the Kentucky district, which tobacco shall be rated at twenty three shillings per hundred. Shall be paid to James Sneed, John Cowan, William Montgomery, Gen. Richard Clough Anderson, Isaac Shelby, Gabriel Madison, & William Kennebec, gentlemen, who, or any four of whom, are hereby appointed commissioners to receive the same, to be by them paid for cash or public securities, and the proceeds one paid by the said commissioners into the public treasury.
AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any such bill or bills shall have passed into a law, with the said commissioners within the time prescribed by law for the payment of taxes into the public treasury, that then the Supreme Court of the United States shall be authorized upon motion of the said commissioners to grant judgment and issue executions against such collector and his securities, provided they shall have ten days previous notice thereof.
AND be it further enacted, That the sheriff and collectors, except those of the District of Kentucky shall give a receipt to each person for any money collected by them, specifying in what the said taxes were paid: and shall monthly make returns, on oath to the courts of their respective counties, of their collection, inserting in distinct columns of whom received, the amount of the several articles paid, viz: specie, facilities, warrants, crop and transfer tickets, with the marks, numbers, weights, and warehouses, and shall at the time of making said return make oath that he hath not directly or indirectly, sold, bartered or exchanged any article to or with the person or persons from whom he hath collected taxes, except what was necessarily given in change. And in case any sheriff or collector shall fail making such return, he shall forfeit for every failure, the sum of fifty pounds, to be recovered by motion, on ten days previous notice being given, which the attorney for the commonwealth in the county where the failure shall be, is hereby re-
qualified to make and preserve, and the money so re- covered shall be collected and transmitted by the collector of the county, to the county of the appli- cant to public purposes; and any individual convicted of making a false claim to the county court shall be liable to the same penalty, and shall not be over before every second day . From and after the office of sheriff or collector in this county . The clerks of the several county courts shall be sworn and directed to file no minutes of the filings or collectors monthly returns in some compilation part of their respective courts, to be made in the session on the next court day after such returns are made; they shall also file a true and correct ever another a traced copy to the sheriff or collector, without which being first produced to the county of Public accounts, no field or collector or any person for him, shall be permitted to make any pay- ment on account of his court account, until the said field. Any clerk refusing to perform the duties herein- before required of him, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five pounds for every such neglect, to be recovered and applied in the same manner as the forfeitures incurred by this act are applicable to sheriffs and collectors.
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A letter from a correspondent in New York, dated Oct. 15, says that Wilks, who they say is in the country, has been arrested by the police. He is now in the City Hall, and will be tried for the murder of his wife. The police say that he is a very dangerous man, and that they are not sure that they can keep him in custody. The trial will probably take place in the next few days. The police say that they have a very strong case against him, and that they are sure that he will be convicted. The public are very much interested in the case, and are waiting for the trial to begin.
RESOLVED, unanimously, that the right of the people to emigrate from this State is a natural and unalienable right, and that the General  Assembly has no  power to restrain or prevent the exercise of that  right , or to impose any penalty or restriction on the  exercise of that  right .
RESOLVED, unanimously, that the policy of the Com- mittee of Safety and Council of Commercial Nations is good and is recommended as a plan or system of policy by which action in the commercial world of commodities is had that nothing can be more important and right than to establish a full and free flow and to make sure that it is more than the common flow of goods.
High prices are to the good people of the country — a curse, and that markedly so, inasmuch as the farmers and non-people, together — the farmers and workers, destroying public and private credit, and all faith in the value of money, it would seem, and especially in every thing that is based thereon.
at General Court, Salem, October 6, 1787. That the Court, with an hour's adjournment, do then and there, in the presence of the several members of the said Court, read the several acts of the General Court, relating to the said cause, and which are now on file in the said Court; and it is ordered that a copy of this order be published three weeks in each of the V. and G. gazettes.
1A Copy To: JOHN BROWN, C.G.C. 1
WANTED AN APPRENTICE TO THE HATING BUS- NESS. Enquire at the printer hereof.
WHEREAS my Wife Katherine Gwin having proved false to my bed, and frequently confessed the same to be a cause of her absence which were true I therefore advertised her in the Virginia Gazette, and at several public places in my own country. Therefore, I the undersigned of this district may not have knowledge of said publication, I hereby forewarn all persons from trafficking her on my account, as I will not pay any of her contracts. I learn she is coming this district.
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