The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1787-10-06 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND GENERAL
GAZETTE, THE ADVERTISER.
S A T U R D A Y, P O R T S M O U T H : By JOHN MELCHER,
O C T O B E R 6, 1787.
PRINTED and PUBLISHED in MARKET-STREET.
“WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE.”
PROCEEDINGS OF THE Grand Federal Convention.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
A R T I C L E I.
Sec. 1. ALL legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Sec. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New-Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North-Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
Sec. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class
at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any state, the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.
Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.
Sec. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Sec. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorised to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide.
Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behaviour, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any
other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
Sec. 6. The senators and representatives shall receive compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office.
Sec. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives; but the senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the house of representatives and the senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the president of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the senate and house of representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the president of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
Sec. 8. The Congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign na-

tions, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings;—And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Sec. 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation, or other direct tax shall be laid unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce, or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States:—And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title,
of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Sec. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports, or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and controul of the Congress. No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
II.
Sec. 1. The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the vice president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows,
Each state shall appoint, in such manner, as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress: but no senator or representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the president of the senate, the president of senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the house of representatives shall immediately chuse by ballot one of them for president; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list, the said house shall in like manner chuse the president. But in chusing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall chuse from them by ballot the vice-president.
The Congress may determine the time of chusing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years, a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the president from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties
of the said office, the same shall devolve on the vice-president, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the president and vice-president, declaring what officer shall then act as president, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a president shall be elected.
The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States."
Sec. 2. The president shall be commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the supreme court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the president alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
Sec. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall re-
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State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in New Durham, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1783, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 17th day of October next, at ten o'clock, A. M. at my dwelling house, in said town, as will pay the tax and charges unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. Div. s. d.     John Willey jun. 44 2 5 0   Samuel Smith 30 2 5 0   Benjamin Jenkins 42 2 5 5   T. Wiley & J Bickford 6 half 2 2 6   John & Frances Drew 17 1 3 9   Daniel Rogers 24 part 2 2 10   Thomas Willey 70 1 3 9   Thomas Wallingford Esq. 60 4 h 2 4 0   Jery Dritco & Peter Moe 28 half 1 1 11   ditto 28 half 2 2 6   Solley & March for the year 1780 86 1 6 0   86 2 7 4  
ELISHA THOMAS, Constable, New Durham, September 18th, 1787.
A variety of BLANKS For sale at this Office.

L O N D O N, August 1:
By a Gentleman just arrived from Brest, we learn, that the French are exerting themselves at that port, with uncommon diligence. A Courier arrived there on the 24th instant, from Versailles, with dispatches for the Commanding Officers;—immediately after which the shipwrights were ordered to work double tides, and an additional quantity of provisions and naval stores were shipped on board five ships of the line; which, it is thought, are destined for the East-Indies.—It appears that no less than three ships, armed en flute , have sailed, singly, for the Mauritius, within the last six months. These ships are laden with all kinds of naval and military stores, and when cleared, are capable of mounting 64 guns,—the lower tier of guns being put in the hold, for the purpose of rendering the accommodations for the stores, the more capacious.—Whilst such things are doing in France, what are the supine Ministers of Great Britain about? We have not a single ship of force in the Eastern Hemisphere.—The Dutch, and French, are in full force there!
P H I L A D E L P H I A, Sept. 21.
A letter from Baltimore dated September 15, says, "The Union, Captain Tucker, arrived yesterday from Bourdeaux, in six weeks."
"The French fleet of 15 sail, had put to sea a few days before the Union failed, and the English were pressing men with great diligence—the Dutch faction becoming more violent every day. The Union spoke a French ship from Bengal. Lord Cornwallis was bringing every officer of the East-India Company to severe account, for every part of their conduct while in office, though 20 years back. A Dutch East India ship, laden chiefly with spices, was lost four days after she sailed from the Cape of Good Hope—she had a large quantity of nutmegs, &c. The Union also spoke the Pigot from China."
Sept. 15. Last evening arrived the Brig Diamond, Capt. Chevers, in sixteen days from St. Croix, who informs, that a severe hurricane happened at Basseterre on the 23d of August; it began about 4 o'clock. P. M. and did great damage amongst the shipping. The Brig Otto William, Augustus Peek, master, from this port, was drove from her anchors out to sea, and overset; they were obliged to cut away her masts, when she righted, and they got into port next day under jury masts. A Schooner belonging to Middletown, William Warner, master, overset and entirely lost, only the Captain and five of the crew saved. A brig belonging to Boston was drove out to sea, and received considerable damage, the Capt. of which informed, that the day after the gale he saw a sloop dismasted (name unknown) a Schooner belonging to Marblehead, —Gale, master, a brig and sloop belonging to Casco-Bay, and several other vessels were drove out to sea, and were not heard of when Capt. Chevers failed.
B O S T O N, October 5.
A New-York paper of Saturday last contains the following very interesting intelligence, viz.
"Yesterday Congress resolved unanimously, eleven states being present, that the New Constitution is to be transmitted to the legislatures of the several states, in order to be submitted to a Convention of delegates to be chosen by the people, agreeably to the mode prescribed by the Convention."
Extract from the Journals of Congress, July 3.
"On a report of the secretary for foreign affairs, Resolved, That Congress are well pleased with the conduct of Thomas Barclay, Esquire, in the course of the negotiations on the part of the United States with his imperial majesty of Morocco, as detailed and represented in his and other letters and papers transmitted to them."
George Washington, Esquire, has already been destined, by a thousand voices, to fill the place of the first president of the United States, under the new frame of government. While the deliverers of a nation in other countries have hewn out a way to power with the sword, or seized upon it by stratagems and fraud, our illustrious hero peaceably retired to his farm after the war, from whence it is expected he will be called, by the suffrages of three millions of people, to govern that country by his wisdom (agreeably to fixed laws) which he had previously made free by his arms.—Can Europe boast of such a man?—or can the history of the world shew an instance of such a voluntary compact between the deliverer and the delivered of any country, as will probably soon take place in the United States?
Extract of a letter from an American house in Cape Francoise, Hispaniola, under date of 4th ult. to a gentleman in this town.
"We are informed by an Ordinance of this day, that NO American vessel (except in distress) will be permitted to enter any French ports in the
West-Indies, unless the Captain is provided with a Pass from the Consul resident at the place of his departure."
As the above information is of material consequence to the mercantile interest, 'tis requested the Printers throughout the States will publish it.
A letter from a gentleman in Berkely county, Virginia, to his friend in Baltimore, dated the 26th ult. says,—"At the head of New-Creek, which empties into Patow-mack, twenty miles above Fort Cumberland, a SILVER MINE of unknown value has had its bountiful bosom opened, by a Captain McCarty, who has now a number of men at work, throwing out such quantities of ore, as will soon surprise us all."
The General Society of the Cincinnati, so we are informed, at their Meeting at Philadelphia in July last, ordered the Diademas for the foreign members to be struck off and presented them. The "Bald Eagles" presented to them, we are told, cost the Society 3000 dollars.
Silver and copper Medals, we are told, are striking off, to be carried by Captain Kendrick, bound to the Pacifick Ocean, to be distributed among the natives of the Indian Isles—on one side are represented a ship and sloop under full sail, with the words "COLUMBIA and WASHINGTON, commanded by J. KENDRICK:"—on the reverse the following "Fitted at Boston, North-America, for the Pacifick Ocean, by" encircling the names of "J. BARRELL, S. BROWN, C. BULFINCH, J. DERBY, C. HATCH, J. M. PINTARD. 1787."
The enterprising adventurers on the voyage to New-Albion, are determined to send in their vessels a quantity of the copper CENTS, and HALF CENTS, struck at the public mint under the authority of this Commonwealth, to be disposed of among the natives of those countries they may visit in the southern ocean—They are finely executed, the device on one side, the SPREAD EAGLE of the union, encircled with the word COMMONWEALTH—on the reverse, an INDIAN, with his bow and arrow, surrounded with the word MASSACHUSETTS.
Capt. Tucker, in the ship Union, arrived at Baltimore, the 4th inst. left Bourdeaux, (France) the 28th of July, informs, that a war was unavoidable in Europe; that hostilities had already commenced between the parties of the stadholder and the states of Holland; that France determining to support the latter in their liberties, had equipped a fleet of fourteen sail of the line, which sailed from Brest about the 25th for that purpose; and England, not less active resolved to reinstate the stadholder in all his rights and privileges, was, with this intention, preparing and manning a fleet of 18 or 20 sail as expeditiously as possible to be in readiness for sea by the 30th of July. It was conjectured, that the King of Prussia would take the part of his brother in law the stadholder. The Emperor, it was expected, would unite any measures with his brother in law the king of France; Spain will naturally be brought in as usual.
"It is to be feared, that the lovers of wine will want for good claret, as the crops will fall short, by reason of some hard frosts late last spring.—In consequence of the unfavorable prospects, wine had taken a rise of ten per cent. before Captain Tucker left Bourdeaux."
On the 4th of August, in lat. 49, 10 N. and long. 12, 35, W. Captain Tucker fell in with the Pigot Indian, Captain Ballentine, six months out of China. It being almost calm, Captain Ballentine hoisted out his boat, and came on board Captain Tucker, to procure some articles he was in want of. He advised, that lord Cornwallis was making many new regulations in India, and was endeavouring to wipe away the stains which were left by the mismanagement of Mr. Hastings, and repair the injuries occasioned by his misconduct, lord Cornwallis has ordered all officers in public trust, to give an account of their conduct and proceedings, for several years back.
Capt. Ballentine likewise informed, that the establishment of the American trade wore a very unfavorable aspect in that quarter, owing to some of the American masters and supercargoes not paying that nice respect to the punctuality that was requisit, and which the eastern nations have been accustomed to. The traffick of most nations there, is carried on by companies; each company, has its factor, who alone is responsible for any misdemeanors committed by individuals belonging to their respective companies.—Americans may be certain, says Captain Ballentine, should this conduct of theirs continue, that the natives will take the first opportunity they may have, to seize on their property indiscriminately; so that the innocent must suffer on account of the guilty.
Saturday last the ceremony of opening MALDEN-BRIDGE was performed by firing a cannon, and the regaling of the workmen, at the expence of the proprietors. In the afternoon the established toll was received from all passengers who crossed the bridge.
P O R T S M O U T H, October 6.
By Col. Gains we learn, that on Saturday last the General-Court of this State concluded their session at Charleston, and adjourned to the third Wednesday in January next, when they are to meet in this town. Among other acts the following were passed at the late session:
An act to encourage the rolling, sitting, and plating of iron; and to impower the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace to establish nail manufactories in the prison yards, for the employment of criminals who may be confined in the several counties.—An Act, in addition to an Act, for regulating the exportation of flax seed.—An Act for appointing new managers to the lottery for Dartmouth College.—An Act impowering Sheriffs to sell real estate at public vendue, for the satisfaction of extents for taxes.—An Act for appropriating imposts and excise duties, and providing for the payment of Orders drawn on the State Treasurer.—An Act to incorporate a township by the name of Sullivan.—An Act to alter the time of holding the annual meeting in the town of Jaffrey.—And an Act (to commence the 1st inst.) doubling the Excise on all spirituous liquors sold or used in this State, without any draw-back of twenty per cent. and laying an annual excise on all Chariots, Coaches, Phaetons, Chaises, Chairs, and Sulkies.
Died since our last, a child of Mr. William Ham, of this town.
N A V A L O F F I C E.
PORT OF PISCATAQUA, Oct. 6, 1787. E N T E R E D, FROM. Brig Three Brothers, Sherburne, St. Lucia. C L E A R E D, FOR. Ship Mary, Tilestone, Great-Britain.
To MR. JOSIAH MOULTON, junior, Clerk to the proprietors of Peirmont, SIR,
WE the subscribers being owners of more than one sixteenth part of the said township, desire that you would call a meeting of said proprietors at the house of Capt. William McHard, in Portsmouth, on the 29th day of October next, at ten o'clock A. M.—and there to act upon the following matters.
 1st, To chuse a Moderator.  2dly, To chuse another Proprietors Clerk, in the room of the present gentleman who has discover'd his inclination to resign that office.  3dly, To appoint a committee to revise the Proprietors Records and Papers.  4thly, To see if the Proprietors will agree with some proper person to allot the common and undivided lands, in the most reasonable manner.  5thly, To chuse an Agent or Agents to defend any suit or suits already brought, or which may hereafter be brought against this Proprietary, with a power of compromising.  6thly To see what measures the Proprietors will take to set aside any agreements (made for the payment of debts) which have not been complied with.  7thly, To transact any other matters which may be for the interest of the Proprietors. 
JONATHAN WARNER, GEORGE ATKINSON, JOHN PENHALLOW, HALL JACKSON, SAMUEL SHERBURNE, GEORGE BRACKETT, GEORGE JAFFREY, JOHN WENDELL, JOHN PEIRCE, THOMAS MARTIN, A. R. CUTTER, SIMON JENNESS, Proprietors. Portsmouth, September 8 1787.
September 22, 1787.
PURSUANT to the above request, I hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of Piermont, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified therein.
JOSIAH MOULTON, Proprietors Clerk.
STOLEN from off the flukes of the subscriber, at Little Harbour, on Saturday night the 29th ultimo, about four quintals and a half of dried fish, chiefly icale fish: Whoever will give information of the thieves, so as they may be brought to justice shall receive four dollars reward by October 3, 1787. JOHN BLUNT.

ceive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.
Se ct 4. The president, vice-president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
III.
Se ct 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
Se ct 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States, between a state and citizens of another state, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in all cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Se ct 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
IV.
Se ct 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
Se ct 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered upon claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Se ct 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more
states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.
Se ct 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a Republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
V.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.
VI.
All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation.
This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound hereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same.
Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1787, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 12th. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.
George Washington, President, And Deputy from Virginia,
New-Hampshire. John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman. Massachusetts. Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King. Connecticut. William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman.
New-York. Alexander Hamilton. New Jersey. William Livingston, David Brearley, William Patterson, Jonathan Dayton.
Pennsylvania. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris.
Delaware. George Read, Gunning Bedford, jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom.
Maryland. James M c Henry, Daniel of St. Tho. Jenifer, Daniel Carroll.
Virginia. John Blair, James Madison, jr., North Carolina. William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson.
South Carolina. John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler.
Georgia. William Few, Abraham Baldwin. Attest, William Jackson, Secretary.
In CONVENTION, Monday, Sept. 17, 1787. Present,
The States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mr. Hamilton from New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia:
Resolved,
THAT the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification; and that each Convention assenting to, and ratifying the same, should give notice thereof to the United States in Congress assembled.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which Electors should be appointed by the states which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which the Electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution. That after such publication the Electors should be appointed, and the Senators and Representatives elected: That the Electors should meet on the day fixed for the election of the President, and should transmit their votes certified, signed, sealed and directed, as the Constitution requires, to the Secretary of the United States in Congress assembled, that the Senators and Representatives should convene at the time and place assigned; that the Senators should appoint a President of the Senate, for the sole purpose of receiving, opening and counting the votes for President; and, that after he shall be chosen, the Congress together with the President, should, without delay, proceed to execute this Constitution.
By the unanimous Order of the Convention,
George Washington, President. William Jackson, Sec'y.
In CONVENTION, September 17, 1787. Sir,
WE have now the honor to submit to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled, that Constitution which has appeared to us the most advisable.
The friends of our country have long seen and desired, that the power of making war, peace and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities should be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union: but the impropriety of delegating such extensive trust to one body of men is evident—Hence results the necessity of a different organization.
It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all—Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits and particular interests.
In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. The important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every State is not perhaps to be expected; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe, that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom & happiness, is our most ardent wish.
With great respect we have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servants,
George Washington, President, By unanimous Order of the CONVENTION.
His Excellency The President of Congress.