under the above description, with suitable apartments, in such houses in this city and liberties as are most convenient for that purpose, having due respect to the numbers of persons in family and the size of the houses; and that the wardens of the city, or so many as may be necessary, be requested to assist the said Quarter Master in the said service.

WHEREAS, The Hon'ble the delegates of the States of Virginia have presented a memorial to this Board, representing that fifteen bales of merchandize, the property of the said State, have been attached, by virtue of a process issuing out of the Court of Common Pleas of this city, at the suit of Simon Nathan, at present a resi dent of this State. That the said merchandize is now accordingly arrested in the hands of Messrs. Mifflin and Butler as garnishees. That the said memorialists apprehend that the State of Virginia, now in union with this and the other United States of America, as free, sovereign and independant, cannot nor ought not to be in any respect held to answer in the Courts of Justice of any other State, nor reduced to the alternative of yielding its property to a claim made. by any individual in any such court, and that such procedure is in other respects dangerous to the publick interests: Whereupon, due deliberation having been had, and the opinion of the Attorney General of the State taken in the premises,

Resolved, First. That the said process is derogatory to the rights and sovereignty of the Commonwealth of Virginia as a free sovereign and independent State, and that farther procedure thereon ought not to be had.

Secondly. That the Sheriff of the city of Philadelphia, and all other civil officers of this State, concerned in the arrest or detention of said goods, do immediately deliver the same to such persons as may be appointed in behalf of said State by the Honorable Delegates thereof, in Congress assembled, and forbear farther molestation or disturbance of the said State or its legal agents in the premisses.

AND WHEREAS, The said Simon Nathan, the plaintiff in said suit, having been brought before this Board, examined touching his conduet, and having declared that he had taken out the said process merely as a matter supposed of right, and being ignorant of the priviledges of the State in this respect: The Sheriff and Prothonotary alledging the same, and the delegates of Virginia having signified their desire that as this is the first instance of such aggression, no farther notice may be taken of any of the parties.

Resolved, That the said plaintiff, Simon Nathan, be discharged from farther attendance.

An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favour of Major James Parr, for the sum of six hundred pounds specie, payable out of the subscription raised pursuant to a vote of the twenty-second day of June last, for the purpose of raising three hundred Riflemen for the service of the United States, for which he is to account.

WHEREAS, It appears by a certificate, signed by William Pollard of this city, that there is due from him to William Price, formerly of this city, merchant, an attainted traitor, the sum of three hundred and sixty-seven pounds eleven shillings and four pence, Pennsylvania currency, and the same becoming the property of the State, ought to be paid to the Agents for Forfeited Estates in the city of Philadelphia; wherefore,

Ordered, That if the said sum be not accordingly paid on or before the first day of August next, the Attorney General be required to sue for the same without further delay.

A letter was read from David Brearly, dated Trenton, June 28th, 1781, and directed to the Hon'ble Thomas McKean, Esquire, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, informing that a certain Joseph Shackleton alias Smith, who is charged with having committed a robbery in Philadelphia; and thereupon,

Ordered, That the said letter be sent to the Honourable George Bryan, Esq'r; that he be requested to inquire into the said case, and, if he shall think it proper, to send for the said Shackleton, at the expence of the county of Philadelphia.

On consideration,

Resolved, That the Commissioners for selling the city lots do suspend the sale of such lots as are now within the inclosures of St. Peter's church, and also of the Presbyterian meeting house in Pine street, until farther orders.

A letter from divers inhabitants of the town of York, in the county of York, in this State, of the seventh instant, was read, informing that the office of Clerk of the Market in the said town is now vacant, and recommending Mr. John Ehrman as a proper person to be appointed to said office; thereupon,

Resolved, That Mr. John Ehrman be appointed and commissioned to be Clerk of the Market in the town of York aforesaid.

The following proclamation being read and considered, the same was agreed to and ordered to be published, vizt:

By his Excellency JOSEPH REED, Esquire, President, and "the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, Divers ill-disposed persons have manufactured or imported into this State quantities of base metal, in the similitude of British half pence, but much inferior in value and weight to genuine British half-pence, to the great depreciation of that coin, the injury of the community in general, and the poor in particu lar, such practices having a natural tendency to raise the necessarys of life and introduce new confusion in the currency of the country: We have, therefore, thought proper to prohibit, and do hereby strictly enjoin all officers employed in the receipt of taxes or other publick dues, not to receive such base coin in any payments whatsoever; and do earnestly recommend to all the faithfull inhabitants of this State to refuse it in payment, and by all other lawful ways and means discourage the currency thereof; and we do in a special manner direct and enjoin all Magistrates, Sheriffs, Constables and other civil officers within this State, to make due inquiry after offenders in the premises, that they may be brought to speedy and condign punishment.

Given by order of the Council, under the hand of his Excellency JOSEPH REED, Esquire, President, and the less seal of the State, at Philadelphia, this fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.

Attest-Tv MATLACK, Secr'y.

JOSEPH REED, President.

GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.

A memorial from Nicholas Miller, of the borough of Lancaster, I was read, and the same was dismissed.

A petition from Isaac Green, Jun'r, now confined in the gaol, praying to be discharged from confinement without entering on board the Trumbull frigate, was read, and rejected.

The Board taking into consideration the resolve of the Hon'ble Congress of the United States, passed the twelfth instant, setting forth that "Whereas, It has been represented to the United States, "in Congress assembled, that there are many French seamen, sub"jects of his most Christian Majesty, in the United States, em. "ployed on board armed and other vessels in the service of the "said States or the citizens thereof: And whereas, It has also been "represented that the said seamen are necessary for compleatly "manning the squadron under the Count De Barras; all officers, "therefore, commanding armed or other vessels, under commis"sions from the United States, in Congress assembled, are hereby "ordered and directed immediately to deliver to the said Count De "Barras, or to any person or persons by him appointed to receive "the same, all French seamen, subjects of his said Majesty, who "are or may be entered on board their vessels respectively; and if "any officer commissioned as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse com"plying with this order, he shall forfeit his commission, and be "subject to such other punishment as to right shall appertain; and "it is earnestly recommended to the Legislatures and Executives "of the several States to give effectual aid and support for the exe"cuting this order, and also for delivering to the Count De Barras "all French seamen, as aforesaid, that may be otherwise employed "within their respective jurisdictions;" whereupon,

Resolved, That all Merchants, Captains of vessels, and other eitizens or inhabitants of this State, be strictly enjoined to pay due obedience to the above resolve, and all Magistrates, Sheriffs, and Constables, and other civil officers, be directed to aid and assist such persons as may be legally appointed by the Commander of the Fleet of his most Christian Majesty, in apprehending and securing such French mariners, as they will answer the contrary at their peril.

An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favour of Hon'ble John Lacey, Jun'r, Esq'r, for the sum of twenty-five pounds specie, in part of his pay as a member of this Board, for which sum he is to

account.

A petition from George A. Baker, was read, setting forth that Captain Robert Bethel purchased at a vendue of confiscated estates, the messuage and lot of ground late the estate of Abraham Car

lisle, an attainted traitor; that the right of the said Robert Bethel is since become vested in him, the said George A. Baker; that the widow of the said Abraham Carlisle is in possesion of the premises, and refuses to deliver them up; whereupon, he hath prayed the aid of this Board to cause possesion to be given him, agreeable to the act of Assembly; and the same act being considered,

Resolved, That the Seeriff of the city and county of Philadelphia do give possesion of the said premises to him, the said George A. Baker, in due form of law, he paying the incident expences.

A petition from Edward Evans and John Linnington, was read, setting forth a claim to a city lot, appurtenant to the original purchase of William Salway, and praying a hearing in the premises; and the same being considered; thereupon,

Resolved, That this Board cannot grant the prayer thereof, or direct the Attorney General to receive a declaration in ejectment for said premises, until the possesion thereof be given up to the publick, and that in failure thereof, the Wardens be directed to execute the late act of Assembly intitled "An Act for the better "support of the publick credit by an immediate sale of the lands "therein mentioned, and fully securing the purchaser thereof in "their titles, and also for preserving the common lands appurte"nant to the city of Philadelphia and other towns in this State, "from unwarrantable encroachment," such posession being deemed and an unwarrantable usurpation of publick property.

The Hon'ble Robert Morris, Esquire, Superintendant of the Finances of the United States of America, presented to the Council an order on the Treasurer of the State in the following words, vizt:

"SIR:-According to the form and effect of sundry resolutions "of the Honourable the General Assembly of the Commonwealth "of Pennsylvania, of the twenty-fifth day of June 1781, you are "hereby required to pay or cause to be paid to Thomas Smith, Es"quire, Continental Loan Officer, the sum of one hundred and for"ty-six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, being in payment "of the ballance due to the United States for four-tenths of the