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The Trustees of the College of New-Jersey at their last meeting, finding that the seminary notwithstanding its late desolation by the
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enemy, and by the confusion of the times, is now filling fast, were of opinion, that the whole former system might be re-established, and took every necessary measure for that purpose :- Amongst others they directed the subscriber to give publick notice of the principal regulations, for the information of parents and guardians who may be desirous of sending their children here for instruction.
In consequence of this order, the publick will be pleased to observe." 1. That a considerable part of the College is already repaired, and the Trustees have given directions for the repairs being completed without delay ; therefore all undergraduates will, as formerly, be obliged to lodge in College, that they may be immediately under the eyes of their teachers; and a strict compliance with the orders of College, as to attending prayers, the hours of the day, and being in their chambers at night will be expected. This rule is to be under- stood to extend not only to those who board with the steward, but to those who board out with license, and to those whos parents live in the town or neighbourhood.
2. The Trustees have chosen a steward, who will board the students at the moderate rate of Ten Shillings proclamation money per week, and none will be suffered to board out of College, but with the express license of the President, or in his absence of the senior professor, and when this license is granted, they must pay to the steward at the rate of One Shilling and Six-pence per week, for the necessary expence of keeping the College and rooms in order.
3. Every new scholar, at his first coming to College, must pay one guinea entrance money, and at the rate of six pounds per annum tuition, and two pounds per annum for chamber rent. The entrance money and chamber rent are to be paid to the Treasurer, the tuition to the President, and the board to the steward in advance for sis months. This last circumstance of paying in advance every six months, will not be in any instance dispensed with, as the Trustees have renewed or ratified the former law, that if complaint is made by the Treasurer or steward that any student has not made his ad- vance for the current half year, the President must either dismiss him from College, or be himself answerable for the debt.
4. If any student from a grammer school shall at his first en- trance be admitted to the sophomore or junior class, he must pay the back tuition for the term or terms which he slips over, but if he has been a member of any other college, and be found qualified, he will be admitted to the same standing without any extra expence.
5. The tuition for the grammer school is the same as in College, six pounds per annum, and must be paid henceforth in the same manner in advance. The entrance money to new scholars is only one pound. The scholars of the grammer school are not obliged to live in College, as many of them are young and must be in private families ; but if any parent incline to have his child in College under the care of a more advanced student, as has been often the case, they have liberty to place them there, only it must be observed that they are then subject to all the rules of College, as to their hours and behaviour.
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Those who are acquainted with the College must know, that ex- repting some small alterations in the rates, all the above regulations that were formerly in force, and which will again be strictly and invariably adhered to; though for three years past, several have lived in private houses and behaved with much propriety, yet now that the number of students is large and daily encreasing, it is necessary to have recourse to the same order and discipline that were formerly of so much benefit to the institution. With regard to enforcing punctuality in the payments, the reader will easily perceive that the burden must lie wholly on the subscriber, who has already suffered so much by arrearages and pledging himself for persons at a distance, that no body need expect a repetition of the same expensive and dangerous compliance.
It is hoped that those who are at present members of College will be careful to attend at the beginning of the session, and that both they and future intrants will remember that regularity in attendance is absolutely necessary to their progress in their studies, and there- fore absence without leave, or beyond the time for which leave has been given, will be punished in the severest manner, that is to say, by publick censure or expulsion.
The subscriber earnestly recommends to all parents and guardians at a distance, that they would commit the management of their pupils, as to accounts and expence, to some person of character at College in Princeton, or in the neighbourhood : For want of this they often run into extravagance in point of dress and incidental charges. set a bad example to one another, are imposed upon in their accounts, and bring a reproach upon the institution. We often hear com- plaints of the expences of education from the friends of those who never paid anything for their education at all, but were suffered to mispend their money for the gratifications of their own fancies, and left their teachers to solicit the small pittance that was due to them for many years after their return home. Such instances occasioned some of the orders of the trustees mentioned above, and it is hoped the mention now made of them, will be sufficient to justify the measures in the opinion of every impartial person.
JOHN WITHERSPOON.
N. B. The vacation in the school is four weeks, and that in the college six weeks from the 26th inst.
TRENTON, OCT. 10.
On the 28th ult. the Council and Assembly of this state, in joint- meeting, proceeded to elect the civil officers necessary to supply the vacancies which had fallen pursuant to the constitution, when the following appointments were made : William Paterson, Esq. Attorney- General. Honourable William C. Houston, Clerk of the Supreme Court.
Elisha Boudinot, Esq. Clerk of the Circuits.
The Clerks of the different counties now stand as follows :
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Bergen, Abraham Westervelt. Essex, Robert Ogden, jun. Mid- dlesex, Benjamin Manning. Monmouth, Kenneth Anderson, jun. Somerset, Frederick Frelinghuysen. Burlington, John Phillips. Gloucester, Elijah Clark. Salem, Jacob Tagart. Cape-May, Eli Eldredge. Hunterdon, Samuel Witham Stocton. Morris, Silas Con- dict. Cumberland, Jonathan Elmer. Sussex, Charles Rhodes.
On Saturday last the General Assembly of this state rose, having completed the fifth session. The titles of the acts passed will be in our next.
Extract of a letter from New-Brunswick, Oct. 7, 1781.
"On Friday night last Capt. Adam Hyler, from New-Brunswick, with one gun boat and two whale ditto, within a quarter of a mile of the guard ship at Sandy-Hook, attacked five vessels, and after a smart conflict of fifteen minuits, carried them; two of them were armed, one mounting four six pounders, and one six swivels, and one three pounder. -The hands made their escape with their long boats, and took refuge in a small fort, in which was mounted twelve swivel guns, from which they kept up a constant firing, notwithstanding which he boarded them all without a loss of a man ;- on board of one of these was 250 bushels of wheat and a quantity of cheese belonging to Capt. Lippincott, bound to New-York ;- he took from them 50 bushels of wheat, a quantity of cheese, several swivels, a number of fuzes, one cask of powder, and some dry goods, and stripped them of their sails and rigging, not being able to bring the vessels into port, in consequence of a contrary wind and tide ;- after which he set all on fire save one, on board of which was a woman and four small children, which prevented her from sharing a similar fate."
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
An Act for recovering the arrearages of certain taxes. [ For this Act passed October 4, 1781, see Stat., Chap. XLIX.]
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
An Act to require Sheriffs to give security, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
[ For this Act passed October 5, 1781, see Statutes, Chap. L.]
Parchment, Ink powder, Quills, Wafers, Pocketbooks, and Watt's Psalms, may be had at the Printing-Office.
The Trustees of Queen's College, in New-Jersey, are requested to meet, at New-Brunswick on Wednesday the 24th day of October instant, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. By order,
J. R. HARDENBERGHI, CIk. Oct. 3, 1781.
* The subscribers to this Gazette will please take notice, that the first quarter will end at No. 199, inclusive.
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Trenton : Printed by Isaac Collins. Advertisements of a moderate Length are inserted for Five Shillings each the first Week, and Oso Shilling and Three-pence for every Continuance, and long Ones la Proportion ; and by whom Essays, and Articles of Intelligence are thankfully received.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. IV., No. 199, October 17, 1781.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, ESQUIRE,
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by my Proclamation bearing date the third day of August Last past, a reward of two hundred dollars of the bills of credit issued on the faith of this State, was promised to any person or persons who should apprehend and secure in any gaol of this State, any or either of the following persons or offenders, to wit, Caleb Sweesy, James O'Ilarry, John Moody, and Gysbert Gyberson; and whereas the said name Gysbert Gyberson was by mistake inserted in the said Proclamation instead of William Giberson, who is the person thereby meant and intended ;- I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the Honourable Privy Council of this State, to issue this Proclamation, hereby promising the reward above mentioned to any person or persons who shall apprehend and secure in any gaol of this State the said William Gyberson; and do hereby revoke any reward promised for apprehending or securing the said Gysbert Gyberson.
And whereas in and by a certain Act of the Legislature of this State, intitled, "An Act to prevent persons from passing through this State without proper passports," passed at Trenton the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, it is among other things enacted, that no person or persons whatsoever residing within this State, except the members of the Legislature and publick officers of government, shall be per- mitted to pass and repass through any part of this State, other than the county in which he, she, or they reside, without having a com- mission under this State or the United States, or a certificate from His Excellency the Governor, or from one one of the members of the Legislative Council or General Assembly of the county in which he, she or they reside, or from one of the Judges of the court of com- mon pleas or Justices of the Peace of such county, certifying that the bearer is an inhabitant of the county of and a person of good repute and generally esteemed a friend of the present govern- ment, as established under the authority of the people; in which certificate shall be inserted the name and rank of the person, and the town and county in which he resides; which certificate shall
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intitle the bearer to travel in any part of this State, except near the enemy's lines, where he shall not be permitted to travel without some apparent business consistent with his rank and station, and the good of the state; and that no person or persons whatsoever, not residing in or being an inhabitant of this State shall be permitted to pass or repass through any part of this State, without having and holding" a commission under the United States, or without a pass from the Commander in Chief or other General officer in the army of the United States, or from the Governor and Commander in Chief, or one of the Delegates in Congress for the state in which such traveller usually resides, or of one of the Legislative or Executive Council of such state, or being a non-commissioned officer or soldier, without a pass or furlough from some one of the officers of the regiment to which he or they may belong; which commission or pass shall entithe the bearer to travel into or through this State, while behaving and conducting as becometh such traveller: Prorided, that nothing in the said Act contained be taken or construed to extend to the hinder- ing any person living in the adjoining counties of the neighbouring states, not immediately in the possion of the enemy, from passing into the next adjoining county in this state, having a pass from one Justice of the peace in the county to which he or she may belong, provided such person do not attempt to pass out of such county without ob- taining a permission or passport, agreably to the directions of the said Act.
And whereas, in order to carry the said Act into effect, it was fur- ther enacted, that it should and might be lawful for any officer of this State, civil or military, in the presence of two or more witnesses, in a publiek manner to examine all travellers whatsoever, and for all innholders publickly to examine all such as may put up at their houses, and for all ferry men and drivers of publick stages to examine all passengers who may offer or desire a passage, and to detain and carry before some Justice of the peace of the county, all such person or persons, who upon such examination should not produce a com- mission, certificate or pass, authorizing them to pass as aforesaid; and without which by the said Act, they were therein before denied permission to pass and repass through any part of this State. And each and every person taken up and carried before a Justice of the peace in any county of this State, pursuant to the directions of the said Act, who are denied permission to pass as aforesaid, shall, by such Justice, be either committed to gaol by a mittimus, there to remain till duly discharged, or be obliged to return the directest way to his place of residence, as the said Justice upon examination of the person apprehended, and hearing the evidence produced, shall in his
discretion, judge most proper, and the said Justice of the peace, who shall cause any person to be committed to gaol as aforesaid, or any two Justices of the peace of the said county shall be, and thereby are authorized and empowered to discharge from gaol any such per- son so apprehended and committed, who shall prove to the satis- function of such Justice or Justices that he ought to be discharged upon his paying the costs accrued, on taking up and committing such person, as the same shall be taxed by the Justice or Justices: And
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all persons apprehended and committed as aforesaid, who shall not appear to be spies from the enemy, or otherwise guilty of any capital NConce, but shall otherwise be of doubtful or suspicious characters, shall be discharged from confinement, upon paying the cost as afore- said, and also the expence of a sufficient guard to conduct or remove such person or persons out of this State, the directest or securest . towards his place of residence; which guard the said Justice or Justices are required to procure, upon receiving a sum sufficient to hire and support the same, and to give a pass for that purpose; and that every boatman and ferryman who shall bring into this State, or over any ferry within the same, any person without a passport as aforesaid, and and every publick innkeeper or other householder who shall entertain any person not having such passport, and all stage-drivers who shall grant a passage to any such person, every such ferryman, publick innkeeper, householder and stage-driver so offending, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered in any court of record where the same may be cog- uizable, with costs of suit, to be applied one half to the support of the poor of the township where the offence was committed; and the other half to the prosecutor; and all officers civil and military within this State, are thereby strictly ordered and enjoined to give all need- ful aid and assistance for carrying the said act into execution, as by the said Act reference being thereunto had, may appear.
And whereas there is great reason to apprehend that the enemy employ a number of spies and emissaries to pass and repass through this State to collect intelligence and for other purposes prejudicial to the Commonwealth, and that the publick stage-drivers frequently grant passages to persons not having the passports by the said Act directed, and who pass and repass through this state in order to get into the enemy's lines without the passes for that purpose directed by another Act of the Legislature, and also to carry on an illicit trade with the enemy in defiance of another law of his State, for which reasons it is become more necessary than ever to carry the said herein recited Act into the most rigorous execution :- I have therefore thought fit hereby to request all good citizens of this State who tender the welfare of their country and the glorious cause of liberty and independence at this critical juncture when it is of the utmost importance to prevent all intercourse with the enemy to exert themselves in the execution of the said Act according to the respective powers and authorities on them conferred by the same.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Trenton, the ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the sixth year of the inde- pendence of America.
WILL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's Command,
BOWES REED, Sec'ry.
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TRENTON, Oct. 17.
Acts passed at the last session of General Assembly, An Act to amend an Act, intitled, An Act for regulating the election of mem- bers of the Legislative-Council and Assembly, Sheriffs, and Coroners of the state of New-Jersey, and also to direct the election of Dele. gates to represent the said state in the Congress of the United States.
An Act to repeal the several Acts made and provided for the cloth. ing of the quota of troops belonging to this state, in the service of the United States, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
An Act for recovering the arrearages of certain taxes.
An Act to require Sheriff's to give security, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
An Act for vesting in Richard Morris, Esq. the power, authority, title and estate given unto David Ogden and Richard Morris, by the last will and testament of Robert Hunter Morris, Esq. deceased, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
An Act for vesting the powers of agency for the West-Jersey So- ciety, in Joseph Reed, Esq. one of the said Society.
An Act for the relief of Adam Boyd, Sheriff of the county of Ber- gen, respecting the loss of a sum of publick money by the enemy.
An Act to enable Isaac Watson, surviving executor of the last will and testament of Samuel Watson, deceased, to fulfil the purposes of the said will.
An Act for procuring to Thomas Marshall a title for certain lands in the county of Gloucester, purchased by his father Randall Marshall, deceased, of John Hinchman, now a fugitive with the enemy.
An Act to repeal part of a certain Act therein mentioned.
An Act for defraying sundry incidental charges.
Tuesday the 9th inst. came on the annual election in this state for Representatives to serve in Council and Assembly for the en- suing year, when the following Gentlemen were returned, viz.
Hunterdon, Council, John Stevens, Esq. Assembly, Benjamin Van- Cleve, John Lambert and John Mehelm, Esquires.
Burlington, Council, John Cox, Esquire. Assembly, Thomas Feni- more, Israel Shreve and George Anderson, Esquires.
Monmouth, Council, Elisha Lawrence, Esquire. Assembly, Nathan- iel Scudder, Thomas Henderson and John Covenhoven, Esquires.
Morris, Council, John Carle, Esquire. Assembly, Ellis Cooke, Aaron Kitchel and John Stark, Esqrs.
Somerset. Council, Ephraim Martin. Assembly, Edward Bunn, David Kirkpatrick and John Schureman, Esquires.
Middleser, Council, John Beatty, Esq. Assembly, Jacob Suydam, Jacob Martin and John Conger, Esquires.
Gloucester, Council, Joseph Hugg, Esq. Assembly, Joseph Ellis, Samuel Ilugg and Isaac Tomlinson, Esquires.
Cumberland, Council, Samuel Ogden, Esquire. Assembly, Josiah Brick, Joshua Ewing and Josiah Seely, Esquires.
The returns for the other counties have not come to hand.
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By a Gentleman who left Egg-Harbour on Saturday last, we learn, that some time last week the hands on board the armed transport ship belonging to Admiral Digby's fleet, rose upon their Captain urar Sandy-Hook, and carried her into Egg-Harbour; she was loaded chiefly with provisions. The officers on board the brig inform that the Fair American privateer of Philadelphia, had taken five vessels, four of them brigs, out of the said fleet, laden with provisions and dry good's, one of them principally with linens, and said to be worth 'Thirty Thousand Pounds.
We just now learn that the Fair American, with the above prizes, are arrived in the Delaware.
Extract of a letter from New-Brunswick, dated October 15, 1781.
"On the 13th inst. Captain Adam Hyler, of this place, with one gun- boat and two whale-boats, boarded one sloop and two schooners, which all the hands except two had previously left, and which lay under cover of the light-house fort at Sandy Hook, and brought them off; but the sloop being such a dull sailer, and being much annoyed from a . galley lying near Staten-Island, was set on fire about three miles from the fort. One of the schooners running aground by accident, was stripped and left ; the other, a remarkably fine fast sailing Virginia built pilot boat, mounted with one four pounder, was brought with the two prisoners, to this place."
Princeton, House of Assemby, October 3, 1781. Resolved,
That George Anderson, Esq. of the county of Burlington, and Ben- jamin Smith, Esq. and Charles Axford, jun, of the county of Hunter- don, or any two of them, be and they hereby are appointed to in- spect, cancel, and put into sealed bundles, the sum of Forty-eight Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds, including principal and interest, of the bills of credit emitted pursuant to the resolutions of Congress of March 18th, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty ; and that they meet for that purpose at such time and at such place as shall be notified to them by the Treasurer of the state, who is hereby required to give such notice to the said persons accordingly, and to lay before them bills to the aforesaid amount, within ten days after the first day of January next, if the said sum of the before- mentioned emission shall have been received into the treasury within that time, or otherwise as soon thereafter as so much money of the said emission shall come into his hands: And the said persons so appointed shall deliver the sealed bundles cancelled as aforesaid to the Treasurer of the state, to be by him laid before the Legislature, to be inspected and destroyed ; and shall also lay an account of the numbers and denominations of the bills so cancelled, attested on oath, before the Legislature at their next sitting thereafter, together with an account of the expences incurred by the service, for their allowance and settlement.
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Resolved, That the Treasurer of the state be directed to purchase the measures prescribed by law for the recovery of the deficiencies of the late tax.
Extract from the Minutes, M. EWING, jun. Clerk.
The Members of the late New-Jersey Medical Society are requested to take notice, that at a meeting of a respectable number of members at Princeton this day, (pursuant to an advertisement in the New- Jersey Gazette) it was agreed on to re-establish the Society on its former principles and constitution ; and that agreeably thereto, their half yearly meeting, as usual, will be held on the first Tuesday in November next, at this place.
By order of the Meeting. ISAAC SMITHI, Chairman.
Princeton, October 3, 1781.
House of Assembly, Sept. 20, 1781.
A Petition from John Ely, son of George Ely, late of the county of Hunterdon, was presented and read, setting forth that his said father did by virtue of a deed from Samuel Tucker, late High-Sheriff of said county, become possessed of 398 acres of land in the town- ship of Amwell, in said county ; that the said George Ely did some time afterwards sell and convey to Captain George Coryell, one equal and undivided half part of the said tract; that shortly after the said sale, he the said George Ely, became deprived of his reason, and still continues so, whereby the said land remains undivided, much to the damage of the said George Ely's estate, and praying that leave may be given him to bring in a bill to enable him on the part and in the name of the said George Ely, to divide the said lands, and to confirm the same division when made.
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