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The denominations of money of account, as they are by law required to be ufed in the public offices, and in all judicial proceedings of the United States, are dollars, (the dollar being the 'unit) dimes or tenths, cents or kundredths, and mills or thoufandths of a dollar.
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HEALTH-OFFICE.
No. 32, Walnut Street.
IS kept open every day, (except Sundays) from nine o'clock in the morning until one, and from three to five in the afternoon.
WILLIAM ALLEN, Health Officer. WILLIAM NESBITT, Clerk.
ELIJAH BATTISS, Mefenger.
B A N K S.
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THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES,
Is kept in Third-ftreet, between Chefnut and Walnut-fireets.
IT was incorporated by an act of Congrefs in the year 1791, to con- tinue until 1811. It is under the direction of a Prefident and twenty- four directors, chofen annually. The capital is Io,coc,cco of dollars, divided into 25,000 fhares. Open every day, except Sunday, Chriftmas, and the 4th of July, from nine in the morning until three in the after- noon. Wednesday and Fridays are the difcount days.
THOMAS WILLING, Prefident. GEORGE SIMPSON, Cafhier.
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Is kept in Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia.
AND was incorporated by an act of Affembly, in the year 1792, for the term of 20 years. It is under the management of a Prefident and twenty-four directors; fiz of the directors are appointed by the Affem- bly, and the remainder are chofen by ths ftockholders annually. The capital is 2,000,000 of dollars, divided into 5000 fhares, and may be in- creafed to 7,500. Open every day, except Sunday and 4th of July, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. Difcount to be applied for on Tuefdays and Fridays.
SAMUEL M. FOX. Prefident. JONATHAN SMITHI, Cathier.
BANK OF NORTH-AMERICA. Is kept at No. 99, Chefnut ftreet, Philadelphia.'
WAS incorporated in the year 1781. Is managed by a Prefident and eleven directors, chofen annually. The capital is nearly one million and may be increafed to a much greater amount. Is open every day, except Sunday, ift of January, Good Friday, Chriftmas, and 4th of July, from nine to three in the afternoon. Difcount days are Mondays and Thurfe days.
JOHN, NIXON, Prefident. RICHARD WELLS, Cafhier.
At all thefe banks, bills or notes may be left at any time during bank hours to be collected, which is done free of expence ; but in cafes of non- payment and proteft, the perfon leaving the bill or note muft . pay the ex- pence. Notes or bills payable on any day when the banks are thut, muft be taken up on the preceding day. Three days grace are allowed on all notes payable. Difcounts are made only on perfonal fecurity, and fixty days is the longeft credit. The dividends are made every fix months,
SOCIETY
FOR THE
INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE
EMIGRANTS.
W HOEVER reflects upon the various caufes of emigration from Europe to the United States of America, muft be convinced- whoever lias the opportunity of appealing to his own experience, muft know --- that many of those that emigrate, although frequently erdowed with talents and virtues the moft valuable, arriving on an unknown fhore, beleft of the means of fupport, and deftitute of friends to whom to apply for advice or affiftance, are loft, for a time, to fociety and themfelves.
With a view to leffen, or totally to obviate thele inconven.ences; to render emigration as advantageous as poffible, both to the Emigrants themfelves, and to the country which affords them refuge; to give them every information and affiftance in our power : in fhort, to foften the afperities of the ftranger's fituation, at his firft out-fet in a new country, We, the Subfcribers, have affociated ourfelves under the title of
" THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE OF PERSONS EMIGRATING FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES."
NAMES OF OFFICERS,
MORGAN J. RHEES, Prefident. THOMAS NEWNHAM, Treafurer. JOHN HARRISON, Secretary. Dr. A. BLAYNEY, Phyfician. WILLIAM ZANE, Regifter. JARED INGERSOL, 2 THOMAS EWING, S Counfellors
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The Treafurer, Secretary, Phyfician, and Regifter, with the following eight Members, compofe the Committee of Con- ference and Correfpondence.
WILLIAM YOUNG BIRCH, JOHN HARRISON, NAPTALI PHILIPS, PHILIP JONES, DOCTOR PASCALIS.
The Committee meet at fix o'clock every Monday evening.
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STAMP RATES.
ANY NY Certificate of Naturalization,
Dls. Cts. Mls. 5
Any Licence to practife, or Certificate of the admiffion, en- rolment, or regiftry of any Counfellor, Solicitor, Attor- ney, Advocate or Proctor, in any Court of the United States, 1
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Provided, that a Certificate in any one of the Courts of the United States for one of the faid Offices, fhall, fo far as relates to the payment of the Duty aforefaid, be a fufficient admiffion in all the Courts of the United States, for each and every of the faid offices,
Any Grant or Letters Patent, under the Seal or authority of the United States (except for Lands granted for mi- litary fervices)
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Any Exemplification or certified Copy of any fuch grant or Letters Patent, (except for Lands granted for military fervices)
2
Any Charter-Party, Bottomry, or Refpondentia Bond, Any Receipt or Difcharge for or on account of any Legacy left by any Willor other Teftamentary Inftrument, or for any fhare or part of a perfonal eftate divided by force of any ftatute of distributions, other than to the Wife, Children or Grand-Children of the perfon deceafed, the amount whercof fhall be above the value of Fifty Dollars, and fhall not exceed the value of One Hundred Dollars,
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When the amount thereof fhall exceed the value of One Hundred Dollars, and fhall not exceed Five Hundred Dollars, 50
And for every further fum of Five Hundred Dollars, the additional fum of
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From the United States to any foreign port or place, when the fum for which Infurance is made fhall not ex- ceed Five Hundred Dollars, 25
When the fum infured fhall exceed Five Hundred Dollars,
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Any Exemplification, of what nature foever, that fhall pafs Dols. Cts. Ils.
the feal of any Court, other than fuch as it may be the duty of the Clerk of fuch Court to furnifh for the ufe of the United States or fome particular ftate,
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Any Bond, Bill fingle or penal, foreign or inland Bill of Exchange, Promiffory Note or other Note, other than any Recognizance, Bill, Bond, or other Obligation or Contract, made to or with the United States, or any flate, or for their ufe refpectively,
If above Twenty Dollars and not exceeding One Hun- dred Dollars,
If above One Hundred Dollars and not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, 25
If above Five Hundred Dollars and not exceeding One Thoufand Dollars,
50
And if above One Thoufand Dollars,
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Provided, that if any Bonds or Notes fhall be payable at or within fixty days, fuch Bonds or Notes fhall be fubject to only two fifth parts of the Duty aforefaid-viz.
If above Twenty Dollars, and not exceeding One Hun -. dred Dollars,
If above One Hundred Dollars and not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars,
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If above Five Hundred Dollars and not exceeding One Thoufand Dollars,
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If above One Thoufand Dollars,
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'Any notes iffued by the Banks now eftablithed, or that may hereafter be eftablithed within the United States, other than the Notes of fuch of the faid banks as fhall agree to an annual compofition, of one per centum on the annual Dividends made by fuch Banks, to their Stock- holders refpectively, according to the following fcale, On all Notes not exceeding Fifty Dollars, for each dol- lar,
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On all Notes above Fifty Dollars, and not exceeding One Hundred Dollars,
50
On all Notes above One Hundred Dollars, and not ex- ceeding Five Hundred Dollars,
On all notes above Five hundred Dollars,
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Any proteft or other Notarial act, .
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Any Letter of Attorney, except for an invalid penfion, or to obtain or fell warrants for Land granted by the Uni- ted States as bounty for military fervices performed in the late war,
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Any certificate or Debenture for drawback of Cuftoms or Duties, for lef's than Five Hundred Dollars, I
For Five hundred dollars, and not exceeding two Thou- fand Dollars,
For more than two Thoufand Dollars,
Any note or bill of lading for Goods or Merchandize to be exported,
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If from one Diftrict to another Diftri&t of the United Do's. Cts. Mls.
States, not being in the fame State, O IO 25
If from the United States to any foreign port or place, Any Inventory or Catalogue of Any Furniture, Goods or Effects, made in any cafe required by law, (except in cafes of Goods and Chattels diftrained for Rent or Taxes, and Goods taken in virtue of any legal procefs by any officer,) 50
Any certificate of a fhare in any Infurance Company, of a Share in the Bank of the United States, or of any State or other Bank,
If above Twenty Dollars and not exceeding One Hun- dred Dollars, 10
If above One Hundred Dollars,
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If under Twenty Dollars, at the Rate of Ten Cents for One Hundred Dollars.
The above rates payable after the First of July 1798.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
March 5th, 1799.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, That by an act of Congrefs paffed the 28th day of February, one thoufand, feven hundred and ninety-nine, the following alterations and amendments have been made to an Act pats- ed on the 6th day of July, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-feven, intituled " an act laying duties upon ftamped vellum, parchment and paper."
I. The Stamp Duties heretofore impofed upon Foreign Bills of Exchange and Bills of Lading are to ceafe and determine from and after the 3 1ft day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-nine.
II. The feveral Stamp Duties hereafter enumerated, will be levied and collected throughout the United States, from and after the gift day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-nine.
For every fkin or piece [of Vellum or Parchment, or fheet or piece of paper, upon which fhall be written or printed either ofthe inftruments of writing's following, to wit.
Dols. Cts.
Any foreign Bill of Exchange, Draft or Order for the pay- ment of money in any foreign country,
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A Note or Bill of Lading, or Writing or Receipt in nature thereof, for goods or Merchandize to be exported ,-if from one Diftrict to another Diftrict of the United States, not being in the fame ftate, 4
If from the United States to any foreign lace, 10
Any Policy of Infurance, or inftrument in the ature there- ther than thofe heretofore fpecified in the above re-
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Dols. Cts. 25
cited Act, when the fun infured shall not exceed five hundred dollars,
When the fum infured fhall exceed five hundred dollars, I
And the faid duties are chargeable upon each and every Bill of Exchange and Bill of Lading without refpect to the number contained in each fet.
III. Bonds required in any cafe by the Laws of the United States, or of any State, upon legal procefs, or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any truft or duty, are exempt from the paymentof Stamp Duties.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT.
Secretary of the Treafury.
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The Speaker, or
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES,
Selected from various authors, and difpofed under proper heads, with a View to facilitate the improvement of youth in Reading and Speaking. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION, BY WILLIAM ENFIELD, L. L. D. Lifeer on the Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington.
RECOMMENDATION.
Dr. E Feld's " Spak "eis a work fo generally admired, and peculiarly calculated for beter wate and public fchools, as well as the higher feats of learning, that I capot bút comply with. the prefent editor's requeft, in raoft cheerfully recommending the fame to the parents, guardians and inftructors of the rifing generation.
WILLIAM ROGERS, D&D. Profeffor of English and Belles NAD c' && the Jniverfity of Pennfylvania.
des, Cars. IT uno 0, Circular Terer and on odera terms. &
on the hen towicity of this City, Bonnich of found work and Korther Liberty. The Subscribing and it with.
in ihmal are reporting informed that the work in a
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THE Editor takes this method of inforan- by the Public, that he is forry to have been Gorived tte pleafure of having produced this
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