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Sir Thomas Charles Style, of Cloghan Lodge, Ireland, Baronet. 2,000
35,000
"Marguerita Madeline Des Lessert, of Paris Bartholomew Louis Charles Rolland, count de Erceville, of Paris.
7,500
Rev. George William Danberry, of Bath, England.
10,000 5,000 11,000
Richard J. Tucker, Jr. and Thomas R. Tucker, of Bermuda 8,327 17
Frances Elizabeth Tucker, of do. 8,400
Eliza Scott, of St. Thomas
John Hanton T'ritton, Banker of London
Alice Tucker of St. Thomas
Margaretta Elizabeth Uhthoff, of Bremen,in Germany 5,000
Rev. William Vowles and Miss Ann Vowles, of London 5,000
Johannes de Veer and Philip Dirk Thomp- son Milton Spiro, of St. Eustatia 15,000
4,500
Charles Louis, county De Vogue, of France Richard Wood, of Bermuda
Thomas Wilson & Co. of London 30,221 34
James Young, of Hackney, Middlesex, Eng- land 4,000
Total amount of this loan held by foreign- ers
$960,339 76
Loan $2,200,000.
(To be continued. )
CONNECTION WITH LAKE ERIE.
New reasons why this important improvement should be speedily completed, continually present themselves to the mind of every man-at least to the mind of every man who thinks as much about it as we have done for the last seven or eight years. Our mind may, for a time, be diverted from it, by the immense variety of occur- rences-which continually take place at home and abroad: our own business, or domestic concerns, or some such matter may, for a time, absorb our attention, but still, scarcely a month or a week can elapse without the de- velopment of some new matter, calculated to exhibit, in a still stronger light, the importance of a facile com- munication with the great Lakes.
We first agitated this matter several years ago. Since that time the great Ohio canal has been made-at once affording additional inducements to commence the con- necting work, and increased facility in completing it.
Philip Louisa de Peyronnet, Baron de Saint Marce
6,700
Ralph Nicholson Esq. of Hertfordshire, England.
15,000
William Smith Neilson, of Trinidad.
Robert Peele Esq. Park Crescent, Portland Place, London. 20,000
Sophia E, Perot, of Bermuda.
Wills, Percival & Co. Bankers, London, Richard F. Peniston, of Bermuda.
5,907 89
The Hon. Mary Pclham, of Connaught Place, London.
James Patterson, a Capt. in the Hon. East India Co.'s Service, near Dundee Scot- lánd. 12,500
Emmanuel Victor Pourray de l' Auberri- viere de Quinsonas, of France.
Mrs. Ann Redfren, of Birmingham, Eng- land.
25,653 23
Thomas Robins & William Forster, Bankers of Liskeard, Cornwall, England.
Rev. James Armitage Rhodes, of Yorkshire, England.
Thomas Alexander Raynesford, in England 10,000
24,000
William Death, of Hunsalen, Herts, England. Pierree Maria Paix Dit Durieux, of South Wales.
6,581 41 11,000
Smith, Payne and Smiths-Bankers, London Wm. Petterden Shirley, of Kent, England R. J. Thompson, Esq. of Kirby Hall, York- shire, England 26,609 93
John Todhunter, Lloyd's coffee house, Lon- don, merchant 9,000
Mary Caroline Evans, of Gloucester Eng. Maria Augusta Evans, of do
John Ferguson of Irvine and Andrew Ser- vice, in Lodon.
8,000
Elizabeth Fox, of Somersetshire, England Samuel Fox, do.
Francis Fisher and Wm. Jepson Fisher, of Gloucestershire, England.
Hannah Fisher, near Bristol, England, Josiah Forster. of Middlesex. England, William Henry Fellowes, Esq. of Huntingdonshire England.
8,300
Helene Francoive Ferte, Guillaume Fayre, of Geneva, Ann Selina Farrer, and Lieut. Col. William Fawcite, of Bath, England. Gowan and Marx, of London
25,000 97,400 5,000
William Giles, Esq. in Kent, England.
6,000
Rev. James Hoby, of Lambeth, Surry, Eng. Martha Horne, Middlesex, England.
7,500
Henry Harvey, of Bermuda.
William John Hurry, Merchant of Great Yarmouth, England. 6,480 26
Robert Higgs, of Bermuda.
Richard Bolus Hall, of Wye, England.
21,600
John Hall, of Wye, England,
16,800
Rev John Hartley of Gordon Place, Lon- don.
John Scandritt, Hartford, of Bristol, Eng- land.
Edward Jean, of Dieppe, in France.
Simon Knubley Esq. of Jamaica,
12,000
Alfred Lewis, of the Stock Exchange, Lon- don.
16,356 43
Hannah Middleton, of Somersetshire, Eng- land.
John Marshall, of Leeds, England, 6,000
Samuel Mills, Esq. of Russel Square, Mid- dlesex, England.
15,000
John Bacon Saury Morritt, Esq. of Rokeby Park, Yorkshire, England. 24 000
30,000
6,000
17,500
On the 25th June, we published a small article in re- lation to the proposed canal from Lake Erie to the Wabash; by this article it appeared that twenty miles of it have already been placed under contract, and six. teen miles more would be shortly, perhaps has been be- fore this time. This canal will be about two hundred miles in length; extends through a region surpassed, in fertility, by none in our country. When once comple- ted it will add to the immense amount of produced pour- ed into Lake Erie, and the upper Lakes, by the natur- al rivers-the total products of the vast country extend- ing from Terre Haute, on the Wabash, to the head of the Maumee, on the Lake. But for this proposed canal this great country could get to a market only by the Wa- bash and Ohio. As soon as this work is completed, that and Lake Erie will afford the easiest and most direct route to market. The whole product of that fertile country must be poured forth upon the bosom of Lake Erie, to seek from thence the most direct, the earliest, and the cheapest route to a market.
Besides every newspaper from Buffalo, from Erie, from Detroit, announces that a continual stream of mi- gration is pouring into the Michigan Territory, and that
John Gray, of Brighton, England.
20,000
17,615 38
Thomas Cotterell, Esq. of Birmingham, England.
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1833.]
country, which in 1800, contained only 550 inhabitants will, probably, in 1850, contain a half a million. The whole surplus produce of their labor must be put afloat in the first instance on Lake Erie. Lake Erie, therefore, seems destined to be the great reservoir to which the produce of the immense northern and west- ern territory will be as naturally directed, as are its wa- ters. Sharp-witted self interest will as certainly direct the produce of this country to Lake Erie, on its way to a market, as gravity does the water on its way to the ocean. Whether this produce eventually proceeds to Montreal, to New York, to Philadelphia, or Baltimore, it must pass over Lake Erie, or at least a portion of it. The contest for its conveyance must, therefore, com- mence somewhere on Lake Erie. If it is once suffer- ed to enter the New York, or the Welland canal, it is utterly lost to Philadelphia and Baltimore. If it is once directed from Lake Erie towards Pittsburgh, it is secur- ed either to Philadelphia or Baltimore, and for ever lost to Montreal and New York.
As then it seems manifest that this struggle must com- mence here, what advantages have we in this contest with Montreal and New York ? These are our advan- tages, and they are decisive. Lake Erie is clear of ice at least four weeks sooner every spring, and four weeks longer every fall at Cleaveland than at Buffalo. So that a man sending a cargo of produce by the Ohio, and the cross cut and Pennsylvania canal to Philadel- phia, can dispose of it and forward his return cargo, be- fore he could reach Buffalo. In the fall, also, we pos. sess a decided advantage, the harbor at Cleaveland be- ing accessible much longer, and later than Buffalo.
Suppose some human power, with competent author- ity, had declared that the harbor at Cleaveland should be open for navigation four weeks sooner every spring, and as much later every fall than that at Buffalo, would we not view this as a very high protective tariff in favor of our canal? Would we not consider it as almost equal to a prohibition of the use of the N. York Canal ? Well, nature has, and annually does this very thing, by a law more efficient than any of mere human authority. Will Pennsylvania, then, neglect or refuse to avail herself of this decided advantage, conferred upon her by the hand of the Almighty? She has before her a noble prize to contend for, and every assurance of success by proper exertions. Will she prove recreant to her duty ? We
trust not .- Pittsburgh Gazette.
HEALTH OF PITTSBURGH .- We publish, to day, an extract of the Board of Consulting Physicians, in this city, in which they intimate, very strongly, the opinion that the use of stone coal operates as a strong counter- acting influence to the spread of the Cholera. It is certainly a very remarkable circumstance that the Cho- lera has been among us now for more than a montli, and that, during all that time, out of a population of about 30,000 souls, we have not lost as many as died at Wheel- ing, or Maysville, or Lexington, in three days.
Those three towns, with a population, we believe, not exceeding eighteen thousand, lost more persons, in a single day, than Pittsburgh and vicinity have lost, by the same disease, in two years, and two separate visits of that scourge. That an abundant use of stone coal does exercise a powerful influence upon our atmos- phere, is proved by other facts. An experienced Phy- sician, who has practised extensively both eastward and westward, and who has resided in Pittsburgh more than four years, and during that period enjoyed a re- spectable practice, assures us that he has never seen a single genuine indigenous case of that loathsome di- sease, the itch,since he came here. He also states that the summer complaint, or cholera infantum, does not prevail to one-tenth part of the extent it does in other towns to the east and west of this place, and that the mortality arising from that complaint does not amount to one-twentieth part .- Ib. (See page 46. )
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
Extract from the Meteorological Register, taken at the State Capitol-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, BY JAMES WRIGHT, Librarian. MAY, 1833.
Time of observation at 9 A. M. and 1 and 5 o'clock P. M.
Days of the Month
Days of Week.
Morning temperat.
Noon temperature.
Even. temperature
Mean temp. of day
WINDS.
Thermometer.
1 | Wednesd
56
72
68
65
SE
2|Thursd'y
58
76
78
71
N W
3 Friday
52
65
62
60
SW
4 Saturday
50
60
54
55
SE
5 Sunday
56
69
63
63
N
6 Monday
60
69
70
66
N
7 Tuesday
70
80
76
75
w
8 Wednesd
70
82
80
77
N
9 Thursd'y
70
83
78
77
S
10 Friday
60
65
60
62
SE
11 Saturday
60
69
70
66
SE
12 Sunday
68
79
70
72
SE
13 Monday
70
76
75
74
SE
14 Tuesday
69
78
73
73
SE
15 Wednesd
69
74
76
74
E
16| Thursd'd
66
78
69
71
E
17 Friday
63
78
73
71
SE
18 Saturday 19 Sunday
66
78
74
73
N
20 Monday
66
70
68
68
E
21 Tuesday
62
76
73
70
NE
22 Wednesd
62
76
70
69
N W
23 Thursd'y
62
74
70
69
SW
24 Friday
59
68
67
65
NE
25 Saturday
55
57
56
56
NE
26 Sunday
57
78
70
68
S W
27 Monday
65
74
70
70
E
28 Tuesday
65
68
68
67
E
29 Wednesd
65
66
67 .
66
E
30 Thursd'y
54
60
65
60
W
31 Friday
55
60
65
60
W
Thermometer.
Maximum on the 8th,
77º
Minimum on the 4th,
55°
Difference
22º
Mean
700
Atmosphere.
Days of the month.
Morning Afternoon.
1 2 3 5 6 8 9 15 18
22 30 31
12 days
Fair
Fair
23
1 day
Fair
Rain
24 26
2 days
Fair
Cloudy
13 27
2 days
Cloudy
Rain
4 7 17 19 28
5 days
Cloudy
Cloudy
10 11 12 14 16 20
9 days
Rain
Rain
Days of the Month.
Wind
5 6 8 19
4 days
N
21 24 25
3 days
NE
15 16 20 27 28 29
6 days
E
1 4 10 11 12 13 14 17
8 days
SE
9 18
2 days
S
3 23 26
3 days
S W
30 31
2 days
W
2 7 22
3 days
N W
66
78
78
74
S
21 25 29
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COAL VS. CHOLERA.
[JULY
On the 9th at noon, Thermometer at 83º the highest. On the 4th in the morning, at 50° the lowest. Range 33º.
The wind has been 17 days east of the Meridian, 8 days west of it, 4 days north, and 2 south.
There was rain on the 10th, 11th, 12th 13th, 14th, 16th, 20th, 21st, 23d, 25th, 27th and 29th. The hea- viest on 14th and 20th.
Mean temperature of this month 6º, warmer than last May.
Extract from the Report of the Board of Consulting Physicians.
PITTSBURGH, July 8, 1833.
To Samuel Pettigrew, Esq.
Sir-In reply to a letter addressed by the Sanitary Board to the Board of Consulting Physicians, request- ing them "to make a communication to the public, con- taining such recommendations to guard against the pre- vailing epidemic, as they may think expedient to pre- serve the public health," the following is respectfully submitted:
Whatever may be the cause by which the course that cholera has been accustomed to pursue in other places, has been checked in this city, our citizens have much reason for self-felicitation, and thankfulness to the Di- vine disposer of all events, for the exemption we have hitherto enjoyed from its ravages.
From the fact that it has made its appearance a se- cond time in our city, and, at each time, obtained a fair introduction amongst us, carrying off from 25 to 30 per- sons at the first, and about the same number at the pre- sent visitation, but still not prevailing to any consider- able extent, there is some little plausibility thrown over the supposition, that there is, in our local atmosphere, something unfavorable to its propagation. There is no city in the United States, and probably none in Europe, of the same limits, and population, where as much bit- uminous stone coal is consumed as in Pittsburgh. Be- side the immense quantity consumed, daily, in our nu- merous and extensive manufactories, it is exclusively used in our houses and kitchens for fuel. Chemical changes are therefore constantly going on, on a very extensive scale, which gives us, at least, a peculiar con- dition of atmosphere. It has been computed that se- veral tons of sulphur are daily thrown off, within our limits, by the combustion of stone coal; many import- ant gases are also disengaged, to mingle in every breath we breathe, and possibly to exert a direct agency in neutralizing or modifying the unseen, and, as yet, un- known, cause of cholera, and perhaps of other diseases. It is remarkable that intermittent fevers, and diseases produced by malarial emanations, have never prevailed extensively in this city. In many of the town and cities in the western and southern sections of the United States, where such emanations are abundant, the mor- tality, from cholera, has been very great. How far the introduction of coal, as an article of fuel, would counteract the evil, is, at least, a subject worthy of consideration. In London the mortality from all other diseases has materially decreased since the introduction of coal; and in London, Manchester, and Liverpool, in all of which, coal is now very generally used, the mor- tality of cholera has been comparatively light, in pro- portion to the population. These considerations, though not strictly within the scope of this communication, are thrown out for the purpose of imparting a feeling of confidence and firmness to the minds of our citizens, so far as that may reasonably be done, and, also, with reference to the important bearing they must have, if confirmed by future experience, on the prospects and interests of Pittsburgh.
It is evident, however, that the epidemic influence, producing cholera asphyxia, with all its characteristic symptoms, has been, for the last month, extensively at work among us. About 30 of our citizens have fallen
victims to it, and, probably, eight-tenths of our popula- tion have labored under different shades and degrees of its premonitory symptoms, which, in circumstances better suited to its propagation, would have terminated, in a large proportion, in confirmed cholera. It is therefore proper to observe, most rigidly, all those precautions in diet, and modes of living, which expe- rience has proved to be the best safeguards against the disease.
July 9, 10 o'clock, A. M. .
P. S .- Within the week, ending this morning, the deaths from Cholera have been:
In private practice,
8
At the Hospital,
4
Bayardstown,
1
Making 33 deaths, in a population of 20,000, since the 11th of last month, the date at which the first origi- nal case occurred in this city. During yesterday, and the day before, no deaths have occurred.
JAMES R. SPEER, M. D.
Secretary.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
Extract from the Meteorological Register, taken at the State Capitol-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, BY JAMES WRIGHT, Librarian. JUNE, 1833.
Time of observation at 9 A. M. and 1 and 5 o'clock P. M.
Days of the Month.
Days of Week.
Morning temperat.
Noon temperature.
Even. temperature
Mean temp. of day
WINDS.
Thermometer.
1|Saturday®
56
65
68
63
SW
2 Sunday
60
70
73
68
S
3 | Monday
70
75
66
70
N W
4 Tuesday
54
69
57
60
N
5 Wednesd
56
67
67
63
SW
6|Thursd'y!
64
66
66
65
E
7 Friday
64
66
68
66
E
8 Saturday
66
70
68
68
NE
9 Sunday
52
68
70
63
W
10|Monday
55
68
70
64
W
11 |Tuesday
55
73
73
67
NW
12.Wedne'y
64
80
73
72
NW
13 Thursd'y
70
78
70
73
W
14 Friday
70
78
70
73
S W
15 Saturday
65
78
75
73
SW
16 Sunday
63
72
74
73
W
Monday
64
74
76
71
W
18 Tuesday
64
75
74
71
NE
19 | Wednesd
63
66
65
65
SE
20
Thursd'y
63
65
69
66
SE
21 Friday
67
75
76
73
NE
22 Saturday
67
78
76
77
NW
23
Sunday
68
76
76
73
SE
24 Monday
70
73
70
71
NE
25 Tuesday
56
62
68
62
I W
26| Wednesd
56
68
70
65
W
27 Thursd'y
58
70
70
66
W
28,Friday
60
70
70
73
NW
29 Saturday
58
70
73
67
N W
30 Sunday
62
76
76
71
NW
Thermometer.
Maximum on the 13th,
73º
Minimum on the 4th,
60°
Difference
13º
Mean
68º
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1833.]
Atmosphere.
Days of the month.
Morning Afternoon.
1 3 4 9 10 11 12 13 14
16 17 18 22 23 25 27 29 30
18 days
Fair
Fair
5 28
2 days
Fair
Cloudy
15
1 day
Fair
Rain
7 21
2 days
Rain
Cloudy
8
1 day
Cloudy
Cloudy
2 6 20 24
4 days
Rain
Rain
19
1 day
Cloudy Rain
26
1 day
Rain
Fair
Days of the Month.
Wind
4
1 day
N
8 18 21 24
4 days
NE
6 7
2 days
E
19 20 23
3 days
SE
2
1 day
S
1 5 14 15
4 days
SW
9 10 13 16 17 25 26 27
8 days
W
3 11 12 22 28 29 30
7 days
N W
On the 12th at noon, Thermometer at 80° the highest. On the 9th in the morning, at 52º the lowest. Range 280
The wind has been 9 days east of the Meridian, 19 days west of it, 1 day north and 1 south.
There was rain the 2d, 6th, 7th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th and 26th. Thunder shower on the 2d.
Mean Temperature of this month 3º colder than last June.
From the Philadelphia Gazette. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCILS.
Thursday evening, June 20, 1833.
SELECT COUNCIL .- The following communica- tion from the Trustees of the Girard College was re- ceived and laid on the table.
To the Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia.
Board of Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans. June 20th, 1833.
Gentlemen,-I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a resolution, adopted at the meeting of that Board on the 18th inst. and remain
Very respectfully yours,
N. BIDDLE, President.
At a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans, held June 18, 1833, it was
Resolved, That the City Councils be requested to place at the disposal of this Board, the sum of Twenty- five Hundred Dollars, for defraying the expenses at- tending the collection of information and prosecution of inquiries, in order to the preparation by the Board of a system of government and instruction for the Gi- rard College for Orphans, and also for defraying the general expenses of the Board.
From the minutes.
In the absence of the Secretary, N. BIDDLE, President.
Mr. Groves offered the following resolution relative to certain lamps, which was read and laid upon the table.
Resolved, That no argand or other lamp erected in certain parts of the city which consume more oil or re- quire greater attention than the lamps now commonly used shall hereafter be lighted, unless a sufficient num- ber of persons shall agree to pay all extra expenses which may be incurred in lighting and keeping in order the said lamps, -and if the provisions of this resolution are not complied with in thirty days from the passage |
thereof, that the City Commissioners shall be and are hereby authorised to remove all lamps which consume an extra quantity of oil and require greater attention than the ordinary lamps, and fix up and light others of the common kind in place of the same.
Mr. Massey reported an ordinance relating to Dela- ware avenue, which was ordered to be printed.
AN ORDINANCE
For laying out a Passage, or Street, from Vine to Ce- dar street, to be called the Delaware Avenue.
Whereas, by an act of Assembly, passed on the 24th day of March, 1832, entitled "An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Philadelphia, to carry into effect certain improvements, and execute certain trusts," it is made lawful for the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia to lay out a passage or street on the east part of the City of Philadelphia, fronting the river Delaware, not less than twenty-one feet wide, and to be called the Delaware Avenue, extending from Vine to Cedar street, in manner as therein provided. Now, therefore,
Sect. 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the citizens of Philadelphia, in Select and Common Council assem- bled, That a passage, or street, to be called the Dela- ware Avenue, shall be laid out of the uniform width of twenty -six feet throughout the whole Delaware front of the city, extending from Vine to Cedar street, accord- ing to a certain plan and description made under the authority of the Select and Common Council of the city, by Samuel Hains, City Surveyor, which plan and description are annexed to, and made a part of this or- dinance; and that the courses and width of said Avenue shall henceforth conform, in all respects, to the said plan and description.
Sect. 2. Be it further ordained and enacted, &c. That the Delaware Avenue, as laid out by the first section of this ordinance be, and the same is hereby opened as a common and public highway, and that it shall be the duty of the attorney and solicitor for the Corpora- tion to make, or cause to be made, a record of the same in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Phi- ladelphia accordingly.
Mr. Lippincott reported the annexed ordinance, which was passed by the Select Council, but was not acted on in the Common Council.
A message was received from the Common Council, containing a communication from Jacob Alter, address- ed to that body in relation to the Girard lands.
A resolution was also received from the Common Council, authorising the City Commissioners to land stone at the drawbridge, in which the Select Council concurred.
The Select Council likewise concurred in a resolu- tion relative to the statue of Stephen Girard, with an amendment charging the same to Appropriation num- ber 21.
A report was received from the committee in Com- mon Councils, to whom was referred the petition of F. Graff, Esq. with a resolution allowing him $4,000 com- pensation for extra services as superintendent of the Water Works, -which were concurred in by the Select Council.
T'he Select Council then proceeded in joint session with the Common Council, to the election of Superin - tendent of the Girard College, which resulted in the choice of Jacob Souder, Esq. for that office.
Mr. Lippincott presented an ordinance appropriating the sum of $2500 to the Trustees of Girard College, which was passed.
AN ORDINANCE
For the Appropriation of the sum of twenty five hun- dred dollars to the use of the Trustees of the Girard College.
Be it ordained and enacted by the citizens of Phila- delphia, in Select and Common Council assembled, That the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars be, and
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MISCELLANEOUS.
[JULY
the same is hereby appropriated to the use of the Trus- tees of the Girard College, and that the Mayor of the City be requested to draw his order for the same, to be charged to the fund bequeathed for the College by Ste- phen Girard.
One or two additional resolutions on other subjects were then concurred in, and the Council adjourned.
COMMON COUNCIL, Thursday, June 20, 1833. A communication was received from the Board of Trustees of the Girard College, containing the proceed- ings of the Board, with a resolution to appropriate $2,500 to be at the disposal of the Board, which was laid before Councils. This led to some debate, in which Mr. Gowan objected to the Board having the control of the funds, without a specific object, as not officially correct, although he had the highest confidence in their integrity; and contended that the appropriations should be specificially made by Councils. On motion, the re- solution was laid on the table.
A letter from Jacob Alter was received, proposing a sale or division of the undivided tracts of land, in Schuyl- kill county, which he had held in conjunction with the late Stephen Girard, which was referred to the commit- tee of the Girard lands out of the county of Philadel- phia.
To the President and Members of the Select and Com- mon Councils.
Gentlemen, -I own an undivided one-fourth part of 13 tracts of land, situate on the head waters of the Ma- honoy, in Rush Township, Schuylkill county, contain- ing together, by recent survey, upwards of five thou- sand five hundred and twenty acres. The other three- fourths were purchased by the late Stephen Girard sometime before his death, and which, by his last will, he devised to the Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of Pli- ladelphia, as his residuary legatees. Therefore the said 13 tracts belong to the city of Philadelphia and myself, in the proportion above mentioned, as tenants in com- mon, and as the improvements of that region of country are steadily progressing and particularly in the neigh- borhood of those lands, make me desirous to have my portion more clearly defined; or I would have no objec- tion to dispose of my individual interest in the same, at a fair valuation, in which ever way you may consider to accord best with the intentions of the Testator, or most beneficial to the city. Very respectfully your fellow citizen,
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