BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. February ift, »793 WHEREAS foreigners holding Mock in the Bank of the United States may pre fer receiving their Dividend* in Ltwope, to re ceiving them in America, RESOLVED, That sny proprietor of the Capital Stock, of the Bank of ihc United State* in Europe, (hall be entitled to receive ciihir in Loudon 01 in Arnlteidain, the haii yeariy dividends which may be declared there on—"in London at the rate of one pound sterling for every lour hundred and forty-five cents, or ia Amftordain at the raie ol one guilder curreui money for every forty cents and tour mills—-he dividend declared in January of each year, to be paid iu London or in Amfteidani on the fc cond Monday of July following—and the divi dend de lared in July of each year, to be paid iu London or in Amflerdam on the (econd Mon day of January following. Provided, That every such Proprietor (pre vious to trie declaring of any Dividend, so to be pan! in London or in Amrtndain) thail give au thentic notice to the Prcfident and Direflors ot the Bank at which of tlie said Cities he will re ceive the said Dividend. By ihe ftxfidcnt jnd Oircftors. JOHN KEAN', Cafkicr. SANK OFT HE UNITED STATES. Resolved, THAT the Cafh<er be auihonfed to receive from the prop' letor of any number of com plcat (hares, such Cemficates, not in his own name, ;-s he tna> be the propiictor of; and after cancelling the fame, 10 iflue a new Certificate or Certificates in lieu thereof, ;n the uame ot such proprietor. Resolved, That in all f.nurc transfers of Conmlcat (hares in the capital flock of ihe Bank, the Certificates of the tiansferred be can celled, and a new Certificate or Certificates be ifTued in the name of the transferee or purchaser. Resolved, That the Certificates in futtue ifTued, be foi one or more (hares, as the p*«>- prietor may recjuett ; and the new Certificate or Certificates (halt be ot correfpondeht numbers with ihofe in lieu of which they arc issued. JOHN KEAN, Cashier, ep3W Insurance Company. AT a general meeting (by adjournment) of the Insurance Company of North-America, on Wednesday the 16'h inliant, It was Rcfolved, THAT the Instalments which, according 10 the Conftnution, will becomc due on the tecond Monday of July and January next, or either ol them, may be paid by any Stockholder at an earlier period ; and any Stockholder so paying such inllalment, Or inftalmeim, (hall receive a proportionate (hare of the Dividends thereafter to be made, calculating such ftiare from the firit day of the month fuctecding luch payments rc fpedtively. Extract from the Minutes, EBEN. HAZARD, Sec'ry. Philadelphia, |m. 23. Advertisement. Mr. JOSHUA HARBIN, Si R, YOU will please to notice, that I intend to file a Bill in the High Court of Chancery* in the Stat* of Maryland, to compel you to con vey the following Traits of LAND, to wit— Harbin's Lot, <ontaining one hundred acres of land; Evans's Ihance, containing fifty aoesof land; Piney Grove, containing feventy-t-wo and one half acres of land ; and pait ot James's Trait, containing twenty-five acres ; in the whole, twp hundred and forty-fiven and one halt acres of land ; fituaie, lying *nd being, in Montgomery County, In the State of Maryland ; agreeable to your Bond of Conveyance, entered into by you to me the twenty-sixth day of November, 1781. I am, with due rcfp«.£t, thy friend, JOSEPH EVANS. Ann Arundel County, State 9J Maryland, Februar\ \fl, 1792. (ep 10W) A New Post-Road. HAVING been defued to establish a poft ro»id from Reading, in 1 lie state of Penn sylvania, to Wiiliamfburg, at the Great Folks of the Genefee river, Notice is hereby given, ihat proposals will be received at the General Pofl- Office, for carrying a weekly mail between Reading and Wiiliamfburg aforefeifl, by the following route, to wit : the Great Road now improving between Reading and the town of Northumberland ; from the latter place to Loyal Sock creek ; 1 hence to Lycoming creek ; thence in the new road to the Painted Post, on Tioga liver; and thence to Wiiliamfburg. The piopof-lj. will be received until the 15th of March next, inclusively; the carriage of the mail to commence within one month after wards. Neceflary P<>ft-Offices are to be established on the route, ami such petfons appointed Poll matters as the Contra&or (hall name, and the Poihnaflct-Gt neral approve. Within three months afier the carriage of this mail is commenced, the Contractor is to ilatc to the Poftmaflcr-General the days and hours of its arrival and departure at and from the principal Port-office*, which experience {hall prove to be moll convenient; and thereafter the mail is to be delivered at the refpc&ive Poft-offices at the houtsfo fixed, unavoidable accidents excepted, on penalty of one dollar for each hour's delay,; and for the non-performance of,* trip, the Con trador to forfeit twenty dollars. Ihe term of the contradl cannot excced eight years. During its continuance the Contractor is to receive the rates of poftageby law eftabltfhed, and to have the exclulive ptivilcge of carrying letters and packets for hue, such excepted, as JhaH be sent by a special meiTenger, or which are or Ala]l be by law declared free. TIMOTHY PICKERING, P.M.G. Geiifral PoJLOJJice, Jan. 22, 1793. TICKE Jn the FEDERAL CITY LOTTERY, May be hadaISAMUEL COOLER.'* Fcny. City of Washington. Ja.nua.ky 7th, 1793. A NUMBER of Lois in this Ciiy will be of- Icfitl tor f.»le at au& on, by the Com mif fn'iios, 011 ihe 17th <iay of Sep'cmbcr next — One fourth part of the purchase money is to be paid down, the rcTiduc ai three equal annual pay ments with yearly iute.rtfton the whole princi pal unpaid. JOHN M. GANTT, Clcikto the Com'rs. Extract of an A£ of the Ceneral AflVmbly of Maryland, concerning the Territory of Cu- Itimbi*, aud the City ot Walhington. " Be it enabled, That any foreigner may by deed or will, hereafter to be made, take and hold lands within that part of the laid Territory whir ft fas with' t f in this State, in the fame manner as if he was a citi zen of this State ; and the fame lands nay be con veyed by him, and tranfwitted to and b: inherited by ~ his heirs or relations, as if he and thes were citizens of thn State: Provided, That no foieigner J/idl\ in virtue hereof, be entitled to any further or other privilege of a citizen Jan. 19. A GREAT BARGAIN. FOR Sale, a beautiful Gtuation on the Po towmack, adjoining the town of Alexandria and in a lint of direction towards ine Federal City and GcojgeTown,in full view of each olace, commanding a profpett of the river and adjacent country of Maryland and Virginia,'for many miles ; about 45 or 50 acres of Land) lying dt re£lly ou the river, will he fold, with the im provement*, which arc, a two-story framed d welling-houfe, neatly finifhed, a kitchen, office, buck fmoke-houle and flairyt two-story framed barn, a well of excellent water, and an ice houie, a yard and garden, neatly railed and highly improved, with a number of other ne cessary improvements ; the whole of the land enclofcd with posts and fails, ten or fifteen acres laid down, with different kinds of grass. Its contiguity to thole thiee towns mult render it an object worthy the attention of any person who wilbes to invest money in a property that mull enhance in value, in proportion to the rapid in T crealfc of the Federal City, Alexandria and George-Town. This property lies nearly in a central (ituation to each place. The Potowmack at this spot has a fine deep shore and harboui, capable of receiving veflels of ai*y burden. It may not be improper to observe, that men of judgment think a profitable and convenient Ferry might be creftcd here to the City ©f Wafhingiou and the Maryland Ihores leading to Baltimoieaod Philadelphia.—Also 10 fell, 215 acres of Wood-Land, about three miles dillant, which will suit well to supply the above in wood and timber. The title may be seen to the above property, which is indisputable, and terms known by application to the fubferiber, living BALDWIN DADE. December 12 th% 1792 BY the Commiflioneis appointed to prepare the Public Buildings, &c. within the Ci'y of Wafbington, for the reception of Congress and for their permanent residence after the year 1800— A LOTTERY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE Federal City. 50,0 c© Tickets at 7 dollars, are 350,000 dollars. LIST OF PRIZES, viz 1 Supeib Hotel, with baths, ) out houses, &c.&c. to cofl ) 1 Cash Prize 1 ditto 1 ditto 1 ditto 2 ditto 10 ditto 20 ditto 5, cOO are i,coo 500 100 5° 2 5 ao 10 100 ditto 200 ditto 400 ditto 1,000 ditto 15,000 ditto 16,737 Prizes 33'®6j BUi.ks 50,000 The sole design of this Lottery being to facili tate other improvements together with the Public Buildings—it is the particular desire of the Com miflioners that these may be effe&ed with as few deduttions from the Prizes as possible—how far their endeavors may be answered, the Scheme of the Lottery will deir.onttrate. The keys of the Hotel, when compleat, will be delivered to the fortunate possessor of the ticket drawn a agaiufi its number. All the other prizes will be paid, without dcduflion, in one month after the drawing, by the City Treasurer at Wainington, or at such Bank or Banks as may he hereafter announced. The drawing will commence on Monday the 9th of Septembci tiexi,atthe City of "Waftiing- Tickets mav be had of Col. W m . Dickens, City T/eafurrr of Washington ; of MeflYs. James Wejl B Co. Baltimore ; of Mr. Peter Oilman. Boston j aqd at such other places as will be hereafter published. N. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS wiH be given for the bell Plan of in elegaiu,w>4 tr>n venient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out houses, ifprtfetited onorbcJoTc the 10//1 ej April next ; and a pre ference will be given 10 the Artist for a Con. tract, provided he be duly qualified to compleat his plan. The ground on which the Hotel and out houses are to be erected, will be a corner lot of about 90 by 200 fret, with a back avenue to the stables, &c. Sections and cltiinaies of the expenfc will be expected with lite elevations, &c. compleat ; and ,0,000 dollars mult he regarded by the Aichiteft jsthe utmost limit in the cxpriife intuidcd lor this P ur P° fe - S. BLODGET, Agent for the affaiis of the City. January jg. 300 JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobfon, BookUUtr, at the Stone-Houfc, in Second Jirect, ENCYCLOPEDIA: o*, A DICTIONARY of ARTS, SCIENCES, AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, The Different SCIENCES and ARTS COMPREHENDING THE History, Piaftice, of each, according to the Latest Discoveries and im provements : and full Explanations given of the various detached parts of Knowledge, whether relating to Natural and Artificial Obje&s, or to Matters Eccltfuftical, Civil, Military, Commer cial, See. Including Elucidations of the m<»ft im portant Topics relative to Religion,Morals,Man ners, and the Oecouoinv of Lile : together with a Description of all the Countries, Cities, prin cipal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, See. throughout the World ; a General Hiftoiv, Ancient and Modern, of the different Empires, Kiugdoms, and States; and an account of the Lives ol the mofi Eminent Pcrfons in every Nation, from the earliell ages down to the present times. Com piled from the writings of the bell tn frveral Languages ; the molt approved Dictiona ries, as well of General Science as of particular branches ; the Tranfd&ions, Journals, and Me moirs of the learned societies, both ai home and abroad—the MS. le&urcs of eminent profeflors on different Sciences : and a variety <>f original Materials, furnilhed by an extensive Correfpon dc nee. The Seventh Volume contain# a description of Mount Etna, Eudiometer, Exchange, Expe rimental Philosophy, Svftem of Farriery, Feudal system, Fire, fi)ce'd Air, Fluxions, Food, Fortifica tion, Foflils, hiftoryof Fiance, Gardening, Gas, Geneva, Geography, Geometry, Gilding, Glass, See. with a variety of articles in natural history, biography and miscellanies. Illuilraicd with Thirty Eight elegant Copperplate*. CONDITIONS. I. The work is printing on a fuperfine paper, and new types, (cast for the pin pole) which will be'occafionally renewed bcfoie they con tract a worn appeannce. 11. The,work is furniftied in boards, in volumes or half-volumes, as fubfenbers chufe; the price ot the whole volumes, five dollars each, ot the half-volumes two dollars and two-thirds of a dollar each. Ten dollars to be paid on sub scribing, the volumes or half-volumes finifhed to be paid for when delivered, the price of one volume to be paid in advance, and the price of each succeeding volume to be paid on deliver ing the volume preceding it. No part of the work will be delivered unless paid for. 111. In the course of the publication will be de livered about five hundred copperplates ele gantly engraved in Philadelphia: which by far exceed in number those given in any other t'cientific dictionary. At the clofc of the pub lication will be delivered an elegant frontif. picce, the dedication, preface, and proper ti tle pages for the different volumes, It iscxpc&ed the work will be comprised in about eighteen volumes in quarto. (pj" Those who with to become possessors of thisvaluable woik will please to be earlv in their applications, as the fubfeription is nearly doled. Jan. 23. ep 'in 50,000 25,000 January 28, 1793. INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitlrd for fix months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of September 1792, and which will become due on the sth day of Match 1793, be paid on the said day by the Commiflioners of the Loans within the dates refpettively, under the usual regulations, viz. 20,000 15,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 20,0®0 Every application for payment mud be ac companied by the following vouchers : lft. The certificate given by the {late, fpecify ifig that the person po(letting the fame is in fa 61 an Invalid, and ascertaining ihe sum to which, as such, he is annually intnlcd. 150,000 Dollars 350,000. 2d. An affidavit agreeably to the following form ; A. B. came before me, one of the J udices county of in the (late of and made oath that he is the fame A. B. to whom the original certificate in his poffefiion was giv en, of which the following is a copy (ihp cer ttficate given by the state to be lecited) That he fcrved (rer.irnent, corps or vcifel) at the time he was disabled, ana that he now resides in the and county of and has r»Tided there for the last years, previous to which he reiided in In cafe an Invalid (liould apply for payment hv an attorney, the said attorney, befidesthe ceitificate and oath before recited, tnuft produce | a fpeeial letter ot attorney agreeable to the fob [ lowing form : I, A. B. of county of slate of do hereby conlfitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my penfton loi fix months, as an Invalid of the United States, trom tlie 41 h day of Sep. teinber t/9 2 » ending the 4th day of March • > wa-. Acknowledged bifote mr, Applications Qf executors and administrators inult be accompanied with legal evidence of their refpeflive offices, and .If,, of the tit,,..- the Invalid died, whose pei Ciou they may claim. By Command of the P»\ iident of the Unitfn States, 11. KN'OX, Secretary at War. T !! C S'J" ! f rS "" Otitis are re qucJUd to pubhjh Iht above in their Ncujpapcn hr the r '< -re 0 j 2 mattli., Jr 1 Philadelphia, VOLUME VII, or On d Plan entirely neat BY WHICH are diverted into the Form of Dilbndt, TREATISES or SYSTEMS War Department, Signed and Sealed in the Preftnce of A further Caution. 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