Treasury Department " Rtvrrueoficc, April i 4, 1795 I ■ PROPOSALS ! Will He r-caivid at the Office of the 1 of the Revenue, For troilding a LIGHT HOUSE, , On Island, jitvr the mouth of'Kenne* I>e:k river, th? coast of the Piitrf.4 of Mm?: ps tbe following ijfstcrials, Di meniions and Defcriptio-}. THE form is to be an"*setagojj. The foun dation is to be of to be funk, if prac ticable, thirteen hei«w the bc&tom of the wooden work, -ar twelve fecjuss an half be low the of the earth, and to be com menced ol Je diameter of twenty seven feet; it is to • „♦ 'aid folidlv to the height of two '' rrr pi tlience tot.'ie "bottom of the wood- | en the foimdation wall is to be eleven Uigh, and fix fest thick. As it is intended tjiaf the above dcfcribed stone foundation lhall only be carried fix in ches higher than the crown level of the knoll Or rock on Which the Lfght-houfe is to be e re&ed, and it may be found imoofiible, on account of the rock, to-fink the 'fame to the depth of twelve feet and one half below the earth, or thirteen feet below the wooden work, it is rieceflary that the proportions for the said stone foundation be made by the perch to include all costs, charges and expences of materials, workmanftiip and labor. The octagonal pyramid is to be well fram ed, and of flout heart fine timber. It is to be twenty fix feet in diameter at the base there of where it will reft on'the top of the stone foundation, to which it is to be well teciired by sixteen ftoutiron straps built therein and Ot her wife. height of the wooden bujld ing from the bottom of the water table and from the Airface of the earth, is to be forty feet to the top of the wooden work, under the iloor of the lantern ; where the diameter is. to be fifteen feet. The foundation is to be capt with sawed stone at least 'eight inches wide, and sloped at top to turn off the wa ter. The frame of th% pyramid is to be cover ed with boards of one inch and one iialf in thickness, over which is to be laid a tjcod 5c fcomplete covering of flvngles, and wiilpain ted with three coats. The light house is to have two windows in the East, and two win dows in the Weft, are to be hung with hinges, is to have eight panes of glass, eight byfk^inchcs. On the top of the wooden work of the pyramid is to be a strong- framed tier of" joists, boded therein, planked over with oak plank extending one foot beyond the fides of the pyramid, thereby formiqg an eave, which is to be fimfhrd by a cornice, the whole hav- ! a defccnt from the center, fuflicient to throw oft the water, and to be covered with copper. A complete and fufficient iron Lantern in the odagonal ferm is to reft thereon; the eight corner pieces or stanchions of which j *rc to he wed secured to the upright timber's ! of the PyraiTiid, or to the tier of joists, or j Dota rhefeftanchioni are to be very strong 1 and stout in the lower ten feet, and three and one-ha IF inches by two and one-half inches a~ Bove. Ihe Lantern is to be ten feet high, si om the floor to the bottom of the dome or yoof, and to have a dome or roof of five feet in height. The whole space between the go-hs to be-occupfed by the sashes, which are to be moulded on thc'infidc and struck solid. Each falh is to have twenty-eight large panes glafsj i part of the fafti on the fou?h-wcfl uoe is to be hung with hinges for a door to sco on the platform. The iron rafters of • the lantern are to be framed into an iron hoop, over which is to be a copper funnel; — thro which thefmoake may pass into a large „ eo.'per ventilator in thejorm of aman'shead ; capable of containing one hundred gallons. ■i. iiis head is to be turned by a large vane, so that the hole for venting the fmoak may be always to leeward. Eight dormant vantila tors are to be fixed intlie roof, a 4arge cur ved air pipe is to be pasted thro' the floor and a close (Jove is to be provided and fixed in the lantern. There ftairsto ascend to-the lantern, the entrance to which istobe by a trap door covered with copper. The building.is Lo be furniflied with two complete electrical conductors or rods with point*. The floors are to be laid with plank. The eutriince into the light house i$ to be well se cured by a; strong door hung upon hinges Wch a strong lock and latch complete. Also a frame Dwelling House of ons story and the ,to bt? twenty fir feet or there about in front,andtwenty five feet deep, with a cellar, under it, <; it fhal! be found pra thick, and fev :n feet high. The story of the House to be seven feet and one yialf irithpeieat. Ihe roofto have lar pitch. The floors, to be laid in whole lengths nailed through. TheHoufeis to con* tarn a Kitchen of thirteen by sixteen feet, a fitting room adjoining j length wife of twelve he sixteen feet, two small chambers of eight hy nine feet joim-gto the ends of the Kitrhen' and fitting room, with a pafiagc to tfffffe two cooms between the bed -The stack of chirrwreys to be tlie Kitdien and fit ting rpormtldis to have two plain fireplaces, one. of them large for a kitch?n; to which is to be joined art Oven*. There is to be an out er door to the paflagfe and an outer door also to the Kitchen. There arc to be two win-. «ows in each of the large rooms, and' ofte in '4 thbed room. { Each fafii is to have twelve pines of glaf* eight by ren inches. Each window istonavc a strong pTam (butter, with faftenings and "T^he areto*be hong and fnniiffy* - etf-compiirtelyi- The ceiling and inner fides of the H.oufe are*to b»> }>laiftered with two coats. work inside and out i* to panned, and the whole istvl he ft nifhed in a plain i»nd decent manner. An oil Vault ivtrt-he-buik twenty by twelve feet in the dea'r,-'.inched over, and covered with earth orfand,ovcr which a shed is to'be byilt. It is to be furnifhed witb mnr strong cedar Ciftcrns with covers, eiclV capaTrle of contairt mg two hundred Gahons. rhe entrance to the vault is to bcfectired by a strong door« A well is to be funk at a convenient distance, and furniflied with a curb, bucket rope and ( completely. The builder is to procure and pay, for ail materials, labor, workmanthip provifums and other objec* Six Doi.lars Psr Annum. Ojjicc of the Jrfarance Company of North America. Philadelphia, June 17th, 1795. NOTICE is hereby given to the Stock holders that the Sixth (and last) In stalment, being two dollars, on each Share of the Stock of this Company, i. jto be paid on the second Monday (the 13th I day) of July next; when it will be ne cefTary for each Person to produce the j Receipt for the Fifth Instalment upon the Shares he Hull propose to pay for. Ebenezer Hazard, Sec'ry. C3~ Bj the JirJl StSion of the Char ter it is declared, that all Shares on which Payments Jhall not ht made at the Tune prcfiribed, shall he forfeited to the use of the Comijny. rtiScthtJij. One Hundred Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from the Povder Maga zine in Baltimore, of which he had the charge, a certain Thomas Roach, a na tive of Limeric, in Ireland ; about 5 feet 8 inches in height, his person thin arid (len der, short black hair mixed with grey, dark countenance, with very black beard and eye-brows, & speaks much with a brogue, 43 years of age. The said Roach had un der his charge, amongst other calks of pow der, above 100 belonging to the United States, which he has taken off with him very lately, either in a boat or waggons. Whoever apprehends this villain, shall have the above reward—and if any person can give any account of the powder so ftok-n, he shall be generouflv fatt?fied, by JOHN O'DONNEL, d'refident cf the Fire Insurance Company. As this robbery concerns the public at large it ishoped the Printers through out the United States will be good enough to give a place. Scheme of a-Lottery, To rlife 39,900 Dollars, on 266,000 Dollars 15 per Cent, from the Prizes— This Lottery confifis of 38,000 Tickets, in which there are 14,539 Prizes, and 23,461 Blanks, being about or. c and an half blanks to « prize. THE Dire£lorsof the Society foreftablifh* mg Ufeful Manufa6lures, having rcfolv ed to erefct LOTTERIES for raising On* Hundred Thousand Dollars, agreeably loan Aft of the Legiflnure of the State of Vew-jcrfey, have appointed the following perfonsto superintend and dire# the draw iugof the fame, viz. Nicholas Low, Rufns King, Herman Le Roy, James Watfou, diehard Harrifon, Abijah Hammond, and Cornelius Ray, of the c>ty of Mew-York— Thomas Willing, jofepb rtall, Matthew M* Connel and Andrew Bayard, of the city of Philadelphia—His Excellency Richard How ell, Esq. Klias Boudinot, General fcltas Day ton, Jam s Parker, John Bayard, Do&or Lewis Donham, Samuel v 7. Stookton, Jolhua VI. Wallace, Joseph arrd Boudinot, of Nt wmr-d«r H) foti Gomee, lit quality Hyson, zd. do. uo. Young Hyion, Hylon Skin, and Souchong. A feiu Boxes of each, for sale a No. 19 Third street, south. Dee. to eodtf TO BE SOLD, A Lot, containing "'auouTT' 17 acres, on the WifTahickon road, 4 miles, j trom the city, and dire&ly opposite to the house of Mr. Isaac W'harton. A Lot, containing 10 acres, in Islington Lane, on said road, near the estate of Jaf r er Moylan, Esq. A Lot, containing 10 acres in Turner's Lane, on said road, and directly opposite to the estate of Mr. Ternant. Enquire of Joseph Redman, Woodstock corner of Turner's Lane. April 6 eodtf JAMES YARD Has for sale, at his store on Walnut-street wharf, St. Croix'Rum and Sugar of superior qua lity. St. Domingo Indigo. Laguira and St. Domingo Hides. 100 Fockets of Ene Cotton. June 23. 3taw4w Patent Nail Manufactory, No. 120, South FroM-itreet, Philadelphia. THOMAS PERKINS & Co. HAVING by the use of Machines, for which they have a Patent, from the United States, been enabled to make 3d. Ad. 6d. Bd. and iod. NAILS, equal to the best drawn ones, (andfuperior to thfem for many purp«>~ fes) and from 15 to 30 per cent cheaper so licit orders in that line, which shall be exe cuted with fidelity by Thomas Perkins and Co. N. B. A large assortment of the abov** kinds of Nails on hand at reduced prices-»-al foNails for Sugar Iloglheads. March 31 City of VVafhington Scheme of the Lottery N°. 11, For the Improvement if Thk FEDERAL CITY I A magnificent/ 20,c00 ' dwelling honle, \ calh 3 5,0g0 arc i ditto 15,000&caih 25 ,000 I°'°° 1 J/to 15,000 & calh ~5,000 t/° . ditto .^oaS: CJ (k IIJiMO 1 ditto {,«oo at cajh , C3O , ' C i ditto 5 ,000 i,n oo ° CC , C-fhprizeoJ 3,030 ,0 ' 0( j 2 ditto s>°o® each, art JC '°° i 0 ditto 1,000 .J ---«o — *3 100 100 .. 10.00 200 dIUO 5 0 ' 4°° 'J.'"* 2 i , 0 ; oc I.IIW «» J 0 , o; , 25.000 dute »i> i .. Pruej 33,it)i JJUnkj 5°, 000 TickiN at 8 dollars 4 ' oofo , 'l'hu Lottery will afford en eleganTkTc" men oi the pri.art-build.,,g. to hreie.'r d " Wllfc| n s igi(-,'i wo t-eautifuldr UgHi aie already (tic etc.! tor the c.riirc Iroou on two 1)1 Ihe public litjiuro 5 hom C.ift OrawiHjjs, it i> proofed to credi 1«... C r..tre and lour corner bu.idihgj, as r ( , 0 „ alter Itiu lottery ■ > Ud, , nn. A compleat Plan of the whrfe of this Important Institution, compiled from afe i.- si n: <■ i;icicnt and mc*. dern, will be fubmkted to the public when ever the fame may have gone through such revisions as may be nccefiary to eftablifli the perfedfc confidence andjjeneral so eifential to its preiciit r3c and iuture e*4f tence for tba general good of America. By accounts received from the different parts of the Continent as well as from Eu rope, where the tickets have been'fent for faie, the public are allured that the drawing will speedily commence, and that the care and caution unavoidably necefTary to insure a fafe disposal of the tickets, has rendered th« ItVK: suspension indif}>enfable. r February 24, 179^. SAMUEL BWDGF.r.. *#* Tickets rw*y be had'at the Ui ik of Columbia ; of icCn. Bainrn- re o Gideon Dciwfon, .Sivarmali, ol G'.lman, S oi Jo .r.H pvkvr.s Ran mo id : and oi iviO aid V'riii>, Aug 30 eoHtf " r pHE fiihfcriber off.rt for /.J., j ['AIIM 1 X containing about 300 acres ; J'Jfant from tht City of IVajhinjrton and George-Town ietxeeen 8 or 9 nti.'cs. si Plot of tb:s La id is in the b./xds Mr. Peter Cnfani'vc of George- 'Tci<.m, liknoiff of Mr. Thomas F:t%Jtmons y in err 4 Mr. Robert IVaM:, in Bultiiicre. " •• ' —■!.' ■■ ly „t. plying to "John Lydam, ivbo lives ad J runin>j. It lays in a mop healthy country, and a %ocd hood. There are on it a common country dn\-11-, irT . boufcy a tobacco-bouse, and an orchard of fruit, a conjlant jiream ivitb a great fill runt thro' it, and letiveen 30 or 40 acres of good meadow way be eajily inndc. The lines of the above include jhout 40 acres of woodland. Convenient credits ivill be afforded to the pur chafer if d.Jtred. DANIEL CARROLL. Montgomery County, June 3, 1795. B. The land lies Lctiveen tivo merch ir.t mills, one dijlant about a mile, H>t other ahnoß ad- It. }-jft Mordecai Lewis, Has for Sale at his \Store, No. 25 Great Dock Street, A few bales of East India Goods, confin ing of Baftas, Cofias, Emerties, Hum hums, and Bookmuliins. A Bale of Nillaesand Peniafcoes Russia Sheetings and Sail Duck Ravens Duck China Silks A cafe of Dialers Barcelona Handkfs. ia Bo*r» Roll Brimstone Souchong Tea in small hoxtt a quantity of Grind Stones*. June 9, 1795. c.dom. LAW BOOKS. GEORGE DAVIS rfffpcaful'y inforr.i the gentlemen of the profeftion iur«'>:r* the United States, that his lat - generai i: portation isnov/ d, and ready iQ? i-'-- at the fame moderate prices as have hirhrrf f# extenlively recommea led the?n. High Street, No: *13, june i 9 tn&f4W