ADVERTISEMENTS.
SYSTEM;
AN ACT
To'cioesolidate and amend the several nets rola.
tiro to a Goneral System of Education by
• COMMON SCHOOLS.
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Smiles l .. Be it enacted by the Senate
• and'House of Representatives of the Com
' stiontoealth of Pennsylvania, in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
,the authority of the same, That every town
', •
• ship,' borough or ward in this common
wealth, not within the city and incorporated
districts of the county of Philadelphia, shall
Oteistitute a school district: Provided, That
•: Amy 'borough which is, or may be connected
Et township, in the assessment olcoun
- ty. rates and levies, shall,with the said town
ship, form a district.
SEcT, 2. Annually at the same time and
•-• place that elections are field for supervisors
and doestables, mid in wairds,and boroughs,
at the time and place of the borough elec.
tions,and in like manner; two persons shall
• 'be elected school directors for each district,
term of office shall be three yews—
... and-the persons so elected shall be notified
thereof within' five . days, by the judges of
said election : Provided, That in districts
•
-where directors have not been elected, or in
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new districts, which - may "be established by
-the division of a township or otherwise, six
' directors shall be elected in such districts at
the first election, two to serve one year,two
• to serve two years,. and two to serve three
years.
Sitar. 3. Within twenty days rifler said
elee.tion, each board ofsehool directors shall
• 'organize by choosing a President and Secre
tery, out oftheir own body; they shall also
. appoint a treasurer for the district, and shall
require him . to give sufficient security to in
aure.the_. faithful performance .of his duty;
[boy shall also have power to fill any vacan
cy which may occur in their boa rd,by.deat
resignation, or otherwise,. until the next e
leetion, When such vacaney shall ho filled
by electing a person to supply the same.
'Sm.?, 4. The school directors of every
school district which has adopted the com
ineri'school system; or which may hereafter
adopt the same, shall annually, on or before
-the first Monday of May, authorize to be
levied such an amount of tax on said district
as they may think necessary for school pur
pokes; not less than equal to,' nor more than
tieble the amount which the district is en•
titled to receive out of the annual state-ap
propriation: and, for the purpose of raising
any additional sum that may be deemed ne
. cessary, meetings shall be called of the
taxable inhabitants of the township or des•
trict, by the directors, on the first Tuesday
,:of May annually; notice of the time and
~ :phice of holding such meetings being first
given by at least six advertisements put up
at the. most public places in such township or
district, for the spacelif two weeks, a ma
jority of whom shall decide by ballot, how
Much arid4hat additional sum shall he rais
ed-for. wheel purposes; and any additional
sum se inithorized,shall be assessed and col
lected; paid over and distributed in the same
maimer.that is provided for by this act.
gam, 5.. The assessor of every ward,
township or borough, composing any school
: sdistrict as : aforesaid., shall upon demand,fur
--,.itishiheetheol directors of the district with
e, correct copy of the last adjusted valuation
iii the Same for county purposes; whereupon
the board of directors shall, on or before the
firatday of June, annually, proceed to levy
anduppothon the said tax es follows, viz:
1. On each male taxable inhabitant of
the.district,e . poll tax at their discretion,not
exceeding fitly cents.
• Z. On all offices and posts of profit, pro
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• . cessions trades and occupations, and on all
siugle freemen above the ago of twenty.one
years who do not follow any occupation, not
exceeding the amount assessed on the same
for county . purposes.
3: On personal property which was made
.. taxable by an act entitled "An act assessing
o tax on personal property, to bo collected
with.the county rates and levies, for the use
iif-the commonwealth," passed the twenty
fifth day of March, one thousand eight hun
dred and thirty-one; and the said property
shall continue to be assessed according to
the provisions of said act, and upon all pro
perty
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now taxable for county purposes:—
, .Prgu!,ded, That said act taxing personal
property, shall not be so construed as to
make widows dower liable to the payment
of taxes, andopon all property now taxable
for county purposes.
Suer. 6. When the school tax is so levied
and apportioned .in any district, the secreta
ry of the board of directors shall make out a
- correct duplicate of the same, and the presi
dent of the board shall issue his warrant,
-with the duplicate aforesaid,to the township
or borough collector, or to some other suite
hip person residing within the district, to
collect the said tax, and shall require from
him vtlicient security to insure the faithful
discharge of his duty; and the board of di
rectors of each district shalt have the right,
at all times, to make such abatement or ex
• °notations for mistakes, indigent persons,
unseated lands, &c. as to them shall appear
just and reasonable; and the secretary of the
• board shall enter in a book or books, to be
kept by him for that purpose, the names of
all persons so abated or exonerated,together
With the reasons for such exonerations.
Siter..7. The said collectors shrill have
like powers to enforce the payment of the
school tax as collectors of county rates and
. lama. have to enforce the payment of the
. eame, and shall receive the like compens-i
-. 'fion for his services, from time to time, as
tax is collected; the collector of the
•Cliatrict shall pay the amoutirover to the dis
Snot treasurer, and shalt settle up his dupli
-I;;—kbate on or bolero the time fixed upon in the
marmot of the president: Provided, That,
-M4 he tax so levied on unseated lands shall
be voluntarily paid by the owner - or
: 4 1:' . ::Owners thereof, the district collector shall
•:-:::?1*Itify the same to the county commission
l';got) the said emaity commissioners shall
.003.t*e the collection thereof in the same
: T lOuriests the c'ullection of the taxes ou un-
Janda ie enforced, when assessed for
, L. : -, *03,1 purposes; and when so collected,t he
*we *hall be paid to the district treasurer.
for the' tune being r by orders drawn by the
said commissioners on the county treasurer.
SECT. 8.. The school directors of every
School district which shall have adopted the
common school system, shall perform the
following duties in addition to those above
specified.
1. They shall, if they deem it expedient,
divide the district into sub.districts,and shall
establish a sufficient number of COMMOII
schools for the education of every individ•
ual above the age of liatr years, in the dis•
trict, who may app:y, either in person or by
his or her parents, guardian or next friend,
for admission and instruction,and shall keep
the said schools open at least six mouths in
every year, if they shall have funds for that
purpose.
2. They shall cause suitable buildings to
be - erected.rented or hired for school houses,.
and supply the schools with fuel.
3. They shall exercise n general supervi
tion over the schools of their respective dis
triCts, and fix the amount of the salaries of
she teachers.
4. They shall pa) all necessary expenses
of the schools, by orders drawn on the dis
trict treaburer, signed by, the president, and
countersigned by the becretary of the board.
.5. Each board of -directors, by one or
more of their number, shall visit every
school within their district, at least once in
every_ month,_and shall cause the result of
said visit to. be entered on the minutes of the
board.
6. Whenever it may be necessary or con
venient to establish one or more schools out
of two or more adjoining districts,the school
directors of such adjoining districts may es
tablish and regulate such schools; and the
expense thereof shall be paid, as ►nay be a
greed upon, by the directors of said adjoin
ing districts.
7. They shall annually, on or before the
first-Monday in January, make a report to
the superintendent of the -common Schools,
setting forth the number and situation of the
schools in their district; the character of the
teachers, designating whether dip, are
males or females; the number and sex of
the scholars admitted (luring the year; the
branches of study taught-in each school; the
number of metiths in the year during which
each school shall have been kept open; the
cost of the school houses,either for building,
renting, or repairing; and all other expenses
which may have been incurred in maintain
ing- the schools of their districts; together
With such other information as may be bene
ficial in forming a just estimate of the value
of common schools. .
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8. No school director or treasurer shall
receive any pay or ernoltunent whatever for
his services, as such; but he shall be ex
empt during the time he continues to per
form the duties of his office, from military
duty or from serving in any borough or
townsh;p office.
• 9. When the school directors shall have
divided the several districts into sub•dist ricts
for separate schools, the voters of each sub
district nay meet,on notice being given,for
ten days at least, signed by not less than
four voters of said district, and choose a
committee of three of their number - ,to - serve
for one year, who shall have the appoint-
ment of the teacher for such sub-district.
10. The directors of each school district
shall have the power to direct in which of
the schools, so established in pursuance of
this act, the individuals in said district who
may be admitted,shall be instructed.
11. In case the school directors deem it
inexpedient to divide their district into sub
districts, or in case the voters dt any sub
district, shall neglect or refuse to elect a
committee, as provided for in the ninth arti
cle of this section, then the duties of said
committee shall devolve on and be perform
ed by the school directors.
SECT. 9. The district treasurer shall re
ceive all moneys belonging to the district,
whether the same be derived from appro
priations by the state, district taxes, private
donations, or otherwise, and shall pay out
the same on orders drawn by the president
and attested by the secretary of the board
of directors, by order of the board, and his
accounts shall be audited and adjusted as
accounts of' townships end boroughs are di
rected by law to be audited and adjusted.
SECT. 10. The Secretary of the Com
monwealth shall be Superintendent of the
Common Schools, and shall perform the fol
lowing duties:
1. Prepare suitable blank forms, with ne
cessary instructions, for making district re
ports, and for conducting the necessary pro
ceedings under his jurisdiction; and shall
cause the same, together with all such in
formation as he may deem necessary for the
further improvement of the schools, to be
transmitted to the commissioners of the se
veral counties for distribution among the
several boards of directors,at the same time
and in the same manner as the pamphlet
laws of this commonwealth are transmitted,
and at such other times and in such other
manner as he may think expedient.
2. Prepare and submit an annual report
to the legislature, containing it statement of
the condition of the common schools dire%
out the commonwealth; estimates and ex
penditures; plans for the improvement of
the common school system; and all such
matters relating to his office of superinten
dent and the concerns of common schools,
as he shall deem it expedient to communi
cate.
3. He shall sign all orders on the State
Treasurer for the payment of moneys to the
treasurers of the several school districts; but
no order shall be drawn by him in favor of
any district treasurer until he shall have
been furnished with a certificate, signed by
the president and attested by the secretary
of the bord ofdirectors of the district, that
a sum, at least equal to the amount of the
district's share of the annual state appro
priation of two hundred thousand della rs,bas
been levied on said diStrict for school pur
poses.
4. If any controversy should arise among
the directors of any district, or adjoining
districts,concerning the duties of their office,
the distribution of t he state uppropriation,or
the levying and collection of taxes, he is
hereby authorized to settle and adjust the
same, without cost to the parties; and ull
moneys reasonably expended by him in this
and other matters appertaining to the execit.
tion:of his duty as superintendent shall,upoe
due proof,be allowedlo him by the Auditor
General,& be paid art "Ofthe State treasury.
5. He shall annually, in the month of
February, transmit to the cizmmissioners of
each county a statement of the amount that
every district therein that has,and every dis
trict that has not adopted the common school
system, may be entitled to receive out of the
annual appropriation of two hundred thou
sand dollars; and the commissioners shall
immediately cause such statement to be
published three times in one or more news•
papers printed in said county: Provided,
That nothing in any se'C.l inn of this act shall
be so construed as to deprive the districts
which have not adopted the common schOol
system • of their due proportion of the com
mon school fund, until after the first of No
vember, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.
SEcr. 11. One hundred thousand .dollars
in addition to the one hundred thousand dol
lars payable by the bank of the U. States,
both of which sums to be accounted and dis.
tributed as the state appropriation,are hero.
by appropriated out of the school fund for
the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty seven, and a like sum annually there
after; which shall be apportioned among
the several school districts of this common
wealth, and the city and county of Philadel
phia, according to their number of taxable
inhabitants, but shall only be soblect to the
drafts of the superintendent or common
schools, agreeably to the provisions of this
act: Provided, That the balance of appro
priations made under the net entitled, "An
act to establish a general system of educa•
tion by common schools," passed the first
day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-four, and the supplement thereto,
and the halanee of the first appropriation of
one hundred thousand dollars, which shall
remain undrawn on the first day of Novem
ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
soven,-and -all subsequent •balances, shall re
main in the treasury, and accumulate for the
Use of such district or districts entitled to
the same,fiir any-term not exceeding one
year'froni and after the first day of Novem
ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven; and all such undrawn balance re
maining in the treasury on the first day of
November one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-eight, shall be repaid into the school
fund; and in like manner the undrawn bal
ance of subsequent appropriations shall be
repaid into the said fund annually thereafter.
SECT. 12. As soon as the president of the
board of directors of any school district shall
have issued his warrant for the collection of
a school tax, agreeably to the sixth section
of this act, he shall certify the same, stating
the amount of such tax, and also, the name
of the district treasurer, to the superinten
dent of common schools,who shall forthwith
draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for
the whole amount such district is entitled to
receive.
SECT. 1 3. The school directors of every
school district, which shall not have adopted
the common school system, shall annually
call a meeting of the qualified citizens of the
district, on the day of election for directors,
to be held at the usual place of holding fewn- •
ship, ward or borough elections, by at least
six advertisements put up in the most pablic
places in the district, for the space of two
weeks: And the said meeting shall be or
ganized between the hours of one and four
o'clock, P. M. on the said day, by appoint
ing a president, and the secretary of the
board of directors, or in his absence some
other member of the - board, shall perform
the duties of secretary to the meeting.—
When the meeting is so organized, the ques
tion of establishing the common school sys
tem in the district, shall be decided by ballot,
and the said president and secretary shall
perform the duties ateliers to the meeting,
and shall receive from every person residing
within the district qualified to vote at the
general election, a written or printed ticket,'
containing the word "school," or the words
"no school," and shall continue without in
terruption or, adjournment until the electors
who shall come to the said election shalP
have opportunity to give in their respectiv •
votes; and the said tellers shall count the
votes,- and if a majority shall contain the
word "school," the secretary shall certify
the same to the board of directors of the
dist rict,who shall proceed to establish schools
therein agreeably to the provisions of this
act, but if a majority shall contain the words
"no school," the secretary shall certify the
same to the county commissioners of the
proper county: And the school directors of
every school district which may have adop
ted the common school system, may, if they
deem it expedient, call a meeting of the
qualified citizens of the district, on the first
Tuesday of May, in the year one thousand I
eight hundred and thirty-seven, and on the
same day in every third year thereafter, to 1
he held at - the asual place of holding town
ship, ward or borough elections; at which ,
time and places an election shall be held, to
decide,by hallot,whether the common school
system shall be continued or not. The
notice for holding such meetings, and the
time for and manner of holding said elections,
to be in conformity with the preceding part
of this Section, and, should there be a majori
ty of the taxable inhabitants of said district
in favor of "no school," the secretary shall
certify the same to thecounty commissioners
of the proper county, and the operation of
the common school system shall be suspen
ded. in said district, until such time as a
majority of the citizens shall otherwise de
cide.
Seer. 14. The school directors of every
school district in which the common school
system has been adopted, or shall hereafter
be adopted, shall have power to purchase
and hold real and personal property which
tn,,3y be necessary for the establishment and
support of said schools; and the.same to sell,
alien and dispose of, whenever it shall be no
longer required for the uses aforesaid; and
in ull cases where real estate is held by trus
tees for the general use of the neighborhood,
as a school house or, its appendages, 'it shall
be lawful for the said trustees, the survivor
or survivors of them, to convey the same to
the school, directors aforesaid; and from
thenceforth the said board shall hold the '
said property for the same term and fur the
same uses fur which it was granted to said
trustees.
Sim. 15. School directors elected undet
the prOvisions of former acts, shill severally
hold their offices during the term for which
they were elected; and all appropriations
authorized by former acts, whether by the
state or county, and all taxes authorized' to
be raised for school purposes, shall be col
lected as they would have been collected if
this act bad not been passed.
SECT. 16. The county commissioners of
every county within this commpnwealth,
except the county of Philadelphia, when
levying a tax for county purposcs,shall esti
mate the amount which ‘vill be required to
educate the•poor gratis in the several dis
tricts of the it county which shall have re
jected the common school system; and
when an estimate is so made,they shall levy
the amount on said districts, and collect the
same in the usual manner, and shall con
tinue to provide for the education of the poor
gratis therein, agreeably to the provisions
ofan act entitled "An act to provide fir the
education of the poor gratis," passed the
fliurth day of April, one thousand eight hun
dred and nine, or such special acts of as
sembly
as may be in force in any of the
counties where there may he districts re
jecting the provisions of this art: Prowled,
That the whole expense thereby incurred,
shall be paid cut of
.the rtmoui.t levied on
said districts as ali►resnid.
Scc•r. 17. Where a school is or shall
hereafter be endowed by bequest, or other
wise, the board of directors of the district in
which such school is located, are hereby
authorized to allow such school to remain
under the immediate direction of the regu
larly appointed trustees of the same, and to
appropriate so much of the district school
land to said school. as they may think just
and reasonable: Provided, That such school
shall be generally conducted in conformity
with the common school system of this corn
monwealth.
Scar. 18. The act entitled An act to
provide for a general .system of education
by common schools," and also the supple.
ment thereto„ passed the fifteenth day
. of
April, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and
thirty five, are hereby repealed: Provided,
That every thing heretofore done in pursu
ance of said acts. shall be held valid.
SECT. 19. If the corporation of the city
of Lancaster shall at any time adopt the
common school system, agreeably to the
provisions of this act, then the act to provide
for the education of children at the public
expense, in the city and incorporated •bo
roughs of the county of Lancaster, passed
the first day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty•two,and the supplement
thereto, passed the first day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three,
shun, from the time of the adoption of the
common school system in said city, be in
operative, null and void.
Sixrr. 20. In all cases, where, under "An
act to provide for a general system of edu
cation by common schools," and also the
supplement thereto, passed the fifteeenth
day of April, Anne Domini, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-five, the directors
of any district may have met and decided
Fo accept of the law, and have appointed a
delegate to attend the county convention
for the purpose &accepting and carrying in
to effect the provisions ()Najd law,but if from
any cause said delegate has failed to attend
said convention, said township shall be en
titled to all the benefits and provisions there
of, on the same terms and conditions as those
who have literally complied are entitled:
Provided, said delegate shall, on or before
the first day of August nett, record the vote
of said township in the athrmattve, with the
clerk of the convention.
SECT. 21. The school year mentioned in
this act, and in an act entitled "An act to
provide for a general system of education
by common schools," and tl.e supplement
thereto, passed the fifteenth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five,
shall be taken and understood to end on the
first Monday ef June, to wit: The school
-ar of one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-seven, will end on the first Monday of
une of that year, and so of all other years.
._SECT. 22. Immediately after the passage
of this act, the superintendent of common
schools shall ctiuse circular letters, with a
printed copy of this attached thereto, to be
addressed to the county commissioners of
every county; and it sliall be the duty of
every commissioner aforesaid to cause the
same to be published in one and not more
than three newspapers in the county, for
three successive weeks, and the expense
thereof shall be defrayed out of the county
treasury; and the said superintendent shall
also cause this act to be printed in pamphlet
form, and shall forward to the county com•
missioners ufeach county a number olcopies
thereof, equal to the numher of school direc.
tors in theia county, to be distributed among
the several boards of directors.
SEvr. 23. The act and its supplements
now in operation in the city and county of
Philadelphia, entitled "An act to provide
for the education of children at the public
expense within the city and county of Phil.
adelphia," are declared to be coocurrent
with the provisions of this act, and are in no
wise to be considered as altered, amended,
or repealed, except so far that said city and
county shall be entitled to receive their due
proportion and share of the annual state ap
propriation of two hundred tho,usund dollars:
Provided, That the controllers - of the pub
lic schools for the city and county of Phila.
delphia be, and they hereby are authorized,
Whenever they shall think proper, to estab
lish one central high school, for the full edu
cation of such pupils of the public schools of
the . first school district, as may possess the
requisite qualifications, and theanoneys ex
pended in the establishment and . support of
the said high school, shall be piovided and
paid in the same manner as is now, or shall
hereafter be directed by law, with reTect
to the other public schools of the said dis
trict: And Provided further, That so
much of the tenth section of the act of March
:id, 1818, as renders the exclusive use of;
the Lancasterian system in the first school
district, obligatory upon the controllers or
directors, and all such provisions, (if any) in ,
the said act and the several supplements
thereto, as limit the benefits of the said pub. '
lic schools to the children ofindigent parents,
and so much or any act as is hereby altered
.
or supplied, be and the same are hereby re
pealed;e and in said public schools all chil
dren over four years of age shall.be admit
ted.
NER MIDDLESWARTII,
Speaker of the House ofßepregentalives.
THOMAS CUNNINGHA M,
Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED—The thirteenth day of June,
Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty.
six.
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to CHARLES H. JACKSON & CO.
No. 17, Ann street N. Y.
Jone 13, 18a6.
ENLARGEMENT OF
Ti SATURDJA.Y Birzra rivs POST
TO )lA3IMOTU SIZE.
M.IABLY in July, the Post, which has so long
g2gr, su.tained a large portion of popular favor,
will be increased to THIRTY TWO COL
UMNS, of enlarged dimensions.
It will retain all its present advantages of
choice engravings, original tales,reviews,poctry,
&c. with tho addition of the best talents—for
which no expense will be spared.
The terms will be as heretofore, $2 00 a year
when paid in advynce—s2 50 it the expiration
of six months, and $3 00 if not paid during the
year.
In July will be commenced the publication of a
Weekly Periodical for the Parlour,
ENTITLED
THE NATIONAL. ATLAS,
• AND
MACki No.cuntaining SIXTEEN large qtiar
to pages, handsomely printed, on good
double medium paper, with good type—making
between 800 and 900 large pages of choice se
lected reading,in Si year. Each number will be
embellished with several good Engravings, and
every month a handsome coloured map will be
appended.
(g3-The most prominent and popular feature
of this periodical, is withheld till near the time
it is to commence. We shall permit the numer
ous periodicals proposed to commence about the
first of July, to take their ground, before we
make our CHIEF ritcumAtivrr known, as we do
not-choose to be anticipated by competitors.
A large portion of the Atlas and —, will be
made up of the same articles as arc contained in
the Saturday Evening Post,put into a convenient
form for binding.
In this season of enterprize among publishers,
we do not intend to remain behind our contem
poraries. I'Ve can obtain as much talent and la
bour as others,and will not stint the means to
maintain and acquire pre-eminence.
Terms of the Atlas and -- Three Dollars a
year, in advance. Agents-and Clubs at a dis
tance, remitting five dollars; free of pustage or
charges,will be entitled to 2 copies, or 5 copies
fur $lO. SAMUEL C. Arb:INSON,
June 13, 1836.
p, , 034--PW=lB - x;
111111 IS Powder is celebrated for improv.
ing the wind, strength and appetite of
,horses; it gtved them a fine smooth glosdy
skin, and greatly improves the appearance
of the animal. It operates by purifying the
blood, strengthening the stomach, and invig
orating the whole system. It seldom fails
to cure the following disease, viz—Diston
per,_ Yellow Water, Pounder, 4.c. For sale at the Drug Store of
Dr. J. GILBERT.
gettvsburg, Feb. 29, 1930. tf-45
Indian. Specific
( "IfOR the prevention and cure of Coughs,
id : Colds, Astbmas, Consnmptions, Spit
ling Blood, and diseases of the Breast and
Lungs, prepared by Doct. CLARKSON
FREEMAN, of the city of Lancaster.
BILL OF DIRECTION,
Accompanying each bottle of the Specific,
pointing out in a conspicuous manner, all the
symptoms in the dithsrent stages 'of these
distressing diseares; also particular. direc
tions respeetro g diet and regiment, and how
patients are to conduct through every stage
until health is restored--lor vain and useless
would be the prescriptions of ablest I,llv
sicians, accompanied by the most powerful
and useful medicines, if the directions are
not - faithfully adhered to.
The public are informed that the depos i .
lions of 287 persons have been taken, beltire
proper autherites in the city of Lancaster,
all completely cured in the most desperate
cases of consumption, sonic of which are de.
'tailed in the bills accompanying each bottle.
( - The price of each bottle of Indian
Specific is $l, and each envelope of the gen
uine SpeCific is 'signed by Dr. Clarkson
Freeman, and the initials, C. F. on the seal
of each bottle. None can be genuine with
out his signature, a base composition hay
iog been attempted to ho imposed on the
public by a counterhsit imitation of this ex
traordinary article.
For sale at the drug store of
Dr. J. GILBERT.
Gettysburg, Oct.l it, 1 SM. Iy-29
HIDE, LE.111111:11 .11,XD
01. L STORE.
3,000 La Plata • 1
2,000 Rio Grande
1,500 La Guayra
MBES.
1,100 Pernambuco
-700 Marucaibo
1,800 Green Slaughter
7,000 Dry Patna Kips,
6,000 Heavy Green Salted Kips,
1,000 African Kips,
128 Barrels Straits, Bank and Shore:,
OIL, and
A GENERAL VARIETY OF
1',11011.1 JE lit TOOLS.
ALL of which will be sold at the lowest
Market price. FOR Cast', or on the usual
CREDIT, or taken in exchange for all kinds
of LEATHER, at the highest market price,by
JOHN W. PAWEN & CO.
Corner of 3J and Vine Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
March 7, 1836 3m-119
THE SATURDAY NEWS,
AND LITERARY GAZETTE,
A weekly Family Newspaper—devoted to Lit
erature, Criticism, the Fine Arts, General
Intelligence, News, &c. nice two dollars per
annum, payable in advance.
O N Saturday, July 2, 1836, the subscribers
W..) will commence, in Philadelphia, the pub
lication of a new weekly newspaper under the
above tide.
The News will embrace every variety of light
literature, including Tales, Poetry, Essays. Crit
icisms; Notices or the Fine Arts, the Drama,
6f.c. The original matter will be supplied by
writers bf the first eminence. A regular cor
respondence will be maintained with Washing
ton, and the principal Cities of the Union, and
arrangements are i.l progress by which letters
from Europe will be constantly furnished.
Attention will be paid to securing at the ear
liest priasible date the choicest productions of
the English periodical press. Popular novels
will occasionally be given though they will not
be suffered to interfere with a general variety.
The latest news, and all items of interesting in
telligence will invariably from pan of the con
tents.
The News will be printed on a folio sheet of
the largest class, and will furnish as large an
amount of reading matter as any weekly paper
now published in this country. It will be con
ducted in a spirit of the most fearless indepen
dence. All allusion to party politics or secta
rian religion will be carefully avoided.
LOUIS A. GODRY,
JOSEPH C. NEAL,
MORTON 511111 C II tEL.
Agents of this paper %sill be allowed the usual
commission.
Six copies furnished fur $lO.
All payments to be made in advance.
Orders, free of postage, moil be addressed to
• L. A. GODEY & CO.
No. 100 Walnut street,
Hilt. HULL'S RECENTLI 11%114W
VED TRUSS.--The distinguished
surgeons and medical faculty of the cities gener
ally. and elsewhere, have come to the conclu
sion that this Truss, in its present improved
state, is the only instrument surgically adapted
to the disease of Rupture, and the only one that
Weems can rely upon for the safe retention of
the bowels and the final cure of the disease.
In confirmation of which the following names
of distinguished medical gentlemen of New
Yin k city, with many others, have expressed
decided preference for this in:art:mew, are res.,
pectfully added: . .
Videntiue Mott, MD. George Bushe, MD.
A. A. Stevens, M. D. David 11os/ink, M. D.
John B. fleck. M. 1). Samuel Ackt.rlv, Al. D.
Cyrus Perkins, Al D. David M. Rccse, M. D.
John Stearns, M. D. Wm Anderson, M. 1).
Also, the following extraet via late certificate.
of Dr. Mutt, of New York:
"For the last twelve months, the curative.
powers of Dr. Hull's Truss have been tested.
under my own observation with the most grati--
lying success in cases of great difficulty,
which the mutilated imitation Trusses so com
mon in our market, had only. aggraviited the
disease. Dr. Hull is an experienced surgeon,
who has displayed not a little' surgical skill hod
mechanical ingenuity in bringing thisunrivalled
instrument to its present state of perfeetioniteti
dering it, I know, the best I, ever saw tar secur
ing, comforting and curing the ruptuied p a ti e nt
i&nd is in my opinion, the onlyinstrument of the
kind that is entitled to patronage of the profes
sion, and the confidence:of the people..
VALENTINE MOT M. I).
Park Place., Yee. .90, 1834. Aar
Letters Patent of the United States have been
grouted to Dr. Dull for 14 yearn from the last
improvement, dated July sth. 1833.
Fur sale ut the Drug Store ut
Pr. J. GILBERT, Gettysburg.
May 9, 1e36. tr--6
Publisher,
Philadelphia
%V it AN 'T
OSIETIME last Summer a' TRUNK,
directed to ENOCH PAULIN, Was
sent to Air. Thompson's Hotel iu this place,
but has never hcen called for. The owner ,
is reque.tedl to cull, prove it and take it
away.
Gettysburg, June 13,1836.
CONSUMP
BLACK BOTTLES
For sale at tho. Drug Store of
Dr. J. GILBERT.
Gettysburg, June G, 1736., tf—lo