REVOLUTIONARY-COUNCIL OF SAFETY. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the Representatives of the Freemen of the Common-Wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, in and by a certain act, made and passed at Lancaster, the thirteenth day of this instant October, entitled "An Act for constituting a Council of Safety, and vesting the same with powers therein mention That the members of the said Executive Council, and And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, the said John Bayard, Jonathan Sergeant, Jonathan B. Smith, David Rittenhouse, Joseph Gardner, Robert Whitehill, Christopher Marshall, James Smith, of YorkTown, Jacob Orndt, Curtis Grubb, James Cannon, and William Henry, of Lancaster, or any other persons acting under their authority, in the premises, or any of them, shall not at any time hereafter be liable to any suit, action, or prosecution, for any thing done in pursuance of this act, or the powers hereby given and granted; but that they and each of them, shall be collectively and severally indemnified, saved harmless and and prosecutions shall be barred, abated and disconti nued by the court, before whom the proceedings shall be brought. ed," have enacted and declared as follows, to wit: An ACT for constituting a Council of Safety, and vesting the same with the powers therein mentioned. WHEREAS the British troops have penetrated into this state, and after much devastation and great cruelty in their progress, have seized the metropolis. AND WHEREAS, in times of such danger and confusion the ordinary powers of government cannot be regularly administered; more especially as the term for which the present legislative body of the commonwealth have been chosen, will speedily expire, whereby evil-minded per-discharged of the same, and that all such suits, actions sons may be encouraged, by open or secret practices, to assist the common enemy, and further to distress the good people of this common wealth; for prevention whereof it hath become necessary, for a limited time, to vest fit persons with summary and adequate powers, to punish offenders, and restrain abuses. Be it therefore enacted,and it is hereby enacted by the representatives of the freemen of the common-wealth of Penn'a. in General Assembly met, & by the authority of the same, That the members of the supreme executive council of this state, together with John Bayard, Jonathan Sergeant, Jonathan B. Smith, David Rittenhouse, Joseph Gardner, Robert Whitehill, Christopher Marshall, James Smith, of Yorktown, Jacob Orndt, Curtis Grubb, James Cannon, and W. Henry, of Lancaster, Esqrs. be constituted, and they are hereby constituted a Council of safety, with full power to promote and provide for the preservation of the common-wealth, by such regulations and ordinances as to them shall seem necessary, and to proceed against, seize, detain, imprison, punish, either capitally or otherwise, as the case may require, in a summary mode, either by themselves, or others, by them to be appointed for that purpose; all persons who shall disobey, or transgress the same, or the laws of this state heretofore made, for the purpose of restraining or punishing traitors, or others, who from their general conduct or conversation may be deemed inimical to the common cause of liberty, and the United States of North America. And the said Council of Safety are hereby authorized and impowered by the authority aforesaid, To take and seize, where it may be needful, provisions and other necessaries, for the army or the inhabitants, and to appraise and value the same so taken, and for this end to appoint proper persons under them, to take, seize, and appraise as aforesaid. And the said Council of Safety shall in general regulate the prices of such articles as they may think necessary, and compel a sale thereof where the same shall be wanted; with full power also to call to their aid all officers and other persons, civil and military, in the execution of the premises. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Supreme Executive Council of this state may at any time, during the continuance of the powers and authorities hereby granted, by proclamation or other public act, renounce, determine, and extinguish the same and every part thereof, and that thereupon the said powers, and every of them shall cease and become void, and be no longer exercised or enforced. Provided, lastly, that the powers hereby given and entrusted, to the said Council of Safety, shall continue and remain in force (unless otherwise sooner determined) to the end of the next sitting of General Assembly, and no longer. Enacted into a law, on Monday the 13th day of Octo ber, A. D. 1777. JOHN BAYARD, Speaker. JOHN MORRIS, Jun. Clerk of the General Assembly. WE, therefore, the members of the said Council of Safety, being convened, in pursuance of the said act of General Assembly, do give this public notice of our said appointment, hereby requiring all manner of persons, as well officers civil and military, as others, to govern themselves according to the just laws of this commonwealth, and the necessary provisions which have or shall be made for the protection thereof, in this time of public danger and calamity. We do also most expressly charge and require that all persons do utterly forbear from furnishing the armies or fleets of the King of Great Britain, with provisions, or other necessaries, or aid, and from transporting or carrying the same provisions or other necessaries aforesaid, to any city, town or place, in the power or possession of the said fleet or armies, most earnestly intreating them to save us the irksome task of punishing them with immediate death, as their crimes deserve. And we do most solemnly command all forestallers and ingrossers of provisions, and other necessaries, by whose most horrible and pernicious practices and examples we are threatened with want, in the midst of plenty, that they do wholly cease and abstain from preying on the necessitous, abusing the public and aggravating the distresses of their country, Provided always, That the exercise of the ordinary lest they be overtaken in their iniquities, and dealt course of justice, in the tryal and punishment of offen- with according to their demerits; and it is recommended ders, shall proceed and take its effects, and that origi- to all persons, possessed of provisions and other necesnal writs and process in the law, for debts and demands, saries, cautiously to avoid selling the same to such foremay be issued and carried on, notwithstanding this act, stallers and engrossers, but to dispose of them for the or any thing herein contained; and that all other civil use of the American army, or to persons who may be in and lawful business and actings be done and performed want of them, for their own immediate use, at a reasonin the manner practised at the time of passing this act-able price, otherwise this council must interpose their as far as the present condition of the state will admit, so authority to prevent and redress such abuses. And all as that the exercise of the authority aud jurisdiction the good people of this common-wealth are called upon And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the President, or Vice-President of the Executive Council, and any six of the said members of the said Council of Safety, shall be a quorum to do business. 1829.] MEDICAL COMMENCEMENTS-JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE. and invited to join with us in the most speedy and vigorous exertions, for rescuing this state from the tyranny, devastation and oppression of her cruel enemies, that we may again see good days, and enjoy the inestimable blessings of liberty and peace. Given at Lancaster, the seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven. By order of the Council of Safety. THOMAS WHARTON, jun. President. PRICES OF PROVISIONS. Committee-Room, June 6, 1779. Agreeable to the resolution of the last General Town Meeting, for lowering the prices month by month, the following list of several articles, and the prices they bore on the first day of April last, is published for the guidance of buyer and seller, for the month of July, and to commence on the first day thereof. A calf-skin that will cut 4 pair of shoes, Men's best leather shoes, 201 150s. 180s. 20s. 150s. from 371 to 40%. from 1358. to 150s. 120s. The Committee have continued the price of flour, middlings, &c. the same as on the last month, and are happy to inform the public, that the price of molasses and the various kinds of salt are at present lower than on the first of April, and the committee expect they will not be raised higher than at present. Signed by order of the Committee, WILLIAM HENRY, Chairman. Committee-Room, June 26, 1779. Whereas, under pretence of supplying our fellowcitizens in the country, great quantities of goods are daily removed from this city, and there is reason to believe, with a design of concealment, in order to produce scarcity. Therefore, And the several dealers and others are likewise desi-a red to take notice, that if any article or articles, whether mentioned in this list or shall, after the first of July, be charged higher than the same was charged on the first day of April last, that such person or persons will, on detection, be proceeded against in the same manner as if such article or articles was herein mentioned and limited. And it is furthermore intended that the regulations do take place as well in the Markets as the shops, of which all persons, as well buyers and sellers, are desired to take notice, and abide the consequences. And whereas murmurings and discontents have arisen, respecting the price of butter. Therefore, Resolved, That if any inhabitant of this city shall give more than Fifteen Shillings for a pound of butter, such person or persons so purchasing, whether man or woman, shall either be summoned to appear at the next Town Meeting, or pay Twenty Shillings into the hands of this Committee, to be applied to the relief of the poor; one half thereof to the poor of this city, and the other half to the poor of the township where the seller of such butter shall live. Prices of the following Articles on the first of April, which are to continue for the month of July. Resolved, That if any goods, exceeding the value of one hundred pounds, be removed or offered to be removed from this city, without first obtaining a permit from this committee; suchgoods so removed or offered to be removed, shall, on detection, be detained under the care of the Committee, until the next Town Meeting, and the owner to abide the consequences. Signed by order of the Committee, WILLIAM HENRY, Chairman. [Ibid-Phila. MEDICAL COMMENCEMENTS. JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLFGE. A commencement for conferring Medical Degrees, was held in the Medical Class Room of this institution, on Wednesday, March 11, at 12 o'clock, and was attended by a large audience of ladies and gentlemen. The ceremonies of the occasion were preceded by an impressive prayer by the Rev. G. R. Livingston, one of the Trustees attending to confer degrees. These were then conferred by the Rev. Dr. Ashbel Green, on twenty-three young gentlemen, and conditionally on two others, making a total of twenty-five, whose names are hereunto annexed. After which an appropriate address was delivered to the Graduates by Dr. Rhees, the Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence. The following is a list of the graduates, and the titles of their Inaugural Theses: Pennsylvania-14. Washington L. Atlee, James M Clintock, Augustus A. De Haven, John R. Sickler, 215 0 60s. 458. 1 17 6 42s. Cotton, from 40s. to 55s. Hemp, Candles, Best Hard Soap, Butter, 45s. to 60s. S. W. Corbin, Rollin Sprague, Kendall Davis, Best dintle soal leather, per pound, Neats leather, by the side, New On Parotitis Gangrenosa. On the Agaric of the Larch On Artificial Joints. On Intestinal Irritation. On Brucia, or Brucine. VOL. III. 26 Solomon Etting Myers Thomas Hunt Albert G. Goodwyn Chronic Dysentery. Pathology of Jaundice. University...... Jefferson College. 107 25 132 Total attending the Lectures of 1828-29. University... Jefferson College. 362 ..112 474 [For the number of medical Graduates in the University of Pennsylvania for each year from 1791 to 1828, as also for the number of students attending each course of Lectures from 1816 to 1828 see Register volumn 2d, page 112.] NEW MEDICAL HALL. On the same occasion the corner-stone of the new Medical Hall was laid, and an inscription to the following effect, along with the list of Graduates, was deposited; a suitable Address being delivered to the graduates and to the public, in the Masonic Hall, by the Rev. WILLIAM H. DELANCEY, D.D. Provost, &c. : UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, The Governor of the State, Nicholas Biddle. Peter S. Duponceau, LL.D. Rt. Rev. William White, D.D.Charles Chauncey. William Rawle, LL. D. Joseph Hopkinson, LL. D. Rt. Rev. Henry U. Onder- John C. Lowber. Rev. James P. Wilson, D.D. Robert Walsh, Jr. LL.D. Robert Waln. John Sergeant, LL. D. Thomas Cadwalader. Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, D.D. Joseph Reed, Secretary. Professors in the Collegiate Department, The Rev. William H. Delancey, D.D., Provost and Professor of Moral Philosophy. Robert Adrain, LL. D., Vice-Provost, and Professor of Mathematics. The Rev. Samuel B. Wylie, D.D., Professor of Languages. Alexander Dallas Bache, Esq., Professor of Natural 2 District of Columbia. 1 1 Kentucky 1 2 ་ ་ ་ ་ The Rev. Edward Rutledge, A. M., Assistant Profes- Professors in the Medical Department. 2 Philip Syng Physick, M.D. of the Institutes & Practice of Physic and Clinical Medicine. Andrew Jackson, WILLIAM E. HORNER, Dean. John C. Calhoun, Vice-President of the United States. John Andrew Shulze, Governor of the Commonwealth Science in the United States. Architect, WILLIAM STRICKLAND. Carpenter, DANIEL GROVES. ther protection of Potatoes and Barley of Domestic growth, a Committee of seven was appointed to prepare and draft a preamble and resolutions, to be submitted to an adjourned meeting, to be held at the same place, on Monday the 12th January. In pursuance of this trust, the said committee, having met, and taken the subject into consideration, Report: At a meeting of the Trustees of the University, held on Saturday evening Solomon W. Conrad was elected Professor of Botany in that institution. AGRICULTURAL MEETING At this moment, when, with one exception, peace pervades the world, and all civilized nations use exertions to foster the industry of their own citizens, we should ill deserve to rank among them, if we disregarded interests so manifestly connected with a prosperous Europe, and portions of the American continent, necondition of society as those of Agriculture. While all glected necessarily the cultivation of the earth, to endure the privations and desolation of war, the agricul turists of the United States, in consequence of an increased demand for their productions abroad, were enabled to flourish, and gave the means of profitable com merce and industry to the merchant; receiving advan tages which are at present withheld. attention. He seldom has an opportunity of speculating. The condition of the Farmer now requires our serious His pursuits are regular, and his profits confessedly and trades, less opportunities of increasing his capital, moderate. He has, in proportion to other professions though as earnestly occupied, and with as great indus try and toil as others evince or encounter. He is called upon by the claims of his family, of interest, of ambition and patriotism, to uphold those arrangements best calculated to improve and encourage an occupation of the first importance to his country, himself, his pride, and his hopes; and in considering the vast number of his fellow citizens actually concerned with him in the promotion of such objects, he may fairly defend himself from merely selfish views, and refer the advantages he claims to one general interest. We perceive many articles capable of employing advantageously the soil and capital of our country, as well as the ability and industry of our population, at lower rates of duty than consists with the interests of the farmer at certain seasons, when short crops scarcely recompense him, even with augmented prices, for his labour and expenses; and we desire the aid afforded to other branches of industry, to assist him to attain both skill and capital, which his energy and disposition incite him to arrive at. At a large and respectable meeting of the Farmers of the townships of Oxford, Lower Dublin, Byberry, and Moreland, held at the house of Benjamin Snyder, in The numerous canals and rail-roads, and the general Bustleton, agrecably to a notice of the 15th of Decem-facilities for transportation now adopted, will aid in reber, JACOB SHEARER, Esq. was called to the chair, and Edmund Green appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting being stated, from the Chair, to take into consideration the present prices of produce and the future prospects of the Agriculturists, and to invite the attention of those concerned to the subject of the increasing and direct interference in our domestic market, by the importation, particularly of Barley and Potatoes from foreign countries. On motion, Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed, consisting of George Breck, Samuel Swift, John H. Gibson, T. J. Baird, G. H. Walker, Franklin Comley, and Edmund Green, to draft a preamble and resolutions to be submitted to an adjourned Meeting, to be held at the house of B. Snyder, in Bustleton, on the 2d Monday in January, at one o'clock P. M. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published. (Signed) JACOB SHEARER, Chairman. ducing the price of agricultural produce, bringing into competition various articles from distant parts of this state, and our sister states, sufficient to supply the demand in our markets, without reference to foreign coun tries for productions capable of being immediately and abundantly provided at home; and if protection, by duties upon foreign products, is afforded to any portion of our citizens, we consider the farmer, personally engaged in the most laborious duties, with high wages to pay, and in comparison, small farms, fairly entitled to equal consideration. In consequence of the high price of labour in the ag ricultural districts of this country, and our mild and economical system of government, the expenses of the labourer, for the supplies of his family, are greater than probably those of any other in the world. He is enabled to purchase abundantly, not only comforts and necessaries produced by the soils of our own land, but to aid the revenue by a large consumption of foreign goods. Thus the high prices given for labour, should aid, ultimately, the agriculturist, who vends at a home Whereas, At a meeting of Agriculturists of the Town-market larger supplies of food, and enables the labourships of Oxford, Lower Dublin, Byberry, and Moreland, ing man to enjoy an abundance which is the astonishPhiladelphia county, convened at Bustleton, on Monday, ment of strangers, and we hope will long be our pride. the 22d of December last, agreeably to public notice, Let us, as Americans, exult that the consumption even for the purpose of taking into consideration the expe- of the luxuries of life, by the poorest people of our diency of exciting farmers generally in the United States, country exceeds by far, that, where capital and wages who may feel interested, to petition Congress for a fur- are at a much lower rate. We would draw a corclu E. GREEN, Secretary. |