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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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During their recent session in Concord, the General Court of the State passed various acts and resolves, including establishing a state seal, currency rates, naturalizations, estate administrations, court schedules, a day of public fasting, sales of confiscated estates, town incorporations, boundary settlements, tax provisions, and a lottery for Merrimac River improvements.
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An Act to establish a seal for the use of said state:
An Act ascertaining the rates at which Gold and Silver, &c. shall pass within this State.
A Resolve, that all Certificates issued, or to be issued, shall be received by the Treasurer in payment of all Taxes now due, or shall hereafter be due to this State, excepting the second Tax issued in 1781, which was to be paid in Bills of the New-Emission.
An Act to naturalize Peter de Sauffe, &c.
An Act to commit the sole Administration of the Estate of Jeremiah Prescott, late of Epping, deceased, intestate, into the hands of his son Jeremiah Prescott.
An Act impowering Leonard Whiting Esq. to levy an Execution on the Estate of Benjamin Whiting, Esq.
An Act impowering Elizabeth Batter to prosecute Actions in her own name.
An Act to impower Isaac Barret of Nottingham-West, to collect certain Taxes in said town.
An Act to alter and establish the Times and Places of holding the several Courts of Judicature within this State.
A Vote that Thursday the 14th Day of April next be observed as a Day of Public Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer.
A Vote for the Trustees of Confiscated Estates, who have proceeded in the Sale of part of such Estates, to immediately sell the remainder, and render an Account as soon as may be.
An Act to impower Sarah Ross, of Portsmouth, widow, to sell her interest in a certain Dwelling-House and Land in said Town.
An Act to impower Mary Hart, of Portsmouth, widow, to sell the interest of her two Children.
An Act to Incorporate a Place by the name of Ossipee.
An Act to impower a Committee to settle the Boundaries and Lines between the Townships of Sandwich and Moultonborough, and Sandwich and Tamworth.
An Act to enable the Selectmen of Washington to Tax certain Lands in said Town.
A Resolve for settling the Bounties and Supplies of Soldiers families, &c.
An Act to Repeal part of an Act for the Establishing Forms of Oaths.
An Act impowering the Guardians of the Heirs of Philip Eastman, late of Walpole, to sell the Real Estate of said Heirs.
An Act to enable the Inhabitants of New-London to Tax certain Lands in said Town.
An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty-two Thousand Pounds, for the Use of said State.
An Act for raising by a Lottery the Sum of Sixteen Hundred Dollars, to be laid out on the Falls in Merrimac River, for the more easy conveyance of Timber down the same.
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Concord
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During Their Late Session
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The General Court passed acts and resolves including: establishing a state seal; ascertaining rates for gold and silver; accepting certificates for taxes; naturalizing Peter de Sauffe; administering Jeremiah Prescott's estate; empowering Leonard Whiting to levy on Benjamin Whiting's estate; empowering Elizabeth Batter to prosecute actions; empowering Isaac Barret to collect taxes; altering court times and places; setting April 14 as a day of fasting; directing sale of confiscated estates; empowering Sarah Ross and Mary Hart to sell properties; incorporating Ossipee; settling boundaries for Sandwich, Moultonborough, and Tamworth; enabling taxes in Washington and New-London; settling soldier bounties; repealing oath forms; empowering sale of Philip Eastman's heirs' estate; raising twenty-two thousand pounds; and a lottery for sixteen hundred dollars on Merrimac River falls.