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MORN I N
A PASTORAL.
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IN the barn the tenant cock
Clofc to pratlet perch'd on high,
Biifldy crow the Shepherd' clock
Jocuod that the rooming' nigh. '
' Swiftly from the mountain' brow
Shadow nurs'd by mcbtTetire t
And the perpbgfun beam nowj
"Pirmti with gold the Villagtipuei,.
Philomel forfaket the thorn, .. .
Plaintive where ftie prates at night -
And the lark to meet the morn,
Soars beyond the Shepherd' fight.
From the low roofd cottage ridge, ;
Seethe chattering fwallowfpring .
; Darting' through the one arch'd bridge,
Quick die dipt her dappled wing. .
Now the pine-trees waving top,
Gentle greets the morning gale j
Hrdling now btgin to crop, '
-Dailies in thedewey vale. .' .
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From the balmy facets uncloyM,
Reftlefs till her talk be done j
N-jw the bufy bees employed, : "
5 Sipping dew before the fun.
Trickling through Ahe clifted rock, :'
Where the limpid ftream diftills
Sweet refreflvment waits the flock,
When its fun 4rove from the hills, -r
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CoLtlM for the promis'd com, r
Eere the harveft hopes are ripe
Anxious hears the huntfman's born, ''
Boldly founding drown his pipe.
Sweet, O fweet the warbling throng,
On the white embloffom'd.fpiay j '
Nature's univerfal fong,
Echoes to the rifing day.-
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exempted frdmUabnity of payment of duty. .
If fuch CTOff'or low wines be put into the
other ftill which was elected to pay" duty on
its capacity j it cannot exempt that lull from
it monthly orlannual duty, though it ay ,
prndnrg fjn addition very fertous conle-.
quences : font muft be further obferved, that
the la Wj contemplateswoTH'anehes or the dii
tillinff bufinefs.. One branch is the making
from rawrrtaterials, (that is of the growth or
produce riot manufacture of the United btatesj
pnjwhich alone a licenced lull, as luch, canoe
regularly employed. 'The other branch-is.,
the rectifying: of low-vines, and btherpirits Of
. whatever .denomination 'lueahnefs, ftrength,
Or Uavour, ai.O converting mem uuo lpints ui
a new ftrength or navour or name. 1 hat is ;
to fay., the making a new kind of fpirits, as
to itrengto, navour or denomination irora
fome previoufly manufatlitred material : not
from materials as" they: were originally grows
or produced, fuch as all kind of grain and fruit
or ftriclly ratw materials, v . ' . ' ' :
; ' The Xlth" Section of the Aft bt the 5th of
June, 1794, fixes a penalty of one dollar
per gallon on a rectifier of low wines or other
inferior fpirits which lie ihaii rectify, Without
giving notice to" an officer of Inspection.'
The words of the law are, " And be it fur
ther enacted, That every rectifier of low
-wines or Qx dijiillei fpirits, ar.d every dif-
tiller ot cordials and ftrong svater therefrom,
fhall enter at iome oiace 01 lnlpection, aH or -! on broad ftreet; near the Court-h'oufe, and
anyfuch -.to or other drftitlrd fpirits, r0nehoufe and let, adibinlnc MrV Tbomaa
3 T O B E S O L D,
FOR the payment of the taxes, sprceab'e
to an act of afTembly, pafled at Halcigh
in December, in the year 1794- Sundry
lands entered in Carteret county, as follows,
t4cTacres entered for ;iichard RlatUedgeTL.
" 400 acres entered for Thomas Clackledge ;
400 seres entered lor William Blackledge,
and 400 acres entered for' Benjaminjilack
Tcdge.-i, All the above.was entered by Rich
ard Blackledge, on the Sth day of May, 1 778,
6 tracts of 640 acrereachj 1 do. of 410 acres,
l do. of 400 acres, "and t dc. of 420 : acresj
entered by Jpfiph .Leech,' on the 5th day ...of. v
February, in the year 1780, anil?? tracls
or 646 acrHiiitcred foiJavidlIjfQnTn;'
the 2 2d day of September, in the yearflff
'. As the fubferiber has already been coin-"
pelled to pay the public tax on the above laid
lands to the treafurcr, they vvill be expoi ed
to pub ic fa!e,rixty days-afrer date, at Beau
fort in Carteret county, no one appears;
to pay the refpective taxes due oa the lafn
before that time.- - .
v;-WIIXIAMTIipMPSOKVj
Carteret county, . Q fisher iG, 1 796. ' r;
- F O R SAL E, "-IJ
THE houfe and lots, now occupied by
A-pr? William M'Clure, the lots may bc?"
baifeparatety or together. Alfo one let
' Supervijor's Office '
THERE has appeared in lome parts of
thediftricl: of North Carolina, adifpofi
tion among fome Diftillers of native materi
als toputthemfelvesin a capacity to injure the
United states Dy employing two stills j-one-
which they defire to elect to pay duty 011 its
own capcaity : the other to pay'duty on the
Spirits manufactured. HavingAthus made
their election, it has been repreiented that
their plan is, to work the Still elected to pay
duty on the number of gallons diftilled, and
to make from thence low, Wines, . or fingle
diftilled fpirits ; which they, erroneoufly do
not denominate Spirits ; omitting to report
them as luch to the collector of the revenue ;
confiderinr them as not fo far manufactured
as to be liable to duty : thefe then they pafs
over to the other lull elected to pay duty on
its capacity. there rcaificd or made into a
hipjier proof t and are as they would per
fuade themfelves not liable to duty : becaufe
this lad ftill pays duty on its capacity? , Here
then is the evaubn, upori which tor the in
formation of diftillers. I remark That e
very ftill actually employed in the diltillation
of fpirits, is taxed to pay duty at the rate of
54 cents rer annum n its capacity ; out the
law has given'to diftillers', a right of making
a choice or an elected rate 01 payment ; it
this is on the number of gallons actually diftill
ed the quantity in gallons is to be returned
All WW" MiiVI T W ft! I ,
The opcration of making lo w wines is truly 10 ProcUrc f
j ..rfi i...-.u. WILLI AN'
unu auiuiuiciy utc ij't utivn nu y rvics oi
mutilation. Low wines like v merchantable
fpirits, have a'portion of water in them, but
are Revcrthclefs abfolutely fpirits of an fafe.
rior flrenptK : they are dutiable too t for the
law is guarded, in hot beginning the. Icalc of
duttcd Ipirits at any hxed degree of ftrcngth :
all fpirits of whatever ltrcngth, comes with
in the letter of the law. '1 he firft tlafs of
. fpirits are ell tfofe belw a certain ftandurd,
viz. " more than 10 per cent beh-jj pwf."
Here then, under proof Ipints taking the
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whole rantre from 10 per cent under, down
to the very weakeft fpirits which the diftilling
. process Hull have produced j are iiauic to the
payment of duty at the rate of feven cents
percallon. If adiftiller, to defraud h!$cuf.
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prior to the removal of them to his diftillery
or rectifying houfe, and prior to his beginning
the rechfvmg," improving, . or altering the
quality, itavour, or proof thereof, under the
penalty of One Hundred Dollarfor every cafk.
61 one hundred gallons anu 10 in proportion
for every greater or lels quantity."
-The device for making low wines or other
fpirits of an interior quality at. one ftill,. and
rectifying or otherwite altering them at ano
ther, without proceeding as a rectifier, whT
appear from what i have otteredro be pal
pably virongrfur low wines, as has been
before lifted, are abfolutely and in fact fpirits
produced 'by dit illation, Sz come' within the firft
clafs of proof, which comprehends all dual
led fpirits however low, that are 10 percent
below prooi; tor men are tne words or the
Aft ot the 3d ot March, ,.1 791, eftabhlh nr
theclaffes.
I (hall on!v further obferve, that if a diftil-
lcr iliall omit to report his fpirits calleJ low
wines or other Ipirits by whatever name they
may be called or however weak, which he
may have.diitillcd from a ftill, on which an
election had been made, to pay the duty oh
the number of gallons diltilled, and fhall
fwcar to the qu mtity diftilled, omittlig the
low wines or other fpirits of inferior quality ;
fuch dillillcr will be liable to profecution, un
der the laws for falle Twcanng.
Such devices and evalions are inthcic, na--turc
litigious and corrupted : they are incon-'
ftftent with jtiftice to the honelt citizens ;
they are injurious to the honeft and upright
d'ftillcr. ; are abfolutely defrauding the J
nited States of their juft revenue, in "which
each individual is more or lefs concerned.
Inltructions have been ifTued to the officers
of infpedYion to ufe every lawful means to
detect abufes of the foregoing nature, and the
infractors bcii'g detected, may dqiend upon
the executive emccrs ufing every legal means
The whole the property cf Ms. Mary
Edwards. ' " - . x
. . Oclobtr 15. ": NATHAN SMITH. ;
ON Saturday the 26th cjt" November next,
will be fold for ready money in gold or
Giver, 'at Stephen CobbsT in Wayne county,
two tracts ot land, viz. one. tratt lying in,.
Nafii county, on matfh fwamp, containing
twelve hundred acres, ami the; other Jin
Wayne county, adjoining 'the lands of Ste
phen Cobb, cor taining rive hundred acres,
the property of Benjamin Cobb : taken to fa
tisfy a judgment obtained in the circuit court,
by Robert Taylor againft faid Cobb.
HANS PATTEN, D. M.
. Ocloher 1. ' ' '
WHEREAS my wife BEERSHEBA,
has eloped trom my bed and board,
and being apprehenlive the will run me in ;
debt, 1 hereby give public notice, that 1 will
pay no debts of her contracting from the date
hereof. And as flie has a home of her own
to go to, I hereby forwarn all perfons from ;
harbouring her under the penalty of the law.
' LEVEN DICKENSON.
Cclobcr.li) - "" ' -
LI AM POLK, Subervifor
of the Revenue lijlrid of Norlh-Canlinj.
October 4th, 1796. '
THIS DAY ARK PUBL I5HED,
AND rOR Hit AT TH R
PRINTING-OFflCE, (Smbcm t)
PHICR 50 CENTS.
A F E.W C AS E S,
DETEtMlVRD IN T1IR
SUPER 10 II C O U R .T S
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N O R T II.C A R 0 L I N A.
Thofe Cafes, twenty .nine" in number, hve
been copied from the notes of the rnoft rel
pcclablc law characters in lhi. (late.
tomers, cr hii country, will make fpirits no j 11 LA N K J of all kiml, lor file at the
ftremger thanro, he is nevcrthdefs not Pr inling-Oflicc. ;
F O R S A L E,
THE Plantation and lands whereon the
fubferiber now lives, containing about
one thoufand acres, lying fifteen miles below
NewbenijandonNeufe river and Slocomb's
crceki There arc on faid lands three plan
tations all in complete order for farming, and
every houfc needful fcr farm or family.
The terms are, one third of . the purchase
money in hand, one third in cne year, and
the remainder in two years, and if not fold
by the eighth day of December next, it w ill
be put up at public vendue upon the prenii
fcs. At the fame time and place a quantity
of houfhold and kitchen funiturc, plantation:
tools and ftock will be fold for three rnonthi
credit. . Alfo a quantity of corn will be fold
for ready money. "; ' - . .- .
ADAM TOOLEY.
Cfckr 24 " ' Y
T O B E L E Tf
THE ftorc and dwelling houfc, lately
occupied by Mr. Joki Scan. Enquito
of the Printer.
. . October 22
NEW K, KM: , -FRANCO!
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