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The Committee appointed to confer with Council concerning the Public Demonstrations of Joy it may now be proper to authorize in this State, upon the Definitive Treaty of Peace between The United States and Great Britain, beg leave to report, as the joint Opinion of that Board and your Committee,” Then follows a full description of the triumphal arch to be erected at the upper end of High or Market Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, appropriating for the purpose a sum not exceeding six hundred pounds, and rules to be observed by the populace on the occasion. The Report closes with the following sentence: "Any Boys or others, who disturb the Citizens by throwing Squibs or Crackers, or otherwise, will be immediately apprehended and sent to the Work-house." 4to. VERY SCARCE. 62. BROADSIDE, CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. Your Committee beg leave to Report, That they consider the confederation as a compact between sovereignties for mutual good. 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This is an order calling for the Brigadier-Generals of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th Brigades of the 2d division to furnish from each brigade by draft or voluntary enlistment, two hundred men, for six months, to perform garrison and police duty in the recently acquired territory. ANDREW JACKSON'S GREAT ANTI-NULLIFICATION PROCLAMA TION 68. BROADSIDE. Proclamation by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, against Nullification. Whereas, a Convention assembled in the State of South Carolina have passed an Ordinance, by which they declare "That the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void, and no law," .. |