446 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



further violence to the said collector, if he did not shortly thereafter 

 publicly renounce the further execution of his said office : 



And whereas several of the perpetrators of the said offence are still 

 unknown, and the safety and good order of society require that such 

 daring offenders should be discovered and brought to justice so that 

 infractions of the law may be prevented, obedience to them secured, 

 and officers protected in the due execution of trusts reposed in them, 

 therefore I have thought proper to offer a reward of Two Hundred 

 Dollars for each of the said offenders that shall be discovered and 

 brought to justice for the said offence, to be paid to the person or 

 persons who shall first discover and give information of the said 

 offenders to any judge, justice of the peace, or other magistrate. 



And I do hereby strictly charge and enjoin all officers and ministers 

 of justice according as their respective duties may require, to use their 

 best endeavors to cause the offenders to be discovered apprehended and 

 secured, so that they may be speedily brought to trial for the offence 

 aforesaid. 



In testimony whereof I 

 (L.S) have caused the seal of 

 the U. States of Ame- 

 rica to be affixed to 

 these presents, and 

 signed the same with 

 my hand. Done at 

 the city of Philadelphia 

 the 24th day of Fe- 

 bruary one thousand 

 seven hundred & nine- 

 ty four, and of the In- 

 dependence of the U- 

 nited States of Ame- 

 rica, the eighteenth 

 Go. Washington 

 By the President — 

 Edm. Randolph 



Loaned by Miss S. H. Killikelly, Times Building, 

 Pittsburgh. 



198. The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 31, 1765. 



199. The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 14, 1768. 



