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The Governor and Council immediately convened a 

 special meeting of the citizens, and publicly oft'ered a re- 

 ward of Thirty Dollars, for the apprehension and convic- 

 tion of the daring offenders, in either of the neighbouring 

 sister states, to be paid out of the Treasury. 



A proclamation was accordingly issued, and in the 

 course of the month, three of five dishes purloined, were 

 recovered from Mayland's creek, near Gray's Ferry. 



The thieves to avoid detection, consequent on the pos- 

 session of such extraordinary articles, of little intrinsic 

 use or value to them, had at high tide deposited them in 

 deep water near the high road above the Mills. The au- 

 dacious robbers were never discovered, and therefore es- 

 caped the merited punishment which awaited conviction, 

 for the extent and wantoness of their depredations on and 

 destruction of the property of the State, and of individu- 

 als. 



The year 1820, was a productive season, and well at- 

 tended, until some local appearances of the yellow fever, 

 in the neighbourhood of Walnut Street Wharf, in the 

 month of September, justly causing alarm, many gentle- 

 men citizens of the State, retired to the country. 



At the close of this season, the records of State, bear 

 the melancholy testimony, of the decease, on the 20th of 

 October, of ISAAC MILNOR, in the fifty-seventh year 

 of his age, a most worthy member, universally lament- 

 ed by his friends and fellow citizens. 



On the 10th of January 1821, the citizens of the state 

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