A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1710 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=51555 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Boston Gazette Article Date: August 11 1729 Article Description: Laws Passed Imposing Duty on Imported Aliens. Article Text: Philadelphia, July 31. Our Assembly have pass'd a law to lay a duty of 40 s per head on all aliens that shall be imported into this Province, and 20 s. per head upon all Irish servants that shall be so imported. About 10 days ago a ship arrived here from Ireland with 200 servants, and to avoid paying the said duty they are put on shore at Burlington & Trent Town in New-Jersey. There is now four vessels more arrived here from Ireland with passengers, and yesterday one of the passengers gave information that on board the sloop Charming Sally from Dublin there was a quantity of counterfeit New Jersey bills which were found in the chest of one EANON, a passenger who died at sea as they were coming over. Whereupon the Mayor and Magistrates of this city immediately gave the sheriff orders to make inquiry into this affair & who upon search found in the chest of said EANON about 118 counterfeit eighteen penny Jersey bills, not signed (They are of the new bills that be now current)! and are in the hands of Thomas LAWRENCE, Esq., Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. Its supposed there is a greater quantity of these bills gone to Burlington in the ship Woodside Gally, board which ship he had taken his passage and shipt a quantity of his goods, but was left behind himself. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com