whereof I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Treasury Department of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this 26th day of Nov. in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of

employment built before the Revolu- tionary War (Haz. Reg.). Miscellaneous Expenses. The following interesting list of miscellaneous expenses was paid by the county during the year: To Peter Shaffner, for carrying letters of in- structions to tax collectors, 4 pounds and 10 shillings; John Eberman, for

had been placed on whisky and I have made as a part of this paper, his diary entries, jotted down until the ,company left the borders of Lancaster County. "In 1794 an insurrection broke out in the western counties of the state an open resistance against the excise laws. Gen. Washington called on the