By His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esq; president, and the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation Whereas divers of the inhabitants of the county of Cumberland, within this state, have, by their humble petition, represented to the Honourable House of Assembly, in their present session, that they are in a state of most imminent danger, from a number of violent wicked persons within the said county, who, being detected in counterfeiting money and such like evil practices, have burnt the barns, mills and houses ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty (Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1780)
Bristol, B5157. - Coat of arms at head of title. - Offering a reward for the arrest of five counterfeiters and arsonists. - Shipton & Mooney, 43866. - Signed: Joseph Reed, president. Attest. T. Matlack, secretary