The Supreme Executive Council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting : whereas at a public auction or vendue, held in the city of Philadelphia, by order of the Supreme Executive Council aforesaid, on the [twenth fifth] day of [October last past] for the sale of divers lots and lands lying and being within the said city of Philadelphia, and belonging to the commonwealth aforesaid; set off and apportioned by the Supreme Executive Council aforesaid, to be sold, pursuant to the directions of an act of the General Assembly of the said commonwealth, passed the twenty-fifth day of March 1780, entitled "An act for striking the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, in bills of credit, for the present support of the army; and for establishing a fund for the certain redemption of the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned," and of one other act of the General Assembly aforesaid, passed the tenth day of April [1781] entitled "An act for the better support of public credit, by an immediate sale of the lands therein mentioned, and fully securing the purchasers thereof in their titles, and also for preserving the common lands appurtenant to the city of Philadelphia and other towns in this state from unwarrantable encroachment