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■SATURDAY, Aunift 7,. 1802.
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IT HE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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GAZETT.E OF THE STATE.
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FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL by JURY shall remain inviolate. Conjittution of Georgia,
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AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, near the market. £3 Dolls, per Annum,'"*f
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Seventh Congress cf the Untied
States.
At the Finl Seifion, begun and held at
the City of WaMngton,. in rhe Ter- t
ritory of Columbia, on Monday the
seventh of December, one thousand
eight hundred and one,
AN ACT to provide for the eftabhjhrtient
of certain dijiridsy and therein to a
mend an ad entitled “ an ad to regu
late Joe collection of duties on imports
and tonnage at:J for other purposes,
BtC it enaded by the Senate and Hotfe
of Seprefentatives of the United
States of d meric a y in Congress affembledy
That from and after the lalt day of June
ncxt, ( a diftriCt (hall »be formed from ihe
chilrift of Yorktown in Virginia, to be
called the diffrict of Eaff RiVer, which
(hail comprehend the waters, shores, har
bours and inlets of North and East Rivers
and Mobjack bay, and ail other naviga
ble waters, (bores, harbours and inlets
within the county of Mathews, in said
■iftjrte ; and it (hall be lawful for the Press
■ dent of the United States to designate a
I P ro pcr place to be the port of entry and
I delivery within the said diftrift; and to
I appoint a collector and Purveyor of the
I ciutoms, to reiide and keep their offices
■ thereat, who (hall be entitled to receive,
Bin addition to the lees, and other emolu
■incots ettabhlhed by law, the annual fa
■ kry ot two hundred dollars each.
B Sec, 2. And be it farther enadedy
■ That from and after the laid lalt day of
■ June next, Bennet's creek, within the di
■ Itiiiltot Eden ton, and (fate of Nonh-Ca
■ rohna, lhail cease to be a port of deiive
■ r /> as heretofore ettabhlhed, and the office,
■ authority and emoluments of the surveyor
Hos (aid port, (hallalio, from thenceforth,
B tcrmmate and he difeontinued ; and a port
■of delivery in lieu thereof, (hall be effab
■“‘bed on Salmon creek, within the di
■ Ibiff aforefaid, at a place called the Tomb
■ hone ; and a surveyor of the cuitoms (ball
■be appointed, to reffde and keep an office
■ thereat, who (hail be entitled to receive
■for his services, in addition to the fees
■Uabhfhed by law, th e annual salary here
™toiorc allowed to the surveyor of Bennet’s
■creek.
jHh>^ eC * 3* And be it further enadedy
■That from and after the said lass day of
ocxf, a port of delivery (hall be e-
H«aoli(hed at the mouth of Slade’s creek,
north fide thereof, within the di-
Wafhingron, and Bate cf North
jßpltolina, on a certain trail of land, in
designated for a town, where-
Parmley rcfidcs ; and a fur
i|l^ 0r of the cultoras (hall be appointed
||B£*^ffde and keep an office thereat, who
entitled to receive for hisfervlces,
to the Ices eltabliffied by law,
faiary of one hundred and fifty
4* And be it farther enadtdy
■j jP| the territory of r he United States
of t he river Ohio, there (hail,
' a^er the paffing,of this aft, be
a diffrkt, to be called the di-
K of Marietta, which, dial! include ail
(bores and inlets of the river
the northern fiae, and the ri
■J& and (bores connected there
or to the eaffward oi, and
fiver Sclera, from the
| 1 • upward:, as fa* asihejar? f
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GEORGIA.
may be navigable—And a colleCfor of
the cultoms (ball be appointed to reside
and keep an office at the town of Mariet
ta, which (hall be the foie port of entry
and delivery for thefaid diltnct; and the
said collector Ihall be entitled to receive
for his services, in addition to the fees and
other emoluments established by law, an
annual salary of one hundred and fifty
dollars.
Sec. 5. And he it further ennßedy
That it Ihall be lawful for the President
of the United States to eitablifo, when it
Ihall appear to him to be proper, in ad
dition to the port of entry and delivery
already established on the Mississippi, fouth
-of-the state ©f Tennessee, one other port
of entry and delivery on theVaid river;
and to appoint a collector of the cultoms,
to refute and keep an office thereat, and
% to appoint one or more surveyors to reside
at such place or places as he may think
proper to ddignate as ports of delivery on r
ly ; and the surveyor or surveyors thus
appointed (hall be fubjcCt to the confront
and direction of the collector within whose
diftrift he or they (hall reside.
Sec. 6. And be it further enafted)
That from and after the palling of this ad,
no duty Ihall be demanded or collected on
merchandize of the growth, produce or
manufacture of the United States, or of
any foreign country tranfporred coaftvvife
between the Atlantic ports of the United
States, and the diftriCts of the United
States on the river Mississippi, or any of
its branches, although landed at the port
of New-Orleans on its paifage ; provided
the fame would not be fubjeCt to duty, er
liable to seizure, if transported from one
diltriCt of the United States on. the fea
coall, to another : And provided like™ fe.
That no debenture for a drawback (hail
have been iliued upon the export of such
merchandize from the Atlantic ports of
the United States to any foreign port or
place ; and to the end, as well that frauds
on the revenue may be prevented, as that
the coasting vessels of the United States
may he permitted to participate in the
said trade ? the Secretary of rhe Trcafu
ry, with the approbation of the President,
is hereby authorifed to preferibe and e
ftablilh such forms and regularions, and the
lame from time to time, with like approba
tion, to alter and amend, for the government
of the officers of the cultoms in this re
fped, as he may think proper andneedfary;
on the observance of which, merchandize
thus transported, Ihall be exempt from du
ty ; and it (hall be lawful for the coalling
vessels of the United States to be em
ployed in the said trade, and not other
wise.
• Sec. 7. And whereas it is provided
by the hundred and fourth feClion of the
collection law, that merchandize belong
ing to Britilh fubjeCts may be brought
(without regard to the character of the
veffcl importing the fame) into the ports
of the United States on the northern and
and north wdtern frontiers, fubjeCt to no
higher or other duties than are or (hall
be payable by the citizens of the United
States, on the importation of the fame in
American vessels into the Atlantic ports
of the United States ; arfd it being just
and reasonable that the fame privilege
Ihouid be extended to vessels and merchan
dize belonging to persons residing at New-
Orleans, and other ports of Louisiana and
Florida, on the Milfiffippi, or any of its
branches —Be it further enafied, That
from and after the last day of June next,
all goods and merchandize, the importa
tion of which into the United States, (hall
• not be w holly prohibited, fnall and may
freely for the purposes of commerce, be ,
brought into the ports of the United States
on the Mffiffippi, or any of its branches t
in vessels belonging to New-Orleans, or
any other port of Louisiana Or Florida,
on the Miififfippi; and such goods or mcr
lundize (hall be fubjeCt to no higher or
other/duties than are or (hall be payable by
the citizens of the Uni ites on the im
pordon of the fame i. is
Sec. 8. And be it further enafitd,
That from and after the last diy of June
next, no duty on the tonnage of any hoar,
flat, raft, or other veifel, (hall be demand
ed or collefted on the arrival or entry of
such hoar, flat or raft, or other vcfi'el in a
ny diilrift \vhich is or may he eftablilhcd
on the iVliuilhppi, or any of its branches,
and on the northern and north weflern
boundaries of the United States—Provid
ed neverthelfs, That this exemption shall
not be conflrucd to extend to any veil'd a
bove fifty tons burthen, and which fliali
not be wholly employed in carrying on
inland trade between the ports of the U
nited States on the Mifliflippi and its
branches, and the ports of Louisiana and
Florida, on the fame, including New.
Orleans, and between, the ports of the
northern and north weftern boundaries of
the United States and the Britilb pro
vinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted,
That all that part of the ad, entitled “ an
aft to regulate the colleftion of duties on
imports and tonnage,'' pallid on the lc
cond day of March, one thou fund seven
hundred and ninety.nine, that directs that
the colleftor of the diftrift of George
town ihall reside at Gcorge.Town, be,
and is hereby repealed.
NATHANIEL MACON, Shaker
oj the llouje of Reprtfentatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Prefi.
dent of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, May 1, 1802.
Th. JEFFERSON, Preftdent of
the United States.
SHERIFFS sales.
At the court-hou/e in Elbert county, on the
frfi Tuefday in N vember next,
WI L L B E SOLD,
' Three dills, one of 163 gal
lons, one of ;36 gallons, and one of 50
gallons* and a copper boiler of about 60
gallons, with 30 mailing hogiheads, one
waggon and geers, one negro man nam
cd Glen, one windfor riding chair and
haraefs, apd two horses; the above pro
perty taken by execution at the instance
of William Poe against Levin Wailes *
and Edward Lovd Whiles.
R. MIDDLE TON, Sheriff.
July 18.
IhER I F F’s S ALE,
At Elbert court-house, on the frji Ju<f
day in September next ,
WILL BE SOLD,
54 acres of land, Elbert coun
ty, lying on Savannah liver, joins Wm.
Alston and others, well improvedi oc
cupied by, and taken as the property of
Gerrald Walthall, to fatisfy Joseph Ter
rell,
R. MIDDLETON, Sheriff.
July 30.
NOTICE?
WILLIAM Hamilton having made
his petition to the Judge of the
Superior Court of the Wcllein Diftrift,
Hating, that he was confined by virtue of
a w’tit of capias ad fatisjaciendum , iflfucd
at the inftancc of David Witt, Hfignee of
J. M. Whitney, and having obtained an
order in terms of the law passed the filth
day of* December, 1801, to noliiy his
creditors of his infolvcr.cy ; Ail crtdi
tors of the said Wm. Hamilton, arc here
by notified that the second Monday in
Oftobcr next, at Carnefvillc, in Frank,
lin county, is appointed for the time and
place at which the said William Hamil
ton is to appear, and will then and there
be ready, as dated in his petition, to de
liver up a schedule of his ' roperty, V -*’*
real and pcrlonal, of wm % he may be
poffcfled, in older that be dis.
charged in tenas of the law, a* \
which the said David Witt, antj
thers the creditors pf the Tjdfl*
Hamilton, a« dr r*-
[Vol. XVI. No. 826.]
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GEORGIA, G reene County.
PERSONALLY appeared be
fore me Redman Thorniou, ami' made
rath, that some time Cnee he was pof
fefifed of two promiflbry notes, given to
this deponent by Robert Dukes, for the
fevera! sums of fevrnry d Tars each,
payable on or about the 35U1 day of De
cember, 1802, whi/h 'aid notes this de
ponent faith he hath 1 0 (1 or rri/hid. Al
so one ether m;te/given to this deponent
by Charles Burk/jun. for the f«m of fitU
ty dollars, pay bide on the date aforefaidl
which fa id note this deponent faith ho '
h tth lust 0/ miilaid, that he is now una- \
blc to prepare them. '
REDMAN THORNTON.
Sworn to betore me, this j
2ill July, 1 802.
John Armer, j, p.
GEORGIA, Lin com County.
hy William Harper., clerk ofjtht court
oj Ordinal) fur [aid county,
WHEREAS Jme - Jordan hath kp
plied to me for letters of admipi
f ration, on the efiate and iff efts of ILny
Jordan, lute of thK aunty, dec. \ f}\
7 HESE are therefore to cite and ddmo
nijh all and fingufir kindred and ere- \
ditors of the JhMdeceajkd, to he and ap*
pear at my office, within the time allowed
by law, to jhtw cause, ts any they have ,
why J aid letters Jhould Jiot he granted.
GIVEN under my hand at office, this
'jth day of July 1802.
Wm. harper, c. c. o.
GEORGIA, Elbert County.
By Wm. Higginbotham- clerk of the
court of Urdinarffor Juid icunty,
WHEREAS,. Thomas Smith has
applied so me fog letters of ad
miniflration on the cflaie-'and es ells of
Valentine Smith, late'of this county, dec.
THESE are therefore to dte and ad
monish all and [insular the kindred and
creditors offaid c\itajed,- to be and appear
before the court of\rdpfiary to be held for
/aid county on theJifL Saturday in Septem
ber next , to j.Jief/cai\ if any they have,
why Jaid lejp/rs Jhoulchnot be grant 'd,
* GIVEN under my hand at office,
this 20th day of July, 1802.
W. HIGGINBOi H VM.e e. 0.
GEORGIA, El bert County.
By Wm Higginbotham, clerk of the
court oj ordinary for said county,
WHEREAS Charles Tail, has ap
plied to me for fetters of adrnini
flraiion on the efiate and effects of John
thlfon, late of this county, dec,
‘THESE art tub\eforcAu cite and admo~
ntfh all and fngul\Ae kindred and cre
ditors of the said be and afr
pear before the court oj%dinar), to be him
for said county on the last Saturday in
September iiext , to Jhtw cause, if any they j
have, why said Utters Jhould net be granted.
GIVEN under my hand at office, this
20th day of July jg 02 .
W. HIGGINBOTHAM, o. c. o.
GEORGIA, Elbert County.
By Wm. Higginbotham, clerk of
the court of ordinary for said county/
WHEREAS Bienfant While has ap
plied to me for letters of admi
niflration on the efiate of Mses White,
late of this county, dec,
THESE artyfh.trefere to cite and admo
nifn all and ftngKLr the kindred and cre
ditors Os said dcSffjcd, to be and appear
before the next courses ordinary to be held
for said county on }ks lift Saturday in
September next, to jkcib cause, if any they
have, whfj aid Utters jhould not be gr-* *-
GIVEN under my hd f *
this ttd dayof W
W. hIGGIN*’
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