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STATE b? VTEGINJ& AN ACT Conn ritntfc the GlMt Lands and Churches 'within this Comtnott ' ' wealth. [Palled January it, iBoz.] TXT’HKKEAS the general Alkmbly on *** the twenty.fourth day of January 'one thousand fevert hundred and ninety nine, by their aft of (hat date repealed all the laws relative to the late Protellant Episcopal Church, and declared a true cx pofttion of the principles of the Bill of Rights and Con&itution refpefting the fame, to he contained in the aft intituled (l An aft for eftablithing religious free dom," thereby recognizing the principle, that all property formerly belonging to the Tuid church, of every defeription, devolved on the good people of this com monwealth, on the diifolution of the Bri tilh government here, in the fame degree in which the right and intcrefl of the laid church was derived therein from them. And although the General Aflfembly pof feffei the right of authorifmga faleof all fitch property indiscriminately, yet being dclirous to reconcile all the good people of commonwealth, it is deemed inexpe client at this time to disturb the pofleflion of tlie present incumbents. Sec. 2. Re it then fore tuft.tied hy the General djfrmbly, That the Overfcers of the Poor and their fucceflbrs, ora majori ty of them within each county of this com monwealth, wherein any glebe land is va cant, or (hall become so, by the death or ’ removal of any incumbent, dial! have full power and authority, and they or a ma turity of them are hereby direfted, on giving .at least thirty days public notice, at the front door of thecourt-houfe of their •.ounty, to fell all such lands and appur tenances, and every other species of pro perty incident thereto, on the premises, to the higheil bidder, on twelve months credit, taking bond with good security for the amount thereof payable to them fclvcs and their fucceflbrs; provided that no Talc of any such property lhall take place, where any person is in pofleflion thereof, under a lease from any person or persons in bcnalf of the said church whe ther called trullees or not, prior to the palling of this aft, until the said lease lhall ■expire ; and all funis of money or tobac co due thereon, or to become due, lhall be recovered by aftion in the names of the f.iid Ovcrfeers of the Poor or their fuc ceflbrs, in any court of record within this commonwealth ; that the said overfcers of the Poor or a majority of them conduct ing every such Tale, or their fucceiTors, on receiving fatisfaftory security for the amount therefore, be, and they are here by authorifed and direfted, to convey all such property fold by them as aforefaid, to the p.irchafcr or pirchafcrs thereof, hy good and fufficicnt deeds lor that purpofc ; • hat in ail cases where any person or per- Ibns may have received any sum or Turns of money or tobacco, for the use of the Kpifcopal church as established under the former government, and lhall not have paid the fame as diiefted by law, the said Ovcrfeers of the poor and their fucceflbrs, or a majority of them, lhall be entitled to receive the fame, and on non-payment thereof, to recover it by aftion in any ' curt of record within this commonwealth : That when any person or persons, other than an incumbent or his tenant, lhall have had the use of any glebe land or o thcr property incident thereto, and may not regularly have accounted for the pro tits of the fame, they lhall hereafter ac count to the said Ovcrfeers of the Poor or a majority of them, of the county in which such property lies and in case any such per son or petfons, their executors or admini. flrntors refute to account accordingly, the said Overfcers of the Poorer their succes sors may sue for and recover the fame in any court of record within this common • wealth. That in all cases where such property Is in pofleflion of any incumbent or his tenant, either or both of them Hull be reflrained from the commifiion of wafle, in like manner as other tenants for life or years may be by the said Ovcrfeers or their fucceflbrs, in whom the tight of aftion tor that, and the purpole of carrying this aft Into effect, is hereby veiled. That in every case where the Ovcrfeeis of the Poor or any one or more of them in any eoun. ty flull have good reason to believe that the incumbent t lie rein lhall be about to re move any or the whole of the personal t lute, which he holds as formerly belong ing to the Epifeopal church, from such county, they or any one or more of them lhall upon application to any magistrate therein, obtain from him an attachment, which he is hereby authorifed to grant, agalnft the ellate so about to be removed, upon the execution of which and the re • *-n thereof being made to the next court of •such county, the laid court may com. pel th? said incumbent endue proof there of, £0 give bond with fuffclcrtt ftccrityV not to remove the fold property or any part thereof, from the premises, and in case of refufal, the fold court may or der the said property to be delivered to the said overseers of the poor and their fucceflbrs or a majority of them, to be by them disposed of as in other cases: That in all cases where there shall be any just demand unpaid by any parilh, the said overseers of the Poor and their fucceflbrs, or a majority of them, in every county comprehending such parish or the greater part thereof, lhall from any of the lunds aforefaid, before they are otherwise appli ed, pay the fame ; and (hall then be enti tled to a credit with the Overseers of the Poor of the county comprehending the re ftdue of such parish, for their proportion thereof: That in case where a glebe (hall be in, or a parish run into, more counties than one, the Overseers as aforefaid of the county wherein the glebe or the great, er part thereof (hall lie, (hall fell the fame as aforefaid ; and in all cases the said o verseers and their fucceflbrs, or a majori ty of them, (hall appropriate the money arising therefrom either to the poor of such parish or to any other objefts, which a majority of the freeholders and house keepers therein may direst, by a writing from under their hands directed to the said Overseers : And in all other cases the money arising therefrom as aforefaid, (hall be by the said Overseers of the poor or a majority of them in the counties reflec tively, applied in like manner, unless directed otherwise as aforefaid ; Provid. ed, That nothing herein contained shall authorife an appropriation to any religi ous purpose whaifoevcr. That the said overseers of the poor or a majority of them, or their fucceflbrs, shall meet as often as they may deem it ncceffary, for the purpose of carrying this aft into ef feft : That the Ovcifeers of the Poor, and their fucceflbrs in each county where any such property remains, shall perform all the duties required of them refpeftive ly by this aft, under the penalty of two hundred dollars each, to be recovered in any court of record, by any one who will sue for the fame. That the foid O verseers and their fucceflbrs or a majority of them who shall perform the duties here by required, shall be en.itled to receive for advertising, felling, and conveying, any of the said property, a edmmiflion of three per cent, and for collecting and ap propriating any of the funds by them re ceived, three per cent more; and (hall be accountable to their fucceflbrs as ip, other cases. That nothing herein contained shall authorife a falc of the churches and the property therein contained, or the church yards, nor in any manner affeft any pri vate donation made prior to the firft day of January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven for church and other purposes, where there is any person in being entitled to take the fame under any private donor ; nor to affeft the property of any kind which may have been acquir ed by private donations or fubferiptions by the foid church, fmee the date last mentioned. Sec. 3. This aft shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof. Charleston, Souih-Carolina, July ig, 1802. 'T'HE fubferiber having cllab- lifhed an near Charlcfton, which \ill enajife him to execute any kind of A&st/kgs of about or undei fifteen imndred/weight, in the completed manner, npw offers his Ser vices to the Augufta and the public at large, f#»x the performance of any undertakings in chat linek Orders adclrcffed to him, accompanied with pat terns, will be flriftly complied w\h, and the work forwarded by the earliest op portunity. JOHN JOHNSON, jun. No. 3, Gillon-Street . NOTICE . NINE months fro|n the date hereof I (hall apply to j the honorable the inferior court of Ccflurrbia county, for an order to fell one hundred acres of | land, being the whqle of the real estate j of Charles Atkinfon* dec. lying in Co. Jumbia county, on the waters of the Eu chce creek, boundejl by lands of Craw ford, Sims, Smith,|and lands belonging to the estate of Da\#fon, for the benefit of the heirs and Creditors of the said dcceafcd, / V. ATKINSON, Adc/x. | June 28. Blank Deeds of Conveyance ! for falc at this Office. * 1 hr -THE SUPERIOR COURT, Rid mond county, Afrit 22, tBo2i ON the petition Sarah Fountain and Peter Fountain, heirs of Peter Fountain, dec, by and Ma ry M‘Coy his wile (foe nerly widow of the dcceafed, and reot ler of the said Sarah and Peter, infants, under the age of twcnty.onc years,) 9s their natural guardian and next friend ; (fating that their dcceafed father Pc|cr Fountain, di ed seized and podefied of a certain traft of land, containing by eftimaiion fix hundred acres, fuuate in the ci unty of Richmond at the time of survey, now Columbia county, on the waters of the Kioka creek, being a payt of a traft of eight hundred acres, grimed onto Wil liam Thompson, fold arid conveyed by William Thompson and <fife to Richard Call, and by Richard C|ill to the said dcceafed Peter Fountain! and that the deed from Thompson and wife to Richard Call is loft, a coby whereof, as near as could be was annex ed to the said petition, and is now lodg ed in the clck's office, accompanied with the usual affidavit, and praying to have the said copy cftablilhcd iu lieu of thc original so loft. It is ordered, That t!je said deed be eftablifficd as direfted by the aft of the gcneial affcmbly in foch cases made end provided, and according so the usual rules of Jaw and equity, cn giving notice by publifliing this rule, for the fpacc of fix months, in one of the public gazettes of this date, unlcfs cauft (hall be (hewn to the contrary within the said fix months, or other matter (half appear to the court agaioft he fame. G. Walker, Solicitor for the Heirs , Taken from the Minutes, JOSEPH HUTCHINSON, Clerk Silver-Bluff Lands. On the Jecond Monday in January next, at it o’clock, WILL BE SOLD, By PUBLIC AUCTION, if not before difpc/ed of by Priv xte Conti ad, at Sil ver- Bluff, ALL those valu ble LANDS, on bath Tides of Savannah river, and lying in Richmond county, Georgia; Edgefield and Barnwell diftrifts, South- Caroiina, confiding of about 12,600 a cres of land, of which zoco acres are high river swamp, inVGeorgia, and the remainder of about idbo acres of high river swamp, and 9600\>f excellent cot ton or pine land, in Soup Carolina; on the Carolina fide is one jpf the belt Mill Seats in this state, on fie How and Iron creeks united, on which arc a Saw Mill of four Saws, a Grist Mi 1 and two pair of Stones, and a Cotton Saw Gin, with w r atc# for the whole in thfi dried fcafons. The Lands in Carolina wall, after reserv ing a fufficicncy for the Saw Mills, be kid off into small Plantations, to suit purcha fers and settlers. Terms, one third Ca(h, and the re mainder in one and two years, with in lercft from the date ; bonds, with ap proved peifonal fecuriiy for the remain der, with a mortgage of the property, Purchasers to pay for titles, Thcfe lands will be immediately re surveyed, and laid off into small tiafts, (except the Mill Seat) which, when done, due notice will be given. For further particulars, apply to Col. A. Gordon, Savannah ; Dr. John Ramsav, Charle ston ; Oswell Eve, Esq. Augusta ; ox Charles Goodwin, at Silver-Bluff. Abril 22. Greene Court of Ordinary, July 7, ISO 2. ON the petition of Silas Dixon, by Young Grcfiiam, his attorney, dat ing, that Thomas (Harkins, late of said county, dec. did ii| his life time, on the 12th day of January, in the year 1795, execute his bond under Teal, to Pietce Nowland, whereby be bound himfelf in the penal sum of onc/hundred pounds fter- Ung, conditioned make good and lawful titles to 200 acres of land in Wilkes county, on (he wa;crs of Litre river, and on Ready creek, whereon the said Harkins then lived, which said bond has since been afflgncd over to your petitioner, ard the said Thomas failing to comply with the condition of said bond in his life time, It is ordered by the Court, That the administrator of said Thomas Harkins be compelled to make titles to the land aforefaid to faul Dixon, or (hew fufii i ent caufc to the contrary within the term of three rconthsfrom this date,and that this rule be publilhcd in one of the public gazettes of this date for the fpacs of three months. Taken from the minutes, • THOs. CARLETON, c. c, o. Cstiuz Cocxrr, 7 , JSoficf is hereby green " 'T'HAT after the expiration 0 * mne months, japplirarion win h» made to the hcnoraille the Inferior Co of Grcf.ie county Jfcr leave to f;J| Wt , traft of lard in faidfcounty, j n the sof ot * of the Oconee andj Appauclrie n vtr , on the waters of Eillfon’s creek, ing Matthews, MoraUnd.aod oth?r>. so one other trad in raid ccuntv, cn tu« Beaverdam of Ricfiard creek, adjoint ing Houghton, andbthers j it b-Jng the beneht of the hlirs and creditors of Miles Beavers, decc&fcd, IT is requeued that all per, tons who have any demands againlt kid deceased, will make them known within the time preferibed by law, and those in debted will make payment by the firft 0 { September next, as no longer indulgence will be given. Wm. JENKINS, Adm’r, N O r I C~E. After the exqiiradar^f-rri 7T? -- months from the d ue hereof, application will be made to t ie honorable the infe. tior court of the county of Burke, for leave to fell the re U effete of John Ma]. lory, jnn. deccafi d* viz.- ijo acres of land, moreorlefs, in the said county, adjoining lands of John Stcptoe, for the benefit of the hcii s and creditors of the said deceased, agreeable to the flature in that case made and provided. WILLIAM MALLORY, Adm’r. Wy ?» O TICE. AFTER the expiration of nine months from the dati: htreo;, application will be made to the honorable th* iric. tior court of the c mnty o'' B»nke for leave to fell two-hut dren acre* of pir,s land, in the said county, adjoining lands of 7cl fair, belonging to the clfetr. of Pleasant Goodall, rb ceased, for tfe be, nefit of the heirs o the said deefafed, agreeable to the ftatt tc in that case made and provided, ARTHER WII LIAMS, Guardian . • jf»h 7« .. T O B E S O L\)7~ SEVEN hundred acres qi land, feuate t ppofite the cify of Auguffe, cna vannah R>vcr, in the Hate of South Ca rolina, a great proportion ts which rs Prime lew Ground, and Fi ft quality High Land, well timbered.- Fo-: fur ther particulars, apply to Col. Robert Watkins at Auguffa, who is authoriied to dispose of the f4me. April 28. N. B. If the above is nor very short ly fold, it will be leafed, for a term not exceeding seven years. "NOT I~C E. That nine mbnths after date., application will be t: iade to the honorable the inferior court of G cene county, for leave to fell eighty teres of fend in Arid county, be the fame more or less, on the waters of Richlan i creek, adjoining William Crawford md others, for the benefit of the heirs ; nd creditors of John Knight, late of thi? ccuntv defeated, ELIZ. K: JIGHT, Adm’x. R. B. KNIGHT, Adm’r. Greene county , Aupiji 18, _ ~ 11» t ■ rta WILLBESOLD, On the frjl Tuefday in October nexty at the in ike city oj Avgt> p ? » . . ,287-5- aGres of pine land iR Richmond county, on the waters of Epr rit creek, adjoining lands of Edward and Chailcs Burch, when surveyed, and va cant land. Also, will be rented, to the htghcft bidder, the House and Lot lately occu pied by Anthony Blache, for one year, and immediate pcffeffion will be given* It is useless to deferibe the fituaticn Oi the (land, as it is well known in the city of Augusta to be a valuable (land fer a public or private Boarding House, Th® conditions will be made known on the day of sale, bv EDWARD PRIMROSE. WILL BE SQLD, On Saturday th& thirtieth day cf October next, at the potation'’ of James Sud duth, deceased , ik line oh county, ALL the eftate cf the said James Saddutfi, Twelve months credit will be given, purchaser giv ing bond with /pprovetl fectmty. NANCY STONE, Adm’x*. JAMES SMAR'L Adm’r. September 5.