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GEORGIA LEGISLATURE- |
IN SENATE.
Friday, Alov. 5.
Mr. Blair, of Habersham, laid on. the
table a preamble and resolution, relative
to the appointment of a committee to en
quire who it was that repeatedly voted
with more than one vote at the same bal
loting, at the election of Judge oftho Su
perior Courts of the Ocmulgee Circuit.
Saturday, A“ov. (5.
Mr. Danicll, of Chatham introduced a
bill to extend in favor of the Bank ot the
State of Georgia, and its assigns, an act
entitled an act to secure to John McKin
ne and Henry Shultz, the exclusive right
to a bridge across the Savjyinah kiver,
nt Augusta.
Mr. Blair, of Habersham introduced a
bill to amend the act incorporating the
Central Bank, &c.
The preamble and resolutions of Mr.
Wood were taken up, and after some de
bate, agreed to with amendments, &oc.
Mr. Blair, called up his resolution of
yesterday, instituting an enquiry into the
votes improperly handed in on Thursday
last, for the election of Judge of the Or
mulgce Circuit— read, uiuend-
Od, and agreed to.
Messrs. Blair, of Habersham, Harlow,
and King, were appointed a committee
on the part of the Senate, to join such a
committee as may be appointed by the
House, in order to proceed to the investi
gation of this transaction.
Mon day, JVov. B.
Notice was given hy Mr. Muncrief, for
the appointment of a committee to pre
pare and report n bill to change the mode
of taking testimony by written interroga
tories.
A memorial was presented from the
President of the Bank of Macon, which
was referred to the proper committee.
Mr. Blair, of Habersham, presented a
letter from T. B. Bond and 11. B. Cutter,
in relation to the management of the
Bank of Macon, which was relerred to
the proper committee.
Tuesday, A'uv. f).
Notices to prepare and report bills :
To authorize and require the Governor
to cause to be purchased uu additional
number of negroes to work and keep in
repair the several market roads in the
purchase leading to Columbus.
Mr. Branham, from the joint committee
on hanks, made reports on the Columbus
Bank, on the Augusta Insurance and
Banking Company, & on the Merchants'
and Planters’ Bank.
Wednesday, A*>v. 10.
Mr. Itohinson reported a bill to form n
new comity out of the counties of Gwin
nett, Walton, DeKulh, and Newton.
A bill was passed to compel all county
officers holding public moneys to keep
books of record of the receipt and expen
diture of the same. *
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Saturday. A'ov, 0.
On motion of .Air. Hudson of Putnam.
Unsolved, That the joint committee on
Banks, be directed to enquire into the pro
priety and expediency of purchasing, for
the use uml benefit of the State, the whole
of the Capital Stock now owned in the
Bank of Darien by individuals, compa
nies, corporations or in an other manner,
•end if the said Committee should deem if
advisable to recommend a purchase of
the stock so owned us aforesaid, that
they he instructed to report by bill or oth
erwise, suitable provisions for purchasing
the same hy law, and also for the man
agement or disposal of the same after be
ilg purchased, and the stock now
eftvned by the Stale m said Bank, and
Hint said committee have leave to report
by hill or otherwise, so as to carry into
J\ilJ effect the objects of this resolution.
.Monday, A'cv. S.
BILLS REPORTED.
Mr. Powell: To force all persons who
filial I cater or enroll their children to 'c
taught at any school, to send the same,
or forfeit and pay a sum equal to the
<-o r of teaching each and every such
scholar.
.dr. MeElvey: To impose a tax on all
cattle in this State owned by persons re
siding nut oftho same.
*ir. Poarman: To repeal an act pass
ed 21st Dec. 18fiq. to make valid bonds fa
jti a by Sheriffs, their Deputies, Coroners,
Or onstahles, from defendants in exe
cution for the delivery of property levied
Upon hy the same.
Mr. Black; To prohibit Ranks and oth
er corporate institutions, having banking
privileges, from collecting notes. tVc. and
To prohibit the City Council of Augus
ta from imposing any fee, tax, or assess
ment upon persons for the privilege of
vending articles or provisions in the mar
ket house of the same.'
On motion of Br. Beall of Twiggs, the
house took up and concurred with Sen
ate in their resolution appointing a com
mittee on their part to investigate the
improper ticket enveloping several votes,
and added as a committee on their part
Messrs. Howard of Baldwin, Brewster, and
Pear man.
Wednesday. JSTov. 10.
CHEROKEE INDIANS.
Tii committee on the Slate of the Repub
lic, to whom was referred so much of
the Message of Ins Excellency the Gov
ernor, with the accompanying docu
ments as relates to the occupancy and
survey ofthe hinds in the pi-esent oceu
pnney of the Cherokee Indians and of
that from which they have been re
moved—-have had the same under con
sideration and usk leave to make the
following
REPORT:
The subject referred to your commit
tee is one of great delicacy and impor
tance. involving in its decision the sover
eignty. and essential rights ofthe people
of Georgia, on the one hand; and the ,
qualified right of occupancy on the part of
the Cherokee tribeoflndSenson the other.
Ihe right ofthe people of Georgia to -
the ultimate fee in the soil comprehended
within their territorial limits, as declared
in the constitution of the .State, & agreed
upon by the compact entered into on the
filth day of April, 1802, between this
State and the United States, and the right
ofjurisdietion over that soil, whether it be
in the occupancy of Cherokee Indians, or
others, and under whatever title they may
held or claim to hold it, are now acknowl
edged and conceded by all who havoany
respect for their characters, statesmen or
jurists.
& >
To enter into a labored argument to
prove the existence of these rights of
sovereignty which arc self evident to ail
who are capable of comprehending the
subject, would only betray a want of con
fidence intbem, and would be incompa
tible with the dignity ofthe State.
It is true that heretofore the U. States
Government, has exercised a controling
power over the Cherokee tribe of Indians,
—so tigttte to isegulate by ber laws, inter
coursmPlwecn them mid the while peo
ple. But this power was assumed with
out authority derived from any legitimate
source known to your committee; and
the only shadow of warrant which can
be abduced for its exercise is that clause
ofthe constitution of the United States,
which declares that ''the Congress shall
have power to regulate commerce wilh foreign
nations and among the several Stales, and
with the i.NuiAN tkibes,” —What Indian
tribes?—Certainly not those located on
the soil and within the acknowledged
jurisdictional limits of a free and indepen
dent sovereign State: because, to extend
this grant of power, sons to include the
“Indian tribes,” living within the acknowl
edged jurisdictional limits of any State,
seems to your committee to be a palpable
absurdity.
The word “State” is synonimous with
nation or government, and includes in its
meaning ail Hie territory forming such
State or nation, and all the persons resid
ing in such territory; and therefore the
Cherokee Indians residing within thelim
ils of Georgia, areas such a part of the
State of Georgia, as any other portion o!
its inhabitants. When therefore the
grant of power to regulate commerce
among the several States was given by
the constitution to the federal govern
ment, (his grant, ewi termini, included nil
the inhabitants of the several States,
whether Indians or white persons, and
consequently excludes the idea of Indian
tribes, as separate and independent com
munities within the several States.
The expression in the constitution of
the U. States, u and wilh the Indian tribes ,”
must have been Intended to apply to such
Indian tribes on the continent of North
America, or elsewhere, us wore not in
cluded within the limits of any of the
several States of the Union, because un
der any other construction, it would have
no application, or such an one as would
come in direct collision with the sover
eign right of jurisdiction in the Stales,
and with that part of the grant of power
which authorises Hie general government
to regulate commerce among the several
States.
That “a power which can take away
or impair aright of property in a State,
and at its discretion set bounds to its jur
isdiction exists in the general govern
ment,” has been asserted by those whose
misplaced philanthropy and ignorant
zeal for Hie rights of the Indians have
led them info various other absurdities
in regard to our relations with those peo
ple—and has been exerted by the gener
al government contrary to the rights and
the wishes of Georgia. The grant of
power to “regulate commerce with the
Indian tribes” Was not intended to mean
Indian tribes within the Slates, or it would
have been so expressed. But admitting
for the sake of the argument, that such
power did exist in the general govern
ment, anterior to (he date ofthe compact i
entered into hy nnd between the United
States, and Georgia, on the filth day of i
April, 1802, yet it is presumed by your i
committee that no man will assert, or se
riously contend, that sneh power exists
since the date of that instrument: The
Hinted States there expressly cede to the
estate of Georgia, whuteier claim, right
or title (hey may have to the jurisdiction,
or soil of any lands lying within the Uni
ted .Slates, and out of the proper boun
daries of any other .'stale, and situated
south ofthe {Southern boundaries of the
Stales of Tennessee, North Carolina and
South Carolina and east ofthe boundary
line described in said compact as the eas
tern boundary of the territory ceded by
Georgia to the U. States.
Whenever, therefore, the United States
attempt to exercise any jurisdiction over
the Cherokee Indians within the limits ol
Georgia, other than that, which by Hie
constitution of the United Slates, fhej
have u-right to exercise in the States gen
erally, and thereby interfere with the
right of jurisdiction in the State over ail
her territory, and her people, whether
citizens or aliens, white men. or red men,
or black men, they manifestly in fringe the
sovereignty of Georgia and violate the
oompnet of 1802.
But this power to regulate commerce
with the Indian tribes has been exercised
by (he general government in regard to
the Indians residing within the limits ol
Georgia. The hist act of Congress on
this subject was passed on the JOth of
March 1802, nnd is know n by ths name
of “the intercourse law.” And from the
ucquieseWicc of Georgia, either because
she could not, or did not then choose to
interfere, as her interest might not at that
time have called for such interference,
many may have supposed that the exer
cise, ou the. part oftho United {States of
this power was a matter of right. So
long as the use of this power by the gen
eral government, was not injurious to the
interests ofthe State, she had no reason
for interposing; nor was she obliged to
do so; and a forbearance on her part to
assert this right does not impair it.—The
right exists in its fullest extent, and
whenever the state thinks proper to ex
ercise it, she may lawfully do so.
The laws of Georgia have been exten
ded over the Cherokee people, by virtue
of uu act passed by her General Assem
bly at its last session ; and if this act be
Constitutional and valid, as your com
mittee are persuaded it is according to
the principles asserted in this report, then
these people cease to have any other le
gal or political rights, than such as are
derived to them from the Constitution &
laws of Georgia. If they ever were,
since the settlement of this State, consid
ered us a separate and independent nation
or government, they have ceased to he
so, since the extension of our laws over
them, because two separate and inde
pendent Governments cannot exist at the
same time within the sume territorial
limits, the one claiming jurisdiction over
a part, and the order over the whole—
Ami this view of the subject is supported
by Hie course pursued by the President
and Congress of the United States.
By the act of Congress passed at its
last session, entitled “An net to provide
for the removal of the Indian tribes with
ih of the States uwd Territories, opu
:'or their permanent settlement West of
theHiver 3lLseissippi,” the President is au
thorised to exchange lands beyond the
Mississippi, with any tribe of Indians,
or am/ individuals thereof now residing
within the limits of any State; and also
to purchase from such individuals, any
valuable improvements which they may
have. This the President has done in
several instances, and has notified to the
authorities of Georgia, that such lands so
obtained by exchange, and by purchase
of improvements from the Cherokee In
dians, are now at the disposal of this
State. So far therefore, as your Com
mittee can collect the opinion of the
Federal Government from this law, and
the practice of the President under it,
il would seem to them that the General
Government did not consider the Chero
kee tribe of Indians in the light of a .Na
tion, State, or sovereign community, hut
ns individuals located on the soil ol Geor
gia, with the right of occupancy, only.
Vour Committee, however wish not to
be understood os placing the claim ol
Georgia, to the right of soil and jurisdic
tion of that part of the State occupied by
the Cherokee Indians, upon this law ol
Congress, or any other act of the Feder
al Government. They claim it us an ori
ginal, inherent right belonging to the
State, by virtue of her sovereignty and
independence—and one which she lias
never delegated to the General Govern
ment.
Under this view of the subject, your
Committee have no doubt of the right of
Georgia in the exercise of her right ol
jurisdiction, to proceed to survey nil the
lands within her limits, and now in the
occupancy of the Cherokee Indians ns
well as that from which they have been
removed. Anti they arc of opinion, that
it is both expedient anil proper to pro
ceed to an immediate survey ufthe whole,
so Caras is necessary to ascertain the lo
cation and extent of the gold and other
mi ncs; and the situation, number, & val
ue of the tracts or parcels of land and
their improvements, to which the Indian
right of occupancy has been extin
guished; and for the purpose of the more
ellectuaMy enforcing the laws ofthe State
in that section other domain One ob
ject which your Committee have in view,
in recomnn tiding a partial survey ol the
country, so us to lay' it ott'into districts or
counties, is that Justices of the peace
may bo elected in such districts or coun
ties, as have white men of good moral
character in them, who will he able to
aid in enforcing our laws, and at the same
time in protecting the Indians from the
lawless outrage on the pint of abandoned
and profligate white men.
In regard to that portion of the territo
ry which was originally in the occupan
cy of the Creek Indians, and to which
their right was extinguished hy the trea
ty of the Indian .Springs, and from which
the Cherokee Indians have been lately
removed by the order of the President ol
the United States—Vonr committee are
of opinion that the tract declared to be
ours hy the President, in accordance
with the opinion of General Coffee, is too
small and inconsiderable to authorise the
expense of a lottery, lli.l n. lhe Presi
dent decided the question on the evi
dence furnished by Gen. Codec, who was
not in possession of all the evidence on
the part of Georgia, as collected by Col.
Wales and Mr. Gatos, ami on the opin
ion given hy Gen. Coffee; and as the evi
dence collected by Col. Wales and Mr.
Gates, on the part of Georgia (w hich is
very strong) has been forwarded by Ills
Excellency the Governor to the Presi
dent, which it is hoped will have the es
feet to change his opinion, and produce
a decision in our favor—Your committee
would recommend that provision be
made by the present Legislature for the
survey into small lots, ofthe snid territo
ry claimed hy Georgia, as a portion of
the land reded hy the treaty ofthe Indian
Springs; the said survey to he carried
into effect by His Excellency the Govern
or, as soon as it shall he ascertained and
determined by the competent authorities
that < Jeorgin is entitled to the occupancy
ofthe same. And they would further
recommend that provision be also made
for disposing of the said territory to the
citizens of the .Slate by lottery, ns soon
as tin* same lias lieea surveyed.
And your committee hoping and be
lieving that the President of the United
States, whoso laudable and indefatigable
exertions in behalf of the interests of
Georgia, deserve and receive the thunks
of her people, will be enabled, before the
next session of the General Assembly of
this State entirely to extinguish the claims
of all the Cherokee Indians to the occu
pancy of the soil ofthe State, feel it to be
their duty to recommend that provision
he also made by the present Legislature
for a farther survey of the whole coun
try into small lots for the purpose of divi
ding the same among .'lie citizens ofthe
State by lottery whenever flis Excellen
cy the Governor shall ho satisfied that
the Indian right of occupancy has been
extinguished, and that this Slate lies tin
right according to her Constitution to
lake possession ofthe soil.
Your Committee are aware, that there
are persons in other states, and perhaps
some few in our own, who will disap
prove of any course which your commit
tee might recommend, having for its ob
ject the preservation ofthe property, and
the rights of this Stale, iu the Cherokee
lands, or the extension ofthe jurisdiction
ofthe State over the Cherokee people.
To such persons, your committee have
nothing to say, and oiler no reasons for
the measures they recommend, because
suc h men are the deluded .victims of un
inveterate prejudice, which no argument
etui remove and which reason can ne'-
ver successfully combat; But there may
he some both here and elsewhere, who
from the want of know ledge in regard
to our Indian relations, mid under the in
tlueneo ofthe purest motives, believe that
this State has no right to survey the coun
try, or to extend her laws over the peo
ple, and to such your Committee feel it
to he their duty, as it is also their plea
sure to declare the causes, which in their
view of the subject, not only justify, hut
imperiously called for the course propos
ed to be adopted.
Before the formation and organization
hy the Cherokee tribe of Indians of a re
gular government; they were viewed
in the light of other Indian tribes, scatter
ed over an extensive country, depending
mainly for subsistence on the spoils of
the chase —claiming no political rights
inconsistent with the rights of Georgia—
roaming through their Forcfts, as free &
[’ unshackled as the mountain breeze, and
enjoying all the happiness incident to
savage life. Whilst they remained in
this situation Georgia hud no fears of
their ultimate refusal to remove beyond
i the Mississippi, where more facilities
could be afforded them for the enjoyment
of that inode of life best suited to their
i nature and education. The introduc
■ tion however of white men among them,
i and of many ofthe arts of civilization—
■ the intermarriages between them and
the whites and the great influence w Inch
i these white men have obtained among
• them by force of the power which* know
> ledge gives—and the present political
1 attitude in which these white men ami
, some educated half-breeds have thought
I proper to place themselves and their peo
pie towards this Slate, have produced
a state of things materially different from
. that which formerly existed. Aml now,
. instead of exciting the sympathy of our
people for their weakness and their ig
i norance, they excite their national pride
; and their resentment.
Again, the day must and will come
ami it is not far distant, when, by the
constant intermarriages between the In
dians und the w hites, the original Indian
character will in a great degree be lost
and yet the half or mixed breed will re-
I tain so much of that character as to be
> incapable of enjoying civilized life, and
so much of the character of the white
man as to he illsuited for the savage
state. Here then will be A sort of mon-
I' grel population in the bosom of Georgia,
I' unfit for the character of citizens, ami
unfit for the wilds beyond the Mississip
■ pi, and if they are permitted to reside
■ within this Slate under an organized go
vernment of their own, owing no alle
giance to Georgia, the political absurdity
will be produced of one government ex
, isting within another.
But this state of things, even ifit were
• now tolerated, could not long continue.
The time w ill come when the people of
i this State, always jerilous of their rights
will assert and maintain the dignity of
the State, and either reduce these Indians
to a state of subordination to her laws,
or force them to leave her territory.—
The course therefore, which your com
mittee now recommend is dictated by
the principles of justice, the feelings of
humanity, and the’ most ardent desire
(or the welfare and happiness of these
children of the forest.
The sooner these people remove to a
country they may call their own, and
where they may have a “local habitation
and a name,” the sooner will they live iu
the full fruition of all the joys and the
pleasures congenial with their savage
state, and rendered dear to them by their
education and their habits.
In conformity with these suggestions,
and to eflfeel the objects recommended
in the Message of his Excellency the
Governor—Your committee beg leave to
report a bill.
(A Summary of the Bill in our next.)
TO THE EDITORS or THE SAVANNAH GEORGIAN.
.Milirdgcville, Friday, JVov. 5.
The report ofthe Central Bunk is an
able document, I regret its great length
precludes my giving the whole. 1 have,
however, given below the most material
parts of it.
General Statement ofthe condition ofthe Central
hank, Monday, Nun- Ist. 1830.
i)lt.
Capital Stock at date
of last report, 1,927,310 69
Diminished by Execu
tive order, cancell
ing bunds, &c. &c. 5,014 59
1,922,502 50
Increased by the fol
lowing accounts:
Lots at Macon sold in
1828, 1-1,808 GO
“ “ Columbus “
1828, 26,447 20
Fi actions atMilledgo
villc in 1825-4, 17,750 07
U. S. Stock received
by Executive order, 5,033 00
Stock in Savannah O.
and A. Canal Co. 44,000 00
Lots, &c. sold at dif
ferent places, . 5,298 47
a 2,002,544 54
Interest account to
date of lust report, 11,947 53
“ “ “ since, 8,580 47
Discount on Notes to
date of last report, 10,153 03
“ “ “ since, 39,178 90
Discount on Bills to
date oflast rcpoi t, 1,043 00
“ “ “ since, 3,335 87
4.979 83
Dividends on U. S.
3 per cent Stock, 599 00
Treasurer of the
State of Georgia, 129,471 75
At the credit ol'iudi
viduals, ?1,221 88
First emission of
C. Bank JNot.es, 744,000 00
“ “ “ on band 597,258 00
In circulation,
140,742 00
$2,471,420 19
ru.
Dank Stock, $1,005,000 00
U. S. three per cent Stock, 5,997 60
Stock Savannah O. and A. Canal
Co. 44,000 00
Bonds, Notes and other evidences
of debt received from the Stale,
consisting of
Bonds for tractions in
Baldwin & \\ ilkin
son, 1807, 20,800 30
Notes for square Lots
and tbiTi-ited Lands,
sold 1811, 1,117 29
“ “ fractions, 1821, 1,572 53
“ “ Bent of reserv
ed lots, 228 02
“ “ fractions rented
in 1822, 471 05
Bonds for lots in Macon,
sold in 1824, 970 77
“ .. <i .. .. 1p2 6, 1,425 75
“ ““ “ “ 1827, 1,979 25
Notes and receipts for
property rented at
Fort Haw kins, 10,05127
“ For rent of Frac
tions by M. Tor
rance, 5,124 61
“ “ “ by J. Tho
mas, 4,040 14
Bond of Warren Jour
don, £Ol 00
“ For Bridge at
Macon, 20,000 00
Bonds and receipts for
confiscated properly, 20,987 30
*'For Indian goods, 510 75
i Receipt and Bonds for
i Fractious in Wayne, 4,835 67
: “ For bond for ftac
[• tion in Baldwin, 700
Bonds and receipts for
University Lands, 8,943 53
Bond Sav unnnh O. and
A. Canal Company, 50,000 00
' Lamar & Hines’ report
on Franklin business, 90,706 75
- 75
. Notes Discounted, (534,053 78
Bills of Exchange discounted, 60,479 57
Salaries to dale of last
report, 3,958 91
“ since, 6,127 77
Incidental expenses to
dale of lust report, 1,902 18
“ “ since, 1,200 97
Commission account to
date of last report, 90 30
“ “ since, 1.252 46
Protest account, 7 00
Amount due by oilier
Banks on open acc’t. 20,050 62
Cash on hand in sundry
local Bank Notes, 319,088 00
U. 8. Bank and
Branches, 17,170 00
Specie, 66,789 11
$2,471,420 19
Signed, JAS. CAMAK, Pros’t.
The report commences with a brief
detail of the Operations of the Hunk, from
the commencement, as a port of which it
is mentioned that ofs 10,0.36 due the State,
for lots in Macon, sold in 1824-5-6-7. $36,-
382 has been collected; of (lie University
bonds amounting’ to $39,310 there have
been collected $29,016; the amount due
by the report of Lamar & Hines on the
Franklin business, was $103,186, of which
$3,719 has been collected. Os $58,954
due by certificate for lots sold in Macon
in 1828, $15,708 has been colfccted and
. $4,307 forfeited; $40,524 for fractional
lots between Oe.mulgeeand Flint llivcrs
. $35,080 collected; and of $286,530 for
lots in Lee, Muscogee, Arc. sold in 1828-9,
and forfeited lands sold at same time,
$58,(583 is collected and $16,643 forfeited.
The report says, ‘’The bond ofthe Sa
vannah Ogechec and Altainnha Canal
. Company, amounts to SSO 060. It will
be remembered that this sum was loaned
to the Company by the State, in the year
1826, on their bend duly executed, and
was paid to them in Darien notes. One
condition of the bond as prescribed by the
act authorizing the loan, is, that it “is not
to bear interest until the governor shall
notify to the said corporation, that the
bills ofthe Darien Hank are at par value”
By the report of the Committee on Banks
approved 19th Dec., 1829, it is declared
that “the Bank of Darien again enjoys
the public confidence, evidenced by the
bills of the institution having arrived at
par value.” Os the fact recognized by
this declaration, the. President of the
Company' was notilied in due Ibnn, by
thcproivcr Department on the 27th March
last. Interest will, therefore, from the
date of that notification accrue on the
bond at the rate of 5 cent, per annum.
The act of last session requiting a trans
fer of Stock owned by the Ktatoto the
Bank, has been complied with, and new
certificates obtained, in the name ofthe
Bank, ns follows;
State Bank Certificates, No. 721
for 5000 shares at 100 $500,000
Planters’ Bank Cortificatc N 0.1924
for 1000 shares at 80 80,000
Dank of Augusta’s Certificate No.
416 for 1000 shares at 100 100,000
Bank of Darien’s Certificate No.
526 for 5000 shares at Go 325,000
$1,005,000
The Bank also holds the certificate of
the Savannah, Ogeehee and Altamuha
Canal Company, lor 410 shores stock for
which $44,660 has been paid.
The report closes with the following
general remarks:
The directors having given a concise
detail of their operations, proceed now
to add a few observations on the general
results of their labors. Os these, the
most important may, perhaps, he suppos
ed to be that showing the amount of pro
tils. The following statement is submit
ted to show the amount of them since the
bank went into operation:
Interest received on the settle
ment ofold debts; transferred to
the Bank hy the State, $29,523 00
Discount on Notes discounted, 55,312 69
Discount on Bills of Exchange, 4,979 83
Dividends on Bunk Stock, to wit:—
State Dank, 52,5(10
Bank of Darien, 13,000
Bank of Augusta, 12,000
Planters’ Bank, 6,U00> —83,500
Dividends of interest on U. S.
3 per cunt Stock, 599 CO
$164,340 02
The dividends in Bank fetlock have
been collected by the Bank, and deposit
ed in it, to the credit oft he .Slate Treasur
er, in conformity with the 4th section of
act cl’ 1829, to amend the Charter ofthe
Central Bank. The remaining items of
profit stand to the credit of their respec
tive accounts, awaiting the direction of
the General Assembly, either to pay the
nett amount of them over to the Treasur
er or to merge it in the Capital !Btock.
From the Georgia Journal.
At the sixth annual convention of the
Judges ofthe .Superior courts of Geor
gia, held at Miliedgcville, in Novem
ber 1830, the following alterations of
the Buies adopted hy the last Conven
tion, were made and ordered to be
published.
RUEEoih. When an appeal is enter
ed. either of the parties litigant may
make any amendment of the declara
tion or answer they may deem necessa
ry. The party amending shall give no
tice thereof in writing accompanied by n
copy of the amendment to the adverse
party, f [tree months previous to the next
term, after the appeal; and if the party
amending fail to give such notice, anti
the adverse party will state on oath that
he is taken by surprise, and is less pre
pared for trial in consequence ot the a
mendment, the cause shall be continued
at the instance ofthe amending party.
BULE 15th. No certiorari will be
sanctioned unless the alleged error be
distinctly set forth in the petition ; and no
otiier errors shall be insisted upon at the
hearing than are stated in the petition.
RULE 24th. No clerk shall suffer any
original paper of hie to be taken tram
ns officem vacation, without an
from the Judge for that purpose de3r
RULE 38th. Upon opening a ,
ment by def.mlt the defendant shall ft
tnsUmtrr, to the merits ofthe action-
no default shall be opened but upon
ment of all costs which may havi.
erued, including twd dollars of the
neys fee: The entry of default, urmn .tT
. bench docket shall be sufficient evi.t,.,, U
1 .°. f *he judgment, If the plaintiff all" 2
himself to be supprised by the pica th
cause shall be continued at the
ofthe defendant. Sla “ ce
Additional Buie under the article S u
veys. ‘
Either party, in actions of ejectment
shall be entitled as matter of right to ’
rule of survey upon application to th£
clerk in vacation.
WM H CRAWFORD
C. B. STRONG,
W. T. COLQUITT,
L.Q.C. LAMAR,
WM. W. HOLT,
A. S. CLAYTON.
APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT.
Mathew Ha«vev, ot New Hampshire
to be Judge ofthe United States, for u,,!
District of New Hampshire, in plaeo-of
John S. IBh?rburne, deceased.
— GOO —
The Columbia Telescope copies from
the Augusta Chronicle, tin article credit
ed to the Miliedgcville Journal, advoea
ting the worst sort of nullification; t ,
which was appended un appropriate sen
tence of condemnation by the editor ot
die Chronicle. This editorial remark o
the Chronicle was omitted by the 'ivies*
cope. Under these circumstances win
was not the original article, accordin'-
to editorial usage, credited, at once, to
the original paper? In quoting the same
from the Augusta Chronicle, without tin
accompanying veto of its editor, the or
tide necessarily acquires the sanction of
that print, which published it only to con
denin it .—Eilg'JlM Hive, iiih insl.
HK»-
MB. RANDOLPH,
t A!! accounts represent the health of
this get Reman as very much enfeeble,
by the voyage, and especially the hoi
summer climate of Kt. Petersburg. From
accounts received from several quarters,
his indisposition is extreme. Koine of
the letters, indeed, stated Ids life to be in
the greatest danger.—He was so week
at St. Petersburg, l liatl hey were under
the necessity of carrying him to the
Steamboat—but when l.e landed in Lon
don, ho was able to walk a few steps
He arrived at London, on the morning
ofthe 29fh September, “in a very ill state
ofhcnllh”—and it is still that hepropos
es to leave England very soon, tor the
South of France—and to return to Rus
sia in the Spring, if his life he spared.—
We understood, before he left the IJ. 8,
that tiie Administration had authorized
IiIm) to visit the South of Europe, if (ho
state of his health should imperiously
require the change, provided the a flairs
ofthe mission would admit ufhis absence
without prejudice to the public service.
liichmnd Enquirer, ,Vw. 9.
THE MAILS.
Wo are informed by a Post-Master iu
Stnry county, “the mails in that part
ofthe country will in future travel ms
frequently ns heretofore and with more
speed—li-em Richmond to Norfolk in
hours.”— lb.
LAFAYETTE.
Extract of a letter from Gen. Lofayellu
to a gentleman of Philadelphia, dated
■ Paris, 6th October, 1830.—-“ We perse
vere in our system of non-intervention;
hut while we declare that if the other
powers shall enter the territory of our
neighbours, for instance, Belgium, Pied
mont. or Spain, we will immediately en
ter it likewise, and in the contrary ease,
we shall leave those neighbors to settle
their own affairs. It does not prevent u
lively interest felt in France for those
who follow their example. The inde
pendence of Belgium is one of ihe ft nits
of one Revolution.
‘‘You will see upon the whole that wo
are advancing in the path of political and
social civilization.
“The wound of Levaescur i» not yet cm*
ed, but he is better.”
THE X-IUNG.
“Unaui.es x-Kiiig, was xtravagnnt
ly xtolled, and is x ecru ted. He xhihited
xtraordinary xcellenee in xigeney, sees
sive xaeerbation in xultation, xemplary
in xlernnls, but xtrinsie on xinninalioii;
he was xtatic under xortation, and x
(reine in xcifement, and he xlingaished
xlempore xpression. He was xpaten
ted for his xecsses, and to cNpiate his x
travaganecs must xislund xpirc in xile
'J\i tier.
A PHOCLAMATI ON.
WM7TJEKEAS, an appropriate tie*
V ▼ knowlcdgcment of the blessingi
received through thekindnessofan over
ruling Providehcc, is at all times the du
ty of those who participate of His bents
fits and His mercies; and whereas the in
habitants of this City have abundant
cause of thankfulness for the numerous
blessings extended towards them, during
the past seaso.', —particularly for 610
blessings of Health, with which our cite
zens have been so signally and generally
favored; and which, with oilier mercies
calls imperiously upon them for their uni
ted and public expression of gratitude to
the Great Author from whom comm
every good:
I, therefore, in conformity to n Resolu
tion ofthe City Council,-do most earnest
ly recommend to the Inhabitants ot tins
City, to set apart and observe THURS
DAY, the IWtli hist, as a Day of Pukin'
Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty
God. for the numerous manifestations ot
his kindness towards them during tnt
past season, mid it is recommended to our
citizens to suspend their secular busings
on that day, and to assemble at their ie "
speclive places of Worship, then an
thereto render their united thanksgiving
and praise, and most earnestly suppht a
Heaven, (or the continued manifestation*
of divine favor lor our City, and beam .
country.
Chamber Council, \ gAM’L. HALE, Mayor
11th Nov. 1830. J
By the Mayor.
GEO. M. WALKER,
Ckrk of Ccmcil
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