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Spain*. To this rbae is a plain answer. Who
took the right of depofu from us ? Spain. —
sVho now restores it? Spain —Can her
hr called which have thtfe great tf
fe<fls; or wril the poficflfion of oiff rights bi
the lets real becaufc they-flow from the fidelity
of Spain, inflead of the justice or the policy
of the mighty rtiler of France.
It would fetm as if federaiifts expt&ed Rom
the Tv.uiarch of Spain a communication fron
Buoraparfr, Hut nad he ipok-n jor the sirs
consul, would they not have treated what Ik
U\ d with contempt l Sud. declarations would
have been al furc, and would iaye been ue
itrvirerof ridicule. Let rht fit it conlul au-
jwer for hin felf. His adions will develope
Jjis views. He may, though it cannot be
pected that he will} invade our rights. \\ hen
he does invade them, it will be time enough
to demand rebrefs. And the people of the
United States need be under no alarm left
rhat demand should not be made. The con
duft of the government towards Spain pre
sents the htft .Heduf rf ir are
sacred. We will pielcrve them ; and v nether
the aggnfidr be mighty or Itebie, our course
will be theiame.
By His Excellency JO HA
MILL EDGE, Governor and Commander m
Chief of the Army and Navy of tin S tate 3
j cud oj the Mihtic thereof.
A 1 RO LL A IV; ATI ON.
WHEREAS, in and by an aft, tfli*d the eleventh
day of May eighteen hundred and thtec en.
\hled “ An aft 10 moke diftri tuition of liie late c• fuon’
* o! lards obtained from the Creek nation by the U
* nited Slates rontnti'jftlouet s in a treaty entered into
* ar or ne >r Fort-Wilkinson, on the fifteenth day o
* June, eighteen hundred and two,’ the governor is
nuihorifed and required forthwith to iilue his procla
anstion, and cause the fame to he publilhed in all the
gaz lit *oi this dare setting forth the outlines of the
aft ; and requiring all persons interfiled therein to
exhibit their c'arms in the counties of their re! peer tv t
I* fid erne lupporred bv the oath or affirmation of otu
or more creditable witrdlcs, where doubts exilt it
the rinds of the Juftkes or the inferior courts, or tic
pet font by them appointed, to re ceive the fame : 1
have therefore thought fit to Him this my pioclam?.
cion, in order to make known the outlines of the late
acf - which are as ioilow ;
The territory to which the Indian title liss beet
rxtingUi fiicd bv the laid treary cl t ort~W ilkinlon arc
icr ilie rfiftriburion of which the a orfciuc] ?<3 has
been pa-fled, is. in conformity to tie tWcnty-thud
led ion ot‘ the fir(v article oi the Cottfl’rut ion cl this
Hate, to be V id off in’o three counties, that is to fay .-
that part of ibe said territory lying it u;fi of the
Aiatatnaha to form and conUitute one county, to bo,
called Wavni; and that part of tne laid territory
tying south of the Oconee river to be divided into
two counties, the ealtern to be called \\ ilkinson,
and the wefl-ern, PtirwiN. ‘lie county of Wayne
Is tO br ‘divided int© three <T{sr*£l<s n” ih'p l>
caretsmTtances will admit, in’ Inch manner as the litr
vcyor general may deem nio.lt expedient—and the
counties of Wilkin foil and B id*iu into five -d. driers,
each as nearly equl in extent as C3n be.
The land eon twined in the feverwl diflrifts is to be
divided by line- plainly and diflitftly marked hn<
tracts ot forty-five chains iquare, containing, two bun
died two and ?n l*!f Hf res each except r ibt county of
Wayne where the land is to be 1. id efr into trails o*
Seventy ciiai.s fqure to contain tour hundred and
ninety acres each— unless where the li< e which is in
form a temporary boundary between the laid termor*
and Creek Indians, or the course of navigable rivt-rs
may render it impracticable, then this rule may be de
parted from, but no further than hi * particular on
cumflartces mav require—All fractional parts of surveys
and all iflsnds within the limits of laid territory
southwest of the middle ot the Oconee or AlHtarnaSi.
rivers, are to be referred and fold, giving to ihole
who draw ttads of land adjoining inch frafticnal
parts ot surveys or ilhncis, resp ctively, a prekrtnee
for twelve months from and after ihe completion of
the dravTlO of the lottery contemplated by the act
and a right to purchase them at such lates as may b-
Hi pula ted by law—except where islands contain more
than one hundred acres, then they are to be drawn
for in the manner pointed our by tire a cl.
The farveyo: s are tu commence making the surveys
of the dillri&s, to which they are rclpcftively ap
pointed, in their own propei persons miKudiAteiy
■alter the boundary line has been run by the proper
auth rity
The lan 3 is to be distributed by lot tery (the draw
ing of which is to continence at.er tlie furveiingis
completed) in which every free male white peifon
twenty-one years of age and upwards, who is a ci izcn
of the Linked States, and who has been nn inhabitant
of tki: date twelve months immediately preceding
4;>e pufiage of the aft, or paid o tax towards the -up
part ot government (including lath as may be absent
on lawful bufiiiei g is entitled to one draw—every tree
male while peifen of the like drier iptian having a
wrre, legitimate child cr children, under twenty one
years of to two draws—Ah person having legi
timste child or children under tvienrv-orte years oj
who have redded twelve months :n this date
immediately preceding the palf.tge ot the ad are en
titled to two draw sand all families of orphans utsdir
twenty-ore veers of ape, to ore draw.
Lifts ot pet Sons entitled to draw are to be made out
within three months fsern the pafivge of the ail, hy
any three or more of iiie Juflices of U.e inferior courts
of the refpeCiive counties, or such per Tons as they
may appoint, not exceeding one for each county. who
fliall before they enter on the duties f their appein -•
snents, CaveraUv give bond r.d security to be appros* and
. of by the said julhces in such sum as t. ey m. y deem
neceflafy, ar.d take and fubferibe an oath in wmirg
to perform the duties required of them by ti e said
aft. The said polices or inch persons as they mrv
appoint, are to attend at codrt-houfes of the ref.
pective counties on as many fcveral days as the jufti
-ces may think necciCiryl, and appoint for the porpcfr
of taking and making oat fiich lifts, giving a; leaf,
ten days notice of such attendance by adver ilbmeht
at five or more of the moil public places in the ref
peftivc cminrirs—The names of persons entitled to
draw with the number of draws to which they vm\
be entitled are to be entered in a bock robe provider
for that purpole in each ccunty; which lifts or books
when completed and transcripts thereof deposed ir
the clerk’s office of tii superior courts, are to U
tranLnittrd by the said j ittices to the governor ; fa
which fei vice the juiticts or ftefi persons as they mny
appoint as aforefaid, ate to receive from the perfdtn
entitled to draw on entering their names. ,yd pc cfciveiy
wel-ve and an ball cent*. i
After the receipt of th* returns from the and drift
furvejors, ano the jottices oi the Inter’or courts, the
governor is to caute fair fills to be made, ot the per*
fops entitled to draw, and the lottery carried intc
affeft under the fuperinteudaucy of five managers or a
majority ot th in who arc so give one month’s public
notice in all the gazet’f-s of the llate previous to the
commencement of Hie drawing, ar.d make known the
davs of drawing for the names cm oiled under the
ieucr A, tor tlmfe ur.iiet ;!-e fetter B, a-d io on,
‘h-nijohont the alphabet, commencing wnb the names
inder the fit'll letter.
Persons who d.aw lands arc to pay m.'o the
r ,f t he Stare, wbbln three months immediately abei
the dravcing is comjdeied, for the part cular survey
r Purveys drawn again It tiuir -n3tr.es relpeftiveiy
a s follows : the firm of nine doMats per hundred acres
for river land of the firft quality —seven dollars pej
hundred acres fur river land of th.e fecit id qua-lit y—
feven dollars pet* hundred acres lor high hr.ti ct the
firtt quality—sou dollars per hundred acres lor higl j
land of th'* fecund quality—two dollars per hurdnei
acres for all third quality Imd— and a half dollar per
bundled acres for all pine land
Prices are to be affixed io laid lands in the follow
jog manner, to wit : ail river lard-of the fir{V quality
at one dollar pet *cre all tiver land of the lecotid
qualiiy at fifty cents per acre, all up lard ot the firti
duality at fifty cents per acre, all up iard of the (econd
quality at t w enty-five bents per acre, all up laud ot
hei hire! qoali ty at twelve and an halt ernts per acre,
and all pine 1 ,rtd at fiW and a quarter cents per crc
which fhal] l! po<d i>y t!>i> fotuttiite drawers in
he following infialments. io v.it : one third of the
price of the ‘refpr&'ive tracts on or before the
lion of three years to he computed frotn the fitft
payment, and one third annually thereafter until the
w'hole price of the land is difeharped, before they
receive grants for the fame—and in case ot failure in
anv of the a f are (aid payments the laid lands shall re
vert to and be vefled in tire Mate ; hut the fait!
drawers may pay up rhe whole an.cunt at anytime
previous to the ex-piraiion of five ye.trs, and receive
grants immediately on fi> doing.
No contrail for tie conveyance ands le cf tickets
n the lottery, previous to obtaining grants theietor,
is to be obiicatorv on eiiher of the contradfipg par
ties, their hcirs rxt-cufors, admicihrators assigns or
devifees, in anv court oi law or equity in this dale.
Vacancies, of any of the di !; r& happen
ing by death, resignation or otherwise, to be fii ed by
rlie governor
Persons are to beappedrred by the diHrift surveyor
o attend them wrhen fur> eying the lr<nds, and report
he qnrd-ty ihtreof on oath, who arc for fuchfervice
■o r ccive fifty cents for each fancy by them
explored.
i hue thcuf.rd rvvo h; ndred and forty acres are
r eserved for a town t lotne suitable place ar or near
• e liead of the jjavigation on the south fide of the
Oconee river, which is to belaid off immediately after
r he boundary line N run.
No Purvey or grant for lands in theaforefsid cession
“o he admitted to a jury as evidence of title to the
ands therein, except ihofe ob ained by virtue and
under the authority of th.e aforecited act.
Now therefore, the jiidices of the Inferior courts
of tl e refpeclive counties arid the ciiiztnj of the llate,
who are entitled to draws in the lottery under the
iforefaid aft, are called upon and required to comply
with ibe requiiitions thereof.
CrIVEN under mg hand and the Great Seal o!
the said State,-at the Htate-Idoufe in Louifviile this
eighteenth day of May, in the -year <of our Lord,
one thousand, hundred and three, and of the
Independence of the United Sta rs of /n erica, the
tvventy-feventh.
* JOHN MILL EDGE.
By the Governor,
Horatio Marburr, Secretary of ike State.
May 26 * (68)
AUCTION.
Th-is-chry at the Vendee-Store. Commerce-Rqw t
W ILL BE SOLD,
i pipe Gin,
4 ditto Closet II ine ,
3 ditto port ditto ,
lS tends Pbilaaelfbia Beer s
50 ditto Herrings,
1; ditto Shad,
t o ditto Ship Bread,
7 hags Fimento,
7 boxes Claret ,
ic ditto Candies —** hb's. HAMS,
7 barrels bottled Porter,
With a variety of DivT GOODi.
Conditions Cash .
CREDIT SALES.
60 pieces excellent Flaxen Ojnaburgs.
ALSO,
A likely Negro Fellow, a good field Jl we. A
likely Negro H oman, a good kerfs (ervant — at a
credit of sixty days, notes with approved en ■
Coffers.
CASH —At :he firn p tirre and place, four
valuable Negtoes, viz:
Two house bl enches, o\e of which is & (ear,:-
jiffs, plain cook, and inner, the ether a plan
xcck, wafer and irener . Ore fellow a good
bricklayer, the ether fellow a field jiavt
HILLS & MONNOX, Au&rs.
May 26.
AUCTON.
+
On Monday the 30 lb injb, w : U be fold at Mr.
Samuel Howard's wharf
* . THE £ lIG
LITTLE s^LLr,
Oh New-Port, abow S5 rons bur
fhen > w ‘ lh 211 ber R'ilgtng, Sails,
Appcrtenances, cf*c. Inventor)
SfeafrTte-Lto be <een by applying at the Ven*
duiitcre, Gon-n e ce-Row, Ci ndt ions Cafb,
Sale to commence at 11 o'clock ,
May 26.
\ Blank Checks,
For Rale at this Office .
Salet far taxes! , “
WILL be fold at the court*houfe if* ‘♦he (own of
Brunswick ) on the ayth day of November next, the
bilowing trails of land, ii/iute in the county of
Glytin } or so much thereof as will pay for the taxes
due and costs-, rcpteien'ed Sis bcir.g in default from
year 1783 to the year 1801, inclufivc, unless the
propriety rs avaii thtmfelves of the tax law in such
afe made and provided : 1650 acres, originally
granted to T hos. Smuh, tax ■dollars >4B cents,
•and cofts.—lcoo acies, gtamed John Jocr, HI
dollars 15 cents and costs.
- - fames Powell, c. t. g. c.
May nth, 1803. 68.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having demands against the efta'e
of Jcftiua Stafford, deccaitd, are requefttdiu eAhihit
iher.i legally nmhcMkaitd tor payment on or before
ibe siift day of September next, all kote IrdebtcU
to make payment by tha’ dav, to
Margaret STfforc!, Advix.
Glynn county, May 26. 6a.
C IAKEN UP
On Savannah river, by. a negro* a (hip**
yawl} Lid and now sale y fecuted
about fe ur miles from he tit), rhe ovvrtr may have
the fyme by applying printers— be yawl
old, carries four cars, painted black and rht. stern
yellow'. 68* May 26.
. r
Notice.
ALL petfers are cautioned /gai,nft giving credit
to an y one on my account, as I will piy no
cebts b'Jt these of my own cqntradlmg.
John FitzpatricL
Mav 76. 68.
f or sale .
AN excellent house wench, being-a good co-ok.
vita filer &c.—For particulars, apply to
Joseph Arnold .
May 26. 68.
Marshal's Sales.
ON the thirtieth ir.ftant, will be fold at the Couri
boufe in the city of Savannah, between the
hours of ten and-three o’clock, a Mulatto Man n*m
ed Peter, about twenty-four years of age, aocuftomed
to be employed as afeaman, and pilot to*- the bar and
river of Savannah: Levied cm as the property ol
William Finder, by virtue of an execution in favour
of lltclor Calbraeth. Aifo,
1 he Wharf and Stores, east of the Houfe,
together with one third of the Wharf and buildings
on which the CMffee-houfe Rands, levied on as the
property of the estate of Alexander Watt, esquire,
deceased, by virtue of several executions in favour of
the United States, and othenj.
Ben. Wan, Iff O'. G.
Savannah, irth May, 1803.
ConftableL; Sales,
ON the last Thursday in j-une iex,wiH be f-ld at
the Court Houle in this city, between the hours of
IO ird V uVlock,
A Mahogany Sideboard L? Dinner table, with
one Half - Rcund. A 1 io,
One lot crockery andglafs :
Seized as tlx; property cf William Pofty to fatisfv
Ball Jones.
IT. Matthevvs, c. c. c.
Savannah,'2tft May, IBaf (67)
Left or Mislaid l
THBEE volumes Bell s British Theatre, numbers
4. 6. and 1 fe-A-Any perfen finding the before-men
tioned books, atuf leaving them at J. Arnold’s Auftion
(lore, fhail receive 5 dollars reward.
iTiVann.vb, Mav 2T I?C2. 7J•
■ >HOUGH T 10 Goal, a negro ‘e/lr.w, fays he be-
O longs to Mr Shetman of tcuifville, i is name is
I'ANIEL Alfio. a negro fel%w. fays brs ner.re fe
HOPE ; tli at he ran aw ay from ? : r. Gerber in South-
Cwrolina, r.tar Oeorgetf vvn, and formerly belonged
10 Thomas Hamilton, of Columbia county in Geor
ge- J F. Q.ates, gcaler.
Savannah. sO'b May. iBO3. (57)
” Dollars Reward*
HD AN. away-from the fubfrriber
on the s?h a negro
eixh called Marvarn, fiir is 24
yiars of age ; about 5 feet 5 inches
high, had ona firip-.d nankeen petti
coat. The jfbeve .eward will be
paid on her deliver*’ 10 the fubferi l
her. or the keeper &l Chatham Goal.
All persons are forbid harbouring me laid wench un*
>ter the penalty of-tfe law.
May 2:, rs THOM iS BOURI'F..
The PUBLIC in Glnlral.
ARE hereby informed, that a Subfeription
is opened for taking tU iikeneis of His
hxccHerty General James Jackson, and th?*
Honorable General Lachlan IvElntoih, both of
the State of Georgia :
CONDITIONS.
Each cf them to be taken in their Military !
Uniform. . ‘ •
Each like ns/s to be well engiaied, set in a
frame f.xteen itches by twelve, gilt in humified
geld and the glass endmellcd—to be executed by
William Gardner, &Cos and deliverea to each
subferiber by jucb per fan or persons, as the said
William Gardner & Cos. pail from time to
time appoint within one year from the date
hereof *
*
Each subferiber to pay eight and a half dol
lars on delivery of each likensfs for which he
fall subscribe.
| N. B. Gentlemen who with to subscribe , will
be pleased to apply to Me firs. Lyon & Morse,
printers , Mr. Moses Cowles, at the old Coffee-
House, or to Messrs. William Gardner (A Cos.
Savannah , 20 ib May, 1803. 67.
GEORGIA REPUBLICAN.
SAVANNAH ,
THURSDAY MORNING, May 26, ISO:.
On Wednefdav ihe nth inst. the Legislature rs
this state adjourned.-— 1 he following is a lift of afts
pa11ed;.....
An acl/o authorifeihe justices of the Inferior Cou't
qT Green county, to lay an extra tax for the purpulo
-of tredfing a Court*Houfe for fald county.
An Aft further to extend the powers of the Comp
troller General.
An Aft to divorce Betsy Chandler Williamson and
f atihias Williamson, her huiband- %
An Aft ro pardon Joseph Biitlges.
An Aft fupplementray to an Aft, entitled. “ Art
Aft toeftabliih a Fund for the Redemption of the Pub
lic Debt of this s>tate, ”
An Aft to take off the Aft cf confilcation and
baniffiment, the name of James Hume.
An Aft to amend an Aft, pointing our a mode for
adjotting he da his of the citizens of this Hate, against
the Greek Nation.
All Aft to fecurc to Jrffe M’CaH, the exciofive
rifihi to ereft a toll Bridjje over the River Great
-Ogechee.
An Aft to repeal an Aft to amend an Aft, en*i*
;led, “ An Aft to divide the Coumy of Jackfon,’* ff>
far as it refpefts the Commissioners of the Court
Houle and Jail.
An wft explanatory <*f an aft erubied an nft to amend
*n Aft, eßtuled, An Aft to revise and amend the
judiciary Ssjlem of this date,” palled tie 16th day cf
February, f fir r fpefts il.e prrfon or persons
‘o>nhotylef! to take ii*c bonds or obligations from fhe
rifFs, and Ihr rime for holding C ourts in the HaftiUrn
Uifitift. pnfifti the jth of (December, 18C-I —Arid
An Aft to make diffribmion M th.e late Ccflion of
T.ands, obta : ned From Ihe Creek Nation, bv the Uni“
ted Staies Con rniffmnerh, in a treatv entered into at
or near Fort Wilkir son on tneiAth da\ of June. 1802.
The lolVofc ipp perrlenirn are appointed comn'iffon*
ers for fuperiim.rdrng the lotiei v, viv.: William
Barhett, Edwin Monncer. Geortre R. Clayton, Geos
Watkins, and Jared Irvin, enquires.
*1 he following werr oppoinred furvt*yors'. viz
David Crvfwell, l evin W ales, Jjmes LamaT, Garland
Hardwick, Abner Davis, Rotterr Jackson, ..—■■•Bird,
—*. Ragan, —— ternert. Porter, Glenn,
Thadeus Holt, and Abner Frai Vlin* Elqvs.
Commiffitfners for fixing on, and laying off the place
for the fu’ure permanent re fide roe of government—
Gen. Dickson, Gen- Cla*-k, Maj. Adams, Maj Charl
ton/srndGapt. H. Cobb.
Married, on Thursday evening lafl , ly the
rev. Mr. llclcmbe, the Venerable Lewis Tre
zevar.t, of the State of S uth Carolina , to Mrs .
Hencrietta Morel, vAdow of John Morel , E q.
Pied at Philadelphia, rn the 9th itdUnt, General
Stephens Thompson Mason, one of the Senators
repri- fentsfrive of the date of Virginia, in the Congress
the United States- General Mason had arrived
in rhar city on Tuesday Hfl for medical ir %
dropsical complaint ; but the disease had arrived a c
too malignant a flare to inhibit to the ffiill of the fa
culty, OT the pnwer of medicine.
REPORT -
OF THE COMMISSIONERS
Appointed in pursuar.ee of an aft for the aniua*
tie settlement of I writs with the
■ STATE OF GEORGIA,
And -authorising tie est ablishment cf a Gov*
ernment in the
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
Deported by one of the Senators in Coiigrds ins>e
Execu/ive Office*
THE ccmrriiTcneis sppoinfed in pur
suance of the entitled, “ An 2d. for ar
amicable fettlerrcm of limit* with the Hate*
Georgia, and authorizing the eftablilhment t
a government in the MifTtfiippi territory,” i
obedience to the provisions of the ad fupplt
mental tc the last mentioned ad— refjjedfuli
fubm-it the fdllowing report cn the dak
made by fruErs and other persons, to lar<
within the territory fuuate wefl of the Chat
houchce, and fotuh of the cession made to ti ‘
United States, by South-Carolina.
REPORT.
THE territory of the United States, sou
of the Rate TennefTce,extends in breadth i’
miles from the 3 \ft to the 35 degree of nos
latitude. From eait rn welL its grcat
length from the river Charahouchee to ti
MifTiffippi wezfurcs three hundred and eigh
miles along the north boundary of Weft FJ
nda 5 the length of its northern boundar
along the Rate of T enr th r ce is not precifi
afcercained, bur it is believed that the avera
length of the whole may, without mater
error, be estimated at 300 milts, and t
contends cf teriitory, at 52 millions of acr
The proportion of that v.aft extenr,
which the Indian title has been exthiguiib’
are, a craft of about one million and cir x
cf acres, extending along the fre
the mouth of die river Yazoo, for lt h W3rf
to the Spanifli line j and another traft at le
equal in extent, and extending between *
rivers Pofcagoia and Mobile, vr ToivSiph
[more, than hrty miles north of that 5
These itttlemenu wirhin those iwo tr^- r
which are leparated from each other y.
wilderness of-120 miles y n breads form: i
whole population of the Mifnffippi terrir iQ V ‘
The claims to lands within thefc bo-,- !
ries are derived either from the^rid^