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SATTJRDAY, November 28* 1789.]
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THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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GAZETTE, of the STATE.
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FREEDOM of the PRESS, and- T RIAL, by JUR Y, (kail'remain intiolatet Nrw Constitution of Georgia .
A\J GU ST A: Printed ijr JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State*, Essays, Articles of*
Intelligence , Advert ifements, &c. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed.
STATE-HOUSE, Augusta, AW. 18, 1789.
Certain communications taken from the files
•of the late Executive, being taken up, Che fol
lowing mctTage was sent to the General As
sembly.
Atieft J. MERIWETHER, S. E. D
STATE-HOUSE, Augufia , AW. 18, 1789.
Ybe Honorable the President of tin Senate, and
the Honorable the Speaker of the Hotc e of
Reprejentativcs .
.1 HAVE removed from the files of the late •
Executive, and placed on those of the present,
certain communications and letters; which,
from their tenor, require legislative-delibera
tion ; and among which are, a communica
tion from she Prcfident of the United States,
dated the id Oftober lass, accompanied with
a* Refcdutiou of the National Government,
authorizing proposed amendments by .Con
gress to the Couftitution'of the United States;
also a communication from his Excellency
Governor Clinton, of the-state of New-York,
accompanied with a concurrent Refutation of
AiTembiy of that slate, 00 the
*"*lqbjeeFof amendments to the aforefaid Con
ftitutiou.
One of the Secretaries to the Executive
will attend with any original documents ap
pertaining to the Executive Department, any
fejmate ot joint committee of either branch,
or of the General Affemblyy at. chambers
provided in tbe Siate-boufe for that purpose";
arid. after reading the fame, he is intruded
to furnifli the necessary extracts or copies
thereof, and then return the said originals to
depofit.-—The original proposed
~ amendments to the Conftitutiotn of the Unit
ed States being ot a special nature, will'be
laid before either branch of the General Af
femtriy upon a joint order to that cfFeft.
EDWARD TELFAIR.
TITATE-HOySE, Augufa, Nov. 20, 1789.
• Ordered,
That the proposed Amendments to the
jleral Constitution, as transmitted by the Pre-, >
fident of the Uhited States, be published in
the Stats Gazette.
Attef ; J. MERIWETHER,, S. E. D.
Congress of tbe United States ,
Regun and held at the City of New-fark, on
* ll'ednejday, the fourth of March , one thou*
sand, jeven hundred and etgbtynint .
The Conventions of a number of the Rates
having, at the time of their adopting the Con
ftituuon, expressed a desire, in order to pre
vent mifeonftrutteon or abuse of its
that further declaratory and reftriftiye clauses
should be added: And as extending the
ground of public confidence in the Govern
bed ensure the bcnificent end of
Tts'inftitution:
Re/olved, By the Senate and House of Re-
of the United States of Ameri-:
ca in Congress alTembled, two-thirds of both
Houies concurring, that the. following Arti
cles he proposed to the Legislatures of the se
veral Rates, as amendments to the
tion the United States, all, or any of
which Articles, when ratified by three-fourths
of the said Legislatures, to be valid, to aH
intents and purpefes, as part of the said Con
flitution, viz..
T P C L E 8
In addition to, and, amendment of the C'onftitu
tm ts the Votted tStatts. of, America, fry
GEORGIA,.
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poftd by Congress, and ratified by the Legif
laturts of the fever al States , pursuant tothe
Fifth- Artide of the original Cvnfnutiom,
Art. i. After the firft enumeration, re*
<. quired by the firft article of the Constitution,
there (hall be one representative 'or every
thirty thousand, uutil the number (hall amount
to one hundred j after which the proportion
(hall be so regulated by-Congress, that there
(hall be not lefa than one hundred representa
tives, nor less than one representative for every .
forty thousand persons, until the number of
representatives (hall amounfrto two hundred ;
after* which the proportion th«]i be so regu
lated by Congress, that there (hail pot be lefa
than-two huudred representatives, nor more
than one reptefentatjvc for every fifty thou
sand perfous.
Art. * No law, varying the compensa
tion tor the services of the Senators and Re-
Drcfcntativcg. (hall take effeft, untjl an elec
tion of representatives (hall have intervened.
Art. 3. Congress (hall make no law re
fpeefing an establishment of religion, or pto
hibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridg
ing the freedom of speech, or of the prefr,
or the right of the people peaceably to af
fetnble, and to petition the gj -eminent for a
red refs of grievances.
Art. 4. A well regulated militia, being
neeeffary to the fecority of a free (late, the
tight of the people to keep and bear arms,
th:»H be infringed.
Art. j. No soldier (hall, in time of peace;-
be quartered in any house, without the consent
of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a
manner to be preferibed by law.
Art* 6; The right of the people to be se
cure in their persons, houses, papers and ef
forts, against unreasonable searches and feix
ures, (hall not be violated^ and 110 warrants
- iflue, but upon probable cause, support
ed by oath or affirmation, and particularly de
fcYibing the place to be searched, and the per
fona.QX things to be Seized. w
4 Art. 7. N o person (hall be held to answer
for a capital, or -otherwise- infamous crime,
uu,le(s on a prefentraem or indictment of a
grand jury, except, in cases arising in.the land,
or naval forces ; or in the ;militia, when in
actual service intime of war or public, dan
ger, nor Ihall any person be fubjeCt for the
• fame offence to be twice put in jeopardy of
; life or limb; nor lhall be compelied, in any
criminal case, to be a wituefs againlt himfelf,
nor be deprived of life, liberty or property,
ljyilUUitdiiiS'Procefs of law; nor (hall private
property be taken for public use without just
i compenfatioa.
Art. 8. - In all criminal protections, she
j accused ihall «(joy the right to a speedy and
public trial, by an impartial jury of the state
and district wherein the crime (hall have been
•■.’committed; which district (hail have been
preyioyily afcec*amed by law; aud to be in
formed of the nature and cause of the accu- .
fat ion ; to be coufroiv ed with the wi-tneffes
against him ; to have compulsory process for
>i _ohtait{mg i< yvitneireß in his favor, and. to have
rhe assistance of counl'cl for his defence.
Art. In suits at .common law, where
the value in coutroverfy (lull exceed twenty
dollars, the right of trial by jury lhall be pre
served,; and no fad},- tried by a jury, (hall be
otherwise re-examiued in any court of the
United States, than according to the rules of
the comaju law. „ -
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Art. 10. Excessive bail (hall not be re-,
quired, nor excessive finea»impofed, nor cruel
and inflated,
»Art. 11. The enumeration in the Consti
tution, of certain rights, (hall not b i tdtirifii-
ed to deny’or difpaPage others retained by the
people.
Art. ia; Tly powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohi—'
bited by it to the dates, are reserved to the"
v dates refpedliveiy, or to the people.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG,
\ Speaker of the House of Rtpre/entatwes.-
JOH N ADAMS, yic e- P rtf dent of the 1
Untied States,and President of the Senate. 1
Attest-. f JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk of the- \ '
House of Reprefentativn.
SAMUEL A.OTIS, SeereiZryT
of the Senate .
STATE of NEW-YORK in ASSEMBLY*
February 5, 1789.
Rejd-vedy If. the Honorable the Senate coaw'
cur therein, that an application be made to
the Congress of the United States of America,
in the name and behalf of the Lcgiflature of
this State, in the words following, to wit:
The people of the State ts Nenv-York, hav
ing ratified the Constitution agreed to on tho
17th September, in the year of our Lord,
Ib y th < Convention then aflembled at
Philadelphia, in the state of Fennfylvahia, as
explained,by the said ratification, in the fulleft
confidence of obtaining a revifioo of the said
Constitution, by a general Convention ; anil",
in confidence that cettain powers in and by
the said Couftitution granted, would not bo
exercised until a Convention ihould have beeo
called and convened for proposing amend
ments to the said Constitution 1 In complpnct,
therefore, with the uuanimou* fenfe'of thar
Convention of this state, who all united in
opinion, that such a teviSon was necessary to
recommend the said Constitution tq.the ap
probation and support of ;a’numerous body of
their condiments, and a majority of the mtm-v
b'ers of which, Conceived several articles of
the Constitution so exceptionable, thk noth*
. ing but fuob confidence, and an invincible re
luttauce to leparateffom our filler Oates, could
have prevailed upon a fufficient number to as
sent to it without stipulating for previous
amendments : And from a conviction that
- the apprehensions and difeontents which thoftr
articles occalion cannot be removed or allay
ed, unless an aft to revise the (aid Cohftitu
tion, be among the firft that (hall be parted by
the uew Congress s IV », the Legifature of
the fate of A T e<w-Yorkt do, in behalf of otrr
constituents, in the nioft earned and folenus*.
manner, make this application to the Coir*
grefs, that a Convention of Deputies from the
r several Oates, be called as early as-possible,
with full powers to take the said
into their consideration, and to propose fucli
amendment* thereto, as the*- (hall- find bed
calculated to promote our comrnoi. inter* ’
eOs, and fecute to ourfehres, and oor lauA i
posterity, the great. and unalienable rights of .
mankind. ,
By order of the Afftmbly^ .
JOHN LANSING, jun. Speaker •
In Senate, February 7,* 1789,*..
By order of the Senate,
Fl£&ftJb,VAN CORTLANDt^,
F, efdtn/y
