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About The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1790)
SATURDAY, January 1790.] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND * ’ * *.» • • gazette®* the state. FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, flull remain iuviolate. Constitution of Georgia. ‘ r ........ - . . . • • . ...!». ' • ~ . .. i ,*» AUGUSTA: Printed by JO H N E. BMI T H, Printer to the State; EJays, Articles if Intelligence, Advertifemenfs, (del will be gratefully received, ana every kind erf Printing performed. An Aft $o regulate the form and manner of holding Elections for Mem * ters to reprefenf the inhabitants of this State in General Jffem- y BE it enabled by the Settdfe and House of Re" prejentatives of the fate of Georgia Genital AffembU met, That the Sheriff of each county, together with two justices of the peace, not being candidates, and in Case of the absence Os the Sheriff, the under Sheriff, iball be the presiding ajid returning office/a of all Oleftiong for Senators and ReprefentatiytS* which may be elected from refpertive cou'ntie'l; and that all cleftions shall be held at the Courc-houfe of the county, or at the place appointed for holding Superior Courts, that the haines of *Jie candidates (hall be affixed on the door of the Court-house, or in fame other public place where the ele<flion may be held ; and after the poll is clofod and votes funvqed up, the person or perform having the highest m»mv S* of votes, (hall be deemed and declared the (Senator and lleprefentativcs at the fucceedwg ‘General Afffembly. And be it further enabled. That the time for taking votes at any ele&ion be, between the ioursi of nine o’clock in the morning and fix o’clocVin the afternoon ; and when any doubts shall artfe with the superintending officers, as Vo the'qualification of ele&ors, the following oath shall be atfminiftered by any one of the 'fopeirintendi ng officers, before the person, Uyhofe vote is so disputed, (hall be entitled to vote : “ I A. to. do solemnly fweator affirm, of (as the case “may be) that I have attained ** to the age of twenty-one years, and have «« paid tar for the* year proceeding the *< election, and have resided fix months with al in the count/ ; and' tbit l am a citizen and «< an inhabitant of this date.” , r .. . And be it further enfSedf That if the super intending officers (hail make’a fraudulent re turn, or they, of either of them,'while Su perintending such election, or any candidate •jftall influence, or endeavour to influence or jwrfuade any voter not to vote as be firft de -frgned or intended, or (hall take any undue means to obtain a vote, he or they (hall for feit for such offkbce/twentf-five pounds [to -be recovered by bill, plaint, hr information, In the Superior or county courts of fuchcbunty; , and d a Justice, (hallalfo be forever diftjatfifced 'ffotri Serving in the commission of the peace, r and if a candidate, and elected, he (hall be incapacitated thereby from serving. ' And it it further enacted, That if any per* tbtror persons whatever shall, on any day ap pointed for the election of a Senator, Repre sentative or Representatives, to serve inr the General Assembly, presume to violate the freedom qf such election by any arret, me nace or threats,-or ateertipt to over-awe, as ♦ Vfght, or force any person qualified to vote, againfi his inclination or ionfcience, or o thtrwife by briber? obtain any vote s or who shall, after the said election ii over, menace, or defpnefully ufa, or abuf# iuy perfm be eaufe ht bub not vot#(t as he or they wouJd have had him, evary such person so offending, upon due and fufficieot proof made' ot such violfnof or alula, menacing or threatenini^ GEORGIA before any fuftice of tbe Peace, (hall be bound over to the Superior or County Court, hlmfelf .in fifty pounds, and two securities in the sum of twenty, -five pound® each, and to . be of goed behaviour, and abide the Sentence of the laid Couira, where, if the offender or offenders are convided and found guilty of such offence or offence® as aforefaid, then he or they ihail refpedively, for each offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty pounds, and be committed to jail without bail or main* prize till the fame be paid, which fine so im posed, (hall be recovered and paid aa before direfted. , , And be it further enacted * That no civil of fice* ihail execute any writ or civil process whatloever, upon the body of any perfou qualified to vote for members of the General Afi'ctnbly as before in this Ad directed, ei ther in his jouruey to, or in his return from the place of cledion s Provided* he ihail not > be more than forty* eight hours on his journey either going to, returning from, or during his flay there, upon that account, under the penalty of a sum &ot exceeding fifty pounds, to be recovered of, and from the officer who (hall arreff or feive any process as aforefaid after such manner and form, and to be aif pofed of as herein before d>reded : And all such writs or civil process, executed on the body of any person either going to or being at, within the time limited by this clause, or returning from the place where such eledion is appointed, he being qualified to give his vote thereat, are hereby declared null and void, - . , . i i And be it enacted , That all writs of elec tion for filling vacancies that may happen in the Senate or lioule of Reprcfentatives, ihail fc*e direded, to the fheriff o! the county, or, in his absence, to the under then ß, who is hereby authorifed to summons two J offices, not being candidates, to assist in holding laid eledion, which (hall be held as herein before pointed out agreeably to such writ; and the (heriff is hereby diredeffto give ten days no tice of such eledion, by advertifiog the fame at the place of holding Superior Courts, and at three or more public places within the county aforefaid. . . J( And be it enacted , That the fuperintendihg 7 officers be authorifed, and are hereby em powered to appoint three clerks to attend the laid eledion, whose duty it (hall be to keep three rolls, where the names of all the voters (hair be entered, and that after the poll be closed, ibetaid clerks (hall take three papers, ' I in each of which they (hall insert the' names of thefevilraleatfdldatjg, and (hail keep, count,and number opposite the naihe bf each candidate, the several votcs'in'hrrorVheir favor. And be it farther enacted , That all laws heretofore passed for regulatingeledions, (hall be, and the fame are hereby repealed. SEABORN JONES, Speaker of the House of Repre/entatives . N. BROWNSON, President of tbe Senate . Concurred Dec. 8, 1789. EDWARD TELFAIR,* Governor. -SO©- * • STAT&HOUSE, J.*i 16, »7S>o. Ordered, * That the hecrtia ry of the State tnnfmit to MfsaMwOtfe/efieit Twiggs, • unified % [Vot! IV. No. CLXXII.> I * Extract of such parts >f the Ad entitled, “ Aa “ Ad for prefciibtug the regulations and re “ firidions uudei which the Governor (hall <* appoint Militia Officeis,” &c. as refped the Officers of Militia. : extract. BL it enacted by the Senate ana House of Re pr est m alivel of the Jiate ts Georgia in Gent rat /tjtmt'.j met fi That.the Governor (hall appoint aud comtTi<ffion, Militia, Officers,: Provided aivuaytt That no person (hall be appointed oC commissioned who (hall not have been a citi zeu of this Hate for three yeart, or have fetved with reputation as a commissioned of ficer in the army of the United States. And be it further enacted That all Milituc Officers already appointed, or that (lull here after be appointed, dial! be rpfidents of the county with the regiments or company in which they are commissioned ; and where, and as often as it (hall be otherwile, the Go vernor (hall appoint and commission a refideut or residents iii his or their room and Head. ?* ‘' *' ‘' i: * * ' } " ■ ‘ ’ ‘ '* , j A Bargain. s *• 1 FOR SALE, That valuable Plantation, situated about twen« n ty four miles below Augofta, upon Savanmh . fiuer, known by the name of Profpeß Hill Containing about 409a acres, poo arces of which are prime river swamp, aoo oak and hickory, and the remainder good pine land, which lies very convenient to a fine bold fir earn. On the premises are a good dtwiling house, barn and orchard —:8o acres of the swamp, and 4© acres of the high Jafid, are clear and under fence. A L k S ;O, Sixteen hundree acres of land,, situated on. ’ Walnut. Branch, Burke county, bounded weft- < wardly by. Rrier Creek, (outhwardly by Mr. Amos Whitehead’s, and eaffwardly contigu ous to Waynefbdrqugb.—The situation and quality of these lands are too well known and • admitted to require any further defeription. For terms, apply to .James Alger , At Cumming & M‘Credie» { ; • Augusta, Jan. *3, 1790. 3w * .»*•*-« ■' • i. , -. • Notice. « i »| » 1 * • • 4 .**, ' , SUCH perfon* as have aeglefted to wort on that part of the toad lying between Brownfborough and Bedford, are requeftedto be surf appear at the house of Mr. Thomas Greer, 011 Friday, the 19th ioffant, to (hew cause (if any they have) why fines (hall not be imposed agreeably to law. THOMAS GREER, ) LEVI MARSHALL, > Cmrn'fii J. MCNEIL, J JM. 8), Iff*
