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About The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1790)
the tide on all the rivers from Cat-head, on the river Alatama ha, to thfc river Saint Mary s in dufive, to the marked line, ot the fir ft Quality at seven (hillings per acre 5 of the (econd quality at four (hillings per acre; and of the third quality at two (hillings per acre. .All other oak and hickory lands throughout the (late, of the firft quality at eleven (hillings per acre j of the second quality at fix (hillings per acre; tKe third (JiiaUty at three (hil lings per acre; Ml lands on th<s sea iffcnd/, 6r lying on or contiguous to the sea (bore, usually cultivated or capable of cultivation* in corn or indigo, of the firft quality at for ty-five (hillings per acre ; of the second quality at twenty-two Shillings per acre ; and of the third quality at eleven (hiHings per acre. All other pihe lands* out the (late, at two (hillings per acre. And be it etiafted by the autho rity aforefaid, * hat the (urn of tour (hillings (hall be levied on all free male white perlon>, from the age of twenty-otic years and upwards,* in-this date ; and the sum of four lhHHhgs on all Ne groes and other Saves" whatsoe ver, within the limits ofthe fame; and the sum of ten (hillings for every hundred' pdtfnds value of every lot, wharf, : or other linds, {not herein already enumerated) and on all buildings within the limits of any town,? village, or borough within this" date y and the lum of sixty four (hillings on every four wheeled,* and the fom of thirty-two ‘ (hillings on every two wheeled wag gons, carts, and drays excepted) and the sum of four (hillings upon alt male free Jiegroes, mu- and muftizoes,' from the age of twenty one years and up wards, over and above the taxable property they may be 1 pofieffed of. And be it further 'enaffed, That the lum of two (hillings (hall be levied for e^ery‘httrtdred pounds value of all persons ftoek in trade, {hop-keepers and others, actual tefideirH; to be given in upon oath ;* and to be computed at the prime cost ; and the fum'of four Cwtirfs on all petitioners of w or physic; and the fum'of .four pounds on all factors and brokers; and on all to»eign goods, wares, liquonand merchandize, and negroes fold, ha* gained, or trafficked for, m all »uch factors grid brokers, die lum of fifty (hillings, on every hundred founds by them (o foW or fclit posed of, to be given in upon oath, and on all Vendue-mafters (after qualification) throughout * the* (late, the sum of four pounds. Provided neverthelefi , T hat in all cases of extreme indigence or infirmity, the Superior Court of each county (hall be, and they are hereby authorlfed to remit * the poll-tax upon such indigent or infirm persons claiming the fame. And be it enabled by the autho rity aforefaid, That the mode of i collecting- t ht taxes (hall be as follows: The receiver of taxable returns in each county (hall give notice to each Captain's diftriCt within his county,' by* ardvertifiqg in the most public places of the said diftriCt, the day and place he will attend to receiver their re turns of taxable property; and the commanding officer of each com pany (hall give to the receiver (o attending a lift of all the inhabi tants liable to pay taxes within his drttridVon oath or affirmation, to the belt of his knowledge and information and it (hall be the duty of the receiver of returns, at all times, upon personal appli cation, to receive the returns not * r < given in at the time and place specially notified, at any time be fore he makes a digest of the whole returns j and he (hall pre vious to entering on the execution of his duty, take and fubicribe an oath or affirmation in the words following: , u 1- A. B. do foiemnly swear 1“ (of affirm) that 1 will truly and ? u faithfully perform the duties u of receiver of returns of taxa : <4 ble property in the c unty to “ which I am appointed, as re “ quired of me ny>this 'ACt ; and “ will not receive any return but “ on oath.br affirmation/' And be it also enabled^ That-ail and every person liable to pay tax, (hall give 1 in the lift of his, her or their taxable property, as well as a lift of 4 every (uch per son or persons as he, (he, or they may be attorney or attornies executor or executors, admini strator or administrators for, in the county or counties where such attorney, executor, or admini ftrator resides; and every-such person or persons giving in taxa ble property as aforefaid, (hall make a return, deferiptive of the lands and other taxable ty as the fame may be in the dif ferent counties of this date * and the receiver of such returns (hall proceed, after being duly qualified in giving notice, to make a ge- neral return of the whole so re ceived ; and alto of the taxable property of non* residents and defaulters within his diftrtd, and (hall transmit a copy thereof to the collector of the county, Su perior Court, and Treasurer of the State, (under the penalty of two thousand including therein his own taxable property, ; i and (hall publish, within one month thereafter, in the Gazette, the names of all defaulters, under the penalty of fifty pounds, and the said receiver (hall be entitled i to" receive for each return made in . his diftri&, to be allowed as aforefaid, the sum oJ fix-pence, a three pence for each name in the general returns to be tranf* mitted to the Supe rior Court, and colledtbf of Taxes,, , . 'I *> i* % ‘ -S»V’ v ' fV ' -d* [To he concluded in our next.] - ♦* •* Just Opened, And for SALE, on low terms'f jor Cajh or Medium , Hvfon & Green * •_ ;> Teas’ Os a Superior Quality. M‘CALLUM fcf GARDNER. Jan. I, 1790. ' - ‘ .li.il ,’m' ,1 mil 111 il *1 1 r Ju/l Pub lifted, and to be fold at tbi Printing-Office in Augusta , T H t South-Carolina and Georgia ALMANAC, For the Year or our Lord 1790: i * rs Being the tecond after Leap Tear , and (till 4tlf of July) 'ihtjburteenih Tear of American Independence. . v CO STAINING The Rif&g andTletting of the Sun, the Moon’s Full, Change and Quartets, the in the Ecliptic, re,markable Days, Judge ment es Weather, Afpetfs, Eclipses, Ate* fee. See. - -- i By JOHN J OB; ER ; E6<£. __ AL 8 m Duties on Goods, Warca and Merchandize, into the United States, and on Tonnage—Mode of tranfatting Business at i '*tfte Cuftora-Houfe, and Fees of its Officers —-Lift of the Members of the Federal Houses of Senate and Representatives, with their Officers, and the Appointments made by the President of the United States— i Times and Places of holding Federal Courts, „ and tbofe of Georgia and Souih-Carotiqa— Salaries of the United States Officers— Lift ■ of Officers of the States of Georgia and Bouth-CafoJina—Tide Tabje--valuable* Re ceipts, fee. , , ■—l-■ 1 i it To be Sold, At Capt, William Cowle>. Mi 11,., on Tm/daj, Febraaey, »3, 1790, All the real and personal estate of John Ever » iugharo. decaafad 1 cooflfting of cattle, horfea, houlehold furniture, sod one negro warn h and child,—Terms of frla* the rath to ha paid ' Wort rriftr sis a'teifd, 9 A#MAH KV UUMCffAM,
