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About The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1790)
W, 0 t;■ &* * * • • w SfixURDAT, February 27, 1790.] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE jp AND # GAZETTE of the STATE. V„.e#»- ■ ■ •• ' » .. .. , . '■•-'• v ', - •»% •» % •>c ••* • • * > FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, rtull remain inviolate. Conjlituti •* «/ G^rvta. . - ; JtUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; lffays % Articles of Intelligence , Advertisements, &c. will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing performed jZ-aB- MmtwßamK: .• • « . ■ i An Aft ' • V* J7V ascertain the salaries and fees if the Public Officers of this ,Vi State, granting compensation s , to the Members of the General and their Officers , and appropriating money for ejia blifhing a contingent fund, TV/T it enaßed by the Senate and House of JO Reprejentatives of the State of Georgia in (general Assembly met , That the salaries of gjte public officers (hall be as follow, that is Efr. The Governor the fuin of five hun ted pounds per year; the Judges of the f&perinr Court, the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds per year, each; the Auditor, the film of tyvo hundred pounds per year, in cluding fioufe rent and flationary ; the Trea ter the sum of two hundred apd fifty pounds per year, including house 'refit‘and stationary; *he Attorney and Solicitor General, the sum , ,Jg£fiity pounds per year, each; .the Governor’s Secretaries, not exceeding two, one hundred founds per year, each ; the Secretary of the J State one hundred and fifty pounds per year; the Surveyor-Generafthe sum of fifty ppunds per year; the Secretary of the Senate the sum 4Kty pounds per year; the Clerk of the House of Representatives the sum of fifty pounds 'per year; the Chaplain to the Geueral Af fpmbly the sum of twenty-five pounds per year; the Members of the Senate and House of Reprefentativcs at the rate of nine (hillings «tnd four-pence per day each ; the Prefideut ts the Senate and Speaker of the House of . seprefentatives, at the rate of four dollars fit day each ; and to this Secretary of the Se ite and Clerk of the House of Reprcfenta ves, the sum of'four dollars per day each, during the Sefiion, for all extra services ; and tf> the mefiengers and door-keepers, leven > fillings per diy during their attendance on the General Aflcmbly. And that the Treafurerflialt pay, on the warrant of the President of the Sinate and the Speaker of the House of Re ptefentatives, the said allowances to the Mem bers of the Senate and House of Reprelenta ' *Jftves, for - their coming to, attendance on, and returning home from the Genera!'Affem-. MMy, which said warrants, so drawn as afore-, said, fliall be receivable by the several Col lectors in payment of ihc fpecific tax. . And be it further enaßeu> That the law for afeertaiuing the'fees of the public officeis, pa fled the twenty-fifth day of February, one {thoufand, seven hundred and eighty-fix, ffiall (Bill continue to regulate the fame, except on ly where fees are allowed the Governor and the Judges of. the Superior Courts, in lieu of which the following (hall be allowed : For the Governor figniug a grant of land for five hundred acres, or under, one dollar, if ex . ceeding five hundred acres, three dollars, and i if exceeding oue tboufand acres, fix dollars; * for ordering the Great Seal of the State, to any paper of a private nature, three dollars, .which | said fume thall be paid into the Treasury be- I fore any fucb grants or other papers sre figu |cd by the Governor. Ststt fees in the Judi > ciary Department, as follows t On all suits to be commented, three dollars \ on all suits l pfofitutcd to judgment, three duUaisj f«cu* GEORG IA. rity to be given to the Clerk in the firft in. fiance by the plaintiff before suing the process, . and in the second inftauce before signing the . judgment, who (hall receive aqd pay the fame, quarterly Into the Treasury, which sums (hau be admitted in the bill of costs. And be it enaßed by the authority afbrefaid, That the Governor be authorifed and empow ered to draw on. the Treasury for the futn of thirty-two pounds three (hillings, in fpetie, in favor of Peicr Wykoff, Esq. payable out of any funds in the Treasury. . ( And be it further enaßed by the authority afore]aid i That the Governor be, and he , is hereby authorised and empowered to draw warrants on the Treasurer,. for the salaries of the public officers, quarterly, as they become due, which said warrants it Ihall be lawful for the collectors of the tax to receive in pay ment of the fpecific part of said tax. And be it dlfo enaßed , That the contingent fund for the year one thoufaud, (even huudred and ninety, ihall be the sum of one tboufand pounds, and fubjefr to the warrants of the Governor for the purpose of paying the printer, paying the proprietor for the use of the house occupied during the present feiTion by . the House of Representatives, paring expresses and other incidental charges, the Governor to be accountable, which warrants (hall also be receivable for the fpecific tax as other war lants before mentioned. SEABORN JONES, Speaker of the Houle of Reprejeniaiives. N. BROWNSON, President of the r .„ *.= Senate . Concurred Dec. 24, 1789. EDWARD TELFAIR, Governor . VIENNA, November z. WHEN the Emperor yeflerday was at tending the Te. Deum, an ar rived with the news, of another viCtory, Lieut. General Prince Hohenlohe,. who commands in Transylvania, on the fame day of the cap ture of Belgrade, beat a detachment of the. enemy near Perenzeny, add on the (October 8) all the Ottoman corps, of 10,000 men, with five cannons, undef the command of the Pacha Cara Muftapha, who approached to attaclt. Cara Muftapha, it is said, killed himfelf, and 1500 of his men followed the spirited example. Five of the enemy’s cau- I non, .ammunition, from 40 to 50 colours, a quality of arms, the camp, the magazine of Vadeny, as well as that of Tyrgufchyl, have fallen into the hands of our troops, who have made a couriderablc booty, particularly of cattle. Our loss is trivial; but the Prince Hohenlohe has received a coutuficn on his right thigh. He declares, that, at the con clusion of the present campaign, the advantages gained succeeded one another with a rapidity Which is not !e(s glorious than afio niihing. FRANKFORT, 08. to. , Letter* from Semlin fay, *bat the assault upon Belgrade cost the Emperor ebout 4 >O3, men. Near ficoo Turks fell in the adtou* The prifoneri amount to about Coo* B R U B 8 fe L 8, 00 ft. , No money list been the (e« f<itftrst •4 abblei, iutulTi dri wm *‘ V’ Ataule m ( ... t ■■■ •{ < [Vot. IV. No. CLXXViI.] t - them. As for the plot which has been men tioned, it confided of nothing more than the renewal of the .Sicilian vel'pers. The chief conspirator and many other peifons of difttnc tion have been arretted ; M. Lingticr is also imprisoned, , tpgerher .with the Preceptor, and the Duke of Urfel’s Swiss. Eifco the engineer is taken op, and* it. confequeuce of some papers found upon him, conducted to Vi enna. They meat, to unriermne and blow up 30 houiesat once ; fix citizens, were to kill an officer, and afterward all the members of government ar.d of the Chamber or Accounts. The person who discovered this conspiracy has been rewarded wi.h is,OQr> florins, an annuity, &c.. No meafure* have been ne- t glecfed to rettore the public tranquillity which we hope to fee ihortly fully accoinplillKd. , ** 4 London, Dtambtr n. •*1 » ’ It is remarkable that the late futnmer and . autumn have been uncommonly fatal to the Nobility, not less thapJ 23 Peers and PeerelTes having died fiuce the month of April last. The Ealf Company’s sale of fine purple and blue Eatt-India Indigo, coufittmg of yob cherts, the average price of which was Ks 6d« pdr lb. endeil on Thursday last. The quality, as far as rcfpetis the consumer, is equal to Spaniilj indigo, andjs confefledly allowed to be much fuperiof to that which was firft re ceived into the Company’s wareh«oifes. The indigo imported by the Eatt-India Com pany comes from Calcutta., It bids fair to become very beneficial, as there is a moral certainty of he fqpplanting the St. Domingo trade in this article*, for which immense sums have been hitherto remitted to France. 3. Mr.. John Hunter has latelv received from Madras the (keleton of a male child of a very peculiar de/criptiou. It was born (and lived nuny years) with two Heads, one growiug immediately over the other, and at tached to the crown of it, with the face of the upper turned the reverse way to that of the lower. The child lived to be about fix years of age, and while it lived was feeu by* many gentlemen now in England 7. In Dauphiny, the regiment of Mon sieur, (the King’s brother) and that of Bur-’ gundy, had an engagement. The regiment of Monlieur retufed to wear the National' Cockade, wltirh that of Burgundy put wi h a degree of euihufiafnv. A combat en-* sued, when the regiment of Burgundy fiied on Monlicur’s, and in two difc.nrges It.lied in the firft 35, and in the fecund 13 men t on * wliich the regiment of Monsieur immediately fled, and di/perfed. t , 10. The mystery of the Swedish fleet havi ig put to sea fo.fudden from Carlfcro..e, at this tempeftuoiis feafou of the year, is at , length explained by fume pryate intelligence received on Saturday from HolUnd, of which the following is an extraft t * “ The bwedith fleet is again at fie?,’, pro bably to avail itlelf of the loss of fix ftiips of the line, which the Ruffians have loft in a late flotm. It ha» failed wttli thefiun intention of leekiug did enemy aud giving them bat tle.” 1 4. The Hwedifti flees after cruising in the Baltic 14 days, aud having met iih very teiopeftuous weedier, without getting hph «f (he Human fleet, returned toCeiikivMi lb# | i*«J uit.
