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About The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1790)
SATURDAY, July 17, 1790.} * * ■** \> % ■ » THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE of the STATE. » •«#*- *- * • \ * < • % FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, (hall remain inviolate. Cttnfiitution of GetrgU. AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State v Iff ays, Aticlua,, Intelligence, Advertisements , &?*. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. STATE-HOUSE, Jugujla, Dec . 15, 1790. Gentlemen, THE concurrent resolutions of the Gene ral Aflembljs that relate to the i'ettle ment of the additional claims of this state against the United States, are herewith trauf mit ted with the Executive order there n. To elucidate and accomplilh this iuterefting bufiuefs of the (late, it will requii e time and ap plication on the part of the delegation: Some •of the vouchers may be somewhat defective— this difficulty appears to be fully übv-ated by the Oidinance of Congtefs of the 7th May, J 787, as well as that for making provitiou fur inter est on all accounts at and atV,r ihe rate of fix per cent, per annum :* Iu every itate xnent, due rcgaid will doub.lcls be had to the time of advance, in order to eltablnh a clear date mem os iutereft on the respective advances The Ordinance of Congreis icferied t., continued to be iu full force as far as 1 elates 40 this (tate, as will appear by the hi it esutt jng clause in the words following : f bat «• the several ftate# be, and her are hereoy a* limited to the fpacc of fix months, tor ex* '** hibitiug to the proper Cororoidioue*, the*: 4* claim* against the United states, of wtiat ever nature the fame may be; and that luch « dates as may negledt to exhibit the la.ne, «« Within the period 01 time altet the Lom ** mtffioner has notified to the Supreme Ex ** ecutive thereof, that he is ready to proceed a* on the bufinefa of his coramiffion. lhall be <« precluded from any future allowance. In Order to carry this clause into eff <J», M*. Acrtfon, the Coromiffioner appointed to liqui date the accounts of bouth-Carolina& Georgia, did, on the lift August 1787, communicate to .the Executive of this state as follows : “ I <im «* appointed Commiffiouei for liquidating the <« accounts of the (fates of South-Carolina and «* Georgia with the Uuited States; and pur •« pose to be at Augusta about the dole of ** December next, when I flatter mffelf the «« neceflary papers will be prepared. The government of this state, at all tunes, eager to enter on the elucidation of this important work, waited wiib impatience ftom that pe riod, until the 21st day of Apiil 1789* when Mr. Geoige Reid appeared, and an official communication having been made to the Ex ecutive of his appointment to that office, the Auditor was thereupon requeued to exhibit the claims of this fta e a»ta nft the United £tates; and the time between the aid day of April, and the 25th day of May there after, was employed in exhibiting and exa xniningthe claims aforefaidj from whicnitwiil evidently appear, that so far from fix mouths after due notice by the Coromiffioner having expired, that he was uot even fix weeks in the state; it theiefoie cleatly follows that no part of the delay can or ought to be charged to her, as the Ordinance fully provides in inch cafe#. ... It may be juflly remarked that Mr. Reid is chargeable with the delay of the papers and Vouchers now traufmitted ; he having alledg «d that “ be did not think bimfelf autboriied to receive the fame :** How fir any luch poweii were verted in hun, will be batter explained by having reference to the (sth clause of the said Ordinance, wherein it isproviled, That the said Coinmufiooers he, aud they •« an hereby veiled with full power Ibd an* thorny to make such ellwwincc fur ihau.uc GEORGIA. 9 .. . “ at they (hall think confident with the prin* “ ciples of general equity, although fuchad “ vances or dilburfements may not be sane “ tioned by the Resolves of Congicf*, or “ ported by regular vouchers, so as to “ jenable the said Commifiionets to make a ** final adjustment of all the accounts fublift ** ing between the United States aod the <* fcveral Members thereof, agreeably to fech “ quota as Congress dull hereafter detcr <* mine.** . This date has laboured under singular dif * advantages during the ptcflure of the late war —die was, from the outset of the contc ft, invaded, and partial attacks were made to re duce, as well by water, as by repeated in roads of the rioridans. In this date of war fare, her internal regulations could not be di rected at all times by fyftctn, and even when an army was railed, a conftderable time expired previous to the eQablilhmeut of a mi litary chest in the southern department, by which means large advances weie male by ♦he ttate; and from the confufion that arose on the reduction of Savannah in 1778, mauy persons entrusted with the expenditure of pub lic monies for the fupporc of the military forces acting in defence of the fame, had chair books and papers destroyed, whilst otheis de ferred to the enemy ;* These arc confideru tious that will douotlefs have due lorce with the Commifiionets, when they contemplate that part of their power, which authoules them to form decisions V confident with the principles of general equity.” The article of (applies, ongbt of right to have a liberal conftiuttion in liquidation, as well from the circurafiances above recited, as from the following considerations, vix.—That of the enemy having from December 1778,. until June 1781, had great scope throughout this* state to exercileevery species of devalua tion the spirited oppolitiou that arose with in that perrod, as well as that which too* place thereafter, and which caused very great distress to the citizens their property being squandered, taken and otherwise destroyed ; and even what has been liquidated so tbtna bears little proportion to the damages fuftaiu ed b.v the afore-mentioned ravages. Tbe quota of this Pate, on a final adjufl- . memos the national expenditure, at the rate of oue ninetieth part, is a matter in which her citizens are deeply interested ; and l trull your exertions will not be wanting in fixing this as a (laniard for efliraation on a final li quidation : The propriety of this will appear from the following reasons: ill. Because Congrefe did at no period call upon the states to comply with the Bth article of the Confederation, which is in the words following : “ AH charges of war, and all '« other expence** that (hall be incurred for k the common defence or general welfare, “ and allowed by tlfc United States in Con u grefs aflembled, Ihill be defrayed out of a « common Treasury, which (ha 1 ! be fupphed «* by the several states in proportion to the » value of all land within each state gramed a to, or frrveyed for any pfrfon, as fucb laud, «« and the buildings aud improvements there «« on, fttall be ertimated, according to f ich m mode as the United State* in Congress as sembled fiiall from time to time .'tieft and «« appoint. The taxes for paying that pro. « portion fhsll be laid and levied by the »u« »« ihsiit f anti direction of Legidiiure* *4 [Voi. IV. No. CXCVIIJ the several states within the time agreed up •« on by the United States inCongtefs a lien v « bled” This being the only basts for taxa* tion mu ft be contended for, ihould any me.t« fures Le taken departing from the quota he: e« tofore recited. ad. Because a ninetieth part has appear« 4 in almost every requisition that has been in He by Coagrefs during the war, and it would create an unplcafiufg reflection, in the niiude «f the people, were any dev.a;iou now te take place. 3d. Because oar being a frontier, and many of our citizens having loft their all, and the rest who saved a part ot their perianal pr >*. peny, after returning to the place of theif on<e comfortable habitations, found their houses and other improvements destroyed, and their former fertile fields became a bed of briers. —It was under tlmfe dark and gloomy incumbrances that many of ihciu once nun© relumed a fettlemeut. The occurrences that will present them felvcs to view 1.1 the pursuits of tbe ine<tfuica lecommeuded to your consideration, and ho conclulious you will naturally draw upon a retrofpeci of the whale, may lead to tuauo inquiries. —Be allured, that nothing 011 my part lhall he wanting to afford any additional information or aid that may be in my power to iuruifh 011 the part of the state. I have tbe honor to be, Gentlemen, Your inoft obedient servant, EDWARD TEUMR. Tbi Hon. the Senators and tbe tion . tbe Reprejtntatives of the btate of Georgia M Congrtji . Congress of the United States AT THE SECOND SESSION, Berlin and held at rhe City of New Yoik, on Monday tne fourth of January, « r.e th ufa d f hu icred ahd ninety. An Aft for tbe Government o r tb* Ttrrttory at the Un ted State** /out b of the river L bia BE it entktftd by tbe Senate and House of Repr.etentuiirjes of tb' United Statu oj /itne ~ ri.a in Congreisij/tmbJ*a\ That the territoiy of the United Sta'cs, fouth of the rivei Ohio, for the purposes of temporary government, lhall be one diflnd; the inhabitants of wmtfi thali et.joy all the privileges, benefits aud ad vantages, set forth iu the ordinance of the Lte Congress, for the government of the ter ritory of the United States, no.th-wcft of the river Ohio: And the government of the said territory smith of the Oh >0, lhall be d milar to that whuli \ now exercised in the territory north*welt of the Ohio J except i * far as i.otherwiie proviJed in ehf coudie.ool exported in an A«ft of <W*ls tUt M'*" lent h#Aon, •inutltd, ** An r> * r . 5 of the tutui* <4 u«
