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SATURDAY, 'December 4, 1790.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
AND
GAZETTE of the STATE.
FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, (hall rtmain inviolate. Cnftituti.n ./ C„ n i,.
AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to tiii State-, EJfays, A, tides of
Intelligence, Advertisements, &c. will be gratefully received, ana every kind of Printing performed.
STATE-HOUSE, Augufla, Nov, i, 1790.
To the Honorable the Prejident of the Senate,
and the Honorable the Speaker of the Houje
of Representatives.
TH E Corfiitution having fixed this
as the fit ft day of our political year,
I have closed the expenditures of the Go
vernment to that period, in the following
order, viz. Warrants on the Civil Eftablith
ment for 11401. 13s. 8d on the Contingent
Fund and Incidental Charges for 389 1. ior. id.
and a special appropriation of 321. 38. which
said funis make 25621. 7s. 7 d. agreeably to
a statement herewith transmitted ; 1 have
caused the fame .to be examined by the Au
ditor. It will afford me great pleasure if
the General Affiembly will be pleased to ap
point a committee to infpeft the vouchers and
documents on which the afotefaid expendi
tures are founded ; a procecdure of this kind
being continued annually, will doubtless prove
fatisfadory, as well as aid in the arrange
ment of the finauces. To the foregoing ex
penditures may be added Presidents and
Speakers warrants for the like term, amount
ing to 15231. 17s. id. making in all the
sum of 40861, 4*. pd.
There is a surplus of 6101. ps. id. on the
appropriation for the Contingent Fund and In- •
cidental Charges, also a surplus of i66\. ps. 4d.
of the appropriation for the Civil Eftablith
ment, occasioned by some of the offiers not
having Been in office the whole of the last
mentioned year:—Thefe surpluses may be
appropriated in part of the contingencies of
«, the current'year ; —at the fame time little
firefs ought to be laid thereon, until the col
lection of taxes for the year last part is com
pleted, as it appears by a statement of the
Treasurer th3t the neat amonnt of the fpeci
fic part of the afotefaid tax, will not much
exceed the sums already drawn thereon.
1 he other charges that have taken place in
the finances fiuce the statement in June last,
are as follow :
"Iflued by the Auditor in audits, £.6105 o o
Received by the Treasurer
in gold and silver, £.26 3 8
In medium, - 2602 3 6
Governor’s warrants, - 239 1 10
Audited certificates, 1050 1 6
Funded certificates including
iutereft, - 3 19 8
I have to mention that the “ A& for hold
ing ele’ftions for Reprefentati vek in Congress,”
is expired ;—and that it will be neceffiiry to
fend forward a fit and qualified pferfon to at
tend the Board of Commi'ffioners of the
Union, in behalf of this state, on or before
the Ift July next, in order that the claims of
this state agaioft the United States be duly ex
hibited j and also to await the issue of liqui
dation.
The treaty of the United States with the
Creek Indians was transmitted by the Secre
tary at War; having considered thi* negoti
ation as a measure of the highest magnitude,
the Executive order thereon was, “ That
“ copies of the said treaty be laid before the
“ General Assembly at their next meeting,”
which I have now the honor m present you
Herewith.
EDWARD TELFAIR.
GEORGIA.
GEORGIA .
By his Excellency EDWARD TELFAIR,
Governor and Commander in Chief in and
over the State aforefaid.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS the hostile disposition of
some of theCr<ek Indians is evinc
ed by the following information
which has been officially transmitted to me,
viz. That a boy named James R itey was
murdered on or about the 4th iuft. by a party
of Indians, at a plantation lately occupied by
James Scarlett, deceased, in the county of
Greene that several valuable horses have
been carried off, and a liflc-gun forcibly taken
by Indians, supposed to belong to the afore
faid nation—That a »ohn Bradthaw and three
other persons who were chosen by and ac
companied Daniel W. Eafly, (who had ob
tained my pass-port to go into the Creek na
tion in quest of horses stolen from his neigh
bourhood) alter they had arrived in the said
nation, and received a pass from Alexander
M‘Gillevray, Esq. who was then at the Tuc
kabatchies, fuppofmg it an additional protec
tion to their perfous, as they had been in
formed that their lives were in danger—-were
twice fired upon by a party of Indians, on
the second night after leaving the Tuckabat-'
chies aforefaid, on their return.
AND WHEREAS the inroads and depre
dations committed have actually taken place
since the Indians referred to, inuft have bceu
informed of ihe late treaty held at New York :
in order therefore to prevent as far as may be
future violence and outiage, and any indivi
dual retaliation that might take place, 1 have
therefore thought fit to ilfue this my Procla
mation ftriftiy enjoining and requiring all of
ficets and others in the frontier counties, to
give notice to Indians that may from time to
time be on the frontiers, not to come armed
in.o the fettled parts of. this state, until the
pleasure of the President of the United States
be known, touching the aforefaid ravages.
GIVEN under my Hand, and the Great
Seal of the said State, at the State-
House in Augufla, this twenty third day
of November, in the Year cf our Lord
one thousand, ieven bundled and
ninety; and in the fifteenth year
of the Independence of the Uni ; «d
States of America.
EDWARD TELFAIR.
By his Excellences Command,
JOHN MILTON, Secretary.
COD SAVE THE STATE.
The fubjeribers ha ve for SALE , a Central
Assortment of
GOODS,
Suitable to the feifon, which they will fell for
Cadi, Georgia or Carolina money, or pro
duce,
GEORGE BARNES If Co.
Augufla, Nov* 1 6, 1790.
N. B. They Me for foie, for e*ih only,
London bottled -Porter* by the ca»k or down*
[Vol. IV. No. CCXVII.]
REPORT of the Committee to whom was re
ferred the latt Treaty of Peace •with the
Creek Indians, as agreed to by the Senate
and House of Repre/ent at inset.
“B HE Committee to whom was referred
P that part cf his Excellency the Gover
nor’s rsmmunication, which refpetfs the latt
treaty of peace with the Creek Indians, re
port, That having maturely considered the
said trtaty, and the several articles thereof,
and taking into view the va-ious opinions en
tertained on the fubjett, they submit the
following refoliiti hs, as cxpedicut for the
House to enter into.
ift. ReJ'olveJ , That the said treaty of
peace being concluded by that department of
the general government which, under the Fe
deral Csnflitution, is fully and albne compe
tent to the measure of making treaties, ought
to be preserved inviolate, And in confidera*
tion of the public faith being pledged, this
House will support the Executive and Judici
ary authority of the United States, and of
this state, in rendering firm and permanent
the fai l peace so concluded, and in improving
the bieftmgs thereof.
idly. Revived, Tint although any infrac
tion or violation of the said treaty, while it
tlnll remain the supreme law of the land,
ought to be puniflied in an exemplary man
ner; yet, in the opinion of this House, the
conceftions made thereby, to the adve faries
of the Union, a r e greater than ther were en
titled to, confideting either ihe origin cf the
war, the fufferings of the people of Georgia,
(a member of the Union) or the compara
tive ftreugth of the said Indians with that of
the United States.
3dly. Revived , That tlie third article of
the said treaty, in particular, is liable to
cenl'ure, in that it leaves the reftiturion of
pioperty, taken and carried off by the said
Indians during the war, on a very p ecarious
footing, allowing them full time to remove
such property out of all poflible reach. But
it is still more liable to cenfurC, in that it
abandons American citizei s, (chiefly women
and children) led away duri.ig the war, to a
lavage captivity and bondage of near ten
months from the signing of the treaty, if the
Indians shall so chufe. And after even the
expiration of that term, there docs not ap
pear to be adequa e provision made for th©
certain retu n of tb >fe unfortuuate peifons,
of whom, it is well known, there are several
in the nation,
gthlv. Refolded , That the fonrth article
of the said treaty is aifo liable to censure, in
that it relinquithes to the Indians thepofTiflion
of a diftntt of country, which, by two so
lemn treat es, “ continued with as toll and
authorized repref ntations; wiih as much
luhftanita! form and apparent good faith a*
Indian treaties have usually been, or perhaps
can be, where one of the comrading parties
is deftitu e of the benefits of enlightened fo
cie y,” was abfolu f e!v for a valuable conside
ration, ceded by the fiid Indians to he w!m«
inhabitants of Georvia, at a time when (here
w„* no federal compatt against such a cefliun
by treay.
5 My. Re olv/d, Tbit she fifth artrle cf
the laid treaty is aflo liable to ceolure, 'u
tlut from the mode of exjnefiou therein
used, (being new in fu r h rate*) m ii»fcren r ft
may by few# draw* injunoue to the ril'itl