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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