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SATURDAY, November 9, 1793.
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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GAZETTE op the STATE.
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HOUSE ofi REPRESENT AT IV LS, November 6, 1793.
Refolued* That the Governor’s Communication of yesterday be publifaed in the State Gazette.
•. j*CWWM * » ' JAMES M. SIMMONS, Clerk.
E; Augusta, Monday, November 4, 1793.
The Honorable the President of the Senate , and the Honorable the Speaker of the House
of Rep refentatives.
•/~YUR political year having expired, 1 do myfelf the honor to lay befpre you several important oc-
V_J currences that have during the fame, and I have farther taken the liberty to recommend
Such measures as I conceive you will find ncceffary to engage some part of your deliberations during the
yrefent session. To these I have added a statement of the finances, and the expenditures of the year last
pn&, as r .. r w.
r Expenditures for the year 1793.
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Special 1
Civil Esta- Contingent Appropri-j Appropriation for Toul Amount
blifnment. Fund. acions. [ Deience.
Chargeable to the. Civil Eftab~ ■ ■ ■—■ ~
Co the Contingent '
Fund of 1793 *7 5 5
40 ditto of 7793 5 3 264 9 3
fMfe ry*7 7 *»;7 7
|o ditto of 1791 11 9 1 79 1 9
w- ♦*** 549.0 4.-.
[|t , | --w. »■■■■■ i■■ 11 ■ * 1 * ■■ ■ ■■ '■' ll —1 ■■■*—*
2300 oo m 3.6 8 1701 941 549 10 4 ,_z -2
which said sum of four thousand fix hundred and sixty-sour potinds fix (hillings and four pence half penny
is the total amount of Warrants drawn on the Treasurer during thcprecedin political year—Preudent s
and Speaker’s Orders drawn for the aforefaid year to the amount ot one thousand three hundred and fc
yenteen pounds five (hillings and eleven pence being added thereto makes the sum ot five thousand nine
hundred and ejghty-one pounds twelve (hillings and three pence halt penny : Reference being had tothe
foregoing statement, it will appear that the aftual expenditures have been four thousand seven hundred
and thirty pounds twelve (hillings and seven pence, the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds
nineteen (hillings and eight pence half penny being special appropriations, which two last mentioned
funis make together the above sum of five thousand nine hundred and eighty-one pounds twelve (hillings
3nd three pence half penny. And here it may be remarked that the sums charged to “ Appropriation
for defence,” —the charges of eretting Block-houses, when afeertainedr— together with several mcidenUu
charges in the line of defence, are proper charges against the United States.
The present ft ate oft the Treasury.
Cold and Silver, 71 27
Paper medium, 14,976 16 43-4
State Emiflion of 9th February
1786, . * - • 19 5 9
Pierce’s final settlements, 28,766 4 5
Funded certificates, 3,538 2 4 1-2
Ditto exelufive of interest, 170 19 2 1-2
Audited certificates, 8,488 10 81-2
"Warrants of anticipation, 50 o o
Governors warrants prior to
1790, * - 970 1 9
ditto of 1791, - 39 1 8 o
ditto of 1792, 2,608 2 ii
ditto of 1793, - - 230 1 9
■presidents and 1 1791, 16 6 8
Speakers wap- S 1792, 80 13 4
rants of j 1 793» r » r 77 J 3 11
Governor’s warrants of 1789
for Pierce’s final settlements 6,230 o o
Tobacco, Net lb. wt« 34,182
Rice, Nt. lb. wt. 1,710
Treafprer’s certificates and
orders, - - - 41" 15 10
r_ r ■) S.J. Cuthbert, 2,818 4 8 1-4
Tteafmy ( G . Jones, 6,0531?- 3 3*4
'Certificates > j ft/j ea i Sj 1,483 2 21-2
iflued by }j. Gibbons , 4191-2
Certificates and receipts of
j. Martin, 103 14 8
Orders and receipts of S. J-
Cuthbert - - 2,004 3 ? r **
Receipts of the Department
of Attorney-General for
state bonds, &c. 126,744 14 S
Receipts of the Contraftor
and Receiver-General for
fpecifics, *787 and 1788, 3,r00 *8 7
GEORGIA.
Certificates, 8,497 *7 * **4
Gratuitous certificates, 115 o o
The sum of one thousand three, hundred and
seventeen pounds five (hillings and eleven pence
President's and Speaker’s orders for the year 1793,
bein ,r added to the sum of fc - ‘ thoufivd fix hun
dred*and fixty-feur pounds fix (hillings and four pence
haif-oenny, Governor’s warrants for said year,
make together the sum of five theufand nine hun
dred and eighty-one pounds twelve (hillings and
1 three pence half-penny, the whole amount ofdrafts
for said year, of which there being now ift the
Treasury one thoufandfour hundred & seven pounds
fifteen (hillings and eight pence, there remains now
outstanding four thousand five hundred and
fever.ty-threc pounds fifteen (hillings and seven
pence half-penny, which sums mike together the
foregoing sum of five thousand nine hundred and
ei?h*y-one pounds twelve (hillings and three pence
half-penny—in this being included four hundred
and forty-four pounds one (hillirg drawn on the
funds of 1791 and 1792, and hen:e the said sum of
five thousand nine hundred And e.ghty-one pounds
twelve (hillings and three pence ha former
ly dated is the whole amount of irafts drawn dur
ing the said year 1793. There rrc outdandmg in
Governors warrants drawn on tie funds of 1790,
1791 and 1792, the sum of fix htndred and twen
ty pQunds nine (hillings and eig\t pence, and in
Speakers and Presidents orders the sum of feventy
feven pounds nineteen (hillings ind eight-pence ;
for the redemption of which, the monies arising
out of the taxes of the aforefaid years are pledg
ed these sums, with the outdanding drafts of
1793 mud be drawn into any estimates that may
be made, so as the holders nay receive payment
when duly demanded. _ .
It is with regret I communicate to yen- that m ,
March last the Creek Indians proceeded to open
hollilitics against this state, which were from
many circumitances more seriously alarming than
any that have been made within the extent
of my knowledge of their favagc warfare in this
country : It is, however a peculiar gratification
to me to announce to you that no charge was
brought by the Creeks against the Government or
people of this itate to warrant their late outrages ;
confcquently their difeontents (if any they have)
must have arisen through feme other channel.
Their murders and depredations commenced on
the 11 th March last, by killing the clerks, and
plundering the llorfc of Mr. Scagrove at Trader's
Hill an the river St. Mary, and almoll every
fifteen or twenty miles from thence along the
frontier to the Tugalo river displayed marks of
savage barbarity—They also killed one man be
tween the last mentioned river and the river Keo
wee ; all, in a very short space of time. In this
critical and alarming state of ass; irsl loft no time,
in making, what I conceived, the neceflary ar
ragements; block-houses, at convenient dittances
from each other on the frontier, were speedily
ereded and garrisoned, and to this communicati
on of defence, were added troops of horse to mova
in detachments to cover the spaces of ground be
tween the different ftations;—this was effefted
with as much expedition as the extension of a.
frontier of 300 miles would by any means, admit.
I have the pleasure to refled that f such measures
had the good effed to check the movements of
the enemy in a confiderablc degree, as well'ts to
give confidence and protedion to our citizens*
Only three whites have been killed, within the
settlements since that arrangement took place. Inor
der to give farther confidence to the fettlcrs, and the
better to be prepared I established a camp on the
Oconee, with a full determination, to retaliate
on the savages as occasion might render it expe
dient; after this, many of our citizens, who were
throughly incenfcd by savage inroads and adu
ated by a diflinguifhed zeal and ardor in their
country's cause, pursued feme of the invaders to
their remote towns, and taught the Creeks a lesson
which they have not experienced since the Ameri
can settlements, by burning their towns, leaving
the bodies of their warriors brcathlefs on their
distant plains and bringing eight prisoners from
their cottages; so that they have now difeovered
that to live in fafety at their homes they must be
in friendfhip with the people of G eorgia ; and, it
cannot be doubted when a peace is established
v/ith that Nation, but that more refped will be
paid to it, than any heretofore made, and the
people of fids country will consequently enjoy
more tranquility in future. In this state of hosti
lity, it became indifpenfibly ncceffary to draw
forth force to re; el, and otherwise to avail of the
powers vetted by the federal constitution, viz. in
the tenth fedionof the firlt article, in these words,
a or engage in war unless” a state be “ adually
invaded or in such imminent danger as will not
admit of delay,” and in the fourth fedion of the
fourth article thereof, “ The United States” “ (hall
•jroted each of them” (theftates) “against invafidn
and” “ domestic violence hence it will appear
evident that the peculiar situation to which I was
reduced warranted the procedure, more particularly
as the pre flu re of the enemy was such as rendered
immediate annoyance by arms, on principles of
• fafety, as well as retaliation, the only resort;
and, notwithstanding certain animadversions of
the Secretary at War, I must contend, that upon
taking a serious review of the powers and obliga
tions°herein recited,—of the invasions of Creek
Indians, —the murders and depredations committed
by them and of the measures pursued in conse
quence thereof, it cannot, even for a moment,
cxift as a doubt, hut that the United States are
constitutionally engaged in war with the Creek
; Indians, and, may or it. .ay not be profccuced a*
tVoi. VIII. No. 37a.]