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SATURDAY, November 9, 1793. THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND GAZETTE op the STATE. %. . * «'■' • ■ <lll ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 — 1 '■ ■- ■■ * '*" ■ FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL by JURY shall remain inviolate. Conjlitution of Georgia, —, : ; £ y Q y S T A : Printed by JO H N E. SMITH, Printer to the State,- Ejfays , Articles of Intelligence , Adver tfoments, &c. will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing performed, \_Price Three Dollars per annum .J 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. . ■■ -*— —— 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.]