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AUGU S 7" A) November 16.
Extracts from the Journal of the House cf
Representatives.
Friday, Nov. 8, 1793.
Mr. George Jones, from the Committee appoint
ed to join a committee appointed by the Senate,
to report the necessary business to be afted on this
feflion, reported, which being read, is as follows:
The committee recommend, a Bill to be intro
duced as an Aft for the relief of infolvdnt debtors.
To originate in the Senate.
A Bill to be entitled, an Aft torevifeand amend
the Judiciary Aft. To originate in the Senate.
A Bill to be entitled, an Aft to levy a tax for
the year 1794. To originate in the House of
Representatives.
A Bill to be entitled, an Aft making appro
priations for the year 1794. To originate in the
House of Representatives.
A Bill to be entitled, an Aft to revise and
amend the militia Aft. To originate in the House ,
of Representatives.
Ordered , That the committee on finance do pre
pair and report a Bill, to be entitled an Aft to le
vy a tax for the year 1794; as alfoa Bill to be en
titled an Aft making appropriations for the year
1794.
Ordered, That M. George Jones, M. Walker
and Mr. Worfham be appointed a committee to pre
pair and report a Bill, to be entitled an Aft to ie
vife and amend the Militia Aft.
’ Saturday, November 9, 1793.
Mr. Watkins from the committee to whom was
referred that part of his Excellency the Governor’s
communication, which relates to the proceedings
of" the Supreme Court of the United States in a
suit Robert Farquhar’s Executor, against the state
of Georgia, together with the Attorney-General’s
opinion thereon ; brought in a report, which be
ing read, is as follows:
That an Aft of the Legislature of the state ought
to be patted, declaratory of the retained sovereign
ty thereof.
That an address to the refpeftive Legiflaturcs
of the fevcral states of the union should forthwith
be made, with the energy and decision becoming
the Legislature of a free and republican state, re
queuing their concurrence in a proposal for an ex
planatory amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, in the second feftion of the third
article.
And that the proceedings therein be transmitted
by his Excellency the Governor, or otherwise, as
the Legislature may direst, to the Senators and
Representatives of this state in Congress, urging
in the mod pointed manner the laid Senators and
Representatives to use every means in their power
to obtain a fpcedy ratification of the said proposed
amendment, in the manner pointed out by the said
Constitution.
And the paragraphs of the Report being again
read, were on the questions severally put thereupon,
agreed to by the House.
Ordered, That the committee heretofore appoint
ed to take under consideration the papers and do
cuments the fubjeft matter of the foregoing Re
port, be a committee to prepare and report a Bill,
conformable to the firft feftion of this Report ; that
the said committee do also prepare and report the
form of an address to the refpeftive Legislatures of
the several states in the union, to be adopted by
this Legislature in relation to the fame.
Wednesday, November 13, 1793*
Mr. James Jones of Burke, from the commit
tee appointed to prepare and report a Bill to be
entitled, an Aft to prevent the importation of ne
groes into this state, and for other purposes therein
mentioned, reported the fame; which was received
and read the firft: time.
Ordered, That Mr. Simms, Mr. Kemp and Mr.
Harris be appointed a committee to prepare and
report a Bill refpefting bastardy, and ior other
purposes therein mentioned.
Friday, November 15, 1793-
A Bill to be entitled, an Aft to prevent the im-
I portation of negroes, and for other purposes there
in mentioned, was read the second time.
A motion was made to postpone the farther con
sideration of the said Bill till the firft Monday in
March, and on the question for postponement,
If Ihe yeas and nays being required, are as follow :
teas. Melfrs. Braddock, Burnett, Carnes, Fa-
I Man, Kammonxjl, James Jones of Chatham, c,eo.
Jones, Kemp, M‘intolh, Waldburger and Walk
eb 11.
I Nays. Meflrs. Barnett, Barrow, Eafley, Greer,
; Hardin, Harris, James Jones of Burke, Ruflell
I J°nes, Jack, Lanier, M‘Neil, Rutherford, Simms,
Catkins and Worfham, 15.
The Bill then flood committed to Ihurfday
I u p xr.
Wilkes county, Sept. 20, teqi.
SIR,
THE inclofed was delivered to me unsealed;
and with the opportunity of forwarding it to you,
permit me to accompany the remark, that the lenfc
of honor to join in sentiments of rcfpedl with the
gentlemen annexed, civil and military, renders it
a peculiar pleasure on the occalion, to represent so
well-tried veterans to an indefatigable fuccefsful
leader and Major-General.
I have the honor to be, with due refpeft, your
obedient Adjutant-General,
AUGUSTUS C. GEO. ELHOLM.
The Hon. Major General-Clark.
P. S. That the press may witness to the citizens
of Franklin 1 have complied with their wiih, I
beg leave to furniih the gentlemen printers with
copies,
A. ELHOLM.
An Addrcfs to the Honorable Major-GeneralCh ark.
SIR,
WE, the fubferibers, being convinced, that our
fixation, if rightly represented, will acquire your
more immediate care towards us, as our Major-
General, to afford a proportionable aid from the
interior parts of the Brigade to which we belong,
we mult beg leave to ltate to you the hardship oc
calioned by a regulation that obliges us to leave
our own families exposed, while we furniih guard
at Ward’s mill; but at the fame time equally so
licit not to conceive that we entertain the fmallelt
diflatisfadiion with our Brigadier the hon. General
Blackburn, whom we highly elteem for his atten
tion towards us; (as far as comes within his pow
er) and as we conceive it to proceed merely from
an error in calculation of the proportion of the quota
of duty; the Adjutant General, whose conduft dc
ferves our due confidence, will represent our fixa
tion with that refpedl which your care requires
from a people of gratitude, which we flatter our
selves will relieve our dated grievance.
Signed by us the 23d. of September, in Frank
lin county, 179 3.
John Smith, C. F. C. J. Gorham, J. P. P.
Williamfou, J. P. James Little, J. P. Russel Jones,
Lt. Col. F. C. R. Clement Wilkins , Capt Abner
Franklin, Major. Charle Gilbert, Lieut. Jeremiah
Sparks, Lieut. John Stone Sipher, Capt. Robert
Lhrejher, Lieut. William Coze thorn, Senator.
Augufa, October 30 th, 1793.
S I R,
FROM returns lately received, it appears, that
the quota in Wilkes, Elbert, and Franklin counties,
exclusive of those gentlemen of arms whose fixa
tion renders it necclfary for them to becontinually
under arms in felf-defence, stand in the following
rates, viz. Wilkes 192—Elbert 50 —and Frank
lin 13 nearly.
i have the honor to be, &c.
AUGUSTUS C. GEO. ELHOLM,
Adjutant-General.
The Hon. Major General-Clark.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed
Gapt. James Meriwether, one of his Secretaries.
On Tuefday last the Grand Jury brought in a
bill againil Joseph Rivers, Richard Seymour,
Jefle Hunt, ard Benjamin Putnam, “ for fitting
out a privateer, in the port of Savannah, under a
French commifiior., contrary to existing treaties
between the United States, and foreign powers,
and also to the Prefideut’s Proclamation.” We are
informed the trial is to come on at 10 o’clock this
morning.
MARRIED.] On the 31st. ulr. Major Jonas
Fauche to Miss Polly Daniell, both of Greene coun
ty. —On the 7th inst. Mr. John L. Dixon of this
place, to Miss Polly Cobbs, of Columbia county.
DIED.] Last Sunday morning, in the prime of
life, Captain Anselm, Leigh-, a disconsolate widow,
children, relations, and acquaintances, lament the
loss of a truly worthy man.
*+* Henry Wood, Esq. was eledled fherifF for
Liberty county, instead of Thomas Stevens, Esq.
mentioned in the Chronicle of the 19th ult.
GEORGIA. 3 By Lewis Gardner, Esq.
L. S. > Regifer of Probats for Jaid
Columbia County. 3 County.
WHEREAS Jane Prier, hath applied to me
for letters of advnni/lration on the e/late
and ejfetls of Philip Prier, late oj this county , dec.
THESE are therefore to cite and admonijh all and
singular the kindred and creditors of the j,aid deceased,
to be and appear at my office, on the 3if day of
November next, to J/iezo cavfe, if any they have, why
letters of adminif ration jh ' ..Id not be granted.
GIVEN under my hand andfeul, at my office,
the 31 st day of October 1793 ; and in the
18th year of the Independence oj the United
States of America.
£3r Captain Riveres and his officers think
theinfelves in duty bound to acknowledge the
friendly reception they met with in
from the friends of the Republic of France.
Augusta, November 9, 1 793* -
WERE any serious difcujfion, at t ! :isperiod, of
fer'd in answer, to the Querist in the Sa
vannah paper of the inf. I have no doubt, but the
triumph of th' cor/ter, would rift in proportion, to
the conviction which such difcufjion might carry to
the unprejudiced mind ; and, his reply, accompanied
with the wrinkled grin of gratified make, would be
“ I congratulate you Sir, on your dijeoveries, they
" art facts wtiick even jools knowwe have fuc
“ ceeded and you are heartily welcome to your
" fucxefs !” * Allow me, Mr. jucri/l, to compliment
* you in turn, —he who makes fuck a purchase has
‘ bought at a rate, that few will be found who will envy
‘ you your bargain.' No one would dream of defence,
when Vue accused reckons his crimes the greatef and
mojl virtuous at'lions of his life ;— nor, would the late
Governor, be entitled to the cjlctm of his country, if
he were even to purfuc a different line of conduit,
under similar circumjlances , than that which he has
heretofore followed; and, I believe he would plead
GUILTY to every charge of the. Querift, with mors
pleasure than lie adopted some of the mcajurcs which
have occafwned the News-paper impeachment in
quejiion; unlijs we count upon the Noca bene accusa
tion, which, it is /aid, is an affair of his Scotch
Secretary, to whom a good hint has already been given,
that he may return to Churchill's land of famine.
If the fate of Georgia is become a corporation , as
is ajferted by some, then was the late Governor’s con
duit treasonable to the highef degree, in maintaining
that Jhe was pojfcjfed of certain fovercign and un
alienable rights ;—then too was he reprehenfiblc for
having employed counfil in the Supreme Court of the
United States, to vindicate the fate right to her con
s [cations and to deny her fuability ; —there arc
many tame char alters among us at the present day ;
but he reckons without his hofl , who counts upon be
ing fupporled by the PEOPLE of Georgia in re
ducing to practice such a fyfiem as the corporation
one. And let me observe that those men who would
reduce the fates to this debased situation, those men
who laugh at the idea of a Commander in Chief in a
Federal diflrid—who assert there is no power, but
with the Prefdent to call militia into aElual service,
—who reprobate every indication of tote sovereignty
as well in a civil as in a military point of view,
and who affeit to make an Aaron’s rod of the Gene
ral Government to swallow up the lesser ones ;—let me
observe, I fay, that those are the men who ought to
live in fear of blue devils and broken oaths; — not
the men, who assert the. spirit and letter of the Con
futation to be our only guides,—who contend , for '
that best part of it “ whatever is not given , is re
tained,”—who to accomplish any desired, amendment,
wifi no other mode of ejtablifhing it, but the confi
tutional one, —and who will glory in perpetual en
mity to r/zo/tf liberal conllrudlors of constitution who
war upon the Liberties of the people.
A RESPONDENT.
SEASON A B L E HINT.
A noted New-York Printer, who resided in that
city before the revolution, and printed a newspaper
there for many years, was much plagued with re
fradory fubferibers, who would not transmit him his
dues at regular periods. One in particular, at a
diftance, notwithstanding an annual dun, let his
account run on for eighteen years together, without
paying a single fix pence. He had been frequently
admonished, by the Printer, of his neglea, and
advised of the consequences; but to no purpose.
To put the neceflity of pundlual payment in a more
striking point of view, the Printer had, in one of
his private admonitory letters, likened his gazette
to a great mill, the pond of which was supplied
and replenished from time to time by a multitude
of rivulets; but that ifthefe rivulets were dried up,
turned into other channels, or flopped, and con
verted to their ownpurpofesby every person whose
lands they ran through, the water in the pond rauft
at length inevitably fail, and the great wheel no
longer go round. The fubferiber was deaf even
to this apt simile. He thought water grist mills
might be invented to go without water. Any one
(observed he) can grind with a full head of water,
but give me the man that can *-ind his grist with
out a-y water at all: He is ellow for my mo
ney!”—The printer at length waxed wroth, from
repeated difappointmen's; and towards the conclu
sion of the 18th year from the time of fubferibing,
wrote positively he fhouid omit fending the gen
tleman any papers in future, 1 " unless the whole ac
count was immediately fettled” —"See nowff&id the
fubferiber, on reading the letter > what an ungrate
ful fellow / have to deal with I — Eightf'n years ago,
and ub wards I was the very hr ft man that put r > y
name to the fu fcnptiou-lif to encourage his paper,
and this is the reward l meet wi.h.”