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meeting of the officers withiij hU legion,
And upon refufal or negieft, he (hall he
fubjeft to a fine not exceeding fifteen dol
. tars, nor less than five dollars, at the dis
cretion of the legionary court of enquiry,
untefs he can make a reasonable excuse to
the commanding officer of his legion j
and it (hall further be the duly of the
adjutant to assist generally in the necessa
ry training ot the militia, and he,'toge
ther with the brigade infpeftor, (hall bp
allowed such compcnfation as the legiona
ry courts of enquiry may from time to
time think reasonable, to be paid out of
the funds arising from fines. i
(To' be continued.)
ACTS '
Os the General AJfemhly of this Slate ,
pajfed at the Sejfton •which commenced
the I B th of April lasi —Publljhed by
order of the Executive.
AN ACT supplementary to an ad, en
titled, lt an ad to ejiabhjh a fund
for the redemption of the public debt
of this state .
WHEREAS, by the above recit
ed aft., it is made the duty
ot the commissioners therein named and
a pointed, to superintend the surveyor
bv them to be appointed, while on the
duties of his office, while seeking out
and resurveying the lands belonging to
the (late, {agreeable to the aft ot confis
cation) previous to their being fold, as
direfted by said aft, and no compensati
on i* allowed by said aft to said coromif
lioners, for <imc and, .
v<mxroiV parrot tile tin
ties of their office—For remedy where
of— '' " M ,
BE it enaded hy the Senate and House
of Beprefentatives of the State of Geor
gia, in General AJfemhly met, and by
the authority of the fame , That from
and immediately after the palling of the
above recited aft, the said commissioners
Ihall be entitled to receive at the rates of
three dollars per day each, while in aftu
al Service of the state, in Superintending
the said surveyor while on the duties of
his office, as pointed out by said aft, as
a compcnfation for their time and cx
pences while attending on that part of
the duties of their office, which (hall be
paid out of the monies arising from the
sales of such property —And whereas, it
appears hy the report of said commissi
oners laid before this legillature, that
there is a probability that property to a
large amount, belonging to this state,
it ill remains undifeovered or concealed
from the commissioners ot the state, for
want of proper encouragement being giv
en to individuals, to encourage them to
make such property known, therefore.
Be it enaded, by the authority afore
[aid, That it (hall be the duty of said
commiflioners, on receiving from any
person or perfonsgood information of any
property belonging to this state, by vir
tue of the aft of confifcation (not difeo
vered or pointed out before the palling the
above recited aft) to proceed and make
sale of the fame agreeable to said aft, and
(hall pay unco such informer or inform,
ers, at the rate of twenty per centum out
of the nett proceeds of sales of such pro
perty by them pointed our, (provided he
or they (hall go forward with one or
‘more ot the commissioners ‘and assist them
to identify said property) to the fatisfac.
<ion of said commissioners, and the said
commissioners (hall take bond and securi
ty of such informer or informers in dou.
ble the amount cf the premium to be re
ceived by him or them, conditioned,that
if any or all of said property, so point
ed out by him or them, hereafter be le
gaily claimed, and the state (hall think
proper to refund the fame, or the amount
*>f sales thereof, that then, and in that
case, he or they, (hall refund to the (late
his or their commlffion so received, for,
or on account of such intormation/for Such
part thereof as may be so legally claim
ed*
And he it further enaded, That it
ihall be lawlul for said commissioners to
tax a bill of costs for any neceflary ex
pcnces they may be at in taking into
. pofllffion and supporting any negro or neg
roes they may have occasion to take into
rheir poffdfion by and in compliance with
jfaid aft, and all othef nccclfary expences
they may be at in seeking alter and fecoring
any property belonging to this state, in
order to make sale thereof In conformity
*o said aft, and the said hill of expences
so anting, (hall be laid before his Ex
vilency the Governor for his
■ v , and (hall be paid out of the monies
.triibig Iron* the iale of such property.
And be it.further evaded. That when
Pi tbull appear to the legillature of tlds
( flnlt, ri at ift »Vis evil a t Ir vi fclJ
any property, by virtuect this, or the he.'
fore recited *6} to which the Rate feed 1
not a legal cla'inY, and the person or per- \
sons claiming the fame, have supported *
their claim in a court properly authorised f
to try the fame, and obtained a judgment ,
in his or their favor, the purchaser or
purchasers (hall be refunded r out of rhe f
treasury of this Rate the amount of Tales 5
of such property, in the fame kind of pay.
ment as he or they may have made to •
the commissioners. »
Be it therefore enabled, That a
of each traft of land which (hall be sq I \
ia purfuancc of this, the befordteciwi, •
or confifcation aft, (hall be made out fry
the aforefaid commiflkrtiersj who (hall 1
affix the fame to each title which (hall be
given or signed by them, . *
And be it further enafled, That it
(hall be the duty of the Secretary of State
and Surveyor-General, to give fueh in
formation to the aforefaid commissioners
as their refpefUve offices may afford, for
which, services they (hall be paid the try
fual office fees, and no person (hall res
ceivc any emolument for any information
whatever, except for (hewing the pre
mises, and more fully identifying the
property than can be obtained by infot.
mationof record.
ABRAHAM JACKSON, Speahr
of the House of Refrefentatives.
SOLOMON WOOD, P rest dent of
the Senate , pro tern.
Assented to, May 9, 1803.
JOHN MILLEDGE, Governor,
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SPAR*T>» (na.J June 17,
*rJ»- snowing Important Letter Trom
the “ Legal and Constituted Head Men
of the Mujkogee Nation (as they style
themfclvcs) to the Commissioners of the
United States, at Fort Wilkinson, on
the Oconee river, was communicated by
a gentleman of refpeftability, who ob
tained it from an Indian trader. The
original is now in the possession of the
Commanding Officer at Fort Wilkinson ;
and the hand writing of Bowles has
been recognized by one of the officers.
To the GommiJJioners of the United States
at Port Wtlktnfon i on the Oconee .
Gentlemen,
WE the legal and constitutional head
men of the Muflcogee Nation, called by
you the Creeks, hearing that you had
invited a number of men to the Fort on
the Oconee, promising them presents, in
order to induce them to go ; and having
long experienced the evil tendency of such
meetings, where you have exhibited long
instruments of writing, that could nei
ther be explained by you nor understood
by those of our people present; yet you
have by means, heft known to your-
procured thereto, a long string of
names, giving the appearance of a nati
onal authority and fanftion to inftrumenrs
of wtiting, as agreements made between
us, and held them out tp the wprld as
such, while we never knew or understood
any thing of the buftnefs.
Having observed at this time, that
our people have been promifeuoufly invit- ,
ed to the Oconee, and promised large
presents, rather more mysterious than on
former occasions—We think it a duty we
owe to our country to put a flop to such
practices, tend on\y to create dis. ,
turbance between us, that may terminate *
in A WAR, the which we do not wilh.
Therefore, We being now met in
Council, do determine and declare , that
this Nation is not, nor cannot be bound
by any such talk or agreement so made.
That no aft whatever is legal unless done
in Full Council of the Nation , at a place
previoufty appointed and agreed on by
the head men for such meeting; and ac.
cording to the laws of our confederation
wilh our brothers, the Cherokees, Chick,
afaws and Chactaws, no Lands can be
ceded except by agreement of the Chiefs
of the Confederation in Council met. r
We arc now engaged in a war with
the Spaniards in defence of our rights,
our Lands and every thing dear to us ;
and we (hall defend ourselves against all
people, who (hall attempt to usurp or
make encroachments on us. *
We with you Americans to be honest,
lay afidc your fchetiies of land speculati
ons, and be good neighbors, we promifc
to be so with you. Let us have peace
and a free trade between us, which alone
can be mutually beneficial.
We are ready to form a treaty with
you and regulate all matters between us,
so that fair limits may be set, and a cri
terion fixed by which to regulate the con
duit of our refpeftive people. But such
tranfaAions must be National Afts, and
I hot done by people who go to the Oconee
1 in order to have a drunken frolick.
D t? ;.1 Gwtfilf tn PfiefunalgOf thj*
\lh day cf J*i:e t ,| gc l r -le*rg fir<~
/cut the coif/ an d. head men, at fol
ii'ivs :
FNETHLA MEKKO,
TALLEGISKO MEKKO,
HALLATO MEKKO,
.. *i L'SSAKIA MEKKO,
CHEHANE MEKKO,
HALLATO MEKKO,
With flie rtprrfentativcs of fixtccn
towns, and prefenced by us the Diredor
• General oi Mcflcogee,
W M .‘ A. BOWLES.
The foregoing letter being read in full
< Council of the Nation, frt the P<.rrac
> kopkla Town, the zd March, and again,
agreeable to ad joufnment, at the Tuck
i fcefaile, the 18th March, where it was
unanimously approved of, and passed into
a rcfolye. , . .
And whereas some attempts have been
made to interrupt the trade between the
ftateof Georgia and this cation, the fol
lowing resolves, among others were en
tered into and palled into law :
1. Resolved , That from this clay forth,
any person who shall take part with our
enemies, and ad any way against us, (hall
differ Death .
2. Re/olved , That our trade shall be
free to all people not at war with us,
fubjed only to the laws made by us in
Council; and that the papers circulated
by Benjamin Hawkins are of no effefi,
and not made with our knowledge or
confer, t.
Ordered that our resolves be made pub
lic.
AUGUSTA, June 25.
We or© glad to find that an arrange
ment takes place in our Poft-Office, which
is calculated t to give general fatisfadion
to the public, by facilitating the rela
tions of commerce, and giving a rapid
circulation to the public prints. This
proves that Mr. Granger is pertedly alive
in his department, to the intered of the
nation, in every quarter of the United
States. —-
It will convey a pleasing sensation to
every well wisher of this (late, when he
is informed, ourFird Magistrate htis been
hpnored with a public and splendid din
ner by the patriotic citizens of Savannah
—On this occasion, many venerable sages
paid their refpeds to Governor Mit
ledge; perhaps few, or none, in our
country, merits this compliment in a more
eminent degree—in times less flattering
than the prefenr, he was a firm centind
at,his poll j and at this auspicious period,
it is with much pleasure we fee him dis
charging faithfully and honorably the
mod important fundions to his fellow
men.—His high (landing in society is
fully evinced, from repeated elections,
than which, no better criterion can be
formed of the motives of the heart.
We lament that the limits of our paper
will not permit ns to publKh the toads
that were given on the above occasion ;
we have room only to fay, that they
were in the true spirit of freedom and
• genuine patriotism.
We have received by a gentleman from
Hancock county, the mterefiing intelli
-1 gence of the capture of the notorious
A, BowPesi The circumftances'are thele
—Ouf informant fays, (that he was at a
dore, between Sparta and Montpellier,
the proprietor of which, had some days
before, sent his clerk, a young man of un
doubted veracity, to Fort Wilkinson, on
some business—the clerk" informs that he
saw Bowles in close cudody, and was
told that Colonel Hawkins had taken
him by ftfatagem, and was on his way
to deliver him to .the Spanish Govern,
meat. ;
k
The Corporation of the city of Ncw-
York, have commenced the eredion of a
city Hall, computed to cod ii6,Sqo
dollars.
Since our lad, we have from
Bourdeaux to the 28th April,—at that
period preparations and aegociations were
dill carried on by the French and Englifli
■+— the probability, however, Was, that
there would be no interruption to peace.
AN OR dT NANCE
For ratfing a fund for the further im
proving and keeping in complete repair ,
the public Hfdls in the City of Augu
fia, for finking fuco others a ; may be
necessary, and for Giber prtrpfes ; and
also for improving and .keeping m re
pair,.the public roads leading thereto,
and the Streets within the Units of the
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WIFAE VS for the convenience of .
frhesmi--?, ptpnrunof health,
t N *
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awl p v a'.v4ijvi. ts prrpjkly, i' h- an, ch„
■ jcft of the fcrft hr.pßff:cr ard cf th e
great tit jpippf.ttmce ro provide a unje
tent fund for improving ar.d keeping i n
repair, ihe public wells in the city cf
Augusta, for finking such others as tray
be deemed ncccffary, and for Qihtr pur.
poses ; and for improving and keeping .in
repair the public io-ds leading 10,
and the streets within the limits cf ti e
fame.
BE it ordained by .the dry Cenvoi of
Auguilds m Council ajfimhied) and ly
the authority of the fatoe, That for im
proving and keeping in goed Order ai d
repair the public wells in the city, fink/. ;
ing wells, and for other purpefes, there
(hall be a tax imposed cf twelve and a
half cents on every hundred dollars va*
lue of all houses ,ar.d lots, end ftcck in
trade within the limits at the
time of puffing this ordinance ; and the
sum of thirty fev-en and a hall cents on
each and every Have within the limits of
the city, owned by persons refideiu there
in, as laid off into lots, including the
addition to the said city, weftwardly as
far as the Beaverdam or Campbell's Gul
ly, to be paid by the owners thereof*
their agents or trufices; and the ium
of one dollar on each and every free ne
gro* mulatto or mnttizo within the
mils aforefaid. •
And be it further Tf}at for
the further improving and keeping io re
pair the fevcral public roads leading-to
the city, within three miles of the fame,
and for the further improving the (heels
within the city aforelaid, there (hrtll be
levied on and collefied from each and eve
ry free male perfor, from the age of fix
tcen to fifty years, residing in the said
city of Augusta, and within three miles
thereof, an afieflment o( one dollar ; and
on every male (lave from the. age ot six
teen to fifty, within the city and limits
aforefaid, an afleffment o( fifty cents j
and every hundred dollars value of all
lands, houses and lots, and (lock in trade
at the time of palling this ordinance,
within the limits aforefaid, an aflcffmenc
of fix and a quarter cents; and on each
and every negro or (lave (not before for
thispurpofe taxed) the sum of twelve and
a half cents.
And be it further ordained ', by -the
authority aforefaid , That there (hall be
a tax of two dollars imposed on all four
wheel, and the sum of one. dollar on all.
two wheel pleasurable carriages, owned
by persons residing within the city and
limits aforefaid, at the time .of pafling
tins ordinance.
And be it further ordained , That in
as much as the public roads leading from
saw mills to the city, are very much cut
and injured by waggons freighted with
lumber, there shall be a tax of twelve
and a half cents imposed oo every thou
sand feet of all lumber which may be
brought to, and rafted from the bluff of
the river Savannah, within the limits a-,
forefaid. , ; ■
And be it further ordained , That,
there (hall be an aflelfor of the said taxes
appointed, whose duty it (hall be to make
a just and accurate statement and digest
of the persons and property liable to the
said taxes at the time of pafling this or
dinance, to be estimated from the bed in--
formation to be procured.. He (hall pro
ceed to make the said affeftment on or
immediately after the firft day of July
next, and (hall make two alphabetical
digelts or returns thereof to the clerk of
the city council, within thirty days after
the said firft day of July, one for the in-.
fpeftion of all persons interested therein,
and the other for the use of the collector
of laid taxes; taking care to make fepe
rate columns in said digest, for the pur
pose of diftinguilhing the road tax from
that of the other. For making which
said digest the aflfeffor (hall be allowed
three per cent, on the amount cohered.
That the afleffor, previous to entering on
the duties of his office, (hall take and
fubferibe an oath or affirmation before the
Intendant, or any member of the City
Council, to make the said afleffment fair
ly and impartially, to. the best of his
power and abilities: and where any per- .
Ton or persons, liable'to. taxation, livall
be absent, or if prefent* Hull refafe to
make known on oath (to be adtniniftei cd
hv theaffclTdr) the amount of his, her or
their property,. liable as aiorefaid, the.
a(T:lTor ihall be governed by the best in
formation he can procure.from other per
rons; and when any person or persons
m.iy conceive him, her or thsmfelvcs ag
grieved by said a.T.if near, fach person or
ptrfws, on application to the council*
tpi nuking, the fm; appear on oath,
ffiiil .be tedeefiai therein.
A: ihe it fkrtkf**, >/dxhtti % That fb *»«. *
■fit aii I pr.'.b ;r peefal sh ill bo appointed
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