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Office of Difeount and Depofite*
Savannah, Auguji 20, 1802.
THE following REGULATIONS are publilhed for
the information of thole who may have bulinels to
tranfacl at said Office* ,
ift. That the Office (hall, for tlie prefont, he opened
on every day, (Sundays, public falls, tHankfgiving clays,
tire 4th of July, and Chrifluias day, excepted) titrm 9
o’clock in the morning until 3 o’clock in the aftemoorw
2 d. That the Office (hall receive and pay specie coins
according to the rates and value that have been or ilia.ll be
eftabUfhed by Congreft; and no gold, silver, 01 copper,
coined within the United States, other than such as is or
ffiall be authorized bv Congress, ffiall be received.
3d. That the said Office will take charge of the ffene
of those who choose to place it there, (tree of expense;
and ffiall keep it, fubjea to their order, payable at fight;
and will receive depofites of ingots ot gold, bars of lilyer,
wrought plate, and other valuable articles of small bulk,
in the fame manner, and return them on demand of the
depositor.
4th. That payments made at the Office ffiall be ex
amined at the time, and no error fuggelted afterwards (hall
be corrected.
sth. That difeounts ffiall be made on bids, notes, or
acceptances, payable in dollars, upon personal fecuritv
onlv, with at lead two responsible names, (one ot which
mull be a resident in Savannah) tor any term not exceed
ing- sixty days; that three days of grace be allowed on all
bills, notes, or acceptances, payable at the Office; and
that difeount be taken for the fame, as well as for the day
on which the difeount is made.
6th. That difeounts ffiall be made at the rate of 6
■per cent, per annum; and such notes, bills, or accept
ances, as are offered for difeount, ffiall be delivered under
cover, direfted to the Caffiier of the Office ot Difeount
and Dcpofite, on Monday, and laid before the Directors
on Tuefdav, when the difeount ffiall be fettled and made
known on that day, if necessary, and the following day,
in every week, it ffiall be entered in the book ot the ap
plicant.
7th. No note or bill ffiall be received at this Office,
for difeount or collection, of a lets turn than 50 dollars;
and all notes sent in for difeount or collection mud be en
dorsed by those who fend them to Bank.
8 th. No man who owes the Customhouse ffiall have
difeount without another name than the firft endorser.
9th. That, on failure, of payment before (hutting of
the Office on the last day of grace, the note, bill, or ac
ceptance, ffiall be protested, and notice given on that day
to all and every endorser; and when the lad day of grace
falls nii Sunday the bill or note mud be paid the preced
ing Saturday.
10th. That all notes, bills, or acceptances, intended
for collection at this Office, mud be lodged at lead one
day before the fame becomes due, and (hall, as to notice,
demand, and proted, be proceeded with as notes bills
difeounted, unless the person depositing the fame direct
otherwise in writing.
nth. That the non-payment of any bill, note, or
acceptance, when presented to an endorser, under proted,
ffiall equally affeft his credit with that of the accepter or
payer of said bill, note, or acceptance, so proteded.
T2tb. That the Caffiit -of this Office (hall cause any
base gold or Giver coin, offered in payment, depofite, or
for change, at this Office, to be cut in such a manner as
to render it notorious and impassable, and to be returned
to the person offering the fame.
JOSEPH HABERSHAM, Preiident.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Louisville , \Btb June, 1802.
\ RESOLUTION in the words following, to wit,
ix “ Resolved , That his Excellency the Governor be,
u and lie is authorized and requeded to pursue (ucli
“ measures as in his judgment may mod effeClually after
<4 tain and colled all just claims which the citizens oi this
11 date may have against the Creek Nation of Indians,
<£ which said claims (liall, before they are exhibited, be
“ duly authenticated, by the oath of one or more dffin
“ tereded persons, taken and certified by any judge, justice
<! of tlie peace, or clerk of the superior or inferior courts,”
having passed both Branches of the Legillature, and re
ceived tlie assent of the Executive,
It is ordered, That all persons having claims againd
the Creek Nation of Indians, for property of any del’crip
tion by them taken or plundered, be, and they are hereby
required to transmit the fame as soon as possible to the Ex
ecutive Department, authenticated in the manner by the
afore refolution pointed out.
Taken from the Journals of the Executive Department ,
Geo. R. Clayton, Sec’y.
TsJITEffTOCTOBER
price of Flour being, viz. New York, 9 dollars,
JL and Georgia, 6 dollars, per barrel, the weight of
Bread for this month mud be as follows:
cents loaf. 61 cents loaf.
Os New York flour, 2 lbs. 5 oz. \ lb. 2± oz.
Georgia flour, 3 o 18
Os which all bakers and fellers of bread are to take due
notice. JOHN GI3BONS, City Treasurer.
TO BE SOLD, at the ccurtboufe in the ci;v of Sa
vannah, on Tuesday the ibtb day of October next,
between the hours of X and II o'clock ,
f our Negroes, being the Personal
Estate ot Jeffiua Gngel, deceased, (the former fate not
complied with) for the payment of debts of tlie said de-
Ccaled. Terms ca(h.
Christopher Gugel, adm’r.
Isaac N. Meskrve,
Sophia Meservk, adm’x.
iplA September, 1802.
ALL persons having any demand* againd the Estate
ot John Wifonbaker, deceased, are desired to fend
dx-m in, properly'attefted, and thole indebted thereto are
nqutlied ;o make payment.
Mary Wisp.nhakkr, executrix*
Jk remix r CovLERf executor.
In COUNCIL.
Savannah, July 19, 1802.
Ordered,
r I'MIAT the Health Officer be requeded to notify the
JL Pilots, that no vessel from any port in Spain, or
tlie Wed Indies, will be permitted to come higher than
Rive Fathom Hole, without having fird obtained a certi
ficate of h€alth.
Extrad from the minutes,
Thomas Pitt, c c.
HEALTH OFFICE, PORT OF SAVANNAH.
THE Pilots are dire died to attend ftri&fy to the above
•rder.
William Cocke, m. and. Health Officer.
In COUNCIL.
Savannah, August, 2d, 1802.
INFORMATION being laid before Council, that the
Yellow Fever has made its appearance in the City of
Philadelphia,
It is ordered, That the Health Officer be direded to
order all vessels coming from the Port of Philadelphia to
be brought to at Cockfpur, and there to perform a qua
rantine of fifteen days, including their days cf failing, and
that, during the peiformance of the said quarantine, the
woollen and cotton goods on board ffiall be, on every fair
day, exposed to the open air, and the holds ot the vessels
ventilated in the best possible manner, and that, after that
time, they be. permitted to come up as high as Five
Fathom Hole, and there remain until they ffiall receive
a certificate of health from the Health Officer.
Provided never tbdefs, That the above goods (liall be
exposed to die air, and the vessel ventilated, at lead three
days before the said vessel be permitted to come up to the
said last place, notwithstanding the fifteen days from the
failing of the said vessel may have before expired.
And it is further ordered , ftffiat the Health Officer
compel the masters or commanders of vessels coming to this
port, with any articles iubjeCt to putrefaftion, and finding
the fame in a decayed or unlound state, to land such articles
at any place which the said master or commander may think
proper, so that the said place be not higher up the river than
Five Fathom Hole; and that in such case the said vessel
ffiall be well ventilated, at lead three days after the dis
charge of such decayed or unsound articles, before ffie is
allowed to fail up to Savannah.
And it is further ordered , That all persons contraven
ing these orders ffiall be prosecuted as the quarantine law
dire&s*
Extract from the minutes,
THOMAS PITT, C. C.
HEALTH OFFICE.
Port of Savannah.
THE pilots are hereby ordered to bring all vessels com
ing from Philadelphia to an anchor off Cockfpur, there to
remain and perform a quarantine agreeable to the above
order of the City Council.
WILLIAM COCKE, M. D. Health Officer.
In COUNCIL.
Savannah, August 23d, 1802.
FURTHER information having been laid before Coun
cil, that the Yellow Fever lias spread coniiderably
in Philadelphia, and rages at present with great violence,
Resolved, That the term of 15 days quarantine, or
dered by the resolution of the 2d instant to be performed
by vessels arriving from that port, be extended to 21 days,
and that all woollen and cotton goods be exposed, and the
vessel ventilated, at lead fix days, in manner directed by
the said resolution of the 2d instant; and that tlie Health
Officer govern himfolf in all other refpedts agreeably to
the said resolution.
Extratt from the minutes,
Thoma-s Pitt, c.- c.
In COUNCIL.
Savannah, August 24th, 1802.
W"HEREAS information hath been received by the
Mayor that the Yellow Fever rages with violence
in the city of Baltimore, whereupon the Mayor hath
caused a lpecial meeting of Council to be convened, to
whom he hath communicated such information,
IVherefore resolved, That vessels coming from the said
port of Baltimore lhal! perform, in all rclpects, the fame
quarantine as is preferibed to vessels coming from Phila
delphia by the re dilutions of Council of the 2d and 23d
instant.
Resolved, That,” ffiould any case occur that, in the o
pinion of the Health Officer, a longer term of quarantine
than 21 days may be necessary to be performed by anv
particular vessel, he (the Health Officer) be and “he is
hereby authorized to order such further quarantine to be
performed as he inay think proper.
Extract from the minutes,
Thomas Pitt, c. c.
Health Office, Port of Savannah.
ots are directed to bring all vessels coming
from Baltimore to an anchor off Cockfpur, there to remain
and perform’ quarantine, as required of vessels arriving
from Philadelphia.
WILLIAM COCKE, m. and. Health Officer.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
ON Tuesday the 2d day of November next, will be
fold, by public outcry, at the courthouse in this
city, between tlie hours of X. and 111. o’clock,
400 Aafcs of Hard Marsh,
In front of tlie town of St. Mary, laid out as part of said
town, jn four acres each square, in the county of Cam
den, seized as the property of Mr. William Norris. Con
ditions cadi. T. Norton, s. c. c.
Savannah, 22 d September, 1802.
GEORGIA."] % Edward Write, C! c .t. n t fll
(l. s.) J> of Ordinary for the county cf(?S
Ed. White. J in the state afordaid. ‘ .
WHEREAS William Naylor, of the city M
vannah, wheelwright, hath made apptJLSHI
letters of admmiHratioli cm the etate and effl'cL f R ‘Si
Parker, late of the lanyj place, ffiopteei/ A
These are therefore to cite and aumonifli ai!
the kindred and creditors of the deceased to fit. W®||
jeiftions (if any they have) in my office, on orbefiJß#
20th day of October next, othenvifo letters of ad
turn will be granted hurt.
Given under my hand and seal, Hi the ’ JR
Savannah, the 20th dav of SentemK..
year oi our Lord 1802, and m the 27th ÜBS
of American Independence.
•;GEOKOIA.-| By Nl Bra, Clrrk of thTcouitofoM
(l. s.) denary the county cf Libertv 5
N. Baker. J afortf.id. },la '|
WHEREAS Jc.foph Way fen. Joseph Way J
and Martha Way, have applied for letL jBl
administration on tiie eihtte cf Peter Hoffmire, late of -u B ’
county, deceased, These are therefore to cite all and 5 ■
gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to anoll
before the Court of Ordinary, at Riceborough, ontffiß
Monday in November next, and (liew cause (if any tU®
have) why letters of administration fliould not be I
them. 8
Given under my hand and foal, this 17th davrfß
September, A-D. 1802, and in the 27*yj*
of American Independence. 1 K
BANKRUPTCY. I
WHEREAS a comtaiffion of bankruptcy is awards 1-
and issued forth against Matthew Shearer, ofS.B
vannah, merchant, and he, being declared a bankrur I
is hereby required to firrrender himfolf to the comraiffi I
ers in the laid coinmiffion named, or the major pan of ■
them, on the fourth and twenty-fifth days of October, and I
on the eighth day of November next, at ten o’clock inti* I
forenoon cf each day, at the courthouse in tlie city {I
Savannah, and make a full difeovery and difclofore of he I
estate and effedfs, when and where the creditors are to I
come prepared to prove their debts; and, at the fecori I
fitting, to choose assignees; and, at the last fitting, tbe fail I
bankrupt is required tofiniffi his examination, and tlie ere-1
ditors are to assent tp, or diffeut from, the allowance of his
certificates; all persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or
that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the
fame, but to give notice to
W. DAVIES, Solicitor.
27 tb September , 1802.
To be RENT ED, or for SALE,
A TWO STORY HOUSE on
the east common, with a good kitchen and other convene
eat out buildings. For particulars inquire of
JOHN M‘FADZEN.
FOR SALE, :
A convenient Dwellinghoufeand
Lot; situate on a corner in a central and healthful part of
the city. There is, on the lot, an additional building, by
means of which the lot and improvements may, with small
expence, be divided into two productive and commodious
tenements. Inquire of the printers.
FOR SALE,
The Farm Lot, No. i, Percival
ward, Holland tithing, containing 45 acres old forvey; and
Two Farm Lots, Nos. 9 and 10,
in tlie Village of Hampftead, containing together io
acres old survey.
The vicinity of the above mentioned lands to this city
muff render them an object to persons who wiffi for (itua
ti'ons for small farms near town. For terms apply to
JAMES ROBERTSON
Savannah , 29 tb May, 1801.
FINAL NOTICEr
ALL persons that are indebted to the estate of John
Zane, deceased, are desired to make immediate
payment, and those that have demands against that estate
are also desired to render them, duly attested, on or be
fore the firft day cf November next; after that timelflall
apply to the-Court of Ordinary to be difiniffed from the
administration. Balthaskr Shaffer, adrn’r.
Auguji 19, 1802.
N O T I C E.
ALL persons having demands against the F.ilatc of
John Currie, efq. late of Savannah, deceased, are
requested to render them in, properly attested, to nir. A
lexander Currie, at the late residence of tlie deceased; and
all persons indebted to the said Estate are called on ti
make immediate payment, that provision may be
for di(charging the A bts and legacies.
Alexander Curric,") Adminiftmtors,
Joseph Miller, )> with the will
Andrew M‘Credie, J annexed.
Savannah , 1 oth June, 1800.
RAN AWAY, from Colerain plantation, about
weeks ago, A NEGRO FELLOW, named NERfe
he is a stout thick black Negro, of tbe Guinea country,
bout q feet 6 or 7 incites high, with filed teetb; it is fupj
ppfed he is gone up the countrv. Ten dollars reward wi
be paid on delivering him to the fubforiber, and five dollar*
for lodging him in any gaol of the state.
May 31. WILLIAM MEIN.
# W r7~I IN G 7N K
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