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SOITH<CAROLL\A.
GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
•To the Senate and House of Representatives.
Felujw Citizens :
In meeting you after the short interval which
has supervened since your adjournment, allow
me to tender to you my most cordial and respect
ful salutations-
At this annual period of your assembling, it
becomes us to review the occurences of the past
year connected with onr domestic concerns, if not
with a minute scrutiny, at least with a sentiment
of fervent gratitude to the great Disposer of hu
man events. These tributes of our grateful ac
knowledgments are due for the various snd multi
plied blessings he has been pleased to bestow on
our people. Abundant harvests in every qnar
ter of our state ISve crowned the exertions of our
agricultural labors... • Health, almost beyond for
mer precedent has blessed our homes, undisturb
ed as yet by the frightful ravages of that new and
terrible pestilence which has elsewhere made
such portentous havoc in a large portion of the
human family.
Nor have we less reason for thankfulness in
surveying our social condition. If a political ex
citement connected with the public liberty of the
Country has stimulated the public mind to a de
gree ot fervor and vigor beyond all former exam
ple this very excitement has furnished the con
soling exponent of our fitness for the enjoyment
of this inestimable blessing, for in despite of a
painful exasperation of public feeling, social or
der has been preserved, and the majesty of the
law has been SUPREME.
The officer at the head of your financial depart
ment will give you a detailed exposition of the
condition of your treasury. You will perceive
by his statement that the receipts during the last
fiscal year were four hundred and sixty eight
thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars fifty
eight cents —and that the payments were three
hundred and fifty one thousand four hundred and
sixty six dollars ninety four cents, and that the
difference between these two sums, added to the
sums which we received on aoeount of our claims
on the General Go Vermont, left a balance in the
Treasury on the Ist of October, of two hundred
and seventy two thousand five hundred and thirty
three dollars fifty eight cents, lu our settlement
with the United State3. we received in money,
one hundred and fifty seven thousand two hun
dred and fifty nine dollars sixteen cents, and the
sum of forty one thousand six hundred and twenty
five dollars eighty cents, in arms, making in all
the sum of one hundred and ninety eight thousand
eight hundred and eighty four dollars twenty
twenty cents, which we have thus recovered on
account of these claims. A further balance,
amounting to sixty thousand dollars on account
of arrearages for interest is yet due, which we
should have likewise received under the provis
ions of an act which passed both branches of
('ongress, but it was not returned by the Presi
dent of the United States prior to the adjournment
of Congress.
In this adjustment, which may be consider
eil as final, (for onr state will come in under
the general provisions of the act in question
whenever it is ratified, which regubites the
allowance of interest to the states on sums ad
vanced by them on account of expcnces in
curred during the late war,) it would be emi
nently unjust not to press upon your consid
eration the strong claims which the Comp
troller General has both on your justice and
liberality. I trust you will accord to him a
juitable remuneration for the zeal, industry
and signal ability w hich he displayed in the
liscliarge of the special duty which assigned
aim in your resolution of the last annual ses
sion. U nder this resolution he repaired to
Washington, and for six months, during an
inconvenient absence from his family, dedica
ted his time and talents to the irksome unrav
elling, and finally successful adjustment of
these accounts. Such members of our dele
gation in Congress as co-operated with this
officer in this settlement, and had the best
means of w itnessing highly effective services
in the performance of his trust, at once urge
and bear testimony to the equity of this claim
I would respectfully suggest, as the Comptrol
ler has only received a sum for this duty e
quivalent to his personal expences in travel
ling to, remaining at, and returning from
Washington, that he be allowed a reasonable
commission on the amount now received and
hereafter to be received during his agency
and continuance in office.
The very full and satisfactory report of the
able officer at the head of the Bank of the
State of .South Carolina, supercedes the ne
cessity of rnv dwelling on any thing connec
ted w ith this Institution, but the encouraging
fact that after appropriating a sum deemed
imply sufficient to cover all bad debts during
the current year, the amount of one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars has been trans
ferred to tbe sinking fund, which is equiva
lent to at dividend of eight per centum on the
entire capital and sinking fund placed at its
disposal. Permit me, however to renew my
recommendation that your patriotic solicitude
be invoked, and your vigilant superintend
ance be exercised over an institution so vitally
connected with the public credit of our state.
You will discover by the report of the
Comptroller that the loan hitherto authorized
of one bundled thousand dollars to the South
Carolina Rail Iload company, has been ac
cepted by, and paid to that corporation on the
conditions incident to its appropriation. lam
happy to be able from authentic sources of
information to announce that'this interesting
enterprise is progressing with vigor and suc
cess and that its present operations already
reveal the gratifying probability that the aus
picious hopes of its great and diversified use
fulness which were cherished at its com
mencement, will in the end, be abundantly
realized—To a work which is destined, by
diminishing the cost of transportation, to add
so much to the value of products and to in
crease our convenience and enjoyments whilst
it augments our physical resources and our
domestic security, I scarcely deem it necessa
ry to ask your fostering patronage.
No circumstances has occurred to diminish
our well founded confidence in the usefulness
of the-South Carolina College, which is going
on with regularity and success in the process
of quallifying those who are to come after us
to fulfil the high functions and offices apper
taining to the public weal. That this foun
tain of light may diffuse its beams over our
whole state, and be felt in the wide extension
of Science, Literature, and all useful know 1C
edge, must depend on your parental care and
unrelaxed vigilance. To us charge this duty
is a debt which yve must pay under a sacred
obligation to posterity.
The attention of the Legislature ha* been bo fr-
qucntlv invited to the subject of public Education, as
administered through our Free Schools, to our Fc
nai Code, and to our existing Road System, and the
improvements so long desired in each of these de
partments of the public service, have been so lone
postponed, that I can scarcely cherish the hope, at a
period ot such protound and intense interest, on
another and absorbing topic of public policy, counec
ted with our relations ith the Federal Government,
that these subjects will command your deliberations.
J hey are, nevertheless, topics of great domestic ur
gency, m which the necessity for reform is more
readily recognised than the means of effecting it;
except in relation to mitigation of our penal code’
by striking some of the old cOmmon-law penalties
from our statute book, which now disfigure it.
That adequate means may be devised of securing
an effective responsibility on the part ot the truitees
of the school fund, for its useful appropriation, and
that this beneficient scheme of carrying the rays of
light and moral life, into the recesses of poverty and
ignorance, may not fail, either through apathy or
neglect or by the ill-judged rashness with which a
benevoleut enterprise may be abandoned, under tern,
porary miscarriages, susceptible ot remedy, is as
much my earnest hope as it should be your anxious
concern.
hi ther, in reference to public roads, a commu
tation from labor into money, at one half of the es.
timated value of the labor, to be placed as a perma
nent road fund, in the hands ot the Commissioners
of Roads, would not be a mode of keeping them in
repair, less burdensome to the community, and much
more effective in itself—is submitted to your consi
deration.
I like wise submit for your deliberation, whether,
after the events of last year, in Virginia, some re
striction ought not to be placed on the free ingresg
of slaves, brought into our State for sale ?—A sub
ject surely of momentous interest. _
I beg leave to transmit you a communication
which I have received from the Secretary of State j
of the United States, (marked A) enclosing a state,
mint of the apportionment of the representation of
the several States, under the fifth census. The ne.
cessity of your acting on this topic, is so obvious, as
to supersede the necessity of my making any recom
mendation on the subject.
I likewise transmit resolutions (marked B.&C )
from the Legislature of Indiana, “ relative to the of
ficers and soldiers who bore arms in the Revolution,
and who are not entitled to pensions under any ex
isting law,” and one in regard to “ a more perfect
organization of the militia.” A resolution, (mark
ed I>.) from the House of Delegates of Maryland,
is also herewith submitted.
The laws and maps of several of the States, which
I have received in the course of the current year,
shall be deposited with all convenient despatch in tlie
Legislative library.
Immediately after your recent adjournment, at the
eud of ihe last month, a brig called the Ameli bound
from New-York to New-Orloans, was wreckod on
Folly Island about fifteen miles distant from Charles
ton having on board a crew and passengers amount
ing in all to upwards of one hundred souls. O
the unhappy sufferers reaching the shore, it was
discovered that the malignant Cholera had some
days previously broken out amongst them, anl was
then extending its ravages with alarming mortality
among the survivors. On my arrival in Charleston,
the Intendant of the city communicated to me these
facts. Being compelled to leave Charleston imme
diately. I requested the city authorities to continue
to enforce the Quarantine Laws in relation to this
case ; and stated to them that I felt assured you
would indemnify the city fur the expenses which
might be incurred in protecting the health of the
whole State from this dreadful epidemic. A milita
ry guard was authorised and stationed at Folly Is
land to prevent all intercourse between the crew and
passengers of the brig and the citizens of our State;
and I am gratified to be able to state, that by the de
cision and judicious measures of the Intendant and
Council and the skill and intrepidity of the attending
physicians, the infection was arrested and confined
to the Island.
As the city authorities acted in, fact as the agent
of the State I earnestly recommend that the amounts
expended by the city of Charleston on this occasion
be refunded—more especially, as I cannot but think
that but for the promptitude and energy of its public
authorities tha pestilence would now be devastating a
portion of our state. It is moreover, gratifying to
us, to know that the unfortunate sufferers were treat
ed with a kindness and liberality in every respect
comporting with the benevolence and hospitality of
our people.
During the interval between your last adjourn
ment and the period of your present meeting, a Con
vention of the people of the State of South Caroli
na called unV r the high sanction of the constitution
of the State, and by your authority. ‘ to take into
consideration the several acts of the Congress of
the United States, imposing duties on foreign im
ports, for the protection of domestic manufactures,
or for other unauthorized objects, to determine on
the character thereof, and to devise the means of
redress and further, in like manner to take into
consideration such acts of the said Congress, laying
duties on imports as may be passed in amendment
of. or substitution for the act or acts aforesaid ;
and also all other laws and acts of the Govern,
went of the United States as shall bo passed or done
Lr the purpose of more effectually e .ecuting and
onforcing jhe same,” has assembled, deliberated
decided, and adjourned.
In obedience to the injunctions of this
high and sovereign assembly, I send you the
result of their proceedings in relation to sev
eral of the premises, by whic h you will per
ceive, that your action and co-operation are
required and demanded.
i now beg leave to make special reference
to the documents, in the series in which they
may be respectively classified. The pa
per marked E. is a report of a committee to
whom was referred the act “to provide for
the calling of a Convention,” with instruc-!
tions “to consider and report thereon, and es
pecially as to the measures proper to be adop
ted by the Convention in reference to the vi
olations of the Constitution of the United
States, in the enactment by Congress on di
vers occasions, of laws, laying duties arid im
posts, for the purpose of encouraging and pro
tecting domestic manufactures, and for other
unwarrantable purposes.” This report com
prises a view of the rise, progress, unconsti
tutionality and oppress’)vencs r of the Tariff
Laws, and concludes with an Or
dinance, (marked F.) entitled “An Ordi
nance, to nullify certain acts of the Congress
of the United States, purporting to be laws
laying duties and imposts on the importa
tion of foreign commodities.”
The acts thug nullified, are the acts passed
by Congress, on the 19th May, 1829, and the
act passed on the 14th July, 1932. They
are declared to be “unauthorised by the
Constitution of the United States—that they
violate the true meaning and intent thereof,
and are null and void, and not law, nor bind
ing on this State, its officers and citizens; and
all promises, contracts and obligations, made
or entered into, or to be made or entered in
to, w ith purpose to secure the duties imposed
by the said acts,and all judicial proceedings,!
which shall he hereafter had in affirmance)
thereof, are made, and shall be utterly null
and void.”
The Convention has moreover declared,
that the acts to enforce this ordinance, shall
go into effect on the Ist day of February next
—that in no case of law and equity shall
their authority he called in question—that no
appeal shall be allowed or taken to the Su
premc Court of the United States—nor shall
any copy of the record be permitted or allow
ed—that all persons now holding any office
of honor, profit, or trust under this state,
(memb es of the Legislature excepted,) shall
take an oath well and truly to obey, execute, j
and enforce this ordinance, and it concludes |
with a solemn declaration that “the people of |
South Carolina, to the end that it may be fill j
ly understood by the government of the Uni
j ted States, and the people of the co-States, j
that we are determined to maintain this our
! Ordinance and declaration, at every hazard,
do further declare that we will not submit to
| the application of force, on the part of the
Federal Government, to reduce this State to
J obedience; but that we will consider the pas
| sage by Congress of any act authorizing the
j employment of a military or naval force
| against the State of South Carolina, her con
j stituted authorities or citizens, or any act
abolishing or closing the ports of this State or
any of them, or otherwise obstructing the free
ingress arid egress of vessels to and from the
said ports, or any other act on the part of the
Federal Government to coerce the State, shut
up her ports, destroy or harass her commerce
or to enforce the acts hereby declared to be
ihi|l and void,otherwise than through the civ
il tribunals of the country, as inconsistent
with the longer continuance of S. Carolina in
the Union; and that the people of this State
will thenceforth hold themselves absolved
from all future obligation to maintain or pre
serve their political connexion with the peo
ple of the other States; and will forthwith
proceed to organize a separate Government,
and do all other acts and things which sove
reign and independent States may of right
do.”
It is moreover made your duty to adopt
such measures, and pass such Acts as may be
necessary to give full effect to the Ordinance,
and to prevent the enforcement, and arrest
the operation of the Acts of Congress thus
nullified.
This Ordinance has thus become a part of
the fundamental law of South Carolina, and
it, together with the Report, and an address
to the people of South Carolina, (marked G,)
and an address to the people of the co-States
(maikcd II,) setting forth the motives, the
r;ope and objects of these acts and doings,
were likewise adopted by the convention;
and the Executive of this State was directed
to transmit copies of the same to the Presi
dent of the United States, to he laid before
Congress, and to the Governors of the seve
ral States to be laid before their respective
Legislatures. A duty which shall be dis
charged with as much despatch as is compati
ble with a proper preparation of the papers in
question.
Fellow Citizens! The die has been at last
east, and South Carolina has at length appeal
ed to her ulterior sovereignty as a member of
his confederacy, and has planted herself up
on her reserved rights.
The rightful exercise of this power is not a
question which we shall any longer argue.—
It is sufficient that she ha3 willed it, and that
the act is done; nor is its strict compatibili
ty with our constitutional obligation to all
laws passed by the General Government,
within the authorised grants of power, to he
drawn in question, when this interposition is
exerted in a case in which the compact lias
been palpably, deliberately, and dangerously
violated.
That it brings up a conjecture of deep and mo
mentous interest, is neither to be concealed, nor
denied. This crisis presents a class of duties
which is referable to yourselves—You have bean
commanded by the people in their highest sove
reignty to take care that within the limits of this
State their will shall be obeyed. They have
armed you with the requisite authority, and on
the wisdom, firmness, and forecast with which
you discharge these duties, will depend the tran
quility, peace, liberty and happiness of our be
loved State. Obedience to necessary laws flow
ing from a legitimate source of public right is tne
best security to social order and civil freedom.
To leave this obedience to the voluntary sugges
tions of public duty or private conscience, or to
feeble and defective enactments, intheend leads
to the necessity of extreme rigor, or it. brings all
just authority into derision ami contempt. The
measure of legislation which you have to em
ploy at ibis crisis is the precise amount of such
enactments as may be necessary to render it ut
terly impossible to collect within our limits the
duties imposed by the protective tariffs thus nul
lified. That you will resort to such civil and
penal provisions as will accomplish this purpose
without unnecessary rigor on the one hand, or a
weak and mistaken leniency on the other, I feel
so well assured, that I shall refrain from entering
into a detail of suggestions on a subject on which
you are so much better advised than myself.—
That you should arm every citizen with a civil
process by which he may claim, if he pleases, a
restitution of his goods seized under the existing
imposts on his giving security to abide the issue
ot a suit at law, and at the same time, define what
shall constitute treason against the State, and by
a hill of pains and penalties compel obedience,
and punish disobedience to your own laws, are
points too obvious to require any discussion. In
one word, you must survey the whole ground.—
You must look to, and provide for all possible
contingencies. In your own limits, your own
judicature must not only he supreme,
but you must look to the ultimate issue of any
conflict of jurisdiction and power between them
and the courts of the United States.
There is one contingency in particular for
which you ought to provide, and that is in case
the collectors of the customs in any one of the
ports ot this State, under the instructions of the
General Government, should refuse to grant clear
ances to vessels outward hound, that no injury
should accrue to our trade or to those who may be
carrying on friendly commercial intercourse with
us, the Governor should, under such circum
stances, be authorized to grant instantly certifi
cates of clearance under the seal of the State.
An enlightened forecast will not however per
mit you to stop here. Remember that ours is
emphatically a country paying an habitual rev
erence to the laws. As little must be left to the
discretion of the Executive as possible, every
conjuncture must be anticipated by your own en
actments.
From these Legislative provisions let me now
pass to the consideration of consequences, I trust,
of a remote and improbable occurrence. YVe
claim that our remedy is essentially of a pacific
character. 'YVhen we set up this claim, ali we
mean to say, is that, of right, it ought to be, and,
as tar as we aro concerned it shall he so. To the
peaceful redress afforded by our courts in the res-;
titution which they shall decree, and to the ulti- !
mate arbitrament of our sister States, in a gene
ral convention assembled, on the disputed potrer,
MAC ON ADVERTISER.
we look with confidence for an adjustment of this
painful controversy. But the final issue may be
adverse to this hope.
Threats of coercion, we know, were once, in
relation to the probable measures of this tetate,
officially promulged—and public rumor, to which
it is not safe for those in charge of the public au
thorities to be absolutely deaf, has not diminish
ed the conviction that these dispositions may
probably be yet entertained —nor ought we in a
struggl elike this,to rely entirely on the confidence
that the power will not beuSed because right
will be violated. We must be prepared for this
alternative. I would therefore recommend that
our Militia system and its laws undergo a thor
ough revision; that the Executive be authorized
to accept for the defence of Charleston and its de
pendencies, the services of two thousand volun
teers, either by companies or files, as they may
volunteer; and that they be formed into four Bat-J
talions of Infantry with one flank company of
Riflemen attached to each Battalion, one squad
ran ot'cavalry, and two Battalions, one of field,
and the other of heavy Artillery: that these corps
be organized in a legionary Brigade, and that the
Executive from the precincts in which these
volunteers are organized, select the officers of the
; appropriate rank for the several commands. 1
| suggest the expediency of this Brigade being
armed aud equipped from the public Arsenals,
1 completely for the field, and that appropriations
! may be made for supplying all deficiencies in our
munitions of war.
In addition to these volunteer drafts, I deem it
safe to recommend that the Executive be author
i ized also to accept the services of ten thousand
' volunteers from the other divisions of the State,
to be organized and arranged in regiments and
brigades, the officers to be selected by the com
j mander in chief, and that the whole force be call
ed '■'•the State Guard."
That portion of our claims on the General
Government which was payable in arms, i
amounting in value to forty-one thousand, six |
hundred and twenty five dollars, eighty cents,
I June received in arms of various descrip
tions, but still some appropriations will be
necessary to augment our supplies. Provi
sion should likewise be made for mounting
some of out heavy pieces of ordinance, arid a
fixed and annual appropriation be made for
the artillery in Charleston, and in other parts
of the State, according to their relative ex
pcnccs.
I have ordered the Quarter master General
and the arsenal keeper at Charleston, the lat
ter an experienced officer of artillery, to re
pair to this place to attend in consultation, the
committees of your respective bodies in refer
ence to the condition of their several depart
ments. 1 would moreover recommend that
the President be requested to direct the re
moval of the U. S. troops now in garrison in
the State citadel in Charleston, which they
now occupy at the conjoint instance and re
quest of the State and City authorities, as the
accommodations of that post are much want
|ed for our arms and munitions. I would al
so suggest that after the citadel is thus return
i ed to the State, and the public stores belonging
to the State are deposited there, the Magazine
1 guard be removed from the Neck to garrison
this post, and that a daily guard be detached
from it to the Magazine: that the guard he
augmented to sixty men, and that the appoint
ment of its officers and general disposition
j and organization be made under the orders
! and authority of the commander in chief,
j I should consider myself, Gentlemen, as
recreant to my trust, if I did not recommend
to you these provisions, or the adoption of
| those of much wiser import which may sug
gest themselves to you, and which may he
necessary to the public safety,and public "hon
or, however improbable the contingency of
their ever being required.
! it is not enough that a people may be right
, in their struggle for their privileges and liber
ties, but they must have the means of secur
ing their safety by ample resources for repell
j ing force by force.
1 cannot, however, hut think that on a calm
I and dispassionate review by congress and the
functionaries of the General Government, of
j the true merrits of this controversy, the arbi
j tralien by the call uf all the States", which we
sincerely & anxiously seek and desire, will
j be accorded to us.
[ To resort to force is at once to prefer a dis
j solution of the Union to its preservation,
•'"'outli Carolina has declared that she admits
1 of no arbiter but her co States assembled with
her in their sovereign capacity: to deny to her
this reference, is to admit that our league has
j rro conservative principle short of an appeal
jto the sword. To suppose when one of the
I most prominent of our objections to the pro
tective system is its unconstitutionality, that
this arid the other vexations and conflicting
| questions of constructive power which now
| convulse the whole country, are now suscep
[ tiblc of compromise or adjustment in an as
i sembly of equivalent authority to that which
formed the constitution, is to affirm that that
spirit of amity and justice without which the
Union would he a revolting and compulsory
j league, is uttci ly extinct.
I But be this as it may, whatever may be the
j issues of this unhappy controversy, relying on
the intelligence and spirit of a free and gal
lant people, on the imperishable truth and sa
cred character of our right, let -us advance
j with an unfaltering heart and steady step to
I 'lie performance of our duty to our country.
I On your deliberations 1 fervently invoke
j the blessings ot Almighty God.
JAS. HAMILTON, Jit.
Columbia, Nov. 27, 1882.
On Pits. —Among the reports of the day
which are rdgistered by Mr. Niles, is the fol
lowing:
“And it is reported , that Mr. Adams, late
President, has been invited to the office of
Secretary of State, in the place of Mr. Liv
ingston, who is to succeed Mr. Rives, as Min
ister at Paris.
“It is reported—that Mr. Calhoun will re
sign the Vice Presidency; and Mr. llayne
his scat in the Senate of the United States.”
We have understood that Mr. Livingston
is going to France—but not that his depart
nient lias not been offered to Mr. Adams.
J he mantle w ill probably fall on the shoulders
of Mr. Mcl.ane. \\ ho will succeed him as
Secretary of the Treasury, we arc unable to
guess.
The same reports about Messrs. Cal
houn and 11 ay no have also been wafted to
this quarter—but they want conformation.
Richmond Enquiror.
BANK OF COLUMBUS.
Columbus, October 3,1832.
To his Excellency Wilson Lnmpkin, Gover
nor, dec,
Sir—ln compliance with the requistion of
the laws ol this State, I have the honor to
transmit to your Excellency, a statement
of the situation of this institution on the
first day of this month. You will perceive
that is more in detail than usual. This we
conceive would be more satisfactory to
the Legislature and to the people from the
recent tailure of one, aud the difficulties
which arc supposed to exist among other
Banks of the State. You will perceive
that the Bank of Macon is indebted to this
institution the sum of 815,188 28.* For
this, notes on individuals who are perfectly
good have been transferred, sufficient to
pay the debt. The only inconvenience
therefore which may be expected to arise
out of our transactions with that Bank,
will be the delay and trouble of collection.
I have the honor to be,
Respectfully your ob’t. serv T t.
SEABORN JONES, Pres.
A general statement of the affairs of the Brnk
of Columbus on Monday the Ist Oct. 1832.
DR.
To capital stock paid in, 8120,000 00
Notes of the bank in circulation 229,072 00
Reserved fund & discount acc’t. 25,515 57
Bank State of Georgia, 157 50
Branch bank State Georgia, Augusta 980 94
do do at Greensboro’ 335 92
j Central Bank of Georgia, 2,607 07
Branch Bank at New Orleans, 29 69
Individual Deposited 13,003 50
$393,202 19
CR.
By notes discounted, m,630
do in suit, 1,860
113,490 00
Bills of Exchange, viz:
On New York, 17,985
Mobile, 38,950
New Orleans, 3,000
Macon, 4,131
Augusta, 9,150
Savannah, 8,000
Batik of Columbus, Oct. 3. 1832.
A. B. DAVIS, Cashur.
* For this amount flue this Bank, hy the Bank of
Macon, we have notes of individuals who are good,
transferred to us, amply sufficient to pny the debt.
SEABORN JON JiS, President.
October 3, 1832.
INSURANCE BANK OF COLUMBLS.
Counters, Oct. 2-, 1*832.
To His Excellency the Governor.
Sin—l have the honor of transmitting
herewith a general statement and exhibit of
the affairs of this bank, on the first of this
month.
1 am, very respectfully, sir, your obedient
servant,
J. C. WATSON, President.
A General Statement, of the affairs of the Insurance
Bank of Columbus, on the Ist of Oct. It3f.
DR.
To capital stock. 150,000 00
Bills in circulation, 101,299 00
Amount due other banks, 7,729 00
Undivided profits, 2,611 54
Individual deposites, 7,965 23
$269,667 77
Commissioners of the town of
Columbus, on the Governor,
for building Bridge, 6,085
Due and not in suit, 1,638 40
Branch Bank U.S. at Mobile, 12,966 58
do at New-York, 2,323 28
Braneh Rank State of Geo. at Macon, 1,278 78
do at Eatonton, 875 00
Branch Marine and Tire Insurance Benk
at Macon, 1,845 93
* Bank of Macon, 15,188 28
Mercht’s Planters Bank of Augusta, 3,200 40
Bank of Augusta, 972 52
Banking House and Lot, 6,890 41
Protest aceount, 17 59
Incidental exaenses. 2.268 67
Cash on hand, viz :
Notes of other hanks in
Georgia, 6,290
do hank U. S. &. branches, 2,840
Gold coin, 301 50
Silver, 132,951 92 112,293 42
$393,202 19
CR.
By bills of exchange running to
maturity, 87,888 14
Notes discounted, 61,749 41
Amount due by other banks, 13,779 50
Gold and silver, 70,375 72
Notes U. S. and
branches, 20,500
Of other hanks in
Georgia 15,315
’ $269,607 77
Columbus, Ga. Oct 1, 1832.
B HEI’BURN, Cashier.
J- C. WATSON, President.
BANK OF HAWK INS VI LEE,
llawkinsvillh, Oct. 15,1832.
To his Excellency, Wilson Lumpkin, Gob
nor of Georgia.
Srn 1 have the honor herewith to transmit
to your Excellency, a statement of the situa
tion qf this Bank; by which it will be per
ceived, that it is solvent ; and its business
properous ; and that since its commencement
no loss has been sustained by bad papers,
debts or otherwise,
1 am, very respectfully,
\our obedient servant,
JOHN RAWLS, President.
A statement of the situation of the Bank of
Hawkinsville, October Ist 1832.
DR.
To Capital Stock paid in, 50,000 00
Bank notes in circulation, 48,920 00
Disc’t on notes & bills of exchange, 2,404 87
Deposites-by Individuals, 9,651 15
Due other Banks, 590 50
111,566 52
CR.
By Specie, 48,427 44
U. States Bank notes, 2,300 00
Bills of other solvent
local Banks, 924 00
Notes dis’c’d running to maturity n’^ 1 44
Bills of Exchange discounted, * d’/i, 5;)
Banking House and Lot, ’_ 44
Incidental Charges, . H
b 1,735 >
"■ CLAYTON,
Leitblatnre of CioorgiaT^**'
in
Tuesday, Dec 4
BILL REPORTED
To authorise the clerks of the Sunert
and Inferior Courts of Marion CoumvT
keep their office any where within, 0
miles of the Court House.
BILLS PASSED.
To relieve the orphans of Wm }},„ j
dec. ; &e. ' na *
To incorporate the Social Cirri* ■ 1
Walton county. 111
To incorporate Upson Academy 1
county of Upson. J e
Concerning Tobasofka- Swamp.
To compel the Trustees ofthe IV
School fund of Lee County to pav onPu
of the Poor Sehool fund to the Inferior
Court of Sumpter county.
To incorporate the Farmer's Acadeirl
in the county of Hancock, and the ]yJ
nut Branch.
Communications from the Executive!
The Governor informed the Senate tha-1
he had assented to and signed,
An act to add parts of the counties J
Habersham and Hall to the county o f|
Cherokee, and to divide the said county of I
Cherokee into ten counties, and to provide I
for the organization of the same—and to I
The Report and Resolutions of the
committee to whom was referred so much
of his Message as concerns the relations
ofthe General Government with the Chew
kees.
Communications were also reteied
from the Executive transmitting a ®p V
of the Returns of the Fifth Census, anc of
the revision of the former returns of he
population ofthe U. S., received from tie
Secretary of State of the U. S., and
A notice ofthe resignation of Maj. Gen.
Andrew Miller,-ofthe 7th Division Geor
gia Militia-
Notice to appoint a committee.
Mr* Chappell—to provide for the man
ner in which the Trustees’ of the several
Academics in Monroe county shall draw
their respective portions ofthe Academic
fund to which that county is’cntitled. Ad
journed.
Wednesday, Dec. 5.
ComrniUses were appointed in pursuance
of yesterday’s notices.
BILLS REPORTED.
To protect the Cherokee Indians in tie
peaceable and quiet possession of the lance
secured to them by the existing laws of the
State—and also to secure their persons ani
property from illegal violations.
To revive and continue in force in this Stat.
several English statutes upon the subject t’
forcible entry and detainers.
BILLS ENROLLED.
The following bills were enrolled, signdl
and sent to the Executive for its assent:
An act to alter and amend an act pasted]
the 22d of December, 1828, so far as res
pects the Poor Sehool fund for the county of j
Montgomery—and
An act to alter and amend an act entitled
an act to incorporate the Independent Pres
byterian Church in the town of St. Marys.
TIIE LOTTERIES.
An amendment of the House of Represen
tatives being under consideration, concern
ing the suspension of the Land and Gold Let
teries.
Mr. Echols of Walton, proposed the follow
ing as a substitute therefor, which was i
greed to:
And be it further enacted, that the Coni'
missioners of the Land and Gold Lotteries
shall conduct the drawing and book keeping
of said Lotteries, by such rules and under
such restrictions as his Excellency the Go
vernor may order and direct.”
On motion, John N. Reeves of GwiDf>tt
county, was appointed a special messenger It
serve subpoenas out of the county of Bald
win, in the impeachment case of the “State
of Georgia, vs. Shadraoh Bogan.”
A message from the House was received,
communicating the passage of the following
resolutions:
Resolved, that the Commissioners proceed
forthwith to the drawing of both Lotteries.
Resolved further, that as soon as it shall
be discovered that any tickets have been kept
out of, or fraudulently drawn from the wheels*
that the same be made out under the direc
tion of the Governor, and returned to ant
drawn for by reinaiping patnes, ,
A substitute was then prpppacd by PM>
King, which was rejected-—vvhep
Mr. Echols of Walton, introducedafi3lk c '
substitute, in the following words, which waa
adopted:
Resolved, that as soon as the Commission''
ers of the Land and Gold lotteries shall tiavo
given bond, and taken the oath ns prescribed
by the act passed at the present session °
the Legislature, the drawing of the Land an
Gold Lotteries shall commence.
The resolutions from the House being 'b' ls
amended, wore forthwith transmitted to t" e
bodv.
' THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. v
The Senate having taken up the Report oi
the Joint Committee on Finance, froin • c
House of Representatives, relative to the p3>
of Electors of President and Vice Preside' 1
ol the United Stat.es. .
Mr. Echols of Coweta, moved to strike 011
the sum of eight dollars, as their per d'cn
pay whilst in session, which was was reject 1
by a vote of, yeas 23 —nays 4L Thu
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