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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 It 19 ilice of v lus lift tern