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siode of payment therein eftr.blifhed, without exposing the funds of the United States to great loss and inconvenience, particularly as the difchaige of the interest due on the foreign debt, and the maintenance of the civil government, must altogether depend upon the payments that are made into the federal treasury in specie. admit the receipt of bills of credit ifl'ued uncei the authority of an individual state, in discharge of their specie pioportion of a requisition, would defeat its objeft, as the said bills do not circulate out of the limits of the state in which they are emitted; and because a paper medit m of any state, however well funded, cannot, cither in the extenfitcnels of its circulation, or in the course of its exchange, be equally valuable with gold or silver. That if the bills of credit of the states of Rhode-Ifiand and New- Jeiley, were to be received fiom those states in discharge of federal taxes, upon the principles of equal justice bills emit ted by any other state must be received from them also in pay ment of their proportions, and thereby, instead of the requisi tions yielding a sum in aftual money, nothing but paper would be brought into the federal treasury, which would be wholly inapplicable to the payment of any. part if the interest or prin cipal of the foreign debt, or the maintenance of the govern ment of the United States. That as the eonfequenccs of the precedents which hate been eflablillied by the states above mentioned, are dangerous to the interests of the union, the Committee conce.ve it ncceliary for Congress to express their sense upon the fubjett.” Whereupon Rejowtd, That as the annual requisitions of the United Stages in Congress aflembled, were made by them in virtue of the powers of the confederation, and fcr'the necelVary purposes of government, the fame are obligatory on the states as fiich, and ought to be difebarged by them in the manner by the said requisitions directed, and in no other. Rijclvrd, .That as the payment of the interest, and such par's of the principal, of the foreign debt of the United States, as are included in any of the requisitions of Congress ; and the maintenance of the federal government cannot be provided for but by payments in specie into the federal treafuty of the sums refpebuvely required of the states payments, either in bills of credit, or in any other mode than those pointed out by the said. requisitions, can or ought to be admitted in discharge of the fame. Ordered, That the board of trefury tranfmjt a copy of the above resolutions to each state, and ifiiie inftruftions to the refpeftive loan-ofhcesconfoimab'e thereto. CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary, In C O U N C I L, August 19, 1786. Refolded, That this Board will not hereafter order any Warrants to be iflued in favor of any person or persons, ex cept to such person or pefonrs to whom the grant was origi nally made,: or to such person or perl'ons who (hall appear to thi* Board to be duly authorifed to receive the fame. Extrudt from the Minutes , JAMES MERIWETHER, Secretary. The Treaty with the Creek Indians was signed on Shoulder Bone Creek, near the Oconee river, on the 3d inftant.—lt will be publilhed in our next by orde* of the Honorable the Executive. Lall Tuefday arrived here the five Indian hostages, as mentioned in our last, escorted by a troop of light dragoons, under the command of Capt. Stallings : Their names are— Chuwocklie Mico, of the Cowetas; Cuchas Mico, of the Cuffitaws; Suckawockie, brother to the last named, also of the Cuffitaws; Eneathlocko, fecund man of the Broken Ar row; and Enautalecke, nephew of the head man of the 6waglos. To the Ladies and Gentleman of the State of Georgia . Mathews & A f Enfte, BEG leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of this place and its environs, that they are just arrived from Europe by the way of Savannah, and intend following the business of Ladies HABIT-MAKERS and TAYLORS; in |Which line they hope to give every employer fatisfadion, 'fbcing determined to work at the lowest rate, the situation of the State will admit of.—Any orders direftedto the Augusta Coffee-Houfe, or to Air* Cla.y, in Augusta, will be duly at tended tt. jt By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS affemblet l August i 9, 1786. ON a report of a Committee, to whom was referred r .letter fr.om the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Refolded, That the Secietary for Foreign Affairs cause to be made out separate lifts of the numbers, names, and own ers of the Negroes belonging to the citizens ot each stare, and carried away by the Britilh, in contravention ot the late treaty of peace, and that he tranl'mit the said lilts to the Executives of the States to which they refpetf ively belong. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary. In C O U N C I L, Oftober Z 3, 178 5. Ordered, THAT the Resolution ofCongrefs of die 19th of August last, that relates to Negroes carried away by the Brj tilh, in contravention of the late treaty of peace, bepublilh ed, and that all persons within this state, concerned thesein, be requested to make a return of all Slaves of the : above de* feription to the Executive. ~ , Extra# from the Minutes , JAMES MERIWETHER, S. E. C» N O T 1C E. The Subscriber keeps a Hoivfe of Private hnctrtainmenf For a few of his friends and acquaintances, with good S 1 ABLIN G for HORSES’. NEHEMIAH WADE. Auvufta, Nov. 11, 178^. Post-Stages, WILL start, every Thursday morning, from Mr. Wil liam Thomson s, Savannah, for Augusta and Char leston, an d from Mr. Fox’s, Augusta, every Monday morn ing, and will continue the rout weekly to each place till custom makes it neceftary to run twice; the Stage will arrive atCharlefton in two days as ufuil, and Augusta in three, till some parts of the roads are repared, * Each pafl’engcr to pay to either place Fifty Shillings, or five pence per mile for any Ihortcr diftapee ; eachpaffenger to be allowed Fourteen Pounds weight of baggage. To prevent disputes in refped to feats, it ftiall be an invariable rule, that the firft Gentleman who enters and pays (hall have the firft choice, and so in rotation, N. TWINING. Wm. THOMPSON. Savannah, Sept, 1 6, 178 6. GEORGIA. 1 By Alexander Hamilton, Efquirft (L. S.) V Register of Probats for the County ALEX. HAMILTON. 3 ofßichmond in the State aforefaid. fyi, HEREAS Mary Walker, Widow, of the state afor&« VV said, hath this day made humble suit to me to grant her letters of administration on the estate of |ohn Walker, de« ceased, as a principal creditor thereof, THESE are therefore to cite and admonish all the kindred and creditors of the said John Walker, to be and appear before me, on the thir tieth day after the date hereof, to Ihew cause (if any they have J why letters of administration lhould not be granted. Given under my hand and seal, at Augufla, the iff day of November, in the year of our Lord 1786, ■- and in the j rth year of our Sovereignty and In dependence. •*’.*' GEORGIA. 1 By Alexander Hamilton, Esquire, (L. S.) > Register of Probats for the County ALEX. HAMILTON, j of Richmond, in the State aforefaid. WHEREAS Cathartna Edwards and William Edwairs, have this day made humble suit to me to grant them letters of administration on the estate of William Edwards, deceased, as principal creditors thereof, THESE a;c there fore to cite and admonifli all the kindred and creditors of the said William Edwards to be and appear before me, on the thirtieth day after the date hereof, to Ihew cause (if any they have) why letters of administration lhould not be gianted. Given under my hand and seal, at Augusta, the ill day of November, in theyear of our Lord 1786, and in nth year of our Sovereignty and In dependence.