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® ATU RDAY, January 13, 1787.
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GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
FREEDOM of die PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Confutation of peorguL
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TA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; Efays % Articles of
Intelligence , Advertijements , &c. will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing performed.
In COMMITTEE of FINANCE.
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/t LL persons who have received public money or other
praperty on behalf of the state, are hereby required to
fender an account of the fame to the Treasurer without delay,
properly audited by the Auditor General agreeably to law,
* Qtherwife their names will be returned to the General As
sembly as defaulters.
JAMES HABERSHAM, Chairman.
Augusta , Jan. 8, 1787.
N Q T 1 C E.
THE Surgeoqs apd other persons having any demands
against the Medical Department of this flare, are re
qupfted to bring them in immediately, with proper vouchers,
in order to have them adjusted without delay.
JAMES LAUDER, DireSor General .
January 11, 1787.
NOTICE.
SOME time in Oftober 1785, we the subscribers gave
Doftor James Lauder a promifary note for Eleven pounds
fix shillings, which we have paid long since; as we cannot
get the said Note from the said Doclqr James J.auder, we
hereby forwarn ail persons fron* trading for the fame.
“ ’ A. COLEMAN,
Jan. 10, 1787. A. HESSEKINS.
T O B 'E SQL D,
To raise the Paper Medium of Georgia,
TWO NEGRO MENj Field Slaves ; alio two valuable
Mill Seats, yvith a fufficient quantity of good pine,
near good landings, and a Jraft of Land on M‘Been’sfwamp,
a good stand for a public house, being where the three roads
meet, and an exceeding gpod range for flock of all kinds.
Inquire of the Printer,
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Wafliington Post,
THE Post from the town of Wafliington in Wilkes
County to Augusta, will arrive here this evening, and
will set out to morrow for Wafliington, It will continue to
ride weekly during the present year. All letters left with
the printer of this paper for Wilkes County will be fafely
conveyed. And those left at Henry Moungers in Wafliing
ton, will be conveyed weekly to Augusta, under certain re
gulations which can be seen at the Printing-Office.
Augusta , Jan. 6, 1787.
• -NOTICE.
ON Thursday the firft day of February npxt, will be
fold at public Audion, at the plantation whereon I
now live, a very valuable Negroe Wench, with a good feather
Bed and furniture, belonging to the estate of Daniel Appling,
deceased. Conditions, Calh.
Augusta r Jan. 1, 1787.
fj J. APPLING, Adm.
[No. XVI.]
Extracts from the Journals of Congress.
O Sober 20 , 1786.
Ordered , thi Board of Treasury, without delay, derife
ways and means for the pay and. support of the troops of the
United States, upon the present and report
the fame to Congress. ‘
Q Sober 2\.
On the report of the Board of Treasury, pursuant to the
orders of yesterday, to devise ways and meaqs for the pay
and support of the trqops of the United States on the present
eftabhlhment.
Refolded unanimoujly, That the several states in the Confer
deracy be, and they are hereby required to pay into the Fe
deral Treasury, on orbeforethe firft day of June 1787, their
relpettive quotas of the sum of five hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars in specie, which quotas are :
New-Hampftiire, 8,603
Maflachufetts, 79>z88
Rhode-Ifland, ii>39£
Connefticut, 46,746
New-York, 45,368
New-Jersey, 28,4^
Pennsylvania, 72,504
Delaware, 7,9 5Q
Maryland, 49,979
Virginia, 90,630
North-Carolina, 38,479
South-Carolina, 33,975
Georgia, 5,67,
Which sums, when paid, ftiall be pafled to the credit of
the states refpeftively, on the terms preferibed by the Resolve
of Congress of the sixth day of Oftober 1779, and that the
monies arising from the said requisition be, and hereby are,
appropriated for the pay apd support of the troops on the pre
lent establishment.
Refolded unanimoujly , That the Board of Treasury be, and
they are hereby authorized and direfted to open a loan imme
diately to the ampunt of five hundred thousand dollars, at fix
per cent per annum, on the credit of the foregoing requisition,
which they are hereby authorized to pledge to the lenders
for the faithful reimbursement of the monies loaned, with
the interest thereof.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec’y.
LONDON, OSober 4.
ExtraS of a letter from Mr. Lunardi, dated Ne<zvcaftle ufen
Tyne, September 20.
“ DEAR SIR ,
“ As bad news is generally conveyed with more velocity
than good, and perhaps with enlargements, I will therefore
inform you of the real truth.
“ There is no pofiibility of preventing that immense crowd
which is generally round the balloon when it is filling nor the
activity of gentlemen too willing to give their afliftance, and
too officious about a subject so new to them.
“ My balloon was about one third full, and a great many