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SATURDAY, THE GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE O R independent REGISTER. • « -*•> - f • , v . - , j ’ “ r, ‘ m .\* y\ ' J -1, Viffljrißb'Tff* FREEDOM of tht PRESS, and TRIAL by JORV, to remarn inviolate forever. Conftitotion of Georgia. AVGUSTA: Printed iy JOHN E. SMIHT, Printer to the State; Wan. Articles of Intelligence, Advertifemcnts, &c. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. * GEORGIA . B 7 Ae Honorable GEORGE MATHEWS, Esquire, Captain-General, Governor, and Commander in Chief in and over the state aforefaid. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS there is just reason to believe that fame wicked and degenerate person or persons hath con trived to counterfeit some of the bills of the paper current money of this state, and hath pasted or circulated some of the said counterfeit bills to the great injury of the good peo ple of the said state, and contrary to the laws thereof:. In - order therefore that fueh atrocious offenders may be brought 1 to condign punishment, I HAVE, by'and with the advice ! and consent of the Honorable the Executive Council, purfu- i ant to a Resolution of the Honorable the House of Assembly, ! thought lit to iftue this my Proclamation, offering, and I do ' hereby offer, a Reward of TWO HUNDRED and FIFTY BOUNDS to any person or persons who Shall prosecute to convidion any offender or offenders guilty of counterfeiting the paper currency or medium of this State, *of Os having any engines, tools, or other machines for the printing,stamp ing, or making the fame, or of counterfeiting the name or names of the iigner dr signers thereof, or of uttering, pars ing or attempting to pass such counterfeit bill or bills, know ing them to be counterfeit ; AND IDO, by authority'of the Resolution aforefaid, hereby offer a full Pardon and the like Reward to any person or persons who lhall give information and prosecute to conviction, ; his, her, or their'accomplice, or accomplices in the crimes aforefaid ; AND I DO further ftridly command and enjoin all Mdgiftrates, Sheriffs, Con stables, and other Officers, and all persons whatsoever,: to be diligent in apprehending add feturing such offenders, that they meet the just punilhments of the law. GIVEN under my hand and the great leal of the said state, at Augusta, this twcnty-fecond day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of our sovereignty and inde perdence the eleventh. - GEORGE MATHEWS. By bis Honor's Command, J. MILTON, Secretary* GOD SAVE THE STATE! Forty Shillings Reward. STOLEN from Augusta commons, on the night of the 25th of December lall, A Sorrel Gelding, about four teen hands and a half high, nine years old, a blaze on his forehead, brand not known, and is a natural pacer. Any person who delivers the said Horfc to Samuel Hemphill, in Augusta, or to Thomas Mackie, in Wilkes county, Broad river; lhall have the above Reward. THOM 4 * The highest Price, (in the Paper Medium) will be given fqe T O B A C C O, I N D I G O, At the Priritiiig-OlHce in Augusta. * 1 ' : . . WHEREA’S Francis Tennill, Esq. hath tdf charader by reporting that I have been concerned in Purveying lapsed land; ih my own jhftification lam ncccifi* tated to ftfete thi 9 matter fairly * . .m When the books 1 and papers belonging to the County-*Sur vfcyoi**~a*W were- fifft put into Majbr 1 ennilPs hands, J observed him sorting out such plats as had. been Purveyed by f purchase Warrahts, -the term of which, as limited by law, was then nearly expired, after which they were deemed li able to a resurvey ; I took his example,: and also singled out some plats. He went down to Savannah, and promifed.to write ipe word how to proceed in this matter, but before he did,' the practice ofttfutveying land that- had been Purveyed on purchase warrants Was became very customary; number less applications were made to me to point out such land. I found gentlemen of character ( whom I can name) were en gaged that Way. ! Fearing the chance'would be loft, I joined With ftirveyors atld Ipilots, add had one trad of 1000 acres, -and one of aoo; the former of which I. dropped, when £ found t&atCol. Thomas 'Napierwas "before hand with me; the other-trad a certarinTarrance had resurveyed, and •ob tained it from me by a caveat; I then appealed, and Major Tennill gave me three bounties on Buffaioe for my . chance; he also joined with Mr. James Dawson, borrowed my 1000 acre'warrant, deputized Mr. Zachariah Fox purposely to go and Purvey the other 1000 acres, which Col.. Napier was ' concerned in. Thus the‘Whole blame fell upon me, and from ■ a confciOufnefs of my; own innocence I Ihould 'have borne it, had not Major Tennill in a manner extorted the secret from me by his ungenerous treatment. As the chief of privately tranfaded be ’ tween us, it is not in’itty power to prove them ; but I will be qualified'to 1 every Wordtoere aflerted, and can prove the -whole of Dawson’s affair. I —A'B-my charader (which is all I hate to depend ‘upon) “is fttfertug in ' the opinion of some of fliy friends, ‘aftd-totaHy rutiled that of others, who, I find, ; haVe turrtCft theiHntereft entirely against me, I hope thefo attributed to malevolence, and the chagrin of difappoiiiment, but absolutely neceflary in my own via* dication. I a|i the public’s mOft obedient humble servant, SAMUEL CAMP. Augusta, Feb. 1, *7B7* 7 Robert Banner, 1 vs; > Attachment. William tloodgion. ) THE defendant William Goodgion is hereby notified, that an attachment by the said Robert Bonner hat b been levied on a Lot in the town of Augusta, No. 35.