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IATURD AY, February 10, 1787. [No XX 1 the JEORGIA STATE GAZETTE | _ o R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. ; | FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Conflitn.ion of Georgia. :■"" 1 - ■ i wfIUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State \ Essays Articles of ■ Intelligence , Advertisements , 6fV. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. * ■An ACT for imposing a Tax on the Inhabitants of the State I of Georgia, and other persons holding property, real or personal, therein, for *he Use and Support of the Govern- I ment thereof, from the firft Day of January to the thirty— ! firft Day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. WHEREAS it is expedient that a sum (hodld be raised for the purpose of ■discharging the debts of this date, and for ■defraying the expences of government, Be ■/V therefore enadltd by the Representatives of Mthe Freemen of the State of Georgia , in Gene wral Assembly met , and by the authority of the Wfame * 1 hat a tax of twelve (hillings and (ix- Ipence for every One hundred pounds value of I all lands within this Rate, granted to or sur veyed for any person, as such lands shall be eftimated* (hall be levied on the fame, ac cording to the following mode, viz. All tide swamp, (including islands) cultivated or un cultivated, of the firft quality, (hall be rated at four pounds seventeen (hillings per acre. Os the second quality* three pounds. Os the third quality, one pound seventeen (hillings. All pine barren lands adjoining such swamp, or contiguous thereto, and within three miles of water carriage, at fifteen ihil lingSi All prime inlaiid swamp, cultivated or uncultivated, at an average of three pounds seven (hillings* Os the second quality, at one pound seven teen (hillings. Os the third quality* at fifteen (hillings. Pine barren lands adjoining or contiguous thereto, seven (hillings. Salt marlh, at four (hillings. High river swamp, or low grounds, (in cluding idands) cultivated or uncultivated, (including such as are commonly called fe condlow grounds) lying above Abercorn, and as high as the mouth of M'Bean’s creek, on Savannah river, of the firft quality, two pounds twelve (hillings* Os the second quality, one pound ten (hil lings-. Os the third quality* fifteen (hillings. High river swamp, or low grounds, (in cluding i(lands)-cultivated or uncultivated, (including such as are commonly called second low grounds) lying above M'Bean s creek, and as high as the mouth of Rae’s creek, of the firft: quality, three pounds fif teen (hillings. .Os the second quality, two pounds twelve (hillings* Os the third quality, one pound two (hil lings. High river swamp, (including islands) cultivated or uncultivated, from the mouth of Raes creek to the mputh of Broad river, lying on the river Savannah, of the firft qua lity, two pounds one (hilling. Os the second quality, one pound two (hillings. Os the third quality, seven (hillings. All oak and hickory land, (including is lands) cultivated or uncultivated, from the mouth of Rae’s creek to the mouth of Broad river, within one mile of Savannah river, of the firft quality* fifteen (hillings. Os the second quality, (even (hillings. Os the third quality, four (hillings. All oak and hickory land, (including islands) cultivated or uncultivated) from the mouth of Broad river, up the Savannah river, within one mile of the fame, and along the northernmost stream thereof, called Keowee) to the marked line on the (aid stream, of the firft quality, at eleven (hillings. Cf the second quality, at fix (hillings. Os the third quality, at three (hillings. All oak and hickory land, (including if-