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SA T U R D AY, March 3:, 1787.
THE
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
O R
INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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The Trial and honorable Acquittal of John Appling, Esquire,
Quarter-Mafler-General, as publijhed in the two preceding
Ga zettes by continuation , is again inserted by particular re
quest :
IN COUNCIL, March io, 1787.
THE Board aga in resumed the Order of the Day, for the
trial of John Appling, Esq. Quarter-Mailer* Geueral,
and having come to a final determination thereon : It is
Ordered, That the proceedings be publilhed in the State
Gazette.
ExtraSl from the Minutes ,
JAMES MERIWETHER, S. E . C.
At a COURT of IMPEACHMENT began and held
in Augusta, on Thursday the Bth Day of March; 1787,
Present—His Honor the Governor }
The Honorable John Cobb, Benjamin Filhborne, John
King, Thomas Harris, John Greene, James Armstrong,
Nief Cleveland, Williatns Green, and Reuben Wilkerson,
Esquires.
Agreeably to the Order of Council of the 12th of February
last, the Court proceeded to the trial of John Appling, Esq.
Quavter-Mafler-General, charged by a Resolution of the
Honorable House of Afiembly of the 10th of February with
some impropriety of conduit.
Florence Sullivan, Esq.—Attorney in behalf of the State.
Seaborn Jones, Esq.—Attorney for Mr. Appling.
Benjamin Netherland being fworu,
Question. Do you know of any other waggons in General
Clark's brigade, besides those returned by you ?
Aufwer. I know of none.
Do you know whether the service of Knox's waggon
was performed after the appointment of the Quarter-Maller-
General ?
A. It was.
Q. Did you apply to the Quarter-Mailer-General to en
ter Knox’s waggon ?
A. Yes; —when he informed me that it did not come
under his notice. I likewise applied to him for money on
account of J. Barnet, which I could not get.
Did not the Quarter-Master-General inform you, that
if you would produce receipts and vouchers for the monies
which you had received, that hfc would make you farther ad
vances ?
A. He did not.
At what time did you apply to the Quarter-Master-
General for money ? >
A: At different times; and hate received about one
hundred and one pounds, when my account was one hundred
and seventy-two pounds; and he has paid others iiuce he
refufed me.
. Qi. Do you recolleft the Quarter-Master-General’s til
ing on you at Colonel Napier’s, and the conversation ?
A. The Quarter-Master-General informed me that he
lhoultf not be able to make up his accounts, and that if I
would lign receipts for him, he would give me fifty pounds.
C. Did yon conceive that the money offered you by the
Quarter-Maller-General was to go in part for your fervice3,
or that it was intended for a bribe i
A. I understood that the fifty pounds were intended to be
given me as an inducement to sign the receipts.
Whether, were the receipts the Quarter-Mafter-Ge
ncral requeiled you to sign, for futns really due to individu
als for services performed, or intended as frauds againlt the
Hate i
A. They were for debts actually due to individuals, but
intended to answer his purpose in palling his accounts.
John Talbot, Esq. being sworn, faveth,
That he applied to the Quarter-Mailer-General for pay for
the hire of a waggon he had in the service, that he did not
get it then, but some time during the setting of the AlTembly
he made a fccond application, and received about forty (hil
lings ; and after that he called on him again, he thinks it was
the day the Quarter-Mailer-General went to Savannah, and
received full payment for two waggons, one his own, the
other belonging to Mr. Zimmennau.
Nathan Bufli being sworn
Was it cullomary to have waggons employed a few
days, and then difeharge them ?
A. It frequently was the case that waggons brought corn
to camp, and were difeharged immediately.
Q. Do you know what occafioucd the difference betweeft
Mr. Netherland’s return of waggons, the Quarter-Ma
iler-General’s ?
A. I compared the Quarter Mailer-General’s return with
Mr. Netfcerland’s, at Shoulder Bone, and afterwards polled
them up ; the nuipbers then agreed, and to the bell of my
recollection, were fifty-two or fifty-three waggons.
Q > Were any of the waggons that were returned /» -.
Clark’s brigade, detatched ?
A. Yes—Four were sent to Savannah for Indian goods,
and several others detatched on different duties.
Q. What was the reason that Mr. Netherland could not
receive money from the Quarter-Maller-General, as well as
other persons ?
A. The Quarter-Maller-General informed him that he
Ihould receive money as soon as he had accounted for. what
he had already received.
William Campbell being sworn, faveth,
That he was at the Rock Landing with a waggon about
thirty-fix days, and that two other waggons were there also.
Adjourned until to-morrow Ten o’clock.
Mr. Nathan Bulh,
Do you know of any waggons belonging to any one
brigade, that have been returned in any other brigade ?
A. I know of no waggons being returned but in the bri
gade to which they belonged.
Colonel Sanders being sworn, fayeth,
That he was the firft Officer at Camp, and that he was par
ticular in observing the conduct of the Quarter-Mafler-Ge
ueral with refpecl to waggons ; that he found him vei'T at
tentive to his duty in receiving and difeharging waggons ;
that with refpevt to h?s making partial payments ofmonev,
he called en the Quarter- Mailer-General for payment for
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