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SA T U R D AY, March 3:, 1787. THE GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE O R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. ■» ■ 1 - ■■■— ■ »—— ■■ ■' —■ ■ ■ ■■■■■■ —■ _ . -- - -- - FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Constitution of Georgia. AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State \ Fflays , Articles of Intelligence , Advertisements, &a will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing performed, ■ - ■ ■■ ■ —- • ■■ ■■ - ■ ■ - . ...... . 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 r (T i urn over to ike jcurtb page, j [No. XXVII.]