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SATURDAY, April 28, 1787, GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE r ' ; , O R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. Conftuution of Georgia . ~•" • 1 . “■ % ir; 4' ~ X- >- [ * ■'* J ■" .. . ,f * 4UGU ST A: Printed JOH NE. SMITH, Printer to the State \ EJJdys* Articles of Intelligence* Advertisements , tec, will be gratefully received , every kind of Printing performed. A SCHEME of a Lottery for the purpose of building bridges across the Rivers and Creeks between Wathington and Augusta : First, that there be 1150 Tickets, at 20s. each. £• I*so 1 Prize - - 130 I do. “ - « 60 3 do. - - 40 2 do. £. 2$ - ’ 50 2 do. 20 ■ - 40 5 do. 10 » - 50 lO do. 5 - • 50 220 do. 2 m • 440 242 Prizes, deduft 5 per cent. 860 860 * 4 3 *9O 43 333 NOTE, That Seabourn Jones, John King, John Talbot, David Hillhoufe, Benjamin Porter, and David Crefwell, Esquires, be appointed Managers to superintend the fame, to commence drawing on the firft day of August next, provided the Tickets be then fold ; and that the Managers be also Com nufiioners authorifed to fix the place, and contrast with any prg' jr person or persons to build the said bridged from the money arising from the benefit of said Lottery. N. B. Tickets to be had in the mean time of said Managers. eow LOST. ON Saturday night, the 9th of March, 1786, A Bond on William Williams, of South- Carolina, for a likely Negro Boy, between the age of 9 and 15 years j the said bond was firft given to James Henderson, of North« Carolina, in the year 1781 or 1782, and endorsed to me the subscriber as advertised before in the Gazettes ; and as it has never been found nor paid, I hereby forwarn the said William Williams of paying the said Bond to any other person but to me. DANIEL JOHNSTON. NOTICE. THE subscriber will attend at his house, in Augusta, from the 10th day of May until the 10th of June next, in order to receive from the inhabitants of the diftria of Capt. Pool’s Militia Company, a Lilt of their Taxable Property for the present year. , WILLIAM FREEMAN. April 6, 1787. 28-30 To all whom it may concern: THEConful of the United Netherlands make known, that in conlequeace of aßefolution taken by their High Mightineftes the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, dated January 16, 1786, in future no Mediterranean pafles will be granted to veftels which are not built and fitted out in the Seven Provinces, and entirely owned by fubjefts ‘hereof. JOHN BOONEN GRAVES. Cbarlejlon , June 24, 178(5. A STRAT HORSE. MR. HUMPHREY GRAVES informs me of a Roan HORSE, having strayed into his pasture, about two miles from Augusta, branded on the mounting shoulder thus O, 14 hands high, and about 10 years old. The owner must prove his property before me within the time preferibed by law. DALZIEL HUNTER, J. P. Augujla, April 23, 1787. Writing Paper To be fold at Printing-Office. Likewise blank • Deeds of Conveyances and Bonds. - ■ - —... ■—- . - —■ Juji publijhed and may be had at the Printing- Office, THE LAWS Os the General AlTembly of the Stale of Georgia, palled last Session. LIKEWISE, The Court of Conscience Ad. A STRAT MARE. STRAYED from the subscriber, near Clark’s station, on Long Creek, a small black MARE, about 13 hands high, 4 years old, branded on the near buttock thus IC, had a small bell on when went away. Whosoever will bring said marc to the subscriber, or will give intelligence so that the subscriber can get her, lhall have Forty Shillings Reward. JOSEPH ALBERT. Long Creeky Wilkes County , April 10, 1757. THE To the Public. AS many of the mod refpcftable Ladies and Gentlemen in this town have informed the subscriber, that they are very dcfnous t} become fcholara of his, provided he can furnifh them with the neceflary Music and Instruments, —he pro poses to have a CONCERT Os Vocal and ln/irumental Music, On the Evening of TUESDAY, the firft of MAY next, at Mr. Wamberfte' s Honfe ; with a view of railing a sum of money for the express purpose of purchaling Musical Instruments. And .as a Ef ficient number of Gentlemen of this town have ge nerously offered to afiift him in the pertoi mance of the fame, for the encouragement of a science which is as rational as it is refined, and polilhiug as it is entertaining,—the subscriber hopes, the Ladies and Gentlemen in general will be actuated by the fame liberal sentiments, and favor him with their company. The Concert to begin prectfely at 7 o’clock in the evening. After the Concert, if the Ladies and Gen tlemen with to dance, Music wiil be furnifticd gratis. Tickets, at Ten Shillings each, may be had at the house pf the subscriber. . \ CLAUDE SIMON. A'ugufla, April 2 1 , 1787. *, N. B. No person can be admitted without a Ticket, and no money will be received at the door. EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD. STOLEN or STRAYED off Augusta Common, on the 17th ult. ASORRELHORSE, about 14 hands high, branded RG on the mounting (boul der, the letters rather imperfect; lias a liar on his forehead, lately had the distemper, and is very low in fieih. Whoever brings the said horse to the subscriber in Augusta, (hall receive the above Reward and all reasonable expcnccs paid. GEORGE HUNT. ROBERT DIXON tolls before me a Dun Co loured MARE, about 1.4 hands high, about nine or ten years old, branded on the mounting thoulder and buttock RL, the R being turned hack, wards, and on the otf shoulder and buttock a fleur-de-lys underneath. The owner must prove his property before ine within the time limited by Law. WILLIAM FREEMAN, J. P. Augusta , April 4/1787, 28-30 [No. XXXI.]