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POETRY.
EPITAPH after the manner of Gray, by the
late Dr . Doddridge.
HERE rests fccure, within this narrow cell,
A youth to pain ant! disappointment known;
Pride mock’d his birth, and envy ftnil’d to tel!
Hie hour when sorrow mark’d him for her own.
Fix d on il one” was his foul sincere;
But Heav’n the recompencc of love denied f
Long hov’ring o’er the extremes of hope and fear,
Opprefs’d by fate he funk, defpar’d and dy’d !
Ho farther seek his mis’ries to disclose,
Not-let pale envy trample on his tomb
Here let hia hapless head repose,
And leave to mercy and to God his Doom.
C n E /° R G 1 A > 2 Ordered, That the
Richmond County. ) Diftrids for holding the
Courts of Conscience in Richmond County be as
lollows : First, The Lower Diftrid Line lhall be
gin at the mouth ofM‘Bean swamp, on the Burke
county line, extending up Savannah river to Glo
vet s old place on said river, from thence along a
ridge path dividing the waters of Reds and Uchee
creeks, leading by the old Sand Hill Mill, and
thence along said road eroding Spirit creek at Pride
Williams’s old plantation, along said road until it
intetfeds the Burke county line, on Brier creek ;
and the Court for the said diftrid lhall be held in
the town of Augusta.
The second Diftrid (hall begin at the aforefaid
Glover’s old plantation, on Savannah river, ex
tending up the fame to the mouth of the Great
Kiokee creek, thence up said creek to Capt. Wil
liams Stevens’s plantation to a road leading from
said Stevens’s to Scott’s ferry on Little river, and
along said road to where it croftes a branch of Kio
kee creek, called Greenbrier creek, thence up said
creek to the head or l'omce thereof, near Dunn’s
old place, and from thence along the ridge divid
ing the wateis of the Kiokee and Germany’s creeks,
and on that diredion to where it intetfeds Brier
Creek or Wilkes county line, the Court for which
Diftrid lhall be held at Richmond Court-house.
The third Diftrid ftiall begin at the mouth of the
aforefaid Great Kiokee creek, extending up Sa
vannah river to the mouth of Little river, thence
up Little River to Scott’s ferry, thence along the
load leading from said ferry to William Stevens’s
on the aforefaid Big Kiokee, and thence down said
creek to the beginning; the court for which Di
ftrid lhall be held at Brownlborough.
1 be fourth Diftrid ftiall begin at Scott’s ferry, on
Little river, extending up the fame along the
Wilkes’s county line, from thence to the dividing
ridge of the waters of Germany’s and Kiokee
creeks, and along said ridge to the head of Green
brier creek, nearest Dunn’s old place, thence down
said Greenbrier creek to the crofting of the road
aforefaid, and the Court for said Diftrid lhall be
held at the town of Writfborough.
The fifth Diftrid ftiall include that part of
Richmond county, lying between Brier creek and
Ogechee river, between Burke and Wilkes county
lines, and the Court for said Diftrid lhall be held
on Rocky Comfort.
Ext rat 7 from the Minutes,
DANIEL FXAM, A. C. C.
Clerk's Office, April zo, ijsj.
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NOTIFICATION.
TT7HEREAS the Legislature at their last Sef-
VV fion passed an Aft, requiring all persons
entruftcd with public monies in the course of the
late war and since, to fettle their refpeftive ac
counts with the Auditor; the following extraft
from the said Aft is publiftied for the information
of all persons concerned, who are hereby required
to attend the AuditoV with their accounts and
vouchers without delay, that final settlements may
be made in conformity to the said Aft.
JOHN WEREAT, Auditor .
Richmond County, May sy, 1787.
il Be it enabled, and it is herely enabled by the
Representatives of the Freemen of the State of Georgia
in General AJfembly met, and by the authority of the
fame, That the Auditor be and he is hereby vetted
with full power to colleft, audit, liquidate, adjufi,
and fettle the accounts of the late and present Trca
furer or Treasurers of this slate j the late and pre
sent Commillioner or Commiflioners of confifcated
ettates j the late or present Colleftor or Colleftors
of duties or imports ; the late and present Colleftor
or Colleftors, Receiver or Receivers of public
taxes in the refpeftive counties; the late and pre
sent Attorney General or Attorney Generals ; the
late and present Sheriff or Sheriffs, and Clerk or
Clerks of the refpeftive counties ; and the accounts
of all such other person or persons who have been
or may be entrusted, or have or may become pos
sessed of the monies, goods, oreffefts of this rtate ;
and in any case where it tliall appear that a balauce
of monies (hall be due by any such person or per
sons to this rtate, the Auditor rtiall direst that pay
ment thereof be made to the Treasurer of this
rtate; and the certificate of the said Auditor rtiall
be conclusive evidence in an aftion of debt, at the
suit of the rtate against any person or perlons for
the sums of money which such person or persons
owe or may be indebted to the rtate, and no set
off or deduction from the fame fliallbe admitted.
And be it further enabled by the authority afore
jaid, That it rtiall and may be lawful for the said
Auditor, as often as there rtiall be occasion, to call
before him by subpoena or summons, and in case
of contempt to issue a writ of attachment in order
to compel the appearance of any person or persons
who is or may be accountable, before the said
Auditor, by virtue of this Aft, or who the said
Auditor may reasonably suppose is or are capable
of giving evidence or information concerning the
said accounts or any of them; and the said Auditor
is hereby authorised to examine, upon oath or
affirmation, any person as a witness refpefting any
such account, which oath or affirmation the said
Auditor is hereby empowered to adminifler ; and
in case any person or persons on whom such fybpce
na or summons rtiall be served, being accountable
before the said Auditor, (hall refufe to appear as
in such writ rtiall be expressed and direfted, or
having appeared before the laid Auditor rtiall refufe
or negleft to exhibit his, her, or their account and
attend the fettlcment thereof, or being summoned
as a witness rtiall negleft to appear before the said
Auditor at the time and place appointed in and by
such subpoena or summons, and rtiall make default
thereupon, or having appeared as aforefaid rtiall
refufe to make a full disclosure of his, her, or
their knowledge in the said Auditor, the said Au
ditor may award an attachment, and commit such
delinquent or delinquents to the nearest common
goal, there to be holden till such person or persons
rtiall submit to the said Auditor, and comply with
the direftions of this Aft j and all persons who
lhali be summoned as witnesses by the said Auditor
and every Sheriff, Coroner or other Officer to
whom he (hall direst his writs or precepts as afore
faid, rtiall be allowed like fees for their attendance
and services as witnefles summoned to appear in
the Superior Courts of this rtate, and as Sheriffs,
Coroners, and other Officers are entitled to hi ■
courts, to be levied on the several delinquent
the said Auditor by warrant, in the like manner -
debts under ten pounds are recoverable. **
And be it further enabled by the authority a s
said, That if any perfou or persons who by vV , '
of this Ad are or lhall be accountable before - !
said Auditor for any sum or lams of money w y?
have been or may be advanced to or receve jt ' 1
such perfen or perfons', or for any monies, * good?
chattels or effeds which have or may come u> l
hands or poffeffiou of such person or p'erf i?
lhall for three months after the service of f t’
fubpeena or fuminqiis as aforefaid for such
son or persons to appear before the said Au?*
tor, and exhibit and fettle his, her„ or their
accounts as aforefaid, refufe or negleft t)
obey such subpoena, summons or demand, and
comp\y with the diredions of this Ad, then* fork
person and persons so refufing or negleftiag flail
be liable to an attiqn es debt or other adiou at ft
suit of the state for the whole of the sum and f Ui ? s
of money, goods, chattels, and effeds bclongin?
to ihe public, which he, Ihe, or they outfit'to
account for as aforefaid, before the said Auditor
and ftiall be forever barred of fettling off any c l Wr J
or expenditure thereout, unless the said Auditor
before the said term of three months be expire/
certify in behalf of such person or persons ft/
it is leafonable that further time be allowed fn.-t,
person or persons for exhibiting and fettling hi
or their accounts, in which case, upon f u fl
ficient security being entered by the party or par
ties in whose behalf such certificate lhall be made
for the wholemoney or other property unaccounted
for by such person or persons, His Honor the
Governor in Council may by an entry on their
minutes allow of further time as aforefaid. p ri .
<vided, That nothing herein contained lhall prevent
the settlement or infpedion of any public account
by the Committee of Finance appointed annually
by the Houle of Afiembly »
____________________ aic
Eight Dollars. Reward.
STRAYED or STOLEN off the Commons of
. Augusta, some time during the late Seilioii of
Aliembly, a likely, blooded, black Statilon, riling
14 hands, y years old thisgrafs, very low in flefb,
without any visible brand or while about him, ex
cepting some trifling saddle marks, and just the
appearance of a v ery small star in his forehead by
the mixture of a few gray hairs ; carries himfelf
tolerably well, trots altogether, has a considerable
lengthy tail, and bears both whip and spur decent
ly. Whoever delivers said horse to the fubferiber,
his present owner, ftiall receive the above Reward,
and payment of all leafonable expences.
JOHN CCPP.
■ Augufa , May 30, 1787.
N. B. Said Horse was valued at Forty Pounds,
is commonly known by the name of Peak’s Stallion,
bread at Writfborough.
NOTICE.
THIS is to forwarn any person from receiving
my order of Twelve Pounds in favor oi
Elilha Hunter to Emanuel Wamberfie, as I gave it
in part of a note to said Hunter, which was due by
me, and he promised credit for that amount on said
Note; which credit, lam informed, he put out
of his power to give in confeqtience of parting
with the fame previous to the said order being
drawn.
JAMES STALLINGS.
May 30, 1787. * r
N. N. The word Dalziel Hunter was by mifM*
inferred instead of Eiiffia Hunter.