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SATURDAY, November 10, 1787* GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE • * * OR ' INDEPENDENT REGISTER, FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. • Constitution of Gtorgia. AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; Efays, Articles of Intelligence^ Advert ijements, &c. will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing performed . An ACT for raifmg Supplies, BE it enabled, by the Reprejenta tives of the Freemen of the tate o, Georgia, in General Ajjembly met , and by the authority of the fame, i hat an additional tax ior the current year be imposed on, and collected ot the ii habitants, and others holding or laying claim to property within this ilate, to the amount of fix (hillings and three pence on every hundred pounds value, to be estimated in the manner diredted by the General Tax A6t, now in force for the pre sent year, and so in proportion for all »other taxable articles, agreeably to thefaid Ads, to be paid in any or either of the following articles, and at the following rates : Good merchantable rice, in good barrels, well coopered, from five to fix hundred weight net •e sch, per hundred weight, at four teen (hillings; Indian corn, per bus hel, at three (hillings; good mer chantable wheat dour, in barrels, well coopered, per hundred weight net, at fourteen (hillings ; fah pork, per barrel, weighing two hundred and twenty weight net, at the rate of three pounds ten (hillings per barrel; lait beef, per barrel, weighing two hun dred and forty weight net, at the rate of sixty (hillings per barrel, good frefh beef, delivered in camp, or to the officer commanding any out pod, on being approved of and certified by the Commiflary of Issues, at three pence per pound; two years old deers, delivered in like manner, at forty-five (hillings each; three years old deers or good fat cows delivered in like manner, at fifty- five (hillings each; four years old deers and up wards, delivered in like manner, at seventy (hillingseach; good live pork, to be delivered as aforefaid, at twen ty-five (hillings per hundred, mak ing a dedu&ion of thirty-three and one-third per centum on all hogs at or under one hundred weight gross, and the deduction of twenty-five per centum in like manner for all hogs above one hundred weight gross. And be it farther enabled > That the Collectors of Taxes in each county (ball notify the place or places for the receipt of the atorefasd articles A within their reipettive counties, as (hall be pointed out to each of them by the Executive $ and iuch fpecific payments as (hall be made on or before the hid 1 utfday ni Ja nuary next. And in rendering and receiving the tax imposed by t*his Ad, there fhali be no alternative (except as by this Ad pointed outj the fame being for the use and fub iiltenceof the troops And be it alj'o enadted by the autho rity atorefaid\ That the laid Cul ledtors relpedively, Irom and alter the firft 1 uefday in January next, (hall proceed against all deiaulters whatever, by warrant of di(l« els un der his hand a d feai, directed to the hhenff of the county within the lame* and in cales where the Sherd may be Collector, he (hall have the power and authority to distress in like man ner as if the lame had been directed to him by any other Collector, and (ball leize and expoie to lale, any property real or personal, which may be found in any county within this (late belonging to any defaulter {giv ing ten days previous notice of luch falc) at and alter the rate of ten pounds flerling value, in gold or fii ver coin, or current money of this (late, in proportion to every one pound flerling value in ftecifks efli— mated as aforelaid, together with all the cods and charges attending the fame. And every Collector as afbre faid (hdll keep a fair and correct re gister of all lpecific articles by him received, in which he fhali enter the name or names of all and every per (on and persons depositing articles as aforefaid, and (hall oppefite to each person’s name, put in the lpecific co lumn or columns, the article or arti cles, with the time of .the receipt thereofs and (hall at the end of eve ry month transmit a fair and corredl copy thereof to the Executive, to be examined by the Treasurer who (hall compare the fame with the tax anles purluant to the Tax Adi of the current year# And the Executive T'H.E • •% I , > CNo.LIxJ (hall have power and authority, if thpy fee fit, to appoint one or more perlon or pet ions to take the manage ment and care of the lpecific articles . to be railed by virtue ot this AO* And the neat amount thereof (hall be paid into the! reafury ot the Hate, for the purposes herein before re cited. And be it farther enabled by the au thority aforefaid, » hat each t oi lector as aloretaid, lhall be allowed at and after the rate of two and one ha-f per centum on all luch receipts, and (hall give bonds with good and fufficient security, in the like sums as are re quired by the Tax Adi of the present year, conditioned for the true and taithful dilcharge of the duties re quired by this Ad: And any per ion being a defaulter in giving in ‘he return ot his or her taxable proper ty, atorefaid; alio, any person being a defaulter in paying up his or her proportion of the tax hereby imposed, (hall be lubjedf to the lame dilabilities while in default, as defaulters are under, and by the Tax AO of the pre:ent year, as well as the penalties imposed by virtue of this Adi: And tvery c he»ifF or Colledlor of the atorefaid tax, fhal), on or before the firftdayof £pril next, account with the Treasurer ot this Sta'e, for all monies by him received under this Adt. And be it farther enacted \ That all such fiippiies, as may be hereafter advanced for *he support of any troops in the iervice of this State, (1 .all on full proof, be allowed in difeount in the tax hereby imposed as aforefaid. And be it also enabled, That any person furnifhii gthe State with one hundred weight of good gunpow der, and two hundred weight of lead in bars or bullets, and placing the fame in the hands of (uch person or persons as (hall be appointed by the Executive, each perlon furnifhingas aforefaid, (hall be exempted from all militia duty whatever, during the present war with the Indians: And (Far tkt rmtinitr #/ tbii /" t*V