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SATURDAY, November i 7, 1787.
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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I INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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An A£t
For fupprejjing the Violences of the
Indians .
{Concluded from our last.)
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AND be it also ena£hd , That the Infpeftor-Ge
neral (hall be empowered and required to
view all such troops in like manner as the State
Troops ; and the officers of the said regiments (hall
in like manner, make returns to the Infpeftor-
General at the end of every month, when in actual
service; and all officers and men embodied as
aforefaid, and serving at all times when required,
during the present war, and obtaining a certificate
to that end at the eftablilhmentof a peace, (hall be
entitled to the bounties of land in like manner, as
is herein after pointed out, and allowed to the
State troops : And the Infpeftor-General, and one
or more General Officers, (hall be a board, with
authority to examine and give certificates to the
officers and men that may embody as aforefaid, at
the expiration of the period aforefaid. Provided
always, that nothing herein contained (hall ex
tend, or be construed to extend, to preclude the
men intended to be embodied by this Aft, from
doing militia duty, at such time or times as they
may not be ordered out by the commanding officer,
to parade in battalion.
And whereas it may so happen that certain per
sons have run and surveyed lands without the li
mits of the refpeftive counties of this (late, as
eftabliffied by law, and for which grants may have
been futTepthioufly claimed : Be it enaSledy That
all lands without the limits aforefaid are hereby
declared to be vacant, any warrant, survey, or
grant to the contrary notwithstanding; and that a
traft of land, laying and comprehending within a
line to be drawn from the mod southern dream of
the South Fork of Oconee, commonly called the
Apalachy, in the neared direst ion to the head or
fburce of the main dream of Flint River, down
the said river, including all the ifiands of the fame,
to the confluence of the Chatahouchea and Flint
Rivers, thence feadwardly to the head or source of
St. Mary’s to the confluence of the rivers Oconee
and Oakmulgee, and thence up the River Oconee
to the head or source of the mod northern dream
of the Apalachy or South Fork, where this line
begins, (hall be reserved, and at the cessation of
the hodilities with the Indians appropriated to and
for the allowances and bounties of and for the said
officers and troops; and no warrant, survey, or
grant (hall be obtained for any part of the lands
•within the said reserve by any person whatever,
until such hodilities (hall cease ; and all such officers
or troops (hall have a preference in laying their
bounties within the said reserve.
And be it also enabled, That the said bounties
(hall not interfere witl/a certain quantity of laud
in the vicinity of those Indian towns, which are
and dull continue to be friendly, which quantity
lhall be determined by a future Legidature.
And be it farther ena3ed by the authority afore
faid, That all the ‘allowances and bounties to the
officers, and bounties to the said troops, (hall be
made and allotted in the following proportions :
To a Colonel, one thoufend two hundred acres.
To a Lieutenant-Colonel, one thoufaudonc hun
dred acres.
To a Major, one thousand acres.
To a Captain, nine hundred acres.
To a Fird Lieutenant, eight hundred acres.
To a Second Lieutenant; feveu hundred and If
tr«crei.
Non-commiflioned efficers, fcven hundred acres.
And to
Privates) well armed and accoutred, fix hun
> dred and forty acres.
And any General Officer or Officers called into
the service, for the time being, shall have further
allotments made to him or them, in the following
proportions:
To a Major-General, one thousand five hundred
acres. And to a
Brigadier-General, one thousand four hundred
acres.
And that the Staff Officers taken from the line,
fay, Brigade Majors, Adjutants, and Quarter
Mailers, be allowed in addition two hundred and
fifty acres each for extra services? the Aids-de-
Camp to the Commander in Chief be allowed the
rank and emoluments of a Lieutenant-Colonel;
Aids-de Camp to Major and Brigadier Generals,
' be allowed the rank and emoluments of a Major;
that an Adjutant-General be appointed by the Exe
cutive, with the rank and emoluments of a Colo
nel ; and Arch allowances and bounties (hall be
made in good faith to the different officers and sol
diers ayfoon as may be after the ceffadoa of hofti-
reftoration of peace.'
And be it enabled by the authority afore,faid, That
it shall and may be lawful for his Honor the Gover
nor, with the advice of the Executive Council for
the time being, to enter into such engagements
with the people in Franklin, as may be considered
necessary for suppressing the said hostilities of the
dians, and to engage on the part of the Hate, that
for all the officers and privates that shall be actually
engaged in the accomplifbing the above purpose,
the fame bounties shall be made and given as are
herein before direded by this Ad, to the officers
~ and troops to be raised for this State; also, an
additional bounty of fifty acres on every one hun
dred acres, in lieu of rations and all other claims
against the state, out of and upon the trad of coun
try commonly called the Bent of Teneffee, with
in this state.
Provided, That the number do not exceed fif
teen hundred, in addition to those already empow
ered to be raised upon this Ad. And provided al
so , That the right of pre-eintion on all surveys
heretofore made by the authority of this state, shall
be firft set apart.
And be it farther enabled, That an Infpedor-
General, with the rank and emoluments of a Co
lonel, shall be appointed ; whose duty it shall be
to cause monthly reviews of the different regiments
and corps in adual service, to commence the firft
day of every month ; and also to examine into the
arms, ammunition, camp equipage, and all other
public stores, noting the state thereof, and fee that
they are fatisfadorily accounted for, agreeably to
the mcnthly returns made to him} and a Com
missary of Issues, with the rank and emoluments
of Colonel, shall also be appointed, whose duty it
shall bq to keep a clear and corred regifler of all
supplies of provisions delivered into his custody,
with proper columns distinguishing in each the
time, quality, and species by him received} he
shall keep a fair, clear, and corred account of all
issues in his department, with columns distinguish
ing the pame of the officer commanding each com
pany, with the number of men each day on adual
duty, also the name of the Colonel of the regiment
to which such company do belong, together with
the issues that may be made to the officera on ac
tual duty as herein after is pointed out, that is to
fay, To a Major-General or Commanding Officer,
ten rations; to a Brigadier-General, five rations ;
to a Colonel, three and ene-half rations { a Lieu
tenant-CelofiCV Uu«« rations j a M*j«r two and
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one-half rations; a Captain two rations; SubaU
, tern officers one and one-half rations; non-com
missioned officers and privates one ration ; Gene
ral-Staff Officers three rations; Deputies in the
said departments, one and one-half ration : Which
(aid rations (hall be composed of the following ar
ticles, that is to fay, Three-quarters of a pound of
fait beef or pork, or one and oue-half pound of
frefh beef, or one pound of frefh pork; one pound
and one-quarter of rice, fiour or meal; one gill of
spirits, and one gill of fait to every five rations ;
and no person whatsoever (hall be allowed pay for
retained rations, nor draw back rations for mote
than three days ; he (hall hue boats, waggons, and
teams at such rates as lhall be approved by the Exe
cutive ; and his Honor the Governor Council
(hall have power and authority to draw warrants
on the Treasury, for such sum or fumi as may be
or (liall be required for deputies, labourers, coop
ers, or transportation, in favor of the said Com
missary of Issues: And during the recefa of the
Legidature the Executive (hall at all times have
full power and authority to direst and approve of
the number of boats, teams, and number of per
foas that (hall be requisite in the (aid department ;
he (hall keep an exaft register of all teams, and
persons employed in his department, diftinguidiing
by proper colfimns the place or places they are di
rected to proceed to, noting the time and condition
of payment, that in every payroll the name and
employment of every person be inserted at full
length, and for each team the pay-roll (hall be
dgned by the waggon-mafter, and in like manner
to be dgned by all other person or persons that may
be employed as aforefaid, and thereafter (hall be
referred to the lufpeftor-General to examine and
regider the fame, and after being certified by him,
(hall be a voucher to authorife the Governor in
Council to draw on the Treasurer for payment of
the fame; he (hall also procure from the Captains
or Officers commanding each company, daily re
turns of the issues for each company, and (hall
also on the last day of every month, exhibit a clear
£hd perfeft statement of the idues that may be
made within the fame, with columns diftinguidiing
the number and rank of officers and number of
privates, and also columns for the different articles
that &mpofe a ration ; and on the last day of eve
ry month, (hall present the said statement to the
commanding officer, to be compared with his re
turns, and after being by him certified, the fame
(hall be delivered to the Infpeftor-General, who
(hall examine the fame ; he (hall keep a fair and
correft register of every other official tranfaftion,
to the end that such supplies may be fully known
and accounted for.
And be it also enabled* That a Difeftor-General
in the Medical Department, with the pay and
emoluments of a Colonel, (hall be appointed, who
(hall have power to nominate and recommend tho
surgical assistance necefiary in his department, and
who (hall report the number to the Executive for
their approbation of that body. He (hall keep a
fair and correft register, to be made up the last day
in each month, in which he (hall enter the name
of each person to whom medical or surgical af
fiftatice may be administered, together with the
company and regiment to which he belongs, and
feach afiiftant as (hall be approved as aforefaid, shall
have the pay and emoluments of a Lieutenant-Co
lonel, and each (hall make monthly returns of all
official tranfaftions in his department to the In- .
fpeftor-Gcneral.
And be it tnaaed t That the command of a Bri
gadier-General (hall consist of not less than one
* thousand men; a Colonel three hundred and fifty;
a Lieutenant-Colonel two hundred and fifty; a
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