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i SATUR DA Y, April i 6, *l7B ft .. GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE =•* -ti «•; * v ? , *. * i or s jji '5; i' t INDEPENDENT REGIS T£ R. FREEDOM of the fRE SS, and TRI A L by JUR Y, l 0 remain inviolate forever. Column of G,cr g ,a. 4U G UST A: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State > E/ays, Articles of Intelligence, Advert if entente, (dc* Will’be gratefirily received , and every kind of Printing perforneea. * ; i _ ■- His Honor the Chief Ju dice’s Charge to the Grand Jury of Chatham County, March Term, 1788. Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, IT mud afford apleafing fatisfa&ion to eve ry worthy member of the community, when by a due execution of the laws, offences of a public nature become less frequent. This county has experienced a reform as awful to the evil minded as it is honorable to the citi zens, and on your couduft as Grand Inquefl will in a great measure depend the contiuu aueoffo inestimable a blefling. I cannot help regretting that our paper cur rency thould dill continue depreciated to one-’ third its nominal value; The small sum of 50, c001, could increase the circulating me dium very little (if auy) beyond the real de nand, and as the paper is receivable at the Treasury in all cases whatsoever, under the ity'iited’ faith of the date, no doubt can, with any degree of judice, be entertained that it will not be redeemed and cancelled within the time * limited by law. The federal con stitution has wifely taken away from each of the states the power of emitting a paper mo ney ; therefore no further emiflion (liappily for us) can ever be made by the date. The tear of that power being again exercised was, I firmly believe, the primary canfe of the depreciation. To heal the wounded credit of the Hate, ar.d to prevent the consequent injury to inno cent creditors, whether public or private, is the duty of every good citizen. In some of our filler dates laudable exertions have been nade with success in favour of their currency r (111 my opinion) are bound by every principle of honor and judice to follow the example. If the mercantile and landed intereds «vili join in a solemn covenant to receive and uppert the bills of credit at the uominal value, to rejeft the mutulated fiber, which has cut for didioned purposes, and, let me J dd, by difhoned men, they will entail honor thsmfelves, and redore the charafler of j e public to the level of judice. If this sentiment diould meet youa approbation, I h**.! hold it my duty to urge the necefiity and utility of the measure, by every means in r.\Y power, in the other counties. As the 1 e giflature have not thought it proper to re f;ceni the paper immediately, it depends on lC people, and they have it in their power, wake it aufwer all the purposes of gold or fiver. The Tax Law for the present year will be before you. You willpleafe to nomiuate * difereet peifon in each uqnft to receive the return? *Si taxable property, as two ! ! 'ccivers for the lad y eak ' V crenot C fluently punctual in their t duty, u^ { b(J ~ 4 ft 0 1" lbe mSlb. 14th August, 179°* 1 y ca 5 £ t vide tbo 7* jwtoww* u ‘ t “* Guild Juiy. necefTary to avoid a reappointment of them. The ninth presentment of the lad Grand Jury which was convened in this place has been very particularly attended to by the Honorable the Legislature; it now reds with the Magistrates to prevent idle or disorderly persons having an afyium in this county. , The monies arising from tavern licenses being, by a late law, appropriated solely to county purposes, you will no doubt feel your selves more drongly impelled to be very cir cumfpeft in difeharging that part of your du ty which relates to them. To keep a tavern, billiard table, or Ihuffleboard; or to retail spi rituous liquors bv less measure than three gal lons, without a licence from this Court, is an indictable offence: Before offenders againd that law can be puniihed you mud present theta by bill of indictment. « H. OSBORNE. Chatham, 4 th March, l;83. Prejentments of the Grand Jury ; toe Grand Jurors for the county of ▼ ▼ Chatham, on our oaths, present: id. We preient, as a grievance, that the Harbour-Mailer of the port of Savannah per mits velfels to be loaded in the dream oppo site Yamacraw, and in other parts of the har bour, contrary to law, to the great injury of the channel and the holders of wharf lots By information, of Mr. Mordecai Sheftall and others. ad. We present the fhamcful and villainous practice of mutilating the coin, and earnedly recommend to the Honorable the Legislature, if the laws are not already fufficient to pre vent it, to pass a law for that purpose, as this bale praftice is ruinous to the trade of this 11 ate, and only benefits a few avaricious in dividuals. 3d. Vvc present the Commissioners of the lower division of the Northwed Road, also the Commiflioners of the diftria on the fouth fide of Ogechee, for neglecting to work on the roads within their refpedive diftrids, accord ing 10 law, whereby they arc differed to be much out of repair 4th. V/e prelent, as a great grievance, the frequent riots that have lately happened in the town of Savannah, and the praclice of ringing the bells, and firing of guns, at un seasonable hours, to the great didurbance of the inhabitants; and recommend that the Attorney General be applied to to prosecute offenders who may be guilty of such practices in future sth. The Grand Jury, with concern, ob serve the depreciated date to which the paper cunency is reduced, in their opinion, not so much owing to the sum in circulation, as to the circumstance of its being a legal tender in all payments, and think that the interference of the Legiilaiure only can remedy the evil, api ropmting a iuad U r finking it. * rytv 'JBF.. .Ilf~ * ■* T H t * *- |ljß B "'iil v S *•'« 1 * /* j §*<• i' _L_ * 1 • s |No: Lxxxnf# - v -Ai- -Jag - 1 «* Jj* '.• t .. **-> , We recommend that Claud Thompson be admitted to the rights of . citizeulhip. in this ftaie. We recommend the following persons to be appointed Receivers of the Returns of Tax-* able property, vix. Trederick Shick, Franck Courvoifie, foe the town ofSavannah* Thomas Gibbons, juu. for, the diftrift of Little Ogechee. Tames Jordan, for the dirtria of Great Ogechee. john Morel, for Cherokee Hill dirtria.. Nathaniel Adams, for White BJuflL Seth John Cuthbert, for the Sea Islands. haHiy, We thank his Honor the Ciuef Judice for his charge, and requefl that ic lame, together with these our prefeutmenL* be publirtied in the next Gazette, and laid bl* ore the Legislature at their next meeting. \ Jo(.llaberrtiam,/ r a/-^«i^a,HamptonLilUbridge; Rayd Demere, Charles Odingfclls Peter Deveaux,/ James Bryan, S. Hammond* John G. Williamfony John Berrien, t.# * Joseph Forster, Ebenezer Hills, Wm. H. Spencer, James Moore, • Edward Cowan, Joseph ( uthbert, Simons Maxwell, John Penman, Scaly Thomas, Robert Holms, Wm Gibbons, jun* Samuel Newell, James GaJUache. James Parker,, BERLIN, December 26. IT was thought here that the affairs of HoI« * land would have been fettled as soon at* the King’s troops had re-eftablillied theStadt* holder, but we are now affined that tranquil lity is far from being reflored. Since the last revolution different pretensions have, they fay,been formed on the Republic, andamongffc others the Order of Malta strongly reclaim# its rights on Utrecht, and all the ancient pof fcffions of the Order, which have been secu larized in Holland". According to the public reports they have even alked the protection of Prince Tcrdinand, in quality of Grand Martl£ of the Order of Brandenburgb, V I E N N A, December 26. On the 16th of this month, 8000 Croat# palled the Save, near Lyka; where they hrft took in a defile, between the mountains, and entrenched thcmfelves up to the teeth-*Tfiefo troops, under the orders of General Devins, have since abandoned that poll, which is con sidered as the key of Bofoia, in order to pre vent the Turks from invading the ferritoi te# of the f mperor, and to be within reach to invert the fortrefe of Bariaiucca, which, i* 1737, was besieged without effed. At intention of this movement, the Aurtrianue neral has lignified to thcTui ki/hcommaouanik the protection of fcolavoau from 4ii irrupt ion?