Newspaper Page Text
HURD AY, Ofloher ir, i 7 BBi-
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
° R /~« - *%.
independent registerT
»; E EDOM of the PRES S, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Ccrjtitutien of Georgia.
u GUST A: Printed by J 011 N E. S M IT H, Printer to the State-, Pjjays, Articles of
Intelligence , Advert foments, Ssc. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed.
<y the United States in Congress
Ajfembled .
t proclamation.
the United States in
Congress aifembled, by their
t V Commifiioncrs duly appointed
iif authorised, did on the £Sth day of
ovember, one thou fa ud fcven hundred
id eighty*five, at Hopewell, on the Kio
ee, conclude articles of a treaty with all
es oe rokees, and among other things
pniated and engaged hv article fourth,
That the boundary allotted to the Cne
ikces for their hunting grounds, between
® laid Indians and the citizens of the
nited States within the limits of the
iiited States of America, is and lhall be
c following, vizi. “ Beginning at the
.outh of Duck river on the TenelTee ;
icnce running north-east to the ridge di
ding the waters rttfining into Cumber
nd ; from those running into theTenef
:; thence east wardiy along the (aid ridge
a north-east line to be run, which shall
ike the river Cumberland forty miles
ove Nafliville; thence along the laid
ic to the river; thence up the said river
the ford where the Kentucky road crof
i the river ; thence to Campbell’s line,
arto Cumberland Gab ; thence to the
auihofClaud’screekonHo’fiein; thence
the Chimney Top Mountain ; thence to
imp creek, near the mouth of Big Lime
dcs on Nulichucßey ; thence a foiitherly
iirfe fix miles to a mountain - ; thence
nth to the North-Carolioa line ; thence
the South*Carolina Indian boundary,
d along the fame fourh-weft over the
)of the Oconee Mountain, till it dial!
ike Tugalo river; tbence a dire# line
the top of the Currohee Mountain ;
tocc to the head of the fouth fork of the
:onee river.” And by Article fifth;
it, u If any citizen of the United States
ether perfonnot being an Indian, should
emptto fettle on any of the lands weft
ini or southward of the said Boundary,
iich were allotted to the Indians for their
nting ground, or having fettled previ
!‘T to concluding the said treaty, and
t removing from the fame within fix
mths after the ratification of the said
foch person should forfeit the pro
tion of the United States, and that the
bans might punish him or not, as they
3 [ e '» provided, that the said fifth arti
'lOuid not extend to the people fettled
Wc f n the fork of French Broad and
Ivin rivers, whose particular firuation
,J bi be traolmittcd to the United States
in Congress aifembled for their decision "
thereon, which the Indians agreed to abide
by.” And whereas it has been repre
feuted to Congress, that fevcral disorder
ly persons fettled on the frontieis ,>f
Norrh-Carolina, in the vicinity ofChota,
have, in open violation of the said treaty,
made intrusions upon the said Indian
hunting grounds, and committed many
unprovoked outrages upon the said Chero
kees, who by* the said treaty have put
(hemfelves under the protection of the
United States, which proceedings are .
highly injurious and difrefyeftful to the
authority of the Union, and it being the
firm determination of Congress to protect
the said Cherokee? in their rights, accord
ing true intent and meaning of the
said treaty: THE UNITED STATES .
IN CONGRESS' ASSEMBLED, have
therefore thought fit to ifiue, aud they DO
hereby ifiue this their PROCLAMA
TION, ltridly forbidding all such unwar
rantable intrusions, and hostile proceed
ings against the said Cherokees; and en
joining all those who have fettled upon
the laid hunting grounds of the said Che
rokees, to depart with their families and
effects without loss of time, as they shall
answer their disobedience to the injuncti
ons and prohibition's exprelfed in this Re
solution at their peril: Provided, that this
Proclamation fiiall not be construed as re
quiring the removal of the people fettled
between the fork of French Broad and
Holstein rivers, referred to in the said
treaty : Provided also, that nothing con
tained in this Proclamation shall be confi
deted as affecting the Territorial Claims
of the State of North-Cardin*.
DONE in Congress, thisfirft day of
September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-eight, and of our sovereign
ty and independence the thir
teenth.
CYRUS GRIFFIN, Frcfidznt.
ChatUs Tbornfun, Secretary.
To be let,
t n e
Dwelling-hoitfe
Next to Mrs. lately
occupied by Colonel Call.
WILLIAM WALLACE.
Augufidy Seft» ijt
the
rvoi. in. No. CVII.]
GEORGIA.
By the Honorable GEORGE
HAND L h, Y, Esquire, Cap
tain General, Governor and
Commander in Chief in and
over the said State.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS several Rcfolutions of
the General Afl'embly pafled the
thirtieth and thirty-firft days of
"January last, wherein the Executive are •*<
empowered to convene the Members no*
minated by the said Resolutions, at Au
gusta, “ asfoon as maybe, after official
“ information is received that nine Rates
“ have adopted the Federal Constitution s*”
AND WHEREAS official information t£
the Congress of the Unit*
ed States, dated the thirteenth day of Sep
tember last, notifying that the fame is
adopted, and directed proceedings to
commence thereon ; 1 HAVE THERE
FORE, agreeably to the said Resolutions,
and with the advice and ccnfent of the
Honorable the Executive Council, thought
fit to iftue this my Proclamation, requir
ing the persons so nominated a< d appoint
ed, to convene in Augupa on Tucjday. the
Fourth day of No-z.en.btr next; then and
there ** to proceed to take under their
“ consideration the alterations and amend*
“ meurs that are necefiary to he made
4( in the Constitution of this State.”
Given under my blond and the Great
Seal of the J aid State , at Augupa ,
this Sixth Da) of GHohety in the
Tear of our LORD One Thou-
Jand Seven Hundred and Eighty
eight, and of our Sovereignty and
independence the Thirteen, h.
GEoRGE HANLLEY.
By His Honor’s Command,
J. Milton, Sec’y.
GOD SAVE THE STATE .
In COUNCIL, Oilcber i t 1788.
Ordered,
THAT Tuefday the 11th of Novem
ber next, be assigned for the trial
of the following Appeals :
Charles Ward, 1
vs. >
Daniel M‘Murphy. j
John Barnett & PrCrawford, J
vs* >
William Strother & Sam. Gardner, j
Extrail from the Minutes *
J. MERIWETHER, S. E. 0#