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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#