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SATURD AY, November 22, 1788.
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
- FREEDOM of the fRESS > TRIAL JURY, ,o remain invioU,, forever. , f Gargia .
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RICHMOND I
COUNTY. 5
In the SUPERIOR COURT.
Ordered ,
That the Presentments of the Grand Jury
be publithed in the next Gazette.
Extract from the Minutes ,
DANIEL ELAM, A.C.C*
The Presentments of the Grand
Jury for the County of Rich
mond, O&ober Term/ 1788.
lft* present as a grievance, the
\w of General AlTembly con
cerning drays, as inadequate to the purposes
intended.
2d. We present as a grievance, the ne
glert of patroles being detached from the dif
ferent companies of militia within this coun
ty, for the better governing of flavcs.
3d. We present as a grievance, the want
of a law for extending the navigation of the
different rivers and dreams within the date,
and for regulating the boating or craft on said
rivers.
4th. We present as a grievance, that the
bridges and cj.ufeways are not kept in repair
by public tax.
sth. Wc present as a grievance, that no
weaponbounds are laid out for this county.
lotion passed at the lad Seflion of Afferably
making certificates receivable at par, wkh
specie, in all payments due to the public,
which defiroys a most valuable fund of this
fate, after it was in a solemn manner appro
priated towards paying our federal debt, and
which make an encreafe of our taxation.
7*h. We present as a grievance, that the
Commiffionera of the different roads are not
furmihed with the orders of Court enabling
them to compel persons to work thereon.
Bth. We present as a grievance the want
of a law to punitli persons living in a fiate of
adultery, to the great injury of the good
people in this date, a!fo to provide for natu
ral children.
pth. We present Samuel Germany and
Rachael Hogg for living in a date of adulte
ry; also Isaac Atwood and Ann Gray; also
Lewis Delany and Ann Graham ; also Mofcs
Whiner and Elizabeth No. ; also Samuel
Nix and Mary Frail; also William Watkins
and Polly Burgamy.
rr • V s re Present Wmlam Barnett, jun.
Isaiah Wright, George Barnes &Co. William
Wallace & Co. Messrs. Hills and May, James
Brown & Co. Edward Merlin, Patrick
Hajes & Co. jaraes Gardner &■ Co. Messrs.
Harper & Maher, James Tool, A. M‘Credie
& Co. Henry M‘Donald, Robert Dick, Se
bastian Blache, James Fox, Patrick Jarvis
Benjamin Harris, Stephen Meers, William
Thompson, Andrew Innes, and Turner Tho
inafon, for retailing spirituous liquors.
T Ilt rn r We present J amca Fox a ”d John
Ingersoll for keeping billiard tables without
license.
1 2tb. We present the law for the infpec*
tion of tobacco as inadequate to the good pur
ple* intended. 1
We present as a grievance the want
VuiJmi. fr f ,U thc upper warc houfe at Au
guna to the lower one, along the Bay.
the
J 4 th - Wc have examined the genera! tax
returns for the county, and approve of tin m
in part.
15th. We recommend to the Couit, that
those citizens who have given in their taxable
property to any receiver in the county, Hull
not pay a double tax, nor be deprived of the
privileges of a citizen.
16th. We find Robert Watkins named
as a defaulter in the tax returns for the eounty,
thereby fubjetded to pain and penalties, which
appears by affidavit 110 c incurred by Hefignto
injure the state, or in contempt of the law,
but by unavoidable detention in the state of
Virginia, having no agent here, and do r;-
commeno that he be entitled to the privileges
of citizenfliip, and his particular case to the
next Legislature.
17th. We present as a grievance, that so
little regard has been paid to the Preferments
of former Grand juries
Benj. Andrew, Foreman. Samuel Scot,
john Germany, H. Candler,
Edmund Bugg, Thomas Glafcock,
Jeremiah Lamkin, Thomas Carr,
Perry Wilson, Robert Walton,
Thomas Napier, IqhnJlpwyJl ,
j«k.. , 1 nomas Hamilton,
Beverly Lowe, Jesse Saunders,
Thomas Haynes, James Fleming,
Robert Randolph, R. Howard,
john Appling, Ambrose Gordon.
(Copy) DANIEL ELAM, A. C. C.
? C Gfand having presented
VV Uliam Barnett and Jlaiah Wright L retail.
inglpu-.ruous liquors, tins is to gtve notice
to the public, that they have ukeu
licenle, and pa.d ior the ame.
Frcm tue Bojjon Gaxri/e.
I Directions for railing HEMP .
By loam mi Baldwin, Ff q .
TttE foil ftiouid be warm, light loom,
composed of a pure mould, and a lit
tle land manured in much the fame propor
tion as for Indian corn ; some comport ma
nure is to be preferred, which has nor anv
foul feeds among it (weeds are verv prejudi
cial to a crop of hemp) better if the manure
is applied and ploughed in just before wtnter.
'I he land ftiouid have three ploughings at
least in the fprmg, and made very finer The
feed ftiouid be sowed on a well harrowed fur
face, early m May, if the fcafon js (hy A
favorable; but if „„ t , che lowing may le
deferred a week or in that case,
another ploughing will be neceffarr, observ
ing always that the feed fhonld be sowed toon
at.er the last ploughing is performed, before
the land fettles and becomes niff and heavy,
then harrowed in with a fine iron tooth harrow
The quantity of feed (if new) may vary
from two bushels and a quarter, to three bu
ftielt per acre. If, through necessity, old
feed is to be sowed, th c quantity mull be
greater, and it flmuld be depolittd in a cel
lar, iwo, three or four weeks previous to sow.
i"g. The tune ought to be fomethine in pro
fonion to the age of the feed ; the older it
is the longer it ffiouM lay j„ the cellar, not
exceeding three or fowl weeks, (but old feed
1
seldom answers well.) The lard ftiouid be
lowed twice over, the sower palling in cross
w.fe directions, ti e better to scatter the feed
equally On the ground.
bone ►Sudbury people who have practiced
the growing of Hemp for a series of years,
hold, that to crop the laud every year fuc
ceilivcly with hemp, is better than to ftiift oc
vry the crop. 7 his seems to be agairft the
gensral principle in cropping land ; however,
by a little attention, the faft may be after*
tained.
The time for pulling is when the fimblc oC
male hemp turns whitiih, before it turns black*
ifli, jult at the time when the farma escapes,
(this is known by its fmoaking when agitated
by the wind or any other cause) which hap
pens about the firft of Augtift commonly.
I here are two kinds of hemp, ma’c and
female ; the female bears the feed; therefore
some of the best plants ftiouid be refeived in
the borders us the field, or other places, in
order to produce feed for the next yeat ; and
the rest is to be pulled up by the roots ; and
as it is pulled lay it about an inch thick on
the ground where it grew, (nr if thinner the
1 ma * la nd will not receive
mutt be carried off to other ground, and there
spread in the fame manner, taking care to
turn n once or twice, and in two or three
days, ,f the weather is good, it will be fit to
~ u! ~ito bundles of about twelve or thirteen
inches girth, in order to be hwufed; and the
tooncr it is dried, and got into the bain, the
better. If thc quantity be fmaU, and can be
placed under cover immediately tipon pulling,
10 as to ry well wiihout receiving any wet,
it wj e eavier, and of a b/ighrer grecnilh
co ojr w en dieifed, better tefembling fo*
1e.,.!) lernp. In ftiort, the attentive cultiva
tor of th i nfeful article negletts all other bu
me.s .o take care of his hemp at this rtage of
ths business, if exposed when a ftiower or
storm threatens, and get it secured under
the.ter, where it remains until about Indian
harvest time, when it is taken out and re
!p^. VC t 0 a P r °per place for water rotting.—
is ou dhe a pond, whcie the water can
_e iuwn off an( j flowed again at pleaftire.
iere edit in circular heaps, wish the top
ends inward, lapping about two thirds of the
engt o the fta.'k; and some weight to keep
it from swimming, then raise the water high
enoug Ito cover it. There it may continue
o out three week Sj longer or ft.orter, ac
tor ing to the flare of the weather, hotter or
C 0 C . r * rotted enough, take it up,
rt at the fame time, and remove it
t j f iy ground, and set it with the butt ends
t own ward, leaning against poles arranged for
the purpose on crotches about three feet high,
placing a bundle on one fide of the pole, and
another on the other fide, alternately, until
the whole is set up; or it may be set against
a ran fence, in the fame manner, running the
tops of the hemp through, between the upper
and second rail, which will fc.ure ir from
being blown down by the winds. There it
is to remain, exposed ro the aftion 0 * all the
varieties of the weather, until thr spring fol
lowing. Some attention ftiouid be paid to
the filiation of the ground, where it ja thus
to be placed, in order to have the hemp dry
for dressing as early lh c fp.ing «, poffiMr-
It would be well to .rt ,h e bundles, or
place them hurizo .tally on foies, difpof
«<L hi that purpose, time enough ftf
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