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SATURD AY, November 22, 1788. GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE O R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. - FREEDOM of the fRESS > TRIAL JURY, ,o remain invioU,, forever. , f Gargia . AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; EJfays, Articles of gence, Advertisements, fcff. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. 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 # [Vol. ra. No. cxm.i