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G E O R G I A.
Bi his Excellency I A MBS
[ A C K S O N, Governor
arJ Commander ih Chief of the
Army and ’ Navi of this mate,
tad of the Militia thereof.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS in and by an
ad of thrs date, entitled,
« a n ad to oblige veflels, and
prrforis coming from places in
filled with epidemic diftempers,
to perform quarantine, and to
prevent the bringing into and
fpreading malignant and conta
gious diforders in this Rate,”
paffed December the 13th, 1793,
it is enafted, “ that the quaran
tine of any perfon, or veflel,
which is requited, in and by the
faid aft, coming from places in
fected with the plague or other
malignant dilorder, (hall be of
fudi duration, and in fuch pla
ces, and under fuch regulations,
as {hall be deviled and held ex
pedient, fo far as refpefts the
arrival of velfels ; or perfons in
Tybec, and Waffaw inlets, and
livers thereof, under the infpec
tion of the cor potation of Savan
nah, and To far as refpefts other
inlets, and rivers, in this (late,
under the infpeftion of the jul
tices of the county, or commif
fioners of the town adjacent to
fuch inlet, or river, or commif
fioners of pilotage of fuch port,
as the cafe may happen, and fuch
corporation juftices or cotnmif
fioners, are hereby fully author
ifed to fix fuch ccntinels and
guard boats, and to ufe all and
every means in their power, to
enforce this law, for the purpo
fes intended." And it is further
enafted, in and by the faid law,
“ that the pilot, or pilots belong,
ing to the fcveral ports of this
I (late, do, before his, or their
I entering on board any (hip or
I veffel deflintd for this (late,
I make drift enquiry of every
I matter or commander of the
I fame, whether the plague, fmall
I pox. malignant fever, or other
I contagious di(order, be in fuch
I (hips or vcffels. And in cafe
I fuch pilot, or pilots, (hall, upon
I inquiry, find that the plague,
I fmall pox, malignant fever, or
I other contagious diforder, be in
I fuch ILp or vedel, fuch pilot or
I pilots, are forbidden from cntcr-
I on any pretence
■ wbatloever.
I And it is alfo enatfed, To be
■ the duty of the corporation,
■ yiHices, or others therein em
■ powered, after notifying to the
■ people of the diftrift they live
■ ln ) of the neceffity of ordering
■quarantine to be performed,
■forth with to tranfmit by exprefs,
P°fi, an exafct account, and
■htemenf thereof to the Cover-
B^ r an( * Commander in Chief
■ the time being, who is di-
I to publidi the fame by
» roc amation, enjoining and re-
K llrin S a due obedience to the
■ P* ations for preventing con
■ EvV iftem P ers c * n g fpread
■ tins date,
’ information has
fl e d the Executive Depart
cßom • t^at e pidemic a nd
) Mox^' 0118 (^order » fmall
1 as keen introduced by
- ■ Cr lnto city of Savannah,
|d w! raVemion the faid law.
■ faid e * r ° m * noCu l at i° n » it
k 0 have become general.
and from hence to have ipread
over, or to have been carried
info the adjacent country, of the
counties of Chatham and dry an;
which if true, had the corpora
tion and pilots of Savannah
done their dutv, the diforder,
would not at firft have been in
troduced, or permitted to fpread;
or on notification to the Gover
nor, which lie has never yet
officially received from the cor
poration, would have been con
fined (after being introduced)
to the city alone.
And whereas, I am informed
that the faid diforder (till con
tinues to fpread, and incrcafe,
and is likely to becornq general
throughout the (late at a mo
ment, when the fun is aimed
vertical, and the hooping cough
and fevers prevail, whereby ma
ny lives will be - endangered,
and from the numbers of perfons
in the wellern pans of the date,
as well free as (laves, who have
never had the (mall pox the
crops -• may be at great hazard
and ri(k, by the lofs of their la
bor, which will become a public
as well as private calamity, • » '
And whereas , It is in and by
the aft afore-recited further de
clared, that, whenever the gover
nor and commander in chief for
the time being, diall find it nc
ceffiry to give any orders or di
reftions for preventing any con
tagious difiemper from being
brought into this dare, or from
any part of the date infefted
therewith, into any uninfefted
part of this date, by perfons tra
veling by land or water, it (hall,
and may be lawful for the faid
governor orcommander in chief,
by proclamation for thatpurpofc
to be iffued, to prohibit all, and
every perfpn, and perfons, com
ing from (uch infefted place, or
places, to enter into, or come
within fuch bounds, limits or
lines, as (hall be in fuch procla
mation, deferibed, for and dur
ing fuch time, as (hall be there
in mentioned, and to appoint
boats, and centinels, to put the
fame in due execution, and the
perfons appointed, and every
of them, (hall have the fame
power to compel anv perfon,
attempting to pafs through, or
within fuch bounds, limits, or
lines, to return as by the faid
aft, is given to the perfons, 10
be appointed to fee the quaran
tine, duly performed, and (hall
be liable to the fame penalties
for differing perfons to pafs
within or through the fame.
And all and every perfon or
perfons, willfully palling thro'
or within the faid bounds, limits
or lines, (hall be liable to the
fine, or imprisonment, in the
faid aft pointed out, in cafe of
perfons quitting any (hip, veffel
or boat, performing quarantine,
wljjch is a fine of fifty pounds,
on conviftion, before any one
judice of the peace, living near
the place where the offence (ball
be committed, and three free
holders fworn to try the truth of
the charge ; and in default of
payment of fuch fine, to be im
prisoned in one of the public
jails of this date, for any time
not exceeding twelve, nor lefs
than fix months.
I have therefore , in confidera
tion of the aforefaid ciicum
rt antes, an d in purfuance of the
authority and power in me by
the faid aa vcftcd. thought fit to
illuc this my proclamation, pro
hibiting and intcrdi&irrg, all,
and every perl'on and pcrfons,
(poft riders and public cxpreffes
only « excepted) from coming
without the boundary lines of
the counties of Chatham, and
Bryan, into any other county or
counties of this (late, or coming
in boats further up Savannah
Kiv er, tiian wheic Knox’s Creek
empties into the fame ; the faid
Creek being near the boundary
line between Chatham and
Effingham counties; or further
up the Ogechce River than
where the laid boundary line
between Effingham and Chat
ham (hall Hi ike the fame. ’
And Fertile due oblervanc#
of, and obedience to this prohi
bition and interdiction, I do
hereby nominate and appoint,
the judices of the inferior courts
of the counties of Effingham,
Bullock and Liberty, in con
junction with the refpcCtive
commanding officers of the mi
litia of the laid counties for the
time, being, to be * the perfons
appointed, hereby requiring and
commanding them to carry this
proclamation into execution, as
they will be liable to the penal
ties provided by the faid aft, in
cafe of neglcft or refufal, and for
that purpofc do give them full
power and authority, to hire
or employ fuch boats as guard
boats, and to call out fuch num
ber of militia to man them as
well as to a6l as centincls, as to
them may appear neceflary—
Provided, that in Effingham they
fhall not exceed two boats—one
for Savannah and one for
Ogechee rivers; and one fubal
tem, one leryeanr, two corporals,
and twenty privates—for the
county of Bullock, one lerjeant,
one corporal, and twelve pri
vates—and for Liberty, two
boats, one lubaltern,one ferjeant
two corporals, and twenty pri
vates, the expcnces of which,
as well as the pay and fubfiftence
of the men, {bail be defrayed, as
by law exprefled out of the con
tingent fund. —And I do hereby
notify to all perfom concerned , That
the faid prohibition and intcrdic*
tion, fhall be and continue itf
full force, until further orders
and dire£tions to the contrary
(ball be iffued by me ; of which
due notice will be given.
And I do hereby further direH
and order , 1 hat the poft riders
and public cxpreffes do fhift
their eloathes at fome conve
nient place, near and as clofe to
the limits and bound* herein
preferibed as poffible, both in
going to and returning from the
faid counties of Chatham and
Bryan. And I do hereby for
bid their bringing any parcels,
boxes, phials, or packages of
any kind or nature whatfoever,
(the public mail or exprefs
only excepted) from without
the limits of Chatham and Bry
an counties into any other coun
ty. And 1 do recommend to
the different poft inafters within
this ftate, to famigatc with
brimftone the letters, papers and
package-, the refpetlive mails
may contain immediately after
the mails are opened,
And 1 do Jurih.tr require cf the
corporation cf Savannah, and the
jufitces of the inferior courts of the
counties of Chatham and Bryan %
1 hat they do make weekly liatc
rnents and returns to the Execu
tive Department of the Hat*
and progrefs of fhc difeafe, the
numbers with, and the
amount of deaths occahonrd by
the final 1 pox between the period
of each return* to unable tho
Executive to judge of the necef
fny duration of the prohibition
nnd interdiction hereby laid, in
uider that inrrrcourle may not
he unneccHTarily reftfitlcd, nor
the commetcc of the flourifhirg
city of Savannah hr impeded.
And I do further require that
the corporation of Savannah do as
focn as conveniently way be, wake a
true and jufl flatement to the Depart
ment, how, hy what means, and tv
what authority the [wall pox was
introduced into the city of Savannah,
and how it became jo generally
Ipready and carried into the adja
cent country, in order that the fame
belaid he fore the lepfjaiure at their
nextJJjion for their deliberation .
Given under my hand, and the
great fial of tin State , at the
State JJoufe, in Louifviile, ihiS
fourteenth day of June, in the
year of our lord eighteen
hundred, and in the twenty
fourth year oj American ln»
dependence.
[AMES JACKSON;
By the Governor ,
Ho RATIO MaRIURY,
\ Secretary,
God fave the State . ' ' /
NOTFc Z. "
To Garland Hardwick, efq, iav
colleflor oj JefferJon county , and
all others whom it may concern •
THE Suhfcrlber hereby fu • bida the
cax ro!lf(3or of county,
•nd all other perfom from felling ood
dlfpofiog of a traft of land, adverlifed
in the Zouihillc Garctic, and defenbed
as followa :
noo acrci 3d quality land, in Jack
foil county, on Curry Creek, j jnirg
John Gorum, grantrd to William Gib
bona ; taken aa the property of John
Moreland, in default for the ikic. for
the year 1 799, The Suhfcribrr baa not.
ronviycd the (aid TraCt »o (he faidl
Moreland, nor any orficr f>crfoo,
and hai regularly paid the tax for the
fold land annually aa the fame became
due, for wb ch payment be holda the
' receip of the nlpcdivc r« fe&orj of
the county, in which be refidei agrees
ably tu law
Will iam Gibbons, jun;
•Sa7annab, 4, 1800.
N O T I C FT
THA7' nine tuontba from the dftc
hereof, application will be nude to
the Honourable the Inferior Court of
jrftnfoo Comi'y, for prrm flir □ to fell a
tr. ft of one hundred cf land, lyirg
on Bg Creek, in county,
joining Cunning and Whighart’a, part
of the real eftate of J'ofcph Btafy,
dec. for the bcnchl of the heirs of faii
Juityb Beatty.
William Beatty,
B. Whitaker,
Txecutcrs.
June 3, l too.
Tobacco Manufactory.
WILLIAM FEE, r-fpeAfully
infoino tf e public, (hat hr bat
commenced the above bufinrff in Ellia-
Street, Augufta, nppofue Mi Jkmen
Edward*, where he inteoda keeping
good manufatturra tobacco for Me, by
the ieg or pound, which b€ will fcli
low for cafh or iced cottoo.
7 une $•
BLANK DEEDS
Tor Sale ot this Office.