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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.