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Volume V.] LOUISVILLE, (GEORGIA) Publilhed every WednefiUy, by AMBROSE DAY & JAMES HELY. Printers, a: 3 dollars per arm.' V\ here Efiays, Articles of Intelligence, Advcrtiicments, &c. Ac. are thankfully received, and PUNIING in all its variety, is executed with ncatnels and dilpateh. GEORGIA. By his Excellency JOHN MIL LEDGE, Governor and Com mander in Chief of the Army and Navy of this ftate, and of the Militia thereof. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS I have receiv ed effi cial information from the Iheriff of Richmond County, thata certain W illi am Champion, confined under a charge of murder, in the com mon jail of the laid county, did on the twenty-feventh ultimo, make his efcape therefrom.—l have therefore thought fit to if fue this my proclamation, of fering a reward of one hundred dollars, to any perfon or per Cons who will apprehend the find William Champion, and him fafdy lodge in fome fecurc jail within this (late. And I do hereby charge and require all officers, civil and military belonging to this (late, to be aiding and affilting in ap prehending and fecuring the faid offender, lb that he may be brought, by a due courfe of law, to anfwer to the charge al ledged again ft him. Given under my hand, and the Great Seal of the ftate, at the State Houfe, in Louifviile, this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thoufand eight hundred & three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the twenty-feventh. JOHN MILLED3E. By the Governor , George R. Clayton, for Horatio Mar bury, ift's secretary of ftate. God save the State. William Champion is a hout twenty-two years of age, Jive feet 8 or 9 inches high, light bairi and fair complexion, well made , and remarkably all Toe. NOTICE. ALL thofe that have any demands again $ the Eft ate of Stephen Powell , late of this coun ty, dec. are required to render them in properly attefted, on or before the fir ft of May next, and thofe indebted to fail Eft ate are requefted to make immediate pay ment. John Powell, W. D. C AWT HORN, Executors. February 22, ISO 3. ALMANACS For the Year 1803. For Sale at this Office. THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE? AND REPUBLICAN trumpet. WEDNESDAY, March 16, 1803. LiB&RTTIS OUR MOTTO TRUTH OUR QUIDS. PR OPOSALS Per printing by Subscription, in the 'town cf Sparta, hlan cork County, a Republican News-Paper, to be entitled , ThcFARMER’s GAZETTE. CONDITIONS. I. The Farmer’s Gazette, /ball be printed weekly , on demi paper, of a good quality—end delivered to Subscribers in Star ta tn the day cf publication, and to thofe at a diftame , agreeable to direction. 11. 'The price to each Subscri ber, will be three dollars per an num, payable half yearly—one half will be requhtd on the receipt cf the frjl number, and the remainder at the end cf fix months. JJJ. Advcrti/ements inferted on the ufual terms —and Communi cations of an interefting nature, promptly attended to. IV. The paper will commence on the firft day of July next, or fooner, if three hundred Sub scribers are obtained. To the Public. THE. Subfcribers, afluated by a dfftre to comply with the numerous felicitations of gen tlemen in feveral parts of Han cock County, and fome of the adjoinii g Counties—with a hope of its proving beneficial to the Country, offer to the confidera tion of the Public, the forego ing Propofals: and they pledge themfelves to the encouragers of this undertaking, that it w ill be their conftant aim to purfue thofe meafures which will tend to promote the public good. Ambrose Day. Dennis L. Ryan. Louifviile, March 1, 1803. ffpj* Suhfcripticns are received at all the Peft -Offices in Hancock County. — Alfo, at the Peft- Offices, Greenejhorough, War rent on and Georgetown. .. rr r -— * GEORGIA, Burke County. PERSONALLY appeared John Dixon, being duly Jworn before me James Lefter, a Juft ice of the Peace for Jaid coun ty, and faith , that he had a Note of Hand for Eighteen Dol lars, on Robert John]on, Efq. of Jaid county, due Jome time in March, 1802 —Alfo a Bond con ditioned for the delivery of an Accompt agairft David Dixon, for Ninety-three Dollars and ninety-four cents, or thereabouts, which faid Note and Bond is loft or mi (laid Jo that it cannot be found. JOHN DIXON. Sworn to before me this pth of Sept. 1802. James Letter, J.Rc. CONGRESS Of the UNITED STATES. House of Representatives. Turf day, Eehruary 15. As loon as the journal of the proceedings of ye Herd ay was read, on motion ot Mr. Nichol lon, the galleries v,ere cleared. An engroffed bill to make provision for perfens that have been dilabied bv known wounds J received in the aflual lbrvice of the United States, during the revolutionary war, w ; as read the third time and palfed. An engroffed bill entitled, an aft in addition ro an aft, entitled an aft more tffedhialiy to pro vide for the national defence by dftabliftiing an uniform militia throughout the United States, was read the third time and peffed. The houfe refolved itfelf into a committee of the whole on the leport of a ftlecft Committee rtf pt fling claims againft the Linked States, for the fcrvices of the militia of the State of Georgia. Mr. John C. Smith in the chair.— 1 he report is as follows; The committee to whom was re ferred the report cf the Jeer eta ry cf war, together with fun dry documents rejpetting claims again >t the United States, to compenfation for fcrvices per formed by certain militia With in the State of Georgia, during the year ipeyyand 1794, Respectfully Report— THAT it appears to ybur committee, that the faid fervic es were performed under cir cumftanccs which render them a juft claim to compcnfition from the government of the United States, and that faid go vernment hath already gone far in recognizing their validity, by fettling with, and making payment to the contractor who furnifhed lup plies to the laid militia, whilft engaged in per forming the fame lerviccs for which they now claim compen fation. Your committee therefore beg leave to lubmit the follow ing refolution — Refolved, Thatprovifion ought to be made by law, for the pay ment of certain militia employ ed within the State of Georgia, during the years 17932nd 1794, for the defence of faid ftate. After debate, the committee rofe, reported progreft, and afked leave to fit again, which was granted by the houfe. The houfe went into a com mittee of the John C. Smith in the chair—on the bill to amend an aft entitled, an aft to amend the judicial fyftem of the United States. On morion of Mr. Bayard, the further confideration of the bill waspoftponed till Saturday. Ihe fpcaker laid before the houfc a report of the commif fioners appointed in purluance of the a6t entitled an aft for an amicable fcttlcmcnt of limits with the State of Georgia, and, aufhorifing the cflablifhmenc of a government in the Mifiiflippi territory, on the claims made by fetders, &c. Referred to Me firs. Nichol fon, Terney, Gregg, Van Renf- Valuer, and R. Williams. When the houfc adjourned. 'lhurjday t February 17. On motion of Mr. Early, the houfc again refolved itfelf into a committee of the whole on the report of a fdeft com mime, in favour of allowing the claims for the performance of militia fervicc in the Rate of Georgia. Mr. John C. Smith in the chair. On agreeing to the report a debate an fe which continued during the fitting. Me firs. Early, Nicholfon, Gregg; Meriwether, S. Smith, Macon and Varnum, ftippnrted ; and Mefffs. Elmer, Elmcndorf, Thatcher; Full is, Randolph, Morris, Holland, and Haflings, oppofed the report. When the report was difa greed to —Ayes 31 —Noes 36. The houfc immediately rook up the report of the committee. Mr. Nicholfon faid as the houfc was thin, and as the fubjrft was important, both to the United States and to the State of Georgia, he would move an adjournment. Motion loll—Ayes 34 Noes 36. Mr. Randolph obferved that: he had no difpofnion to profs a final decifion when the houfc was thin ; but as he did not wifh a qiiefilw-n of fo much impor tance to be decided at fo late a period of the feffion, when ma ny of the members were abfenr, he would move 3 poftponmcnc of the fubjeft to the full Mon day in November. Carried—Ayes 33 —Noes 31. Friday , February 18. The fpcaker laid before die houfe a report from the fecre tary of the treafury inclofmg an annual retu: n of the difirift ton nage of the United States. An engrofied bill to revive and continue in force an aft ta cflablilh trading houfes with the Indian tribes was read a third time and pafictL [No. 194.