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An Ordinance, To amend and consolidate the different Ordinances for raising a fund for the support of a Watch in the City of Savannah , I. ‘BEIT ORDAINED By the Mayer and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, and it hereby is ordained by the authority ojtke same, in conformity unth the ad of the Le gislature in that case made and provided, ■That far lupporting a public Watch in the city of Savannah, a I ax fiiall be levied on persons and property within the limits and jurlscKftion cl the laid city, as fol lows——tovvit ; On all Houses, Buildings, Lots and V/harves, within the said city, as well unimproved as improved, except ing lots held by lease from the Corpora tion, twenty cents on every hundred'dol lars value thereof to be -alTefsed and valuea as is hereaiter provided for by virtue oi this ordinance, and to be paid by the own er thereof—on all houses, buildings, lots, and wharves, owned by persons residing out of the limits of this state, as well un improved as improved, fifty cents on ev ery hundred dollars value thereof, to be paid by the owner thereof, his agent or at torney. 11. And be it further ordained, That every peifon trading in this city, who re sides therein, ftitil pay twenty five cents Oi-every hundred dollars value of his -Sock intrade—Bc that every person trading in this city, who hath not paid or become fubjeft to the City Tax, for the last year, {hall pay twenty five renis on every hun dred dollars value of his flock in trade. That every male white inhabitant, above the age of bi years, who may not cth erwiie be fubje£! to payment of a tax equal to three dollars by virtue of this ordi nance, shall pay an additional tax of two dollars, which sum shall also be paid by pci Tons as above dsferibed, who have no taxable property. That each and every free negro or per son of colour inhabitant of this city, and exerciGng any trade or hsndicraft, or the bu-finefs of a huclcftcr, carter, or drayman, shall pay a tax of ten dollars over and a bove their taxable property 5 and that each and every other iree negro or person of colour, males from the age of fixteento forty-five years, and females from the age cf lourteen to forty-five years ol age, shall pay a tax oi five dollars over and above their taxable property. That every inhabitant within this city, shall pay a tax of twenty-five cents on each Have within the city, from the age of four teen to lortyTive years, of whom he or she is the owoer, or of whom he or she may have the care or management. Likcwife the undermentioned sums on Carriages of pieafurs of the following descriptions, used and employed within the city—-viz : Oh every Coach, Chariot, Poll Cbsife, Coichee, Piixton, or other four wheel car nave, and every Curricle, three dollars— On every Chair, Cliaife, Gig, Sulkey, or <><lier two wheel carnages with top3, one dollar, without tops feventy-five cents. And that each & -every Pri&iuoner of Law end Physic, Fattor, Brookcr and Commis. fion Merchant, Quit pay star of two dol -1 lari. 111. And be it further ordained, That a tax of fifty cents (ball be levied on all Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, not the produce of this state, and with the excep tion of Rice, Cotton, Lumber, Corn, Tar, and unmanufactured Tobacco, the pro duce of South Carolina, which ihall be Told on comraiflion by any person residing within the limits of the city (except such as ftjjit t> IVild-at public aufticn) on every hundred dollars fold, to be paid by the person felling the fame; and it shall be the duty of every Coraonflion Merchant or other person felling on coniroiflion, “within the limits of this city, to makejufi and true returns thereof on oath, to the City Treasurer on die firft day of Janua ry and on the full day of May in every year, after the palling of this Ordinance, and he orthsy shall within ten days after making such returns, pay into the Treasu ry of this city, the amoumof tax to which the said goods and merchandize shall be finbjeft by virtue of this ordinance, and an delault of making such return, it Cull and may be lawful for the City Treasurer, within twenty days thereafter, Irom the heft information which he can obtain, to aflels the Value of all goods or merchan dize which may have been fold as afeiefaio by every such person in default, and warrant of distress and sale for the amoum of tax, conformably to laid aiTefi metit, null torthwitSpbeifrued by theTres surer, direSicf to the City Marfhsl againff ti-.e goods and chattels of every such de. faulter ; and also, against the goods 2nd chattels of every person who shall male* a return, but (hall negleSl to pay the *- noaiit©f his, her or their tax as afoccfatd, at'the* tire required, and that, such ether proceedings shall be had, as is hereafter 3i refiled by virtue of this ordinance. IV. And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid , That a tax of finy cents shall be levied and paid on every hundred dollars value ot all goods or mer chandize which may arrive or beexpofed to falc within the limints of this city, by any non.refidept after the affefimeot shall have heen made and the Digest completed, such n ■n-resident (hall on his arrival, make Inch return on oath, and give security to the Treasurer of the city, to pay the tax ac : cruing on such goods and merchandize within ten deys alter—and in case any such non-resident on his arrival shall negleft or refufe to mike a return and give security as aforefaid, it shall be the duty of the Ci ty Treasurer to afffifs.the v*lue of the said goods according to the bed of his informa tion, and such other proceedings shall take place, for-fecuringand compelling the pay ment of the said tax, as aie provided in and by this ordinance lor coilcfling the tax of defaulting Commission Merchants. ’V. And be it further ordained, That all property and persons liable to taxation, by virtue of this ordinance, (hall be afTefs ed by Committees appointed by Council, whofedutyit shall be, and they arehereby authorized and acquired to makes just and accurate statement and return of all per sons and property subject to the taxes a bove fpecified,'2nd to aflefs and elt 1 mate the value thereof by the bell information which can be procured. VI. And be it further ordained, Tharit (hall be the duty of the said Committees respectively to proceed in each of the dis tricts above fpecified, to make the aflefs manta in ten days after “the palling of ibis ordinance, and to make returns thereof, certified and signed by them, to the City Treasurer, which returns (hill fpecify and enuracratethe property afleffed clearly and distinctly, and shall also contain and have annexed thereto the value by them so as leflfid uCCa the said property, and so soon as the said Returns shall have been made into the Treasurer’s Office, it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to give public notice thereof by advettifement in two of the public Gazettes within the city, that the returns of aUeirment have been made to his office, and that any person or per sons, who may confider him, her or thetn feives aggrieved by any valuation of his, her or their property, which may have been so made and returned, may enter an appeal thereon in the treasurer’s office within ten days after the publication of such notice, and the Treasurer shall be al lowed for the entry of such appeal twen ty-five cents to be paid by the appellant; and the City Council ere hereby authoris ed and required, at the next regular meet ing, after the time limited for entering ap peal* as aforefaid (half have expired, to decide on such appals, and also, to decide on the valuations so ma.de and returned by adding to or deducting trom any or either of them, and that the said valuations and aflefltnenu so returned, when revised, cor rected and decided on by the city coun cil, (hail be final and concltifive. VII, And be it junker ordained, That after the said afieffments shall have been revised, corrected and decided on, in manner herein before directed : they (hall be delivered to the Treasurer v/hofe duty it shall be to compile a digest therefrom, for which he (hall be allowed a compensation of eighty dollars, and conformably thereto to receive the taxes foaffeflied, and shall be allowed as a compenfutica for receiving and ‘paying the money to be levied and raised by virtue of this ordinance, two and a half per centum out of the money so raised. VIII. And be it further ordained, That within thirty daysaher the Treasurer has given notice that the digest is completed and that he is ready to receive the taxes thereon, the persons fubjeetto taxation as above fpecified, Stall pay the amounts of their afieflments respectively to him ; and if any owner of any house, building, lot, wharf, or other real properly, or any other person whatever subject to taxation by vir tue of this ordinance, shall teiufe to pay the airefFments made as aforefaid, eilhei upon such house, building, lot, wharf, or other rftai properly, a warrant of diflref* md sale shall forthwith be ilbied by th* Treasurer, against any goods qf chatties that may be found on the premffes, and the fame shall be seized and fold” at public suction, and so much shall be deducted from the amount of such sale, as will b* iufficicntto pay the afleflmcnt aforefaid, and to defray the coftand charges of such leisure and sale, and the overplus, if any, •hsli be paid to the person whose goods 01 chatt les shall have been (cized, as aforef/id, & if no goods or chatties canbe found on the pretnifes, or if the fame be infuflicient t< lifcharge the whole amount due, as afore fitd, then the said house, building, lot, wharf, or other property, shall be sold * public auction by the Treasurer, in such manner and uader such nguUtioiM n<j F , 4 restrictions as are directed by the Tax ha vr IX. %nd be it further ordained, That if any perfou subject to the payment of a ny tax or assessment by virtue of this ordi nance, shall negleft or refufe to pay to the Treasurer, withinthe lime limited as **?**"■ said, the amount of bis or her tax or affers ment, a warrant of distress and sale mail be iflued and proceeded on, in the manner above pointed out, the gcods and chatties, of such delinquent*, And ti* at in case any free negro, or Iree person of co lour, shall neglect or refufe to pay to the Treasurer, his or her tax as aforefaid, with in the time above limited, a warrant of distress andfale shall tffue agaifift the goods and chatties of such free negro or Iree person of colour, and shall be proceed on, m the manner above pointed out ; but if no goods or chatties can be found belong ing toady dree negro or.free person of co lour who may be delinquent as aforefaid, the Treasurer is authorized to issue an ex ecution agamft the body of fuel) tree negro or person of colour, and to cotftmit him or her to the cuflody of the goeler, who is here by required to receive the body of such free negro or person ot colour until his o her tax, with coll and charges be paid ; and every free negro and free person ot coloir Hull in conformity with a public notific#. tion to be given (y the Treasurer, make* return df his or l.er name and age, and 01 the. names and ages of his or her children, and of bis, her and their idpectiye place? of abode, and occupation to the Treasurer who (hall enter the fame in a book to b kept for that purpefe ; and if any free ne gio or free perfoncf colour lhall neglect 01; refufe to make such returns, within th< time and in the manner above preferibed or fiiall give in a wrong name with an in tention to deceive the Treasurer, he o she shall in either case be doubly taxed and proceed against in the fame manner a above directed with regard to free negroe.- and perf.ms of colour. X. And be it further ordained, That ab real and personal property within the cits of Savannah, subject to taxation as afore faid, and difeovered by the Treasurer al ter the assessment has been made, (ball b< liable to assessment at the fame rale, aw in the fame proportion, and subject to tin fame process and disposition as any like property in the city, of which an assess ment is made, and the Treasurer is hereby vested withrhe fame powers, and -charge, with the fame duties to enforce payment of taxes on property discovered as afore said, as if they had been assessed by thi committees appointed by this ordinance. XI. And be it further ordained, That in all warrrants ol distress and sale, and exe cutions issued by the Treasurer, ptfrfuan? to this ordinance, he shall be entitled tv fifty cents on each. XII. And be it further ordained, That the ordinance entitled an ordinance to raise a fund for the support es a Waich in the City of Savannah, passed yth Apiil, 1806, and the Ordinance entitled “ An Ordi nance to amend an Ordinance, entitled an Ordinance to raise a fund for the support of a watch inthe city of Savannah, passed of November, 1806, be and the fame are hereby repealed. In COUNCIL, Savannah, 30 tk Nov. 1807. **++*+i Passed, t L.S. | Wm. DAVIS, i . s1 -1 I'l i'i i’ il* Chairman. ATTEST, D. D. WILLIAMS, C. C. Marshal's Sales. ON the fir ft Tuesday In January next, Will be ■Sold at the Court-house in the Citv of Savannah, One NEGRO WOMAN and CHILD. Also, a mim ber of Articles of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, levied on asthe property of DoSor James Ewell, by virtue of an *scecution obtained by C. Newell. BENjAMLN WALL, M. D. G. November 30 81 CONTINUED Marshal’s Sales. On the firft TUESDAY in Janucry next, At the Court-Iksufe, will be fold, A variety of DRY GOODS, and fome GROCERIES ; levied on as the property of John Hilton, at the luit of Robert H. Bowne. Conditions Cash. Ben. Wail, m. and. g. Nov. SO gi Mar dial’s Sale. On the Crit Tuesday in January nest, will be fold at the Court-house !n this city, between the hours of ten and three o’clock. The unexpired lease of a Tu-o Story House and Burdingj, on Harden’* (late Clark’s) wharf, below the ■luit of c avannah, late in. the occupancy of Beniamin si “ e ™ iio “" hi * w*. „ , E’en. WALE, k. a. 5. . November H ‘ 0 f ’ LOAN OFFICE, GfcORGtV ‘June 23 d f 1867* Notice is hereby given, that in co*. forraity with the provisions of tlte 3$ supplementary to theaa, imitled ** M atft making provifiort for the Udtmp. tion of the whole of the public debiag the United States/’ books wfll Be cpfo at the office of the commiflioner oflo# for Georgia, on the fir ft day of joi# next,’ to continue open until the seven: teenth day of March, 1808, inclufive* Iy* the fourteen last days of each quar ter excepted, for the purpose -of xfc ceiving fubferiptions far such parts of the old fix per cent, deferred flit pec cent, and three per cent, flock, as on the day of fubfeription, fland 0$ the books of the said cominiffioner of leans. ? Those proprietors of the old fix cent, and deferred flocks, who may fubferibe, will receive in lieu thereof anew fix per cent, flock, equal to the uniedeemed amount of the flock sur rendered, redeemable at the pleasure cf the United States, under a proviso, however, tha mo reimbursement (half be made except for the whole amount of any such new certificate of flock, nor till after fix months previous no tice : and the proprietors of the three per cent, flock who may fubferibe, will receive in lieu thereof, a fix per cent, flock, equal to fixty-five per cent, of the amount of three per cent, surrendered, redeemable in the fame manner as the new fix per cent. above mentioned but noi reimbursable, how ever, without the aflent of the holders, until after the whole of the new fix percent, (given fin exchange for old fix or deferred as above mentioned) as well as the whole of theeight per cent, (lock of the United States, shall have been rcimburfed. It is ailo provided, chat in every reimbursement which may take place, a preference will be iiven to those creditors who may no tify their wilh to be rcimburfed; and that if the applications to that elfidg, shall at any time either exceed or Jail Ihort of the sum then applicable to that purpose, the priority of payment fiiall, so far as may be necessary, be determined by lot. The present flock-holders v;ho re side in any part of Europe, and may assent to that modification, may, at their option, receive the interest ac r cruing on the new flock, either in the United States as heretofore, or in Lon don or Amsterdam, at par; in which lafl case, the interest will be paid there I by the bankers of the United States, [ fix months subsequent to the day ca which the fame would be payable in the United .States and fubjefl; to no variation j nor to any other deduction than a cominiffioner to the bankers, of one half per cent, on the jutereft ‘thus paid. JAMES ALGER, Cansmittiotier of Lotins. NOTE. Proprietors of 1000 dol lars ‘nominal fix per cent, ilock, fnbfcribed before the firft of October, 1807, will be entitled to receive, Gi9 6'2 of pev/ 11 a* tween the firft of Oftober, and 31 ft December, 1807, 611* 27 —■ between the 1R January, & 17th March, 1803. 619 03 Proprietors of 1000 dol lars nominal deferred, fub feribed before the firft of October, 1807, will be enti tled to receive 5 55 73 —— If fnbfcribed be tween the firft October, and 3HI December, 1807, 853 62 * bewteen the _v. Ift January, end the 17th March, 1808, BSI 4$ -r Being the unredaemed amount of flip old ftocjk or. the Ift of July and October OiO'J, and firft January, 1808, refpe&ively. ” ‘ i’i Proprietors of JOOb dollars three per cent, will be entitled t<t Receive 650 do4il' of ’uev? fix. \ -v • * .; / 1 . Wanted Immediately- * A SMALL NEGRO BOY,—For pjjiliefthiW# apply at the pUjcj cf (.fc^.L'e^li^rucs*. Drccnt'.'rr 6 ■•PS