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TER MS [
OF THE
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
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half cents per fquarc for the firft
Infereion, and fifty cents for each
continuation.
3. No papers will be difconrlnu
ed without a notice to that effect j
nor then If in arrears.
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rized to receive Subfcriptions for this
Paper :—
Clarksboro ’ —Poft-Mailer.
Jefferfon —Gen. B. Harris.
Watkinfville —E. B, Jenkins, efq.
and Mr. Edward Bond.
Lexington —Pufi Mailer, & Capt.
Wat kins.
Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields,
and William I umpkins, Efq.
Walnut Grove —Mr. Lee Atkins.
Goofe-pond- —Mr. H. T. Woody.
Greenes kpro’— Capt. T. Dawfon.
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and Jamri, Bozeman, Efqrs.
Eatontoh —Chrulophcr B. Strong,
Efq.
Elbert on—Col. Wro. Chifiom.
Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. &
Do6t. Watkins.
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Doctor Bibb.
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Capt/ John Hughes.
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ler.
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Doctor Smelt.
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ray.
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erg, and Mr. A. W. Scribner.
BOWLING GREEN
JOCKEY CLUB PACES,
T7t7
V ILL commence on the laft
Wednefday in Feoruary next, and
continue three days.
The firft: day’s running, three
miles and repeat, fur a purie of 300
dollars.
Second day’s running, two miles
and repeat, for a purie of 200 dol
lars.
Third day’s running, one mile
ar.d repeat, for the entrance money,
and overplus of the fubfeription.
Each day free ‘for any hone,
mare, or gelding on the Continent,
carrying weights a i follows :
Three years old, qo rounds—
four years, iog pounds—five years,
. .> pounds—fix years 120 pounds
—aged hot fes, 130 pound?. Three
pounds allowed to mares and geld
ings.
By order cf the PRESIDENT,
eihorpt, Dec. 23.
MANY shall RUN TO AND FAO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED.
PRINTED BY M'DONNELL HARRIS. SATURDAY, JANUARY aS, iSou.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
GEORGIA.
Milledgeville, January 4, 1800.
ORDERED,
- hat the aft to appropriate
the finds heretofore fet apart for
the redemption of the public debt,
paflrd the 22d of December laft,
•be puhlifhed in the Milledgeville
Intel! ger.cer, Georgia Argus, Lou
iiviilc Gazette, Augufta Chronicle,
Savannah Intelligencer, the Moni
tor, and Georgia Exprefs, for the
information of the citizens of this
ftate.
Atteft,
JAMES BOZEMAN,
Secretary,
AN ACT
To appropriate the Lunds heretofore
fet apart for the redemption of the
Public Debt.
Vv HEREAS by an ad: of the
General AiTembly, paffed the 26di
of June, ißc6, entitled, (t An aft
to difpole of and diftribme the late
ccJlion of lands obtained from the
Creek nation by the United States,
in & treaty concluded at the city of
Wafhingten, the 14th day of No
vember, 5 805,” n is among other
things cnafted, <c That the fraftion
al parts of furveys which may be
created by the natu r al or artificial
boundaries of faid territory, flha'l
be fet apart for the redemption of
the Public Debt, under the direc
tion of a future iegiflature.”
And whereas the aforefaid fund
is now becoming productive, and
a confiderable part of the monies
due and owing to the ftate for fuch
fractional furveys, have and will
(peedily become due ; and the ie
g’-flature having failed to make fuch
arrangement cf the faid fund as to
enabie the proper officers to carry
the intentions of the aforefaid aft
Into eff-ft : ;
1, Be it therefore enabled by the
Senate and Houfe cf Reprefentalives of
the State of Georgia in General Af -
Jembly met, and by the authority of
the fame, That the Treafurer, un
der the immediate direction of his
Excellency the Governor for the
time being, (hall and he is hereby
authorifed and directed to receive
at the Treafury Office, in payment
cf fuch monies as are or hereafter
may become due on bonds taken
and depofred in the Treafury Of
fice, for the aforefaid fraft'onal
furveys, certificates or outftanding
evidences of the debt of this fUte,
at and after the following to
wit :—Audited certificates and Go
vernor’s warrants, commonly call
ed warrants of anticipation, at one
eighth of their nominal value. Pre
fkient’s and Speaker’s warrants lf
iffuediihee the year 1789 ; gratui
tous certificates, funded certificates
with feven years intereft added
thereto after the rate of fev£n per
cent per annum, he Governor’s war
rants iflued fince the year 1789, at
their nominal value. And bounty land
warrants lffued to the late troops,
amounting in the whole to three
hundred and eighty-five choufand,
five hundred and ten acres, at and
after the rate of thirty-one end a
quarter cents per acre.
2. And be it further enabled by the
authority aforefaid, That the fum of
fifty-five rhouland dollars of the
money ar fing from payments on
the aforelaid bonds, (hail be and the
lame Is fet apart and appropriated
annually and every year, for the re
demption of the aforefaid outftand
irg evidences of the debt of this
Rate : Provided, Such fum lhali be
annually received ac the Treafury ;
and his Excellency the Governor
for the time being, is hereby au
thorifed and empowered, to iffje to
tbe holder or holders of certificates
of the aforefaid denominations, re
duced as before directed, by war
rant: on the Treafury for the amount
of his, her, or their claim, reduced
as aforefaid, payable out of any mo
ney a riling from payments made to
the Treafury for the aforefaid frac
tional furveys.
BENJAMIN WHITAKER,
Speaker of the floufe of
Reprefent atives
HENRY MITCHELL,
P ref dent of the Senate.
Executive Department, Georgia.
A (Tented to 22ft Dec. 1808.
j ARED IR WIN, Governor.
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
ATHENS, JANUARY 28.
From a disappointment in receiv
ing an expected fijpply of Paper
vve are obliged to iffue the Georgia
Exprefs this week on a half (licet.
Yefterday arrived at this port,
the (chooner Jane, capt. Hall,
in 85 days from Oporto. Sailed
from that place on the 29th of No
vember. About ten days before
his departure intelligence had been
received from Corunna that a great
battle had been fought between the
Span.ifh troops and people, con
tending for the independence of
their country, and their invaders,
the French, in which the former
ft)ft -red a defeat, with the lofs *f
30,000. This news had not been
officially received at Oporto but was
credited by fome. The Portuguefe
however, appeared to be in good
fpirirs. The adlion, it was laid,
took place near Pamluna.
B ‘naparre was faid to be on the
Spamfh frontiers with an army of
200,000, and the French army en
gaged was reported ar 150,000.
Bos. Pal. of January 6.
The following propefitions were
made bv the Emperors cf Ruffin
ar.d of France to Great Britain.
1 ft. Hanover to be reftored to
Great Britain.
2nd. Brunfwick to be reftored
to the heirs of the Duke.
3rd. Holland to be reftored to
the Prince of Orange.
4‘h. Portugal to be reftored to
the Duke of Bragar.za, or become
a Britifh Colony.
sth. King Ferdinand (of Na
ples) to retain Sicily.
6th. Jofeph Napoleon to be
come King of Spain and the Indies,
The intelUr-nce mav be relied
on j I received it from Bordeaux
by the iate arrival; and my cor
refpondent, intimately acquainted
with French policy, his lent me
other interefting commuHcariona
which i will hereafter make known.
Colvin's Monitor.
NOTICE. *
Prcfcfals in writing will be received
until the frf of March next, for
BUILDING A JAIL
IN GREENS BO ROUGH,
¥PON THE FOLLOWING FLAN, VIZ.
TO be built of flone, laid in lime
mortar, 44 feet in length ar.d 22in
breadth—Two rooms below for the
jailor and a guad wl en neccffar) —>■
one 16 feet fquare, the other 14 in
lengtn and 16 in breadth’ with
fialDge between 4 feet .wide — A lib
two rooms above of the fize with
thofe below, the large one for a
debtors apartriGnr, the (null on*:
for a criminals apartment, with a
ft ght of (tcp3 and Janciing place in
tne paffige between.— ihe walls
furrounding the criminals apart
ment co be three feet thick —-thofe
furroundirg the debtors apartmenc
to be three feet thick at the fidcs
and two feet tl>ick at the ends.
The checks of the doors and
windows above to he fecured by
iron bars on eich fide the wall, r’
vetoed together through the will—>
The upper ft mrs to have their
Beepers laid clofe together, and tii
the criminals room the Beepers to
have iron bars let into them creff
wife fix inches apart, well fecured
by bolts and then covered with two
inch plank.—Both the debtors ar.d
criminals room to be fecured over
head by ftrong (l epers hid rntGrl/
clofe and weli faftentd down—’Fhe
grates to be of iron bars inch fquarc,
2nd as many fetts in a window as
will entirely break the lights.
The doors above to he fecured
by iron bars (trapped in ft dr and
ouifite and iccured by rivets going
through.
The materials to be all furniilKd
By the undertaker.
PE TER EARLY,
JAMES CUNNINGHAM.
THOMAS W GRIMES, O
Conmiffoners
P. S. The propofals* tnuft Lis
directed to Mr. Thomas W. Grim s
In GreenHbjrough, Green County,
Gco r gia.
November id, i?o8.
LAWYER’S OFFICE.
THE fubfather havirc.’ com—
j O
menetd the praffiice of Law in the
Ocmulgee circuit, tenders L s
profefiional fervices to the public.
He w .ll practice in Oglethorpe
perior eburt. His place <4 rHi
dence 1* ac Eater.ton in Putnam
county, where he may always be
found, when not on fhe cirraft.—-
Letters directed as above will be
atter.drd to. \
CHISTOPHER B STRONG.
January 7, i3c<).
(No. 27■
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