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VCL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA : TER MS [ OF THE GEORGIA EXPRESS. 1. IT will be printed weekly, at three dollars per annum ; one half to be paid in advance, the remainder a: the expiration of fix months. 2. Advertifements will be charg ed at the rate of fixtv-two and a 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. [£/* All letters directed to the Editors mult be poft paid. The following Gentlemen are autho 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. Sparta —Doctor W. Terrell. War rent on — Poft - Mailer. Powe It on— P oft - Matte r. Milledgeville —Tho mat* Mounger and Jamri, Bozeman, Efqrs. Eatontoh —Chrulophcr B. Strong, Efq. Elbert on—Col. Wro. Chifiom. Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. & Do6t. Watkins. Vienna —S. B. Shields, Efq. Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. Sc Doctor Bibb. . Lincoln —Captain N. Allen, and Capt/ John Hughes. Louifvills —MtIT. Day & Whee ler. Augufa —J. S. Walker, Efq. Ec Doctor Smelt. Waynesboro*— -Col. John Davies. Sanderjviile —Mr. Win, M'Mur ray. Savannah —Mr. H. H. Moun 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■ ‘I $