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ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY M'DONNELL fc? H.ii'Rl'S. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, i3oa.
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OF THI
GEORGIA EXPRESS,
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three dollars per annum; one halt
to be paid in advance, the remainder
at the expiration of Ax months.
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ed at the rate of fixty-two and a
half cents per fquare for the fir ft
infertion, tmd fifty cents for each
continuation.
3. No papers will be difcontfnu
cd without a notice to chat efftift j
nor then if in arrears.
iyj* All letters dire&ed to the
Editors muft be poft paid.
The following Gentlemen are autho
rized, to receive Subfcriptions for this
Taper :—
Clarks boro' I —Poft-Made r.
Jefferfon —Gen. B. Harris.
Watkinfville —E. B. Jenkins, efq,
and Mr. Edward Bond.
Lexington —Poft Mafter, dr Capt,
Watkins.
Oglethorpe —Mr. Samuel Shields,
and William Lumpkins, Efq.
Walnut Grove —Mr. Lee Atkins.
Goofe-pond —Mr. H. T. Woody.
Greenes boro ’ —Capt. T. Dawfon.
Sparta —Dodor W. Terrell.
Warrenton —-Poft- Mafter.
Towel ton —Poft ■- M afte r.
Milkdgeville —T homas Mounger
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and Janus Bozeman, Efqrs.
Eatonton —Chnftopher B. Strong,
Efq.
Elbert on—Gc\. Wm. Chifiom.
Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. &
Dod. Watkins.
Vienna —S. B. Shields, Efq.
Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. Sc
Lodor Bibb,
Lincoln —Captain N. Allen, and
Capt. John Hughes.
Louifville —-Me IT. Day Sc Whee
ler.
Augujla —J. S. Walker, Efq. &
Dod >r Smelt.
Waynesboro ’ —Col. John Davies.
Sanderfville —Mr. Wm. M‘Mur
ray.
Savannah —Mr. H. H. Moun
erg, and Mr. A. W. Scribner.
BOWLING GREEN
JOCKET CLUB RACES,
w ILL commence on the laft
Wednefday in February next, and
continue three days.
The firft day’s runnfng, three
miles and repeat, for a purfc of 300
dollars.
Second day’s running, two miles
and repeat, for a purle of 200 dol
lars.
Third day’s running, one mile
and repeat, for the entrance money,
and overplus of the fubfeription.
Each day free for any horfe,
mare, or gelding on the Continent,
carrying veights as follows :
Three years old, 90 pounds—
four years, 100 pounds—five years,
no pounds—fix years 120 pounds
—aged horfes, 130 pounds. Three
pounds allowed to mares and geid
ings.
By order of the PRESIDENT,
Oglethorpe, Dec. 23.
vJ £j
MANY SHALL 3LUH TO AND FRO, AND K. HOWL IDG 5 SHALL £ IXCXIASSi).
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
GEORGIA.
Milledgevilie , January 4, r3oo.
ORDERED ,
I hat the act to appropriate
the funds heretofore fet apart for
the redemption of the public debt,
palled the 22:! of December kft,
be publifhed in the MUlcdgeville
Intelligencer, Georgia Argus, Lou
ifville Gazette, Augufta Chronicle,
Savannah Intelligencer, the Moni
tor, and Georgia Exprefs, for the
information of the citizens of this
ftate,
Atteft,
J AMES BOZEMAN*
caret xry. 1
AN ACT
To appropriate the Ft -As he*'defers
- Jet apart for the redemption of the
Public Debt.
w HEREAS by an aft of the
General Alfimbly, pftT'.d rbc :6 h
of June, 1806, entitled, “Ao aft
to difpofe of and diftributc the E’c
ceflion of lands obtained from the
Creek nation by thr United Stater,
in a treaty concluded at the city of
Washington, the 14th day of No
vember, 1805,” it is among other
things enadted, cc That the fraction
al parts of furveys which may be
created by the natural or artificial
boundaries of Laid territory, fhail
be fet apart tor rhe redemption of
the Public Debt, under the direc
tion of a future legislature.**’
And whereas the n for a Aid fund
is now becoming produ&ivr, and
a confiderahle part of the monies
due and owing to the ftate for Inch
fractional furveys, have, and wll
fp*edily become due j and the it
gffiiture having failed m make fu.:h
arrangement of the fa and fund s to
enable the p- oper < fikeo* t ■ ca> rv
the intenrons of the a fore Aid act
!nto efreft :
1, Be it therefore enabled by the
Senate and Ihufe of Reprefentatives of
the Slate of Georgia in General AJ -
Jembly met, and by the authority cf
thefame , That the Treasurer, un
der the immediate direction of his
Excellency the Governor for the
time being, fhail and he is hereby
authorifed and direfted to receive
at the Treafury Office, in payment
of fuch monies as are or hereafter
may become due on bonds taken
and deposited in the Treafury Of- A
fice, for the aforefaid fractional
furveys, certificates or outftanding
evidences cf tire debt of this fta:e,
at and after the following rates, to
wit :—Audited certificates and Go
vernor’s warrants, commonly call
ed warrants of anticipation, a: one
eighth cf their nominal value. Prc
fr'ent’s and Speaker’s warrants if
ifiued fince the year 17 59 ; gratui
tous certificates, funded certificates
with feven years intereft added
thereto after the rate of feven per
cent per annum, & Governor’s war
rants ifiued fince the year 1789, at
their nominal value. And bounty land
warrants ‘ifiued to the late troops,
amounting in the whole to three
hundred and eighty-five rhoufand,
five hundred and ten acres, at and
after the rate ef thirty-one and a
quarter rcr acre.
2. And be it further enabled by the
authority afore,’aid, That the fum of
fi* r .v rhe thrufand dollars of the
u j :r fi r g from payments on
th - rr f i;u b-'P.ds, (hall be and the
i’ r r. A fe< ey\n and appropriated
a.nnu'!v ; ft every year, for rhe re
demp; :•! ihe aforefaid oueftand
il ft ?% of the debt cf this
ft* ‘: b ihd. Such fum {hail be
annually ■ -ved at the TV-a fury ;
*;ft ‘ ft.rncy thr Governor
t r and. T-’g. is hereby au
t ’ :C v. -.mp -wered, to ififte to
tD i ft At or ‘ offers of certificates
cc the .ti or (do denominations, re
ft dh*fted, by w,.r
rc ton the Freafury for the amonnt
of h’s, her, or their claim, ‘reduced
• s aft-refaid, pa, able out cf any mo
; y .irifir.g from payments mad; to
t*.c* for the aforefaid frac
tional in- ‘/'” s.
BEN J A MIN W HIT AKER,
. speaker of the Ihufe of
R eprcfcHtatives .
HENRY Mil CHELL,
P reft dent cf the Senate.
Executive’ Department, Georgia.
A.ftenttd r' 2 2d. Dec. 1808.
j Aiv tD Ift W I N, Governor.
WASHINGTON CITY "i
January 14.
The pregrefs of the amendments
from i;; m.r. to the navy bill y has
keen v/anriiy conteflcd in the houfe
cf reprefenucivei. The divificn
which h*s taken pbee poficively
proves the legifuture has been
situated by the rnoft independent
z-'d honorable motives ; and that
gentlemen of the fame political
c.pinions may very honeftiy and fFer
upon a q-ieftion of expediency.
The arguments on the queftion
which have been difplaycd in the
reprtf ruadve hall, arc com:rif;d
in the following fumrrury :
Th'fe who are eg a inf the em
ploymentof the conten<i—
that it vili-provoke and lead to inl
ine and are war j 1h it it is a fpecies cf
defence and of c fid nee which is not
fijitable for the United States ; that
it isenormoufiy expenuve, and that
the benefit to be derived through
the means of a navai force from the
difburfement of fo grofs a fum of
money is by no means equivalent
to the advantage which would be
derived from a fimilar fum laid out
in the purebafe of arms for land
forces; that land forces are the na
tural and proper defence for the U.
States; that the means ought to be
commcnfurate to the object in every
undertaking, but that as we cannot
bring on the ocean ffiips of war
fufficient to cope (with any proba
bility of fuccefs) agsinlt G-rat
Britain, it is fu- ile to make a com
mencement ; that it involves a
principle hoftile to ear republican
inftitutions j that it leads to endlefs
confi'ffs with foreign powers ; that
the United States have heretofore
profpered without a navy j and that
it is a departure from the radical
principles of free inftitutions, and
huftile to the belt interefts of a na
tion fituatcd like the community of
America.
Thofc who are for the employ-
ment cf the frigr.-e?. cc- r -**d—that
it is no: now a ftj dtion for building
a fon e, but tncrelv wnnher
w- lliaii employ thefe vefels which are
built \ that it is not mien tied toe
quip r nem (o~ the pir pof■* o { rn a'-; -
ihg war upon s-.nv ft>r # k a power,
but merely to prsrfft. cur own
rights within our own jurifdi£lion j
that laws have been enacted, infer-?
didling Biit ik veffils <> r war our
warers, that they .nev.erthelefp do
rifit our coafts and harbqrs in dero
gation of thole laws., Infultlng the
American authority and molcfting
citizen* of the United Stnes and
thefe indignities ouftht to be rru< •-
Ud ; that ir they are not reprilcu*
cur laws will be a lu left 1 of ridicule
ft?r the world, arY o'” ;copiicfcence
in rrpea r ed infiiits will he an ;c~
knowledg-mf-nt of cur national im •
bccility ? that the rights of the rva T „
tion are to be maintained at ail
hazards, and that the eeft ought to
hive no Infijerce upon govern
ment as an argument againlt the
enforcement cf me public
ftatutea ; that g'-rat nets’* ns call
for great (ten fice.*, and that true e
conomy con fills in adapting
nv-ans to groat ends •. that political
arrsngemenra rruft a! wa; 5 be con
trolled by circurrjftahces ; that sx
th* fr.uaticnof this country in times
paft had no refrmounce to that u
which it is placed in tunes preknt*
fo the meafures which iht*n wrtti
applicable and wife can furnifn ho
parallel nor example for iaiitado.o
at the ex ifting period ; that * rue
political wifd m confifts in giving
to public affairs the befc pbffible
di'*efticn which all circumftarces
will admit of j iha 4 ’ in relation to {he
embargo the employment of the
frigates is pect Airy,’ in order to
prevent the Brir fh merchants'from
lorcing a trade in cotton and rice,
which it is well known tnty intend
to attemetj that it is better to pec
the vnT-h into zdivt frrvict than
to fbffVr them to continue in dock ;
that in the latter fituation they are
produdive nf lome expence, and
that it is better to expend fiomething
more and render tiiem ferviceable
to the union j that our lramen ire
in a fullering condi ion, and that if
called into atlual employment their
deftiny wouid be much ameliorated ;
that the equipment o? the vtfTdi
coILI noc provoke war, unleft’s fo
reign powers were predetermined
to make war upon us; thar in c?Ss
cf raffing the embargo and enuarscs
upon hoftilitiesj the frigates would
be in a proper ftate for acftnn ; that
it is a favorite point with the gen
tlemen to. the Eaftward, who pre
ferred that kind of defence, and
therefore advifable as a rr.ea.fuiu
tending to conduce to u animitv,
Afonijor,
CONGR E s S.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTA
TIVES.
January 7.
Mr. Cojes pretented the folTow'rq
mi (T g; from the prefi.lent of t ; ';
United States, to the Spe D >
which the Erie: laid before th*
( No - 03.