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Vol. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY M'DONNELL fc? H.ii'Rl'S. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, i3oa. TERMS OF THI GEORGIA EXPRESS, 1. IT will be printed weekly, at three dollars per annum; one halt to be paid in advance, the remainder at the expiration of Ax months. 2. Advertifements will be charg 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 ■o w 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.