The General Account of All Monies and Effects Received and Expended by the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America: For the Carrying on the Good Purposes of Their Trust ... [1732-1752]

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Franklin printing and publishing Company, 1905 - Georgia - 432 pages

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Page 325 - ... denizens, or others, that shall be willing to become our subjects, and live under our allegiance in the said colony, upon such terms, and for such estates, and upon such rents, reservations and conditions as the same may be lawfully granted, and as to the said common council, or the major part of them so present, shall seem fit and proper.
Page 324 - And we do also . . . give, grant and confirm, unto the said Treasurer and Company, and their Successors, under the Reservations, Limitations, and Declarations, hereafter expressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, lying, and being, in that Part of America called Virginia...
Page 332 - The River here forms an Half-ttnoon, along the South side of which the Banks are about Forty Feet high, and on the Top a Flat, which they call a Bluff. The plain High ground extends into the Country Five or Six Miles, and along the River-side about a Mile.
Page 57 - The General Account of all Monies and Effects received and expended by the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.
Page 325 - The general court shall forever have full power and authority to erect and constitute judicatories and courts of record, or other courts, to be held in the name of the commonwealth, for the hearing, trying, and determining of all manner of crimes, offences, pleas, processes, plaints, actions, matters, causes, and things, whatsoever, arising or happening within the commonwealth, or between or concerning persons inhabiting, or residing, or brought within the same: whether the same be criminal or civil...
Page 372 - Delay is to be imputed to no other Motives, but the Hopes they had conceived, that Time and Experience would bring the Complainants to a better Mind: And the Trustees readily join Issue with them in their Appeal to Posterity, who shall judge between them, who were their best Friends; Those, who endeavoured to preserve for them a Property in their Lands, by tying up the Hands of their unthrifty Progenitors; or They, who wanted a Power to mortgage or alien them...
Page 324 - Parts to be divided, of all those Lands, Countries and Territories situate, lying and being in that Part of South- Carolina, in America, which lies from the most Northern part of a Stream or River there, commonly called The Savannah, all along the Sea Coast to the Southward, unto the most Southern Stream of a certain other great Water or River called The Alatamaha, and Westerly from the Heads of the said Rivers respectively in direct Lines to the South Seas...
Page 332 - Charles-Town ; the Governor and Assembly have given us all possible Encouragement. Our People arrived at Beaufort on the 20th of January, where I lodged them in some new Barracks built for the Soldiers, whilst I went myself to view the Savannah River. I fixed upon a healthy Situation, about Ten Miles from the Sea. The River here forms...
Page 326 - ... commission, ordain and appoint, by such name or names, style or styles, as to them shall seem meet and fitting, all and singular such governors, judges, magistrates, ministers and officers, civil and military, both by sea and land, within the said districts, as shall by them be thought fit and needful to be made or used for the said government of the said colony...

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