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Resolution of the Senate of the State of Georgia, 26th Nov. 1829 1829 208 (1829)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0218 and id is 1 raw text is: -)0' A. Clayton, eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy- tive cors, after deducting their winter clothing. That since that time they have expended in various ways tweNty-five hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents-leaving in their hands, on the 31lst day of October, 1829, in cash and notes nine thousand six hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents-Also, that they have sixtcon negro follows, one hundred shares in Bank stock, two boats, some flats, and a variety of tools. And that all the work they luid done this year on said river, has been done on the Lock and Dai near Milledgeville, which they expect to complete about the 20th of the presont month (November.) That the river is now, and has been for several years, in a good navigable condition, aid that it will only be necssary in future to clear out the logs which may hereafter get into it, to keep it so. -Approved, 19th Dec. 1S29. IN SENATE, 26th Nov. 1s29. The Conmnittee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred the report of the comissioners of the Altamaha river, have diligently examined the same, and ask leave to offer the following Report: That it appears from the letter of Dr. James Troup, chair- imman of the board of commissioners, and the account current. of Mr. Isaac Snow, their secretary, that of the sui of twenty thousand dollars, appropriated for the improvement of the navigation of the Altamaha river, 17173 dollars and 8 cents has been expended-leaving an unexpended balance on the 15th of September last, of 2820 dollars and 92 cents. Thir- ty negroes were purchased, of which number two have been drowned and four have died of disease. They have been employed in the vicinity of Darien, above and below the town, and appear from'said report to have made considerable im- provemnent in the navigation of said river. Many of the items of expenditure appear to your committee to be high- the necount is certified by Anson Kimberly and rhomas RESOLUTIONS OP SENA I'L.

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