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1787 1 (1787)

handle is hein.ssl/ssga0238 and id is 1 raw text is: AN AC.T.. For impofing a Tax on the Inhabitants of'the State oC Georgia, and other Perfons holding 'I'rofcrtzyA rvsK perfonal, therein, for the Ufe and Suppor ofi the Gpver- ment thereot, from the firfl Day of january to the thirty- fiift Day of December, one thoufand feven hundred-and cighty-feven. WIlEREAS it is expcdicut that a fai fhould be raild for the purpofc of dilchargiing th~c debts of tIhis flate, aIId for defray- ing the expences of government, Be it therc/ort enathd by the Reprjintatives of tbe Freemen c/ tie State of Georgia, in Genrral Af- 1rmbly mt, and by the authority of the [/m, That 2 tax of twelve fhIl- lings and fix.pekcc for cvery one hundred pounds value of all lands with- in this flate, granted to or furveyed for any pcrfun, s fuch lands (bll be ellimatcd, flull be levied on the fame, according to. the following Mode, viz. All tide fivamp, (including iflands) cultivated or uncultivated, of the firft quality, thall be rated at four pounds fcrntcen flillings pcr acre. Of the fkcond quality, thrcc pounds. Of the thitd quality, one pound f(vcrtcen (hillings.- All pine barren lands adjoining UCh fwamp, or contiguous thereto, and within thice milces of water carriage, at filicen thillng. All prime inland fwamp, cultiitel or uncultivated, at an avcrage of three pounds fCvcn thillings. Of the Ircond quality, at one pound fcvcntee. ihiflings. Of the third quality, at fifteen (illings. Pine barren lands adjoining or contiguous thereto, feven (hliings. Salt marih, at four thillings. Hich river twamp, or low grounds, (including iflands) cultivate 'or nncultivatcd, (including luch as are comtonly called fecond low grounds) lying above Abercorn, and as high as the mouth of Mi3can's creek, an Savannah river, of the firI quality, two pounds twelve fhillings. Of the fecond quality, one pound ten thillings. Of the third quality, fifteen fhllIng!. I l;gh river fw.;mp, or low grounds, (including iflands) cultivated or uncultivated, (including foch as are Lommonly calict fecond low grounds) lying above M'Bean's creek, and as high as the nouth of IRC's creek, of the firft quality, three pounds fifteen (hillings. Of the (econd quality, two pounds twelve thilings. Of the third quality, one pound tw6 flillings. High river (wamp, (inclIding iflanLs) cultivated or uncultivated, frgrn the mouth of Rae's creek to tbc mouth of Broad river, lying on the river Savannah, ofthe firfl quality, two pounds one (hilling. Of the iecond quality, one pound two (hillings. Of the third quality, (even tbillings. All oak and hickory land, (including iflands) cultivated or unculti- vated, from the mouth of Rae's creek to the mouth of Broad river, with- in one mile of Savannah river, of the tidr\ qualitv, fiftcCn ('hillings. A Of

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