Burke-Chatham-Effingham County GaArchives History .....Georgia Executive Council Minutes July 29 1783 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Francesca Henle-Taylor henle@fmfproductons.com November 26, 2004, 5:28 pm REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS OF GEORGIA Vol. II - 1778-1785 - By Candler MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL pg. 527 (July 29, 1783) Finance; the letter from his Excellency the Commander in Chief and that from His Excellency the President of Congress; all, earnestly urge, and evidently demonstrate the necessity of a tax: and your own observations will certainly dictate the sufficiency or insufficiency thereof. The Council cannot think your Honorable House will turn a deaf ear to so many great, wise and disinterested characters; all pressing you to consult the case of your constituents, by degrees lightening their burthens, by an early adopting taxation. The Council will not insult your judgement, prudence and regard for those you represent by making use of any more arguments to invite or persuade your Honorable House to endeavor to deprecate our distresses numerous debts, and our many obligations, by reconciling it to yourselves to lay a tax of, at least or half a dollar on every negroe, Mulatto or other slave, and one half dollar on every Town lot in lieu of the quarter of a dollar mentioned in and by said Bill. Ordered, That the following persons (being thereunto recommended) be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of the several roads within this State, viz, Chatham County - White Bluff Road - John Houston, John Morel, Thomas Netherclift and Nath. Adams. Western Road, as far as black-creek - William Bryan, John Morel, Joseph Cuthbert and Richard Guinn. Effingham County – Western Road - William Holzendorf, John Eigle, Jenkin Davis, John Gravenstine, Lewis Morgan, David Thorn, Caleb Howell, Theophilus Lundy. Ogechee Road - Benjamin Lanier Senr, John Meazles, Drury Jones, James Cook, Clifton Bowen, Frederic Reifton. Burke County - River Road – Raymond Demere, John Greene, Edward Telfair. Additional Comments: Georgia Archives Military Records Candler, Allen D., comp. The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia. 3 vols. Atlanta: Franklin Turner Co., 1908. Compilation of most of the official records and documents relating to the Revolutionary period. (E 263 .G3 R4 v.1- 3). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/burke/history/other/ms241georgiae.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb