Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-02-26

that they have nos been pald, and f, ~
they are fill entitled to a portion If =
land.
The traa granted to the Upper MIG
Gppi com. any, az /, trs TO be divided in,
raelvc equal undivided iharcs, ana il !,
unentangle,i by militant claims.
The tract granted to he Tchrsr.,
company, was, bY the grantees, Mab;,.
Maher ani Lachariah Coke, divided ~,
40 eqpaI insfes. Several hundred lh9,
lata acres ar helides, claimed uo3..
d.ets, fgned 5J 4. Coke alone, Al
which appear TO be excludsely Of r.
flares which he held. The greater c,,
of the original ihares ale heia by t-ua,,,
for The ufe Of the proprietors.
The Georgia company conilted Off,
Ghares, excludvely of number Of oh
aares, and OF money flares, which b,y.
been either purchaiea in by the Gem
pany, or Afforded in the payment CT Ger
tain tracts fold by them. That compsny
however, 10 longer exits, having fold Ii.
greater part Of the territory by netes spI
hounds and furrendered the lemainder, "a
the Aate Of Georgia. Infiead, therefore,
Of icing held by trufees, or in unt
v:ded flares, the lands originally aaien,i
TO that company, are claimed by levenI
individuals, each claiming difinH trait,
in their own name. There is a number
OF militant claims in thar part Of the trsa
which lies between the Alabama and Tom
bigbee rivers, foltll Of the pafeIel q De.
grees 70 minutes Of north latitude.
On the 18th day OF February, l7o6
the legiaature OF Gsorgia psacd an al,
~ declaring the aa CT the 7,h January,
1895, aforementioned, nall and void, 4,
having beer Obtained by fraud and COZ.
ruption; directing all records of granar
conveyances relating to The Gale, to be ey.
pnnged; and foTbidding the recording,
thereafter, Of any tuch conveyances Of
ccntratis. The document # contains
the evidence on Which the legilaun
acted.
By the articles Of agreement Of the
Georgia company, ard icheduIe tlereunn
annexed, bearing dage 1T and 10th IA.
nuary, 1875, copy Of which (B No. q
was rranfmItte1 to The comniniOnsn q.
lnonsG other documen.s, by the attomia
Of Hugh Ro!e ana Valentine Jones, t@o
Of the claimants under thar company, il
appears that The company had difpotd cf
comfortable quantity Of The lands they
intended to purehaie, TO divers perln
(whole names with the amount in dollars
paid by each, appear in the lchedolsl ia
thc purpote OF rafting fund TO eitett The
putchaie of che lands ; and that they bad
&lfo found it meelgay TO di&rjba'e to'
variety of citizens OF the itale, CERTAIN
fnb-lhares, or quantities OF land, in oTd:f
that the benefi fhculd be as generally
difused as poilible. By the form Of To:
'iub- flares tCl ii appears that the holi''
wereaen,ifled to a certain quantity Of land,
without making any immediate payment
but on paying within leveral months *al'
was luppoled the original purchale money
viz, two cents and a third of ccntPa
acre. II
A compatfnn of the fchedaIe annexed
to the articles, and which is declared
be part of the agreement, with the :"
and nays or the pafage Of the act al'n"'
ling the fale, (E) ihows that all the mem,
bers, both in the ienate and hoasc, VIZ
voted in favor of the law, were wl'n%
fngle exception (Robert Watkins Tn,J
name does NOT appear) intereHed 'ne'
parties to the purcnafe. ,ra
The articles Of agreement, and III.
af1ociates OF the TcnneGc company, S',
have been voluntarily fufnilhed BY "
Of tn: truae.s, flows that nqiDOs'
members sof the Legislature swsfc ANU
tereaed in that company. ~.
1t is alto proper to isare, that 'l l',.