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the persons named in the said agreement. Now we, the said members of the Georgia company, for us and our respective representatives, do hereby ratify by these presents every matter and thing contained in said agreement, and do hereunto annex a schedule or list of persons who are entitled to our interest in said company, and the quantity contained therein, which is the whole quantity of land disposed of by the said company in any manner or way whatever, and which list forms a part of this agreement: And it is fully understood and agreed upon, that the said Georgia com. pany do consist of the following persons and number of shares, that is to say, James Gunn, one share for himself and another for his friend, Matthew M'Allister, one share, George Walker, one share, Zachariah Cox, one share, Jacob Waldburger, one share, William Longstreet, one share, and Wade Hampton, three shares, being ten equal parts or original shares, and that each share shall be entitled to one vote. Witness our hands and seals, this tenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.

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4. Roger P. Saunders, (for Davis Gresham,)

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11. Thomas Napier, (in name of Robert Randolph,)

13. Roger Parker Saunders,

14. Stephen Heard,

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15. Archibald Gresham,

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16. Reuben Wilkinson,

17. Henry Gindrat,

18. Benjamin Sims, (for Richard Warsham,) 19. Roswell King,

20. P. J. Carnes, (for Richard Carnes,)

21. William Moubray,

22. James Warrington, (for William Harden,)
23. William T. Booker, (for Wm. Moore,)
24. Wm. G. Gilbert,

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25. Philip Howell, (for Caleb Howell,)

26. John Davis, (for self and one subshare, and for J. Walker,)

27. Lachlan M'Intosh,

28. Benj. Sims,

29. Seaborn Jones,

30. Richard Dickenson,

31. The hon. J. P Carnes,

32. George Henning,

33. Benj. Sims, (for Thomas Mc. Call,)

34. Philip Clayton,

35. Jas. Clay, jr. for himself and C. Woodruff,

36. Francis Tennil,

37. John Powell,

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38. John Y. Noell,

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58. Abraham Simons,

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59. Brighton Dawson, Hugh M'Gehee, and Wm. Howell,

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60. William Fitzpatrick, and Oliver Porter,

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61. Col. Gamble, of Virginia,

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62. Robert G. Harper,

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63. William Poe,

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64. Alexander M'Millan,

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65. James Warrington,

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66. Andrew M'Credie, (for Mrs. M'Laws,)

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67. Robert Raines,

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68. Thomas Raiburn,

69. Thomas Heard,
70. William Urquhart,
71. Harrison Musgrove,
72. Samuel Jack,

73. Brig. Gen. Glasscock,
74. John C. Nightingale,

75. Robert and John Forsyth,

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by the citizens,

John Clark,

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Jas, Moss and John Talbot.

Note by the Commissioners.

The persons designated as money sharers do not appear to have all become associates. Exclusively of the land assigned to James Wilson, the persons in whose

FORM OF A SUB-SHARE.

STATE OF GEORGIA.

No. 37.

WE, the grantees of the Georgia Company, do hereby certi fy, that John Powell, esquire, of the state aforesaid, holds to him. self, his executors and administrators, one half of a sub-share, containing twenty-eight thousand acres in this company, he paying the sum of two cents and one-third of a cent per acre to the said grantees or their agent, on or before the seventh day of August next, otherwise the said land shall become forfeited to the company, and this certificate void, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the said company: And we do further certify, that so soon as the mortgage on the lands contained in this company's purchase from the said state, shall be fully paid and satisfied, the said John Powell shall, upon returning this certificate to the company, receive from them a certificate of a negotiable nature.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands, at^ Augusta, the ninth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.

ATTEST,

JAMES GUNN,

MATTHEW MALLISTER,

GEORGE WALKER.

W. URQUHART,

Assistant Secretary, Georgia company.

Received, Augusta, 24th July, 1795, six hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-three cents and an half, being the purchase money on the above.

W. URQUHART, Assist. Se'cry.

(Endorsed on the back, Jno. Powell.)

name a deed was made by the company on account of that advance in money,

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All of which, the nine first shares excepted, have been surrendered, and the purchase money drawn from the treasury by the parties.

The names of the sub-sharers, who were members of the legislature, and voted in favor of the law, are printed in Italics. No. 11 and 13, were members, but did not vote on the law.

STATE OF GEORGIA.

WE, Zachariah Cox, and Matthias Maher, under the firm of the Tennessee company, by an act of the general assembly of the state aforesaid, passed at Augusta, the seventh day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; vesting in us all that tract of territory, including islands, situate, lying and being within the following boundary lines, that is to say: Beginning at the mouth of Bear creek, on the south side of the Tennessee river, thence, up the said creek to the most southern source thereof, thence due south to the latitude of thirty-four degrees ten minutes north of the equator, thence a due east course one hundred and twenty miles, thence a due north course to the great Tennessee river, thence up the middle of said river to the northern bounda ry line of this state, thence a due west course along the said line to where it intersects the great Tennessee river below the Muscle shoals, thence up the said river to the place of beginning."

We have agreed between ourselves to let sundry persons have part of the said territory, as will appear by certificates issued by us, and quoted in the following words, that is to say:

"STATE OF GEORGIA. No.”

"In pursuance of an act of the legislature of the state aforesaid, passed at Augusta, on the seventh day of January, one thousand seven hundred and nine-five, vesting in the subscribers a certain tract of territory of the said state, lying on the great bend of the river Tennessee, as fully described by the said act; We hereby certify, That or his as

signs is intitled to the one four hundred and twentieth part of the said territory: Provided, the sum of the one four hundred and twentieth part of the full purchase money for said territory, is paid or his agent, on or before the first day of August next ensuing, when a deed of conveyance will be issued in lieu of this certificate, to the said

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or his assigns, conformably to the said act. And in case the said or his assigns should fail in paying the sum above specified, then this certificate is declared by the subscribers to be null and void. Dated at Augusta,

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