ARTICLE XI.

Families and single persons emigrating from Europe, who cannot pay their passage, shall come under engagements to serve the Company a term not exceeding the following, to wit:

All persons of the age of nineteen years and upwards, not exceeding the term of five years, and if under that age, not longer than they shall attain the age of twenty-four years, and if at the age of fourteen years or under, not longer than they shall attain the age of twenty-one years. Each family shall be placed on a tract of land equal to fifty acres for each person in family, and where there are Emigrants who have no family they shall be placed as follows: All females shall be placed with some family with whom they have emigrated, and all single men in families of six persons. Upon tracts upon which a family shall be placed, there shall be built a good and comfortable log house previous to their arrival, and they shall be furnished with provisions for six months, and plantation utensils, &c. as follows:

Four bushels of meal per month, for six months, for every four persons; two hundred pounds of beef and one bushel of salt for six months, for four persons.

One Cow and Calf, one Ox, one Plough, two Axes, two Hoes, two Spades, three Pigs-and such Seeds as are convenient and necessary for each family.

For the first year they shall enjoy all the advantages of their labour, after which they shall plant four acres in Cotton for each person in family at or above the age of fourteen, for four years, and should they deliver to the Agent of the Company one thousand pounds weight of Cotton in the seed a year, for four years for each person in family above fourteen years of age, they shall have a discharge for their time of service, for their passage and for all the advance as above stated that shall be made them, and receive an

family, of fourteen years of age or upwards, as above stated; and in order to prevent disputes as to whom the Land shall belong where the Cabin is built and round which they have cultivated, it is to be known and understood, that the head of the family is to have the improvements and the adjoining Land, to wit, fifty acres for himself and fifty acres for his wife, if he has any, and the Ox and the Plough. The other articles then on hand, the Cattle, Hogs and increase shall be fairly divided between the family share and share alike; and where any female has been placed in the family she is to be considered in the Distribution the same as the childrem. And when there is no family where single men are placed together, the Eldest is to be known as the superior, and respected as the head of the family, and is to have the Cabin and the fifty acres of Land adjoining, which they have cultivated, and the Ox and the Plough; the other articles to be equally divided as aforesaid. So soon as each family has delivered the quantity of Cotton that is stipulated, they shall apply to the Agent for a certificate, and on producing one in the following words to the superintendant, he shall cause titles to be made out and delivered to them:

CERTIFICATE.

I, A. B. Agent of the GEORGIA ASYLUM COMPANY, do hereby certify that I have received of C. D. four thousand pounds of Seed Cotton, which is in full for his or her passage, and entitles him or her to a deed in Fee Simple for fifty acres of Land, witness my hand. A. B. Agent.

ARTICLE XII.

As the superintendance of this Plan of Emigration is stipulated to commence in the year 1802 and to end in the year 1810, it is understood that the affairs of the Company shall be closed in one year thereafter in the following manner, to wit, all the lands then remaining on hand shall be laid off in Lots not exceeding five hun

dred acres, and be sold as follows: All the lands in Bullock County on the first day of November 1811, and those in Montgomery on the first day of December, thereafter, of which sale and place of sale at least six months' notice shall be given in all the Gazettes of the State, and the land sold on a credit of one, two, three, four and five years, the purchasers giving a Mortgage on the land as security for the payment of the purchase money.

ARTICLE XIII.

Each Subscriber of a share may remove on the Land or send a family of four persons, to whom a deed for two hundred acres of Land will be given, upon the payments being completed; but this will not be done except in case of actual settlement, either by the share holders or such family as they may send forward, and this must be done on or before the first day of January 1806, as the intention of this plan is to settle the Land at all events. Upon producing a certificate with all the payments received thereon, nothing more will be required of the holder of such certificate, and he will thereby relinquish all his right and title to the property of the Company or the advantages thereof, receiving in full for the one hundred dollars he shall have paid a fee simple title to two hundred acres of Land, but when a person holds more than one and not exceeding five shares, he shall only be obliged to make one settlement; provided that he shall cultivate twenty acres for each share he may hold, and the Land be laid off in one tract.

ARTICLE XIV.

Families Emigrating from the Northern States, who may have the means of laying in their provisions and providing for themselves after their arrival, shall receive land upon the terms stipulated in the tenth article, and shall be provided with a passage and conveyance for their household furniture, provision, plan

lowed them to pay for the same as is allowed for the payment of their lands, giving bond upon their embarkation for the amount, with a certan penalty in case they should leave the settlement. This is only done to bind the idle; the hardworking, labouring husbandman will not be inclined to roam from a comfortable home.

ARTICLE XV.

All payments made to the agent shall be paid over to the Trustees only, who shall appoint from among themselves a Treasurer, and an annual sum shall be paid to each share-holder arising from the monies received. George Sibbald shall furnish the Trustees with annual statements of the sums he shall advance agreeable to the fifth article, and after the affairs of the Company shall be closed and the original amount of each share paid to the share holders, the payment shall then be made to George Sibbald for the actual amount of his advances, which shall be supported by proper documents to the satisfaction of the Trustees. As soon as George Sibbald has been paid his advances, the sums afterwards received to be paid to the share holders.

ARTICLE XVI.

In order to ensure the advance of at least one-half the sum paid by the share holders annually, agreeably to the fifth article, and of all things which George Sibbald has stipulated to perform, he has mortgaged to the Trustees, property valued at double that amount, which will remain thus mortgaged until the year 1810.

ARTICLE XVII.

At the expiration of the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, the Trustees shall close the accounts of the company, stating the sums due, money on hand, and sums advanced by George Sibbald, and should they be of opinion that all things have been complied with on the part of George Sibbald which he has stipulated to perform, they shall certify the same and he will then be clear of his engagements to the GEORGIA ASYLUM COMPANY.

A GEOGRAPHICAL

SKETCH OF GEORGIA.

To which is added a comparative statement of our Population in 1791 and 1801.—Also, a comparative view of our Exports of 1791 and 1800. With respect to the Latitudes which I have mentioned, I must beg leave to remark that from the short time I have had to complete this Sketch, I have had no opportunity to take them from actual observation; but from the best information I can collect they are accurate.