Royal Gazette 1817 January 07

 
Militia General Order. [heading]
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to make the following Promotion in the Militia of these Colonies: -
George-Town Brigade. [centered]
Rifle Company - Second Lieutenant John Croal, to be First Lieutenant.
First Battalion - First Lieutenant James Gentle, to be Captain of a Company; vice, Van Baerle, resigned.
Second Lieutenant George Robertson, to be First Lieutenant; vice, Gentle, promoted.
Essequebo Militia. [centered]
First Battalion, First Company - H. Moll, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant.
Fourth Company - F. G. Perzet, to be Second Lieutenant.
Staff - Doctor Lachenwitz, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the First and Fourth Companies; and Doctor T. Belot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Third Company.
Second Battalion, First Company - Robert Buchanan, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant; vice Kelderman, gone to Europe.
Second Company - Second Lieutenant D. Dardier, to be First Lieutenant; vice H. Austin, deceased; Charles Gordon, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant; vice Dardier, promoted.
Third Company - Second Lieutenant J. Otterbein, to be First Lieutenant; vice D. Mackay, gone to Europe; Second Lieutenant George Rose, from the Fourth Battalion, Demerary Militia, to be Second Lieutenant; vice Otterbein, promoted.
Staff - Doctor Thomas Bell, to be Surgeon to the Battalion; vice Austin, gone to Europe. William Bishop, Gent. to be Quarter-Master; vice Broodhagen, removed from the battalion.
Adjt. Gen.'s Office, George-Town, Demerary, the 1st of January, 1817.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. R. Brandt,
Lt. Col. & Adjt. Gen. D.M.

Arrivals. - Ship Pilot, Stewart, from Bristol; brig Harmony, Woodall, from London; ship Alfred, Poolman, from London; brig Hope, Duncan, from St. John's, Newfoundland; and brig Amethyst, Greig, from Boston.

Departed. - The mail-boat Demerary Packet, Hill, for Barbados.

Local Laws. [heading]

By an Act dated the 18th of May, 1797, no master of any vessel whatsover is permitted to take any white or coloured person, or negro, into his service, or to take such a person on board as passenger, without a pass from the Governor under pain of f 1000 fine for each person so taken on boad. And all such masters aforesaid are required immediately on their arrival, to give in an axact [sic] list of their passengers and crew, with every particular respecting them, to the Government-office, on pain of a similar fine. The same also to be placed on their manifests. And if such master should bring any coloured person or negro with him as part of his crew, he is subject to the same fine, if he leave such person behind him, without permission being granted to that effect.

But by an Act dated the 1st and 14th of August 1809, so much of the above Act as relates to persons quitting the Colony has been repealed, and instead thereof it is provided, that masters of vessels taking off these Colonies any person without a pass, or permit from the Governor, shall incur for each, a fine of f 6000, exclusive of a fine to the same amount, to be paid, by the person or persons so leaving these Colonies without a pass, and for which the effects they may have left in the Colony shall be liable.

And by an Act dated the 4th of Decemeber, 1814, in case the person taken off the Colony, without a pass, be a slave, belonging to an inhabitant of the Colony, such inhabitant shall be entitled to receive out of the fine to be incurred by the master of such vessel, a compensation for the loss of his slave equal to the value thereof, to be ascertained by an appraisement to be made and sworn to, by two respectable inhabitants, and the residue of such fine to be divided and applied in manner provided by the aforesaid Acts.

SLAVES in the COLONY-JAIL. [heading]

Jan. 7. F. Strunkay, Scout.

Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday;
By William Baker.
 

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