Presentments of a grand jury of the district of Georgia, in the sixth circuit court of the United States, at a court begun and held at Louisville, before the honorable William Stephens, one of the Judges of said court, on the 14th of December 1802.
We, the grand jury for the federal circuit court of the district of Georgia, meeting for the first time under the present judicial system, do congratulate our fellow citizens on the alteration of the former—by which one judge is enabled to distribute justice in the absence of his colleague, which amendment we consider as a great improvement in the organization of this court.
We also take this first opportunity to declare our unshaken confidence in the measures of the present administration viewing them in the highest degree patriotic and beneficial to the real, solid, and constitutional interest of the United States—and we are happy in anticipating the harmony which we trust, will exist between the legislature, executive and judicial departments of the union, effects of the greatest magnitude to the happiness and good order of the government, and which only flow from the increase of correct republican principles in these now happy states.
We return our thanks to the presiding judge, for his attention to business, and request that these our presentments be published.
Solomon Wood, foreman, Michael Shelman, Francis Boyakin, Willis Brazeal, George Sugar, Robert Shaw, Hezekiah Jones, Jesse Saunders, Archibald Fort, Wm. Melton, Zachariah Lamar, James Stallings, David Blackshear, Wm. Barron, Briggs Hobson.
Extract from the records, 29th Dec. 1802.
RICHARD M. STILES,
Clerk Geo. District.
~ The Gettysburg Gazette, 28-Jan-1803, Page 3, Column 4
